what is nlp?
NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It’s studies humans in an entirely different way from the 5E, combining modern psychotherapy, looking at how the brain constructs experiences with sounds, pictures, feelings, meanings and beliefs of how reality works.
We call this programming.
NLP can help undo and revise unwanted programming, so the client/human can have a different experience.
Both Amie and Cairistiona have been trained in Transformational NLP, a branch of NLP taught at NLP Marin, California.
how was nlp created?
It began in the 1970s in California at the University of California in Santa Cruz, with John Grinder, a professor of linguistics, and Richard Bandler, his student.
They saw people with similar education, background, training and years of experience were achieving wildly different results from nothing to something short of amazing.
They were wondering “what is the difference that makes this difference? And can we identify these differences between amazing and nothing?” and “if that can happen, can we teach these differences to make life better for everyone?”
What does the name neuro-Linguistic programming mean?
Neuro: The brain and neural pathways which our experience is organised through our five senses (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory and gustatory).
Linguistic: The language, and therefore meaning, we attach to these experiences in order to make sense of them. These include, pictures, sounds, feelings, tastes, smells, and words.
Programming: The way the content is made into a belief or meaning, thinking patterns, behavior that are our experience of life.
For example, you have a belief that “people with brown eyes are bad.” So whenever you encounter a person with brown eyes, you become suspicious or get a knot in your stomach. No matter how much you try, you can’t become less suspicious or undo that knot in your stomach.
When you first made that belief, when that first bad experience with someone who had brown eyes happened, there was most likely an unpleasant image, a sound, a feeling, a smell or a taste. This experience was so unpleasant that you decided “brown eyes = bad” in order to not re-experience the pain and unpleasantness of your first experience.
This decision and belief then becomes subconscious and operates in the background, watching out for you. It becomes a reflex, reproducing the original feelings, images, sounds, tastes and smells of the original experience. So willpower doesn’t work here to undo the subconscious.
NLP is the way of rewiring your brain, so you can go free trusting people with brown eyes again - or whatever else you’d like your experience to be.
what is transformational nLP?
A psychologist called Johnathan Rice came to discover NLP and apply it’s techniques and practices in his clinical psychotherapy practice, a new branch of NLP was formed - Transformational NLP.
Transformational NLP looks a lot like psychotherapy but using NLP techniques in conversation, but for you to feel different about yourself and your life so you can have more of what you would like.
If you’d like to read a thorough article on Transformational NLP and Johnathan Rice, here is one by our teacher Carl Buchheit.
why nlp and 5e?
how does this benefit you?
Feel understood quickly in such a way that feels psychic (but isn’t) which leads into..
Feeling seen and accepted as you are
Efficiency, breakthroughs come faster than with traditional therapy (no statistics here, just what we’ve observed)
A sense of safety and grounding
Experience changes that come without effort and willpower. You’ll naturally find yourself drifting towards them or finding they’ve already happened.
we’re combining something old with something new.
A two thousand-year-old practice with something that just began 50 years ago.