Introduction

Virtual NLP Practitioner

Certification Program

NLP University

International

What is NLP?

The Study of the Structure of Subjective

Experience.

1.AnEpistemology–Asystemofprinciples

anddistinctionsfororganizingknowledge

aboutourselvesandourinteractionwiththe

world

2.AMethodology–Processesandprocedures

forgatheringandapplyingthatknowledge

3.ATechnology–Toolstoaidinthe

applicationofthatknowledgeinorderto

achieveparticularresults

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What is NLP?

• Emphasizesprocessandstructure,as

opposedtocontent

• Groundsprocessesanddistinctionsinthe

anatomyandfunctionsofthe human nervous

system

• Ensuresthatdistinctionsandprocessesare

abletobeeasilyidentifiedandinfluenced

throughnaturalandspontaneouspatterns of

verbal and non-verbal communication

• Organizestheresultsofthestudyintopractical

exercises, techniques, tools and practices

thatcanbeusedtoinfluenceormakea

differenceinpeople’sexperienceorbehavior

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What Were the

Influences on the

Development of NLP?

n Fritz Perls – Gestalt Therapy

n Milton Erickson – Hypnotherapy

n Gregory Bateson – Systemic Therapy

n Virgina Satir – Family Therapy

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NLPU Learning

Community

• Vision, Mission

• Values

• Spirit

• Purpose

• Sense of Belonging

The greatest use of life is to spend it for

something that will outlast it.

—WilliamJames

Creating a world to which people want to belong.

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Goals of NLPU’s

Practitioner Program

• Enhancing Perceptions

• Enriching Maps

• Developing Metacognition

• Supporting Dreams and Dreaming

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1. Filterstranslate“quantumimagination”

into“classicalreality”

2. Threegeneraltypesoffilters: Cognitive,

Somatic and Field

3. Allweknowiswhatourfiltersproduce:

Ourmapsareourreality

4. Wecangenerativelyworkwithourfilters

Principles of NLP:

Reality is Constructed Via Filters

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Cognitive Mind

Brain–Thinking–Intellectual Intelligence

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Somatic Mind

Body–Feeling–Emotional Intelligence

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Field Mind

System–Energy–Relational Intelligence

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Key Premises of NLP

• Holons: Eachpersoniswholeand

partofagreaterwhole

• Holograms: Realityisahologram

createdbyinteractionsofdifferent

holons–

• Each part contains the whole

• Each part can re-create the

whole

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Holon and Holarchy

Eachpersoniswholeandpartofagreaterwhole

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Core Value – Ecology

• Acknowledging and respecting different

maps of the world

• Identifying with the whole system

• Living from the principle of positive intent

and other NLP presuppositions

• Safety and watching out for each other

The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we

belong. To be alienated from this community is to become

destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this

community is to diminish our own existence. –ThomasBerry

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Practice

• Knowledge is only a rumor until it is in the muscle.

—NewGuineaproverb

• Practice means to perform, over and over again in the

face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of

desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection

desired. —MarthaGraham

• We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance

by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing

living, the principles are the same. One becomes in

some area an athlete of God. —MarthaGraham

• You are what you practice. —LynneConwell

Be the change you want to see in the world. –Gandhi

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