NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. Neuro means brain, linguistic means speech or communication, and programming is a deliberate process of organising information to get the results you want.

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of human excellence. It was created in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grindler. They wanted to understand how people produced excellence, so they studied a number of people who excelled in their field. Those they studied included: hypnotherapist Milton Eriksson MD, family therapist Virginia Satir and gestalt therapist Fritz Perls.

Once Bandler and Grindler discovered how these people produced excellence they created a number of models, which others could use to replicate the excellent behaviour in themselves and others.

NLP has developed into a set of tools and techniques, which shows you how to run your mind and to create effective change in your thoughts, beliefs, behaviours and state. But it’s more than just a set of tools and techniques it is also an attitude and a methodology. NLP is about curiosity, a willingness to experiment and the use of modelling, experimentation and processes.

Ultimately NLP allows you to achieve excellent results in both your personal and professional life. You can think of NLP as a way of programming your brain to communicate information both to yourself and others in order to achieve your desired goals by changing human behavior. We learn our behaviour from our experiences and the people around us as we grow up, and this programs our brain to perceive things and to react to the world in a certain way.

NLP allows you to understand what these programs are, and then reprogram them. Because our behaviour is learnt, we are able to unlearn it!  NLP is concerned with ‘how’ we do something, and not the ‘why’ (that’s for psychoanalysis).

Many of us know how to program the machines around us to get the results we need, such as using the GPS in our car to navigate our way or programming the recording devices on our TV to enjoy our favourite shows. However, few of us understand how to make deliberate choices in what we say to ourselves and to others in order to get the success and enjoyment we want from our lives.

Your brain stores all its experiences as pictures, sounds and feelings, if you change how your brain recognizes these experiences, you can change how you respond to them.  Your brain doesn’t know the difference between what is real and what happens in your head. Your imagination is always more powerful than your will power. Everyone has their own view of the world.

This strategy is used strongly in:

• the Results4Life Program
• the International Students from Asia Coaching Program
• the Asian Migrants Assistance and Coaching Program