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Next on: Monday, 11:00 on BBC Radio 4
Power to Persuade: The Story of NLP
Thousands claim NLP has changed their lives, but what exactly is it and is there any scientific evidence that it works?
NLP - Neuro-Linguistic Programming - is a psychological approach originally developed in 1970s California by John Grinder and Richard Bandler. It was radically different from mainstream therapies of the time, offering its users fast results instead of the years of commitment required for psychoanalysis.
Today NLP has found its way into all walks of life, spawning numerous practitioners and schools and offering many different ways to improve, from curing phobias or depression to becoming a better teacher, athlete or manager. Its most prolific gurus are multi-millionaires and, in the case of Paul McKenna, household names.
But for all its commercial success and numerous devotees, NLP is seen by its critics as just another pseudo-science without robust evidence to support its claims. So does NLP genuinely help with powerful behavioural change, or can its achievements be explained by the placebo effect?
William Little, journalist and author of The Psychic Tourist, finds out for himself what it's like to experience NLP techniques, meets those who have used it to change their lives and interviews its co-founder Richard Bandler, the charismatic exponent of so-called "persuasion engineering".
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Mon 29 Nov 201011:00
- Feedback Vs More Input
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The birth of modern cognitive approaches can be traced back to the Macy Conferences that began in 1946. The Macy Conference was a set of meetings of people from a variety of different fields and was to "set the foundations for a general science of the workings of the human mind". Such illustrious people as William Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson and Heinz von Foerster were in attendance. From these conferences the fields of cybernetics, system theory and cognitive science was born. All of which had a huge influence on the development of NLP16 May 2013
- How the Mind Really Works
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Studying how the mind really works has been a great challenge for many scientists. But then, vast research has uncovered some of the wondrous facts about cognition and other mental processes.20 March 2013
- Fun with Adverbs And Adjectives
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Adverbs and adjectives add information to a verb (doing word) or noun (naming word) respectively. If I were to say "Johnny is running quickly", "quickly" would be the adverb as it is adding more detail or qualifying the verb "to run".21 February 2013
- Fear Into Freedom pattern
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Change is aways possible. Before I outline a technique to enable it, choose something you'd like to be doing with your life but aren't or you've been putting off and feeling fearful about20 February 2013
- Are Metaphors Real? – Some Interesting Research
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New research suggests there is more to metaphor than using real-life examples to communicate abstract ideas. It goes much deeper…9 February 2013
- What Are You Really Matching?
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In the principles of establishing and maintaining rapport a lot is talked about “body matching and mirroring”, but what are you actually matching and mirroring?27 November 2012
- The NLP View Radio Show
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“The NLP View” is a unique, live, interactive, internet talk-radio show that discusses the benefits of self-help through Neuro-linguistic programming.14 November 2012
- Specify the Verb
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When developing an outcome or a desired state that you want to achieve, whether it is personal or organisational, you need to make sure the description is in a form that is doable and observable.14 November 2012
- Metaphor, Analogy and Simile: The Difference and Why it is Important
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There is a lot of talk in NLP about Metaphor and of using metaphors as teaching tools. But what is a Metaphor? And what is the difference between Metaphor, Analogy and Simile (and why it is useful to know)?14 November 2012
- polya patterns and the structure of belief
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The term Polya Patterns are thrown around in NLP and often associated to the Sleight of Mouth Patterns and talked about as “yes sets” but what are they really and who was Polya?14 June 2012
- The Structure of Belief
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Two of the most powerful tools in NLP are the Meta Model and the Sleight of Mouth Patterns. These two interlinking models give us a very powerful set of tools to explore, reinforce, reframe or challenge a persons beliefs.14 June 2012
- NLP, CBT, ACT.... what else?
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Whats in a name? With so many theories and therapies around I thought it would be helpful to explore 4 areas: NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), Guided imagery (hypnosis) and ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy). NLP differs from the others in that its model is so flexible it is used as a coaching tool for managers, customer relations tools for sales and therapy by clinicians and therapists.4 June 2012
- representational systems: context not personal preference
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We are taught in NLP that people have a preferred representational system (sense) that they use to understand the world in certain contexts, and to help gain rapport with that person we need to recognise and adjust our communication style to take into account However, there seems to have been an excessive generalisation in NLP, where the persons representational system has almost become sacrosanct...29 May 2012
- 3 ways to improve your nlp skills immediately
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It is often the little things that make the difference, the tiny subtleties that seem so obvious we tend to overlook them. I have said before how I don’t believe in “advanced NLP techniques” but doing the basics right. So here are 3 obvious things you may overlook when using NLP for ChangeWork:29 May 2012
- What is hypnosis? – its more than 1-2-3 you’re under!
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It has been said that all language is hypnotic so why are so many people so fearful or dismissive of it? Hopefully the concepts below will help shows the benefits for patients and even in coaching staff29 May 2012
- Complementary therapies on the NHS
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More people would enjoy the benefits of complementary therapies if they were available free on the NHS. One of the big advantages of our health service is that you can go to the doctor and receive treatment free of charge, but while you may be given a prescription for drugs or referred to a specialist, what are the chances of being sent for a massage or a session of reflexology to ease your stress?29 May 2012
- Somatoform disorder - How does NLP help?
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somatoform disorder has also been called conversion disorder and is a growing problem.23 May 2011
