Understanding NLP: Metaphors and Patterns of Change - Tapa blanda

"It's the most important new contribution to NLP work in years. This book will inspire the next generation of practice and theory in NLP." Will McWhinney, The Fielding Institute, author of Paths of Change.

Many NLP Practitioners believe that only techniques matter. Their books and trainings present the student with a mass of useful facts, but with little integration of the material - and this is at a time when we are increasingly overwhelmed by more and more information, and have less and less time to digest it. As a result we are piling up and compartmentalising the data we receive, but failing to recognise its underlying principles. Understanding NLP overcomes this problem by providing a truly coherent model of NLP. Integrating into its structure tools from other change systems, and from drama, story telling and mythology, it utilises the pattern of human learning to produce a completely systematic way of investigating life. In creating a paradigm for understanding change, it examines aspects such as: Rapport; the Meta Mirror; the Four Realities Model; Bateson's Levels of Learning; the Satir Categories; Outcome Setting; the NLP Language Model; Modal Operators; Beliefs; Modelling. Exploring four archetypal worldviews and three basic theoretical models, Understanding NLP is an essential resource for both NLP beginners and Practitioners, presenting a wealth of practical NLP exercises and applications while revealing their underlying significance. Paperback 360 pages.