"We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions."
Gerald J. Simmons

What is NLP?

Neuro Linguistic Programming is an innovative set of tools and techniques gathered from excellent achievers before us and packaged under the name of NLP to offer YOU the same choice to create a change.
How do we create this change?  NLP studies how to use the language of the mind to consistently achieve specific and desired outcomes. Because the language we use does not only describe the world, it does much more. It creates and shapes the world that we live in.

NLP techniques enable us to change, adopt, and eliminate undesired habits and behaviors to become what we once dreamt that we can be. It can provide you with the skills and ability to choose your mental, emotional and physical states at will. It’s an art and a science of living and changing oneself to achieve personal best.

Origins
Richard Bandler and John Grinder initially created NLP in 1975 and they began by developing models based on top communicators of the time. Their goal was to discover how certain people produced excellence and then to create models to allow other people similar behavior. Initially they studied the likes of Milton Eriksson, Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir but over the years many other have contributed to the growth of this field. Click here for the list of some useful Books on NLP.

What does it really mean?

Neuro – The mind and the nervous system. We gather and process information about the world surrounding us through our 5 senses – Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory and Gustatory.
Linguistics – Language of the mind. Verbal and non verbal language – hand gestures, facial expressions, and internal dialogue. Through language our neural representations are coded, ordered and given meaning.
Programming – the ability to discover and utilize the programs that we run in our neurological systems to achieve our specific and desired outcomes. Patterns, programs and strategies that that are in core of our behavior.

In the core of NLP are certain presuppositions that also tell a lot about the NLP itself.
Presuppositions of NLP are:

• Respect for the other person’s model of the world!
• Behavior and change are to be evaluated in terms of context and ecology.
• Resistance in a client is a sign of a lack of rapport.
• People are not their behaviors. Accept the person, change the behavior.
• Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have available.
• Calibrate on behavior: The most important information about a person is that person’s behavior.
• The map is not the territory. The words we use are NOT the event or the item they represent.
• You are in charge of your mind and therefore your results (and I am also in charge of my mind and therefore my results).
• People have all the resources they need to succeed and to achieve their desired outcomes. (There are no unresourceful people only unresourceful states.)
• All procedures should increase wholeness.
• There is only feedback! (There is no failure, only feedback.)
• The meaning of communication is the response you get.
• The system/person with the most flexibility of behavior will control the system. The Law of Requisite Variety
• All procedures should be designed to increase choice

We believe that we all have the resources we need to be as successful as we can be. Some people tap into these resources, others do not. NLP gives you ways to recognize your abilities and to use your resources for success in the future because NLP is result oriented. We are all born with a very complex and powerful biological computer, our mind! It has more power than we can ever imagine and yet we don not know how to use it. We are not given instruction manual when we are born and we learn by trial and error. Remember in NLP there is no failure, only feedback! And flexibility is the approach that gives you advantage.
The structure of how humans think and experience the world is quite complex and subjective and it is not easy to turn it into a specific set of instruction steps. But what we can do is to model the way that mind works and learn from these models. NLP therapy and NLP modeling are content free because NLP is interested more in process rather than in content. Modeling is done not by asking a person with an excellent behavior about  how they did something but by understanding the underlying structure, their thinking strategies and their internal processes as they are performing the task in their unique and outstanding way.
And this is exactly what NLP has done, it has derived techniques for easily and effectively changing undesired thought patterns, limiting beliefs and behaviors and turning them into thought and behavior that actually works for us. By observing, for example, the work of renowned couple therapist Virgina Satir, Meta Model has emerged. By studying one of the greatest hypnotherapists Milton Eriksson, a Milton Model has found it’s place in always growing NLP set of tools.
NLP is today widely used in business, education and therapy.
After you study NLP with Cornati Training, you can use it to REACH YOUR STAR in various fields like:

• Personal change and development
• Therapy
• Coaching and training
• All modes of business
• Sales
• Education
• Parenting