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"Neuro-Linguistic
Programming: or NLP is a field of human endeavor originally
concerned with the study
of modeling human
performance and excellence, and the goal of creating transferable
skills to other people. The field has grown since its beginnings
in modeling successful psychotherapists and has found applications
in areas involving human communications, such as education,
learning, persuasion, negotiation, sales, leadership, team-building,
decision-making, creative processes, health, medicine, and
athletic performance.
The
field was created by Richard Bandler, PHd and John Grinder,
PHd in the early 1970s from modeling several well-known psychotherapists,
namely Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir, and Milton Erickson who
were giants in their fields of expertise. NLP began quite
outside the academic mainstream, and it remains largely divorced
from mainstream academic psychology to this day, even though
many NLP practitioners do have traditional credentials in
psychology and psychiatry.
NLP
is interested in knowledge that is useful regarding a variety
of applications. NLP seeks to discover
how experts and superior performers achieve their excellent
results and what is "the difference that makes the difference,"
and then modeling those behaviors to create transferable skills
of excellence.
The
field has also developed specific techniques that can be used
ranging from , curing phobias, handling criticism and flattery,
handling grief, stopping unwanted habits and behaviors, to
sales, persuasion techniques, learning techniques, curing
some allergies, improving skills and many others.
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