The strange language of NLP

NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming has its own language, just like any other discipline. Think computer science, accounting, IT, even market research, HR Consulting etc.

For that matter, every company has its own language - expressions that tie its members together and create a culture.

The main challenge is that when you join a class in university, a company, or read a book about some things, it is your choice and mostly, you have some idea about the topic or area that we entrench. May be about the jargon used. The words we use to differentiate ourselves from others - just listen to the words young people use and compare it to the words older people use. There are plenty of differences.

Now, most people who join NLP Classes also have some idea of what is happening. They might have read a book - plenty available nowadays - read an article, talked about it with friends, checked it out on the internet and so on.

They might know that NLP is about personal development, discovering your inner self, finding direction, managing goals, helping others, communicating better or at a very deep level, changing behaviours, instant change, learning how to manage meetings or negotiations and much, much more.

So far, it is clear.

But NLP approaches things differently and in a very different style. It goes deeper. Actually, NLP teaches participants to approach life differently. It teachesthat we are not failures, that it is possible to succeed, to understand that there is opportunity in challenges. It teaches to manage our mind, that we have a choice in our life that we can define our future, that it is possible to overcome negative behaviours, beliefs and habits in a moment. It shows that we can work with others to help them achieve their goals.

It is only ..... that NLPlers use a very funny language.

Have you ever heard some NLPlers try to explain what NLP is? To someone who has no idea about NLP? It is a permanent struggle.

Remember, that NLP's founders were engaged in computer science (Richard Bandler) and linguistics (John Grinder). Somehow this combination proved fatal in terms of choice of language.

If you come to the "right NLPlers" they talk about "Submodalities, Meta Model, Strategies or Chaining or Collapsing Anchoring.

It is hard to stay alert in this maze.

Some newer NLP schools try to change the language, but then, it is even more confusing.

It is about the ability to really translate something somewhat difficult and strange into something that is beautiful and easy to understand. To me, it is one of my goals in the training to allow my practitioners to use NLP and be able to explain it to anyone they meet easily and effortlessly.

If they manage that, then I know my job is done. Because NLP is easy.

It is simplest form, it is about identifying where someone wants to go in their life (their future) and to contrast this with where they are now. Then, it is about discovering the ways and steps they need to take to reach their desired future. What would they need to go there, how do they go there, when and how someone is affected after reaching their goals.

That is probably the easiest definition. There are more available that go deeper into the sphere of NLP, but then, still manage to get the message across.

Because NLP is about communication. And if someone who is working with the most magnificent tool of communication (that is NLP, in case you wonder), and cannot explain it easily then how? You know the answer to that question.

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