Last updated on August
28, 2006
ABOUT NLP
BENEFITS OF NLP
LEARNING NLP
NLP AT HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSITY
What is NLP?
NLP is the study of excellence that was created to answer
one simple question: How can I do whatever I am doing even
better? Just like physics studies the structure of the atomic
world, and chemistry studies the structure of the molecular
world, NLP studies the structure of our mental and emotional
world. The laws of physics apply to anything made of atoms,
the laws of chemistry apply to anything made of molecules,
and the laws of NLP apply to anything made of thoughts and
emotions. So, if you want to be and do anything more successfully,
whether building a business, healing your body, or reaching
enlightenment, NLP has concepts, models and techniques to
help you do just that.
The core principle of NLP is that success and failure
are not random. Our thoughts and our feelings, our behaviors
and our beliefs, our environment and our values create success
and failure. The reason we think, feel, behave, believe
the way we do is because that's what we were taught (directly
or indirectly) by our families, schools and cultures. If
everyone in your family overeats, then you will tend to
overeat too, because your parents were exemplars of a 'good
human being' for you when you were young, and you modeled
them indiscriminately. The key point here to realize is
that all these things that people identify with (e.g. "I
am poor") and believe is their fixed lot in life (e.g. "I
have attention deficit disorder"), is changeable. More than
that, most of it is *easily* changeable - your environments,
your behaviors, your capabilities, your beliefs, your values,
even your identity and spiritual purpose.
We know that right now you are jumping up and down and
yelling: "Yes, finally I can get rid of all this crap that
has been holding me back all my life and become successful
and live my dreams. Show me how!" And, in fact, NLP will
do just that for you. But first we want to explain how NLP
works.
At the heart of NLP lies a technology for modeling how
people do what they do and then rapidly transferring that
knowledge to others. For example, if you want to become
extraordinarily creative, we would first start by modeling
how you manage to stay uncreative (remember, failure also
has structure). Then we would find somebody who already
is extraordinarily creative, someone like Walt Disney, and
model how they achieve amazing creative success. As the
final step, we would teach you how to let go of your old
uncreative strategy and how to, instead, use Disney's extraordinarily
creative strategy. That's it. It's as simple as that.
We can model pretty much anything - investing, leadership,
negotiation, salesmanship, interviewing, emotional resilience,
bravery, self-healing, inner peace, passion, etc. In fact,
now that NLP has been around for over thirty years, it's
even easier than that. Over all these years many brilliant
people have been modeled, and for most anything that you
would want, we already have a tested model. By the way,
the outcome of the modeling process is an NLP technique,
which is a sequence of behavioral-cognitive-emotional steps
you would need to take to get the result. (Sometimes the
outcome of the modeling process is an NLP model, which is
a generalized technique that applies to a much wider set
of contexts).
Doesn't genetics limit
what I can do in this life?
Certainly genetics forms an important part of who we
are. If you go to pickup a one day old kitten, you will
notice that in the litter some kittens are lethargic, while
others are bouncing of the walls. That's genetics. If your
glands produce more adrenaline, then you will have more
energy. If your brain forms synapses faster, you will learn
faster. On this level, genetics certainly is important.
But it is not nearly as important as nurturing the things
that we care about, e.g. composing operas or negotiating.
Certainly, if you are handicapped, e.g. deaf, it will be
harder to become a composer (although Beethoven was deaf
in his old age). If you are autistic, negotiating successfully
will be more challenging. But, if we take an average healthy
human being, anything is possible. Think of it this way.
Pick any skill or ability you desire, and any handicap that
you believe you have. If we can find among six billion people
on our planet someone with that handicap who excels at that
skill or ability, then you can excel at it too. And six
billion people can do pretty much anything.
Brief history of NLP.
NLP was initially created in early 1970’s by Richard
Bandler, a student of mathematics, and John Grinder, a professor
of linguistics at The University of California in Santa
Cruz. They began modeling and duplicating the "magical results"
of a few extraordinary therapists of that time: hypnotherapist
Milton Erickson, gestalt therapist Fritz Perls and family
therapist Virginia Satir.
Richard and John were soon joined by a group of devoted
students, and collectively they developed many of the core
NLP concepts, models and techniques. By the 1980s NLP has
taken off in popularity, with hundreds of trainers creating
centers all over the world, and applying NLP to personal
communication, relationships, business.
Now, over 30 years later, NLP is taught and used in over
80 countries around the world (in America, Europe, Asia,
Australia, and Africa). NLP has been successfully applied
to self development, business, health, relationships, dating,
sales, politics, creativity, leadership, therapy, communicating,
teaching, professional growth, spirituality. Over five million
people have been trained in NLP skills and techniques, and
there are more then 100 books published on NLP.
How did the name Neuro-Linguistic
Programming come about?
As Richard Bandler, one of the NLP founders, tells the
story, one day he was pulled over for speeding. When the
policeman approached the car and asked for the identification,
Richard, who was a student at the time, glanced around his
car and noticed three textbooks lying on the front passenger
seat - one on Neurology, one on Linguistics and one on Programming.
Quick on his feet, Richard said he was a Neuro-Linguistic
Programmer, and the impact of that phrase in 1970s was so
great that the cop let him go. This story repeated itself
in the hospital where Richard was driving to visit someone,
where the nurse wouldn't let him in until he said he was
a Neuro-Linguistic Programmer. As Richard says now, any
name that gets you past cops and nurses is a good name,
and so Neuro-Linguistic Programming was born.
What are the roots of
NLP?
Much of what we call NLP has existed in scattered bits
and pieces of knowledge in other disciplines for many years.
NLP has taken what was most useful from other disciplines
and unified and codified it in new, more effective ways.
A partial list of NLP roots includes: General semantics
by Alfred Korzybski. Transformational grammar (linguistics)
by Noam Chomsky. Logical levels by Gregory Bateson. Stimulus-trigger-response
conditioning by Ivan Pavlov. Family therapy by Virginia
Satir. Hypnotherapy by Milton Erickson. Gestalt therapy
by Fritz Perls. Body work by Moshe Feldenkrais. Systems
theory by Galanter, Miller and Pribram.
Who are some of the
famous people that NLP techniques were modeled from?
Many highly successful people were modeled by NLP. A
partial list of their names and techniques modeled from
them includes: Walt Disney - phenomenal creativity. Milton
Erickson - irresistible verbal and body language of influence.
Aristotle - methodology for building scientific models.
Mozart - extraordinary musical intuition. Warren Buffet
- vast wealth creation. Tiger Woods - unshakeable attention.
Mahatma Gandhi - visionary leadership.
Can NLP techniques be
applied in a fixed 1-2-3 way to anyone?
NLP techniques are recipes for getting specific results.
Yet, our minds are much more complicated than our dinners,
so no technique can be applied in a fixed 1-2-3 way to everyone
with the same results. Our uniqueness prevents conveyer-belt
approaches. That said, every canned NLP technique has its
own average success rate that depends on how complicated
and extensive the transformation that it creates is. For
example, Fast Phobia Cure has over a 95% average success
rate in its canned form, because phobias are simple emotional
imprints. On the other hand, Allergy Cure has a 60% average
success rate in its canned form, because allergies often
have deep roots into our past and into our identities.
Is NLP scientifically
proven? Where can I find scientific studies?
As a rule, NLP is about finding and using what works.
NLP practitioners always verify success of their work through
empirical observation. For example, if you were afraid of
spiders before Fast Phobia Cure, and are happily petting
a tarantula afterwards, that's considered a success.
There have also been plenty of laboratory studies of
NLP techniques and models, mostly with inconclusive results:
one set of experiments shows that a technique works, another
set shows that it doesn't. What's going on? The explanation
lies in the way that lab studies are carried out. Most of
them apply a canned NLP technique in a fixed 1-2-3 way to
a group of subjects. But NLP was never meant to be used
in a canned way, and so canned NLP techniques often produce
results different from expected. Moreover, the experimenters
are often scientists with little NLP training, who learned
NLP from books and lack the essential experience and knowledge
to apply NLP correctly.
You can find a collection of NLP scientific studies at
NLP
Research Database.
Does NLP always get
results?
Yes. Are they always the results you want? No. Saying
yes would be tantamount to saying that we have got God's
power, and that just isn't true.
What set of principles
is NLP based on?
Underneath all the techniques and all the models, NLP
stands on several core beliefs. These beliefs are neither
true nor false, but they are highly useful in everyday life.
These beliefs are held by most of the successful people
on our planet, and they help tremendously in creating the
kind of life that you want to live. Because these are beliefs
and not laws of life, the number of these beliefs and their
phrasing vary from trainer to trainer. We have put together
the core set of these beliefs and their explanations:
- People respond to their
map of reality, not to the reality itself. Fundamentally,
it is not possible to know reality directly; we know
it only through our senses. As information passes through
our sensory organs and is processed by the brain, it
gets distorted, deleted and generalized. The way the
information is transformed is governed by our mental
and emotional filters, by our beliefs, and by our focus
of attention. The filters, the beliefs, and the attention
are all a result of our past and are highly individual.
What is stressful to one, is peaceful to another. What
is funny to one, is boring to another. Each one of us
can only respond to their map of reality, and these
maps of realities are widely different. It is silly
to get upset at someone thinking or responding differently
then yourself, because if you had their map of reality,
you would think and respond the same way they do.
- Energy flows where
attention goes. This belief was modeled from
Hawaiian shamans. Our mental and emotional muscles work
on the same principle as our bodies - what you exercise,
becomes stronger. The exercise machine of the mind is
attention; wherever you direct it, there the energy
flows and the part under focus becomes stronger. If
you focus on illness, you give power to it. If you focus
on trouble, you give power to that. If you focus on
how much people love you, you give power to that. Ever
observed how after you decided that you like a particular
car, all of a sudden you started noticing it everywhere?
Energy flows where attention goes.
- Behind every behavior
is a positive intent. Yes, every single behavior.
Even Hitler's. It is important to understand that the
positive intent is (often) for the person himself, not
for the other people. Similarly, every one of your behaviors
has a positive intent for some part of you. Maybe not
for the whole of you, but for the part doing the behavior.
Smoking is clearly not healthy overall, yet it often
has many positive intents such as relaxation, social
acceptance or mental escape.
- People always make
the best choice they can at the time. People
live in their maps of reality, and always choose the
best option they can see. It might not be your or our
best option, but for them it seems the best. If someone
is making a poor choice, just keep in mind that they
either don't know what else they can do or don't understand
that a better option exists. Until we become enlightened,
our minds have different parts (or roles) that activate
at different times, and depending on which part is active
at the moment, people have different sets of choices
available to them at different times. The part that's
running the show at the moment always makes the best
choice for itself, even if it's unhealthy for the rest
of you. Snoozing the alarm clock five times and coming
late to work seems dumb to the part of you that comes
to work, yet makes plenty of sense in the world of the
part of you that is trying to get some sleep after a
late night yesterday.
- Choice is better than
no choice. Right on the footsteps of the previous
belief, if we always make the best choice we can at
the time; then by adding choices we increase the quality
of our decisions. Of course, sometimes you might want
to have no choice so that the full power of commitment
is at your fingertips. And that - choosing to create
a no-choice environment, is also a choice.
- Anyone can do anything
given the right strategy. This belief is highly
useful in empowering you to manifest your dreams. Think
of it this way - can you fly an airplane? Likely not.
Yet, with precise step by step instructions, you can
become a pilot, and it's easier than you think. The
key is small-chunk step by step instruction, e.g. pull
this lever, look at that dial, adjust this mirror. When
we reduce anything that looks complicated, be it high
yield investing, enlightenment or writing a best selling
book, into small enough steps, then anyone can follow
the steps and get the result. In our years of coaching
and training, we have seen many examples of people lacking
even the most rudimentary abilities who have risen to
the top in their chosen path. As for famous examples,
Cher, Mark Twain, Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's),
George Washington, Albert Einstein were all elementary
or high school dropouts. Look at them now!
- There is no such thing
as failure, only feedback. You want the result
X, so you do a sequence of steps A and instead get an
outcome Y. Is that a failure? Yes, it's a failure to
get the result X. But is it useful for you to think
this way? What kinds of emotional states do you connect
to the word 'failure'? How would you feel if someone
called you a 'failure'? Instead, let's look at it from
a different point of view. What actually happened was
that you got feedback that the sequence of steps A generates
outcome Y. And now you are looking for another sequence
of steps that will get you the result X that you wanted.
Failure and feedback are two sides of the same coin.
You choose which way of thinking supports you best.
- The meaning of the
communication is the response you get. Whenever
you are communicating with others, it is your job to
get your point across. If they don't get it, you didn't
say it the right way for them. If they blow you off,
you didn't create enough rapport. If they didn't hear
you, you didn't say it loud enough.
How is NLP related
to hypnosis?
NLP borrowed trance work from hypnosis as a highly useful
tool for creating change in people. Hypnosis studies and
uses trance much deeper then NLP does, while NLP has many
other models and techniques that are not part of hypnosis.
Many people find NLP and hypnosis complementary, and study
both.
Is NLP a type of therapy?
No. A few of the original NLP models were created based
on the works of outstanding therapists: Milton Erickson,
Virginia Satir and Fritz Perls. Since then, many more NLP
models and techniques have been created for self development,
communication, business, relationships, wealth, health.
NLP can be used for therapy, but that is only a small part
of it.
What are Neuro-Semantics™,
Neuro-Associative Conditioning™, DHE™, and Timeline Therapy™?
Sometimes NLP trainers and developers decide that they
have enough unique content of their own to create a new
field, different from NLP. In such cases, they brand it,
market it and it becomes their intellectual property. Each
of these four brands has a unique taste of its own. Which
one will suit you best, or if good old (and much more developed)
NLP is your path, only you can tell.
Where is NLP useful?
NLP has a lot to offer for Self Development, Relationships,
Business and Wealth, Communication and Sales, Health and
Therapy, Learning and Creativity. We list here just a few
learnings NLP offers for each area:
- NLP in Self Development:
How to master the powers of intent, attention and optimal
planning to turn your dreams into reality. How to consistently
change bad habits to positive habits and have results
that last a lifetime. How to get unstuck from deeply
emotional states in a couple of minutes. How to interrupt
incessant self talk and get some peace of mind. How
to be wise and balanced in every aspect of your life.
How to become aware of who you are, and how to figure
out who you want to be. How to identify your inner blocks
and move beyond them. How to run your mind, instead
of having it run you. How to change your limiting beliefs
into empowering beliefs. How to forgive yourself and
others, and re-channel that stuck energy back into your
life. How to stop blaming and start living. How to remain
calm even in the face of an emergency. How to manifest
your reality by becoming aware and mastering the molecules
of your thoughts and emotions. How to be an expert decision
maker.
- NLP in Relationships:
How to easily and rapidly create rapport with people
from all walks of life. How to cut away linguistic jungle
to speak with absolute clarity and precision. How to
influence and persuade like a pro. How to consistently
make decisions that are right for the whole family.
How to skillfully flow with your emotional highs and
lows. How to interrupt unhealthy personal relationship
cycles. How to renew the vitality, the spirit of your
relationships. How to enjoy any gathering (a party,
a seminar, a conference) even when you are not in the
mood at first. How to approach unapproachable people
easily and gracefully. How to learn the lessons, let
go of guilt and move on with your life. How to give
your partner and your kids what they need, and receive
what you want.
- NLP in Business and
Wealth: How to motivate yourself and others effectively.
How to be a visionary leader and inspire others. How
to ace job interviews and enjoy them too. How to rapidly
predict the success of a job candidate. How to see solutions
where others see problems. How to use rapid planning-execution
models TOTE and SCORE. How to fruitfully run meetings.
How to be organized. How to create order from chaos
at work, and to know when to introduce chaos to get
things moving. How to brainstorm by yourself and with
a group. How to rely on your biological cycles at work,
instead of fighting them. How to get the job you truly
desire. How to be a successful business owner. How to
achieve massive selling success. How to see opportunities
where others see only barren land. How to have millionaire
beliefs.
- NLP in Communication
and Sales: How to read people conversationally
and through body language. How to verbally and nonverbally
pace and lead others. How to control group dynamics.
How to quickly and peacefully resolve any conflict (internal
or external) and negotiate win/win solutions. How to
go light years beyond simple matching and mirroring
to create immense rapport with psychology of space.
How to get your point across and to know when to stop
talking. Why active listening is dangerous and how true
listening works. How to be an extraordinary public speaker.
How to inspire with words. How to use trance to deliver
your message through multiple channels. How to become
aware of your conversational patterns, understand how
others manipulate you with them, and change them. How
to be congruent in thoughts and in words.
- NLP in Health and Therapy:
How to heal past traumas and fears (e.g. fear of flying,
fear of heights, fear of swimming, etc). How to stop
old bad habits, such as nail biting. How to heal allergies.
How to improve eyesight. How to proactively heal your
body. How to transform critical voices into empowering
voices. How to turn grief and loss into a positive and
supportive sense of presence. How to create and maintain
healthy states. How to use beliefs as a tool for healing
in the face of illness. How to turn anxiety, depression,
stress, and panic into positive energy. How to let go
of emotional baggage. How to separate symptoms from
causes and consistently heal the latter. How to be aware
of your physical health.
- NLP in Learning and
Creativity: How to become an accelerated learner.
How to master any art or craft by following the cycles
of mastery. How the optimal learning strategy works,
the sequence of stages any learning goes through and
what you must do at each one. How four learning personality
types affect your life, and how to change yours. How
to be creative when you need it, not when it happens
to you. How to avoid common creativity pitfalls. How
to develop your creativity beyond what you thought was
possible.
Who will find NLP useful?
Some of our students that have benefited from NLP include
Parents, Salespeople, CEOs, Business Owners, Managers, Entrepreneurs,
Consultants, Lawyers, Engineers, Students, Teachers, Coaches,
Trainers, Counselors, Educators, Doctors, Chiropractors,
Massage Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Hypnotherapists,
Scientists, Designers, Negotiators, Clerks, Performers,
Models, Athletes and Entertainers. Regardless of occupation,
the majority of NLP participants are searching and finding
within NLP vastly more effective and fulfilling ways to
live their lives.
What did other people
get from learning NLP?
The trainers at Holographic University all created significant
transformations in their lives using NLP. We want to first
share one of their personal success stories with you:
"Yes, NLP has definitely turned my life around, and this
is at best an understatement. The skills I learned in NLP,
the beliefs I adopted from it, they all have become an inseparable
part of my life. Can you imagine living without being able
to read? In the same way I cannot imagine living without
my NLP knowledge and skills. You want something specific?
Sure. The first noticeable changes for me started with hobbies
- martial arts, music, public speaking - to name a few,
something that I kept postponing for years, thinking that
I didn't have enough time. That was like the first breath
of fresh air of life. Then my income went up over 50%, and
I've started to notice myriads of other opportunities. Negative
emotions no longer storm in unexpectedly like hurricanes;
they have become simply indicators of undesired situations.
Ever noticed how people like to "press your buttons"? Well,
they suddenly found that my old "buttons" didn't work anymore.
And the most important specific change? Of course, communication
skills. Connecting to people in seconds, and hearing what
they actually intended to say, is worth all the time and
effort of learning NLP hundreds of times over. Most highly
successful people are great communicators, and I personally
haven't yet found any more effective school of communication
than NLP. The school of life and excellence." - Sergey Berezin,
Ph.D., NLP Trainer at Holographic University.
All around the world, success stories by NLP practitioners
are posted in online forums. We have picked a few of these
to post here (with a whole lot more you can find yourself
online):
- Armed with NLP negotiation and conflict resolution
skills, an executive steps into a dispute and saves
the company $600,000.
- No longer feeling overwhelmed by authority figures,
a manager releases his fear of public speaking to comfortably
lead large meetings.
- Developing an incredible understanding of human
interactions, an engineer improves all of his relationships
immeasurably and greatly boosts his self confidence.
- Identifying old unresourceful communication patterns,
a writer finally takes his most significant relationship
to a new level.
- Applying the power of intent and a few simple NLP
techniques, a scientist improves his eyesight by 200%.
- Mastering the power of focus and intent, a teenager
steps beyond attention deficit disorder label to become
an outstanding student.
- Clarifying desired outcomes, beliefs and values,
an entrepreneur catapults from a dead-end job to his
dream career.
- Setting healthy personal boundaries, an advertising
manager rapidly changes her response to a toxic boss.
How can I learn NLP?
Let's look at pros and cons of all the different ways
that you can get started in NLP:
- Searching and learning
from free resources on the Internet is the cheapest
way to get started with NLP. Since you are reading this
NLP Guide, you certainly already know all about how
to find NLP information. The biggest problem with free
information on the Internet is that no one actually
needs 'information'. Instead, aren't we all looking
for filtered information, for information from the sources
we trust, information that someone has taken the time
and energy to make reliable and useful? Information
is dime a dozen (googling 'NLP' generates sixteen million
hits). Knowledge is what we are after.
- Reading NLP books
is an excellent way to learn the conceptual underpinnings
of NLP, the history of NLP, to get inspired by what
is possible, and to reference what you already know.
Reading is a poor way to learn NLP techniques until
you get to the advanced level, because it's a catch
22: until you know the alphabet of NLP you can't start
reading, but to learn the alphabet by yourself you must
already know how to read. Recall that all of us were
taught the alphabet by our parents and teachers. Or
to put it very succinctly, you can't learn how to ride
a bike from reading a book about biking. It's experiential
knowledge, not head knowledge. Once you become an advanced
student of NLP, then you will begin to notice that all
of NLP techniques consist of the same core parts sequenced
in different ways. And it will be easy for you to read
about a technique and be able to do it right away.
- Listening to NLP CDs or
watching NLP DVDs is a step forward from just
reading about NLP. By hearing and better yet, observing
expert trainers demonstrate NLP, you will pickup many
essential pieces that make NLP work so well (and are
never fully explained in NLP books). You can learn alphabet
this way. What you will still be missing is experiential
knowledge. Think of it this way, we learn that which
we do. If you observe NLP, you will learn to observe
NLP. If your goal is to do NLP, you have to do it.
- Going to a live training
is the surest way to rapidly master NLP. It's also the
most expensive, obviously (although surprisingly, NLP
DVDs are often not much cheaper). In addition to learning
the NLP alphabet, techniques and models from live demonstrations,
at a good training you spend most of the time practicing
NLP with other students under the guidance of an expert
trainer, vastly improving the speed and the depth of
learning.
The most typical learning path for an NLP beginner to
follow is to start with basic info on the Internet (such
as this NLP Guide), then get an introductory NLP book (see
below for our recommendations), and then signup for a short
free seminar or for a paid training that offers 100% money
back guarantee (both types of seminars are offered at Holographic
University).
Describe an NLP beginner,
an NLP master and an NLP expert.
An NLP beginner has learned a number of NLP techniques
and models, and can follow the steps to create prescribed
results. A beginner is limited to using the specific techniques
she learned. An NLP master uses NLP techniques as guidelines,
instead of fixed-in-stone recipes, and adapts each technique
to the problem. The master's success rate with creating
the results he wants is much higher then the beginner's.
An NLP expert has the ability to create NLP techniques on
the fly to tackle any challenge she might face. An expert
can heal very deep and difficult issues (such as cancer,
chronic depression, identity crisis).
If you have seen the movie Matrix, then Neo was a beginner
at the start of the movie when he had to follow the rules
of the virtual world. He became a master when he swallowed
the pill and was able to bend the rules by jumping ten stories
high and running on the walls. Neo became an expert at the
end of the movie when he learned how to see through the
virtual world and create his own reality.
What are NLP Practitioner,
NLP Master Practitioner, NLP Trainer certifications?
These are 18-25 day long courses traditionally offered
by NLP training centers. Their curriculums vary somewhat
from center to center, yet are mostly interchangeable. A
Practitioner from one center can continue with Master Practitioner
training at another center. At the end of each training
students who pass the final exam are certified as a Practitioner,
a Master Practitioner or a Trainer. Are the certificates
useful? Not really. Their only use is to allow a Practitioner
to signup for a Master Practitioner training, and a Master
Practitioner to signup for a Trainer's training. That and
the bragging rights. There are no government bodies, regulatory
agencies or business uses for a certificate.
NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner curriculums
were created a long time ago, and include an array of techniques
and models for better health, relationships, therapy, and
communication. Their wide spectrum of content is both an
advantage and a disadvantage. On the one hand, if you really
want to master NLP, then they expose you to many different
applications and provide a well trodden path to learning
NLP. On the other hand, if you are interested in something
specific, e.g. self development or effective communication,
then the certification courses include a lot of material
that you don't need. Also, if you want to start of by sampling
NLP, then a three week long training might be too much.
All three certification courses are typically taught
in one of the two formats: 1. a summer intensive or 2. a
weekend course that runs for several months. They cost anywhere
from $3000 to $6000. Sometimes shorter and cheaper accelerated
NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner trainings are
offered, such as 7 days for $2000. But don't fool yourself,
you get what you pay for even if the ad copy claims otherwise.
Is it necessary to
attend an NLP Practitioner training course?
Certainly not. Neither the two founders of NLP, nor anyone
in their initial peer group have attended an NLP Practitioner
training (but they did train Practitioners). We have occasionally
met people who have never heard of NLP yet are fluent in
the fundamental principles of NLP. Your path of learning
NLP is unique to you, whether it goes through a mountain
of books, a certification training, or a series of independent
weekend seminars.
What should I know
before choosing an NLP training?
A few things are vital:
- The quality of the training is only as good as the
quality of the trainer. So find out about his background,
read testimonials of his trainings, attend a free seminar,
read his writings, speak with him in person. It's important
to understand that developing NLP, marketing NLP and
training NLP are three different skill sets, and some
of the lesser known trainers are much better at *training*
NLP then some of the big names.
- Figure out how you want to apply NLP and then find
the trainer who is best in that area. All trainers focus
on different areas and applications of NLP. For health
it's one trainer, for relationships it's another, for
business it's the third. For example, at Holographic
University our specialty are NLP for beginners trainings.
- Make sure you don't jump in over your head - NLP
Practitioner training is a long, intensive and expensive
program. Ask yourself whether you need that much to
begin with, or if perhaps a shorter introductory weekend
training would serve you better in the beginning?
What are some good
books to read on NLP?
Over a hundred books have been written on NLP in the
last thirty years. The books range from elementary material
to comprehensive textbooks to applications of NLP to self
development, business communication, relationships, health,
wealth and psychotherapy. We have hand picked a few books
to recommend to you that are favorites among our students.
Beginner level:
Intermediate level:
Advanced level:
How long will it take
me to master NLP?
Depends. NLP is all about applying what you learn to
your everyday life. So mastering NLP goes in cycles - you
learn some material in a weekend, then go back to incorporate
it into your life for a few months, then back to learning.
Typically, it takes a couple of years to become fluent in
NLP, and another two to master what you know so well that
it becomes who you are rather than what you do. Of course,
even the founders of NLP, who have been at it for over thirty
years, still keep on learning.
Why learn NLP at Holographic
University?
Experience: In the last
year alone we have conducted over 25 seminars and trainings
at Holographic University. Our trainers are not just trainers,
but developers in the field of NLP, always staying on the
cutting-edge of the field. Subscribe to tips from NLP masters
newsletter to see what new technique, model or idea we are
showcasing for you right now. Our specialties are NLP trainings
on self development, communication, relationships, business,
and health.
Quality: We are proud of
the highest quality NLP trainings we offer - make sure you
read our student testimonials on trainings description pages.
We are single minded about the purpose of our trainings
- to make absolutely sure you can do everything we teach.
Not just know NLP, but able to do NLP with a high level
of skill. We are absolutely committed to leading all of
our trainings with integrity, openness and respect.
Value: We have created
an extensive support network for our students starting with
this NLP Guide, continuing with tips from NLP masters newsletter,
through to email support and a strong selection of advanced
seminars to build upon the foundations. We offer an affordable,
convenient and exciting way to learn NLP - weekend trainings
in beautiful San Francisco. Meet amazing people who fly
in to our trainings from all over US and other countries,
some from as far away as Norway.
Do you have a program
that rewards for referring friends and family?
Yes, we do. For every referral you make who attends a
one day or longer training, we will send you a $25 gift
certificate to amazon.com. Make sure your referral mentions
your name. And you don't have to be a student at Holographic
University. Anyone can refer anyone (two exceptions - you
can't refer yourself, and you can't refer someone who is
already a student at Holographic University).
Do you offer private
personal coaching, business training and consulting?
Yes we do. Our trainers all have years of training and
coaching experience behind their belts and will be happy
to coach you to even greater success in your life.
We also run business and professional growth trainings
on effective communication for engineers and managers; teamwork;
leadership; interviewing skills; unleashing creativity;
as well as others. We always custom design the training
program for your company to maximize the value of this service
for you and your team.
For more information about personal coaching and business
trainings, please contact our main office at 415-317-7960
or send an email to: info (at) HolographicUniversity
(dot) com
What if I have more
questions?
We would be happy to answer any questions you have about
NLP. Simply call us at 415-317-7960 or send an email to:
info (at) HolographicUniversity (dot) com
