Monthly Archives: January, 2011

What is NLP?

Imagine you’re in a car without brakes, steering wheel or gears heading at top speed into an unfamiliar area where there are signposts in a language you don’t know and the terrain suddenly changes with no warning. One minute you’re bowling along feeling OK and then suddenly there’s a steep hill and you can’t see …

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NLP for parents?

NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming has been used in Industry for leadership and management training for many years and is now being adopted by parents all over the world to help them build parenting skills. Surely if it has been successful in business for building confidence, rapport, negotiating skills and conflict resolution then we need …

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Do you know your VAK?

VAK stands for Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic which are the main three NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) representational systems or ways of processing the inputs we get. There is a magic number – 7+ or -2 – that is the number of bits of information that people could deal with so from the millions of available …

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Get your baby to sleep with NLP

One of the core principles of NLP is modeling. Now I don’t mean modeling fashion, I’m talking about modeling in its truest meaning which is to copy something, to mimic. Babies watch what you do from the moment they are born and they want to copy you. This is how they learn and develop the …

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NLP for passing the 11+ exam

In many areas of the UK children in Years 4 and  5 at school are being tutored either at home or externally for the 11 plus exam. Why? 1) Because  in areas where there are Grammar Schools, parents want their children to go to them because they believe their children will get a better, more …

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