Ever heard of Neuro Linguistic Programming? Neuro Linguistic Programming, or NLP, was co-created by Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder in the 1970s. It is a way of better understanding how people think and how you can persuade or influence them to think differently. It’s a set of ideas and techniques that can help people to make many changes in their own life, or to help others to change. According to Wikipedia, NLP is an interpersonal communication model applied in psychotherapy and other contexts of communication and change. It attempts to observe naturally self-taught expertise, and then model the processes and habitual patterns that experts intuitively use on the assumption that those behaviors were responsible for their results.
Paul McKenna, UK’s best-selling non-fiction author of books such as I Can Make You Thin, I Can Make You Rich, and Change Your Life in 7 Days. He is a licensed NLP trainer and his books are all based on NLP.
There’s actually a free site that contains the biggest resources of NLP-related materials: www.nlpconnections.com. The site has over 10,000 active members, including NLP trainers and authors, who provide exchanges of help and advice in the forums. Making NLP accessible to everyone, this Web site also contains a reviews section, articles, MP3 interviews with trainers, an events calendar, and more. Now you can learn the basic concepts of Neuro Linguistic Programming without having to spend thousands of dollars. Remember, signing up in the site to become a full member is free of charge. You can actually view some articles without signing up but members get access to more free resources and they also earn NLPoints, which can be turned into even more free stuff.
Some of the topics currently being discussed at the forums are “Ethics and NLP,” “Is NLP Manipulative and Dangerous?,” and “NLP with Anger Issues.”