what’s NLP about?
“NLP is a modeling technology whose specific subject matter is the set of the differences that make the difference between the performance of geniuses and that of average performers in the same field or activity. In this sense, the objective of modeling studies in NLP is to explicate in a transferable and learnable code these sets of differences. The core activity, then, is the mapping of tacit knowledge onto an explicit model. This meta-discipline was created by John Grinder and Richard Bandler in the early 70’s”
John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St. Clair, Whispering in The Wind, J and C Enterprises, 2001
More technical information about NLP: attention points
Focus of NLP: excellence
Assumptions:
- patterns of excellence in human behaviour are ruled-governed
- the behaviour we are observing in an individual (genius) is representative of an intact-rule governed system
What is a model?
“A model is a collection of patterns [redundancies] (…) It is a description of some portion of the source’s behaviour, a mapping from a complex set of interactions onto a reduced set of elements. Thus, the resulting description is always a reduced representation of the complex behaviour offered by the source. (…)
The sole criterion for the evaluation of models is, does this pattern/model work - that is, is it learnable and upon learning it, does the learner display behavior similar in results and quality to the source from which it was extracted?”
John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St. Clair
What is a pattern?
“any aggregate of events or objects (e.g. a sequence of phonemes, a painting, or a frog or a culture) shall be said to contain a “redundancy” or a “pattern” if the aggregate can be divided in any way by a “slash mark” such that an observer perceiving only one side of the slash mark can guess with better than random success, what is on the other side of the slash mark … Or, again from the point of view of a cybernetic observer, the information available on one side of the slash will restrain (i.e. reduce the probability of) wrong guessing”
Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Distinctions in NLP
NLP modeling
NLP application
NLP training
John Grinder e Carmen Bostic St. Clair
NLP modelling
(coded patterns of genius)
It is the mapping of tacit to explicit knowledge and it is the core activity of NLP.
| The process of NLP modeling is: | |
| 1 | Identify and have access to a model of excellence (genius) in his/her context |
| 2 | Unconscious assimilation |
| 3 | Obtain in similar contexts results as effective as the genius within the same time frame and with the same quality |
| 4 | Code patterns of excellence |
| 5 | Verify quality of coding |
John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St. Clair
NLP application
(The application of NLP pattering)
The application of the NLP coded patterns of excellence (developed through modeling and/or through design, which means the manipulation of the variables inherent in each of the coded model of excellence developed through modeling) in specific context (leadership, management, change work, therapy, coaching, counselling …)
NLP training
(training of the NLP pattering)
The teaching and training of the NLP coded patterns of excellence (developed through modeling and/or through design, which means the manipulation of the variables inherent in each of the coded model of excellence developed through modeling).
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