NLP FAQ

Why consider the NLP and Coaching Institute of California?

What is NLP?

What can learning NLP do for me?

What set of principles is NLP based on?

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Why consider the NLP and Coaching Institute of California?

Experience.

We have been conducting long-term certification programs for over 20 years. Throughout the years, we have sponsored more than 45 NLP Practitioner Certification Training Programs through our Institute, as well as participating in several other programs throughout the world. We have also been conducting Coach Certification Programs over the past five years, and have offered these courses in various locations throughout the United States and Internationally. We have developed and refined our programs over time, always keeping the content and teaching methods on the cutting edge of these fields. Moreover, we have pioneered and taught for 12 yers, The World Health Certification Program with Robert Dilts, Tim Hallbom, and Suzi Smith, which is considered the "Graduate School of NLP". Tim Hallbom, the training director of the NLP and Coaching Institute is one of the few well known trainers in the field of NLP, who has also maintained a full coaching practice for many years.
Training Experience.

The trainers in our programs are simply the best teachers in the fields of NLP and Coaching. In addition to Tim Hallbom, Nick LeForce, Suzi Smith, Kris Hallbom and others who are part of our certification training team, we include well-known trainers from other institutes as special guest trainers. Recently including Steve Andreas, Ron Crough, Robert Dilts, Jan Elfline, and Michael Hall.
Our Mission

Our mission is to teach our students to be able to actually do Coaching and NLP through our trainings with a high level of skill. We also are absolutely committed to using the powerful NLP and Coaching methods with integrity, openness, and without mystery. We also treat each student with the acknowledgement of their special gifts and have as our goal for each of them to truly step into their magnificence.

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What is NLP?

Read this special brief article by Steve Andreas.

NLP - Neuro-Linguistic Programming is the practical science of detecting, evolving and using the conscious and unconscious thinking and behavioral patterns that we are constantly experiencing.

Thus NLP is the cutting-edge communications field that enhances professional development and personal performance. NLP is about how people learn, communicate, change, and evolve themselves. It was originally developed by studying patterns of communicating and thinking used by highly successful people.

NLP provides specific "how to" skills to create change in one's self and assist others in becoming more resourcefull and effective. NLP is a set of processes that can greatly improve your communication skills in any situation. NLP is truly empowering and helps you do whatever you do better!

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What can learning NLP do for me?

Learning can help you in all areas of your life such as your career, relationships, health, and overall well being.

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What set of principles is NLP based upon?

The NLP Presuppositions:

Communication is redundant.
You are always communicating in all 5 major representational systems.
The meaning of your communication is the response that you get.
Communication is not about what you intend, or about saying the right words; it's about creating an experience in, and getting a response from, the listener. The "bottom line" is the response you elicit.
The map is not the territory
People respond to their map of reality, not to reality itself. NLP is the science of changing these maps (not reality).

You create your own reality.
You experience your personal reality, not the "truth."
Requisite variety.
The element in a system with the most flexibility will be the controlling element.
People work perfectly.
No one is wrong or broken; it's simply a matter of finding out how they function now, so that you can effectively change that to something more useful or desirable. People don't need to be "fixed."
People always make the best choice available to them at the time.
(but often there are lots of other better ones)
Every behavior is useful in some context.
Choice is better than no choice.
Just about anyone can learn to do anything.
If one person can do something, it is possible to model it and teach it to anyone else.
People already have all the resources they need.
What they need is access to these resources at appropriate times and places.
There is no such thing as failure, only feedback.
Chunking.
Anything can be accomplished (by anyone) if you break the task down into small enough chunks.
Behind every behavior is a positive intention.
While a behavior may be harmful or seem "bad", there is always a positive intention behind the behavior.
Symptoms-- pains, anxiety, depression, tumors, colds, etc. etc. are communications about needed action.
We are all responsible for creating our own experience.
Even when challenging events that we cannot control happen, we are responsible for our responses to these events. Typically, however, we have much more control than we think we have. Another way of stating this presupposition is that "We consistently create our own environment through our beliefs, filters, capabilities and behaviors."
(From Huna) Energy flows where attention goes.
It is useful to sort the person's behavior from his or her "self."