NLP is the art and science of how we use our mind, the programmed behaviours we all have and the words that we use to get the results we want in our lives.

As john grinder said, “NLP is the study of the structure of subjective experience”. As we learn NLP and the structure of our experiences, we get a greater ability to choose our experiences, how we want to experience different events and how we want to move through the world. Through this knowledge enormous insight is gained into our behaviour, the results we are getting in our lives and just how we got to where we are. With this insight change is possible.

It’s a common observation from people completing an NLP course. that they experience a feeling of lightness and freedom that they haven’t previously experienced.

NLP is about communication

A very large proportion of our communication is made up of body language and voice tone. Studies have shown that fewer than 7% of our communication is the words that we use. NLP provides practical tools for becoming highly skilled communicators. At Fusion, we teach you how to skilfully adapt your communication style to everyone you interact with to facilitate win/win outcomes.

NLP is about language

The Language we use affects how we think and respond. The central part of the term NLP is linguistic for language. This is central to the understanding of NLP. The very process of converting experience into language, requires that we delete, distort, and generalise the information our senses are receiving from the world. NLP examines these processes and gives us choices to examine how we receive the information we are getting. You will learn an elegant questioning process to examine how others are processing the information they are getting. NLP teaches us to understand how language affects both ourselves and others.

NLP is about modelling excellence

Very few of the things that we have to do are single step procedures. Much of everyday life involves a sequence of steps to achieve a particular outcome. This is known in NLP as a strategy. Modelling skills, based on detailed observations and careful questions around beliefs, values and behaviours, allows us to model excellence and accelerate learning. NLP processes/strategies are a result of discovering how experts or excellent leaders do what they do so well; it is then possible to teach these skills to others.

NLP is about understanding your mind

NLP examines how we interact with the world and how the images, sounds, and feelings that make up our inner and outer world. NLP examines our epistemology or how we know what we know…. How do we know what we know? How do we do what we do? For example, how do you know that an unpleasant memory is unpleasant? How do you know when to feel any emotion? How do you decide to do something? NLP provides us with a user's manual for our brain and breaks the code of our own experiences. When we understand the ways that our brains filter the information that comes in, then it is easier to make changes, to learn and to communicate effectively.

NLP is the study of internal experience

NLP is a tool to calibrate and understand how an individual makes sense of the world. NLP studies individuals' experiences: how our thoughts, actions and feelings work together to produce our experience. It does NOT assume that we all do this the same way. It does NOT produce formulae for body language or even eye movements without understanding the individual. In NLP we know that each person has a unique style of learning, perceiving and responding to the world. NLP is inherently respectful of differences.

NLP has a wide range of practical applications in business (e.g. management, personnel, sales, consulting), training and development, education, law, medicine, health, farming, writing and the arts, sports, parenting, hobbies and personal development - anywhere communicating and excelling are important. The more you are interested in communication, personal effectiveness and development - the more NLP has to offer.