Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) was developed in the 1970s in California by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. NLP focuses on the connection between neurological processes, language, and learned behaviors. It aims to understand excellence and change thinking and behaviors to achieve goals. NLP techniques include anchoring to associate feelings with experiences, rapport building, modeling to understand experts, and the Meta Model for recovering lost information. NLP is now used loosely in education through anchoring keywords, maintaining flow, and pacing and leading students.

1. Neuro-Linguistic
Programming
(NLP)
Practice II – Aylen Fernández - 2016

2. It was developed in California in the 1970s by Richard
Bandler, a mathematician, and John Grinder, a linguist.
- The “Neuro” part relates to neurology and the way in
which we process information we receive from our
five senses.
* the senses are also called ‘modalities’ and also
referred to as VAKOG: Visual, Auditory,
Kinaesthetic, Olfactory and Gustatory.

3. -“Linguistic” relates to the use of language systems to
code, organize and attribute meanings to our internal
representations of the world.
-“Programming” is about the way in which our
experience is coded, stored and transformed to create
habits and ‘programmes’.
NLP's creators claim there is a connection between
neurological processes, language and behavioral
patterns learned through experience, and that these
can be changed to achieve specific goals in life.

4. -NLP places great emphasis on ‘STATE’: the way
you’re feeling at any moment in time, since it
affects how you think, how you behave and the
results you get.
-The process by which an internal response
became paired, or associated with an internal or
external experience is called ‘ANCHORING’. It’s
state-dependent and naturally occurring;
* Both of them evoke memories and also feelings,
unconsciously.

5. Two ways to think about NLP:
• NLP as a set of modelling tools you can
use to observe, model and reproduce
excellence in any field.
• NLP as a set of processes that have been
achieved as a result of that modelling.

6. NLP considers ‘SENSORY ACUITY’ to be
essential. It’s part of a feedback process that led
you know whether you’re moving closer to your
goals or further away.
(eg: changes that reveal what he/she is thinking
and feeling)
‘CALIBRATION’ = noticing patterns of Behaviour.
(eg: to notice other person attitudes. (poker))

7. ‘RAPPORT’: a natural phenomenon defined as the
establishment of trust, harmony and co-operation
in a relationship. NLP claims that it’s a
fundamental part of effective communication and
successful relationships.
Modelling
It involves watching another person and, at a more
sophisticated level, it involves eliciting the person’s
beliefs, values and thinking filters.

8. The purpose of NLP Modelling is to be able to do
something as well as an expert, and also to teach
others to do it as well (Watching and Matching)
‘META MODEL’: first modelling carried out by
NLP’s founders. It’s a series of challenges that can
be used to recover information that has been ‘lost’
in the process of describing experiences.
(therapists questions)

9. ‘MILTON MODEL’: the opposite to Meta Model.
NLP founders took Milton Erickson technique (a
hypnotherapist who used to tell stories with artfully
vague language) in order to make people to speak
directly with their unconscious mind.

10. NLP methodologies that are now being
employed loosely in different learning
environments:
Anchoring: Teachers use this technique through
the introduction of keywords or sounds to create
an anchor that, consciously or subconsciously,
helps students subsequently recall the material.
Presupposition.

11. Maintaining Flow: This technique indicates
that "best learning takes place when
uninterrupted". The teacher creates
competitive and collaborative challenges,
and customizes them according to a
learner’s personality to bridge information
gap and maintain flow.
Pacing And Leading: This technique is a
powerful communication and persuasion tool
that uses strategies such as mirroring and
stating facts to build rapport and get
students to agree with the teacher.