NLP | Neurolinguistic Programming

Contents covered:

  • Does NLP actually add choice, or merely take it away?
  • Do we actually help people change with Metaphors of Movement
  • Content imposition
  • James Lawley and Clean Language
  • Creating kinaesthetic change
  • Does everyone hate Andy
  • NLP, the structure of a problem, and structured change
  • The dumbing down of therapy
  • Morons, morons everywhere!

Summary: An informal outtake from the Lofty Thoughts conversation between Andy and Dov Meidan, with some ranting about the field. They discuss the aim of adding options for the person, interventions based on the structure of a problem such as the phobia cure, and how this compares with approaches like systematic desensitisation and exposure therapy. They also talk about people being unable to see beyond socially prescribed views of reality.

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Author: Andrew T. Austin

Andrew T. Austin is a therapist, trainer and author. He qualified as a registered general nurse in 1992, with clinical experience that included accident and emergency (A&E) and neurosurgery, and went on to train in Ericksonian hypnotherapy, NLP (to trainer level) and Provocative Therapy with Frank Farrelly. He developed Integral Eye Movement Therapy Technique (IEMT), formalised as a training in 2008, and Metaphors of Movement. Both are included in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015). He is the author of The Rainbow Machine: Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal, prefaced and edited by Steve Andreas and published by Real People Press.