Archives for the 'NLP / Linguistics' Category

The meaning of the communication is the response you get [How to be an Original]

This is one of the many NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) presuppositions and one of the original 8 of Richard Bandler.
What does NLP mean with the presupposition?
Often we define what we intend to say as the meaning of the communication. And although it is the intended meaning, people can react in very different ways to your [...]

5 September 2007 | NLP / Linguistics | No Comments

The map is not the territory [How to be an Original]

This is one of the many NLP presuppositions and one of the original 8 of Richard Bandler.
What does NLP mean with the presupposition?
The map is not the territory is also known as the menu is not the food. It’s a different way of saying it, but it comes down to the same. The map or [...]

29 August 2007 | NLP / Linguistics | No Comments

Now I’m confused…how many NLP presuppositions are there? [How to be an Original]

Okay, this is a strange title. But it’s exactly how I feel at the moment. I was planning to do a series on the presuppositions of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). In my textbook for the NLP Practitioners training I’m following are 8 (eight) presuppositions, but they’re in Dutch. So I set out to find the [...]

22 August 2007 | NLP / Linguistics | No Comments

I’m putting on a fight with the presuppositions in NLP [How to be an Original]

Wednesday is NLP day. I have an ambition to become NLP Trainer and I’m currently in training to be a certified NLP Practitioner, step 1 towards my goal. On Wednesday I discuss concepts, thoughts and experiences with NLP.
NLP has many presuppositions that are needed to explain the theories in NLP. So I’m dedicating a series [...]

22 August 2007 | NLP / Linguistics | No Comments

Do or do not…there is no try! [How to be an Original]

There is a scene in the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back that holds a lot of lessons. In the scene Jedi Master Yoda teaches young Luke Skywalker the principles of mastering the ways of the force. One of the assignments Yoda gives Luke is to lift the X-wing fighter from the Dagobah swamp [...]

17 May 2007 | Linguistics, NLP, NLP / Linguistics | No Comments