Notes on the thing NLP was before it became a certificate.
What NLP is, how it actually works, what survived testing and what did not. Written by the people who teach it, for people who want to understand it rather than collect it.
Clean Language is a set of content-free questions developed by David Grove. It lets a practitioner explore a client's model of the world without contaminating it with their own.
What the VAK model claims, why the learning-styles version failed testing, and what remains genuinely useful: sensory language and attention.
Timeline therapy treats time as a spatial map you can walk around in. Here is how it works, what the science does and does not support, and how it is trained responsibly.
Symbolic Modelling is a therapeutic and coaching method built on Clean Language. It lets a client's own metaphors reorganise their experience, from the inside out, at their own pace.
Submodalities are the small details of how you picture, hear and feel things. Change the details and the emotion changes with them.
NLP borrowed heavily from Milton Erickson, the hypnotherapist, but it is not hypnosis. Here is where the two genuinely overlap, where they diverge, and the ethics of both.