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.
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 can help with the habits, triggers and identity behind eating. It cannot override physiology, and the evidence for weight loss is thin. Here is the honest version.
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.
Cognitive behavioural therapy and neuro-linguistic programming get compared constantly, but they are different kinds of things. Here is the honest side-by-side, including the evidence gap.
When you search 'NLP' today, you mostly get machine learning. Neuro-linguistic programming and natural language processing share an acronym, nothing else. Here is how to tell them apart.