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.
The NLP claim that eye movements reveal what people are thinking, why the lie-detection version failed testing, and what attention observation is still good for.
From Bandler and Grinder to Dilts, Dispenza and Jimmy Carr, the famous names in NLP come with real contributions and real baggage. Here is an honest field guide.
There is plenty of free NLP content online, but free does not mean good, and the best free content has real limits. Here is the honest survey, including what IONI offers free.
Can you learn NLP by yourself? Yes, up to a clear limit. Here is what self-study can honestly teach, what it cannot, and a practical plan.
Is NLP compatible with Christianity or other faiths? The honest answer is that NLP is a toolbox, not a belief system, and the real question is what a particular training wraps around it.