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.
Is NLP legit? The honest answer is more interesting than either the hype or the debunking. Here is what actually got tested, what failed, and what the research does show.
How two men in Santa Cruz in the 1970s turned three gifted therapists into a new field, and how that field overclaimed, split and settled.
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.
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.
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.
Chunking is how NLP moves between the big picture and the fine detail in any conversation. Here is how it works, when to go up, when to go down, and why it matters.