To discern the proper meaning of a thing, we have to keep it in context.
The context of NLP concerns accessing the mindset, state, and skills necessary for understanding and bringing about successful communication and personal change. As such it concerns how processes work, not the source or origin of those resources.
NLP aims to discover state-of-the-art methods for getting people out of their small, limited, inaccurate, and painful perspectives that keep them locked into dysfunctional habits. Thus it addresses the issue of changing the meanings that people attribute to things which keep them limited. NLP suggests effective methods for changing meanings, how to alter perception, how to take on new and different frames of reference, etc.
It assumes that in order for a person to make positive change and model excellence, one needs lots of feelings of confidence and certainty that such changes can occur. This involves finding enough resources to bring to bear upon a person. In NLP we commonly access curiosity, flexibility, a sense of possibilities, a desire for change, etc.
Like computer, which has some kind of operating system by which it runs (for example, windows), NLP also has an Operating System – these “NLP Presuppositions.”
What you will learn in this chapter:
Mental Processing Presuppositions
“The ‘map’ is not the ‘territory’ or “The menu is not the meal”
People respond according to their “maps’
Meaning operates context-dependently
Mind-and-body inevitably & inescapably affect each other
Individual skills function by developing & sequencing rep systems
We respect each person’s model of the world
Presuppositions About Human Behaviour/Responses
Person & behaviour describe different phenomena
Every behaviour has utility and usefulness – in some context
We evaluate behaviour & change in terms of context & ecology
Communicative Presuppositions
The way we communicate affects perception & reception
The one who sets the frame for the communication controls the communicating
“There is no failure, only feedback”
The person with the most flexibility exercises the most influence in the system
Learning – Choice – Change Presuppositions
People have the internal resources they need to succeed
Humans have the ability to experience one-trial learning
People make the best choices open to them when they act
As response-able persons, we can run our brains & control our results
Not what you’re given.
Not what you need.
So if you don’t believe, don’t concede.
Disagree.
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