NLP Presuppositions

When we use NLP techniques, we adopt a set of presuppositions. They are fourteen presuppositions that we use as a starting point; a set of frames that we use to help us get the best of our interactions with others.

In some cases, they give the person we are talking to the benefit of the doubt and allow us to believe that the best of them, despite what may seem like an obvious contradiction on the surface.

This gives us the best possible chance of successful communication with that person, because we are indeed was starting with a clean slate. We do not put up barriers, or the projection of our own limiting beliefs on them.

In situations where we seek to help one another, whether in coaching, therapy, training or business, it gives our interaction with them the best possible chance of success.

Presuppositions:-

1 - Respect for the other person's model of the world.

2 - Behaviour and change are to be evaluated in terms of context, and Ecology.

3 - Resistance in a client is a Sign of a lack of rapport.

4 - People are not their behaviours. (Accept the person; change the behaviour).

5 - Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have available.

6 - The most important information about a person is that person's behaviour

7 - The map is not the Territory (The words we use are NOT the event they represent)

8 - You are in charge of your mind, and therefore your results.

9 - People have all the Resources they need to achieve their desired outcomes.

10 - Mind and body affect each other.

11 - There is only feedback (There is no failure, only feedback).

12 - The meaning of communication is the Response you get.

13 - The person with the most flexibility of behaviour will control the system.

14 - All procedures should be designed to increase choice.

Adopting these presuppositions in life, you can release emotions and unwanted negative constraints, allowing you a more positive frame of mind and offering a wide range of possibilities.