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The New Renaissance in NLP

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POSTED IN MARCH 2017 - WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CARROLL

It’s official, NLP is now going through a renaissance that is unprecedented in the many years I have been in
the field. For years, I have tracked the trends in NLP including search engine ac vity, what NLP people
who are interested in NLP are looking for and obviously the level of bookings on courses. The level of
interest from ‘new people’ is at the highest level in eight years.
I am enthralled that interest is on the increase and for a few years it was steadily reducing, especially in the
UK. Neuro Linguis c Programming has now been around for over forty years and has faced controversies,
yet despite cri cisms it has stood strong and con nued to grow and I genuinely believe the renaissance we
are experiencing can be a ributed to the success NLP trained people are having in businesses and
coaching and the new NLP pa erns that are being developed.

It is exci ng mes in NLP, especially for the person who is new to the business and considering an NLP
based career either as a coach or trainer. The opportuni es are now greater than ever before, with
businesses and the public generally open to person and professional development through Neuro Linguis c
Programming and related disciplines. The world is ready for the renaissance in NLP, are you ready to take
NLP to the world?

It was a very different story 23 years ago when I first became interested in NLP. I a ended Tony Robbins’
Unlimited Power Weekend in 1993 and Tony in true character delivered an exci ng, highly mo va onal
weekend geared at personal excellence. I relished in themes of high achievement, high levels of focus and
massive ac on theme. I heard Tony Robbins talk about how he studied NLP from a guy called John Grinder
and it changed his life. I remember thinking excitedly ‘if NLP works so well for him [Tony Robbins], this is
who I want to learn from to be more excellent in life’. I was ready to embrace NLP for personal and
professional excellence.

So I looked around the NLP world, in the mid 1990s in the UK and was sorely disappointed at the levels of
mediocrity I found. Back then the web was in its infancy and the way to find an NLP course was to
subscribe to NLP journals and look at magazines where NLP businesses were adver sed. I remember
‘trying’ to get informa on on courses, I le messages on answer machines and got no reply. When I did
connect with companies, the people I spoke to frequently had poor rapport skills and did not explain their
courses very clearly. They promised informa on in the mail, which never arrived. The NLP was staid, the
courses mainly theory based and if you did not have a therapy back ground, you were treated as an
outsider who somehow had devious inten ons for learning NLP. What’s more the courses were much
more expensive in today’s terms.
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It seemed to me as if the NLP world in the 1990s had mastered business mediocrity. I was astounded at
the lack of professionalism and lack lustre a tude in the field of NLP. This seemed so far away from Tony
Robbins, CANI (constant and never-ending improvement) mantra and the famous words of Napoleon Hill,
‘whatever the mind can believe and perceive can be achieved’ that had inspired me in other areas of
personal development. I recall thinking where is the excellence in NLP? I knew NLP had come from
modelling geniuses; the focus of NLP had been on making explicit discrete behavioural pa erns in high
performers, the NLP a en on was supposed to be on the difference that makes the difference in a high
performer and someone who is average at the same task.

In 1996, I was so excited to a end a course in California with a well known (at the me) trainer whose
office was in Hawaii. This guy had got into prac sing what he referred to as white magic, he carried a
wand and wore the Hawaiian flowers around his neck. He frequently directed his hands at weird angles to
the audience and in his world, he genuinely believed he was channelling magic spells at people. Whilst I
was assured the guy was sending us posi ve energy, there is something bizarre that an NLP Master Trainer
genuinely believes he can use a magic spell to influence his audiences state.

I am s ll undecided if this behaviour has sinister or posi ve inten ons. I do know waving your hands Harry
Po er style is about as far removed from NLP as you can get and when I told this story to John Grinder
and Carmen Bos c St Clair many years later, we laughed at the sheer bizarreness in this behaviour from an
NLP perspec ve and on the serious side pondered what can we do to ensure NLP is taught in keeping with
the inten ons of the people who invented it.

The good news is, for the most part the mumbo jumbo that found its way into NLP has gradually faded out.
The modern NLPer is far more astute to fall for wand waving and magic symbols passed through making
unusual hand shapes. In my experience the person who is now a ending NLP courses is already successful
and looking for new ways to compliment what they are already doing and/or are seeking new ways to
increase their excellence. The type of person who is coming into NLP in the current day, is looking at ‘real’
ways to explore their personal development and improve personal performance as well as helping others
do the same.

There are many different correla ons that can be a ributed to bringing about the renaissance in NLP, one
major factor is the Interna onal Coaching and New Code NLP programme I run with John Grinder and
Carmen Bos c St Clair. This in depth learning experience a racts people from all over the world, who
when qualified have the skills to conduct the highest level of change work with individuals and
corpora ons. I am so delighted to say the posi ve news spreads, that New Code NLP works and the
results speak for themselves. The Interna onal Coaches and New Code NLP Prac oners have become
mul pliers for NLP and Coaching. The results they get in their communi es raises the profile of NLP in
general and that is good for everyone and is an example of what happens when the training is of a high
standard.

A brilliant example of the NLP renaissance can be seen in Portugal, where ‘Coaching’ has a very posi ve
image which can be directly a ributed to the success of Portuguese Na onal Football Team in bea ng
France in the Euro 2016. This was a major event as Portugal were the underdogs and the goal scorer, Eder
was a subs tute in the game as he had been throughout the tournament. Eder had been working with a
highly skilled performance coach, Susana Rodrigues Torres, who had taken her Coaching and New Code
NLP qualifica on with the NLP Academy.

Susana had coached Eder for two years, helping him move from a lower league club to the Premier League
club Swansea City and then becoming a na onal hero as he scored the winning goal of the tournament.
A er the match Eder dedicated his goal to Susana, the coach that played such a major part in his success.
Susana as a coach who specialises in the use of New Code NLP for high performance.

There are many other examples I could share of coaches who use New Code NLP to get amazing results
with their clients. Susana’s case made the interna onal news and wow NLP in the news interna onally in
such a posi ve way. In the new renaissance of NLP, the pa erns in NLP are helping people make a huge
difference in their lives. A key part of this is New Code NLP and to borrow the words of a famous advert
‘New Code NLP reaches parts that other change prac ces simply can’t reach.’
If you are interested in joining the renaissance in NLP and making a difference in your community, business
or even country, we would love to hear from you and help you so feel free to get in touch.
About The Author

Michael Carroll is the founder and course director of the NLP Academy and co-founder with John
Grinder and Carmen Bos c St Clair of the Interna onal Trainers Academy of NLP.

He is the only NLP Master Trainer in the world cer fied by John Grinder and Carmen Bos c St Clair
and he works closely with them in developing and delivering high quality NLP training.

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Kelly Wieninger
here seems to be an error on the website
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Linda Nicholls
Did anyone proof read this document in the last few years, first impressions are important
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