Understanding NLP: Principles & Practice - Second edition: Principles and Practice (second edition): 1 - Softcover

This is an excellent book both for the newly qualified and the experienced NLP practitioner. Young has used his considerable experience and skill to great effect, within the true spirit of NLP, to produce a model of NLP which provides a framework in which various techniques and tools come together. This blend offers the opportunity to freshen up and integrate approaches within the ethos of a generative methodology. It is a book that delivers a message that NLP is a living art form and that NLP is not there purely to be studied but to be developed beyond what we already think we know. Ian Webster, GQHP, Licensed NLP Trainer, Director ACHIEVE ltd. --Ian Webster, GQHP, Licensed NLP Trainer, Director ACHIEVE ltd.

In this book Peter is working towards an integration of NLP in a four realities model. For the NLP enthusiast it will offer a different view that challenges an 'NLP tool kit' approach to the subject. For those of you looking to explore NLP even deeper it offers one framework that may well contribute to the future of NLP. Martin Shervington, author of 'Peak Performance through NLP' and 'Don't think of purple spotted oranges', --Martin Shervington, author of 'Peak Performance through NLP' and Don't think of purple spotted oranges

Peter Young has written the most definitive book on NLP so far. More than simply a "workbook" or a teach yourself course this book goes back to the roots of NLP and links some of the basic NLP ideas to the thinking of non-NLP experts in the field. For perhaps the first time an exploration of NLP connects new thinking with the ideas and concepts from which NLP has grown. Some of these ideas and concepts are well know within the field and others will be new. However, in my 12 years of NLP experience I would say that most of what is in this book will not be found in NLP training courses. Most people in NLP do it. That the techniques work is clear. Exactly how they work and what is going on in the process of change is far less clear. This book seems to me to be the first time that a systematic description of NLP has been attempted which describes the workings of the change process. Peter Young has succeeded in creating a solid foundation for NLP. There is still a long way to go and yet with this book Peter Young has provided for those who work with or are learning NLP a sound theoretical basis from which to practice. Martin Weaver UKCP Reg NLP Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Health Consultant --Martin Weaver UKCP Reg NLP Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Health Consultant

Understanding NLP opens a doorway into a more imaginative and coherent way of understanding and using NLP. This completely revised edition unites the many strands of NLP using an elegant paradigm which Peter Young calls the Six Perceptual Positions model. The book provides numerous examples of the paradigm in practice.Many NLP concepts are tracked back to their origins, and some of the metaphors used to explain NLP are reinterpreted. New material includes: the NLP Presuppositions, Polarity thinking, Logical Levels, an expanded view of Outcome Setting, and a clarification of Perceptual Positions. There are new chapters on the Art of Asking Questions, and Working with Parts and Roles. This practical guide for the NLP practitioner, coach or therapist, has numerous suggestions about good practice and offers many practical tips on actually doing NLP and utilising the Six Perceptual Positions model. As a result, readers will develop a better understanding of different kinds of clients, and be able to make more effective interventions for creating change.