Another person's behaviour can be duplicated by studying what that person does inside their head (language, filters, programs, etc.) to produce results. NLP was initially created in 1975 by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, who began modelling and duplicating the 'magical results' of a few top communicators and therapists. Some of the first people to be studied included Hypnotherapist Milton Erickson, gestalt therapist Fritz Perls and family therapist Virginia Satir. Since then, many others have contributed to the growth and development of the field. And finally, the trail of techniques created through this type of modelling is what is commonly known as NLP.

Today, NLP is widely used in business to improve management, sales and achievement/performance, inter-personal skills; in education to better understand learning styles, develop rapport with students and parents and to aid in motivation; and of course, NLP is a profound set of tools for personal development and therapeutic change.

How much do you know about what's going on inside yourself and others? Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is about just that. Knowing about what is going on inside yourself and what's going on inside others! Perhaps you've wondered, 'How could I communicate better,' or, 'How do I get in control of my own personal computer - my brain!' or 'How can I motivate myself quickly'. This technology finally makes it easy to understand how we think, how we communicate, and how we process emotions!

NLP techniques and processes help us to understand ourselves and others, and to produce new, and more effective ways to:

	Increase motivation and energy
	Create your desired self-image
	Gain access to positive internal resources & feelings
	Communicate to produce the kind of results you want

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a behavioural technology, which simply means that it is a set of guiding principles, attitudes, and techniques about real-life behaviour, and not a removed, scientific theorem. It allows you to change, adopt or eliminate behaviours, as you desire, and gives you the ability to choose your mental, emotional, and physical states of well-being. With NLP, you learn how to grow from every single life experience, thus increasing your ability to create a better quality of life. NLP is a very pragmatic technology based on an ability to produce your desired results, thus allowing you to become proficient at creating your future! In the end it is not a lot different from understanding how to program a computer - your own bio-computer. 

If you understand computers, you already understand how NLP works! Computers are about man-machine interface. NLP is about mind-body interface. The entire process is very similar! Maybe it's time to learn about your own personal computer - your mind!