An NLP Practitioner can employ his/her skills as an agent of change working with individuals, groups, or companies, or even global organisations and governments. As a technology, NLP has an amazing track record for instigating fast and efficient change in individuals and groups.

NLP is the practice and understanding of how people organise their thinking, feelings, language and behaviour to produce the results they do and create the world they live in. NLP provides people with a methodology to model outstanding performances of people who have achieved excellence in their field and the ability to translate the processes used by these geniuses into practical skills which other people can use effectively to replicate such excellence.

A key element of NLP is that we form our unique internal mental maps of the world as a product of the way we filter our experience of the world around us. Everyone does this differently, therefore everybody's map or view of the world is different. This leads us to the presupposition that the map is not the territory, that is people's representations of the world is their own personal interpretation which is highly influenced by their filters, beliefs, values and experiences.

Neuro:
Each individual has established their own unique mental filtering system for processing the millions of bits of data being absorbed through their senses. Our first mental map of the world is constituted of internal images, sounds, tactile awareness, internal sensations, tastes and smells that form as a result of the neurological filtering process. The first mental map is called 'First Access' in NLP.

Linguistic:
We then assign personal meaning to the information being received from the world outside. We form our second mental map by assigning language to the internal images, sounds and feelings, tastes and smells, thus forming everyday conscious awareness. The second mental map is called the Linguistic Map (sometimes known as Linguistic Representation).

Programming:
The patterns of behaviour a person exhibits that occurs naturally as a result of neurological filtering processes and their use of language, which if you like has been influenced by our experience of the world. This filtering system is highly unique to each individual.

NLP has been developed through the consistent study of successful people - it is grounded in practical reality - what people actually do, rather than theory. It offers both a set of beliefs about how we experience the world, and a wide range of practical tools and skills that can be learnt and shared, to address both changes in behaviour and more fundamentally, our beliefs about ourselves, where these hold us back.