| Subject | From | Date |
| Can NLP be Used Appropriately in Counselling? | Philip Bailey | 29 Oct 2003 04:10 |
| NLP in Adult Education? | Sue Tennyson | 19 Sep 2003 11:00 |
| NLP Tapes | sian phillips | 17 Sep 2003 08:51 |
| Exercises Manual | Kate | 11 Sep 2003 06:45 |
| NLP courses in the US | Visalakshi | 10 Sep 2003 06:22 |
| Is NLP Really Proven? | Zahir Mahmood | 05 Sep 2003 04:36 |
| My Future | Helen Vella | 29 Aug 2003 07:12 |
| Age | Ashok Aneja | 18 Aug 2003 10:46 |
| Limits of NLP | Xu | 16 Aug 2003 06:09 |
| Help for Mind Control | Sunetra Ghosh | 12 Aug 2003 09:43 |
| Can NLP be Used Appropriately in Counselling? — Philip Bailey — Wednesday, October 29, 2003 |
Sue, I've started a first course to become an accredited counsellor, which is being run by Youth with a Mission. The course textbook, 'To bind up the broken hearted' by Sheldon and Ames,is cautious of the use of NLP. The book says 'there is much common-sense in this approach' but cautions 'the evidence that these programming techniques are both successful and without harm is still not available' and the advice of the authors is that this technique, when used in counselling, 'should be treated with caution'. However, one of the visiting trainers was more positive; she succesfully uses NLP in counselling and recommended your book 'NLP at work', which I've bought and am reading with great interest. How do you respond to the concerns of the book's authors and how does one ensure that the use NLP is redemptive? Thanks, Philip. |
| Sue's Answer |
Dear Philip, as a Christian I am completely with you in sharing these concerns - I constantly raise these issues for myself and with Gene Early who has been my mentor for years.Gene was vice chancellor with YWAM for 10 years in Hawaii and is now working back in the corporate world. I have based the way that I teach NLP on his values and style and therefore always seek to respect the fundamentals that you refer to. Not everyone does of course so it is not NLP itself that is harmful or successful but the values and integrity of the person using it. I think of NLP as a way knowing myself and therefore aspiring to know others. I certainly introduce NLP as a way of helping myself and others to recognise that we are one and that we each have gifts of excellence. However I do think that it is important to keep asking the questions that you ask. Sincerely, Sue Knight |