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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
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
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Peter Young brings a new and fresh approach in a market where many books follow much the same route (to the extent of repeated the same old anecdotes from the original works). He offers a modern and insightful approach to the subject, and I was particularly impressed with the chapters on the presuppositions of NLP, rapport, setting outcomes, and, most of all, perceptual positions. Personally I am not totally convinced by Young's four realities model, but he must be congratulated for this completely new approach. Also the title is slightly deceptive. This is not a beginners book - a fairly advanced knowledge and experience of NLP is recommended to get the most out of it.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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I wish this book had been around when I started studying NLP. It unveils the "mystery" and places the "magic" well within grasping distance. The writing style is clear and concise and although you can dip in and out of it I believe that it benefits from a read through from start to finish. Its a book that puts the "bits" of NLP into a much wider context and begins the journey of filling in the gaps. I found the book a real treat and partly because its only at chapter 5, page 71, that Peter Young even asks the question "What is NLP?".
Much more that just a new technology cookbook "Understanding NLP" goes a long way to revealing some of the basic principles behind the techniques and takes its reader through a number of connected and reflective exercises that help meld the material into a complete story.
Peter likes stories and activities that have a flow. They start and as designated point change through a series of specific and identifiable nodes and end up at place that moves the story and the reader to a new position. The book ends with a reflection on the possibilities of what to do next.
As a practising Neuro Linguistic psychotherapist of some 10 years I found a lot of information omitted and directions that I would want to go in are not explored. However, that tells you where I am rather than where Peter is or wants to go.
There is an excellent index, extensive bibliography and useful advice on the exercises. Although I do detect here a trace of what I choose to call "NLP-ism". He says "Follow the instructions rather than making up your own version". This is a good suggestion for beginners. Those with more experience may wish to integrate their own expertise and test the results for themselves. Peter would like to hear the result I am sure.
For more experienced practitioners this provides a new and wider, albeit a general, perspective on NLP. I hope it will lead to NLP'ers in general, and those practising Neuro Linguistic Psychotherapy in particular, to allow themselves to be lead by others in their search for excellence. This book is a very welcome addition.
Martin Weaver 2001
Format:Paperback
I have read with great enjoyment an NLP book that is far above the conventional NLP heritage. It is the second edition of Peter Young NLP book, entitled: " Understanding NLP: Principles and Practice." This book makes it easy for people to be their own innovator, change engineer and even self-therapist. There is no need to follow the exercises as have been repeated routinely by NLP practitioners any more, for Peter gives us the master-key to design our own. Unfortunately, some of the old NLP dogmas are now shredded into slogans that people recite without paying attention to, or reflecting on, their life or the life of their clients. The surprising "therapist-client" relationship is not in place at it was in the late seventies and early eighties. We know that reflection plus life equals learning and learning introduces us to change. If people accept my definition of NLP as: "It is the science and art that we can use to restructure our past experiences, or even create new ones, to build reality maps that are different from the ones we used or habituated to build", then we have to equip ourselves with a skill of rotating in different modes of a realities model. This book introduces several interconnected paradigms and especially a four realities model that people can sit-down and locate where they are or were and where they want to be and then create a new map to their reality and a roadmap to their destiny. I found that this book is a "must read one", especially for practitioners who think of NLP as nothing but a useful myth or a bunch of some fixed techniques. This book may be unfamiliar in addressing conventional NLP topics, but once you invest in understanding Peter Young's insights, NLP can then be a piece of cake and you can realize that you reinvent the wheel and discover a model that everyone unconsciously uses to change. Knowing this model and using it at the conscious level will speed change and make it an outcome-directed and/or related. Peter has also addressed the NLP presuppositions from a new angle, and commented on few. I really like very much the way he related some of these presuppositions to his four realities model or thinking modes. I was amazed with how careful Peter was in defining the words of his marvelous book. He certainly underscores the meaning of some of the NLP words, like metaphor, paradigm, mode, model, etc. I urge Peter to write a short or pocketbook about the same subject and enrich it with some mindmaps and diagrams. I will be more than happy to help him in this edition should he find the idea interesting. I think Peter knows by now that I like to be in the "Mythic mode" of his model as he himself does. We can really storm NLP in the next decade if we work together. I think that this book is far greater than just reading an NLP manuscript; to the contrary it is an energizer that can help people flexibly think in a whole-brained model. Peter: I think you need to extrapolate more on your models and encourage NLP practitioners to add more definitions. The more definition we have, the easier we can reach a universal NLP theory. This is the only way that NLP can be used as a tool of everyone.
Dr. Yehia A. Ibrahim,
University Professor & NLP practitioner
Assiut University, Egypt
dr_yehia_ibrahim@hotmil.com
Dr. Yehia A. Ibrahim,
University Professor & NLP practitioner
Assiut University, Egypt
dr_yehia_ibrahim@hotmil.com
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