NLP has taken the therapy world by storm and quite rightly so. It creates rapid lasting change and you dont need a PHD to learn the simple skills. There are many, many trainers and training companys pumping out Practitioner by the hundreds and it would be fair to say that there are varying degrees of competency amongst these. I certainly have been amongst those who have argued in the past that some training school are responsible for poor quality NLP training, thus sending out inexperienced practitioners into the world, free to practice in the therapeutic world of the venerable and insecure.
The challenge with NLP in my opinion, is not finding somewhere to learn it, or someone to teach it, but, actually being good at it. For me, there are two factors that can influence the ability of each individual practitioner.
1) Charisma
Even the most intense, most specialised NLP training course has yet to find a way of teaching this natural elegance to its delegates. Im talking about the elegance that would just ease out of someone like Milton Erickson in an artfully conversational way creating major changes to the listeners unconscious mind. Is this a skill that can...