What is NLP?

In simple terms, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the art and science of the study of excellence. NLP provides the tools and techniques to discover HOW a top performer in any field does what they do. It uncovers the unconscious mental processes and associated thoughts, images, words and feelings that make up a peak performance state. Once uncovered in this way, these processes can be 'programmed' or installed in someone else who wants to achieve similar results.

Developed over the last 30 years, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) has expanded from its original therapeutic beginnings to include applications in all aspects of life from business and management to sports, politics, education, health etc.

NLP helps us to perform and feel at our best.

ChampionMind performance coaching sessions utilise years of research into peak performing athletes and sportspeople to assist its clients in reprogramming negative beliefs, outdated behaviours and 'choking' thought processes. Clients develop the mindset of a champion..... and when fitness, training, skill and talent are the same, it is this mental edge that makes the difference.

NLP has been continually developed since the 1970's, based on the original work of Richard Bandler, a psychologist and John Grinder, a linguistics professor. Together they studied and decoded what they termed 'the difference that made the difference' for some of the most outstanding and successful therapists of the time. This work expanded to study, or 'model', the attributes and thought processes of exemplars from many fields of endeavour.

Based on this work, many techniques and language structures have been developed which are used widely in such diverse fields as health, business, sport, life coaching, therapy, advertising, executive coaching, marketing, politics etc.

It is variously referred to as:

''The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience'
'Advanced Common Sense'
'The Difference That Makes The Difference'
'A Methodology and Frame of Mind... that Works'
'The Study of Excellence'