Where is NLP in Education?

Recently, I have been involved in conversations with ANLP Members and some people in the wider NLP community and a common theme is prevalent:

“We need NLP in the education system more than ever!”

“They” are right.  We DO need NLP in the education system more than ever and we need to collaborate with our peers in the NLP community to make it happen.

For me, NLP is complementary.  It can be used with other traditional and non-traditional practices to be effective in offering solutions, strategies and systems to help deal with a vast range of challenges that many people are facing…more than ever…

There are NLP Professionals working in the education system, either as teachers, consultants, Governors or for the local education authorities. The skill of the NLP Professional is to weave their teaching and NLP practices together to give flexible options for those they are working with to find their path to better wellbeing (in whatever form that takes for them).  This might be physical or mental wellbeing and equally applies to individuals on personal journeys as well as SLT teams, communities, schools…etc…the goal is finding out what is “the difference that makes the difference” to the group and putting it in place.

When we embark on our individual NLP journeys and become NLP Professionals, we are given some amazing gifts by our Teachers…self-awareness, flexibility, options, responsibility and an enormous toolbox to work with.  We are also given the understanding that “the map is not the territory” and “respecting the map of others” and the presuppositions of NLP are some of the keys we are given that can unlock ourselves and those in our care….and we use the ethical and professional means we have to give them the help they want.  Sometimes it is pure NLP.  Sometimes it is NLP in combination with our other talents…