The fact that one of the "greats" of NLP today is a man of human stature by Robert Dilts reinforces our belief that NLP is going well. He has honored everything discovered by NLP before and on that basis he has gone a little further agglutinating all the work around the essential Being, "that" that remains unchanged in us, whatever changes, "that" that would last in every one even if we had another aspect, if we had been born in another family, if we lived in another place…
It is hopeful to verify that "excellence", a word widely used in NLP from the earliest times, directs its steps towards a direction and mission with a sense of Love, humor, essence and integration.
As Robert Dilts related in detail, the first generation of NLP was developed in the 70s by its creators, Bandler and Grinder, derived from the study and modeling of therapists as brilliant and effective as Milton Erickon (hypnosis)., Gregory Bateson (Palo Alto School), Virginia Satir (Systemic Therapy) and Fritz Perls (Gestalt). It focused primarily on the individual and a one-to-one therapeutic relationship was presupposed. Most of the techniques of this first generation focused on solving problems at the levels of behaviors and abilities.
The Second Generation of NLP, in the 80s, covers topics beyond the therapeutic field and is oriented towards objectives and strategies to achieve them, emphasizing much more relationships with others and with oneself. Their tools are beginning to be used in the areas of negotiation, leadership, motivation, sales, health and education. His techniques focused on higher levels such as beliefs, values, and meta-programs. Its tools integrate the timeline, the game with different perceptual positions and the integration of conflicts.
The third generation of NLP has been in development since the early 1990s. Its applications are more systemic and focus on higher levels of learning, interaction, and development. His techniques focus on clarifying the deepest levels: identity, vision, mission and the spiritual. It aims to create space for the whole person, to recognize it in its entirety. It emphasizes change from the unified field of the system and applies it to the development of organizations, cultures, teams and individuals. Self-organization and the alignment of planes and levels are incorporated as fundamental principles. "If we do not align ourselves from a vision beyond oneself, people get stuck in their ego. We are part of something broader than ourselves. ” What does someone need to acquire a broader vision,to feel completely alive? Wake up, wake up to the emerging experience of being alive.
Each level needs different instruments. One generation honors the other and complements the previous one.
It can be said that current NLP seeks not only to explore how you think from cognitive intelligence but also how you live what you live from emotional intelligence (how you accept, give space and sponsor those emotions), how somatic or bodily intelligence somatizes it (if you flow, block, tense…) and what repercussions does it have on the energy field intelligence, on the system where we operate.
We cannot change what we do not know. It is necessary to become aware of how we have handled these intelligences in order to survive in the best way we knew how and it is time to learn to dream better. It's possible. You just have to get going. Instruments have been generated to work each of these intelligences since each one has its own particular way of processing.
An analytical approach is not always the best way to find the solution. It organizes the factors a lot but it does not reorganize our total reality. If we also think in somatic terms, considering what the body feels and also in energetic terms, from the field of movement and vibration that something produces, we can find powerful solution keys when connecting with an integrated Whole. An analytically "brilliant" thought that generates deep cervical tension is not integrated into the system, no matter how "brilliant" it seems. It may not be aligned with the rest of our Being.
A serene, playful and full presence in the Here and Now, bright eyes where you can dive like in an ocean, an active listening that does not judge and enhances the best of those who speak, a smile that welcomes and a laugh that is He infected the entire room on several occasions. If this is the living fruit of NLP work on you, Robert, NLP is going well.
