NLP
NLP or Neuro-linguistic Programming is a modality that was originally based on the modeling of excellence of some of the most effective therapists at the time, Dr Virginia Satir (Family Therapy), Dr Milton Erickson (Hypnotherapy) and Dr Fritz Perls (Gestalt Therapy). When individuals express their (misaligned) neurological processes in negative behavior, thinking and feelings, NLP can ‘reprogram’ the individual with strategies and other processes which are far more efficacious and positive – we often call this ‘change work’.
Neuro-linguistic Programming
NLP or Neuro-linguistic Programming is a modality that was originally based on the modeling of some of the most effective therapists at the time, Dr Virginia Satir (Family Therapy), Dr Milton Erickson and Dr Fritz Perls (Gestalt Therapy) as change someone’s behavioral misalignment, which is an expression of their (misaligned) neurological processes expressed in behavior, to something far more efficacious and positive – change work.
Integrated Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT)
“Integrated Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT) is a method for reducing the intensity of negative experience. Based on eye movement… this therapy approach utilizes a number of procedures in order to identify relevant key experiences in the client’s personal history… IEMT is a treatment of choice when a client’s emotional problems arise from memories of external life events over which the client had little or no control.” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy.
It can be said that IEMT involves 2 core areas of practice; Emotional Engineering (Depotentiating Imprints of Emotion) and Identity Reimprinting (Updating our way of being). IEMT is NOT EMDR Both IEMT and EMDR use eye movements to facilitate change but that is the only commonality – IEMT is focused on ‘Patterns of Chronicity’ which are 5 primary ‘patterns’ that appear in chronic patients, even without a history of trauma. In fact, having the client activate traumatic imagery is largely irrelevant to this process.
Changing one's neurological processes changes one's behavior.
NLP practitioners evaluate many areas such as an individual’s strategies, values, language and belief patterns, to name a few, and the Practitioner implements new strategies, scripts and ‘programmes’ for better outcomes as per the client’s map of the world.
