NLP Training - A Revolution or Evolution for NLP Practitioner

NLP Training - A Revolution or Evolution for NLP Practitioner
 
Business It’s funny, when I first began NLP, hardly anyone whom I had spoken to had heard about it. Yet 15 years on and nearly everyone I speak to has either heard about it, been on a course, read something or knows someone who’s done it. The only common factor between today and all those years ago is that people even now call it another thing i.e. NPL or even MLP but still can’t state the acronym (neuro-linguistic-programming)!

For something which within my time frame had been seen as a cult, associations with a type of neo-religion, pop-psychology as well as mental washing, it has not just endured the test of time yet become popular and it is at the moment coming into the consumerist stage.

Therefore do all of us presume that for some thing to get well-liked it should have a poor label, always be hard to spell as well as articulate and become associated with some cultish movements? Let’s put it in to some perspective, numerous successes have started in much the same manner; there's a structure for their achievement. Just what seems (and I personally use this particular phrase freely with the ambiguity implied) for some thing to become a success or perhaps a fantastic achievement the beginning appears initially to get welcomed with the public with complete scepticism and also mistrust. Merely a number of individuals (the earlier adopters and mavericks) might find some thing of worth for their desires, plus they too, will probably be labeled by the people. “The outcasts have walked forth!”

Adoption and then wider acceptance to everyday use goes through this cycle of distrust, dislike and scepticism to consideration then adoption by the masses. The minority is now in the camp of dislike, distrust and are sceptical to the value offered.

To illustrate this, think in terms of some now widely known bands or musicians, like Queen, David Bowie, Madonna, The Spice Girls, go back even as far as Amadeus Mozart. The pattern is similar. I am sure you can think of other examples. Look into business, early adoption was slow with Microsoft’s DoS product and only really turned successful after the Windows 95 Launch (windows 3.1 was still successful but not as much as 95). Their original product was not considered to be useful or relevant outside of the business sector - International Business Machines ‘IBM’ to whom it was originally made for.

Our lovely car went through the same transition and adoption. What else can you think of?

The interesting point here is, at what point does a product, technology, piece of entertainment etc reach critical mass and become popular? In NLP this is what we look for to change behaviours. In fact that is also what goes on whenever behaviors do transform. There exists a stage in which the mass will become critical and the habits switches and changes.