Iltaph
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If you read the material here on reliable sources you will have the answer to your question on the talk page of the NLP article ----Snowded TALK 12:07, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
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Howdy and welcome! Might you cite the specific text referenced with tested misconceptions or further your evidence of "balanced"? azwaldo (talk)
Hi, yes indeed I'll be very happy to. I'm now retired from a 30 year career in banking and finance - I'm an MBA Accountant and as a retirement hobby, I train trainers in NLP with John Grinder, having studied NLP with Bandler, Grinder, Pucelik (who is little known and not often spoken about) and Stephen Gilligan (Milton Erickson's foremost protégé) pretty much daily for the last 7 years and am now initiating a free international clinic in Switzerland.
I'm really quite baffled at the vigour with which NLP is denounced in this entry and the several misconceptions, compared with say; the Wikipedia entry on public speaking or, the Wikipedia entry on osteopathy, or indeed the Wikipedia entry on bungee jumping.
They are all quite informative. Given that NLP in one respect is simply a linguistic structure for "having a chat", or in John's assertion "a modelling technology", which can be otherwise described as a technique for mimicking people, I fail to see the justification for the "hostile witness" position that Wikipedia is taking.
Once I've got my head around the rules of Wikipedia, I'll be very happy to suggest some changes.
I don't see many texts referenced for public speaking or bungee jumping and given that (as I have previously stated) this is a philosophical art, focussed on each individual's uniqueness, I suspect it will upset a number of "auditory digital" statisticians.
I look forward to them explaining to me the scientific evidence for getting upset, as well as providing me with a definition or formula for happiness...