NLP is NLP, not and TFT, EFT, Reiki, Tree Hugging etc

With great dismay I notice today that one major NLP company now displays TFT on its NLP website as part of its NLP training. No wonder the public get confused when these different appoaches get muddled in this way!

NLP is NLP, just that!

NLP is NLP and there are enough tools in the NLP toolkit to work with most client conditions. My view is that some NLP companies now try to tag on a raft of additional approaches in an attempt to sell more events. Now we have additional certfications and diplomas all to increase the hype and fuel marketing initiatives. I have spoken out regularly against what I call "happy clappers" who seem more preoccupied with learning techniques that require no thinking and can just be rolled out regardless of whatever the client prsents in relation to "the problem"

Tapping

I have no training in tapping, but have increasingly had clients come to see me who have seen tappers and not doscovered any useful benefits. In one instance a client had a telephone consultation, where they had ever even met the tapper! I did laugh at the http://www.tappingforcash.com/ website and couldn't help but wonder how satire could be very close to real life...

NLP and Professional Standards

I am pleased to be a board member of ANLP which is UK based and at least has a code of ethical standards, which in my view are pretty good. When I receive equiries about NLP training many of the public are totally confused by the hype that exists and of course many new trainers who have given up their day jobs, then quickly return to them once they realise that teaching NLP is not an easy and certainly not usually a financially lucrative option unless the trainers have good business strategies. I can't help but wonder how companies that employ comission only sales staff to sell NLP courses may have a greater focus on purely generating "bums on seats" than running training events in a responsible manner.

So for anyone choosing an NLP training, read carefully what is said on the trainer's website and check the content for accuracy of information! Also take a look at http://www.nlpmp3.com/ to hear lots of free unedited information from a variety of different NLP trainers and decide for yourself who is worth listening to and who is worth training with!

Nick Kemp
www.nickkemp.com