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NLP: School Vs. Education

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Channel: Damon Cart NLP · 2016 · People & Blogs

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While there is certainly a place for academia in the field of NLP I prefer to focus on NLP as a way of educating yourself.

NLP in its inception was a technology that rebelled against traditional schooling. Both John Grinder and Richard Bandler (academics, scientists, and realists in their own right) were always at odds with conventional systems and constantly looked for ways to disrupt these conventions to go to places traditional schools couldn't take students.

And since its inception people have tried to find a place for NLP in conventional schools and conventional psychology and in some cases have succeeded, but it's sort of like trying to put a $3,000 suit on a Wild West Outlaw. Sure it fits but does it really?

By its nature NLP is fluid and highly adaptable to pretty much any field or situation so it can cockroach itself into a smaller framework which is fine for the context but not good for the development and evolution of the technology.

What is the difference between school and education?

Bruce Lee once said that all discovery is self-discovery. I think this applies to education as well.

You don't need a school to educate yourself. NLP is experiential. Sure there are concepts and theories in NLP but the focus is on experimenting and testing.

Prior to NLP there were many theories and schools of thought in psychology. Bandler and Grinder had no patience for theories. They wanted results so they found therapists who were getting extraordinary results who they could model. 

It's no surprise these therapists operated on the fringe of the field of psychology because they didn't engage in the many theoretical and useless debates over theories that weren't even being tested.

Schools are where you go to memorize stuff and take tests to prove you can regurgitate information.

An education, however, is a lifelong pursuit that does not require institutions, diplomas, and certifications. In most cases an education is better off without these things.

True education does not need validation from others; awards, diplomas, and certificates. Education is its own validation.

So if you wasted your money on a four day NLP Practitioner Training to get a certificate that's supposed to mean something, I hope you rethink this and give NLP another try.

I've been to several NLP and hypnosis trainings and continue to go to these trainings to learn more. However, this is more like school, unless the training focuses on mostly practice.

NLP education happens when you incorporate NLP into your life daily. That's when the rabbit hole goes deep.

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