rapport nlp

NLP and traditional health enhancement

Before I began to specialise in NLP training I ran stress management workshops for a number of years beginning back in 1983. Often I would be running two to five 2-hour workshops in any week in the Bournemouth-Poole area in Dorset (UK). And I also had a private psychotherapy and counselling practise in which I saw people individually.

During this time I had the privilege of encountering some great people who were making inspiring changes in their lives.

This process continued, albeit in a slightly different way, when I began concentrating on ‘pure’ NLP training programmes from the early 2000′s . I still encountered (and still encounter) many, many people who are making wonderful changes in their lives. Continue reading

What is rapport?

Rapport is the feeling of being at ease and in tune with someone; it’s what we experience when engaging in a satisfactory relationship.

We have all had the experience of instantly feeling quite at ease with someone. And the feeling of being instantly ill-at-ease with someone else. In the first case there is a natural experience of rapport and in the latter case rapport does not exist.

Rapport means ‘emphasising similarities’

In NLP we consider rapport to be a process of emphasising the similarities between us – and of playing down the differences. People have been doing this for millennia; NLP provides us with a way of clearly understanding the process, or the ‘mechanics’, of rapport. Continue reading

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