The NLP Practitioner Manual

I originally trained with another organization, and the trainer suggested building up skills and providing the best quality of service we could. I'm glad he did; I eventually was led to master trainer Peter Freeth, and his book is a wealth of information that has really changed my understanding of NLP for the better. I highly recommend this book, and his Master Practitioner manual. You will be pleasantly surprised and enlightened.

it a good book helped me as a beginner in the NLP field but not for advanced NLPians :))

I own 11 other NLP books which I hoped would give me a thorough basic usable understanding of NLP. This is the only one that does just that. I'm not sure why I overlooked this one or it didn't pop up in my initial searches... but what compelled me to write this review is to tell you that if you're on the same hunt, this is the book you're looking for!

Peter freeth's knowledge is far more upgraded than an average NLP trainers. some of the knowledge and beliefs about NLP and practices might be altered once you read this book. His knowledge is profound, tried-n-tested and practical. Brilliant author. I strongly suggest his other book 'NLP For Business'.

After hearing positive remarks about this book through repeated mentions on various forums, blogs, etc., I made the purchase. Peter Freeth has a clear writing style that feels like a relaxed conversation between the author and reader. The chapters aren't filled with unnecessary dialogue in an attempt to be overly complex. The material is very thorough, well structured and clear...and the exercises included are relevant to the material presented in the prior chapter. Hard to put down. With about 20 NLP books on my "shelf", this is one I wish I had purchased earlier in the game.

Great book for those starting out with NLP. It has all the information and techniques needed to get started. This has helped me a great deal and is very informative. One of the best best for NLP, would highly recommend!!

The explanations about the concepts of NLP are easey to understand and the examples are helpfull. I have read other books and until now this is the best for praticioners.

This and his Masterpractioner Manual are two of the top ten nlp-books I have read, and I have read a lot.

An increbile and comprehensive book about all NLP Pracritioner topics. I urge everyone who loves studying NLP to buy it.

When I started my NLP journey i found tons of book repeating the same few concepts in a very boring way, then suddenly I found this manual and everything became interesting and I started to be keen to know more and more. It is the perfect first step for anyone who wants to use NLP for working, coaching or just to understand better life.

Brilliant book

The NLP Practitioner manual aims to lead you in the direction of the personal experience of change (yes...through all your 21 senses) in order to help you to question your experiences at the attainment level of understanding. It also covers the rudimentariness of the Milton model that "creates distortion, deletion and generalisation for 'vaguity' influence with permissive clients". For me this lent the book an extra dimension that opens up the newcomer to what might appear hocus-pocus but is presented as the necessary precondition for a relaxed state. There have been many descriptions of NLP but wanting to take action as the ultimate expression of one's sensory acuity with whole intention has a strong resonance here - not intellectualising in the abstract symbolic for its own sake. To this end the NLP Practitioner is a training manual that goads the reader into turning theory into reality. The same underlying message as the Master Practitioner runs throughout in that "user guides teach you nothing about [the intuition of] craftsmanship" - the requisite skill acquisition in achieving expert and master levels (Dreyfus and Dreyfus). NLP has been famously called an 'attitude' and methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques and in Peter Freeth's case, as a Master Trainer, he also holds to mind an attitude of discovery by priming our faith in the unconscious to find the answers; firstly in presupposing success (especially at the sub-modalities level); then by not seeking judgement or conclusion and maintaining high involvement and low attachment to the outcome; thirdly, by not trying to solve problems (you cannot change how or when you learned behaviour) but instead breaking them so they don't work any more; fourthly, recognising the process of anchoring of existing associations cannot be broken - because the brain's connections can only be replaced with more favourable or well-used connections; and fifthly, emphasising the belief in the client of generating more useful choices ("since you never know the right solution until it works"). Whereas having an attitude of curiosity can best be described as the frame of the truth seeker it is the client's state of "their mental, physical and perceptual foundation for everything they do" that is revealed by the structure of subjective experience the three co-founders originally set out to model by applying the tenets of transformational grammar courtesy of Grinder. Recently, Pucelik has suggested that the positive effects of NLP as a change agency (note not a therapy) can be scientifically measured by studying language usage in terms of meta model violations, i.e. the subversive intentions of habits translated as inconsistencies disguised in grammatically correct syntactic structures. By counting the client's negative calibrations, verbally and non-verbally, and watching them change to positive after a desired state is elicited, a shift in the organising patterns of the mind can be detected. In other words changing perceptions as the basis for changing beliefs has an empirical basis denoted in language patterns, for example by the number of nominalisations, unspecified verbs and reversed references that are found to diminish after a practitioner's intervention. Therefore acknowledging the value in the negative through calibration and then redirecting this information to a positive course of action (the desired state) by utilising the client's own resources is to my mind the golden theorem of the practice of NLP - it also gets to the real value - the feedback; this core principle runs in tandem with developing well-formed outcomes so that even unrelated actions and thoughts all point in the same direction and are important to persistent, diligent and consistent motivation. Freeth goes on to explain: "when you don't have well-formed outcomes your thoughts and actions tend to be more random so you waste time correcting actions that are in the wrong direction.. and what's more when people know what they don't want they tend to find more of it only knowing when things are going wrong for them. They therefore bounce from one wrong course of action to the next, never setting on a clear direction." Catching the calculus of continuous change as a model of self improvement for the purposes of education 'is' NLP but it is also the basis of many self-help programs that emerged in the 1970s and '80s, some, whose popularity, has waned after 40 years. Whether NLP falls into this bracket it is hard to say but the noise of choice out there is deafening right now when literally self-help books are becoming business calling cards. The sheer amount of change wisdom could make it harder in the future for NLPers to carve out an identifiable niche after its founders are no longer around particularly as the subject's core ideas get cannibalised and marketing personality cults target new generations of self-enhancers (not seekers). It all begs the question who should we thank the most for NLP's inception? Chomsky or Perls, for whom without there would surely be no Grinder or Bandler, or maybe the spirit of self-exploration of the sixties liberal counterculture, or possibly still the nascent discipline, at the time, of cognitive psychology that rested on the premise of the brain being understood as a complex computing system (notably Ellis and Beck) that gave rise to a master acronym that has so far withstood the test of time.

excellent