NLP Marin offers a distinctly original, unconventional approach to teaching Neuro-Linguistic Programming that has evolved and unfolded over more than twenty years.
Human lives are creative wholes. To be understood properly and changed respectfully, our lives need to be approached holistically. We need to understand and appreciate that no part of our life or our life experience really exists separate from the wholeness of our life.
At NLP Marin, we hold life and the full human experience of each person’s life with respect and appreciation. We invite our students to use their training experience as a truly alive part of their living, with all that that entails. Our students are welcome to go as deep as they would like, and to explore their experience as profoundly as they have the interest and courage, to do.
Most NLP taught today is of the conventional (or classical), step-by-step variety. The courses present students with a series of processes, procedures, and techniques for making one sort of change or another. It is a formulaic approach—when someone has X problem, then you use X technique or techniques to fix the problem. If you are having Y communication or connection difficulty, then you use Y procedure to overcome the difficulty. This formulaic approach is immensely useful (especially compared to not having any kind of NLP at all), but we believe it is incomplete.
If conventional NLP is about procedures, the NLP Marin Model is about people.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, as it has evolved at NLP Marin, grounds the power of the NLP toolbox in the larger, more complete context of the students’ lives. It includes other perspectives and bodies of knowledge that we have found to be essential for keeping the superb technology of NLP from becoming mechanical or stagnant. And, because of these expanded perspectives, it enables the NLP practitioner to adjust in creative ways when the technique he or she is using is not getting the intended results.
All of our courses are intense, rich experiences that combine self-discovery, life-discovery, and pragmatic skills development in equal measure. Our students learn the entire conventional NLP model—including significant new material that has evolved in the conventional model over the years. In addition, at least half of the material taught in NLP Marin trainings, especially at more advanced levels, is unique to NLP Marin and goes far beyond what can be learned and mastered elsewhere.
Our courses focus on enabling our students to engage in a powerful, self-discovered, graceful art of creating a new relationship with themselves. Our approach invites our students to deeply respect and appreciate all aspects of their lives—past, present, and future. We honor what is, and we celebrate the full expression of what can and will be in the lives of our students.
When approached this way, Neuro-Linguistic Programming becomes a model that is about embracing and working with life, not overcoming it. Approached this way, NLP truly serves those people who want to learn to live in and work with the world more peacefully, fruitfully, and respectfully than ever before.