Aphorisms/presuppositions
Depending on the branch of NLP (different trainers or companies) the number and some of the content of the presuppositions may vary. Some of them are:
- The meaning of a communication is the response that you get (not the one intended).
- The map is not the territory
- Life and 'Mind' are Systemic Processes
- Mind and body are parts of the same system and have infuence over each other
- Law of Requisite Variety
- All behaviour is geared towards adaptation
- Behind every behavior is a positive intention
- People are doing the best they can with the choices they have available
- Choice is better than no choice (and flexibility is the way one gets choice)
- Multiple descriptions are better than one
- Behaviour is to be evaluated and appreciated or changed as appropriate in the context presented
- People already have all the resources they need to succeed
- The highest quality information you can have of someone is their (present) behaviour.
- People are not their behaviour: accept people, change the behaviour (Also: Make distinction between behaviour and self).
- Every outcome manifested is Feedback: there is no failure, only feedback
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