13 NLP Presuppositions
1. Human beings are self-regulating systems.
2) Anything that happens in one part of a system will effect other parts of that
system.
3) The map is not the territory–but is a temporary navigational aid.
4) People tend to create maps or models of reality through distortion, deletion,
and generalization. We will operate off of these models of reality rather than
reality itself. NLP itself is a description or model of the structure of
experience. NLP evaluates it descriptions by usefulness not correctness.
5) All behavior is, or was, adaptive in the context in which it was learned.
6) Every behavior stems from positive intention for the person.
7) All behavior is communication.
There is no failure, only feedback.
9) To interact with another person, a group, or a system, use language appropriate to
that individual, group, or system.
10) All behavior (including language, eye movements, gestures, etc.) expresses
internal neural processes and, therefore, carries information about them.
11)The law of requisite variety–the element in a system with the greatest variety is
the controlling factor in that system.
12) NLP increases the communicator’s flexibility which increases success.
13)What one person can do, given a normal neurophysiological basis, almost anyone
can do. Resources present but unavailable in a given situation can be accessed to achieve the
desired outcome; or these resources can be obtained from another via modeling, etc.