Hi All,

One thing that I've noticed in the NLP community is a desire for things to be different than they are now. And, perhaps unfortunately at times, there tends to be a lot of disagreement over what specifically should be different.

For example, some people want NLP to be less scientific, rigourous and 'academic' and, instead, be more spiritual, open, accepting and 'magical'.

Some people want NLP to be more 'academic' and less 'magical'.

Some people want NLP to be both less 'academic and less 'magical'.

Some people want NLP to be both more 'academic' and more 'magical'.

Occasionally, I even run into somebody who wants NLP to somehow be both more and less 'academic' or 'magical' simultaneously!

And some people, it seems, would like all the people who want all those other things to get out of NLP and leave them alone...

And one thing that I've heard more than a few times is the expression of a desire for NLP to be more 'professional' and 'respectable', with less personal squabbling and politics. And when I ask the inevitable, 'compared to what?', I tend to get 'compared to other fields of psychology' back as a response.

In the light of that, it might be interesting to have a look at this article about CBT and its recently deceased founder.

If you happen to know very much about the history of NLP and some of the things that have gone on, I think you might notice a very odd resonance here.

So, while change, improvement and excellence are all important and worthwhile things, sometimes, it might be useful to remember that the grass isn`t always as green as it might seem on the other side...

Or so it seems to me.

Be Well,

Michael Perez