NLP and Coaching:
Neuro-linguistic Programming is the art and science of creating human excellence. It uses simple models to
quantify how we process information, how we structure our thoughts and how this affects our behaviour.
Simply explained, it is an efficient tool for making improvements to any part of your life regardless of whom you are or where you come from. And it's so easy because NLP works on the unconscious level so the changes happen quickly and effortlessly.
In addition to coaching, Sonia has also studied NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). Combining NLP with coaching gives a holistic approach that is tailored to individuals allowing them to make an effortless transformation in their lives.
Using a positive forward focus, well formed outcomes, and powerful visualizations, and a direct knowledge of how fantastic it feels to be well again, Sonia works one on one or in groups to support and encourage their journey to wellness.
Areas Sonia can focus on with NLP include:
• Limiting beliefs
• The Relationship with others and yourself.
• Assertiveness - Learning to stand in your own power!
• Self belief
• Self awareness
• Spirituality
• Getting rid of the "shame" and "guilt"
• Finding one's lot in life - one's purpose
• Confidence and self esteem
Neuro Linguistic Programming can be described as the fundamental dynamics between our Mind (Neuro) and our Language (Linguistic) and how their collaboration affects our body and our Behavior (Programming).
Neuro - Referring to the nervous system, or mind, through which our experiences, both conscious and unconscious, are processed through our Five Senses, Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory, and Gustatory.
Linguistic - Referring to the language and other nonverbal communication systems we use to create and reveal to ourselves and others our unique model of the world, the way we think about the world, and the way we give meanings through our own experiences of the world. Which include pictures, sounds, feelings, tastes, smells and self talk.
Programming – Referring to the ability to discover and utilize the programs that we run in our neurological systems to achieve our specific and desired outcomes, our behaviours, and when we communicate with ourselves and others.
NLP began in the mid-70’S in America with the work of John Grinder, a professor of linguistics, and Richard Bandler, a psychologist. They began by studying excellent communicators, and building models of communication skills. These methods could then be taught to others so they to could get the best results in their life.
NLP also studies how we structure our subjective experiences, how we think about our values and beliefs, how we create our emotional states, how we build our internal world and give it meaning. Neuro Linguistic Programming is the premier psychological field that deals with the internal subjective world from the inside.
In essence NLP is the study of excellence in one’s self and seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective communication, and to change their patterns of mental and emotional behaviour into states that benefit them more positively and successfully.