ABSTRACT
NLP is a model which emerges from the humanistic psychology era and in an eclectic way makes use of both behaviourist and cognitive techniques. The core activity of NLP is not coaching but modelling, and some NLP practitioners have modelled people they regard to be very good at what they do, consequently developing coaching models with associated techniques. Such current examples would be Meta coaching (Hall & Duval, 2004) 7 C’s (Grimley, 2013) Provocative coaching (Hollander, 2013; Kemp, 2011) or Clean coaching (Tompkins & Lawley, 2006) Other NLP practitioners have used their research skills to design models which can be used for coaching such as Social panoramas (Derks, 2005) Core transformation (Andreas, 1994) or Resolve (Bolstad, 2002). What makes all of these approaches specifically NLP approaches is that all authors work from the presuppositions of NLP and within their coaching models make use of many of the patterns which have been developed from NLP modelling projects.
