Modelling Belief Systems with NLP: Linguistic Pathways to Communication and Negotiation

Beliefs influence our experience and interpretation of reality by connecting our experiences to our criteria or value systems. Neuro-Linguistic Programming provides perhaps the most powerful model of the mind and set of behavioural tools in existence. Through the processes of NLP, beliefs and belief strategies may be explicitly mapped and directed. Beliefs connect values to our experiences through statements of ’cause-effect’ and ’complex equivalence’. Beliefs can be a matter of choice. We can drop beliefs that limit us and build beliefs that will make our life more successful. Beliefs influence behaviour. They can support particular behaviour or inhibit it. This is why modelling beliefs is so important.