This covers any programme designed as an interactive group session with a facilitator, involving unique ideas about human functioning and behaviour with the aim of helping to improve individual potential (what you are capable of achieving).

Such programmes have been available for a long time. They often come in the form of expensive, high profile motivational seminars, which are sometimes reliant on the charisma of the facilitator to elicit immediate and short term euphoria and motivation. However there are hundreds of less visible personal development programmes or workshops available through community organisations that are designed for specific development training such as in ante natal, parenting, addiction, relationships, self-assertion, self-esteem, confidence and the list goes on.

Personal development programmes provide skills and training that is not vocational, but is focused on individual development. SOHTech aims to provide programmes that are not provided by other organisations, are scientifically based and robust, and can be delivered by any competent facilitator.

NLP provides amazingly simple, powerful methods for changing the way you think, feel, act and learn. These techniques are used to achieve success in teaching, counselling, business, health care, sports and personal development. Psychology Today magazine says:

Like the related field of Psychology, NLP has applications in so many places that you have almost certainly heard of it under other names already. For example, in personal development, NLP is the science behind most of what TV Infomercial superstar Tony Robbins teaches. In education, the application of NLP is known as Accelerated Learning. NLP can also be used to study how excellent sportspeople win competitions, how high achieving managers create winning teams, how healthy people heal from illnesses quickly, or how people with photographic memory achieve total recall.

An extensive catalogue of NLP research is kept on the internet by the University of Bielefeld in Germany, and can be reached at www.nlp.de/research/ It includes research studies showing that NLP processes can increase memory by 61%, or eliminate the problems of post traumatic stress disorder in one session. In 1990 and 1992 Psychological Reports published research on the effects of NLP Practitioner training showing that those attending increase their sense of being in control of their lives, reduce the level of anxiety in their life, and demonstrate higher 'self actualisation'.

Taken from http://www.transformations.net.nz/

Following are some links for NLP in New Zealand:

New Zealand NLP   Provides amazingly simple, powerful methods for changing the way you think, feel, act and learn.

In Tandem Business Education   Providing Neuro Linguistic Programming, coaching and leadership development training programs in Auckland and Wellington.

Inspiritive Life   A life coaching directory for New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.

Communications Plus  New Zealand's foremost NLP training company for business communication, performance improvement, sales, negotiations, strategic planning, corporate and custom designed training. NLP Trainer, Mark Klaassen, INLPTA.