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Purpose

The purpose of the NLP Development Forum is to support an integral community of NLP users and developers in presenting a consolidated NLP science to the wider community for recognition, understanding and acceptance.

The medium chosen is to create a living, dynamic, integral NLP model and framework that can be understood by most people. Conferences, workshops and a central web-site are to support this end.

Why create this forum and an integral model?

• NLP will only gain understanding and widespread acceptance with an agreed basic science and with measurable standards.
• Since the creation of NLP, Spiral Dynamics and an Integral Theory of Everything have been developed. These models impact upon the progression of NLP, and also require evolution.
• NLP has been extended beyond its original conception. NLP has diversified into many applications and other fields. NLP has lost coherence in terms of the set of fundamental behaviours and presuppositions upon which it rests, and is the result of "Green" thinking. The NLP community has also lost coherence and has lost a focus for publishing complex and innovative papers, given events in 2003.
• The insight given by the initial NLP created New Code NLP as a second-generation rethink. And, the thinking that created NLP also limits is growth. The NLP community has created models that go deeper, explored new territory, and created refined and new models.
• Together with the developments of NLP within different organisations, it is possible to conceive of a revised underlying basis for NLP, created by many minds acting together.
• The developments and offerings within the community can then be better set in context than currently.

What is the NLP Development Forum?

The NLP Development Forum is an umbrella organisation that facilitates the positive advancement of NLP.

It is independent of personal agendas, personal marketing and NLP politics.

It is a web-site providing a networking hub for NLP, with reciprocal links to all NLP training and coaching providers who wish to join.

It is an organiser of Events to promote and progress NLP.

It is an organiser of workshops to integrate NLP.

It is a host for NLP e-group/forum streams.

The Structure of the NLP Development Forum is a heterarchy: the most appropriate person leads any particular activity (context-dependent).

There will be no committees, as Integral NLP is beyond first-tier thinking (Wilber).

Membership of the NLP Development Forum is FREE and open to all. Organisers facilitate site and events. Members contribute articles, links, time, and effort.

Currently, the organisers are Steve Saunders and Josie Drew. An organiser, by definition, is someone who is taking on the financial risk and putting in a lot of personal effort to make this happen – we accept that "a lot" is unspecific!

The NLP Development Forum is supported by James Lawley and Penny Tompkins, Charles Faulkner, Robert MacDonald, John Seymour and John McWhirter, Chris Bond and many other NLP trainers and developers.

Beliefs and Values

• NLP is worth advancing, and can be integrated into a whole model.
• The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
• NLP has practical and positive applications to every aspect of life and society.
• Thirty years on, NLP needs positive spin and the evolution natural from a second-generation.
• We can spread the best models and practice more effectively together than separately.
• The NLP community needs to re-align itself for the benefit of the whole.
• A credible, independent organisation can be created to support the purpose.

Capabilities

• We can provide forums to achieve the purpose.
• We can put into motion the activities that will integrate NLP theory (both “left” and “right” brain, and all-quadrant, all-level).
• We can agree and set recognisable and realistic standards that encompass levels for short and long courses.

Activities

• Sharing Knowledge through conferences, web-site, workshops – mainly electronic.
• Innovating NLP through workshops and communication between interested parties.
• Developing People through the website, conferences, workshops and members using the material.
• Creating a wider NLP network through the internet and conferences.