What's The Relationship Between NLP & Coaching?

As Sara progressed in the NLP Practitioner program, she realized she was in the right place. Her dream to become a coach was coming true. She learnt change models to accelerate success for her clients. It was beginning to get her more and more excited. She could not wait to complete this program and begin working with clients.
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She was beginning to see how profound NLP tools were. Short and sharp processes that cleared phobias for instance. Others in the class were eradicating negative emotions like anger and fear in a matter of using a twenty minute process. What was the difference here?

As Sara progressed in the NLP Practitioner program, she realized she was in the right place. Her dream to become a coach was coming true. She learnt change models to accelerate success for her clients. It was beginning to get her more and more excited. She could not wait to complete this program and begin working with clients.
She was beginning to see how profound NLP tools were. Short and sharp processes that cleared phobias for instance. Others in the class were eradicating negative emotions like anger and fear in a matter of using a twenty minute process. What was the difference here?
Sara learnt how to work through the unconscious mind, using her five senses. Even though it sounded complicated and deep, she was amazed at how easy it was. It was a matter of learning how to do processes, specifically for each type of outcome that the client wanted.
This was what defined a person who was successful and not. The former knew how to access their five senses intuitively and they were willing to admit their gaps. Understanding self was usually the first step;

• knowing the values and beliefs they held
• their emotional patterns as they were growing up

As Sara delved deeper into these NLP processes she could see a jigsaw puzzle forming, how each piece was coming together to form a powerful coaching model. Depending on the type of change a client needed, there were different levels of coaching;

• Level 1 - performance
• Level 2 - revolutionary
• Level 3 - evolutionary

NLP fell into levels 2 and 3 where clients wanted deep change as follows;

• Switch roles within the same company / industry
• Re-invent self to change career path altogether
• Eradicate an addiction like smoking
• Clear phobias of spiders for example

Any of the changes above would impact other aspects of a client’s life hence their relationships, health, wealth creation would see vast improvements.


The thing is most clients didn’t know where to start and were unaware of their unconscious behavior patterns. Sara could see how she could coach them through flushing out these patterns then decide what they needed to rid of. A great place to start would be to uncover where a client was generating weak results. Negative unconscious patterns would be aplenty here. It all depended on whether the client wished to change that.


Once elicited, Sara would then help the client make change by using her NLP change tools. The relationship between coaching and NLP was 100% fit especially for those who wanted rapid change.


If a client had unconscious patterns installed that were generating powerful results in health, wealth, relationships and career, they probably were unaware as to how they did that success. Sara also had skills to elicit their positive and powerful strategies so they could replicate it to their teams. This was the foundation of building high performance teams.


Co-founded by a Professor of Linguistics, Dr. John Grinder and a computer scientist, Richard Bandler, NLP was deemed as a language of influence and a model of how to reprogram self for better results. So yes the answer was that it really worked as a coaching model. If a client really wanted a transformational change, NLP was definitely a coaching modality that was able to deliver on fast and profound results.


Sylvia Fernandes is the Founder & CEO of VIA Frontiers. She has been operating in the Asia Pacific Region for the last 15 years and is currently based in Singapore. Go to www.viafrontiers.com for more information.