Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a new field, concerned with the processes of how we live our lives, and our patterns of behaviour and communication. Patterns include not only our observable actions in the world but also our thinking processes and the organization of our states of mind. This includes our emotions and how we use our attention with our senses. The focus of NLP as a discipline is in finding and creating patterns and teaching models of human excellence. Modelling is one of the key features that distinguish NLP from psychology.

NLP studies how we know what we know. It is also a methodology for creating practical descriptions of how we function as human beings. The purpose of NLP is to study, describe and transfer models of human excellence. NLP explores the relationships between how we think (neuro), how we communicate both verbally and non-verbally (linguistic) and our patterns of behaviour and emotion (programmes) (Collingwood, 2001)”.