Glossary
NLP Glossary
Clear explanations of key terms from NLP practitioner literature.
“Language shapes experience.”
— NLP perspective
All Terms (21)
- Neuro-Linguistic ProgrammingNeuro-Linguistic Programming is a practitioner field, originating in the 1970s, that studies how language, attention and behaviour patterns relate to subjective experience.
- NLP PresuppositionsNLP presuppositions are working assumptions used in practitioner training — useful as attitudes for practice, not as proven laws of mind.
- Perceptual PositionsIn NLP, perceptual positions are a teaching frame for looking at a situation from one’s own seat, from another person’s, and from an observer’s — as practice in attention, not as a proven mechanism.
- RapportIn NLP, rapport is a working relationship of attention and responsiveness; it is practised through pacing, listening and calibration rather than through forced friendliness.
- ReframingIn NLP, reframing is offering another meaning or another context for the same facts so that a stuck description becomes a description a person can work with.
- Representational SystemsIn NLP, representational systems are the sensory channels — seeing, hearing, feeling and related senses — through which people are said to code experience.
- StatesIn NLP, a state is a person’s current organisation of physiology, attention and feeling — the condition in which a behaviour is more or less available.
- StrategiesIn NLP, a strategy is a modelled sequence of attention, representation and behaviour that someone runs to get a result — a teaching description of ‘how’, not a guarantee that the sequence can be installed.
- SubmodalitiesIn NLP, submodalities are the finer qualities of a remembered or imagined experience — such as brightness, loudness or location of a feeling — used as a teaching frame for how people code intensity.
- ValuesCriteria a person treats as important when choosing.