How does NLP add value to your skill base?
Current practise assumes that all clients need to do in order to achieve and maintain a healthy weight is change their behaviour. We focus on exercise habits and diet, telling clients what they should and shouldn’t eat and suggesting how they can increase their activity levels.
This approach is clearly limited; half of British women are now overweight. 23% of those are clinically obese. 65% of men are overweight or obese. Telling clients what to do and not do (behaviour) is failing to achieve results; but until we recognise that the issue is more complex, that we need to expand our thinking beyond the behavioural change model, the statistics will continue to rise
Success happens when we broaden our practice and take into account how and what clients think about themselves. This training is based on the contention that it is the values and beliefs that our clients hold, and their sense of who they are (identity), that determines their weight, and their ability to lose it.
When change happens at this level, when clients are enabled to establish better relationships with themselves, the nature of their relationship with food also changes and becomes more healthy. In this way being slim becomes an option.