February 11, 2012
Why Are Colleges Around The Planet Missing This Critical Opportunity?
All of the education system looks to be totally geared to teaching people what they need to know to pass exams and, in a few cases, what they have to know to get a job. But with an education system which is stuck in the dark ages are we missing an important opportunity? Are we depriving students of access to the best of what is available for their futures?
Should we not be teaching students how they can observe the thinking and action patterns of the leaders who contribute the most in each field of endeavor? Then, using nlp techniques, students could be taught to think and behave in the same ways as the people that are leading the way.
It would seem that there are at least two upsides in modeling the best behaviour. First you make sure that your students only learn from the cream. And, second, students never waste time and block up their minds with a large amount of irrelevant learning which will never be of any use to them.
It is now 40 years since Richard Bandler and John Grinder started to model the behaviour of highly experienced communicators like Milton Erickson and Virginia Satyr. Their nlp techniques are used around the globe in numerous fields of endeavor from business to the arts. But the field of education has allowed this important field of developing people to totally pass it by.
It could be said that there is an elitist attitude about educators that often causes them to believe that if it was not devised by an educationalist it shouldn't be taught in any learning establishment.
Surely in this modern, fast-moving, highly creative world it's time that the teaching establishment took note of what's working well in other fields and had the curiosity to go out and take a more in-depth look at how new methods could be usefully employed in the field of education.
NLP Practitioner David Ferrers defines his mission as, "to enable people to make changes in their thinking, their feelings and their behaviour that make a significant difference to their performance both at work and in their private lives". He achieves results for the managers of major companies like Dell, Yves St.Laurent, J&J, RBI, GM and P&O through business coaching using NLP Techniques.
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