NLP and Evidenced Based Medicine – John Grinder

In this video filmed at an NLP Academy Q and A session, John Grinder gives a detailed response to Leslie who works in the UK’s National Health Service. Leslie asked John’s advice on what he (Leslie) , could do to create a context where NLP becomes accepted as a formal treatment in the British National Health Service. John’s eloquent answer addresses major distinction in NLP as a process orientated change system in contrast to statically based methods inherent in most formal channels of health care, known as evidenced based medicine, which often are content driven. John proposes NLP is a personalised psychotherapy and coaching model and thus a non-diagnostic category system. John argues individual calibration is the key variable rather than a statistical method in which the statistics predict failure for a certain percentage of people.

The NLP Academy New Code NLP Certifications, led by John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll, attract many medical professionals from all over the world, who seek to bring New Code NLP methods into their work, obviously working within the scope of the rules applied by their country’s Medical Associations.

By combining standardised health care treatment with NLP methods deployed by the medic, the overlap of personalised health and psychotherapy treatment within evidence based medicine is possible and does bring results. As John says there is a journey ahead for health care to become more personalised and breaking the rigidity inherent in statistical models which have X percentage success rate and thus Y percentage failure rate On the positive side Leslie cites PTSD research from 10 years ago into the NLP Visual Kinesthetic Dissociation Protocol originally developed by Grinder and Bandler) and originally tested at The Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, by Bandler and Grinder and documented in Whispering in the Wind, (Bostic and Grinder 2001).

The research cited by Leslie demonstrates NLP patterning merging within the evidence based medical system he is a part of which is progress for NLP within formal health care systems.