January 28, 2012
Why Are Universities Around The Globe Missing This Valuable Opportunity?
All parts of our education system appears to be geared up to teaching young people what they believe they need to know to pass exams and, in 1 or 2 cases, what they need to know to find employment. But with an education system which is stuck in the dark ages are we missing a fairly vital opportunity? Are we depriving students of access to the very best of what is available for their futures?
Should we not be teaching students how they can study the thinking and behavior patterns of the leaders who contribute the most in each field of activity? Then, using nlp techniques, students might 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 benefits in modeling excellent behaviour. First you ensure that those being taught only learn from the best. And, second, students don't squander their time and clog up their minds with a mess of irrelevant learning that may 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 all over the globe in many fields of endeavor from business to the arts. But the field of education has permitted this vital field of developing people to totally pass it by.
There is an elitist attitude about the leaders in the field of education that quite often leads them to believe that if it was not conceived by an educationalist it shouldn't be taught in any educational establishment.
Surely in this modern, fast-moving, highly creative world it is about time that the teaching establishment took note of what's working well in other fields and had the curiosity to go out and take another look at how new methodologies might 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 generates results for the managers of major firms like Dell, Yves St.Laurent, J&J, RBI, GM and P&O through business coaching using NLP Techniques.
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