NLP Millennium Project: "historical document"
From 27 July to 10 August of the year 2000, I was invited by Robert Dilts, together with NLP Trainers from all over the world, to Santa Cruz (USA), to define the new starting points for NLP in the new millennium.
The main points were:
- To strenght and to look within our community to find resources we need to prepare ourselves for the 21st century.
- To design the best possible future for the field of NLP and everyone in this field.
- To encourage everyone to be creative and contribute to expanding and developing the application areas of NLP.
- To connect with colleagues and explore how to create affiliations to support the field.
- To aknowledge and respect everyone's contributions to our field.
- To celebrate the cultural and individual diversity of the people who make up our fields.
- To make our common values explicit and define the ways to enact those values in our interactions with each other.
- To stimulate a new and productive phase of development in NLP.
TWELVE QUESTIONS were sent to each Trainer so that they could prepare personal answers for the event and share them with the other trainers in a giant brain storming session.
Twenty-four years after that meeting, it is interesting to "reopen the drawer", examine those questions and see if and how NLP has renewed itself over time.
Each reader can draw his or her own conclusions and, if they wish, share their own opinion.
But what is really important for one's Personal Evolution is to keep in mind the "roots from which the tree grew", because we will only find what we seek...
So we need to know what we are looking for, search with passion and involve only positive and constructive people in our search.
Enjoy reading this 'historical' document and, if you want, try to answer the questions you still think are relevant!
