Paul Tosey and Jane Mathison

Their topic is about the research behind NLP. He quoted Herodotus, and he spoke of the tension between something fabulous as being like a fable and beyond belief, as opposed to something remarkable.

They both work in the center of management learning and do some work on their website, NLPresearch.org. They are both trainers and consultants and educators.

Their overall interests are in tranformative learning. There are 3 main points for their work:

1. Developing research community
2. Using NLP to further understanding of TL
3. Developing a critical appraisal of NLP (especially for the book they are writing

They wanted to see practitioners who were very effective, especially with how people were behaving and enacting what they were doing. They discussed how those they studied followed the same theories that others were using, but some people were more effective then others.

They see NLP as being primarily phenomenological, and is not a stranger to HRD (and even seems to be widespread). There are many people who use NLP in their coaching sessions. It is very widespread in the practitioner community, but there is very little research done in NLP.

Gregory Batesan was an important reference for their research, but little formal work.

NLP can support everybody’s quest for achieving excellence and happiness.

There is a great need for reflectivity in the field,

Is there an underlying list of principles that are used by all people and can be gathered as foundational.

I am getting a bit drowsy. I wish he would have provided his definition for how he see NLP. Also, I wish the room were not so hot.

The voice of the user is missing from almost all the literature in the field right now.

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