NLP Millennium Project: "historical document"
From 27 July to 10 August 2000, Giuseppe Platania was invited by Robert Dilts, together with NLP Trainers from around the world, to Santa Cruz, California (USA), to contribute to defining the new directions and strategic foundations of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) for the new millennium.
The meeting focused on the following key principles:
- 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 in advance, inviting them to prepare their own reflections and share them during an extraordinary international brainstorming session.
More than two decades later, it is both interesting and valuable to "reopen the drawer," revisit those questions, and explore how Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) has evolved over time.
Every reader is invited to draw their own conclusions and, if they wish, contribute their own perspective.
Above all, genuine Personal Evolution begins by remembering the roots from which the tree has grown. We find only what we consciously seek. For this reason, it is essential to know what we are looking for, pursue it with passion and perseverance, and surround ourselves with people who inspire, support, and enrich our journey.
Enjoy reading this unique historical document and, a quarter of a century later, take a moment to reflect on the questions that still resonate with you. If you wish, challenge yourself to answer those you believe remain relevant today.