The Department of Psychology and Counselling in collaboration with MIND India today organized an Orientation Programme on Neuro Linguistic Programming(NLP), 8 February 2016.

The workshop aimed at transforming and helping the participants to have a better understanding of what NLP is all about and how it can help a person to think more clearly, communicate more effectively and acquire skills and attitudes to do things better.

Dr. A. Abraham, Director and Life Coach, Mindmasters animated the programme where 64 participants from Guwahati University, Handique Girls College, University of Science and Technology – Meghalaya (USTM), NES College, Sarla Birla School, Sanskriti Gurukul and Don Bosco University attended the day long programme.

Stressing on the importance of NLP, Dr. A. Abraham said, “NLP is a lot like love, you don’t spell it out, you feel it. It is experiential and therefore is not possible to teach online…It helps you realize the importance of being in the present to be the best you can be”.

NLP is a model of interpersonal communication chiefly concerned with the relationship between successful patterns of behavior and the subjective experiences underlying them. It stresses on the importance of living with conscious purpose and provide one with a set of techniques that enables a person to effective manage his/her response to things that happen around him/her.