Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is in part inspired by the work of Milton H Erickson, who was one of the first psychotherapeutic practitioners to mindfully observe and utilise neurological processes such as mirror neurons in the empathic and attachment processes.

Many of what we regard to be modern discoveries in neuroscience were hypothesised by Erickson and utilised in the intimate relational field between client-and-therapist and client-and-self. One utilisation of these natural processes was the development of enhanced inner attention, sometimes called "hypnosis" or "trance", which in and of itself stimulates internal rebalancing and integration.

The skills of SYSTEMIC NLP are sophisticated uses of sensory awareness and language to observe in a heightened way how people actually process their subjective experience, emotionally, cognitively, linguistically and physiologically. It was developed by finding the commonalities between the most successful psychotherapy processes, including people's self-healing and actualisation. This way of gathering information, and finding the patterns in what we discover, results in creative agency to either repeat our inner processes to experience more of the same, or to process differently in order to experiment with life and experience new outcomes.