Here’s a great article posted in The Guardian today, discussing the issue I’m quite familiar with – soldiers experiencing post-traumatic stress after active participation in combat. I post here only a quote from the mid section of the article, which gives NLP a little bit of credit for this new, and seemingly impressive, program. 

The four-day Warrior programme was launched last year by two women, Eva Hamilton and Charlotte Cole. It is ambitious in that it requires a huge leap of faith from people often broken by war, to embrace a world of healing that sets store in good breathing, t’ai chi, meditation, cognitive therapy and the Hawaiian Huna technique of forgiveness (participants are encouraged to cut the imaginary cord holding them to the object of their anger). It was born after Hamilton decided to pull together the two overriding aspects of her life – her own depression and her experience of working with the homeless.

Four years ago, she was awarded an MBE after a long career working on homeless projects with the Prince of Wales. It was on one of these projects that she met Charlotte Cole, then on secondment from Deloitte and an expert in auditing, accounting and corporate finance.

But a year after receiving her MBE, Hamilton was in what she calls “an emotional void” of her own. She was on lithium, struggling to cope with bipolar disorder, a young family and a demanding job. She attended a programme of therapy run by Hugh Lillingston, a neuro-linguistic programmer, and it was like taking a magic pill (which is how some of the soldiers describe the programme). She gave up her job, moved to the countryside and simplified her life. She is still on lithium, but is now as well as she has ever been.

If the programme could save her, she figured, then it could be especially useful in treating some of the most vulnerable members of our society…

[Read The Full Article Here]