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NLP for testers

This is the supporting web page for the talk, and paper, entitled "NLP for testers - a brief introduction".

There are some supporting reference material mentioned on this page which are not contained in the paper, either because of their topicality or their web specific nature.

NLP Meta Model For Testers

The Meta Model paper put out for comments to both the testing and NLP communities. I am more than happy to receive your comments

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NLP A Brief Overview For Testers

A draft version of information that had to be edited out of the Meta Model paper and will form the basis for a more general introduction to NLP.

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A Draft of a quick worked example of presupposition and NLP based testing

NLP States A Brief Overview For Testers

A draft version of a paper on states which formed the basis of part of the 90 minute tutorial on NLP for testers given at the BCS Sigist 07/12/2004. [.pdf]

The Presentation Slides

The slides for the 90 minute tutorial (Sigist 07/12/2004) [.ppt] [.pdf] [online]

The slides for the 40 minute talk (Sigist 18/06/2004) [.ppt] [.pdf] [online]

Recommended NLP websites

www.paulmckenna.com is the main site for Paul Mckenna training in the UK, which is one of the few training companies in the UK that have Richard Bandler training with them. Plenty of links, this is a good starting point for learning NLP.

NLP University The best online reference to NLP available.

Pure NLP - John LaValle's site

Richard Bandler .TV audio site

NLP.biz has some good links and articles

A Good NLP Links Site

Jamie Smart's Newsletter Jamie is an excellent NLP trainer in the UK who has a free email newsletter with tips on practicing NLP, and some cool NLP learning products too.

nlpschedule.com is a pragmatic introduction to NLP with useful links and articles by Stever Robbins.

Recommended Related Websites

Nick Boyd has a lot of interesting papers on his web site about language in Software Development.

online version of Science and Sanity by Alfred Korzybski [www.esgs.org/uk/art/sands.htm]

Institute of General Semantics

Bits And Pieces

Things that were ruthlessly edited out of the papers. [Transcripts pdf]

Just the facts, the reference pages extracted for easy printing and viewing.