Presuppositions Rapport Archive Research Presuppositions Rapport Issue 31 Publication Date February 28th 2013 Authors Lisa de Rijk This article continues the Research series that has emerged out of the NLP Research Conference. My aim in this article is to encourage readers to think about research through the eyes of the presuppositions. If we go back to Bandler’s definition of NLP, ‘An attitude and methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques’, it is the attitude of curiosity that was a core component of the work of Erickson, Satir and Perls. Good qualitative researchers are curious about what is going on, ‘how’ is something happening, rather than trying to prove or disprove that something is occurring. Alongside this attitude was the set of beliefs modelled from the three therapists that became the backdrop for the presuppositions of NLP.... Research To access the rest of this article, you need to use 1 credit ANLP members get complimentary credits that can be used for purchasing from the Rapport archive - a collection of more than a 1000 high quality articles written by some of the leading voices in the field of NLP. Non-members can buy Rapport credits via the ANLP store. JOIN ANLP BUY RAPPORT CREDITS If you have already purchased this article, you can log in to access it