04/10/2026
Read IANLP Bulletin 2026.6:
In this issue
>> The Frank Pucelik Support Fund
>> The Presuppositions of NLP 2.0
>> Shape the future of NLP
Frank Pucelik, one of the founders of NLP, has been living and working in the Ukraine and Europe for many years. He now needs to go back to his family in the USA. Give whatever you can. All donations are welcome.
The Presuppositions of NLP 2.0
Drawing on his decades of experience in applying NLP, David Shephard has defined 13 additional presuppositions, which he has titled “NLP Presuppositions 2.0”. At the NLP International Conference 2026 in London, David presented these additional presuppositions and explicitly noted that they should be understood as complementary to the originally formulated presuppositions.
David’s contribution lies in the fact that he identifies these additional axioms underlying NLP, thereby making them explicit.
By reading the NLP Presuppositions 2.0 many NLP practitioners will be surprised to discover that "nothing new" is actually being proposed here. Rather, additional basic assumptions on which they have always relied in their NLP applications are explicitly outlined. We believe that this is precisely how David’s contribution fits into the essence of the NLP tradition: making the unconscious conscious to enable modelling.
https://www.ia-nlp.org/bulletin/issue/bulletin-2026.6