Using some NLP techniques and the Lifo® method together can create an extremely powerful and positive experience. Both share some underlying beliefs about how people experience, and react to, the world about them and both rely on the practitioner building good rapport with their client to facilitate lasting change.

Both can operate in a “content free” environment – that is, you don’t have to share the details of the situations you can’t handle, or the person you find winds you up the wrong way. For some people, this is preferable to baring their soul on a first meeting with a professional coach.

The Lifo® method is probably the safer option to achieve any change in how you do things as it is less reliant on the skill and rapport building of the practitioner. Because it has a set of written down, structured materials, it tends to be more acceptable in a business environment, too.

The Metaprograms of NLP (explored thoroughly in the book Words That Change Minds by Shelle Rose Charvet 1997) integrate effectively with the four Life Orientations® .