The Co-Founders of NLP technology were John Grinder and Richard Bandler. NLP is based on the idea that mind, body and language interact to create an individual's perception of the world and that perceptions, and hence behaviours, can be changed by the application of a variety of techniques; in particular, "modeling" which involves the careful reproduction of the behaviours and beliefs of those who have achieved 'excellence', or of the more successful parts of oneself.  NLP explores the relationships between how we think (neuro), how we communicate (linguistic) and our patterns of behaviour and emotion (programmes).

Neuro - refers to how the mind and body interacts

Linguistic - refers to the insights into a person's thinking by observing the language they use

Programming - refers to study of the thinking and the bahavioual patterns or "programmes" which we use in our daily life or we are run by.