Rapport is a video based on the documentation-footage of a Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) seminar. NLP is a particular approach taken to personal development which is based on ’modelling’, creating models of human behaviour. Adherents argue that an individual’s perception of the world can be changed by reproducing the behaviours and beliefs of those who have achieved ’excellence’.
The early focus of NLP was the study of the underlying patterns in language and techniques of noted and successful therapists in hypnotherapy, gestalt therapy and family therapy. The patterns discovered were adapted for general communication and effecting change. The basic idea of the exercises of NLP is a kind of a staging of the self in different times and spaces. Usually different characters are built up to embody the often paradoxical characteristics of the self. By building this "inner-film", one opens the chance of re-editing it.
There are 3 figures in each process: the A (the client) the B (the driver) and C (the witness). In NLP, "Rapport" is the word used to describe the ability of the driver (B) to establish sympathetic relation with the client (A).
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