Is NLP a Scam?

The accusation that NLP mainly benefits the trainer who profits from the training fees is often raised: NLP is a scam, and those who offer it are fraudsters.

Here, however, a distinction must be made: There is no question that many trainers demand particularly lavish fees for their seminars and that this is of far greater importance to them than the effective transmission of knowledge about NLP. One could also call the profit margins that some allow themselves when setting their prices a scam. Many offer the same product as their competitors (regardless of quality), but charge double for it without providing any special additional services. Also, not every NLP provider is a talented trainer for NLP.

But is calling it a scam really an appropriate attribution?

This brings us to the flip side of the mantra 'NLP is a scam.' Landsiedel NLP Training was the first NLP provider to lower its prices to an amount that was also reasonable for students or for those whose training was not funded by their employer more than a decade ago. The latter also highlights the discrepancy between some NLP trainings and other seminar providers: Professional motivation and communication trainings, which larger companies like to use to prepare their employees for everyday work, are in completely different price ranges (but are not necessarily better). Conversely, the question arises as to how much leeway a trainer has who charges 1500 euros or even less for one of their 150-hour trainings.

NLP is a scam, possibly – but only if you turn to the wrong provider.

Accusations of the abuse of NLP often arise. What is on the other side of the coin and how do we deal with it?

NLP is useless