Hello Bagpuss - you won't be treading on my toes for certain, and I've never heard NLP referred to as a science - I certainly don't see it that way. I speak as someone who makes a living out of having to communicate effectively, every day of my life, and I can, for sure, give you plenty of anecdotal evidence of my own in favour of how much sense I can make of NLP. I suppose I could give references (and reservations) but that isn't the point really is it in this discussion? I don't believe my use of NLP ideas aspires to a high level of scientific methodology - but I know what works for me and I'm really interested to try and figure out why it works.

You tell me!