Coaching and NLP

A year ago approximately, I wrote an article in “Coaching Magazine” entitled “Coaching without NLP: An identity subject.” Today, I would like to share with you, the last three paragraphs where I synthesized my position.

“The introduction of NLP in coaching is complementary only if the coaches use it (the NLP) as a tool, and it does not prevail over the principles of coaching. However, if we concentrated in the own discipline or profession of Coaching and NLP, both basic postulates are essentially opposed.

If NLP uses the “common patterns” that any human being can apply to achieve extraordinary results (an essential basis premise of NLP), coaching uses the “particular patterns” that the individual has, for unique results that no other human being can achieve. While the NLP helps any man achieve what few (people of success) have achieved, coaching seeks to ensure that men develop what no one has succeeded yet.

In other words, NLP extracts “patterns of success” in “general” of human beings, to apply to the “particular” (an specific individual). By contrast, coaching extracted the essence and uniqueness of “particular” human beings (which an individual has that does not exist in any other individual) to apply it on itself.

For this reason, for those who have not yet understood the proper integration of both disciplines, and the healthy relationship that should take, my recommendation is listen to Socrates as an advance on the science of coaching, saying and repeating, “knowing yourself,” and let the “know others” as a tool at the mercy of this principle.”

What would you suggest, considering these ideas?
PS: full article, in Spanish: http://leoravier.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/coaching-sin-pnl-una-cuestion-de-identidad/