What Is Design Human Engineering (DHE)?

Design Human Engineering™ (DHE) is a synthesis of research and development in the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) over the past decade, created by Richard Bandler. As one of the newest and most promising advancements in this area, DHE seeks to answer the question, “What else is possible?”

Key Features of DHE

First, this new model makes what we already know in NLP simpler, more concise, and more effective by providing ways to organize, extract, and apply this knowledge simultaneously. Second, DHE applies NLP principles to problem-solving while pushing us toward truly evolutionary and promising changes—potentially reaching even cellular and chemical levels. In simple terms, it offers a comprehensive approach to lifestyle change, rather than just corrective changes or solutions aimed at specific outcomes.

How DHE Differs from Traditional NLP Training

While most NLP trainings focus on individual tools, DHE training includes a complete set of tools and teaches how each model works both independently and together. DHE students learn to use something called the Design Perceptual Grid™, which provides a way to mentally organize all NLP tools into a holistic framework. Meta-programs, beliefs, values, positions, submodalities, timelines, and more are extracted and used simultaneously. This makes sense, as these elements naturally operate together in people, not separately.

Direction vs. Goals

The main purpose of DHE training is to provide direction, rather than setting fixed goals. Direction allows each person to achieve their objectives through a process of continuous movement toward overall well-being. By focusing on direction instead of goals, a person’s orientation becomes more ecological, centering on the positive rather than the negative. Each individual becomes the designer and creator of themselves. There’s no longer a need to dig up resources or reframe past traumatic episodes. Instead, attention is focused on constructing and activating whatever people need for where they want to go.

Constructing Resources and Internal Change

Accurate and thorough construction and installation of resources, beliefs, values, meta-programs, and strategies is critical for creating direction and internal movement. DHE uses the brain’s natural memory processes to install new information, similar to how the brain remembers a new phone number. The old number isn’t erased, but once the brain learns the new sequence, it stops referencing the old one and switches to the new. The new sequence has a higher “signal value” and becomes the new dominant direction.

Kinesthetic, Auditory, and Visual Systems in DHE

Unlike traditional NLP training, which often starts with the visual system, DHE training begins with the kinesthetic system—building strong new states and sensations. In DHE, we construct a machine-like structure in the mind that creates new (never-before-experienced) states, then link these states to visual representations.

The auditory system is the most mysterious. In NLP, we might change intrusive voices by making them sound like Mickey Mouse. In DHE, we enhance the auditory system by creating and playing back three-dimensional holographic sounds needed for motivation and lasting change. The problem for most people isn’t a weak inner voice, but rather not having enough voices and sounds in their heads to truly drive them. That’s why DHE training often resembles a recording studio more than a seminar room, using audio systems, high-quality headphones, DAT players, language labs, and other high-tech tools.

With this equipment, we explore how universal sounds, their placement, and direction actually affect submodalities. This allows the DHE engineer, like a creator, to construct powerful installations with incredible “signal values,” enabling a person to move in the direction they desire.

Enhancing Visual Perception

In addition to kinesthetic and auditory systems, both internal and external visual perception are also enhanced with DHE. For example, one process used in DHE training is building real, tangible hallucinations—exploring trance phenomena to develop our visual system. Continuing this, we use the Advanced Calibration System™ to actually see how submodalities, beliefs, and timelines are arranged three-dimensionally around us.

Learning to Think Like Nikola Tesla

DHE teaches people to use their brains like Nikola Tesla. Tesla was a brilliant electrical engineer who:

• Invented the Niagara power system, making Edison’s system obsolete
• Sold 40 patents to Westinghouse, breaking General Electric’s monopoly
• Discovered radio principles later used by Marconi
• Built a radio-controlled torpedo before Ford released his first car
• Held many other patents and inventions still only partially understood by the scientific community

Tesla had the ability to hallucinate the machines he wanted to build, run them in his mind, observe which parts worked or didn’t, make adjustments, and then build a prototype without blueprints!

Similarly, DHE teaches people to create “schematics” in their minds like Tesla. These are not to be confused with strategies. Strategies are not studied or modeled in DHE, as most contain flaws. Instead, DHE students learn to construct and install all the elements needed to move forward. They take responsibility for their own development and begin to organize their thinking in new ways.

Exploring Cellular and Chemical Levels

Students even begin to explore the cellular and hormonal level, discovering how sensations, sounds, and images release specific chemical needs in their bodies, promoting health and longevity. Introduction to these possibilities comes in the form of teaching students how to reproduce states induced by substances (anything from alcohol to painkillers). This is one way to consciously trigger the placebo effect.

Beyond Problem-Solving

In all these cases, DHE goes beyond problem-solving and communication improvement. It’s a way to take direct responsibility for developing oneself and one’s thinking. It’s something clear and focused, tuning the mind to make life the most exciting experiment it can be. It takes a person with a bleak outlook and, instead of adapting to it, helps them construct life perspectives that inspire and open up new opportunities.

Creativity, wisdom, understanding, and confidence make life what it should be. DHE is something that enhances, amplifies, and develops our own nervous system in ways we never thought possible. It promises to provide the first practical holographic model of the human inner world, much like NLP gave us the first practical model of change. DHE has absorbed NLP’s precision in studying how we use our brains for change. However, keep in mind, it’s not for complainers, lawmakers, technology seekers, or info-addicts. DHE is for those who want real brain work to explore the countless possibilities that exist.