It is generally accepted that the English word rapport comes from the French "rapport" - attitude, connection, in some cases the meaning "rapporter" is taken - bring back, return. But today this concept is also used to refer to processes in psychotherapy, hypnosis, NLP, as well as in art, oddly enough.
Art. Here rapport is used precisely in the meaning of rapporter - to bring back, because it means the repeating part of any pattern or ornament. This can be a rapport of the border, knitting, wallpaper, carpet pattern or weaving fabric. The use of rapport in the manufacture of various interior items or clothing is a modern and fairly common technique. However, it requires compliance with the maximum accuracy of the repeated plot and the use of additional materials, as careful combination of the beginning and end of the rapport is necessary, for example, when wallpapering the walls.
In psychotherapy, the term rapport means the process of building trust and understanding between the patient and the therapist. It is rapport that can serve as some guarantee of success in the treatment of depression and nervous disorders. The patient should feel that his doctor is tuned in with him. Then the level of understanding will help the patient to be sincere, to realize that his attending physician sympathizes with him, wants to help and can do it.
Rapport in hypnosis means the interaction of the hypnotist with the hypnotized in such a way that the latter reacts narrowly only to the actions (verbal or verbal) of the person who hypnotized him. Such a person remains insensitive to other sources of suggestion, due to the presence of excited zones in the cerebral cortex during hypnotic sleep. These zones are the rapport zones.
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) also makes extensive use of the term rapport. In this case, it means the establishment of interaction in a group of people, the emergence of an atmosphere of trust and benevolence. Today, NLP is used in many areas of human activity, in business, education, family relationships. Rapport allows you to more fully and deeper understand each other, makes it possible to invisibly influence people, achieving the desired results.
The simplest methods of establishing rapport are known to all. This is a copy or adjustment of the intonation of the voice, body position, movements. A person is drawn to this, and this allows not only to attract the desired individual, but also, having entered his way of thinking, it is better to understand and adapt to it.
