From those practical contexts, he developed this manual to give people new to NLP a clear and understandable presentation. With a mixture of presentation, example, thought experiments, case studies, outlines, metaphors, etc. For trainers, overhead mats of the material are available. No other manual anywhere incorporates these two items. Because it has come out of seven years of actual training sessions of NLP, many of your questions will find answers.
All techniques have exercises that follow to lead to behavioral integration of the materials.
The map is not the territory. People respond according to their maps. Meaning operates context dependently. We respect the person's model of the world. We cannot not communicate.