I know that on some level you are overlooking many aspects of NLP. Besides, it is clear by what you have written that you are only considering what is necessary to bring about congruence. Yet, I can clearly see many other uses for the technology that aren't necessarily built around the idea of fixing something. I can help someone reach a congruent decision, set of states, and the like, through integration, but sometimes that is not enough. Sometimes there is the need to teach them how.

The person is now congruent, perhaps they are ready to go out and get a job, being an intimate relationship, learn how to drive a car, etc. -- but do they know how to effectively learn? Or do I need to teach that person a new and more effective learning strategy? A new and effective strategy for being in a successful intimate relationship? Or even teach them the steps for securing a top notch job?

Also, it is very difficult to bring about an integration without rapport on both levels, how do you get rapport? How do you calibrate to the incongruence in the first place? How do you know when you are done? Do you not offer some information for the person's conscious consideration, other information for other than conscious consideration? All of which are pieces of NLP.

About one third of all of the clients I have ever worked with did not have a conflict to be resolved, they just wanted to learn how to do things more efficiently, to have more fun, to earn more money. It's not that there was anything in the way, so to speak, they just wanted to learn new ways of doing things.

Let us go one step further. Using the skills called NLP to teach -- advanced learning strategies, how to prolong sexual experiences, skills for effectively raising children, skills for communicating effectively in any context, enhanced creative processes, the ability to effectively contextualize behavior.

If someone has yet to learn how to read, how to write, how to do anything, we can use all of the NLP skills we have to teach these skills in a fraction of the time.

I once worked with a kid who was tested as learning disabled in the area of reading. I sat with him for about three hours while teaching him how to effectively visualize pictures. Then I taught his brain how to connect the word to the picture. See a picture of a cat, now see this word written on that picture, and so on. His brain caught on, and in a short period of time he was reading as well as any other child. The kid didn't have a conflict to resolve, he only need to be taught how make sense of words.

I can go on here forever, but I do not have the time right now. There are many things that people can't do simply because they haven't yet learned how to do them. The athlete who has yet to learn to do to math. He is always counting on his fingers. You teach him how to use his visual system to do math. The guy who says he can't carry a tune, you teach him how to use the auditory system for listening to tunes. The nerd who can't play sports, he always sees a picture of himself catching the ball. You teach him how to use his kinesthetic system for playing sports.

With NLP, you can quickly get rapport, enter into their model of the world, model what they are now doing, and quickly teach them a new way that works. I see so much more in NLP besides fixing what is broken. I teach my students to move beyond the broken mindset and into what is possible. Sure, there may be an occasional conflict to sort out, but I think it is wise to also teach them, using every NLP skill that I am capable of, how to do what they want to so that it becomes easier, so that it can become fun.