I've been intending to give myself a big intro course on NLP for a while. I hear one of the great books is Using Your Brain for a Change, And Keeping the Change.

A good page is
http://www.nlp-world.com/

One of the archive pages it points to is
http://www.nlpu.com/archive.htm

Notice that each theory column on the left has its corresponding practice article opposite, in the right column.

And http://www.nlpcomprehensive.com/articles/Education/Modelling.htm
could be of interest.

Cheers,
Ken