Does anyone know were I can find out more about NLP, (Neuro Linguistic Programming.?
NLP grew out of the ‘behavioural modelling’ activity of Grinder and Bandler in studying Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, and Milton H Erickson. Richard Bandler enrolled as a young 20-year old psychology student in the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1970. John Grinder, in his late twenties, was an associate professor of linguistics there (reputedly the youngest in the States at the time). Bandler joined the group of Grinder-followers and they became friends. Soon they were using Grinder’s linguistics to pursue Bandler’s interest in the work and the success-rate of Virginia Satir (mother of Family Therapy) and Fritz Perls (founder of Gestalt Therapy). They analysed writings and tape-recordings to discover what accounted for the successful results achieved by Satir and Perls. Later, through a friend of Bandler’s, they got to know and became admirers of Gregory Bateson who, in turn, introduced them to the work of Milton Erickson. It seems that NLP develops models which can’t be verifi
