Where does NLP come from?
In the early 1970s Richard Bandler, a graduate student, and John Grinder, a linguistics instructor, teamed up to study the work of therapists who were doing outstanding work: Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir, and Milton Erickson, among others. What they discovered was a set of shared presuppositions about people and their problems, as well as very effective use of language that enabled rapid and lasting change. Bandler and Grinder developed the results of these studies into a core set of tools for change in every area of life. Using NLP techniques results in change that is faster and easier than ever thought possible before. Is NLP the same thing as psychotherapy? NLP is not technically therapy at all, but it can be used in a therapeutic setting to help people make changes, even when traditional therapeutic methods have not helped. Many NLP techniques deal with changing limiting beliefs and altering unwanted behaviors to obtain better states of mind and body, and better responses from the p
