Origins of Neuro Linguistic Programming

A book well worth reading! There's more to the cake than the baking.We, the variously informed, stroll with a guide around a well groomed garden. As some in the group may wonder, "What occurred before the seeds were planted? What was the jungle like?"A book for anyone interested or involved in NLP.

Perfect book to get a well-rounded view of early NLP.

An exciting window into the beginning of this unique methodology and the personalities and aspirations that drove it. Recommended!

Important book if you want to track back to the foundation and get a feel for what was happening and why. Grinder makes an indispensable point about those who have come after, and that point is phrased as a question: How many people operating under the flag of NLP have actually modelled anyone? NLP is not about Bateson, Erickson etc. It is about the process of determining what precisely a person demonstrating incredible skill is doing, how they are doing it and how those skills or patterns or behaviours can be taught to others. Read this book out loud and you will

In this book several people from the early NLP write about their experiences. I found it in the very beginning very interesting to read about all the origins until I came to the comments of John Grinder. Page 171 sums my experience up, where he added a note to the text provided by Robert Dilts. He mentioned it very clearly that he disagrees with Dilts.For a reader, two authors contradicting each other appears to be extremely childish. Of course, memories vary. Knowing about the history of NLP, there had been some weird things in the past, specially in the 80ties and 90ties. Now you read a book about the origins of NLP. One of the founders (Bandler) did not participate, the other one comments everything and is writing an upset note about the article of a colleague.NLP stands for me for self-growth and excellency. So after forty years, you expect people are over this self-driven "I know it all" style and have some tolerance. On a behavioral perspective, it seems it is all about ego and politics. So I do not recommend this book

Terry McClendon and friends selfishly and recklessly toyed with people's minds in Santa Cruz in the 70's. They should have been arrested for what they were doing. Anyone considering NLP is warned now to be careful - they will take your mind, play with it, and give it back having destroyed all healthy defense mechanisms.

This frank review of the Origins of NLP as told by those that were there is honest, contradictory and at times very funny, demonstrating the humanness of the spirits involved. Each account is very personal, takes a differing perspective and gives us great insights into what was going on in the heady '70s in Santa Cruz. It reminds us that NLP is about creativity, risk taking and of course modelling, although some contributors don't mention it. The numerous layers of messages demand that the book be read two or three times to take away the real benefits. In some cases, writers forget that 'the map is not the territory', as they complain about their colleagues' perspectives. In an egotistical race to be heard, some get stuck at the level of identity and forget that there has been a huge systemic impact from their combined works and they could not have achieved what they did without the contributions of their colleagues. Overall there are hugely valuable lessons for all who read this text critically and reflect on their learnings.DR SALLY VANSON, Course Director for the NLP based MA in Applied Coaching

Enquiring minds seek the origins of origins. The Structure of Magic Volumes 1 & 2 gave us a framework for an improved understanding of communication and for helping people (including ourselves) create changes. For those subjects in the early 1970s fortunate to have been modelled by the 'Originators', it provided insights into their own strategies, known and unknown. Since that early publication some minds have sought deeper understanding by investigating those modelled in more depth, to gain comprehension of their (the Models') own origins of origins. Exploring can be fun! But what of the Modellers themselves? We knew little of the circumstances leading to their co-operation, the strategies employed by them, the thinking, the brilliant intuitiveness, the trial and error and their persistence in hard work. We had an impoverished awareness of the environment within which they operated and the cultural influences within their community. We had only sketchy representations of the spectrum of players in the game and their experiences and contributions to the Meta Model and what eventually became 'NLP'. This book answers some of those questions. It is a remarkable read.

What a book!!!!

Dieser Satz ist einer der Grundannahmen des NLP und beschreibt am besten den Charakter dieses aus elf Kapitel bestehenden Bandes über die Ursprünge dieses Ansatzes zur Erforschung, Analyse und Veränderung menschlichen Verhaltens. Herausgegeben von John Grinder und Frank Pucelik (Frank Who?), stellen prominente Vertreter des NLP ihre individuellen Landkarten von den Ursprüngen des NLP dar..Während ein prominenter Name fehlt, nämlich Richard Bandler, erfährt der/die interessierte Leser/in von der Existenz und Rolle eines dritten Gründers des NLP namens. Frank Pucelik. Insgesamt gibt dieses Buch faszinierende Einblicke in die Entwicklung von NLP aus den unterschedlichen Perspektiven namhefter Entwickler. An dieser Stelle sei auf zwei in deutscher Sprache erschienene Werke verwiesen, welche das Bild gewissermaßen aus der Außensicht abrunden: Abenteuer Kommunikation von Wolfgang Walker sowie Was Sie über NLP wissen sollten! von Bent Hansen. Terrence McClendons The Wild Days. Über die Anfänge des NLP 1972 -1981 gibt es auch in deutscher Übersetzung.

A very interesting book that clears a lot of the mystery surrounding the origins of NLP. Grinder and his co-author Frank Pucelik have shared a lot of insights into the journey called NLP that began at the UCSC in the 1970s and continues to this day. A must read for anyone seeking knowledge on how NLP came about and who were indeed the founding greats of this science that is gaining increasing acceptance with each passing day.