The History and Heritage of Neuro Linguistic Programming

The writings of Korzybski and Chomsky greatly affected the study of linguistics in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1971 John Grinder, at 31yrs old received PhD in linguistics from the University of California. His research focused on Chomsky’s theories of transformational grammar.

Richard Bandler was a brilliant 21 yr old in 1971, majoring in psychology at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Bandler was especially interested in the Gestalt therapy of Fritz Perls (1893–1970). Perl’s Gestalt therapy focuses on experience, specifically the present moment, and the precision of language.

Bandler had excellent behavioral modeling skills. But he was not very successful in teaching others to do what he did. He asked Grinder to help him figure out what he was doing so he could teach the skills to others. Grinder had acquired brilliant modeling skills from his study of linguistics. Thus the collaboration between the two was a new field of NLP.

They started by identifying language patterns, communication patterns, attitudes and specific ways of thinking characteristic of all three psychotherapists. (Virginia Satir, Milton H. Erickson and Fritz Perls).

As a result of this work, Richard and John extracted a set of beliefs, skills and techniques which they named Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

In 1974 Bandler and Grinder developed the concept of the 4-Tuple, which refers to the ongoing flow (outside of conscious awareness) of multiple sensory representational systems:

V: Visual,

A: Auditory,

K: Kinesthetic,

O/G- Olfactory/Gustatory

Apart from this, they also discovered the patterns of eye-accessing cues.

In 1975, Bandler and Richard wrote patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton Erickson Volume I. Erickson uses the vague and general language to enable the client to work at an unconscious level. Thus the concept of Meta Model came into existence.

In 1976, Grinder and Blander published The Structure of Magic, Volume II.

By the end of 1976, Grinder and Bandler had combined Satir’s and Perl’s language patterns and Erickson’s hypnotic language and..…………

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