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| Richard Bandler John Grinder |
NLP was invented by Ricard Bandler who was a student at University of California at that time (1973) and John Grinder, a linguist who was one of his lecturers.
Richard Bandler helped Robert Spitzer edit The Gestalt Approach (1973) based on a manuscript by gestalt therapist Fritz Perls. While he was listening to and selecting portions of the taped therapy sessions, it came to him that there were particular word and sentence structures which facilitated the acceptance of Perls' therapeutic suggestions. Bandler took the idea to John Grinder.
Bandler and Grinder then found out that the particular structures of language will work on the problem of people if the pattern repeated correctly by any person. And the result showed the same as the therapist made it.
After they studied Perls's utterances on tape together,they observed a second therapist Virginia Satir to produce what they termed the meta model. Meta model is a model for gathering information and challenging a client's language and underlying thinking.
Bandler and Grinder also took ideas from Gregory Bateson and Alfred Korzybski, especially about human modeling.
The next model bandler and Grinder explored was from Milton Erickson who was an early expert of Hypnosis/Hypnotherapy.
The main other models and techniques of NLP are anchoring, reframing, submodalities, perceptual positions, representational system came after the meta model and Milton model.
NLP gained its popularity after the book "Frogs into Princess" published which sold more than 270 thousand copies.
