An Almost Inventor of NLP
Parts I, II, and III
Published in Anchor Point, 1997
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Just how close did William James come to inventing NLP? When you read his classic work (1892/1961), Psychology: The Briefer Course, he seemed to come very close to many of the formulations that we now recognize as part of [...]
Published in NLP WORLD, 1997
An Almost Inventor of NLP
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Suppose we made a correlation between Adlerian Psychology (theory and methods) with the model and technology of NLP. Suppose further that we explore the psychological jargon of “Individual Psychology” of the 1920s and translate it into the NLP jargon of the 1990s. [...]
The Pattern That Could Change The World!
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
What follows here is a basic NLP pattern that was originally created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. You can find the pattern in its original form in Steve Andreas’ book, Frog to Princes (1979). I first found this pattern in 1986 and [...]
In 2010 I began writing a series of Meta Reflections on the History of NLP — and that is what you will find in the following articles. These appeared on the international egroup of Neuro-Semantics — Neurons (www.neurosemantics.com).
Here are the first ten of the Meta Reflections. More will appear later as they appear on Neurons.
This [...]
META-REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORY OF NLP
In 2010 I began writing a series of Meta Reflections on the History of NLP — and that is what you will find in the following articles. These appeared on the international egroup of Neuro-Semantics — Neurons (www.neurosemantics.com).
Here are the first ten of the Meta Reflections. More will appear later [...]
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections 2010 – #33
July 19, 2010
History of NLP Series #2
If you have been a long-term reader of Neurons, you know that one of my interests for some time has been the History of NLP. My interest is to understand the sources of this field and model and the giants upon whose [...]
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections 2010 – #35
July 26, 2010
History of NLP Series #3
NLP began with the surprising effectiveness of certain linguistic patterns that Richard found in Perls and then Satir. So John got involved when fourth-year student Bandler wanted to teach a class on Gestalt. The surprise that language itself could facilitate pretty incredible [...]
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections 2010 – #36
August 2, 2010
History of NLP Series #4
A few years ago, while thinking about writing a History of NLP, I played around with the title, When the Magicians Went to War. Several I spoke to didn’t like it, and then many did. And undoubtedly there was a little bit [...]
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections 2010 – #38
August 16, 2010
History of NLP Series #5
It all began with the creative collaboration of Bandler and Grinder which apparently occurred in 1973 to 1975. It was in 1974 that they collaborated on the writing of Structure of Magic I and II (published in 1975) and Patterns of the [...]
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections 2010 – #38
August 23, 2010
History of NLP Series #6
The 1980s started out pretty well for the field of NLP, but it did not end that way. In fact, almost as soon as the 1980s began, the field began dividing into various divisions as both founders led the way by going [...]
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections 2010 – #39
August 30, 2010
History of NLP Series #7
From the beginDning NLP has had an identity confusion. After all, what is it? What exactly is this thing that we call Neuro-Linguistic Programming? Now if you ask the people who should know, even NLP trainers, you will actually get all kinds [...]
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections 2010 – #40
September 6, 2010
History of NLP Series #8
Not only has NLP long been confused with therapy, it has also for a long time been confused with the New Age movement and many of the way-out ideas involved in that. I don’t know when “The New Age” movement began. In the [...]
From: L. Michael Hall Meta
Reflections 2010 – #40
September 13, 2010
History of NLP Series #9
In spite of all of the hype and myths about NLP, the models and field of NLP did not appear all of a sudden just from the work of Richard Bandler and John Grinder. In many ways, they were just the final [...]
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections 2010 – #41
Sept. 20, 2010 History of NLP Series #10 **
In the 1990s a blow was delivered to the field of NLP that nearly destroyed the field in the United States. Elsewhere in the world NLP kept growing and thriving, but not in the United States and the effect has [...]
Yes they mis-named it! And what a tragedy that mis-naming has created. Yet as with most things human, they undoubtedly were doing their best and simply didn’t imagine, didn’t think, didn’t project themselves into the future to consider what consequences that name would have.
How could they have known that 35 years later people with just [...]
The Problem
I recently asked a number of NLP trainers in Hong Kong, Egypt, Tokyo, Malaysia, and Australia, “What is the biggest challenge that you face in your NLP practice and business?” And the answer was not only surprisingly similar, but it highlights a common theme that seems to be echoed around the world by so [...]
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Bobby G. Bodenhamer, D.Min.
As you undoubtedly know, The Society of Neuro-Semantics has a strong commitment to offering high quality, professional, and scholarly presentations. Overall, this means that we do not want and will not publish anything that does not give proper credit to others, that takes snide shots at others, that presents something with arrogance or contempt, etc.
Meta-States in NLP Patterns Series
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Early in the study of NLP you learn to recognize and appreciate the value of what’s described as “going meta.” This term “meta” was derived from Bateson and his associate researchers. It essentially refers to stepping back to take a larger perspective and conceptually moving to a place [...]
Bobby G. Bodenhamer, D.Min.
For the past thirteen years I have poured my life into learning Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and applying it in the therapeutic, teaching and writing world.
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
We first introduced the new cutting-edge field of Neuro-Semantics in our book Mind-Lines: Lines that Change Minds (1997). Since then we have also published other works in this field of Neuro-Semantics.
