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 [...]
