The Origins of NLP

Reading this book, you will be in the wood around UCSC, during the seventies. The Magic of NLP told by the first positions of many pionieers of NLP. You will read how effective is NLP.

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.

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.

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