The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
by Leni Wildflower, Diane Brennan
JOHN GRINDER AND RICHARD BANDLER: NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a set of tools for communication that was developed during the 1970s by John Grinder and Richard Bandler.
Grinder and Bandler began by analyzing the linguistic strategies of two highly effective therapists, Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir. They observed the way these therapists challenged the utterances of their clients in three specific ways—identifying distortions, generalizations, and deletions—thereby leading the clients to look beneath the surface structure of their utterances and recognize the underlying deep structure. Bandler and Grinder (1975) codified this procedure into what they called a meta model. New models followed, together with ...
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