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Transpersonal Psychology

NLP is about subjective experience

How you see what you see

How you hear what you hear

How you feel what you feel

How you know what you know

How you can use this understanding to

Change your Life and Develop your Potential

NLP as a coherent approach was developed by John Grinder, Richard Bandler and Frank Pucelik in the 1970's and shaped with the collaboration of many others including Steve and Connirae Andreas, Robert Dilts to name a few.

It grew from a detailed study of the processes and approaches of:

MILTON ERICKSON - HYPNOTHERAPIST

(Ericksonan Hypnosis)

VIRGINIA SATIR - FAMILY THERAPIST  

        (Conjoint Family Therapy)

FRIZ PERLS - PSYCHOTHERAPIST  

            (Gestalt Psychotherapy)

Richard Bandler is a co-founder with John Grinder of the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. A student of mathematics, Richard began studying the work of Gestalt therapy founder Fritz Perls when he was asked to edit transcripts of Perls' lectures and workshops for the book Eyewitness To Therapy (1973) for Science and Behavior Books. He also began to work with family therapist Virginia Satir at this time.

Richard met John Grinder, a linguistics professor, as a student at the University of California at Santa Cruz. In 1974 Bandler and Grinder began to make a model of the language patterns used by Perls, Satir and Hypnotherapist Milton H. Erickson, which they published in their books The Structure of Magic Volumes I & II (1975, 1976), Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, Volumes I & II (1975, 1977) and Changing With Families (1976). These books formed the foundation of the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
 

John Grinder is a co-founder with Richard Bandler of the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Having graduated from the University of San Francisco (USF) with a degree in psychology in the early 1960's, Grinder entered the United States military service where he served as a Green Beret in Europe during the Cold War. As a result of his gift for acquiring languages, he also spent time as an operative for a well known US intelligence agency. Upon returning to college in later 1960's, Grinder studied Linguistics, for which he received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego

Milton Erickson

"Unorthodox psychiatrist, congenial family doctor, ingenious strategic psychotherapist and master hypnotherapist, Milton Erickson's influence has revolutionised Western psychotherapy. Thanks largely to Erickson the subject of hypnosis has shed its shackles of superstition and is now widely recognised as one of the most powerful tools for change."

Virginia Satir

Virginia Satir is one of the key figures in the development of family therapy. She believed that a healthy family life involved an open and reciprocal sharing of affection, feelings, and love. Satir made enormous contributions to family therapy in her clinical practice and training. She began treating families in 1951 and established a training program for psychiatric residents at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute in 1955.

Fritz Perls

Perls developed and popularized Gestalt therapy, after his training as a psychoanalyst in Berlin, then Austria. He moved to South Africa, establishing a training institute for psychoanalysis there before developing his unique theoretical approach.

His work emphasized a phenomenological and subjective approach to therapy, noting that many of us split off our experience (thoughts, sensations, emotions) that are uncomfortable. One goal of his work is to move people into owning their experience and developing into a healthy gestalt (or whole).