Richard Bandler (edit name/settings)

This article is about the co-inventor of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). Note that there is another Richard Bandler who is an editor of the conference proceedings of several technical conferences on neuro-physiology.
Richard Wayne Bandler (born February 24, 1950) is an American author on modern psychological techniques. He is best known as the co-inventor (with John Grinder) of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), a collection of concepts and techniques intended to understand and change human behavior patterns. He also developed other systems known as Design Human Engineering (DHE) and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR).


Education and background
Bandler holds a BA (1973) in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)<1> and an MA (1975) in Psychology from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco.<1>


Neuro-linguistic programming
NLP

TOPICS
History
NLP and science
Methods
Positive/Negative

METHODS
Meta model
Milton model
Anchoring
Metaphor
Reframing
Rep. systems
Submodalities
Perceptual positions
Meta-programs


USES
Therapy


DEVELOPERS
Richard Bandler
John Grinder
Robert Dilts
Judith DeLozier
Stephen Gilligan


INFLUENCES
Fritz Perls
Milton H. Erickson
Virginia Satir
Syntax
Gregory Bateson
Alfred Korzybski
Noam Chomsky


LISTS
Topics
Bibliography
Studies

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Main articles: Neuro-linguistic programming and History of NLP
Neuro-linguistic programming is also called NLP.


Co-founding of NLP
Mr Bandler is considered an important figure in the development of the modern self-improvement movement. Apparently he once was invited by the psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, to attend, record and transcribe a teaching seminar of family therapist Virginia Satir. He was later hired to assist Spitzer edit one of gestalt therapist Fritz Perls' (who had recently died) books, The Gestalt Approach (1973) and to assist with checking transcripts for Eye Witness to Therapy (1973).<2> According to Spitzer, "<Bandler> came out of it talking and acting like Fritz Perls."<1>

While Bandler was a student at University of California, Santa Cruz he also led a Gestalt therapy group. John Grinder, who became one of his students, said to Bandler that he could explain almost all of the questions and comments Bandler made using transformational grammar, the topic in linguistics that Grinder specialized in. They developed a model for therapy and called it the meta-model. It became their first book, The Structure of Magic, Volume I (1975). Bandler was Gregory Bateson's landlord, who taught at UCSC, Kresge College as did Grinder, and had moved to a community on Alba Road near the Santa Cruz mountains community of Ben Lomond. Bateson would have a profound influence on Bandler's future, he introduced Bandler and Grinder to Milton Erickson, which formed some of the foundational models for Neuro-linguistic programming.<3> In 1975 Bandler then formed his own publishing company, Meta Publications, and published Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume I (1975).

Bandler and Grinder went on to author The Structure of Magic Volume II (1976), Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume II (1977) and Changing With Families (1976), which was co-authored with Virginia Satir herself.

Richard Bandler is the most significant creator of the models and techniques that are now taught in NLP. For example, meta model, Milton model, anchoring, swish pattern, reframing, belief change, nesting loops, chaining states, and submodalities applications.<citation needed>

Bandler also modeled Israeli physicist and founder of the Feldenkrais school of body work, Moshe Feldenkrais, and later published his book "The Elusive Obvious". In many of his classes, he has taught elements of this form of bodywork which he modeled.<citation needed>

Since that time, Bandler's career has focused on developing and presenting NLP and related concepts as an author, publisher, public speaker, and consultant. Audiences include individuals seeking life improvements, and businesses using these concepts and techniques to improve sales.


Corine Christensen case
On November 3, 1986, Corine Christensen, a student of Bandler's, was shot dead in her townhouse. Bandler was charged with her murder, but at trial the jury unanimously acquitted Bandler 5 1/2 hours.<4> The murder is unsolved.


Litigation
In July 1996 Dr Bandler filed suit against Grinder and again in January 1997 against Grinder and numerous members of the NLP community including Carmen Bostic-St. Clair and Steve and Connirae Andreas. Bandler claimed trademark infringement, intellectual property ownership of NLP, conspiratorial tortious interference and breach of settlement agreement and permanent injunction by Grinder.<5><6><7>

By the end of 2000 some sort of rapprochement between Bandler and Grinder was achieved when the parties entered a release wherein they inter alia agreed that "they are the co-creators and co-founders of the technology of Neuro-linguistic Programming. Drs. Grinder and Bandler recognize the efforts and contributions of each other in the creation and initial development of NLP." In the same document, "Dr. John Grinder and Dr. Richard Bandler mutually agree to refrain from disparaging each other's efforts, in any fashion, concerning their respective involvement in the field of NeuroLinguistic Programming." ("Release" reproduced as Appendix A of Whispering in the Wind by Grinder and Bostic St Clair (2001)).


Other works
Since the early 1980s when Grinder and Bandler stopped working together, Bandler developed several trademarked techniques he calls the fields of Design Human Engineering(tm), and Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning(tm). Bandler says that these technologies differ significantly from NLP in that they are claimed to be more direct and effective as interventions.<citation needed> Other works since that time include Using Your Brain for a Change (1985), Magic in Action (1992) Time for a Change (1995), Persuasion Engineering (1996) (co-author John LaValle) The Adventures of Anybody (1993), and Conversations (2005) (co-author Owen Fitzpatrick). Richard Bandler continues to deliver seminars in NLP, NHR and DHE throughout the world.<8>


Books
Bandler, Richard & John Grinder (1975a). The Structure of Magic I: A Book About Language and Therapy. Palo Alto, CA: Science & Behavior Books.. ISBN 0831400447.
Bandler, Richard & John Grinder (1975b). The Structure of Magic II: A Book About Communication and Change. Palo Alto, CA: Science & Behavior Books.. ISBN 0-8314-0049-8.
Grinder, John, Richard Bandler (1976). Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume I. Cupertino, CA :Meta Publications..
John Grinder, Richard Bandler, Judith Delozier (1977). Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume II. Cupertino, CA :Meta Publications..
John Grinder, Richard Bandler (1979). Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming. Moab, UT: Real People Press.. pp. 194pp. ISBN 0-911226-19-2.
Grinder, John; Richard Bandler; Connirae Andreas (Ed.) (1981). Trance-Formations: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Structure of Hypnosis. Moab, UT: Real People Press.. ISBN 0-911226-23-0.
Grinder, John and Richard Bandler (1983). Reframing: Neurolinguistic programming and the transformation of meaning. Moab, UT: Real People Press.. pp. -. ISBN 0-911226-25-7.
Using Your Brain for a Change, 1985 (ISBN 0-911226-27-3)
Magic In Action, 1992 (ISBN 0-916990-14-1)
Time for a Change, 1993 (ISBN 0-916990-28-1)
Richard Bandler (1993). The Adventures of Anybody. Meta Publications. pp. 96pp. ISBN 091699029X.
Persuasion Engineering - 1996 (ISBN 0-916990-36-2)
Richard Bandler, Owen Fitzpatrick (2005). <- Conversations: Freedom Is Everything and Love Is All the Rest>. Mysterious Publications. pp. -288pp. ISBN 0-955135-30-3. -.
Richard Bandler (21 August 2008). <- Get The Life You Want: The Secrets to Quick and Lasting Life Change with Neuro-Linguistic Programming>. HCI. pp. -229. ISBN 9780757307768. -.
Richard Bandler (2008). <- Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation: How to harness the power of hypnosis to ignite effortless and lasting change>. HCI. pp. -331. ISBN 9780757307775. -.

Audio publications
Audio programs

2001 - Self Esteem - Rhythm Trance, This CD has a hypnotic trance and music.
2001 - Time Out of Your Mind (Time Distortion), This is excerpted from Design Human Engineering held in Orlando in 2001.
2001 - Adventures in Multiple Timelines,
2003 - Propulsion Systems, Learn how to install strategies so that the more one tries to go back, the more one moves forward.
Seminars

2000 - DHE2000, Design human engineering workshop with Barb Stepp at Excellence Quest in Chicago.
2000's - "Your Own Personal Genius" - a UK seminar
2008/9 Licensed Practitioner,Master practitioner of NLP and Personal Enhancment Workshop. London NLP Life Training

Video publications
Some videos have no mention of date on them.

Videos with Richard Bandler in them.

1982
The Marshall University Tapes, Filmed circa 1982, Richard has spoken about these 3 sessions in many of his seminars. 1. Anticipatory Loss 2. Authority Figures 3. Phobic Response
1987
Personal Outcomes, filmed at NLP Comprehensive.
1989
Client Sessions, Shyness,
Creating Therapeutic Change, taped in Boulder, Colorado - 7 videos: Layering Responses, Propulsion systems, Attitudes, Perceptual Grids, Nonverbal Amplifications, Playing with Problems, & Weaving Complexes;
80's
Patterns of Intimacy, Flirtation, class on how to flirt.
Bandler in Montreal, workshop in Montreal.
90's
An Evening with Richard Bandler - State of the Art, taped in England.
Bandler down under, doing a workshop in Australia.
2000
Konstanz 2000, workshop in Konstanz, Germany, Richard shares his latest developments and refinements, stories and inductions, an introduction to NLP-DHE-NHR.
2001
Welcome to Reality, workshop in Ascona, Switzerland, What strategies does Richard Bandler use to be able to talk for hours? . . . with no notes . . . and with people carefully listening?
2003
Ascona, Bandler strategies, seminar in Ascona, Switzerland.
The Art and Science of Nested Loops, seminar in Orlando, Florida.
Trancing in and out, takes the class through different trances & demonstrations, seminar in Zurich, Switzerland
How to Live a Happy Life, 30 Years of NLP,
2005
It's About Time (Time Distortion), Richard Bandler from a 'Charisma Enhancement' seminar in Orlando Florida
The Bandler Effect, Bandler wearing a suit. 5 DVDs - Confidence, Creativity, Motivation, Health, & Changing Habbits;
The Class of a Master, 4 DVDs - Instant Talent, Inner Beauty, Rapid Hypnotic Inductions, & Fantastic Futures;
2000's
Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning, Introduction to NHR with a very nice demonstration of the "handshake interrupt" hypnosis induction on four different participants.
Persuasion Engineering, With John Lavalle.

See also
List of NLP topics

References
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Spitzer, R. (1992) Virginia Satir and the Origins of NLP, Anchor Point, 6(7)
↑ The Gestalt Approach and Eye Witness to Therapy (1973) ISBN 0-8314-0034-X
↑ John Grinder & Carmen Bostic St. Clair, (2001) Whispering in the Wind. C&J Enterprises.
↑ Psychotherapist Not Guilty In Prostitute's Murder, Jury Finds Los Angeles Times January 29, 1988
↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20021108024906/http://www.nlp.org/NLP/random/lawsuit-text.htm
↑ http://web.archive.org/web/19990224225605/http://www.nlp.com.au/action/state.htm
↑ http://www.nlpschedule.com/random/lawsuit-nlpc.html
↑ See NLP Life Training

External links

Biographical and personal links
Website from Richard Bandler
Guardian feature by Jon Ronson

NLP
German Discussion-Board about Richard Bandler

DHE and NHR
John LaValle's description of Design Human Engineering?

Video clips
What is NLP Interview with Richard Bandler in London