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NLP Today
Today NLP technology is found in all aspects of human endeavour including Business and Management, Marketing and Advertising, Performance Arts and Sports, Consulting, Coaching and Counselling, Health Sciences and Education. It is an acknowledged and widely practice discipline in behavioural science, psychology and performance development.

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In the early 1970 a student of mathematics (Richard Bandler) and a linguistics professor (Dr John Grinder) at the University of California at Santa Cruz joined forces to model the high-level therapy skills of Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir. After enjoying immediate and powerful results from this initial modelling, they then set out to model the hypnotic skills of Milton Erickson.

Within 2 years they produced the first books on NLP titled: The Structure of Magic (volume 1 and 2) and The Patterns of the Hypnotic Language of Erickson (volume 1 and 2). Soon afterwards Robert Dilts (junior) was commissioned to write the first scholarly book of NLP which he entitled: Neuro-Linguistic Programming (volume 1). This book set forth NLP as a model and detailed the key features of the model.

Their early colleagues, Frank Pucelik, Leslie Cameron Bandler, Judith de Lozier, Steve Gilligan, David Gordon, Steve and Connierae Andreas, Christina Hall and others also contributed much original research, developing new ways of thinking about human behaviour and new patterns of interventions and contributing many of the classic NLP text books. This work in understanding the patterns of the mind continues with the work of such people as Tony Robbins, Tad James, Wyatt Woodsmall and Marvin Oka and Jonathon Altfeld.

NLP has grown out of and has been influenced by General Semantics (Korzybski), Anthropology and Cybernetics (Bateson), Transformational Grammar (Noam Chomsky), Reframing (Watzalawick), Family Systems (Virginia Satir), Gestalt Therapy (Perls) and Medical Hypnosis (Milton Erickson).

There are over 1,000 educational books on subject matters ranging from specialist NLP matters, psychology, sales, negotiation, management, parenting and accelerated learning. Dr John Grinder’s and Richard Bandler’s work is also the subject matter of well over ,000 NLP public seminars per year. Around the globe more than 20,000 people per year are learning applications of NLP. This momentum and popular acceptance into a vast number of disciplines constitutes a body of knowledge which is constantly being enhanced, expanded and developed.
It is a body of works which elicits within its students not only effective ways to build self-esteem, but also an attitude which allows them to experience a wild and wonderful passion for exploration, experimentation and innovation.