Paul Tosey - Neuro-Linguistic Programming: A Critical Appreciation for Managers and Developers

We wish to thank the following people for their help in supplying documents and responding to queries:

Mary Catherine Bateson; Tony Clarkson; Judith DeLozier; Christina Hall; Michael Hall; David Lipset; Isabel Losada; Robert Spitzer; the Bateson archive, University of Santa Cruz; University of Santa Cruz Registry.

Thanks

To Richard Bandler and John Grinder without your efforts we would have no subject to write about. To Judith DeLozier, who epitomises for us the heart of NLP, and Christina Hall, whose teaching and understanding of language have been inspirational.

Our grateful thanks to the following people, and to anyone else we have neglected to mention who has helped us on this journey:

Suzanne Henwood, Richard Churches, Karen Moxom, Judith Lowe, Charles Faulkner, John Seymour, Judy Rees, Bruce Grimley, Lisa Wake, Trevor Day, Martin Weaver, Christine Miller, Frank Bourke, Susie Linder-Pelz, John Martin, Monique Esser, Dave Allaway, Ranjit Sidhu, Sue White, Josie Gregory, Eugene Sadler-Smith, John Wilson, Chris Rodgers.

The University of Surrey and the Higher Education Academy have both contributed funding that has helped to support this work.

Publication of William James The Principles of Psychology.

Fritz Perls is born on 8th July in Berlin.

Milton H. Erickson is born on 5th December in Aurum, Nevada.

Gregory Bateson is born on 9th May in Grantchester, England, the son of geneticist William Bateson.

Virginia Satir is born on 26th June on her parents farm in Neville, Wisconsin.

First publication of Alfred Korzybskis Science and Sanity.

John Thomas Grinder is born in Detroit, Michigan.

Gregory Bateson enters the USA as a resident.

Milton Erickson addresses the precursor to the Macy Conferences, which Gregory Bateson attends.

The inaugural Macy Conference (8th & 9th March 1946, New York), entitled Feedback Mechanisms and Circular Causal Systems in Biological and Social Systems. Gregory Bateson is a member of the core group.

Richard Wayne Bandler is born on 24th February in New Jersey, USA.

Publication of Millers The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (Miller 1956).

The Palo Alto Mental Research Institute is founded.

Publication of Miller, Galanter and Pribrams Plans and the Structure of Behaviour (Miller, Galanter & Pribram 1960), source of the TOTE model.

Fritz Perls, co-founder of Gestalt therapy, arrives at Esalen.

The Brief Therapy Centre at Palo Alto is formed.

Robert S. Spitzer meets Richard Bandler (Spitzer 1992:1).

Publication of Pragmatics of Human Communication (Watzlawick, Beavin & Jackson 1967).

Publication of The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda.

Grinder enrols at the University of California, San Diego, as a graduate student in the department of Linguistics.

Grinder begins an academic year as a guest researcher in George Millers lab at Rockefeller University.

Grinder gains his PhD, titled On Deletion Phenomena (Grinder 1971) from the University of California, San Diego.

Grinder takes up position as assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the fall of 1970.

Kresge College (University of Santa Cruz) is founded.

Fritz Perls dies on 14th March.

Bandler attends Satirs month-long workshop in Canada

Publication of Gregory Batesons Steps to an Ecology of Mind.

Bateson is appointed Visiting Professor, University of California at Santa Cruz.

Bandler starts to give workshops in Gestalt Therapy at Kresge College.

Gregory Bateson joins Kresge College (at the end of 1973).

Spitzer publishes Eyewitness to Therapy (Perls 1973).

Gregory Bateson, his wife Lois, and their daughter Nora move into the community near Ben Lomond.

Bateson makes Bandler and Grinder aware of Milton Ericksons work.

Publication of The Structure of Magic (Bandler & Grinder 1975b), and Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume I (Bandler & Grinder 1975a).

According to Robert Dilts, the title Neuro-linguistic Programming first appears in print.

Publication of Structure of Magic II (Grinder & Bandler 1976) and of Changing with Families (Bandler, Grinder & Satir 1976).

Publication of Banduras seminal paper on self-efficacy (Bandura 1977a).

Publication of Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume II (Grinder, DeLozier & Bandler 1977).

Steve and Connirae Andreas are first introduced to NLP (Bandler & Andreas 1985b:2).

Bateson leaves Kresge College.

Not Ltd., run by Richard Bandler, Leslie Cameron-Bandler and associates, offering training and developments workshops (McLendon 1989:113).

Bandler and Grinder go their separate ways (McLendon 1989:117). Bandler buys Grinder out of the Society of NLP.

Grinder and DeLozier form Grinder, DeLozier & Associates.

Frogs into Princes (Bandler & Grinder 1979) is published the first time Bandler and Grinder use the term Neuro-linguistic Programming in a book.

Milton H. Erickson dies on 25th March.

Gregory Bateson dies on 4th July.

Publication of Neuro-Linguistic Programming: volume 1, the study of the structure of subjective experience (Dilts, Grinder, Bandler & DeLozier 1980).

Publication of Trance-formations (Grinder & Bandler 1981).

In October of 1981, John Grinder and Richard Bandler signed an Agreement governing the specific commercial use and rights involved in their joint creation the technology of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. (Hall 2001:16)

Publication of ReFraming (Bandler & Grinder 1982), Bandler and Grinders last joint publication).

Publication of Roots of NLP (Dilts 1983).

NLP training begins in Vienna.

Publication of Using Your Brain (Bandler & Andreas 1985b).

John Seymour Associates is formed in the UK.

Association for NLP (now ANLP) is formed in the UK.

First issue of Rapport magazine is published.

Publication of Turtles All The Way Down (DeLozier & Grinder 1987), which marks the development of New Code NLP.

Virginia Satir dies on 10th September.

Publication of An Insiders Guide to Submodalities (Bandler & MacDonald 1988).

In the UK the first National Register of Psychotherapists is presented to the Government. It contains around 3000 names, of which 52 are NLP Psychotherapists (Lawley 1994:43).

The first issue of NLP World: the intercultural journal on the theory and practice of neuro-linguistic programming, appears in March 1994, created and edited by G. Peter Winnington.

Bandler files a suit against Grinder.