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Richard BandlerRichard Bandler (born February 24, 1950) is the co-inventor (with John Grinder) of Neuro-linguistic programming. In the early 1970s Bandler was student at U.C. Santa Cruz, and discovered that he could achieve the same results as gestalt therapists by mimicking what they did. He began working with John Grinder who was a linguistics professor at the school, to analyse the linguistic reasons for his ability. Together, they became aware of patterns in language used by therapists. They observed and then produced models of language based on Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, and later Milton Erickson. Their findings were put into the book, The Structure of Magic Volume 1. Less widely known, but equally influential in Bandler's approach, are his modelling of Frank Farrelly, author of 'Provocative Therapy', and bodyworker Moshe Feldenkrais. Bandler and Grinder began giving lectures together. They believed that by producing models based on effective therapists and breaking them down into parts they would be able to teach these techniques to other psychologists. They produced several more academic style books and several books for the masses based on transcripts of their lectures. Those books sold very well, but due to legal problems between Bandler and Grinder many later went out of print. In the 1980s Bandler, Grinder and their group of associates encountered difficulty and stopped working together. Many members of their group went out on their own and took NLP in their own directions. Bandler attempted to use the legal system to prevent others from using the term Neuro-Linguistic Programming but failed. Since then many new questionable NLP schools and companies have opened up and greatly altered the field. In the late 1980s Bandler was put on trial for the murder of a friend's girlfriend and was acquitted. A well known article about the trial is the "The Bandler Method" from the Mother Jones magazine http://www.american-buddha.com/bandler.method.htm. This article also details Bandler's eccentric personality and his controversial lifestyle. Bandler has continued to lecture and write books on NLP. His lectures are often filled with humorous stories and harsh language. He very often tells stories about his past that seem to be contradictory and very exaggerated. Many practitioners of NLP claim he does this because he is only concerned with results. It is also believed that Bandler is using an NLP technique known as anchoring to take advantage of the reactions of the audience and use it as an aid to teaching. Certainly, he is remarkably effective at working with a wide range of problems, as demonstrated in the DVD set The Bandler Method. Many new techniques and systems have been developed by Bandler in recent years. In his recent books and lectures he doesn't teach many of the original NLP techniques. He believes that many of the newer techniques are more direct and more effective. He has come up with trademarked names for several of his newer approaches such as Design Human Engineering or DHE. Bibliography - The Structure of Magic, 1975, with John Grinder
- Frogs into Princes, 1979, with John Grinder (ISBN 0911226192)
- TRANCE-formations, 1981, with John Grinder (ISBN 0911226230)
- Reframing, 1982, with John Grinder (ISBN 0911226257)
- Using Your Brain for a Change, 1985 (ISBN 0911226273)
- Magic In Action, 1992
- Time for a Change, 1993
- Persuasion Engineering - 1996
See also External links Bandler, Richard
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