Quotes from John Grinder

Creative geniuses are: 1.  Comfortable with uncertainty 2.  Able to hold seeming opposites or paradoxes 3.  Persistent

Remember: the journey is the destination.

again, deploying that mother of all skill sets in NLP, calibration)

The Encyclopedia of Systemic NLP (2000) and NLP II: The Next Generation (2010).

Bob Dylan sang, "He not busy being born is busy dying.

Grinder's Whispering in the Wind.

books on Strategies of Genius.

The first application was named Mind Master, which was followed by the NeuroLink and a commercial computer game called MindDrive. Today, these applications are available through Somatic Vision.

Applications of NLP

Steps to an Ecology of Mind.7 Bateson

Since the early days, some of the originators of NLP have developed new models including Design Human Engineering, the New NLP, and NLP New Code.

remain, however, a firm believer in the value of the fundamentals. It is difficult to master the really slick stuff without core tools like the Meta Model, accessing cues, calibrations, anchoring, sub-modalities, and an understanding of how and why these are important

next book, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.10 Like Satir and Bateson, Erickson found the work impressive.

Virginia joined John and Richard at the house to model her work with family systems and the three of them collaborated to write the book, Changing with Families.

The only justification for the application of NLP patterns is the creation of choice and precisely in the context in which choice presently does not exist.

After four years of corporate experience I completed the first draft of Making the Message Clear (which I believe was the first book on the application of NLP to business).

We created and published with Bill the Neurolinguistic Communication Profile and Rapport: Matching and Mirroring Communication.

Rapport-Based Selling and No Need for Conflict!

But a second, equally prominent, emphasis of the early days was learning to navigate without fixed maps; that is, to learn at an unconscious level. As I soon discovered in doing trance work, a hypnotic induction is a set of communications that de-frames or dissolves fixed maps, thereby allowing new experiences unhindered by the map bias.

the ability of a religious or business leader to inspire, motivate, generate interest, capture attention, depends critically on metaphor. if you actually listen to what people say, there's almost no content substance to it.

which Frank and I later refined and published as the book, Magic Demystified: A Pragmatic Guide to Communication and Change.4

Sobriety Demystified: Getting Clean and Sober with NLP and CBT, which was published in 1996. In keeping

Wisdom comes from experience, but experience is not enough. Experience anticipated and experience revisited is the true source of wisdom.