Richard Bandler

Richard Bandler

Richard Bandler in 2007
Born Richard Wayne Bandler
(1950-02-24) February 24, 1950
Teaneck, New Jersey, United States
Occupation Author, trainer
Known for co-creator of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
Website www.richardbandler.com

Richard Wayne Bandler (born February 24, 1950) is an American author and trainer in the field of self-help. He is best known as the co-creator (with John Grinder) of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), a methodology to understand and change human behavior-patterns. He also developed other systems named Design Human Engineering (DHE) and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR).

Education and background

Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he spent the first five years of his life, before moving to California and various other places where his parents shifted. After his parents separated, he moved with his mother, and stayed mostly in and around San Francisco.[1] Bandler obtained a BA degree in philosophy and psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1973, and an MA degree in psychology from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco in 1975.[2]

Co-founding of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)

Bandler helped Robert Spitzer edit The Gestalt Approach (1973) based on a manuscript by gestalt therapist Fritz Perls (who had died in 1970). He also assisted with checking transcripts for Eye Witness to Therapy (1973).[3] According to Spitzer, "[Bandler] came out of it talking and acting like Fritz Perls."[4]

While a student at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Bandler also led a Gestalt therapy group. John Grinder, a professor at the University, said to Bandler that he could explain almost all of the questions and comments Bandler made using transformational grammar, Grinder's specialty in linguistics. Together, they created what they called a therapist training group. The focus of this 3 hour per week group was the use of language as an agent of change and later on understanding and utilizing "representational systems". Their teaching and coaching of students resulted in the development of a model for therapy and called it the Meta-Model. This was the basis for their first book, The Structure of Magic (1975).

Bandler rented accommodation to Gregory Bateson. Bateson 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, introducing him and Grinder to Milton Erickson; together, the three of them formed some of the foundational models for Neuro-linguistic programming.[5] In 1975 Bandler formed his own company, Meta Publications, and released 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), the latter of which was co-authored with Virginia Satir herself.

Bandler made a study of Moshe Feldenkrais, an Israeli physicist, martial artist and founder of the Feldenkrais school of body work, and published Feldenkrais's book, The Elusive Obvious. Bandler's classes have included components of bodywork that he studied from Feldenkrais.

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 improvement and businesses using these concepts and techniques to improve sales.

Murder trial and acquittal

On November 3, 1986 Corine Christensen, a former girlfriend of Bandler's friend, James Marino,[6] was shot dead in her townhouse with a .357 magnum owned by Bandler. Bandler was charged with her murder. Bandler testified that he had been at Christensen's house and was unable to stop James Marino from shooting her in the face. After five-and-a-half hours of deliberation a jury found Bandler not guilty.[7]

Other works

Since the early 1980s when Grinder and Bandler stopped working together, Bandler has written 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). As of 2015 Richard Bandler continues to deliver seminars in NLP, NHR and DHE.[8]

Books

Audio publications

Audio programs

Seminars

Video publications

Some videos have no mention of date on them.

Videos with Richard Bandler in them.

References

  1. ↑ "Richard Bandler. Where were you born?" Video on YouTube
  2. ↑ Clancy, Frank; Yorkshire, Heidi (1989). "THE BANDLER METHOD". AMERICAN BUDDHA ONLINE LIBRARY. Mother Jones Magazine. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
  3. ↑ The Gestalt Approach and Eye Witness to Therapy (1973) ISBN 0-8314-0034-X
  4. ↑ Spitzer, R. (1992) Virginia Satir and the Origins of NLP, Anchor Point, 6(7)
  5. ↑ John Grinder & Carmen Bostic St. Clair, (2001) Whispering in the Wind. C&J Enterprises.
  6. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/1988-01-29/news/mn-26470_1_psychotherapist-richard-bandler
  7. ↑ [Psychotherapist Not Guilty In Prostitute's Murder, Jury Finds]. Los Angeles Times. January 29, 1988.
  8. ↑ See NLP Life Training
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