Richard Bandler
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Richard Bandler in 2007
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Richard Wayne Bandler February 24, 1950 Teaneck, New Jersey, United States |
| Occupation | Author, trainer |
| Known for | co-creator of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) |
| Website | www |
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).
Bandler was 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. 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.
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). According to Spitzer, "[Bandler] came out of it talking and acting like Fritz Perls."
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).
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