Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaCElSKR5iA

03-10-2011 19:52 http://www.startlifecoaching.com.au Having an understanding of history of NLP can be an important factor for anyone looking to become a Life Coach or is an existing Life Coach .The Life Coaching course with the Australian Institute of Life Coaches explains this to students who want to become Life Coaches. In the early 1970's a 20 year old psychology student at the University of California, Santa Cruz (Richard Bandler) met and befriended an associate professor of linguistics there (John Grinder). Bandler had originally majored in mathematics and computer science but had switched when the field of behavioural sciences piqued his interest. Hence why NLP is usually said to have been created by a linguist and a computer programmer. Bandler had become particularly interested in the work of therapists Virgina Satir and Fritz Perls and began to run various workshops and study groups around the subject of gestalt therapy. Soon Bandler and Grinder began to work together to develop a behavioural syntax for gestalt therapy ie what skills and techniques would help a person overcome a problem. Adopting an approach of "if it works, use it - if it doesn't work, try something else" they analysed writings and tape recordings to discover the roots of what allowed Satir and Perls to produce such remarkable results. Ideas, insights, and techniques were tried out on friends (including Sleight of Mouth author Robert Dilts, Judith DeLozier, Leslie Cameron Bandler, and David Gordon) who soon joined them ...

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3.1.3 Life Coaching Course; History of NLP - Video