[Neurons] 2014 "Neurons" Meta Reflections #43

Sun Oct 26 23:32:11 EDT 2014

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2014 #43

October 27, 2014

Neuro-Semantic Vision Series #1

THE VISION OF COLLABORATION

NLP began as a collaboration.  It began with a small group of people and
then expanded to some larger groups.   It began with Frank Pucelik and
Richard Bandler when they began running a Gestalt Class at the University of
Southern California- Santa Cruz.  In recent years Frank has listed all of
the names of that original group.  The only one who stayed in the field from
that first group and who became an early developer was Terry McClendon.
Then John came in and with him, they invented the Meta-Model of Language
which became the first NLP tool.  Then a second group began and it became
the group of people who later became the primary leaders and developers of
NLP- Robert Dilts, Judith DeLozier, Leslie Bandler, David Gordon, and many
others.

When the collaboration of NLP began, those were the days when there was lots
of creativity, an abundance of cutting-edge ideas, and the invention of the
original patterns that created NLP.  But it didn't last.  Frank was
threatened and forced to leave.  Then Richard and John couldn't get along
with each other.  After that began the time of the lawsuits.  Then within
the first years the original group split several more times into little
fiefdoms.

By the time I heard about NLP and began studying it, I just could not figure
out this infighting and I especially couldn't figure out why these people in
particular could not get along with each other.  "If NLP is such a great
communication model, what's with the founders and developers of NLP?  Why
can't they get along?  At least why can't they be respectful of each other?"
That was my thought in 1987when I decided to start studying NLP in earnest.
The previous year I began reading everything that was in print on NLP.  So I
knew it was good stuff and on the cutting-edge regarding communication and
change.  But I still wondered about the incongruency of the leaders. 

After that I took my original training with Richard Bandler in San Diego
California.  That, in turn, led me to write two books for him from
video-tapes of seminars.  He also asked me to worked with him on
re-establishing the Society of NLP, my job was to create a massive volume,
The Directory of the Society of NLP.  That volume still to this day has
never seen the light of day.  Yet working on that volume in 1989 and 1990
put me in touch with all of the early developers of NLP because I was to
call them and ask for articles to be put into the Directory.  Yet during
that time also, Bandler finished his lawsuit against Anthony Robbins which,
as I found out abut the details, explained to me why Robbins would never
again say the three letters (NLP) when he was on Larry King or other shows.
He had not been treated well.

Next came the 90 million lawsuit against "the field of NLP in the USA" (1995
to 2000).  What Bandler was trying to do with that devastating lawsuit, I
can't even imagine.  It certainly was not sane.  In the end (Feb. 2000), he
lost the lawsuit, NLP was put in public domain, and he was fined $600,000.
But the worst effect of the lawsuit which was in the courts from 1995 to
2000 was that it essentially wiped out NLP in the USA.  Now I had been a
faithful trainer in "the Society of NLP" as I always paid the royalties for
every person I certified, I always gave credit by acknowledging sources,
etc.  But Bandler wanted more.  When the new contract came in the mail he
wanted to claim anything which I might create as his own "intellectual
property."  I crossed out that part of the contract.  Who would sign that?
Another paragraph asked that I would accept financial responsibility for all
legal bills he might incur if he decided to sue me.  I would not sign that
paragraph either.  Who would?

I mentioned all of that history as the background for truly understanding
the Neuro-Semantic Vision. That's what was going on in 1996 when Bob
Bodenhamer and I decided to trademark and create Neuro-Semantics.  We
decided to unite and create something new "just in case" the NLP lawsuit
succeeded and we were forbidden to train NLP.  That's why we started
Neuro-Semantics.  We started by creating a website.  Bob did that.  He
created the first website and then he asked me to write our Vision.  So I
wrote it. 

The Vision:         

The Vision is to launch an international community of professional men and
women who both love and know NLP and who live it.  Our Vision is that people
will take NLP models and patterns to a higher level in performance, ethics,
and attitude.  With reflexivity built into the Meta-States Model, our vision
is that people will effectively apply the patterns to ourselves.   They
"walk their talk" to manifest it as their personal congruence and integrity.
This works as our attractor frame.  Our Vision is to work collaboratively
and cooperatively since we can do so much more together than individually.
We envision setting and living by the higher frames of abundance leading to
win/win collegial relationships and mutual accountability.  We envision a
community of men and women, professional in their business dealings,
effective, productive, and high performers.

Suddenly lots of people wanted to be a part of it!  So we made it an
International Association and began talking about the vision of abundance
and collaboration and respect and being ethical.  And that became a
self-organizing attractor for lots of people.  And as with the beginning of
NLP, a new level of creativity began emerging in Neuro-Semantics which led
to many new models and patterns and that creativity is still energizing the
Neuro-Semantic movement.  When we discovered the Self-Actualization History
of NLP, then we expanded our Vision:

The Neuro-Semantic Vision is to make explicit the processes by which we
create rich and inspiring meanings and integrate them into our performance.
Neuro-Semantics, as the performance of the richest meanings, focuses on
applying what we know to ourselves and to close our knowing-doing gap and
unleashing our highest potentials.

Our vision at the beginning was singular-to take NLP to a higher level
ethically and professionally. We believed that if we would apply the
principles and guidelines of NLP to ourselves, then the quality of NLP would
rise and the bad press about manipulation would vanish.  We also wanted to
demonstrate that we could working together, we could cooperation, and we
could even collaboration.  We were not conscious that by doing that we would
re-establish the kind of creativity that launched NLP originally.  But that
happened and is still characteristic of Neuro-Semantics.

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

                Neuro-Semantics Executive Director 

                Neuro-Semantics International

P.O. Box 8

Clifton, CO. 81520 USA                             

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