[Neurons] Promotion: NLP SECRETS

Thu Mar 28 20:59:18 EDT 2019

From: L. Michael Hall

I have here included the Back Page, the Table of Contents, and part of the
Preface of the new book --- NLP Secrets: Untold Stories 

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>From the Back Page of the book 

NLP SECRETS

Untold Stories

Discover the hidden secrets about NLP as exposed in NLP Secrets to get free
from the distorting and deceptive mythologies surrounding NLP.  Secrets will
give you new eyes for seeing where NLP truly came from, its actual sources,
the people who have contributed to its success, and what it is truly about.
As Secrets pulls back the curtains, it exposes the shallow and false
propaganda.  You will be able to hear the amazing Story for what it is.

With an investigative reporting point of view, Secrets boldly goes where no
one has gone before- as it reveals character flaws, unethical practices, and
self-sabotaging activities which have given NLP its negative press.  Secrets
also reveals the communication power of NLP-a power for precision, clarity,
for modeling expertise, and for enhancing the quality of life.  In Secrets
you will discover the shocking truth that NLP was not founded solely by two
men, there was "a third man," and there were communities of experimenters
without whom it would not have developed.  You will discover that NLP was
not a discovery of New Agers or 1970s hippies in southern California-it had
roots in many scholars and disciplines- Bateson, Korzybski, Miller, Chomsky,
etc.

Ready to be surprised and let in on some revealing secrets?  Then get ready
for an emotional ride- surprises, excitement, discouragement, disbelief,
anger, fear, love, etc.  They are all a part of the secrets within the story
and the truths that today forges NLP as a Professional Communication Model.

NSP: Neuro-Semantic Publications

                                                       NLP SECRETS: Untold
Stories

Preface
4

1.  Accidents That Started It All 

              (1971-1972)
11

2.  Mimicking a Master

              (1972-1973)
22

3. Then Came the Experiments

              (1972-1975)
32

4.  The Experimenters' Exemplars

              (1972-1976)
45

5.  Exemplar's Contributions

58

6. On the Shoulders of the Giants

              (1933- 1976)
77

7.  The Delivery was a Success:          NLP's Birthday 

              (1976)
89

8. The Un-Acknowledged Giants

                                                           (1933- 1976)
108

9.  Established Dis-Unified           

              (1975- 1980)
122

10. Murder She Wrote

              (1986- 1987)
138

11.  NLP Goes International         

              (1986- 1996)
147

12. The Fight Over Ownership

              (1995-2000)
158

13. The Period of Expansion

              (The 1990s)
165

14. Expanding by Modeling     

              (1990 - 2018)
176

15. Walking on the Weird-Side
184

16. Forging into the 21st Century
(2000- 2018)              191

17. The Next Big Secret
201

Bibliography
207

Author                                       216

PREFACE

"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it."

Henry Ford

"A family is as sick as its secrets."

Virginia Satir

B

ehind and within every new development-whether in politics, psychology,
physics, etc.-there is a story-stories- and within them are secrets.
Typically these stories are based partly on some facts of history and partly
on wishful thinking.  So it is with the NLP story.  Whatever story you've
heard, it's inevitable that a great deal of that story is made up of
exciting, strange, and untrue fictions.  That was true of most of the
stories I heard when I entered into NLP.  And that's all too common for
received stories, stripped of critical details, and pulled out of historical
contexts.  Why would anyone do that?  Probably as memorable selling points
to boost someone's ego.

I have written this to tell the NLP secrets that I've heard and discovered.
My goal is to tell the all too human story of NLP-a story mostly untold and
unknown.  The stories that have been told have a lot of spin in.  Now given
that the history is what it is, my intention is not to change it or fit it
into a preformed template.  Nor do I want to be an apologist for a person,
group, or idea.  Instead my intention is to report as cleanly as possible so
we can understand and learn from that history.  Nor am I under any illusion
that the stories in this book tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth."   In NLP we know better than that!  Our stories of what
happened are constructs of fallible memories.  Yet I believe that these
stories do tell the basic story, and the many sub-stories, as well as
possible- given the current data available at the time of this writing.

The stories I have put together come from multiple perspectives and often
are fragmented pictures of what really happened.  You will find, as I found,
that there are still many gaps and unexplained events.  I have taken an
investigative reporting approach to tell, as best as I can, the stories that
define NLP.  I have also attempted to document them with facts, dates,
quotes, and statements from the original players.  Some of it is based on my
personal experience with many of the key players.  Some of it is based on my
research into the writings of the field.  And where there's no documentation
or evidence, some is based on guesswork.1

In my early years in NLP, I focused exclusively on learning to develop my
communication skills.  I did not pay that much attention to what was going
on around me in the field.  I would have paid much closer attention if I
thought I would one day write about that history!

Why write about the NLP stories?  Primarily to understand where we came from
and the factors that have influenced and contributed to our current state.
Without learning from history, we are far more likely to mindlessly repeat
it.  Further, by embracing our history, rather than sweeping it under the
carpet, we can prevent ourselves, our field, and our community from becoming
sick.  Hence, Virginia Satir's comment quoted in the opening of this
Preface: "A family is as sick as its secrets."

Now while understanding our stories exposes and frees us from its
mythologies, typically it upsets those who have vested interests in spinning
history in a certain way.  Given the breakups and splits, mythologies arose
early in NLP as each party told stories to validate its claims.

There's another reason to research and write history. In systems,
"sensitivity to initial conditions" plays an incredibly formative role for
later developments.  This is especially true of human systems.  Some of the
divisive fruits which NLP reaped in the 1980s and 90s and into the
twenty-first century, are the results of what happened in the 1970s.

Meteorologist Lorenz (1963) describes this sensitivity in his work on
weather systems.  He found that even the most minute changes in the initial
conditions of a weather system tend to amplify over time.  This is the
famous "butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world influences the
weather in another part." As you will discover, many of the initial
conditions of NLP, are still influencing us today.

What You Will Find in NLP Secrets?

You will discover that NLP was created by and in a community.  Two men took
exclusive credit for it and that disguised the secret ... until now.  You
will discover that NLP has evolved over the decades to become so much more
today than what it was at the beginning.  It began as a rebellious
iconoclastic model and over the years became a well-researched communication
model.  It began as a California-style new-age free-wheeling adventure with
Gestalt and grew to become a worldwide movement highlighting a professional
communication model.

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