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Richard Wayne Bandler (born February 24, 1950) is an American author on personal development. He is best known as the co-inventor (with John Grinder) of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). He also developed follow-up systems known as Design Human Engineering (DHE) and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR). In 1988, a jury acquitted Bandler of the murder of Corine Christensen. February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Personal development (also known as self-development, self-improvement or personal growth) comprises the development of the self. ... John Grinder, Ph. ... // Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a set of techniques, axioms and beliefs that adherents use primarily as an approach to personal development. ... Design Human Engineering is a discipline created by Richard Bandler as an extension to Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). ... Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning is a new development of NLP co-founder Richard Bandler which uses hypnosis for advanced behavioral change. ...

Education and Background

Bandler holds a BA (1973) in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)[1] and an MA (1975) in Psychology from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco. This article is 58 kilobytes or more in size. ... Psychology is an academic or applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes such as perception, cognition, emotion, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships. ... Psychology is an academic or applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes such as perception, cognition, emotion, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships. ...

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)

// Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a set of techniques, axioms and beliefs that adherents use primarily as an approach to personal development. ... Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) was developed jointly by Richard Bandler and John Grinder under the tutelage of Gregory Bateson (a renowned anthropologist, social scientist, linguist and cyberneticist), at the University of California, during the 1960s and 1970s. ...

Co-Founding of NLP

Richard Bandler was invited by Bob Spitzer, owner of Science and Behavior Books to attend trainings by Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir, and was later hired by Spitzer to help edit one of Perls' books--The Gestalt Approach. Richard Bandler invented the term 'Neuro Lingusitic Programming'. Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls (July 8 1893, Berlin - March 14, 1970, Chicago), better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist of Jewish descent. ... Virginia Satir (26 June 1916 - 10 September 1988) was a noted psychotherapist, known especially for her approach to family therapy. ...

While Bandler was a student at University of California, Santa Cruz he also led a Gestalt therapy group. John Grinder came to observe said to Bandler that he could explain almost all of the questions and comments Bandler made using transformational grammar, the topic in linguistics that Grinder specialized in. They developed a model for therapy and called it the meta-model. It became their first book, The Structure of Magic, Volume I (1975). Bandler was Gregory Bateson's landlord, who 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, he introduced Bandler and Grinder to Milton Erickson, which formed some of the foundational models for Neuro-linguistic programming.^[1] In 1975 Bandler then formed his own publishing company, Meta Publications, and published Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume I (1975). The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UCSC or UC Santa Cruz, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California. ... Gestalt Therapy is a psychotherapy which focuses on here-and-now experience and personal responsibility. ... Kresge College sign Kresge College is one of the residential colleges that make up the University of California, Santa Cruz. ... Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California, United States. ... Milton Hyland Erickson, MD (1901 - 1980) was a psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis. ... // Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a set of techniques, axioms and beliefs that adherents use primarily as an approach to personal development. ...

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), which was co-authored with Virginia Satir herself.

Bandler also modeled Israeli physicist and founder of the Feldenkrais school of body work, Moshe Feldenkrais, and later published his book "The Elusive Obvious". In many of his classes, he has taught elements of this form of bodywork which he modeled.^{[citation needed]} Dr. Moshé Pinhas Feldenkrais (May 6, 1904 - July 1, 1984) was the founder of the Feldenkrais Method® of movement education designed to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness in movement. ...

Contributions

Richard Bandler is the most prolific contributer to the field of NLP. Among models and techniques that Bandler has developed (or co-developed) include The Meta Model, The Milton Model, Anchoring, The Swish Pattern, Reframing, The Belief Change, Nesting loops, Chaining states, Submodality applications and Timelines.

Bandler continues to produce new NLP techniques and teaches more people NLP every year than anyone else in the world. Richard Bandler together with Todd Epstein developed much of the NLP theory and practice associated with submodalities[2], i.e. "the particular perceptual qualities that may be registered by each of the five primary sensory modalities"[3].

Corine Christensen Case

On January 29, 1988, Bandler was acquitted by a jury, after only 5 1/2 hours of deliberation, of the murder of prostitute Corine Christensen^[2], an NLP student and fellow cocaine abuser.^[3] Someone shot her shot in the face on November 3, 1986, using one of Bandler's guns.^[4] The incident occurred during a visit at her home from Bandler and his friend, James Marino.^[5] Authorities found Christensen slumped over her dining table and her blood sprayed on Bandler's shirt.^[6] Marino was not charged in the murder.^[7]

After he and Grinder split, Bandler had trouble attracting clients and he began to use cocaine.^[8] Christensen, the daughter of a San Francisco policeman, and her boyfriend, James Marino, a convicted felon who was his best friend, were his suppliers.^[9]^[10] Marino claimed that he told Bandler that Christensen was having a lesbian affair with the writer’s live-in girlfriend.^[11]

When the two men visited Christensen at her townhouse near Santa Cruz, Bandler drank tequila and argued with her, according to the story.^[12] Marino claimed Bandler shot her after cutting off the top of a Mr. Clean bottle to silence his .357 Magnum. ^[13] Marino also claimed that Bandler spilled liquid soap on himself and the gun, then told him to toss the weapon off the Capitola pier. ^[14]

Divers found both the gun and Bandler's clothing, which were covered with blood and lemon-smelling soap. ^[15] Authorities also found a bloody straw and cocaine residue.^[16] When Bandler was tried, lawyers presented conflicting interpretations of physical evidence. ^[17] Marino vanished, missed a court appearance and showed up only after authorities issued a warrant for his arrest. ^[18]

Bandler testified that Marino thought Christensen was plotting to have him beaten and killed. ^[19] He said that Marino actually shot her to death with Bandler's gun, while both were at her home. ^[20] Before the trial, friends said shooting a prostitute was out of character, even though Bandler had reputation for moodiness and unpredictability. ^[21]

Litigation

In 1980 Bandler's company Not Ltd had reported earnings of more than US$800,000 and he and his then wife -- Leslie Cameron-Bandler -- were living an opulent lifestyle. By the end of 1980 Bandler's collaboration with Grinder -- where they lectured, trained and co-authored -- abruptly ended and his wife filed for divorce (after two years of marriage).

In July of 1996 Bandler filed suit against John Grinder and again in January 1997 against Grinder and numerous members of the NLP community including, Carmen Bostic-St. Clair, Steve and Connirae Andreas. Bandler claimed trademark infringement, intellectual property ownership of NLP, conspiratorial tortious interference and breach of settlement agreement and permanent injunction by Grinder.[4] [5] [6] John Grinder, Ph. ... Steve and Connirae Andreas are developers, teachers, and writers in the field of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). ...

By the end of 2000 some sort of rapprochement between Bandler and Grinder was achieved when the parties entered a release wherein they inter alia agreed that "they are the co-creators and co-founders of the technology of Neuro-linguistic Programming. Drs. Grinder and Bandler recognize the efforts and contributions of each other in the creation and initial development of NLP." In the same document, "Dr. John Grinder and Dr. Richard Bandler mutually agree to refrain from disparaging each other's efforts, in any fashion, concerning their respective involvement in the field of NeuroLinguistic Programming." ("Release" reproduced as Appendix A of Whispering in the Wind by Grinder and Bostic St Clair (2001)).

Design Human Engineering

Bandler has stated that he considers Design Human Engineering (tm) to be significantly different from traditional NLP and he has created many new techniques in recent years. Bandler claims that many of the newer techniques are more direct and more effective.

Bandler independently developed Neuro-Sonics, Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning, Persuasion Engineering and Design Human Engineering and authored Magic in Action, Using Your Brain for a Change, Time for a Change and Persuasion Engineering (written with John LaValle). Design Human Engineering is a discipline created by Richard Bandler as an extension to Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). ...

Bandler currently teaches DHE and NHR with The President of The Society of NLP John La Valle and NLP with NLP Master Trainers Paul McKenna and Michael Neill.^{{citation needed}} This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Books

References

^ John Grinder & Carmen Bostic St. Clair, (2001) Whispering in the Wind. C&J Enterprises.
^ Psychotherapist Not Guilty In Prostitute's Murder, Jury Finds Los Angeles Times January 29, 1988
^ Are you a difficult person? CareerTrack Inc.'s business seminars The Atlantic October, 1989
^ Titillating Trial Involves Lots Of Dirt -- And Mr. Clean;Guru Focus Of Lurid Murder Case Los Angeles Times January 12, 1988
^ Are you a difficult person? CareerTrack Inc.'s business seminars The Atlantic October, 1989
^ DON'T WORRY, GET THERAPY, The Guardian (London), May 20, 2006.
^ Psychotherapist Not Guilty In Prostitute's Murder, Jury Finds Los Angeles Times January 29, 1988
^ Titillating Trial Involves Lots Of Dirt -- And Mr. Clean;Guru Focus Of Lurid Murder Case Los Angeles Times January 12, 1988
^ ibid
^ Psychotherapist Not Guilty In Prostitute's Murder, Jury Finds Los Angeles Times January 29, 1988
^ Bizarre Case Shows Flaky Underside Of Santa Cruz Los Angeles Times January 28, 1988
^ ibid
^ Titillating Trial Involves Lots Of Dirt -- And Mr. Clean;Guru Focus Of Lurid Murder Case Los Angeles Times January 12, 1988
^ ibid
^ ibid
^ Bizarre Case Shows Flaky Underside Of Santa Cruz Los Angeles Times January 28, 1988
^ ibid
^ Psychotherapist Not Guilty In Prostitute's Murder, Jury Finds Los Angeles Times January 29, 1988
^ ibid
^ ibid
^ The State Los Angeles Times November 18, 1986

Contents

Education and Background

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)

Co-Founding of NLP

Contributions

Corine Christensen Case

Litigation

Design Human Engineering

Books

References

See also

External links

Contents

Education and Background var ACE_AR = {Site: '756743', Size: '300250'};

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)

Co-Founding of NLP

Contributions

Corine Christensen Case

Litigation

Design Human Engineering

Books

References

See also

External links

Education and Background