Richard Bandler

Richard Bandler
250px Richard Bandler in 2007
Born	Richard Wayne Bandler (1950-02-24) February 24, 1950 Teaneck, New Jersey, United States
Occupation	Author, trainer
Known for	co-creator of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
Website	www.richardbandler.com

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).

Education and background

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.

Co-founding of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)

Main article: Neuro-linguistic programming

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. They developed a model for therapy and called it the Meta-Model. This was the basis for their first book, The Structure of Magic (1975).

Bandler rented accommodation to Gregory Bateson. Bateson 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, introducing him and Grinder to Milton Erickson; together, the three of them formed some of the foundational models for Neuro-linguistic programming. In 1975 Bandler formed his own company, Meta Publications, and released Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume I (1975).

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

Bandler made a study of Moshe Feldenkrais, an Israeli physicist, martial artist and founder of the Feldenkrais school of body work, and published Feldenkrais's book, The Elusive Obvious. Bandler's classes have included components of bodywork that he studied from Feldenkrais.

Since that time, Bandler's career has focused on developing and presenting NLP and related concepts as an author, publisher, public speaker and consultant. Audiences include individuals seeking life improvement and businesses using these concepts and techniques to improve sales.

Murder trial and acquittal

On November 3, 1986 Corine Christensen, a former girlfriend of Bandler's friend, James Marino, was shot dead in her townhouse with a .357 magnum owned by Bandler. Bandler was charged with her murder. Bandler testified that he had been at Christensen's house and was unable to stop James Marino from shooting her in the face. After five-and-a-half hours of deliberation a jury found Bandler not guilty.

Other works

Since the early 1980s when Grinder and Bandler stopped working together, Bandler has developed several trademarked techniques which he calls Design Human Engineering, and Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning. Bandler says that these technologies differ significantly from NLP, in that they are more direct and effective as interventions. Other works since that time include Using Your Brain for a Change (1985), Magic in Action (1992) Time for a Change (1995), Persuasion Engineering (1996) (co-author John LaValle) The Adventures of Anybody (1993), and Conversations (2005) (co-author Owen Fitzpatrick). As of 2015 Richard Bandler continues to deliver seminars in NLP, NHR and DHE.

Books

• Using Your Brain for a Change, 1985 (ISBN 0-911226-27-3)
• Magic in Action, 1992 (ISBN 0-916990-14-1)
• Time for a Change, 1993 (ISBN 0-916990-28-1)

Audio publications

Audio programs

• 2001 – Self Esteem – Rhythm Trance, This CD has a hypnotic trance and music.
• 2001 – Time Out of Your Mind (Time Distortion), This is excerpted from Design Human Engineering held in Orlando in 2001.
• 2001 – Adventures in Multiple Timelines,
• 2003 – Propulsion Systems, Learn how to install strategies so that the more one tries to go back, the more one moves forward.

Seminars

• 2000 – DHE2000, Design human engineering workshop with John La Valle @ NLP Seminars Group International in Orlando, Florida.
• 2000's – "Your Own Personal Genius" – a UK seminar

Video publications

Some videos have no mention of date on them.

Videos with Richard Bandler in them.

• 1982
  • The Marshall University Tapes, Filmed circa 1982, Richard has spoken about these 3 sessions in many of his seminars. 1. Anticipatory Loss 2. Authority Figures 3. Phobic Response
• 1987
  • Personal Outcomes, filmed at NLP Comprehensive.
  • Patterns of Intimacy, Flirtation, class on how to flirt.
• 1988s
  • Bandler Down Under, Magic in Action
• 1989
  • Client Sessions, Shyness,
  • Creating Therapeutic Change, taped in Boulder, Colorado – 7 videos: Layering Responses, Propulsion systems, Attitudes, Perceptual Grids, Nonverbal Amplifications, Playing with Problems, & Weaving Complexes;
• 1980s
  • Bandler in Montreal, workshop in Montreal.
• 1990s
  • An Evening with Richard Bandler – State of the Art, taped in England.
  • Bandler down under, doing a workshop in Australia.
• 2000
  • Konstanz 2000, workshop in Konstanz, Germany, Richard shares his latest developments and refinements, stories and inductions, an introduction to NLP-DHE-NHR.
• 2001
  • Welcome to Reality, workshop in Ascona, Switzerland, What strategies does Richard Bandler use to be able to talk for hours? . . . with no notes . . . and with people carefully listening?
• 2003
  • Ascona, Bandler strategies, seminar in Ascona, Switzerland.
  • The Art and Science of Nested Loops, seminar in Orlando, Florida.
  • Trancing in and out, takes the class through different trances & demonstrations, seminar in Zurich, Switzerland
  • How to Live a Happy Life, 30 Years of NLP,
• 2004
  • Persuasion Engineering, With John Lavalle.
• 2005
  • It's About Time (Time Distortion), Richard Bandler from a 'Charisma Enhancement' seminar in Orlando Florida
  • The Bandler Effect, Bandler wearing a suit. 5 DVDs – Confidence, Creativity, Motivation, Health, & Changing Habits;
  • The Class of a Master, 4 DVDs – Instant Talent, Inner Beauty, Rapid Hypnotic Inductions, & Fantastic Futures;
• 2007
  • Experimental Hypnosis, From a seminar held in Zurich, Switzerland. Here he decides to actually experiment with deeper forms of direct hypnosis and all the participants in the group were in a way test subjects.
• 2000's
  • Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning, Introduction to NHR with a demonstration of the "handshake interrupt" hypnosis induction on four different participants.
• 2010
  • An Evening With Richard Bandler: Introduction to NLP from THE UKCO, filmed in front of a live audience, with examples of his remedial work.
  • Face to Face with Richard Bandler and Paul Ross from THE UKCO, a live audience asks Richard questions regarding psychology, education, relationships etc.
• 2011
  • The Secrets of Success DVD Box Set from THE UKCO, Richard models the secrets of success featuring: Chef Aldo Zilli, Olympic Gold medal-winner Iwan Thomas, businessman Andrew Morris and actor, Christopher Ellison.

External links

• Guardian feature by Jon Ronson
• Richard Bandler NLP
• German Discussion-Board about Richard Bandler
• NLP Events London
• NHR Events
• NLPLife Youtube channel