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As reviewed by Judith Lowe:'The Tao that can be told is not the Eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.'I have come, over the years, to regard the Meta-Model as a form of Zen the 'Way of the Meta-Model.' This extraordinary book is how the field of NLP began, from the modelling of Perls and Satir (the book is dedicated to Satir who writes of her own 'excitement, amazement and thrill') and the use of Transformational Grammar to create a tool from linguistics, praised by Bateson and described by Bandler and Grinder simply as a 'meta-model for therapy'. Later, John Grinder has described it as 'the first syntactically based language model for an express purpose ever created - in which clients are literally forced to expand and/or revise the mental maps that contain the traps, flaws and limitations that prevent them from shifting to more effective and congruent behaviour.'Brilliant and paradigm-shifting, it's astonishing that the Meta-Model isn't more widely known outside of NLP. This book has transcripts of conversational change and - be warned - syntax trees which I admit I have not studied deeply! The Meta-Model re-connects you to sensory experience and takes you back into the flow of life... 'free from desire, you realise the mystery

To helping therapists to understand and be able to shift their communication strategies to meet the client on the level of his model of the world. Part 2 reviews the work of Gregory Bateson in this field and presents a model for nonverbal communication. Part 3 enlarges upon the previous two parts and Part 4 is concerned with family therapy. Part 5 contains a formalisation of all the techniques presented in Volumes 1 and 2.

Edited by John Grinder and Frank Pucelik, the book's contributors include: Robert Dilts, Stephen Gilligan, Judith Delozier, Byron Lewis, Terry McClendon (author of the first history of NLP, The Wild Days).The Origins of Neuro Linguistic Programming brings together the recollections and thoughts of some of the main protagonists from the very early days of NLP. In 1971 Richard Bandler and Frank Pucelik were students at Kresege College at the University of California Santa Cruz. They had a strong mutual interest in Gestalt Therapy, Frank because of his traumatic time in Vietnam and because he had been working with some disaffected and drug-addicted kids, and Richard because he had been working with Science and Behavior Books on transcribing and editing Fritz Perls' seminal work, The Gestalt Approach and Eyewitness to Therapy. They started a local gestalt group and ran 2-3 sessions a week collaborating and experimenting with the language of therapy. They started achieving some brilliant results but were having problems transferring their skills to others and so Richard invited one of their college professors, John Grinder, to observe what they were doing in order that he would, hopefully, be able to de-construct what they were doing that was so effective. John was a professor of Linguistics and was instantly impressed with the work that they were doing. He was able to add more structure and in due course the three of them formalised what is now known as the Meta Model. NLP was born.John and Frank and each of the other contributors give their own personal account of this period of collaboration when something magical was happening in northern California. Of particular interest is the role Gregory Bateson played, particularly in bringing John and Richard together with Milton H Erickson.An extremely insightful and riveting read for anyone interested in NLP.