Michael Carroll and John La Valle, share the backstory of the the historic NLP 50 Event

Описание: Michael Carroll and John La Valle talk about how they brought Richard Bandler and John Grinder together to celebrate 50 years of NLP.

6500 enthusiastic NLPers registered for NLP 50, held online on 27th September, 2025 with saw both NLP co-creators appear at the same event for the first time in 40 years. where they shared their own perspectives of their collaboration which built the field of Neuro Linguistic Programming.

You can watch the NLP 50 recordings on either of the web links below

NLP Academy
https://www.nlpacademy.co.uk/nlp50/

NLP Seminars Group International
https://www.purenlp.com/nlp-co-founders

At NLP 50, the two guys, who began the NLP adventure, did not disappoint

Richard began with the following:

‘I would like to be perfectly clear about something, and I want to be perfectly clear, because I always give credit where credit is due. John was, at that time, probably the world's best syntactician, and may still be, for all I know. I haven't seen him in years. But we worked together for over a decade, tirelessly. And while there were people that were in our experimental groups and around at the time. John Grinder and I spent long nights, we produced together in north of a decade, a body of knowledge, which included the two most important foundations of NLP: the meta model of language, which was based on Noam Chomsky's work, and we gave him credit for that and the four-tuple, which was a syntax and a calculus of learning that allowed us to take learning from one person and put it in another.’

Richard Bandler on John Grinder , 27 September 2025, NLP 50

John replied with:

‘To begin with… Let me say my thoughts.… I was listening to Richard. There was a great deal of it which I absolutely agree with. His recognition of the pieces that went into the origins of NLP was quite attractive to me, and I want to thank him for the representations he offered.
Well done. It was brilliant. He, he, he's fearless. He doesn't give a damn about failing, because he
knows failing is just a way station on a road to someplace interesting to go, and he's going to go there. Having a partner like that is an excellent thing to collaborate with and build something as straight as what we built. We were doing what we wanted to do.
We were doing it… We were doing it together."

John Grinder on Richard Bandler, 27 September 2025, NLP 50

There you have it, the true and most up-to-date thoughts from the co-creators of Neuro-Linguistic Programming about each other. What a way to celebrate 50 years of NLP, resounding testimonials from both co-creators on their work together, which they published in 9 books and taught personally to thousands of people in the 1970s which led to NLP, becoming the global phenomenon it has become.

Topics covered on NLP 50
● How the co-creators met
● How they utilized their different skills and talents to form NLP
● The influence of Transformational Grammar and syntax on NLP
● The first models in NLP, which built the foundation of NLP, the 4 Tuple and Meta Model
● Modeling and coding the patterns of genius, Erickson, Satir, and Perls
● The attitude of fearlessness and adventurism in both co-creators, to keep on going
and exploring new ways for bringing change to people’s lives
● The discovery of eye accessing cues, something hitherto undiscovered in 1975, and totally unique to NLP
● The surprise of anchoring and how it worked so well
● The importance of the content/form distinction in NLP and how it makes NLP distinct from all other forms of change work
● The legacy of NLP and the co-creators’ views on its future
● And much, much more

This event was designed to focus purely on the creation of NLP, to tell the story of NLP’s creation, and not its separation, and to explore the richness inherent in its history, and to enjoy the personalities that co-created it. You can watch and listen to both interviews on the links below.

NLP has become a global phenomenon. It has also, in many places become highly diluted, with poorly skilled people offering poor courses, which do not reflect the brilliance of the NLP co-creators, John Grinder and Richard Bandler, and the body of work they jointly built together.

If you are seeking high-quality NLP Training, it is highly recommended that you take a course with either co-creators or one of their official trainers.

Richard Bandler is represented by NLP Seminars Group International and John Grinder is represented by The NLP Academy

NLP Academy
www.nlpacademy.co.uk

NLP Seminars Group International
https://www.purenlp.com

© Michael Carroll and John La Valle
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