Neuro-Linguistic Programming by Paul Tosey & Jane Mathison

Author:Paul Tosey & Jane Mathison
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave macmillan

A key factor in the derailment of the human potential movement in the 1960s and 1970s was a reluctance to engage with the academic community. For example, if it were not for the antiscience sentiments shown by the founders of NLP, today we could have seen the original NLP making a useful contribution to the applied psychology curriculum taught at universities – after all, the core of NLP is an often elegant application of cognitive behavioural science and linguistics. Instead we have seen some sections of the NLP community drift further and further away from solid foundations towards increasingly esoteric learnings and sometimes outright bizarre ideologies.

(Grant 2007:212)

The appearance in NLP literature of Castaneda’s ideas may be one basis for Anthony Grant’s reference to ‘esoteric learnings’ and ‘bizarre ideologies’. This type of view, however, risk limiting explorations of human experience to forms of knowing that are privileged by contemporary scientific communities.

Another of the forms of knowing in Heron’s model is that of presentational knowledge. This is also prevalent in NLP, reflected in the frequent use of story and metaphor by Milton Erickson. For Bateson, too, stories were no mere entertainment. They represented something important about the nature of mind, an example of the significance of the aesthetics of human systems, or ‘responsiveness to the pattern which connects’ (Bateson 1979:17):

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