NLP evolved in the early seventies by the work of 2 people: John Grinder, then as Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Richard Bandler, a student of psychology at the University.  NLP is based on careful observations of highly effectively people.  Both founders studied the three top psychotherapists of this century in great depth.  They are: Milton Erickson, known as the Father of Modern Hypnotherapy, Virginia Satir, known as the Mother of Family System Therapy, and Fritz Perls, known as the Father of Gestalt Therapy.

John and Richard identified a great many of the underlying patterns of behavior and communication that made these great therapists so effective in assisting people in changing their lives for the better.  They used what they found to create a set of models of human skills and capabilities that is known to us as “Neuro-Linguistic Programming.”  Essentially, NLP models are based on the modeling of human excellence; another person’s behavior can be duplicated by studying what that person does inside his mind to produce results.  NLP is a field that is continually innovating and developing until today.