About
JOHN GRINDER
The man who developed a new way to approach NLP, with craft and love since.
“In the late 70’s I noticed a significant number of NLP-trained Practitioners who were stunningly effective in doing change work with clients, yet these same Practitioners had chosen to, or lacked the choice to, apply the patterns of NLP successfully to themselves. I therefore set out with the intention of designing a set of patterns that would both correct the coding flaws of the Classic Code (roughly my collaborative work with Bandler from 1972 through 1979) that could not be effectively presented unless the presenter was congruent with self-application.”
– Published in Whispering in the Wind, Bostic and Grinder (2001)
NLP BOOKS PUBLISHED
NLP PRACTICIONER TRAINER
COACHING SESSIONS
John's History
John Grinder went on to become an Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he began a collaboration with Richard Bandler, which led to the creation of Neuro Linguistic Programming.
In the early 1970s, Grinder worked in George A. Miller’s laboratory at Rockefeller University. After receiving his doctorate, Grinder took a full-time position as an assistant professor in the linguistics faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He engaged in undergraduate teaching, graduate teaching, and research. His research focused on Noam Chomsky’s theories of transformational grammar specializing in syntax and deletion phenomena.
John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair have further developed The New Code of NLP. (Bostic St Clair founded Quantum Leap Inc., a cultural-change consultancy firm.) As of 2014 Grinder and Bostic St Clair continue to present public seminars on NLP internationally. In 2001, Grinder (with Bostic St Clair) published Whispering in the Wind with a “set of recommendations as to how specifically NLP can improve its practice and take its rightful place as a scientifically based endeavor with its precise focus on modeling of the extremes of human behavior: excellence and the high performers who actually do it”. Grinder has since begun to strongly encourage the field to make a recommitment to what he considers the core activity of NLP: Modeling.
THE CREATOR OF NEW CODE NLP
John Grinder and Richard Bandler ceased their partnership in 1980. In the following decades, John has continued to evolve NLP, alongside his partner, Carmen Bostic St Clair – developing a new style of NLP, known as New Code NLP, which was radically updated in 2022 to Emergent New Code NLP, targeted primarily for working with health issues.
