Frogs into Princes: Introduction to Neurolinguistic Programming Paperback – 1 Jun. 1990

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Good book and overview from the creators of NLPFast delivery and book was in great condition for the cheap price.

There's cultural product you enjoy and a cultural product you admire; although the ideal is for both to be wrapped up in one package. Frogs into Princes (1979) is very much in the latter camp like Trance-Formations (1981) and Reframing (1982). The primary explanation I can yet find for this is that these books are seminar transcripts and a condensed sensory channel experience to the original event - so expect a 4 tuple workout if approaching afresh!The chapters each represent a day’s training on one major topic (main techniques covered in brackets): Sensory Experience (Up time), Changing Personal History (Anchoring) and Finding New Ways (unconscious signalling and 6 Step Reframing). Also, contained in the text are possibly some of the earliest references to the V/K Dissociation, basic Metaprograms, Strategies, and Timelines, as well as Logical Levels, i.e. what to do (behaviour), how to do (strategies) and why it is done that way (values).It is said of Bandler he demonstrated what he talked about while he described it and therefore some of his mesmeric panache and witticisms do get lost in the written transcription; whereas Grinder’s academic precision and word-smithery correlates quite well to the event. Either way this book reads like a classic 40 years on, especially the first chapter on the importance of developing sensory acuity. This is the closest thing to a credo I have found in NLP describing the significance of developing ‘objective subjectivity’ in becoming aware of systematic experience as a key factor for driving therapeutic change. By distinguishing NLP’s methodology from the therapy profession - one of Bandler’s many rallying calls, and often hilariously prescribed - this chapter alone would be an excellent place to explore the subject’s datum point.When Bandler and Grinder decided to go their separate ways (1978) transcripts from the early workshops seem to have been the only vehicle left for seminal transmission. However from my reading of FiP it contains the most ground-breaking applications, techniques and influences out of their previous works, because it was not wholly conceived and modelled on the work of Satir, Perls, Erickson and Chomsky. As Grinder points out in ‘Whispering in The Wind’ (2001) the discovery of the rep systems model and eye accessing patterns are solely attributable to the co-originators. Thus, ever more so FiP has become an historically documented account of the early roadshow format which would have exposed new acolytes to the latest developments, and therefore it surely ranks equal to Magic 1/2 and Patterns 1/2 as being produced in an extraordinarily short flowering period - just like Lennon and McCartney it has been said!

Book exactly as described, two days before expected. Very pleased with purchase and service.

I have just started a coaching course and bought this book to help me, after reading some reviews here. While it may be written by the founders, i have had to buy another book, an introduction to NLP by someone else, to help me make sense of it!I appreciate it is a transcript of a seminar- this does not make it the ideal place to start as an introduction. I needed an idiot's guide to spell out what NLP actually was (the authors of this don't address that at the beginning)and what it covered. I am going to have to read my beginners guide to NLP before i carry on with this one, as it assumes a level of knowledge and understanding that, as a complete novice, i just don't possess.I have found it confusing and rambling, with no structure-great if you already have some background knowledge, but otherwise you'll end up wondering what it's all about! I will probably pick this up at a later stage in my studies , once i have got to grips with it all a bit more.

good book

Thank you, I need this book for my course

Times have changed regarding the atmosphere NLP was formulated in and this needs to be considered when reading this book

I greatly appreciate the good condition it came in for being from a thrift store! This is an amazing book to read recommended to me as I am getting into more about body & self health/control with being such an independent person. The beginning of it is already teaching me quite a bit, can’t imagine what the ending has in store for me! Thank You Amazon for getting me the last copy y’all had lol!!

This is two hundred pages of gibberish, no organization, no point to make, just a torrent of words. See if you can sample a few pages before you buy. I frankly admit I was conned. I bought it on the recommendation of Mystery, author of The Mystery Method, which I do recommend. But whatever Mystery knows about human relationships, he didnt learn it from this garbage.