Frogs into Princes: Introduction to Neurolinguistic Programming

Good book and overview from the creators of NLP Fast 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.

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The book was good, but it's by no means easy to read. It's one of the 1st NLP books, and that has to be kept in mind while reading. Also note that it's the transcript from a sceminar. I didn't rate 5 stars for 2 reasons. First of all the speakers tend to talk down to the audience claiming they're wrong without much justification, then they go on to say they've stopped cancer by asking the patients "Subconscious mind" to stop whatever's causing it. The second reason is that the book Is hard going from the start and by the end I was forcing myself to finish because of the cost! However it does introduce the core concepts of NLP, a variety of which i personally find work quite well. I will read it again, maybe 2nd read will be better, but there is an NLP trend to talk down to people who dont study it.

good book

A new way of thinking.

Fantastic book, mint condition as well. A +++++