The Stage and the Players To set the context, each of these three men (Richard Bandler, Frank Pucelik, and John Grinder) as they came together at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) in 1971–72, was pursuing his own path. As the story unfolds in the accounts throughout this book and in this epilogue, there were initially two students interested in Gestalt therapy applications and earning money doing interventions and trainings while finishing their education. These students were joined by a curious professor of linguistics “invited to come see what they were doing” during a turbulent period in US history. This was an exciting time that was characterized by young people returning from the traumas resulting from the country’s involvement in a questionable war; some becoming students under the GI Bill who joined other students who were seeking change in the system; experimenting with substances and managing the consequences. All of these factors created the context and the interest on a campus which, in response to the times, was launching a new type of educational model at Kresge College, the sixth college of the UCSC campus. In 1971, Richard Bandler was in his junior undergraduate year and 21 years old. Frank Pucelik was just out of the military and was continuing his bachelor’s degree at age 27; he had a son and was separated. John Grinder, the oldest of the three, at the age of 31, was an Assistant Professor and had written two books and many articles within the field of Linguistics; he had a son and a daughter and was separated. Each of these men was pursuing his own individual life path; they did not purposely come together to create a new field. This new discipline emerged over a period of time between 1971 and 1974 and was finally announced to the general public with the publication of four books between 1975 and 1976. The field which emerged was named Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) in the latter part of those same years. Carmen Bostic - St. Clair The Origins of NLP (Epilogue). Do Butucă: - E - mail: dorel.butuca@gmail - Skype: dorel.butuca35; - Facebook: Dorel Butuca; - Mobil: 0040- 721.28.12.42. Mihaela Maya : - E - mail: mihaelastefnlp@gmail - Skype: mihaela.stef2014; - Facebook: Mihaela Mayas;
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