| Re: Origins of NLPs' Name - the Stories and Metaphors Thanks Matt, done that. Richard tells one story there, I heard another at an NLP session. I wondered how many versions are out there, does Richard tell different ones at different trainings ? Does John Grinder tell other versions ? What about the stories from other sources ?
The story I heard at an NLP session was that Richard and John came up with the name together. The field they had started was going well, and they were together one evening, drinking champagne and discussing names among other things. At the end of more than one bottle, they decided calling their field Neuro Linguistic Programming was a good idea. The story is meant to have come from Robert Dilts.
In the interview, Richard tells a different version. Paraphrased, he was pulled over by the police and asked to give his occupation. He didn't like 'meta modeler' and looked down at the books on the floor of his car. He took a word from each of the titles of three books and 'Neuro Linguistic Programmer' was the result.
What other stories have others heard ? |