John Grinder

Infobox Linguist
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birth = 1940
United States
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school_tradition = Linguistics
main_interests = Transformational grammar, NLP modeling, Cybernetic epistemology
spouse = Carmen Bostic St Clair
influences = Noam Chomsky, Bertrand Russell, George A. Miller, Gregory Bateson, Milton H. Erickson, Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, Frank Farrelly, Paul Watzlawick, Alfred Korzybski, Hans Vaihinger
influenced = Richard Bandler, Stephen Gilligan, Robert Dilts, Brief therapy, Ericksonian hypnosis, Kevin Hogan
notable_ideas=Neuro-linguistic programming, New Code of NLP

John Grinder Ph.D. (pronounced grin-der, IPAEng|ˈgrɪndɚ; born 1940) is an American linguist, management consultant, trainer and speaker. Grinder is credited with the co-creation with Richard Bandler of the field of Neuro-linguistic programming. He is co-director of Quantum Leap Inc., a management consulting firm founded by his now partner Carmen Bostic St. Clair in 1987 (Grinder joined in 1989). Grinder and Bostic St. Clair also run workshops and seminars on NLP internationally.

Biography

John Thomas Grinder, Jr. graduated from the University of San Francisco with a degree in psychology in the early 1960s. Grinder then entered the United States Army where he served as a Captain in the US Special Forces in Europe during the Cold War; following this he apparently went on to work for a US Intelligence Agency. In the late 1960s, Grinder went back to college to study Linguistics and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. His disertation was titled "On Deletion Phenomena in English" and was later published by Mouton.cite journal
author=John Thomas Grinder, Jr.,
title=On Deletion Phenomena in English, A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics.
year=1971
volume=
pages=
url=] Grinder dedicated his dissertation to the Vice Squad of the San Diego Police Department, The FBI for "continual harassment (that) energized me sufficiently to complete the task", and to the Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann of the Sandoz Chemical Works, Basel. cite journal
author=John Thomas Grinder, Jr.,
title=On Deletion Phenomena in English, A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics.
year=1971
volume=
pages=
url=] The late Dr. Hofmann was the discoverer of LSD

In the early 1970s Grinder worked in George A. Miller's lab at Rockefeller Universitycite web | title = The Bio of John Grinder | publisher = NLP University | accessdate = 2007-01-26 | url = http://www.nlpu.com/grindbio.htm] and was then selected as an assistant professor of linguistics at the newly founded University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) campus. During his academic career, Grinder focused on Noam Chomsky's theories of transformational grammar specializing in syntax. He also worked with Paul Postal on the syntactical structures relating to "missing antecedents"cite journal
author=John Grinder, Paul Postal
title=Missing Antecedents
journal=Linguistic Inquiry
year=1971
volume=2
publisher=Mouton & Co.,
pages=269–312
url=] or missing parasitic gaps for the pronoun. They argued that the syntactic structure of a deleted verb phrase (VP) is complete. [Labov, W., Fox, RC. (1973) "Sociolinguistic patterns: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown" ISBN 0812210522 p.198] Postal, P. (2008) [http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/people/faculty/postal/papers/missing.doc Missing Parasitic Gaps] In "Parasitic Gaps", Peter W. Culicover (Ed.) The MIT Press.] Linguistic Theory: Syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Annual Reviews p.351] . Postal and Grinder's doctoral adviser at UCSC, Edward Klima [ [http://ling.ucsd.edu/who/alumni.html UCSD 1972 alumni] ] were involved in the early development of generative semantics.

Other academic works by Grinder include, "A Guide to Transformational Grammar" (co-authored with Suzette Elgin, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1973). [Elgin has since published various poems and short stories, she is also know for her non-fiction series "Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense" series.e.g. Elgin, S. "The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense" (1980), ISBN 0-13-351080-8] In 2005 Grinder published "Steps to an Ecology of Emergence"cite journal
author=Malloy, T. E., Bostic St Clair, C. & Grinder, J.
title=Steps to an ecology of emergence
journal=Cybernetics & Human Knowing
year=2005
volume=Vol. 11, no. 3
pages=102–119. |url=http://www.psych.utah.edu/stat/dynamic_systems/Content/examples/Ecology-of-Emergence_Galley-proofs_Malloy-et-al.pdf] with Tom Malloy and Carmen Bostic St Clair in the journal "Cybernetics and Human Knowing".

Development of Neuro-linguistic programming

In 1972, while at UCSC, Grinder was approached by an undergraduate psychology student, Richard Bandler, who requested his assistance to model Gestalt therapy. Bandler had spent a lot of time recording and editing recordings of Fritz Perls (founder of Gestalt therapy) and had learned Gestalt therapy implicitly. Starting with Fritz Perls, followed by leading figure in family therapy Virginia Satir, and later the leading figure in hypnosis in psychiatry Milton Erickson, Grinder and Bandler continued to model the various cognitive behavioral patterns of these therapists, which they published in "The Structure of Magic Volumes I & II (1975, 1976)", "Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, Volumes I & II (1975, 1977)" and "Changing With Families (1976)". This work formed the basis of the methodology that became the foundation of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Bandler and Grinder began hosting seminars and practise groups. These served as a place for Bandler and Grinder to practice and test their newly discovered patterns while allowing them to transfer the skills to the participants. Several books were published based on transcripts of their seminars including "Frogs into Princes (1979)". During this period, a creative group of students and psychotherapists formed around Grinder and Bandler, who made valuable contributions to NLP, including Robert Dilts, Leslie Cameron-Bandler, Judith DeLozier, Stephen Gilligan and David Gordon.

In the 1980s Bandler, Grinder and their group of associates split acrimoniously, and stopped working together. Following this, many members of their group went out on their own and took NLP in their own directions. Some of Bandler and Grinder's books went out of print for a while due to legal problems between the co-authors. "Structure I & II", and "Patterns I & II" considered the foundation of the field were later republished. Bandler attempted to claim legal ownership of the term Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), however it was eventually deemed to be a generic term, and could therefore not be trademarked. Grinder and Bandler settled their claims around 2001, clearing a platform for the future development of NLP as a legitimate field of endeavour.(See Appendix of "Whispering in the Wind".)]

New code of NLP

Between 1982-1987, strongly influenced by anthropologist and systems theorist Gregory Bateson, who had a strong focus on ecology as a psychological construct, Grinder and Judith DeLozier collaborated to develop the New Code of NLP. Grinder and Bateson had met during their affiliation to Kresge College at the University of California, Santa Cruz during the 1970s. Grinder and Delozier presented an aesthetic framework for the "classic code" of NLP that explicates the involvement of ecology and the unconscious mind in change work. Ecology in NLP is about respecting the integrity of the system as a whole when assessing a change to that system; the 'system' in this case is a person's model of the world and the consequences of that model in the person's environment. Practically speaking, this consideration entails asking questions like "What are the intended effects of this change? What other effects might this change have, and are those effects desirable? Is this change still a good idea?"The seminars were transcribed and published in 1987, "Turtles All the Way Down; Prerequisites to Personal Genius".

The New Code of NLP has been further developed by John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair who founded, Quantum Leap Inc.; a cultural change consultancy firm. Currently John and Carmen present some 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."cite book
author=Grinder, John & Carmen Bostic St Clair
title=Whispering in the Wind
location=CA | publisher=J & C Enterprises | year=2001. | pages=127, 171, 222, ch.3, Appendix | id=-] Grinder has since strongly encouraged the field to make a recommitment to what he considers the core activity of NLP, modeling.cite web | url = http://www.inspiritive.com.au/jg.htm | title = Dr. John Grinder, Co-creator of NLP, Inspiritive Guest Presenter (2007, 2008) | publisher = Inspiritive | accessdate = 2007-01-26]

Linguistics publications

*cite journal
author=John Grinder
title=Conjunct splitting in Samoan
journal=
year=1969
volume=
publisher=University of California at San Diego, Dept. of Linguistics
pages=79
url=
*cite journal
author=John Grinder
title=Super Equi-NP Deletion
journal=Papers from Sixth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
year=1970
volume=
publisher=University of Chicago
pages=
url=
*cite journal
author=John Grinder
title=A Reply to Super Equi-NP Deletion as Dative Deletion
journal=Douglas, A. (Ed.) Papers of the 7th Regional meeting of the
year=1971
volume=
publisher=Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, Illinois.
pages=
url=
*cite journal
author=John Grinder
title=Chains of co-reference
journal=Linguistic Inquiry
year=1971
volume=2
publisher=Mouton & Co.,
pages=183–202
url=
*cite journal
author=John Grinder
title="On the Cycle in Syntax" in Syntax and Semantics. John P. Kimball (ed.)
journal=1971 Summer Linguistics Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz.
year=1972
volume=1
publisher=Seminar Press
pages=81
url=

*cite journal
author=John Grinder, Suzette Elgin
title=Bully for Us
journal=
year=1974
volume=
publisher=Indiana University Linguistics Club
pages=
url=
*cite journal
author=John Grinder, Paul Postal
title=Missing Antecedents
journal=Linguistic Inquiry
year=1971
volume=2
publisher=Mouton & Co.,
pages=269–312
url=
*cite journal
author=John Grinder, Suzette Elgin
title=On Deletion Phenomena in English
publisher=Mouton & Co.,
year=1972
volume=
pages=
url=
id=ISBN 9027930058
*cite journal
author=John Grinder, Suzette Elgin
title=A Guide to Transformational Grammar: History, Theory, Practice
journal=
year=1973
publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston
volume=
pages=
url=
id=ISBN 0030801265
*cite journal
author=Tom Malloy, Carmen Bostic St Clair, John Grinder
title=Steps to an ecology of emergence
journal= [http://www.imprint.co.uk/C&HK/cyber.htm Cybernetics & Human Knowing]
year=2005
volume=Vol. 11, no. 3
publisher=Imprint Academic ISSN|0907-0877
pages=102–119. |url=http://www.psych.utah.edu/stat/dynamic_systems/Content/examples/Ecology-of-Emergence_Galley-proofs_Malloy-et-al.pdf

Neuro-linguistic programming publications

* cite book
author=Bandler, Richard & John Grinder
title=The Structure of Magic I: A Book About Language and Therapy
publisher=Palo Alto, CA: Science & Behavior Books.
year=1975a
id=ISBN 0831400447
url=
pages=
* cite book
author=Bandler, Richard & John Grinder
title=The Structure of Magic II: A Book About Communication and Change
publisher=PaloAlto, CA: Science & Behavior Books. | year=1975b
id=ISBN 0-8314-0049-8 | url= | pages=
* cite book
author=Satir, Satir., Grinder, John., Bandler, Richard.
title=Changing with Families: a book about further education for being human
publisher=Palo Alto, CA: Science & Behavior Books.
year=1976
id=ISBN 0-8314-0051-X
url= | pages=
* cite book
author=Grinder, John, Richard Bandler
title=Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume I
publisher=Cupertino, CA :Meta Publications. | year=1976 | id=ISBN 1555520529 | url= | pages=
* cite book
author=John Grinder, Richard Bandler, Judith Delozier
title=Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume II
publisher=Cupertino, CA :Meta Publications. | year=1977 | id=ISBN 1555520537 | url= | pages=-
* cite book
author=John Grinder, Richard Bandler | title=Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming | publisher=Moab, UT: Real People Press. | year=1979 | id=ISBN 0-911226-19-2 | url= | pages=194pp
* cite book
author=Grinder, John and Richard Bandler
title=Trance-Formations: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Structure of Hypnosis
publisher=Moab, UT: Real People Press. | year=1981 | id= ISBN 0-911226-23-0 | url= | pages=
* cite book
author=Grinder, John and Richard Bandler
title=Reframing: Neurolinguistic programming and the transformation of meaning
publisher=Moab, UT: Real People Press. | year=1983 | id=ISBN 0-911226-25-7 | url= | pages=
* cite book
author=Grinder, John & Judith DeLozier
title=Turtles All the Way Down: Prerequisites to Personal Genius | publisher=Scots Valley, CA: Grinder & Associates. | year=1987 | id=ISBN 1-55552-022-7

* cite book
author=Robert Dilts, John Grinder, Richard Bandler, Leslie Cameron-Bandler, Judith Delozier | title=Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Vol. 1 | publisher=ScotsValley, CA: Meta Publications
year=1980 | id=
* cite book
author=Grinder, John, Michael McMaster | title=Precision: A New Approach to Communication: How to Get the Information You Need to Get Results | publisher=ScotsValley, CA: Grinder & Associates | year=1993 | id=ISBN 1-55552-049-9
* cite book
author=Charlotte Bretto Milliner (ed.), John Grinder (ed.) and Sylvia Topel (ed.) | title=Leaves before the Wind: Leading Edge Applications of NLP | publisher=Scots Valley, CA: Grinder & Associates | year=1994 | id=ISBN 1555520510
* cite book
author=Grinder, John & Carmen Bostic St Clair
title=Whispering in the Wind
publisher=CA: J & C Enterprises. | year=2001. | pages=
id=ISBN 0-9717223-0-7
* cite book
author=Grinder, John, Carmen Bostic St Clair, Tom Malloy
title=RedTail Math: the epistemology of everyday life (Working title)
publisher= | year=| pages=
id=

ee also

* Transformational Grammar
* Neuro-linguistic Programming
* Modeling (NLP)
* Richard Bandler
* List of NLP topics

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.nlpwhisperinginthewind.com/ Official Website of John Grinder; co-creator of NLP]
* [http://www.johngrinder.co.uk/index.htm UK homepage for John Grinder]
* [http://www.inspiritive.com.au/grinterv.htm 1996 Inspiritive interview with John Grinder]
* [http://www.inspiritive.com.au/grinter2.htm 1997 Inspiritive interview with John Grinder]
* [http://www.whisperinginthewind.com/interview.htm 2002 Interview with John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair]
* [http://www.inspiritive.com.au/jg.htm 2003 Video Interview with John Grinder]
* [http://www.nlpu.com/grindbio.htm Grinder's Biography on Robert Dilts web site]