John Grinder

John Grinder is an American linguist and author who co-founded neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) with Richard Bandler in the 1970s.

Richard Bandler: Richard Bandler is an American author and trainer who co-founded neuro-linguistic programming with John Grinder. Their collaboration produced NLP and its early models of communication and therapy.
Transformational grammar: Transformational grammar is a theory describing how syntactic structures relate to underlying representations of sentences. Grinder’s training in this theory informed the linguistic framework of NLP’s Meta Model.
Neuro-linguistic programming: Neuro-linguistic programming is a set of communication and personal-development methods developed in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. It is the field Grinder co-founded and the basis of his professional work.
Scientific skepticism: Scientific skepticism is the practice of evaluating claims through evidence, critical inquiry, and testable reasoning. It frames scrutiny of NLP’s claims about communication, learning, and therapeutic effectiveness.
Virginia Satir: Virginia Satir was an American family therapist known for her experiential approach to family counseling. Grinder and Bandler modeled her therapeutic communication for an early NLP framework.
Noam Chomsky: Noam Chomsky is an American linguist whose theories of generative grammar reshaped modern linguistics. Grinder studied generative grammar, the intellectual tradition associated with Chomsky’s work.
New Code NLP: New Code NLP is an approach developed by John Grinder and Judith DeLozier that emphasizes state, attention, and learning. Grinder developed this later approach as a revision of the original NLP framework.
Evidence-based practice: Evidence-based practice integrates the best available research evidence with professional expertise and individual circumstances. NLP methods are not generally supported by the level of clinical evidence this approach requires.
Fritz Perls: Fritz Perls was a German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded Gestalt therapy. His therapy was another source Grinder and Bandler examined while developing NLP.
Meta Model: The Meta Model is an NLP questioning framework intended to clarify vague, generalized, or omitted language. Grinder and Bandler developed it as a linguistic model for probing the structure of statements.

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