A rare, intimate encounter with one of the world's most innovative masters of personal change and growth. Richard Bandler is known worldwide for his ability to captivate audiences and to change people's lives for the better. His insights into the human mind have undeniably ignited the worldwide phenomenon of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and catapulted and transformed the field of personal change forever. Conversations with Richard Bandler recounts professional and personal revelations between Richard Bandler and a young NLP practitioner and Bandler protégé, Owen Fitzpatrick, who is on a quest to discover the real-life application of what Bandler defines as "personal freedom," or what is truly possible for the human mind. With conversations covering diverse topics as happiness, heartbreak, rejection, compulsions, and perfectionism, the dialogues between Bandler and Fitzpatrick uncover the solutions to complex issues including depression, social anxieties, phobias, and more. Presenting never-before-heard insights from Richard Bandler on the field of NLP, plus specific exercises to ignite effortless change, and numerous anecdotes from past clients and personal stories, Conversations with Richard Bandler offers a way to think and live in a radically different way.

This wonderful book is for anyone interested in making their life significantly better. It is a goldmine of insights and techniques from one of the greatest geniuses of personal change. As you use the techniques in this book, you will exponentially increase your ability to make dramatic life-enhancing differences. It is by far one of the most entertaining and professionally stimulating books I have read. It will change your life!"--Paul McKenna, Ph.D, author of I Can Make You Thin and host of The Learning Channel's I Can Make You More than thirty years ago, Richard Bandler set out to discover how some therapists managed to effect startling change with their clients, while others were arguing about theories as their face patients waited in vain for help. Now widely regarded as the world's greatest hypnotist, Richard Bandler observed and developed patterns which became the foundation of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), arguably one of the most profoundly effective approaches for self-development and change. Since coauthoring the internationally influential books, The Structure of Magic Volume 1, and Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton Erickson, M.D. Volume 1, Bandler has traveled the world, honing his skills and helping people solve problems and achieve goals when other "experts" have been unable to help. Richard Bandler's Guide to TRANCE-formation, he returns to his roots: hypnotic phenomena, trancework, and altered states to provide a highly compelling prescription for personal change. According to Bandler, "trance" is at the very foundation of human experience. People are not simply in or out of trance, but are moving from one trance to another. They have their work trances, their relationship trances, their driving trances, and their parenting trances. Some of these states are useful and appropriate; others are not. With his signature wit and contrarian approach to therapy, Bandler shows how anyone can reset or reprogram problem behaviors to desired alternatives, with lasting and life-altering results. Peppered with case studies and more than thirty exercises, Richard Bandler's Guide to TRANCE-formation, is an intriguing, engaging, and often amusing, read for anyone, whether they are new to NLP, want to further their NLP training, or simply want to make a positive difference in their own lives.

Bandler covers a lot of ground in this book - in his unique style - and provides real insight into areas such as sub-modalities and multiple perspectives in a fairly short period (157 pages). The content is edited notes from a series of Bandler workshops (in a similar vein to Frogs into Princes and Trance-Formations). The book begins with an overview of NLP - making particular reference to the "new" submodality patterns (the book was written in 1985) and presenting these as a faster and more powerful way of creating personal change. Subsequent chapters provide a humorous exploration of many of the traditional approaches to personal change and outline many useful guiding principles (structure versus content etc) for the application of NLP to personal change. The author makes repeated reference to a number of epistemological issues underlying traditional psychological approaches that tend to focus on "what's wrong, when you broke, ... what broke you, ... and why you broke." He goes on to state that "psychologists have never been interested in how you broke, or how you continue to maintain the state of being broken." NLP on the other hand, Bandler asserts, assumes people work perfectly and that people are just doing something different from what we (or they) want to have happen. This provides a clear indication of the approach adopted in the remainder of the book, and suggests that the focus of NLP on subjective experience (as the study of subjective experience) is entirely valid and necessary. Bandler provides a convincing argument for tailoring all our change work to the individual - purely because each individual is unique. The book continues with a useful and insightful exploration of a number of techniques (including the fast phobia cure, contrastive analysis in belief change, integrated anchors and Swish,) as well as discussion of more general (and generative) strategies for learning and motivation.

Richard Bandler is known worldwide as the cofounder of neurolinguistic programming (NLP). Here, in what will be considered a classic, is Bandler at his best—the most accessible and engaging work yet, detailing his proven methods that have freed tens of thousands of people worldwide of their destructive habits, phobias,and fears. When conventional therapy and drugs fail, Richard Bandler delivers, often with miraculous results. Richard Bandler cocreated the field of NLP with John Grinder in the early 1970s. Since then, Bandler's work revolutionized the field of personal change; his models and methods have been widely adopted and used successfully in colleges and universities, therapists'offices, professional sports teams, and businesses across the globe. While many people have written books on NLP, much of what has been written is based on Bandler's ideas. Get The Life You Want shares 'the how' from Bandler himself, with remarkable insights into some of his greatest and most advanced work to date, including compelling true examples from client sessions. With more than thirty exercises that promise rapid relief from any problem or habit, plus a glossary of terms and a detailed index, this is a culmination of a lifetime of work written in a simple, engaging style that both clinicians and laypeople will find effective. Richard Bandler's books have sold more than half a million copies worldwide. Tens of thousands of people, many of them therapists, have studied Bandler's blend of hypnosis, linguistics, and positive thinking at colleges and NLP training centers in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He is the author of Using Your Brain—for a Change, Time for Change, Magic in Action, and The Structure of Magic. He coauthored Frogs into Princes, Persuasion Engineering, The Structure of Magic Volume II, and Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume I.

This book does what no other book can. It gets right to the heart of Teaching and Learning by helping you understand how learning works.This edition includes bonus videos that include chapter introductions, chapter summaries, and interviews with the authors to help you further understand and use the information.There is also a free membership to a community of like minded teachers and learners for idea creation, sharing and problem solving.

Imagine for a moment that someone takes you into a huge room, packed with the most complex technology you'd ever seen and offers to show you how to operate the system so that you can instantly bounce your attitude from one of negativity and doubt to an attitude of optimism, cheerfulness and hope. How radically would your life change if you could switch, at will, from living life down to living life up? What would you be capable of achieving if you had a system guaranteed to upgrade your health and well-being, outlook and expectations? Is this something you'd be interested in? If so, read on ... Being Happy is written for the average person who wants to change his or her life and achieve his or her full potential. It is full of exercises and life-changing tactics utilizing the principles of NLP with amazing results. Written by Richard Bandler, co-creator and developer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Garner Thomson, NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, Richard Bandler is arguably the world's most influential contributor to the field of self-development and applied psychology. His books have sold more than half a million copies, and tens of thousands of people have studied his unique blend of hypnosis, linguistics, and precise thinking throughout the world. A widely acclaimed keynote speaker and workshop leader, he is the author of many books, including Get the Life You Want, Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation, Using Your Brain-for a Change, Time for a Change and Magic in Action. He co-authored Conversations, Frogs into Princes, Persuasion Engineering, The Structure of Magic I, The Structure of Magic II, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volumes I and II, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming Volume I. Dr Bandler's background as a musician and his interest in the relationship between sound and neural functioning has led him to develop Neuro-SonicsTM, and a range of programs for the BrainFit light-sound machine, both of which utilize music and sound to create specific internal experiences and behavioral outcomes. He is also the founder of the mental technologies of Design Human Engineering (DHE) and Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR). (Less)

Thinking on Purpose is an indispensable guide to anyone who wants to make changes in their life. Most people don't really 'think'. They 'remember'. That's why they are often destined to repeat the same negative patterns over and over again.