The Evolution and Impact of NLP in Psychology

NLP empowers individuals to model effective communication and personal growth through structured, systematic methods.

### The Evolution and Application of NLP: A Personal Journey and Cultural Impact
* 🧠 NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is presented as a **powerful tool for personal development and civilization advancement**, rather than manipulation.
* 🇷🇺 The speaker shares a personal journey of introducing NLP to the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, with a focus on its **roots in Russian and Soviet psychology**.
* 📚 The origins of NLP are traced back to the work of John Grinder and Richard Bandler, who **integrated various psychological theories and linguistic models**.
* ⏳ NLP is described as a systematic approach that focuses on **describing processes rather than content**, with the ability to **effect change in a shorter time frame** compared to traditional psychotherapy.
* 🌐 The potential of NLP in **modeling successful thinking patterns**, including those of historical figures like Plato and Einstein, is highlighted as a way to **enhance artificial intelligence**.
* 💼 The practical application of NLP is exemplified through a project called Units, which aims to **teach various skills in just two weeks**, potentially **revolutionizing education and workforce training**.
* 🎓 The speaker encourages further exploration of NLP through educational courses and certifications, emphasizing the **importance of understanding its methodology and ethical application**.
* 🌱 The narrative concludes with a call to join the Academy of Social Technologies, an institution focused on advancing various fields including **meditation, psychotherapy, negotiation, and coaching**.

Today, we will talk about NLP. Such tools, with the emergence of artificial intelligence, can become a trigger for the development of civilization. We refer to this subject as God. All of the Nobel laureates had difficult childhoods, so please do not perceive NLP as a method of manipulation. No, it is a method of modeling. The theoretical basis of NLP is still rooted in Russian and Soviet psychology. Friends, today is a complex topic for me; it has a personal biography because it is very layered for me. We will discuss NLP and the misconceptions surrounding it. I was fortunate to bring this to the Soviet Union with two of my colleagues, Reiko and Alexander Aseev, who are wonderful psychologists and psychotherapists from Novosibirsk. In 1987, I had a group at Novosibirsk University where, every morning at 6 a.m., I taught meditation techniques, pressure techniques, and self-programming systems.

Working with the unconscious, self-hypnosis, yoga, and a group of about 300 students came to the classroom to practice with me from 6 to 8 in the morning. Around this, a group of psychologists and psychotherapists formed who supported and helped me. From this, a circle was established, and we experimented with hypnosis. This took place around the medical center of Novosibirsk University. 

One day, we saw an advertisement that there would be an exhibition of modern American medical books in Novosibirsk, Moscow, and Leningrad. In Novosibirsk, the last item was our library, which is second in the collection of the GPNTB. The exhibition ended, and naturally, the Americans did not take these books back with them; they left them there. So, at the end of this exhibition, when the Americans left, we found a book that no one had even opened. It was humorously titled From Frog to Prince by John.

Grinder and Riper knew English perfectly well, and every day she would come, and we would discuss how to translate the word anchor or whether to translate transformation or reframing. This is how the Russian translation of this book appeared, and the book had the publisher's address. We sent a letter to our grandfather's village: Please give our letter to John Grinder. During this time, I published my first book at Novosibirsk University. It was called Techniques for Effective Work with Information: Developing Skills in Speed Reading, Dynamic Reading, and Memory Enhancement Using Psychotechnics like ILPA. It was released, and I was very proud of it. It was my first book. As it turned out later, American intelligence brought this book among the materials they brought from Akademgorodok to America and showed it to Grinder. He kept this book in his library, and in that year, something happened.

A very tragic and horrifying event is known as the Ufa railway disaster, where two trains collided near Ufa. One of the trains was returning from a shift change, and they ended up in a gas pocket. Someone struck a match, and both trains burned completely. We volunteered to be crisis psychotherapists at that time, as there were no emergency psychologists to handle crisis situations. We were called to be crisis psychologists to help the relatives and loved ones cope with this grief. We worked tirelessly from morning till evening with the families of the victims; it was very difficult work. During that time, we were interviewed by the media, and it turned out that we were very effective and helpful. We assisted the crisis commission, which included representatives from aviation, the railway, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the KGB, who appreciated our work. Then we received a response from John Grinder and his then-wife Judith.

Well, guys, we now understand who you are. We read about you, and we managed to earn money for tickets. I remember it well; at the Chkalov Aviation Plant, we were engaged in creating groups for consumer goods, working as psychologists, profilers, and trainers. By that time, I had just graduated from school and was the secretary of the Komsomol in the academic town. My predecessor and former boss had gone to Moscow and became the director of the Youth Tourism Bureau, Sputnik. He helped us exchange currency and obtain permission to travel. Back then, you needed permission to leave the country. At the same time, it turned out that I received an offer from one of my students, Sheva, who was a pilot with Aeroflot. He wanted to become a deputy in the Supreme Soviet, and I advised him completely free of charge. That was the first election campaign I conducted, and we won, winning even with the secretary.

The party committee, which was unprecedented rudeness in eighty-nine, helped us through the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Aviation, securing three tickets to America. We found ourselves in America, at Grinder's training, and became students. We became very close; for me, Grinder is like a father and mother. We had amazing trainers: Michael Grinder, John Grinder's brother, with whom we still maintain a friendship. Recently, we had a joint training session. There were many others, including Michael Sparks, a leading psychotherapist in America and a trainer for American astronauts. We brought back from there NLP, and Grinder, when he was seeing us off, said, Guys, somehow make sure that people know about NLP in Eastern Europe, in the Soviet Union. When he came back a year later, he suddenly realized that only one in ten psychotherapists and psychologists in America knew the term.

NLP. By the beginning of the 1970s, every school student already knew the term NLP. Two students from the University of Santa Cruz, where we studied under Grinder, John Grinder, a linguist, and Richard Bandler, a mathematician, were students of the very well-known and great thinker, philosopher Gregory Bateson. Perhaps some of you know Bateson's wife, Margaret Mead, who is a very famous anthropologist. They created such an interesting system of algorithms, approaches, and methods at the intersection of psychoanalysis, gestalt therapy, family therapy by Virginia Satir, Christian hypnosis, Milton Erickson's hypnosis, and transformational grammar. They first wrote a book called The Structure of Magic. It was so profound that no one really understood it. I think only a handful of people managed to read it to the end. Nevertheless, it is indeed a very powerful linguistic book that connects psychology, models of thinking, and language. When it became clear that it was too profound...

The smart ones wrote another book, publishing materials from their three-day seminar, and named it From Frog to Prince. This book caused quite a stir. Then the next book appeared. Hundreds of thousands of students, including the famous Tony Robbins and probably the coolest now, Robert L. S. A, who was also with us at all these trainings, were involved. However, since the first people they began to study were effective communicators who influenced and changed, leading others into a trance-like state, an unseasoned viewer might get the impression that it is about influence, manipulation, or hypnosis. No, it is a very structured and systematic linguistic model using algorithms similar to those in computer programs. It has its own presuppositions, its own rules, and its own.

Подходы, многие из которых взяты из разных психологий и психотерапий — от бихевиоризма до рациональной эмотивной терапии, от гештальта до психоанализа — образуют стройную, очень прагматически ориентированную систему, которая имеет одной из осей своего анализа временное ограничение. Если по поверхности ползает червяк, этот червяк существует в двумерном пространстве, но сам он видит мир в одномерном. Он не может описать своё поведение и движение в двумерном пространстве. Однако описать его поведение и управлять им в пространстве может кто-то из внешнего измерения, который видит его в движении и может описывать его состояние. Существует вторая теорема великого математика, гения математики: система не может обсуждать саму себя. Для того чтобы обсуждать, нужно иметь язык на одну степень свободы больше, чем язык, который обсуждается. Мы с вами — четырёхмерные существа, но мы не можем видеть четырёхмерный мир, можем видеть...

In a three-dimensional world, the fourth dimension is time, which we cannot control or see. Remember the movie Interstellar? There are entire books written about how it was made because they consulted on how to represent time in space. You must watch this movie; it's a great film. 

Now, due to the fact that a person cannot discuss themselves, they are forced to resort to rudiments of space in order to discuss another person. When they make these rudimentary cuts, imagine I am holding a glass in my hands. One person makes a cut and says, This is a truncated cone; here it is 8 cm, here it is 6 cm, and here it is 10 cm, using a ruler. Another person looks from below and says, I don’t understand what you’re measuring here with a ruler; this is a diameter of 68. Another one looks from above and says, Guys, with a compass, it’s 8 and 6, and there’s also a volume. What volume? No volume, no volume at all. But in string theory, the world of cuts is even considered as a realm, which means that there is something beyond.

In this measurable space of ours, there is a fifth dimension, a sixth, and a seventh. If there is indeed a subject who lives in five-dimensional space, he sees us in time and can move through time. We call this subject a multi-level deity. Due to the impossibility of describing a person and managing a person's behavior by the person themselves, these arguments lead to the conclusion that the history of psychology and the psychology textbook are essentially the same textbook. Many psychologists have completely different foundations that do not align with each other. They combine different tools, but each tool works within the framework of its own psychology. They managed to take time as one of the axes and learn to describe algorithms of change. They focused on describing the process rather than the content. They drew experience from mathematics, where there are variables, which ultimately allowed them to support the psychotherapist.

The psychotherapist no longer works with content. The psychotherapist says, Do this now, do that, regardless of what it is. Don't tell me about your experiences; you won't share them anyway. The psychotherapist protects themselves and saves a lot of time. In psychoanalysis, Freud worked for three years on stuttering, while in NLP, it turned out that the NLP technique allows you to treat a child with stuttering in just 40 minutes. Yes, and it works for adults too. Then, tools like the one I invented, which I call reprogramming, come into play. It completely rewrites the unconscious codes and ancestral programs, fundamentally changing a person's life. It takes time, but it's systematic. Then, students like Robert L.S. emerge, who, if you studied them, modeled the thinking of successful people and identified a number of characteristics. All of them, the laureates, had a difficult childhood. Now he analyzes their texts, photographs, and memories, packaging their thinking algorithms and models.

Plato, Tesla, Mozart, Newton, Einstein, and now, with the emergence of artificial intelligence, there is an opportunity not just to help living people solve problems effectively and quickly. The best algorithms from various psychological theories have been gathered, well described, well explained, and well structured. Now it is possible to model thinking and embed the peculiarities of Aristotle's thought into artificial intelligence, so that it can start to think like Aristotle. I remind you that a year ago, with the help of Takh Medov, he was at the age when he wrote it. This was an unfinished symphony, and the person I am proud to have known and can proudly say was my student is Misha Dashkiev, one of the creators of Business Youth. He created a project called Units, which uses all these algorithms to achieve results in just two weeks.

Изучать человека, который что-то делает очень хорошо, упаковывает это в семинары и за 2 часа обучает любого человека тому же, - это абсолютно правильный и очень перспективный подход. Сейчас можно любого пенсионера научить за 2 часа зарабатывать деньги, например, обрабатывая видео для YouTube для любого блогера. У блогеров не хватает времени, а у пенсионеров время есть. Они могут зарабатывать и заниматься интересным делом. 

Кроме того, такие навыки могут стать триггером для развития цивилизации. Поэтому, друзья мои, важно помнить, что дискредитация происходит через такие семинары, как как убеждать, как совратить, как обмануть, как продать, как втюхать. К сожалению, такие мероприятия проводятся, но мы поступили умнее. Мы очень жестко закрепили права на это слово, на книги и на образы, чтобы не допустить такого шарлатанства, какое было ранее.

Med manipulation? No, this is a method of modeling that is very constructive and systematic, which allows us to help people and develop civilization. If you want to learn more, I have a course called Lessons of Legends. It's a wonderful project that includes 12 of my lectures on NLP. There are no techniques in this course; it is not a certification course. The certification course must be taken offline at the NLP department with Misha Pelekhaty and Leonid Krol, who are amazing trainers that teach it wonderfully. I no longer do this; they do it better than I ever could. The only thing I managed to achieve was to defend my candidate and doctoral thesis in NLP, proving that the theoretical foundation of NLP is still rooted in Russian Soviet psychology. This was once acknowledged by Dr. Grinder himself in one of our conversations. Of course, we took advantage of the fact that the works of Luria and Galperin were not translated into English. Therefore, for those who want to better understand the methodology, take a look at my course.

На уроках легенд, кто хочет поучиться использовать эти инструменты, очень рекомендую Академию социальных технологий. Это такая у нас академия, которая объединяет множество специалистов. Я там ученый секретарь. Я не люблю быть начальником. У нас есть потрясающий президент - Ирина Почитаева, а вице-президент - знаменитый тренер Марк Кукушкин. Я всего лишь ученый секретарь, но очень горжусь тем, что у нас уже 50 кафедр и ведущие практики в области медитации, психотерапии, переговоров, профайлинга, методологии устного моделирования, менторства, коучинга и тренерства. Мы создали кафедры. Кроме того, мы научились патентовать и регистрировать авторские права на игры, методики, техники и методы психотерапии. Поэтому, кто хочет закрепить свои права, это не так просто сделать в Академии социальных технологий. У нас есть такой инструмент: становитесь экспертом, присоединяйтесь к какой-то кафедре или открывайте свою кафедру.

In the Academy of Social Technologies, we will be very happy to have you. Wishing you success, good luck, and great teachers.

НЛП – шарлатанство или наука? Как создавался один из самых эффективных методов психологии?

Алексей Ситников

NLP tools, emerging from artificial intelligence, are seen as a potential catalyst for civilization's development.

The theoretical basis of NLP is rooted in Russian and Soviet psychology, with the speaker playing a key role in its introduction to the Soviet Union in 1987.

A chance encounter with an American medical book exhibition led to the translation of John Grinder's "From Frog to Prince," ultimately establishing a connection that would have a significant impact on the speaker's journey.

The Ufa Railway Disaster and Its Aftermath

The Ufa railway disaster involved a tragic collision of two trains, resulting in a devastating fire caused by a struck match in a gas pocket.

In the aftermath, a group of volunteers stepped in as crisis psychotherapists to support the grieving families, gaining recognition for their effective work.

Their efforts led to an opportunity to travel to America for training with John Grinder, where they learned about NLP and aimed to spread its knowledge in Eastern Europe.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) gained prominence in the 1970s through the work of John Grinder and Richard Bandler, who were influenced by philosopher Gregory Bateson.

They created a system of algorithms and methods by combining elements from psychoanalysis, gestalt therapy, and hypnosis.

Their profound book, "The Structure of Magic," was followed by the popular "From Frog to Prince," leading to a widespread impact and involvement of many students, including Tony Robbins.

NLP is characterized by its structured linguistic model and pragmatic approach, aiming to analyze and influence behavior from a different perspective.

The Concept of Time and Its Impact on Psychology

The fourth dimension is time, which we cannot control or see, with its representation in space being a complex topic.

The discussion of a person's behavior often relies on external perspectives, leading to the idea of multiple dimensions beyond our own.

Psychologists use time as an axis to describe change, focusing on processes rather than content, and innovative techniques have emerged to effectively treat behavioral issues and reprogram unconscious patterns.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Learning and Skill Development

Artificial intelligence is now being used to model thinking and embed the peculiarities of Aristotle's thought, offering a new approach to problem-solving.

Misha Dashkiev's project, Units, is using psychological algorithms to teach skills in just two weeks, providing opportunities for individuals like retirees to earn money through tasks like video editing for bloggers.

The project aims to counteract disreputable practices by strongly regulating the use of its methods and offering a course called Lessons of Legends for those interested in learning more about NLP.

Академия социальных технологий: Обучение и Профессиональное Развитие

Академия социальных технологий объединяет специалистов в различных областях, предлагая 50 кафедр по медитации, психотерапии, переговорам и другим дисциплинам.

Уникальные возможности патентования и регистрации авторских прав на методики и игры предоставляют защиту прав специалистам.

Академия приглашает желающих стать экспертами, присоединиться к кафедре или открыть свою, предлагая поддержку и развитие.