Richard Bandler - State Of The Art - 1987 - Adv...

Richard Bandler’s State of the Art (1987) is not a polished textbook. It is a that captures one of the most innovative minds of late 20th-century change work at his peak. For students of NLP, hypnosis, or rapid personal change, it remains an indispensable – though challenging – resource.

Though not explicitly called “New Code” (Grinder’s term), Bandler introduces the – deliberately creating states and then applying them to problems, rather than “fixing” the problem directly. Richard Bandler - State of the Art - 1987 - Adv...

One iconic exercise from this seminar—known as the “Spin” or “Circle of Excellence”—involves literally dragging an imaginary circle across the floor, stepping into it, and forcing the brain to access states of creativity on command. His instructions are rapid, layered with metaphor, and designed to overload the conscious mind so the unconscious can learn. Richard Bandler’s State of the Art (1987) is

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The subtitle “Advanced” in the 1987 seminar is critical. This was not for beginners. Bandler assumed you knew eye-accessing cues, predicates, and rapport. He moved beyond content (the story of the trauma) into context and structure . He utilizes his signature style: The subtitle “Advanced”