This work represents the culmination of several years of training and self-exploration within the confines of a specific sphere of study. It was in the early 1970's that I was led through a powerful therapeutic experience by two important people in my life, Frank Pucelik and Leslie Cameron (now Bandler).
That session had a profound and lasting effect on me. Soon after the experience I found myself thinking, "I want to learn how to do that kind of magic!" And so I did.
With the help of Leslie and Frank, I became a member of a small experimental-research therapy group in Santa Cruz, California. Thus I became one of a growing number of people who were actually studying the magic of therapeutic growth and change.
This extremely creative and generative group of people centered around two exciting and charismatic individuals: Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
Caught up in the enthusiastic energy of the group, I found my perceptions heightening, my abilities growing, and my own model of the world expanding as if by magic.
It wasn't enough, however, to simply learn how to do this therapeutic wizardry. I wanted to share it with others.
I began to compile notebooks detailing my learning experiences and started to see clients under the supervision of therapists who were also interested in the Meta materials.
It didn't take long to develop a style of my own, and I labeled my notes "A Model for a Process 'theory of Personality."
