The team has been chasing me for the last month and a half to start “Uncle Frank's blog” and place it on the website. Truth is until Jerry Beach, who has taken on the role of IT Manager, led me through two of them on line this morning, I really didn’t know what a blog was. So, unable to plead ignorance any longer, here we are. Welcome to Uncle Frank’s NLP Research and Recognition Blog.

Best to start with a little history. I am a licensed clinical psychologist, who was trained in research at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, lectured at Cornell University and built a psychiatric management business which grew to twelve hospitals. I came out of semiretirement to go down to New York after 9/11 and work with eight hundred survivors of the building from the AON Corporation. Afterwards, I found myself with a serious case of cancer losing my bladder and almost my life on a number of occasions.

I found I was able to change the symptoms of the PTSD survivors I was treating with an NLP derived protocol, much quicker and more effectively than the thirty or so therapists I was working with. Similarly, I used NLP techniques to deal with the pain and optimize the healing process with my cancer. When I realized I had “survived” and did the reevaluation natural to that stage, I took an oath to do what I could to get NLP researched and recognized to allow the full use of its wonderful capabilities. In discussions with Judith Delozier and Robert Dilts at NLPU and Dee Kinder from the sponsoring, not for profit IASH, The Research and Recognition Project, seen here on the website, was born.

In a nutshell, the Project intends to organize and network those members of the NLP community with the skills and interest in scientific research, to do research, and then to go on and ensure its effective utilization across the full practice spectrum.

Its core assumptions are two; first, that the hundreds of thousands of trained and knowledgeable NLP supporters worldwide have the skills, motivation and resources to begin this job when the framework necessary to do this are made available; and second, that the NLP materials themselves when researched and able to be compared with other tools will generate the support necessary for continued growth and development. While we have only been going on a volunteer basis for under six months, initial progress has been wonderful.

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENTS

#1. Research grant on treatment of PTSD. Meetings with faculty and administrative staff at Marshall University have resulted in the writing of a large, multi million dollar grant aimed at developing a national NLP treatment program for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for returning Iraq war veterans. The initial pilot study will use treatment protocols developed by NLP clinical experts from around the world. Steve Andreas, Tim Hallbom, Suzi Smith, Charles Faulkner and Robert Dilts have volunteered to participate. Richard Gray PhD. of Fairleigh Dickenson University is writing the NLP underpinnings for the grant proposal and the Marshall team, led by Professors Bill McDowell and Mike & Amanda Corrigan are constructing the rest. They hope to have it ready to submit in April.

#2. ISTSS Proposals Two proposals have been submitted to the Annual International Society for Trauma Stress Studies, being held in November in Baltimore. A team of six to eight Project members, from the Research Committee, (Steve Andreas, Joe Yeager PhD, Rick Gray PhD, Bill McDowell PhD, Mike Corrigan PhD, Amanda Corrigan PhD, Mike Saggese, Bill Garrison and yours truly) have developed proposals which, if accepted, will present a Symposium on the PTSD Grant and a Workshop over-viewing NLP Eye Movement Integration Treatment with a PTSD Vietnam Vet. This will put the Project and for many, NLP, on this national scientific stage for the first time. Stay tuned and come join us at the conference if the proposal is accepted.

So much has happened in such a short period. And much more to report as soon as there’s time…

Future Announcements and Articles:

• The beginning of an online Research Library.
• Multimillion dollar research grant on NLP treatment of PTSD.
• Clearinghouse for international practitioner evaluation study.
• NLP Wikepedia project.
• The research and recognition project as a marketing tool for NLP Practitioners, NLP Training Institutes, and IASH.