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St. Clair and Grinders book Whispering in the Wind states, Our intention is to provoke a professional high quality public dialogue among the practitioners of NLP, as an integral part of these developments, (7, p. 348) In my review of their book (2) I pointed out the some of the incongruences and contradictions above, as well as many others. I sent my review to St. Clair and Grinder months in advance of publication to give them an opportunity to respond to it. When my review was published they promised in writing to respond to it in a later issue. It is now three years since my review was published, but they have not yet responded. Their failure to participate in a dialogue contradicts their stated intention to provoke a professional, high quality public dialogue among the practitioners of NLP, yet another incongruence.
St. Clair and Grinder have harsh words for teachers who are incongruent:
- There were a number of extremely well-trained practitioners of NLP who were themselves clearly capable of miracles (relative to the capabilities of other systems of change work) with clients; however it apparently had never occurred to them (or perhaps they simply had chosen not) to apply the patterning to themselves—that is, self-application of the patterning. Thus, my perception was that many of them were incongruent in significant contexts in their lives—there were portions of their personal and professional lives that showed absolutely no presence of the choices they busily assisted others in creating in their lives. I was not happy with this situation. (7, p. 231)
CAVEAT: Messengers incongruent with the message they purport to bear are not listened to, nor should they be! (7, p. 366)
Given the incongruences noted above, these statements by St. Clair and Grinder refer to themselves, and are paradoxical as well as incongruent. I invite them to clarify these contradictions.
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