Most NLP books are about the results of modelling projects, not about the modelling process itself. For example, the first five (pre-NLP) books by John Grinder & Richard Bandler's (and others) were the product of their modelling. You have to read between the lines to infer how they modelled:

Bandler, Richard & Grinder, John, The Structure of Magic vol. I, (Science and Behaviour Books, 1975)

Bandler, Richard, and John Grinder, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume 1, (Meta Publications, Cupertino, CA, 1975)

Grinder, John, and Bandler, Richard, The Structure of Magic vol. II (Science and Behaviour Books, 1976)

Bandler, Richard, Grinder, John, and Satir, Virginia, Changing with Families (Science and Behaviour Books, 1976)

Grinder, John, Judith DeLozier, and Richard Bandler, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume 2 (Meta Publications, Cupertino, CA, 1977)

For more information on modelling you can consult (listed in approximate chronological order):

The original and highly technical work on eliciting, designing, utilising and installing strategies is by Richard Bandler, John Grinder, Robert Dilts & Judith DeLozier, Neuro Linguistic Programming Vol 1: The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience (Meta Publications, 1980).

Leslie Cameron-Bandler, David Gordon & Michael Lebeau wrote The Emprint Method: A Guide to Reproducing Competence in order "to provide you with tools that will enable you to identify and acquire (or transfer to others) desirable human aptitudes."  Although David Gordon now says it is really about modelling emotional competence. (Real People Press, 1985)

Judith DeLozier's account of her and John Grinder's modelling project of people who have completed interesting modelling projects can be found in Turtles All The Way Down (Grinder, DeLozier & Associates, 1987). Also see her article 'Mastery, New Coding, and Systemic NLP' in NLP World (Vol. 2 No. 1, March 1995) has a brief description of a "not knowing" state that is excellent for "intuitive modelling".

Steve & Connirae Andreas have published numerous books on the results of their modelling including: Change Your Mind - And Keep The Change (Real People Press, 1987), Heart Of The Mind (Real People Press, 1989).

For a short and simple introduction to strategy elicitation, see chapter 4 of Charlotte Bretto's, A Framework for Excellence (Grinder, DeLozier & Associates, 1988).

Anthony Robbins has a very readable couple of chapters on modelling strategies in Unlimited Power (Simon & Schuster, 1988).

Robert Dilts & Todd Epstein's Tools For Dreamers is packed with micro and macro processes for modelling with lots of examples of strategies for creativity. (Meta Publications, 1991)

Robert Dilts. His three volumes, Strategies of Genius Volumes I, II & III are the definitive work on "conceptual modelling", especially when your exemplar is an historic figure. (Meta Publications, 1994/1995)

Robert Dilts, Modelling with NLP, provides an in-depth look at the modelling process and its applications (Meta Publications, 1998). For an short article see Robert's 'Overview of Modeling in NLP' (1998).

David Gordon has reissued his Modelling With NLP: An Introduction To Effective Modelling as a set of 4 CDs (NLP Comprehensive 1998/2004)

Robert Dilts and Judith DeLozier Encyclopaedia of NLP provides a description of many of the concepts and practices associated with modelling (NLP University Press, 2000).

James Lawley and Penny Tompkins detail a new form of modelling derived from their study of David Grove in Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling (Developing Company Press, 2000).

Their website contains numerous articles on modelling: www.cleanlanguage.co.uk/articles/categories/Modelling/ including an extensive report with video clips of their 'Modelling Robert Dilts Modelling' (2010).

John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair, Whispering in the Wind (J & C Enterprises, CA, 2001) www.nlpwhisperinginthewind.com  See also videos of John talking about modelling at: youtube.com/watch?v=CO_cHCuz9BU and youtube.com/watch?v=nSI7z9_Ga0Y

John McWhirter article 'Re-modelling NLP: Part Fourteen: Re-Modelling Modelling' (Rapport 59 2002)

David Gordon and Graham Dawes have written Expanding Your World: Modeling the Structure of Experience with a DVD which provides an excellent introduction to modelling using their "experiential array" (2005). There is also a wealth of information at: www.expandyourworld.net

Lukas Derks used "population modelling" to discover how we structure of inner social landscapes: Social Panoramas: Changing the Unconscious Landscape with NLP and Psychotherapy (Crown House, 2005)

Steve Andreas has modelled how we use "scope and category" to create meaning Six Blind Elephants Vols 1 and 2 (Real People Press, 2006). He has also written an article on 'Modeling with NLP' (Rapport 46 Winter 1999) and a couple of articles in response to John Grinder & Carmen Bostic St Clair's comments about NLP modelling: 'The Emperor's New Prose' (The Model Magazine, Summer 2006) and 'Modeling Modeling', 2006.

Last updated 19 Sept 2011