| Judith deLozier |
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Judith deLozier is one of the founder members of NLP. A number of brilliant students including Richard Bandler, who met at Judith's house in the early days, John Grinder was the professor of linguistics. But while Bandler and Grinder are generally regarded as the founders of NLP, Judith's input was considerable. She was married to John Grinder and they collaborated on Turtles All The Way Down.  |
If you could choose 3 role models?
a) My mom: She was only educated to the 10th grade (age 14) but she was an avid learner, she read constantly, Her qualities were infinite patience, Her second quality was that she never gossiped. Her third quality was that she was strong as hell.
b) The nun on wheels: My second role model comes from my early years at school. I went to a tiny catholic school, in which 8 grades were in three rooms. I was about 6 so I was tiny looking up at this nun. She was a large woman and tall and with black robes, down to the ground it seemed like she moved on skates or something. She expected you to bring your best, and she created the opportunity for you to show that.
c) My third model is a man: Dr Professor Noel King of Religious Studies at UCSC University of California Santa Cruz He was my inspiration, he was awakening me to my mission. He really valued what I had to say. In all conversation I was heard and seen by him. But above all as with all great teachers or sponsors he was 155% on my side. |
| What are you as a metaphor for your life?
The dance. But it does imply a partner. Sometimes it's clumsy. Also you can get toes stepped on in a relationship.
I see the metaphor applying to my life's work as an ascending spiral, so it's very much three dimensional, and dynamic. In each of the loops on the way up is an event, a formative event, but I also see myself from each event diving down into the belly of the whale and then ascending again.
The spiral has two components: one is the natural world, so the natural world is inclusive of all men and animals, or species, the other component is maths and science . In the spiral are many loops and each loop represents a complete episode of life, each one transcends the beauty, and then down into the belly of the whale and come back more myself. Each one is a new homeostasis*.
If you want to change the world, change the metaphor. Back to top |
Which part of your life was most memorable to you, and why?
The birth of my son. One day in my entire life when I knew where I was and what I was doing. The hardest and best work I have ever done. Back to top |
From which event did you get the most learning?
The most learning; the divorce and the shock. The biggest learning ever, falling into the belly of the whale standing at the edge of the world. We'd been married for 15 years, with 3 kids, one between us. We had been together in the dance. I was in denial, where do I trust this person? Is it something in me? Blindness falls away. All those ways that I thought I knew myself, as wife, colleague, wife, mother, co-author, business partner. I've always seen things as a partnership, like the dance. Back to top |
What was the most serendipitous turn your life took?
After my divorce. It's sad, but I had a deep realization, deep knowledge that I had the chance/opportunity to start again. I didn't speak any Spanish, this was the time when Latin American hated Americans. My kids were worried about me, and then I was in a ship wreck. I needed adventure, get a fresh perspective, and it didn't matter where. When I took off and went to central South America. I didn't speak Spanish. The biggest serendipity was of just going. Back to top |
Were you aware that women may be treated differently?
Not really, I saw no limitations, until a certain age when I found that the medical profession, saw me in a certain, way. I walked out the room, and he pursued me down the corridor shouting: "If you were my wife." Women of a certain age are not seen as a whole person. Again the idea that women are defined by the hormonal stages of their life. So you are seen to be beyond usefulness. Back to top |
Since the early days of NLP as a group of students, it would be fair to say that you've contributed not just an enormous amount in developing NLP, but some of the key concepts?
These are my contributions:
- Understanding the difference.
- The body as representation system.
- I defined the levels of learning which later became the logical levels.
- More recently I developed the idea of "the Field".
"The notion of field as a type of space or energy produced by relationship s and interactions in a system. The idea of a physical field has important implications both direct an metaphorical for ph psychology and NLP." NLP Encyclopaedia. | |
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One of the career high points for Judith is that of generative collaboration, which she finds is the most enriching and gives the greatest burst of creativity. Drawing on the wisdom of the field. This is so much a feature of a woman on a mission, that working collaboratively releases creativity, and is a true feature of sponsorship.
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| Christina
Woman on a Mission
To inspire, delight and empower.
Motivational speaker, NLP Master Practitioner, Counsellor and Coach
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