David Gordon is an American

United States

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 author and trainer and early contributor to the development of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Neuro-linguistic programming

Neuro-linguistic programming is an approach to psychotherapy, self-help and organizational change. Founders Richard Bandler and John Grinder say that NLP is a model of interpersonal communication and a system of alternative therapy which seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective...

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Gordon has helped create and shape the field of NLP since some decades yet. Gordon's main areas of contribution have been the use of therapeutic metaphor

Therapeutic metaphor

Therapeutic metaphor is a type of conceptual metaphor presented as a story or other parallel to an entire aspect of a situation, related by a psychotherapist to a patient. The purpose of this is to highlight to a person, in an effective way, some aspects and lessons that otherwise they might not be...

s, inspired by his work with Milton H. Erickson

Milton H. Erickson

Milton Hyland Erickson, was an American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy...

, and the further development of modeling. Together with Graham Dawes, Gordon has developed the "Experiential Array", a modeling tool described in his most recent book Expanding Your World: Modeling the Structure of Experience.

Gordon now lives in the Sonoran Desert

Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the northwest Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. It is one of the largest and hottest...

 in Arizona

Arizona

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which he describes as: "with my friends the coyotes, rattlesnakes, tarantulas, scorpions, lizards, and other such beautiful creatures."

External links

• Website about his latest book Expanding Your World

http://www.therapeuticmetaphors.com offers a five DVD set of David Gordon teaching Therapeutic Metaphor.