To get NLP to help you achieve the changes you desire, you have to make a choice. There’s no avoiding it. You have a choice of 3 optimal or primary options:

1. Take a lot of expensive training over time, and get extraordinarily good at knowing & using NLP, which might help you to become good enough at it, that you can create the changes you want in your life. The benefit of this route is, you might also get good enough to help others. That may be a career choice that would excite you.
2. Hire an NLP-trained coach or Practitioner to do their magic on/with you, which may vaguely resemble therapy depending on how badly trained the NLP practitioner or coach is. Done right, you should get some of the changes you want, but you’ll be paying premium rates by the hour for such 1-on-1 work.
3. Attend one or several short, applied courses or seminars like this one, which instead of training you in NLP, the seminar leaders use NLP while they lead you through exercises or experiences that get you to think differently about your situation. Then you sometimes get the change you want, but you won’t have actually learned a lot of NLP consciously. If you want the results without a new career in NLP, this is the way to go.

Go learn more about the Mental Renovation Workshops in Chambersburg, PA and sign up!

Jonathan Altfeld’s new trainings originally appeared on NLPhilia Blog on 2008-11-9 (Sunday).

1. January 17-18
2. January 31-Feb 1
3. February 14-15
4. March 14-15
5. March 28-29
6. April 25-26
7. May 16-17

Register before October 15th for early-bird discounts. The venue is TRS Professional Suites at 44 East 32nd Street in New York City.

NLP Prac and Master Prac in New York City originally appeared on NLPhilia Blog on 2008-09-27 (Saturday).

There’s a prejudice in American culture against away-from motivation, a persistent belief that it’s somehow ineffective or worse. I think that’s garbage. People with away-from motivation can accomplish great things:

Scared, and more than a little frustrated, I made up my mind, then and there, to do SOMETHING about my situation. I took out a piece of paper – actually, the back of an envelope – and I began to…

Read the rest of You. Can. at No Credit Needed.

The power of away-from originally appeared on NLPhilia Blog on 2008-08-29 (Friday).

1. Jumping to Conclusions
2. Projection
3. Lacking Ownership
4. Poor “Brain Juice”
5. Lack of a Well-Formed Outcome
6. Lacking Belief in Their Ability
7. Not Defining the Problem in Solvable Terms
8. Incongruence
9. Not Paying Attention (Helping Clients to Follow Instructions)
10. Not Testing

Tom outlines each issue and offers a simple solution to each. Definitely worth reading.

Here’s the Link to Part One, and here’s the Link to Part Two.

Client Work: Ten Common Traps to Overcome originally appeared on NLPhilia Blog on 2008-01-5 (Saturday).

Mastery InSight Institute: NLP Master Practitioner Certification

Mastery InSight Institute: NLP Master Practitioner Certification originally appeared on NLPhilia Blog on 2007-12-29 (Saturday).

If people learn to listen well enough to track the larger belief systems, then, they can then use Sleight of Mouth skills to wire completely around a problem belief, without actually attacking the problem belief. Then you can change someone’s mind without them feeling defensive about it, and sometimes, without them even knowing. That represents the most elegant use of Sleight of Mouth possible.

They’re doing it again in June of 2008 as the first module of a Master Practitioner training. Here’s your chance to grab it up before it’s all gone.

Belief Craft – Elegant and Pervasive Belief Change seminar

Belief Craft originally appeared on NLPhilia Blog on 2007-12-29 (Saturday).

If you want to change your life forever, or make it even better, take advantage of this great value! Learn at Excellence Quest with Barbara Stepp, Certified Licensed Master Trainer of NLP™ and DHE™, corporate trainer and premier coach. John LaValle, MBA, President of the Society of NLP™ says, “Barb is a true professional, an asset to NLP™ and one of the few trainers we can refer people to.” She is highly recommended by Dr. Richard Bandler, co-creator and developer of Neuro Linguistic Programming™ and creator of Design Human Engineering™. Dr. Bandler says,” Barb is one of the best. There is none better.” Many say, “Barb teaches NLP™ with a heart.”

Link to more information
Link to sign up now
Special price when you sign up for both this class and Simply Hypnosis/Practitioner

Simply NLP Master Practitioner Training, December 2007 originally appeared on NLPhilia Blog on 2007-11-10 (Saturday).

Link to the training info page

Master Practitioner Training in London originally appeared on NLPhilia Blog on 2007-10-25 (Thursday).