the Central London nlp group

Living NLP The newsletter of the Central London NLP Group Issue 2

Note that much of the information in past issues of Living NLP is out of date.
Text in this colour is used to indicate information that has been brought up to date.

Leading NLP into the Millennium
"We can transform our existing paradigms and help to create a world to which we all want to belong" - NLP University 1997 Catalog In issue 1 we reported on the Visionary Leadership Conference in Santa Cruz, California. In November Katrina Patterson reported back to the NLP Group at a session for practitioners. The technologies used at Santa Cruz for 'Imagineering' the future included a software program utilising the Disney Strategy and the Belief Audit, an enormous manual on leadership compiled by Robert Dilts over the previous few years and 22 working groups covering issues such as health, politics and education. Katrina (and Shelle Rose Charvet) joined the Communications and Networking group. Due to time constraints, the people in Katrina's group haven't kept in touch, but the conference led to a recent three-day European trainers' conference, and Katrina is involved in organising another 'Trainers' Forum' for Istanbul next year. One wish of the Community Leadership Project of which the conference was part, was that there should be international NLP days. Unfortunately, there just isn't the organisation or money. However, the idea gave the ANLP the impetus to produce a press release on the Well-Formed Outcome in good time for New Year resolution articles, which proved fruitful. ANLP also rewrote the ANLP booklet and they have distributed 6,000 copies world-wide, which is double the number previously sent out. We haven't seen a copy of the book ensuing from the Project, but believe it's published on the Internet. There's apparently a lot on the Internet about the Project. Get information from Robert Dilts at rdilts@nlpu.com who also has links to other projects. And NLP University http://www.nlpu.com, and Joseph O'Connor's web site at http://www.lambent.com.
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Times of meetings
We now meet at 6:15pm for a 6:45 kick-off, with session leaders taking over from the host at 7pm. We take a 15-minute break at 8pm, which gives you time to queue for tea then race back while trying not to spill it, and finish sessions at 9pm. Thanks to Richard Stacey for his proposal for brining the time forward, which has made a lot of people happier.
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Library relaunch
The library is re-opening before the end of May under the auspices of Tony O'Doherty, with transport assistance from David Kenna. We look forward to borrowing books and tapes again, and to seeing some come back! Remember, you'll only be able to take out more books and tapes when you've returned any you've previously had out on loan. AMNESTY until end of July for all books and tapes returned that were borrowed prior to 1998. [STOP PRESS Since this article was written, Tony has found that he was unable to run the library due to ill health. We'll keep you posted.]
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Eric Robbie evening
Eric Robbie is leading a session for the Group for the first time in over 4 years on 23rd June. Eric was the first Master Practitioner in the UK, he discovered submodality eye accessing cues, and for three years was Richard Bandler's co-trainer on all of Richard's trainings.
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John Grinder in town
John Grinder is in London for the first time in seven years. While he's here he'll be leading at least two seminars: 5th to 7th June with Carmen Bostic St Clair for PPD called The Substance Behind the Shadow: Pattern Detection £340 + VAT. a one-day session for the ANLP on Monday June 8th entitled A Conversation About Language, Logics and Learning - excellent value at £70, or £65 for members. PPD: 0181 201 3333, fax 205 5989 ANLP Events: 0181 806 6165
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Richard Bandler statement
The SNLP (Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming) has published a statement by Richard Bandler about the much-discussed litigation in which he's involved. You can phone McKenna-Breen to discuss it and to enquire about the possibility of receiving a copy. Tel 0171 704 6604, Fax 0171 704 1676
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Editorial
It was really good to get so much positive feedback about issue 1 of Living NLP. It's been a long time since the last issue. We've been very busy just getting on with our lives, not to mention helping to organise and run a practice group. And we are still waiting for contributions. So we welcome anything from you, whether articles (maybe on how you use NLP in your everyday life), news about Group members or the world of NLP in general, letters, or feedback on the newsletter itself. If you come up with anything, send it to Garry (the address is at bottom of the page). By the way, please do photocopy Living NLP, provided it's copied in its entirety only, and pass it on to others. We'd like it to reach as many interested people as possible, but the authors still retain their copyright in individual articles. - Isha and Garry
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Internet library of modelling projects
People have been saying for years how great it would be if all those modelling projects we generated on our NLP trainings were in a globally available library. The good news is that Joseph O'Connor is building one on the Internet and you don't get much more global than that these days. His Web address is http://www.lambent.com. Joseph also provides guidelines for submitting the modelling projects. NLP on-line magazine Information on Joseph's NLP magazine is at the same web address.
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Sue Knight - see you soon
Sue Knight, who was booked to run a session for us on 17th February, became suddenly unwell and was unable to be with us. We look forward to perhaps seeing her at the Group later in the year.
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Ice Cream Swish
We'd like you to send in examples of how you use NLP in your everyday life. Here's one from Isha (Marysia Kurowski) The weather was hot, my tooth feeling sweet, the cotton high, etc. (yes, I was getting carried away by the headiness of it all) - and I thought I danged well deserved a bucket of Dayville's yum cheesecake-flavoured ice cream. And a black cherry flavoured one as well. So I lounged in the park for an hour or so, and on the way back bought a cheesecakey one, and a black cherry one... and a nutty chocolatey one... A little later that evening I was appalled that my ice cream had all gone. WHO had stolen it? ME! Enough is enough, or perhaps much too much. Swish was called for. My first picture was of me going into the shop and buying the ice cream. Then I swished every picture that was of the opposite: I walked on by, I gave the ice cream back, I was sick in it, I put it back in the shop's fridge, I bought something else, I poked my tongue out at the shop as I passed, and some things that I shan't mention. Then I tried bringing the original picture back. My stubborn old mind refused. With some relief, the terror that I might scoff three buckets of ice cream daily for the rest of my life subsided. The learning is that I'd better not go into that shop again in case I throw up into their ice cream. Or worse. (Garry thought the Swish pattern was supposed to be a technique that works by automatically replacing an unwanted behaviour with a "better" one...) How does the Swish work? Briefly, you make two mental pictures, one of the behaviour you want to get rid of, and one of the behaviour you want to replace it with. Make the first picture shrink and disappear off to the horizon, while at the same time the one you want fills up your mental screen. You do this really quickly several times until it sticks. Then, like Isha did, go out and test it!
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Did you know?
...that the Association for NLP (ANLP) has a new, comprehensive information booklet? To receive copies of this for yourself, or to distribute to libraries, colleges, etc., contact ANLP: PO Box 78, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 4ZJ
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Committee ins and outs
There have been some changes to the Organising Committee recently. In the out-tray Marysia (Isha) Kurowski leaves after ten months of coordinating the programme. She gave up her studies in order to help keep the Group going last summer. Ian McLaren  Ian, who was Training Coordinator, is now able to devote himself to completing his current book and to his business. Garry Knight  Like Ian, Garry has spent a total of two and a half years on the Committee and needs a rest! In the in-tray Jacqueline Stevens  You might have seen Jacqueline, a UKCP-accredited hypnotherapist, collecting money at the door. Niels Thomas  Niels is temporarily co-ordinating the Group's programme. Tony O'Doherty  Tony will be running the library shortly. He has just finished a long stint as Group host. Ron Knight  Ron's duties as part of the team have yet to be decided. If you'd like to join the team, contact any of the above.
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Master Practitioner Training
by Ian McLaren, Rapport Magazine's Events Diary Coordinator At Master Practitioner level, you have a number of choices about the style and content of the training. Unlike Practitioner, there is no core syllabus and every training company has its own idea of what to teach. The main choices are: do you want to stick with your Practitioner level trainer? do you want an intensive or extensive pattern of seminars? do you want to specialise? On the first point, some training companies do not yet offer a Master track, and some that do employ a series of guest presenters to do most of the trainings. If this is your style then you can have a module taught by almost any of the famous writers and trainers in NLP if you choose the right training. Here are some of the possibilities: Centre NLP - Eric Robbie, Sid Jacobsen, Reg Connolly Frank Daniels Associates - Fran Burgess, Shelle Rose Charvet, Michael Hall ITS - Tim Hallbom, Susi Smith, Christina Hall, Robert Dilts, Tad James Sue Knight Associates - John McWhirter, Penny Tompkins, James Lawley Marlin - Diana Beaver, Arielle Essex, Penny Tompkins, James Lawley PPD - Robert Dilts, Charles Faulkner, David Gordon, Christina Hall Realisation - Michael Mallows, John Overdurf, Julie Silverthorn If you want an intensive, possibly residential course, the ones in the UK include: Centre NLP Leicester, 14 days, July Frank Daniels Associates Derbyshire Dales, 22 days, July/August Performance Partnership London, 17 days, June/July Sensory Systems Lake District, 15 days, August/September Overseas there are other courses, including: AND (Tad James), 15 days, Hawaii, November or California, July NLP Comprehensive, (Lara Ewing), 24 days, Colorado, August NLP University, (Dilts/DeLozier), 28 days, California, June/July PEL (Wyatt Woodsmall), 16 days, Washington DC, July Think (Christina Hall), 16 days, Germany, May/June If you want to specialise then you can choose a company because of its general specialisation, or a course with multiple tracks. The only split-emphasis Master Practitioner course I can find offered at the moment is at the NLP University (choice of health or business tracks). INLPTA members are allowed to offer Business Master Practitioner certificates, but I don't yet know of any courses (try Performance Enhancement Ltd). Community-based courses are offered by Organisational Health. The Sensory Systems courses use Developmental Behavioural Modelling rather than straight NLP. NLP Northeast London course specialises in teaching and learning. Costs tend to be rather higher at Master track than at Practitioner level. One cheap offer is from NLP Northeast in Ealing - £750 for 10 weekends from October. The next cheapest are about £1000: Training Changes (Cheltenham) or Organisation Health (Warrington). With a business NLP specialist you can pay well over £3,000 plus transport, food and accommodation. Ian McLaren is a business coach, INLPTA NLP trainer and author. He has just finished his latest book, Strategies for Communicating and is starting on his new one, provisionally titled Talking Intelligence.
Why not tell us about your experience with a training company?	Contents

Training Report
John Turner wrote to us in April 1997 to tell us about his Practitioner training with Christina Bachini I trained with Christina because I had previously experienced her as a co-facilitator on a 2-year Humanistic Psychology Diploma at Surrey University. During that time I found her to be thoroughly reliable, ethical, and very experienced with groups. I learned a lot from her and fully trusted her. Over the two years it was consistently clear that she was a mature and emotionally competent and congruent woman. She was also a powerful facilitator. During the two years she shared some of her NLP skills with me and with other students. Her enthusiasm and commitment to the subject was infectious and inspiring. "My presentations have become more magical" I completed my Practitioner training with Christina Bachini and John Perrett in September 1996. Both used trance states throughout the workshop and also taught us Timeline Therapy and hypnosis. I have used much of what I learnt extensively in my practice, both as a therapist and as a trainer. My presentations have become more magical and I am getting even better feedback. The scope of my therapy, much of which is with abuse-reactive adults and children, has been extended and the feedback I am getting is that it is becoming even more effective as a result of Christina and John's training. In June 1997 I am going to the USA to complete my Master Practitioner training with Neuro-Energetics. It is no coincidence that John Overdurf and Julie Silverthorn have figured prominently in Christina's NLP training and development. Applied Neuro-Linguistic Trainings (Christina Bachini) 0208 287 5191 The Editors would like to hear from any of our readers about their experiences with NLP training, good or bad, so we can pass the information on to others.
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ATTENTION all session leaders and presenters
When we're in the throes of juggling our lives, dealing with the traffic and preparing unpaid sessions for practice groups, it can be easy for us to forget what life was like on the 'other side'. The Group's programme attracts people who make special journeys to London from as far as Cambridge, Winchester and S. Wales. Also those living around London can experience journeys of up to two hours to get some much-valued NLP practice. And attendees tell us that is what they expect - practice. They also ask that sessions offered as appropriate for Practitioners of NLP only are just that. The Group's guidelines for speakers are available to anyone who asks, and are usually sent to all prospective speakers. It's up to us to read them and act appropriately. By delivering the goods at practice sessions we give attendees, as our prospective clients, the confidence that we can deliver the goods that we promise in our training publicity. And let's remember that many of the Group's attendees are as intelligent and NLP-aware as we are. The NLP Group would like to thank all those session leaders who have given the Group excellent practice sessions over the past year.
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How do you start a practice group?
We recently received a letter from an NLPer abroad who wanted to start an NLP practice group, and could we send some information about starting and running a group? We don't have this sort of information to hand and we put it off. Trying to run our own, weekly, pre-programmed group with attendant complications was taking up all and more of the spare time of our three active Committee members. If you know anything about starting and running an NLP practice group, have the time to type it up, and are willing to forgo copyright on it, could you please put it onto paper or disk and send it to the editors at the address at the bottom of the page.
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Loyalty saves the day
Several speakers have kindly come to the last-minute aid of the Group in the past year. Michael Mallows, a popular speaker who has supported the Group for many years, stood in at ten days' notice to fill a slot with little prior publicity. Actor Michael Neill helped us out at Practitioner level at similar notice and next to no publicity, and Ian McLaren stood in for an indisposed speaker with not even a couple of seconds notice. Ian happened to be standing at the front of the group and gradually realised he was running the session! Feedback reports tell us that all three were good sessions, too.
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Ilford practice group
Glenda Yearwood is starting a new NLP practice group in Ilford. Contact Glenda for more information on: 0208 551 9308.
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Trainset™
"Why didn't they teach this at school?" - Mike Leibling Started in 1997, Trainset aims to be a learning resource providing people with personal skills to handle all sorts of situations. The brainchild of NLPer Mike Leibling, Trainset now has a group of about ten people from all kinds of 'ology' backgrounds (such as NLP and TA) who make up the managing team. They are planning and organising trainings with sponsor organisations such as the Secretarial Development Network ('SDN') who sponsored six training days. The feedback from the SDN-sponsored days was very positive, and Trainset now wishes to form similar training relationships with 24 other pilot 'sponsor' organisations from a variety of sectors. As Mike says, "We'd like to spread it as much as we can". They're currently looking to cover their costs. So any trainers they use probably won't make a fortune!! If you know of potential sponsor organisations which you'd like Trainset to approach, or if you're a trainer who'd like to be a Trainset trainer once the pilot programme is over (you must have NLP skills), contact: Mike Leibling PO Box 8505 London NW6 3SS Tel: 0207 328 3746 Fax: 0207 328 3333 Email: trainset@learnme.com.
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Submitting articles
We welcome articles about the Group and about the NLP community. If you want to contribute to Living NLP, you can send your article by e-mail, in plain text format, Rich Text Format, MS Word (2, 6, 95 or 97) format, Lotus WordPro format, or Windows WordPad format. Alternatively, you can e-mail it in plain text or HTML format to: editor@nlpgroup.freeserve.co.uk.
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