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Living NLP The newsletter of the Central London NLP Group Issue 7

Wanted: Modellers of Excellence
Siân Pope recently interviewed John Grinder, co-creator of NLP, on behalf of PPD Personal Development. She asked in an e-mail, in relation to his upcoming seminar in July: “What do you think the future of NLP is? Do you think it will grow in popularity? How do you see it developing?” John Grinder: I would prefer to not to make a prediction – or more strongly put, in the context of this question, I refuse prediction – it is an idle, passive pursuit unworthy of serious time and attention (in the context we are discussing it – it clearly has value in other contexts) – better to create the future than to predict it. This is entirely congruent with the spirit of modeling excellence – the heart of NLP. It takes little time to peruse articles, for example, in psychological journals to note that they are focused on the average – I take it that we agree that NLP focuses on one of the extremes of the standard distribution with the express purpose of creating explicit learnable models of the differences which make the difference between a genius and an average performer in whatever field. The standard psychology study is designed to allow the prediction of mass behavior – the corresponding studies (modeling) in NLP are designed to distribute the patterns of excellence so as to distort the future by offering explicit roads to excellence never the average. Similarly, I regard popularity as a questionable criterion to focus on – the issue for me is the quality of the work and a congruent commitment to the coding of new patterns in a vocabulary which makes it eminently learnable – whether such activity is popular is irrelevant. Popularity is, in some cases at least, the death knell of an important revolutionary movement. The future of NLP is in the hands of the people who presently offer themselves to the world as purveyors of NLP. My assessment at present is that the vast majority of effort at present in NLP is focused on marketing. The majority of the classic patterns originally coded by Bandler and myself have already been incorp-orated into, for example, state of the art management training work as an application. In a relatively short period of time, NLP – the modeling of excellence – will have been exhausted in the sense that the classic patterns will have been applied to the majority of obvious applications – medicine, psychotherapy, management, athletics,... NLP then has no future unless there emerges a group of men and women who dedicate themselves to the modeling and transfer of new patterns – if not, then NLP will be relegated to some historical footnote as a promising technology that burnt itself out in the last few decades of the 20th century and the first couple of decades of the 21st century. Carmen Bostic and I will continue to identify and code patterns of excellence in larger systems – corporations, institutes, governments,.. The question is whether others will join us in this pursuit of excellence and its modeling. Siân Pope: 01275 856537 E-mail: sianpope@netgates.co.uk Siân Pope is a corporate consultant, natural therapist and writer. She is particularly interested in our relationships with the natural worlds. You can read a longer article by Siân on the same subject on the PPD website: www.ppdpd.co.uk.
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Grinder London seminar: Special offer
In the last issue we brought you news of John Grinder’s return to the UK for only the second time in ten years, and of his three-day seminar with Carmen Bostic St Clair, Tapestry: Weaving Your Life. The seminar, presented by PPD Personal Development, runs from 7 to 9 July and normally costs £399.50 including VAT. Dave Crisp of PPD has made a special offer to members of the Central London NLP Group of £320 including VAT – a saving of about 20% – if booked by 10 June. We hear that John Grinder hopes to have a feisty group of people. PPD Personal Development Tel: 020 8201 3333 E-mail: ppdpd@ppdpd.co.uk Website: www.ppdpd.co.uk
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Bandler workshops
Richard Bandler will present his latest developments in Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning™, “the combination of east and west, old and new, his travel to India, NASA, and the streets of China town.” His workshops will be on in Edinburgh 7-8 October, and Dublin 14-15 October, £385 + VAT. (£350 + VAT before 30 June). E-mail: kateb@matrixmeta.fsnet.co.uk Website: www.meta-nlp.co.uk/
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Editorial
Whether you’re a newcomer to NLP or a Trainer – or somewhere in-between – you’ll find your NLP skills enhanced if you practise every day. It’s not always easy to find partners or a comfortable practice room, though. And, if you do, you still want those skills to be accessible to you outside the practice room and easily usable in the outside world. One answer is to practise NLP on the run, wher-ever you happen to find yourself. Finding people to practise your skills on in the “real world” is easy enough – there are plenty of them, but what do you do once you’ve found them? The greater part of NLP practice is the detection and utilisation of patterns. The more you practise detecting them, to the point where you are acting at the level of unconscious competence, the more you’ll find yourself using them. You can start by making a list of the kinds of patterns you can filter for. What goes on the list depends on how much NLP you know. Two basic kinds of patterns you’ll detect in people’s behaviour are physiological and verbal indicators. Under the physiological indicators you might include VAK accessing, submodalities, rapport, congruence, conscious and unconscious processing, uptime and downtime. The verbal indicators list could include sensory predicates and metaphors, submodality indicators, Meta Model, temporal predicates, perceptual positions, neurological levels, logical levels, sorting categories, metaphors, reframes, strategies and meta-language. If you don’t (yet) know what some of these terms mean, look them up. Meanwhile, practise the ones you do know. Start by picking one item off each list and spend the whole day filtering for, and detecting, those two patterns. If two are too many, start with just one. Remember the old Chinese saying, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”... - Isha and Garry
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Coming up on the programme
Michael Mallows is always a pop-ular and welcome visitor to the group. His Living Inside Out – On Purpose on 13 June should be a well-packed event. And you might even learn to think like a dolphin...! Des Barry brings us Joseph Riggio’s Mythogenic Self™ Process, to “enable a person to reference the blueprint of how they are most at their best”, on 20 June. NLP Trainer and scientist Roger Terry will be leading a session on unpacking, and improving on, the Strategies we use, on 4 July. And Glyn Powell & Harriet Muir return for what looks to be a rock-solid NLP practice session on 11 July called Knowing How What Works Works.
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NLP website watch
The Sue Knight Partnership www.sueknight.co.uk NLP supporting business	NLP and psychotherapy www.thechangeworks.com/ Thomas Condon	Success Strategies www.successtrategies.com Shelle Rose Charvet & LAB Profile
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Essential Skills
Tom Vizzini and Kim McFarland are very much in demand in the US as trainers of their Essential Skills Seminars, which promise to give you “some very powerful tools essential to ANY kind of persuasion mastery”. Learn to play your voice like a Stradivarius, get magical rapport and visualise vividly... UK-based followers of their online discussion group have persuaded Tom and Kim to come to London. Their seminar will be at Regent’s College, 25 to 27 August, US$495 until 21 July; thereafter US$595. See our Notice Board for details, and www.Essential-Skills.com to start following the chat and find out what all the hoo-ha is about.
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Denis Bridoux
On 21 February, Denis visited the Group to share Michael Hall's and Bobby Bodenhamer’s work – still evolving – in reducing Robert Dilts’ 18-plus sleight-of-mouth patterns to just 7 categories. He first gave us an overview of Dilts’ patterns and how they might be used, and then explained mind-lines, as Hall and Bodenhamer call their own work. Denis invited us, too, to take part in the development by considering ways that we might simplify or improve the model further for ourselves. We’re not sure that we found the mind lines model any easier to remember than the sleight-of-mouth patterns. And we’d have liked at least one exercise, where we could have created responses to some pre-set situation, using mind-lines. But watching this new development unfold and Denis’s generosity in inviting us into his own work on the subject was both exciting and inspiring. Thanks for coming all the way from Yorkshire, Denis. Denis Bridoux 01422 343165 denisbridoux@outcome. demon.co.uk Mind-Lines: Lines for Changing Minds by Hall & Bodenhamer, 1998, £16.99
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Michael Hall videos
Douglas Cartwright would like to know whether people are interested in buying Michael Hall training videos as he can import them on VHS from the States. If you’re interested call 0780 341 6124.
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Communication Excellence
NLP Trainer Ian McLaren is a regular contributor to Living NLP and served on the NLP Group Committee for some years. His new book, Communication Excellence: Using NLP to Supercharge your Business Skills is available at a reduced price of £11.69 from AA Books. Anglo-American Books Tel: 01267 211880 www.anglo-american.co.uk
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Life coach trainings
We had an e-mail from Dipti Kotech asking us various questions about training to be a life coach. Isha decided to research coaching trainings. Here is what she found. NLP-based and NLP-associated trainings Performance Partnership NLP Master Trainer David Shephard will be running a two-day workshop, Coaching Skills for NLP’ers, for NLP Practitioners and above, on 23-24 September, including “How to apply the NLP language models to coaching” and “How to sell coaching”. £399 plus VAT. For more details contact 020 8992 9523 e-mail: uknlp@compuserve.com. Institute of Coaching & Mentoring Reza Borr, NLP Master Trainer, teaches Neuro-Linguistic Coaching™ (NLC) to Level 1 (Coach) in six days plus fieldwork, to Level 2 (Master Coach) in ten days and Level 3 (Mentor Coach) in 14 days. Coach trainings are on three weekends over three to four months, with assignments to do before the start. He includes practical aspects such as setting up a coaching business. On certification, you can join a widely-publicised network of coaches and get everything you need to know to start your business. The next course is 10-11 June, 8-9 July and 9-10 September; another 23-24 September, 21-22 October, 25-26 November. All in London, £989 including VAT. Tel: 020 8933 8199 e-mail: rhosse5706@aol.com, websites: www.nlp-international.co.uk and www.coachnlc.co.uk Erickson University International This NLP training company recently ran a one-day London Introduction to Solution Focused Coaching. See their website to keep in touch with upcoming trainings: www.erickson.edu NLP trainers or Master Practitioners have some involvement in the following two organisations: Quorum Their Weekend Executive Coaching Programme requires you to read set books before-hand. No NLP knowledge required. 8-9 July, £390 plus VAT. Tel: 01344 484634 or book online: www.quorum.uk.com. The British Coaching Academy Their next training weekend is 29-30 July in Oxford, followed by distance learning and an assessment paper. Once accredited, you’re assisted by BCA for one year after training. No NLP required, but you need a certain level of “personal development awareness”. £1,950 plus VAT. Also Introduction to Life Coaching open days, 17 June in London and 15 July in Leicester. £57.58 with lunch, half price for bringing a friend: Tel: 0800 783 4823 (office hours) e-mail: info@britishcoachingacademy.com Website: www.britishcoaching academy.com. Non-NLP courses Coach University The Coach Training Program: about two years via weekly teleclasses (on the phone). Certification upon passing an exam. US$3,495 www.coachu.com The Coaches Training Institute Principally phone-based. The Co-Active Coaching Course (CCC) (2½ days) soon to be in London. Prices not yet available but last February’s CCC course was £500. Also a free one-hour telecourse on Co-Active Coaching every 2 weeks. Website: www.thecoaches.com Cathy Lasher Two-day Introduction to Holistic Coaching, Edgware 22-23 June, 13-14 July £250 plus VAT. Later in 2000 a two-day Practice Management Course for coaches. 020 8958 8558, e-mail: cathy@by-dsgn.com Short presentations on coaching ITS/Ian McDermott See the end of the Training Report article by Douglas Cartwright. Millennium Coaching Tour Thomas J. Leonard founder of Coach University is giving a free three-hour presentation on coaching in London on 6 September. 1 480 663 0556 (USA) e-mail: michael@coachingtour.com Website: www.coachingtour.com See also the article on the ANLP Coaching Group
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Training Report
Douglas Cartwright reports on the ITS Open Evenings In a series of one-off evening seminars at Westminster University, I have seen Ian McDermott cover various subjects in a sincere and congruent style. Each evening uses universal experiences to get people to recognise they already can, say, learn faster if they will just use their brain in a new way. The Accelerated Learning seminar debunked old myths about learning, examined when we learn best, and introduced how to learn more effectively via the visual modality. I find Ian’s delivery a little slow; I feel I’m taking part in a reality that’s running a few frames slower than I’m comfortable with. Time to use some time distortion, perhaps! Having been baptised in the razzamatazz of McKenna Breen, I sometimes found Ian’s evenings serious affairs - I ache for more fun. However, for a mainly business aud-ience, he established his credentials as someone to be taken seriously. Making New Year’s Resolutions You Keep was probably the most practical evening, but Accelerated Learning desperately needed more interactivity. And I don’t think people are given enough to take away to prove that ‘NLP works’. There is enough material but it would be nice to be told where you can learn more. You’re left hanging if you desire closure or future pacing, as I do! The venue does not lend itself well to group exercises: the amplification is poor and rising temperatures make it a struggle to stay awake. Change rooms, Ian – we want to hear you! His seminars may be a bit basic for Practitioners. But if you have friends who need a gentle, easy introduction to NLP then I recommend Ian McDermott and ITS. Ian’s Life Coaching with NLP evening is on 20 June, £20 International Teaching Seminars Tel: 020 7247 0252 E-mail: its_nlp@globalnet.co.uk Website: www.nlp-community.com Douglas Cartwright is an NLP and Meta-States Practitioner. 0780 341 6124 See also the Michael Hall videos article.
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Save 50% on ANLP membership
In their leaflet The Benefits of Joining the Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, the ANLP says, “A 50% discount on your first year’s subscription is available if you join within three months of completing a practitioner course and authorise ANLP to make an annual debit from your credit card for your membership fee”. Alternatively, join at the Summer Conference (see below) and save one-third off your first-year subs. For more information and for a membership application form: ANLP Help Desk Tel: 0870 870 4970 Website: www.anlp.org
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ANLP Conferences
This year’s Summer Conference will be at Regent’s College on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 July. The AGM, with a subsequent EGM, will be held at 6:00pm on Saturday. For further information about the ANLP Conferences, contact Elaine Holtum on 01707 665878, e-mail: elaine@bsfm.co.uk
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ANLP PCS Conference
The ANLP’s Psychotherapy and Counselling Services (PCS) is the professional body for Neuro-Ling-uistic Psychotherapy in the UK. Their conference, “Mapping the Territory” – NLP Therapy in the 21st Century will be held in London on 1 October. Alexandra Chalfont, Chair of the PCS, says, “We want to reach out to both our membership and those people who are interested in Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy and Counselling.” For further information, contact Martin Weaver on 07931 387551 or e-mail pcs@lifetide.co.uk or visit www.lifetide.co.uk/conf/
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ANLP Coaching Group
Anyone practising as a coach or with an interest in coaching, who uses NLP as part of their toolkit, is welcome to attend the next ANLP Coaching Group meeting. It’s on Wednesday 21 June at ‘The Sitting Room’, Lambourne Golf Club, Burnham Beeches, from 4:30 pm to around 7:30. There will be a charge of £15 to cover costs, including a light buffet meal. Membership of the ANLP is not obligatory. If you would like to go, contact one of the following: Steve Breibart 01628 62767 E-mail: slbreibart@compuserve.com Angus McLeod 01344 360030 E-mail: angusmcleod@aol.com
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James Lawley and Penny Tompkins
We hear that James and Penny, co-founders of The Central London NLP Practice Group, are nearing completion of their long-awaited book, Metaphors in Mind, which will be published in October. £14.50 plus £2 p&p prepublication, £17.95 plus £2 p&p thereafter. E-mail: info@cleanlanguage.co.uk Website: www.devco.demon.co.uk
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Steve Andreas in London
Steve Andreas has been involved with, and developing, NLP since 1977 and co-wrote NLP books such as Change Your Mind–and Keep the Change and Heart of the Mind. He is now coming to the UK for the first time, as a guest of Sensory Systems. Visit London on 21 and 22 October for his workshop Practical Spirituality: “transform experiences such as anger and grief into more useful, enhancing experiences of forgiveness and fullness developing a more resourceful and open relationship with others and the world.” Sensory Systems Training Tel: 0141 424 4177 E-mail: info@sensorysystems.co.uk
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In the round
A peergroup networking forum with a business focus meets in London. Some knowledge of NLP is required. Contact: Sigrid Jones on 020 8451 0344 or Pauline Elwell on 020 8558 7199.
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We’d be delighted if you’d like to contribute to Living NLP or wish to reply to any of our articles. You can send articles and letters to Garry at the address at the bottom of this page, either printed, on a disk, or as e-mail attachments, in plain text format, MS Word (2, 6, 95 or 97) format or Windows WordPad format. Alternatively, you can e-mail them in plain text or HTML format to: editor@nlpgroup.freeserve.co.uk Inclusion of articles or letters (or any part thereof) is at the discretion of the editorial team.
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