The college will be closed due to the bank holiday, so there will be no meeting tonight.

Gill will lead a workshop where you can understand what beliefs are and how to change limiting beliefs to empowering ones that drive your self-motivation

Gill Shaw is a psycho-dynamic life, sports, executive and corporate coach. She is an NLP Master and TimeLine ™ Therapy Practitioner. She spent 20 years previously in advertising, strategic marketing and planning in blue-chip telecoms, financial and tourism companies. Her forte is brand strategy and how to fuse brand values into the living culture of your company. Just before Christmas she quit corporate life for coaching and set up her own company Fresh-look Experience. Further details of what she does are available on her website: www.fresh-look-experience.com

Patterning is the way we give meaning to random data. When we notice a pattern, we concentrate on the elements of that pattern, and stop noticing other data. This means that we may miss larger, more long term, or more important patterns.
NLP offers an opportunity to gather in more data that has previously escaped us, and also to make a choice to continue patterning for longer to discover new patterns.
Cricket is offering a chance to explore and extend your patterning skills.

Cricket Kemp taught at primary, secondary and higher education levels for 20 years. She then was Human Resources Manager: Training and Development, for Tioxide, a multinational producer of titanium pigments. She now works as a business and education consultant, lectures on an MBA course, and is on the faculty of Management Centre Europe in Brussels. An accredited NLP trainer, she has been running certificated NLP courses since 1989, some in Ealing, and some in Newcastle on Tyne.

Tonight Dave and Matt will take us through a series of exercises using very unique mind/body techniques designed to access flow and increase drive, concentration and mind power. This increased mind power can be applied to any area of your life - such as Health, Relationships, Sports, and Business - to accelerate the pace at which you achieve your goals.

Dave O'Connor, MICHA Dip. Psychotherapy, Yoga teacher and experienced mind coach and Matt Traverso, executive & personal life coach, NLP trainer and one-stop therapist

We're often called upon to do it and told it is where we're more likely to find solutions to intractable problems. However, if the size, shape and structure of your box is primarily unconscious, how are you to know when your thinking is actually outside it or merely in the top right-hand corner.?
One way is to pay attention to your own patterns of thinking while other people pay attention to theirs. When people stop making sense to you , you can bet you've reached one of your boundaries. Do this for a while and you can begin to build and test a model of your box and whereabouts the outside of it is.
Caitlin Walker invites you to spend an evening paying exquisite attention to yourself and others, modelling perceptual positions and the impact these have on how we make sense of the world.

Caitlin is a leading developer of Clean Language applications in education and business, applying this process of self-modelling to learning excellence, working well within diversity, improving public sector services and relating more effectively with the most difficult of others.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
The most common ailment of relationships today is the lack of communication. Results of recent survey in Reader's Digest revealed that an increasing number of men and women do actually want to be able to communicate their feelings to their partners but do not know how.
Whether you're in a relationship or not, during this evening you will hear how NLP can make you an even more effective communicator. The skills shared with you will enhance all your relationships.
In this evening you will discover:

• Men's needs in a relationship
• Women's needs in a relationship
• What's important to you in your relationship
• How to apply some of the NLP Presuppositions to relationships
• NLP Techniques to improve your communication

Balbir is one of the first Asian women trainers in the NLP field. She has been passionate about the arena of personal development since 1994 and is a dynamic and skilled individual who has tremendous enthusiasm. Balbir is the resident Relationship Coach on the weekly BBC Radio Gloucestershire programme, works with individuals and groups, teaches introduction to NLP for Ealing Adult Education and organises the buzzing Richmond NLP Group.
Balbir is an NLP Master Practitioner, Time Line Therapist, Hypnotherapist and Life Coach.

How to develop deeper rapport and bring core state qualities to the way you listen to other people - and yourself! The traditional Chinese model of the Five Elements, one of the earliest examples of systems thinking, offers some profoundly effective insights into how to embody the basic presuppositions of NLP in coaching and healing work. For anyone who listens...

Nick Pole is a member of The Growing Edge, a group of NLP trainers who work as a team, incorporating one-to-one coaching into the training experience. He is also a registered practitioner and teacher with the Shiatsu Society (UK). He has worked in the field of complementary health and self-development for over ten years, and has developed an integrated approach to coaching and therapy using models from both east and west.

NLP is often accused of being manipulative - it's worth remembering that the original meaning of manipulation is to handle skilfully. The key is to 'manipulate' with integrity so that we influence and persuade people toward outcomes they value. If these coincide with our desired outcomes, so much the better. And awareness of these models helps us control how much influence others have on us!
We will explore how meta programs can provide us with insights into people's patterns of motivation - and how we can use this information to influence more effectively. We will consider particularly influencing in the work context, including how we interact with colleagues, customers, managers - and how organisational cultures reinforce some patterns whilst failing to value others.

Julie Hay is a Licensed NLP Trainer and is also an internationally accredited trainer of organisational and educational transactional analysis, which she combines with NLP to make both approaches even more potent. She is Chief Executive of training consultancy A D International and teaches T A and NLP around the world. She has over 30 years management and consultancy experience in the public and private sectors, has a MPhil for research into managerial competencies, is Programme Director of an MSc in Developmental TA (and, from Sept 02 an MA in developmental NLP), and is the author of many books,packs and audiotapes including Transactional Analysis for Trainers, Transformational Mentoring and an ANLP approved NLP practitioner training

We're off to see the Wizard, The wonderful Wizard of Oz...
We have all the resources we need to live a full and happy life, but we are not always aware of them, or remember to use them. Virginia Satir, like the Wizard of Oz, used symbolism and metaphor to develop a self-esteem toolkit that people could use to access those resources whenever they want. Her original toolkit had six items, and Gerald Weinberg, author of "Secrets Of Consulting" and "More Secrets of Consulting", has added many more. Come and explore the contents of the toolkit, and learn how to create your own.

After working for twenty years as a computer programmer, Dave Kirby decided to it was time to change careers and is now setting up his own business as a life coach. He has had a lifelong interest in creativity, systems thinking and personal development, including a degree in Psychology and Cybernetics. He is an NLP Master Practitioner and a certified NLP Coach. He also has keen interest in organisational change, especially in improving the effectiveness of small teams. He can be contacted at dkirby@blueyonder.co.uk