An unprecedented opportunity for NLP Master Practitioners!

We sent out a post months ago, and now here’s all-new info on…

Advanced Mastery Training 2010 (Aug. 1-7):
what you’ll learn, and how you’ll get to learn it…

This training is shaping up to be hands-down the most innovative training we know of in the field of NLP. It is an unparalleled opportunity to experience five of NLP’s most creative and skilled trainers and developers, all present for the full seven days.

Each of these trainers has a LOT to offer us individually, and being all together in the same room, this training is set to emerge as a synergistic shift in the way we can learn. This is also a unique opportunity to develop upon the leading-edge methods and thinking in NLP. It’s sure to be a fun-filled, inspiring, and generative community event.

Note: we’re not currently planning to professionally record, so the only way to be sure you have access to this all new material is to attend the live event.

Fun, Creativity, and Spontaneity

Sprinkled throughout the training will be outrageous and fun-filled exercises and “games” designed to keep us in an easy “up-time” natural learning mode. These games are a great way to connect with each other and tap into our inborn creativity and spontaneity while learning useful techniques that expand our capabilities. Here’s a glimpse into what you’ll get to participate in:

• Improv with Andy Austin: He’ll guide us in some of his favorite improv games, helping you become more creative and spontaneous with your clients…and in your life!
• Provocative Therapy Games with Nick Kemp: We could call these exercises, but they feel more like games! Learn humorous ways to help clients out of ruts, while also helping YOU out of YOUR communication ruts. With the laughter of practice (and the practice of laughter) it becomes easy to incorporate these techniques in a way that makes them our own.
• Impact Therapy with Danie Beaulieu: Learn more “exercises” that feel like fun, yet lead to serious change. Her exercises are designed for specific impact and change—yet in a way that easily bumps them out of “client” role and into a role of learning and openness to change.

Learn Powerful, In-Depth Changework Methods

This training isn’t just fun and games—we’ll also be learning powerful ways to facilitate change (even while we have fun). We don’t have space to list them all, but here are just a few to spark your interest:

• Lucas Derks: The Power of the Social Panorama
  How can we discover and reconstruct our social lives in a way that’s more in line with what we want? With Lucas Derks’ Social Panorama, we’ll discover how to resolve sticky relationships, self esteem issues, and experiences of unworthiness. We’ll also be exploring power dynamics and social exclusion, the social part of personality, and our ongoing experience of who we are.
• Nick Kemp: Seeding Suggestions for Later Listening
  Nick will share his well-honed strategy for giving clients CDs of each session to take home and listen to. He considers this an integral part of his level of success with clients. You’ll learn how to embed suggestions into the live session that improve impact in the moment, even though they’re really for the purpose of fostering change when the client re-listens later on.
• Danie Beaulieu: Making Metaphors Real
  How can we make our metaphors “real” and “concrete” for clients such that they really get it? With her Impact Therapy Danie Beaulieu is an artist and expert at using simple metaphors that aren’t just a verbal story or concept, but are in the room with us—a twenty dollar bill, a piece of paper, a glass of water. Danie will be teaching some of her most potent exercises, distilled out of hundreds.
• Andy Austin: Effective Pain Control and More Metaphors of Movement
  Effective ways to deal with pain and pain-control: For those of us who are coaches or therapists (or just human beings), pain is something many clients want help in dealing with, and often our methods fall short. Andrew Austin will be showing us how and why the usual ways of working with pain management often fall into some predictable traps. Also learn the next step of the Metaphors of Movement material! Andy Austin will be teaching a “status” direction, and how this can unconsciously confuse and thwart us in actually moving toward our goals.
• Steve Andreas: Escape the “Ego” Trap
  Steve will be teaching several new pieces, including one on ways to escape the “ego” trap, which is probably the greatest obstacle to a good life. Also a segment on logical fallacies in generalization, and one on utilizing someone’s idioms to redirect their attention and reframe their experience.

In addition to having fun while learning powerful techniques for change, this training will also help you to bridge the gap from your NLP training to working with clients. Watch our five master trainers working with individual clients—people who have no previous background with NLP. You’ll also get to experience live modeling. Learn what these 5 experienced trainers see happening in each others’ sessions and be a part of this inside circle, participating in the synergy of ongoing modeling and observations.

We organize the Advanced Mastery Training because it is the training we are excited about attending—to inspire us and expand our own skills. This is truly a place where NLP Master Practitioners and Trainers can all “play” together, explore, and grow. We hope you’ll join us!