Advanced Mastery Training 2010—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 5 of NLP’s most creative and skilled trainers and developers, all present for the full 7 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, and also to develop upon, the leading-edge methods and thinking in NLP.  It’s sure to be a fun-filled, inspiring, and generative community event.

Fun, Creativity & 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 (while also teaching very intentional and useful techniques to expand our capabilities). These games are a great way to connect with each other and also help us tap into our natural creativity & spontaneity.  Here’s a glimpse into what you’ll get to participate in:

*Improv—Andrew Austin has utilized improv games in his NLP trainings, and he’ll guide us in some of his favorites.

*Nick Kemp’s Provocative Therapy Games:  We could call these exercises, but they feel more like games. We’ll learn humorous ways to help clients out of their ruts, (and at the same time, these games will help US out of OUR communication ruts). With the laughter of practice, it becomes easy to incorporate these techniques in a way that makes them our own.

*Danie Beaulieu’s Impact Therapy also feels a lot like play. 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.”

 

Live Client Sessions and Modeling:

*Observe our 5 Master Trainers working with individual clients—people who have no previous background with NLP. Watching skilled practitioners work is possibly the most effective way to experience automatic and unconscious deepening in our own work. And being there live somehow makes it possible to absorb more completely than just viewing on tape.

(Contact us if you know someone without NLP background who is interested in a free NLP session as part of this training. Email Steve <andreas@qwest.net>)

* 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’ll be learning powerful, in-depth Changework Methods:

Lucas Derks
      *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 experience 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. What are the keys to its success? Lucas Derks, who developed this model, will be with us to demonstrate.
      *We will explore how the Social Panorama gives us insight into our life partnership(s), and can help these significant relationships blossom (or offer keys to resolve or transform long-standing issues). Then we’ll move on to explore family panoramas, including an enjoyable intervention using a “spirit guide.” Lucas expects to share some of his work with the Self as well.

Nick Kemp:
      *Nick Kemp 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.
      *How can we artfully “poke fun at” the problem, while simultaneously building rapport with the client? Watch and listen to Nick Kemp demonstrate, and then practice yourself in the safety of our learning community.  Nick has modeled a specific set of “dismantling-humor” patterns from Frank Farrelly’s Provocative Therapy work.  Learn how these processes are more than “fun”—how they change the client’s state—and ours too—and either build resources, or openness to change.

Danie Beaulieu:
      *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. We’ll watch her use these methods, and then follow her lead in exploring these fun and dynamic exercises ourselves.

Andrew T. Austin:
      *Effective ways to deal with pain and pain-control: For those of us who are coaches or therapists (or just human beingsJ), 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.
      *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:
      *Steve Andreas 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.

This is Just the Beginning: 

Each Trainer will present one Block in the first two days of the training, to begin the process. After that, we'll be discovering ways to weave together contributions from these talented trainers, plus our participants, to optimize what emerges as the training goes forward.

Read Trainer Bios & Links to their Online Demos: