"Review: July
2004 NLP Practitioner Training Seminar"
Written
by Mike Lalonde. CHt, NLP. Nova Scotia,
Canada.
I attended The Performance
Institute of NLP during July 2004 at Prince George, British Columbia. The
course was held at the Days Inn from 10am to 10pm July 23rd to the 30th and
until 6pm on the final day.
Steve Boyley was the instructor.
Steve is an intelligent and personable man with a strong desire for his
students to have a complete understanding of NLP. Even after
the course Steve follows up with each student, reminding them to review the
manuals and listens to the 2 CDs in order to completely retain all that was
taught on his course. Steve teaches NLP by using NLP and his
emphasis is on the practical application of NLP, rather then the
terminology. This is not to say that he doesn’t cover the
terminology in a thorough manner. Steve is a high energy individual
and lives what he teaches. He is the same person in and out
of the classroom.
Steve
explained all issues / topics of NLP clearly. I feel I had a good
grasp of each application after hearing and practicing each topic he
lectured on. He is a patient instructor, who will take the time to
make sure you see and understand any points that may have not been ‘loud and
clear’ during his lectures.
During the course you gain exceptionally useful
knowledge; how to gain / maintain and break rapport, how to produce ‘well
formed goals’ that achieve positive results and excellent negotiation and
communication skills (Meta / Milton). When you take this course, you
will begin to identify and work with submodalites, anchors, and strategies
to become effective at using your brain for a change. Not only will
you have a strong understanding of linguistics, you will gain the ability
to ‘model’ excellence. What I found impressive was learning how
each skill and sub-skill relates to and uses each other to produce positive
outcomes.
We
received roughly 12 hours a day of instruction, except for the last day,
which was only 8 hrs. On completion of the course, we had our course
party/ BBQ that eventually ended up at Steve’s place. You couldn’t
possibly think there wouldn’t be a social event at the end!
Could you? (Thanks Steve, you and your entire family are great
hosts/hostesses!! )
At first I was perhaps a bit
apprehensive about 12hr of instructions a day and was worried a bit about
the retention of the amount of info taught each day. Of course, when
you learn NLP by NLP, you’ve already learned what you are going to learn
several hours before it is taught. This becomes evident to you later,
that night just before and after you’ve fallen asleep. CONFUSED?
NLP Rocks! SWEET! FIRE those neuro- pathways!
I loved this course.
It has been a month since I finished this course and I’m still receiving
insight from Steve’s teachings. It has changed my life in many
positive ways. I’ve found that I am better able to focus on my
goals (which are now ‘well formed’). This has drastically simplified
my life and made me a happier me. In every facet of my life, I
have felt a positive rippling effect!
Another positive outcome
is a clear ability to help other people to help themselves either
overtly or covertly. Since my graduation and certification as a NLP
practitioner / Hypnotherapist, I’ve already helped several clients to:
I’ll
remember this course with great fondness for the rest of my life,
because of the friends I made there and the rich experience they brought
with them to make this course a “sweet” experience indeed! Everything;
our ‘lesson in the park’; the walking tour given by Steve afterwards; our
lunches out together; all this made the course, but mostly our breaks in
between, because it was there that we put into practice that which we
learned in a realistic environment. And it was there, that I watched
us gradually become efficient linguists. OH YEAH!!! …..The training……
that was awesome too!
After you complete this
course, you too will see exactly why so many in my class have said “The
course is worth the investment”
I went into this course as
someone who had an interest in NLP after having done a bit of research and
reading a few books. I have emerged from the course as a more
confident individual and am confident of my own abilities as a practitioner.
I’m not saying that I “know it all”, I don’t! What I am saying is I
know that with NLP if there is something I want to know, I will know it well
and in a short period of time.
If you desire to excel in any or
all areas of your life, then I would highly recommend that you take the
course. If you are uncertain as to whether you should take the course,
then you should take the course as the experience alone is worth the
money! As for myself, I am a NLP practitioner who fully intends to
become an NLP Master Practitioner under the tutelage of Steve ‘Boyleying
point’ Boyley.
Thanks for everything Steve!
Mike Lalonde. CHt, NLP. Nova Scotia, Canada.
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