"Review: July
2003 NLP Practitioner Training Seminar"
Written
by Carrie Mackerwicz, Life Coach. NLP. Minnesota, USA.
I have been pleased far beyond my expectations with Steve
Boyley’s NLP training and the resulting transformed world into which I have
since emerged. Steve was more than adept, displaying not only a
mastery of the concepts he taught, but also an elegantly effective teaching
style laced with a charisma and bold humor that is impossible not to love.
The set-up was easy with very affordable lodging right across the street
from the seminar at the Downtown Motel. I was amazed at how friendly
and hospitable the staff was; they even went so far as to throw us a
barbecue on the last night of the training. While Prince
George was a peaceful place with a lovely park and gorgeous surroundings, my
mind was so compelled in the inward direction for those eight days that I
might not have noticed much if the seminar had been conducted in the middle
of a construction site. I thoroughly enjoyed immersion into the
world of NLP and the mind during lectures, during the many exercises we did
to practice the principles, and during class breaks and mealtimes while
sharing ideas with classmates. These interactions were one of my
favorite aspects of the seminar, providing quality friends with whom I will
be able to have quality conversations about reality and the magical
potentials of the mind for years to come.
The ability to teach well is a gift, and the depth of
Steve’s teaching is at least three-fold. First, he is a living,
walking, constant example of the principles he teaches. As most are
aware, this is one of the most effective ways to teach, and for me it was a
great inspiration. Second, he brings the teaching itself alive
with a tremendous capacity to impart information in such a way that it is
enticing and fun to sit back and just drink it all in. He does this
with numerous true stories, metaphors, jokes, and various other forms of
quirky, if delightfully irreverent entertainment. This seminar would
have been worth the money for the eight straight days of quality
entertainment alone. And of course not even the most talented
wordsmith, storyteller or comedian can do justice to teaching concepts if he
does not first have a crystalline, precise understanding of the material
itself. Steve obviously does. Whether through creative or the
most simple means, he always found a stellar way to transmit the
information. And, his attention to individuals and their
questions/feedback/concerns was generous. The third, and
probably most powerful aspect of Steve’s teaching was his direct
installation into the class (using the very same NLP skills he was teaching)
of the confidence and belief in our abilities to learn and utilize our own
NLP skills. I was touched in fact, by the attention he devoted to
understanding where each class member was at in his/her mind and then
tailoring his programming to assist each individual in the areas where
he/she needed it most. I imagine that this programming is why I left
after the eight days feeling very much like my world had changed.
While I’ve left most seminars before feeling profoundly inspired, this time
I felt not only inspired in my conscious mind, but also fundamentally
transformed. I have felt far more confident and immediately had a
notable effect on the people around me in terms of advertising my services
as a life coach, and in having a more powerful effect on my clients in
session. This pleasant effect is snowballing as each day I get more
inspired, feel more of my own value, and my creative visions for the future
grow more clear.
Some added bonuses we received have allowed me to keep
alive the spirit of the seminar and easily continue to learn and progress.
These include two manuals complete with information and exercises on most
topics we covered in the class: representational systems, sub-modalities,
eye-accessing cues, rapport building, hypnosis, meta model, milton model,
language and tonality, the T.O.T.E. model, anchoring, mind maps, strategy
elicitation, DHE and a lot more. Steve also gave us two CD’s, one on
hypnosis and the other on negotiation, both valuable tools to learn by and
powerful anchors to bring back the feeling of the seminar and the
inspiration it provided. Also, Steve offers regular free live
webinars on related topics of interest. With all of these continuing
tools it is almost as if the seminar hasn’t ended. My new
experience that began with the seminar continues to grow making more solid
my presence as the person I really am, and more deep my conviction that the
ability to create any reality I please is as simple as making a choice.
I whole-heartedly recommend Steve Boyley of The
Performance Institute for NLP practitioner training.
Carrie Mackerwicz, NLP. Life
Coach, Entrepreneur.
civ2012@yahoo.com. NLP. Minnesota, USA.
