Frank Farrelly comes to the UK

A week today Frank Farrelly will be running an evening event for TCNLP in Leeds ahead of the Nov 1 - 2 workshop. This is excellent opportunity to see a master of communcation up close! Frank was of course a big influence on the creators of NLP and many NLP trainers have begun to realise the sophistiction of Provocative Therapy.

See www.tranceformingnlp.com for booking both these events

Back to the UK, the NLP Prac approaches...

Tomorrow I will have been back in the UK for a week and in two weeks this Fri TCNLP are running another NLP practitioner event, the last for 2008, followed by an NLP Master Prac that runs from Nov to Jan. Its always a lot of work sorting these seminars and people don't get to see what goes on behind the scenes!

Provoking the Americans in San Francisco

On day 3 of IASH I had the opportunity to do a presentation on Provcative Therapy from an NLP perspective. Ideally I would like to have done this slot first on Fri, as it would have been a more logical preface to the Provocative Change series of approaches. At the start of the day in front of hundreds of IASH attendees Frank Bourke who is heading the Research project in the USA to my amazement reference my Provocative Change work as cutting edge work. Steve Andreas had also been telling everyone to see me, so the result was that the 2nd prentation was the most sold out workshop of the 3 days and a stack of people couldn't get in the room including Steve Andreas!

Many of the delegates were longstanding NLPers and included Charles Faulkner (who I also interviewed) and the heads of NLP NY, as well as the heads of NLP Comprehensive. I never get any nerves before presentations, but I really did feel that I had to crank it up, considering who was present. The slot went great, the challenge being to get a clear message across. As usual I use demo subjects and with PT even more than NLP you never know what will happen, especially as I have cut the demo time and exercise down to just 4 minutes!

The result was as good as I could have hoped and resulted in some very interesting discussions re future work, including a formal invite to present at the next IASH event. I was really surprised at the high quality of NLP skills from those present. Many delegates not only had trained with a range of NLP trainers, but are refreshingly not territorial about NLP and were also very aware of the primary influences on NLP. It was also an international audience and a very different dynamic from what I have experienced at London events. People were more focussed on what could be done with NLP, than personality appreciation. This meant that many of the assembled were established in their own fields, including education, medicine, sales, marketing and other fields. There were no "happy clapper NLPers" in sight and it was a real pleasure to interview a number of presenters and to network with people from across the UK. I also learned a stack of stuff and this was by far the most thought provoking NLP event I have attended for at least the last 5 years!

Presenting at the IASH USA conference day 1

Yesterday was the first presentation of two slots for the IASH conference in the USA. The challenge for me was to condense the PCW material down into a 90 minute slot and I reckon I did a pretty good job, with 4 demos and also getting the group to practice a PT exercise. This was the first ever presentation in the USA, so I was curious to see how it would go!

It was a packed room and kind of strange to have people videoing me and a bunch of folks with laptops taking notes! I am impressed with the IASH presenters and certainly am getting great feedback about the PCW approach! There are a lot of major names in NLP here, including Robert Dilts and Steve Andreas and its useful to remember that there are trainings and perspectives in NLP from across the globe and not just with Bandler and Grinder. Its also been fascinating to meet a number of people who knew RB before NLP and who were there from the absolute start of he field. There are lots of myths about the origins of NLP and so its great to hear from those who were there rather than just a single version of events!

Today I have a day off and tomorrow I'm presenting on NLP and PT. I have already been ashed about trainings in the USA, so as with all things, we'll see, but on current evidence that idea appeals, especially when its such great weather!