Further Adventures in NLP: Master Practitioner Course, London 2009 - by Matthew Wingett

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(Free-Press-Release.com) December 18, 2009 -- So, what sort of person comes to the Licensed NLP Master Practitioner course? - I wonder as I arrive.

A quick chat with some of the delegates reveals: a Scottish entrepreneur, a Spanish human resources manager, a Bollywood actress who has come from India specifically for the course, a Spanish olive oil baron, a British hypnotherapist, a German IT specialist, a high-powered Hong Kong business executive and a New York property agent - as well as coaches, therapists and several GPs. They've already experienced the NLP Practitioner track, so these people know what to expect from the teaching team. No surprise, then, that there is something of a buzz in the air!

The first day starts with Richard Bandler focussing on strategy work, and demonstrating on a delegate how to elicit good and bad decision strategies. This is a really interesting demonstration, because the delegate presents Richard with a very "busy" series of answers to his questions. In fact, as the demonstration unfolds, it turns out to be a model of how to deal with clients who are highly analytical and are interested in talking about the history, content and conceptualisation of their inner processes, rather than the structure.

I see how patient and funny Dr Bandler is as the delegate drops into yet another existential or moral discussion of his beliefs and ties himself up in knots. Then there is a beautiful moment in which Richard asks the delegate the straight question:

"What is it that you want?"

And the delegate answers, slightly wistfully:

"That is a question I have been asking myself for a long time."

To which Richard replies:

"Well, how about f***ing answering it?!"

The moment is priceless. The question cuts through the knots to the heart of what the delegate is doing. The demonstration turns out to be a model of how to deal with highly analytical clients.

Having demonstrated strategy elicitation so clearly, Richard sends us to do the same. Strategy elicitation will be a procedure we will go through time and again, each time adding a different nuance to the process. It is one of the key procedures that gives the NLP Master Practitioner course so much more depth and reach. It will build on itself in the days to come.

In the afternoon of this first day, a pattern is started that will repeat itself on many of the days to come as John La Valle takes the afternoon session. This first day, he works with us on rapport-building and anchoring. Once again, we are encouraged to work on each other to ensure that we have the techniques right, and to ensure that we are paying close attention to our "client".

The following days see us working on identifying our strategies to do with motivation, learning and decision making. We work on improving them, changing them and streamlining them, ... Read more http://www.nlplifetraining.com/general-articles/further-adventures-in-nlp-master-practitioner-course-london-2009

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