Well I’ve decided to sign up for the NLP practitioner course. This is proper Jedi mind trick stuff, and requires 15 days training plus a fair whack of cash.
What’s it all about you ask? Well rather than try and make it up myself, I’ll include some stuff from the website. I’m doing the course through Salad, the same guys whose Language Of Influence course I attended. It’s very handy having a NLP master trainer only 12 miles away from your house.
Why bother you ask? Well I’ve been wondering the answer to that myself, and I think it comes down to the fact that I have a lot of opportunities to do interesting stuff in my life and career that I don’t have the confidence to try. If a one day course can give me the confidence to go and get things that I normally wouldn’t then my hope is that this 15 day course, spread over 5 months will give me the motivation to go out there and do what I want to do, not what I think I should. If that is a woolly answer then it’s because the question I ask myself is equally woolly. The skills I will learn on this course have more practical application than the psych degree I was previously pursuing, and I hope that this will give me better answers than a bunch of theories. We will see.
Key outcomes of NLP practitioner training (taken from the website):
Practical Persuasion – After the first day of our introductory training, one person used the language skills they’d learned that day to sell her house that evening, after it had been on the market for some time with no offers. That was after one day of learning these skills. How many situations can you think of where you’d like to be able to choose just the right words to influence someone?
Confident Public Speaking – One of the people on our practitioner training had a fear of public speaking. She volunteered to be a subject while I demonstrated a technique to the group. Within a short period of time, her fear of public speaking was gone. It has never returned. One of the opportunities that you have on practitioner training is to overcome particular problems or challenges, as well as help others to overcome theirs. People regularly get rid of fears, phobias & anxieties as a consequence of coming on our trainings. How would you like to be able to put some longstanding issues behind you? How would you like to be able to help others do the same?
New Directions – A number of the people who have attended our trainings have taken new directions in their lives as a result, including one who started their own business after coming on a training, and another who started to fulfil a lifelong ambition to train as a pilot. I know that everyone has dreams, & you may find yourself looking at some of yours with a new sense of possibility once you’ve started practitioner training.
High Performance States- One of the things we make sure you have a real handle on is your ability to put yourself (& others) into brilliant high performance states, where you’ve got the sparkle & buzz to accomplish what you want, & feel great! With us, we believe that feeling good is part of how you can learn easily.
See More, Hear More – Everyone who comes on our training reports seeing & hearing things that other people can’t (behaviours, minute signals etc); things that used to be invisible. As well as often being hilarious, this hidden information can be incredibly powerful unconscious signals for influence. Would you like to have access to these hidden signals, & use them to get great results?
Greater Personal Freedom – My personal experience has been echoed by many others who have trained with us: a much greater sense of personal freedom, confidence & power in the world. How would you like to know (if you don’t already) that you have the resources to deal with whatever comes your way, & to get the most from any situation? How would you like to have a new sense of confidence & inner security? I can promise you, the world is a lot more fun once you know NLP.
