 March 2010
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NLP Canada Training Inc. Newsletter
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Greetings!
Wow. As I write this, the sun is shining and it's beginning to feel like spring might really arrive before the month is out. Winter went by in a blur this year: as you will read in this newsletter, we've been covering a wide range of places and ideas - from marketing to spirituality!
We've also been working with people in our community who are experiencing life - it's highs and it's steepest challenges. It's rare to hear NLPers talk about the benefits and limits of NLP in living the full range of human experience. I think it's important that we take a long, cold look at what we can really do - and then that we do what is just beyond our reach to feel better and support the people around us.
I hope you can come back to this newsletter several times, to take sips of what it has to offer when you have time and space to consider it. I know you're busy and I have so much to share with you - it might take more than one sitting! From our first e-course to our first planning session for our 2nd annual Symposium, from marketing to inspiring, we're stretching so that you will find something here that speaks to where you find yourself now.
Life changes. Tomorrow you will be somewhere different. When you visit again, you'll find something new. You have a whole month until the next newsletter brings you a crowd of new ideas.
Linda
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Our First e-Course is on Better Email with NLP
From March 11 through March 17, Linda will be leading NLP Canada Training's first e-course. Each business day, participants will receive an email from Linda with a brief explanation of one of the 5 steps to writing better email, a link to a brief audio session with Linda, and an assignment. Participants who email Linda their assignments within 24 hours will get an email back from Linda with feedback, suggestions and encouragement.
We should probably be charging lots for this course. After all, email is an integral part of how most of us do business and writing better email gives you an immediate, practical advantage. Instead, we're offering that you do something good in return for the course. Visit Shelterlink and make a donation. If you were at the HOPE Symposium, you heard Bev Hagerdorn talk about the work Sherlterlink does with homeless youth. They make a practical difference. This course will make a practical difference for you.
See the pattern? You have to register for the e-course online (of course!). Click here!
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 What difference does personality make?
This is Barbara Luedecke. If you had a chance to hear Barb speak at the Hope Symposium, you already know that she is a wonderfully accomplished, wise and practical teacher. In April, Barb is teaching a course that pushes participants to think about what we mean when we talk about 'personality' and what difference personality makes in the way we live, work and change.
The course is on Coaching with the Enneagram. Here's why I think you should take it (whether or not you consider yourself a coach). You will spend two days asking yourself interesting questions about what you can really predict about yourself and about other people. You will come face to face with the realization that there is something about you that you fear or dislike and that you really can't do without. You will stand back and look at the whole parade of human possibility and notice new patterns in the way the people around you are motivated and interact.
I know it sounds like a lot and it might even sound exhausting. It's not. When Barb is leading the group, the experience is funny and sharp and energizing. It opens up possibilities and it challenges participants to be curious because knowing more really can mean having better choices.
If you're reading this, you are already interested in the things Barb will be teaching. You might not know the Enneagram - you might not even know much about NLP. But you want to know more about what happens inside you when you make choices and you want to know more about how other people are making choices. You already suspect that other people are sometimes like you and sometimes very different from you.
And you probably want whatever investment you make to pay off in practical change. Barb Luedecke is very good at teaching in a way that inspires people to catch hold of ideas and put them to work.
That's why I think you should call Carole at 416-928-2394 and register for Coaching with the Enneagram on April 10 and 11, 2010.
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 Does NLP help in the really bad times?
It's been an interesting month: the kind of month that makes you remember that "May you live in interesting times" is a curse. Our community is large enough and our relationships deep enough that we are now hearing more about what happens when life hits our people really hard.
Bad stuff happens to people. NLP doesn't change that. You can't out-think your life. There's no way to focus so carefully that you can't be surprised by something bad that happens to you or to someone you love.
I believe that when you practice NLP with discipline (or draw on the resources of a community), NLP gives you three powerful practices for living successfully when life is very hard:
- NLP teaches you that there are resources all around you in the people you know and people you don't know. It gives you tools for replicating good models and it gives you tools for borrowing courage and hope and resilience when you don't feel you can manage them on your own.
- NLP teaches you that every state, and every problem has edges. You learn to stabilize what you are feeling, to put a frame around it, so that it is contained. You learn to step away to gain resources, knowing that the problem will be waiting when you are stronger and more ready to deal with it.
- When there is nothing you can do, NLP gives you something to do. You can change the way you think or the way you move; you can find a new model or an old resource. Although you will not always have the choice you want most, you will always have a choice.
NLP doesn't prevent all the bad stuff. It does help when you have to go through it.
Read more at ntgr8, our blog.
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 NLPCT at the Centre for Spirituality at Work
INSPIRE: ENERGIZING & ENCOURAGING with NLP
with Linda Ferguson, PhD
Monday March 29, 2010
7:30 - 9:30 pm
Earlybird fee: Monday March 22, 2010
At the Toronto Grace, near Yonge & Bloor, Toronto
Inspiration is a gift. It is also a process that you can practice.
Pause for a moment and think about the people in your life who have
inspired you to try new things, to form new relationships, or to achieve
more than you thought you could.... How did those people make you feel
stronger, more capable, more energized, and more hopeful? Through
connections with your best self and with the people around you, you can
share energy, enthusiasm and vision. Tonight, learn a reliable process
for inspiring both yourself and others, grounded in neuro-linguistic
programming. NLP is a set of practices for whole-brain thinking
that encourages practitioners to be more intentional in their choices and
influence. It can be used in fields from business to therapy to give
people new ways to be their best selves.
Linda Ferguson, PhD, is a senior partner in NLP Canada Training Inc., a
leading organization for training and continuing the evolution of
neuro-linguistic programming and building community amongst
practitioners. Her perspective is that NLP offers a direct
and effective way to sustain the hope that good things are attainable in
our lives, work, and relationships.
REGISTRATION: Program fee of $30 received by Monday March 22 or
$40 following. For cancellations, you may substitute another person
for no additional fee. To register, mail a cheque payable to: Centre for
Spirituality at Work, Box 100, 236 Guildwood Parkway, Toronto M1E 1P7. Or
register and pay for this program securely and confidentially by credit
card through PayPal at
www.SpiritualityAtWork.org.
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An NLP Perspective on the Art of Marketing
On March 2, Linda Ferguson and Chris Keeler made their way to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for The Art of Marketing. They heard six experts talk about different aspects of marketing, change and influence. Here's some of what we learned.
Storytelling is the key to making change through spoken connections. There were about 1500 people in an auditorium that featured two huge screens. There were a number of tech malfunctions that made the powerpoint less reliable than it should have been. The speakers that made it work were the speakers with the strongest storylines to carry them through.
There may be a limited number of ways to describe how people change. We don't think that Chip and Dan Heath were writing an NLP book when they wrote their new book, Switch. It's just that the principles are all the same as the principles we teach in our NLP courses. We all observe the same things in people; sometimes we describe them in very similiar terms, and sometimes we just take different paths to the same destination.
Learning is faster and deeper when it's fun. Whether I think of Seth Godin's photos of the Candy Shoppe on Hwy 11, Sally Hogshead's Jagermeister shots or Dan Heath's story of how the Amsterdam airport got men to clean up their act, I notice that I pay better attention when there's laughing involved.
Did Chris and I learn lots by dedicating a whole day to listening to experts take the strongest ideas from their books and pitch them to us? No - and yes. No, we didn't hear much that we hadn't already heard somewhere else (from the fly in Amsterdam to the annoying clock radio and the Tide mobile laundry centre, we heard stories that were already familiar). Ron Vereggen talked about the rider and the elephant at an NLP event a year or two ago (Ron, the Heath Brothers are using your material). There wasn't much new under the stars.
And yes. We learned again that what we do is important: that brilliant, funny, experts work with the same stuff that we do. We learned that people leave our courses with practical skills to do things that are conceptually still treated as cutting edge by the people writing bestsellers for business. We learned that the HOPE symposium provided a momentum and an inspiration that a room full of 1600 hundred of Canada' best marketers (plus Chris & I) couldn't match.
If marketing is the art of leading change (that's how the experts seemed to define it), then we're loving it.
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 Spring at NLP Canada Training Inc.
All programs at 47 Queen's Park Cres. E. All programs require registration. Call Carole at 416-928-2394.
Evening programs
Monday, March 29, Inspire: Energizing & Encouraging with NLP
Wednesday, April 7, Great Connections with NLP
Thursday, April 29, How to Know if Change Works
Short programs
Saturday March 27, 2010 Introduction to NLP and Ericksonian Hypnosis
Sunday, May 2, 2010 Launch for the 2010 Symposium (by invitation only)
Certification programs
Coaching with the Enneagram with Barbara Luedecke (April 10/11)
Ericksonian Hypnosis with Mike Mandel (April 17/18 and April 23,24,25)
NLP Practitioner Certification (May 29/30 and June 12/13 and June 26/27)
NLP Summer Intensives (July 12-17 OR August 8-13)
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