 September 2010
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News from NLP Canada Training
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Greetings!
Summer ended on a high note this year, with an exuberant and very full practitioner training in August. Our end-of-summer free NLP evening on matching NLP techniques to different personality types was also packed. We have been busy with terrific people.
Linda also took a trip to the Rockies in August. After enjoying a mountaintop perspective, I drove back across the prairies and along the north shore of Lake Superior. While the view from half-way up the mountain is spectacular (I didn't make it all the way to the top), the views all across the country were remarkable and beautiful. There are a lot of different ways to gain perspective and going wide can make as much difference as climbing higher.
Now the excitement is climbing higher. The second HOPE symposium is almost here and it is going to be an extraordinary day. Then we have certifications in The Enneagram and Motivation, NLP (Practitioner and Master Practitioner), and Ericksonian Hypnosis. We are even traveling to Montreal to present two sessions at the Canadian Association of NLP conference.
We hope you are looking forward to the coming months as much as we are,
Linda & Chris
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 The HOPE Symposium 2010: POSSIBILITY
The HOPE website is now up and running and we are adding interesting information every week. You can register now! When you're ready to reserve your place at POSSIBILITY: The 2010 HOPE Symposium, please call Carole at 416-928-2394. If you miss her, please leave a message with your name and phone number and she will get back to you.
We have approximately 20 speakers and presenters who are preparing to share their love of NLP and their ability to create a useful sense of possibility in themselves and others. Four panels will address issues related to Leadership, Wellness, Vision and Mastery. After a dinner break, singers, storytellers and others will perform in a celebration of our NLPCT community.
Registration for One Person, prior to October 15, 2010, $65
Registration for One Person at the door on October 16, 2010 $80
Registration per person when 2 or more register together prior to October 15: $50 per person
Registration per person when 2 or more register together at the door on October 16: $65 per person
All prices include HST. Registration fees include snacks, water, one coffee break and a full programme when you register before October 15. Remember that this year, your symposium fees include admission to Song, Stories & Trance, our evening programme at the Charbonnel Lounge!
We will include as many people as possible, but space is limited and so
is our manpower for taking registrations. Please register as soon as
you can: it helps us manage the organization and we are really grateful!
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 Getting People to Say Yes and Mean It
We have all been forced to say yes: someone with a certain kind of sales training asks questions that back us into a corner. Most of the time, the person delivering the questions sounds tense. We say "yes" over and over. . . and try to get to the "BUT" that is echoing in our minds.
There's a better way. It is possible to build genuine agreement so that people will want to say yes to you and they will own that response when they give it. On Tuesday, September 21, we will hold a workshop on setting up the conditions that support an authentic yes. The workshop will be free but donations are strongly encouraged to Trails Youth Initiatives. Registration is required. Please call Carole at 416-928-2394.
If you'd like a sneak preview, You can download "Can You Get Your Kids to Say Yes?" by clicking here.
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What's New on the NLPCT blog?
 After a brief break for summer training and summer holidays, Linda has been blogging again. If you haven't read the blog lately, it's a nice way to move gently through nlp-related ideas and to pull together your own thoughts while Linda writes about hers. Today I wrote a response to the event we held for practitioners on Sunday, September 12. The post is called "A gathering of friends." It grew out of the lovely atmosphere in the room and the gratitude we felt as we enjoyed the people around us. Special thanks to John Steuernol for his presentation on exciting ways to diagnose and heal.
The blog archive has well over 500 posts. If you browse through for a few minutes, you'll find something to catch your attention and guide you to resources. There's also a great list of websites of the friends who have trained with us. Visiting some of them will give you a new perspective on how many different and terrific people are part of the NLPCT community.
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 The Language of Freedom and the Language of Choice
Our event this weekend included a preview of one of the presentations that Chris and Linda will be presenting at CANLP in Montreal. We began by thinking about the jargon of the meta model and moved through the technical terms to discover ways in which the patterns of the meta model open up possibilities.
Linda translated some of that workshop into an article on moving between the language of freedom and the language of choice. The meta model is often taken as a description of how people should be influenced to move from the general to the specific. It is more usefully taken as a set of indications that people are dissociating from something limited or difficult. The same strategies that keep some people stuck and dissociated allow others to separate themselves from limitations and imagine the world as it could be.
Here's an excerpt from that article:
The next time you are talking to a friend, a colleague or a client, notice that you can influence the way they move between the language of freedom and the language of choice. When they are choosing stories that make them stronger, more capable or more effective, you can ask questions that require clear, specific answers. This calls on language that sticks instead of floats. The clear, sensory-tangible language of precise thinking draws both speaker and listener into a mental rehearsal of the state or situation being described. Both people focus less on the words and more on the experience they represent.
The language of choice deliberately simplifies so that we can move from considering all the possibilities to choosing just one. The language of choice says: I am willing to pin this down to just these few words and the sensory-specific reality they represent. You can test this language against the reality you perceive through your senses or remember from lived experience. This language will hold up to scrutiny.
The language of freedom is difficult to hear clearly or to analyze. It generalizes or floats off into abstract thought. It is hard to imagine and hard to follow. That's the point. It makes it more difficult for either the speaker or the listener to be caught in just one version of reality. The language of freedom is useful when it allows us to escape the tyranny of what is real and discover, instead, what is possible.
You can download the full article by clicking here.
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CALL 416-928-2394 TO REGISTER
SEPTEMBER 2010
9/21/2010 - Tuesday - Getting People to Say Yes & Mean It, 7:30pm to 9:30pm
OCTOBER 2010
10/7/2010 -Thursday - What Do You Want to Change?, 7:30PM to 9:30PM
10/2-3/2010 CANLP Annual Conference in Montreal
10/16/2010 Saturday - The 2010 Hope Symposium: POSSIBILITY (University of Toronto)
10/23-24/2010 Saturday/Sunday - NLP Practitioner Certification Training, Weekend 1 of 3, 9AM - 6PM
10/30-31/2010 Saturday/Sunday - The Enneagram and Motivation, 9AM to 5PM
NOVEMBER 2010
11/4/2010 Thursday - How Hypnosis Works, 7PM to 10PM
11/6-7/2010 Saturday/Sunday - NLP Practitioner Certification Training, Weekend 2 of 3, 9AM - 6PM
11/ 20-21/2010 Saturday/Sunday - NLP Practitioner Certification Training, Weekend 3 of 3, 9AM - 6PM
11/27/-28/2010 Saturday/Sunday - Ericksonian Hypnosis, Weekend 1 of 2, 9:00AM to 5:00PM
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