 October 2010
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NLP Canada Training Inc. Newsletter
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Greetings!
Welcome to the POSSIBILITY edition of our newsletter. At the bottom, you will find some information about recent events and some more information that will allow you to plan for our Fall 2010 courses. Almost everywhere else, you will find news of our second annual HOPE symposium.
The symposium is a little like a graduation ceremony for us: it gathers some of the wonderful, accomplished people we have trained and allows us to be proud of them and to learn from them. Even more of our favourite people will be in the room as audience, supporters and learners. And we will get to do one of our other favourite things: introduce new people to the work we do and the people we do it with.
Can you tell? We feel like kids at Christmas. We have all the same nervousness (will Santa come? will the room be full?) and all the same glorious expectation that something magical is about to happen.
If you are reading this, then you are one of the people we really want to see on October 16. We hope we will see you then,
Linda & Chris
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Linda at HOPE 2009  | What's new and what's next at NLP Canada Training?
As many of you already know, Chris and Linda were unable to make the trip to the Canadian Association of NLP conference in Montreal. We were very sorry to miss it, but an illness in Chris's family made it impossible for us to travel that weekend.
We did prepare two presentations for CANLP, send handouts to Montreal, and hope to prepare audio and powerpoint visuals to make our presentations available electronically.
Until then, while most of our focus in on the HOPE Symposium, we are also looking forward to two evening programs. On Thursday, October 7, Linda will introduce personal change with NLP in a program called: What Do You Want to Change? It's a great refresher/energizer for NLP practitioners and a wonderful starting point for newcomers eager to experience a little of the NLP Canada Training approach.
On Thursday, November 4, Linda will be joined by some of the NLP Canada hypnosis practitioners for an introduction to hypnosis called Why Hypnosis Works. It's going to be a great beginning for people considering the Ericksonian course in late November. Watch for details in an email reminder after the HOPE Symposium on October 16.
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The opening of HOPE 2009  | Reframing the HOPE Symposium
One of the best-known practices of NLP is reframing: taking existing content and giving it a new context. It's like taking a picture you have had forever and putting it in a new frame: suddenly the colours pop, the lines are clearer, and you look at things differently.
This year we are reframing HOPE in two ways. Our first reframe is POSSIBILITY - another way of thinking about the belief that good things might happen. And our second is a new format that builds on what we learned last year to create an even more engaging experience.
Here's what you can expect when you come to POSSIBILITY this year:
- A new venue that makes parking and accessibility easier
- More than twenty speakers making short presentations (mostly 10 minutes or less) about things that matter to them and ideas that will matter to you.
- Four panels of speakers answering questions and having interesting conversations that explore the differences and surprising connections between presentations
- A chance to ask questions and participate in the conversation
- Water and munchies at the morning break and coffee or tea in the afternoon
- An evening of performances including wonderful singers and storytellers in a lovely venue
Everything happens on just one day this year. We hope everyone will come before 9:30am and stay until 9:30pm.
Here's what hasn't changed: POSSIBILITY, like HOPE, will offer you an opportunity to be energized and strengthened by the collective passion, commitment, creativity and common sense of people you will like and admire. We've kept the costs low because our arms are open to anyone with a desire for POSSIBILITY and an interest in making it happen.
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Muzzo Family Alumni Hall  | The panels at POSSIBILITY
The building where we will meet this year is a little bit familiar (because it is across the parking lot from most of our trainings) and a little bit different. That will prepare you for the conversations of our panels. They will be a little bit familiar and somewhat surprising. They will give you a sense of what is possible with NLP, and challenge you to explore what is possible for you.
Our first panel of the day will be the Leadership Panel. What do leaders need to know about how to create, support, develop or change the possibilities open to them and the people they lead? You will hear six people who run their own businesses and coach and consult with business leaders. They will have widely different backgrounds and experience. The moderator, Mike Verhey, himself a business person whose experience includes advising companies of all sizes, will ask the panel to consider some of the big questions about how possibility can be structured and incorporated in business leadership.
Next up is the Wellness Panel, featuring four practitioners who work with different aspects of what wellness means and how it changes and is changed by an ability to open up new possibility. Their presentations will include questions on how the mind and body work together. This is our smallest panel: it will offer a deep look at some of the core issues of both the symposium and NLP. The moderator will be Bev Hagedorn, a woman whose experience with homeless youth has taught her when to ask the tough questions and when to simply be present with someone during their struggle with limitation and freedom.
After our lunch break, we will allow our minds to be stretched by the Vision Panel. This panel takes the long view as it considers what it means to look beyond the present to discover what is both possible and desirable. The panel includes very distinct perspectives that will enrich the symposium by stretching our own sense of how vision and possibility change lives. The panel will be guided by John Dafos, an educator and artist who regularly lifts the curtain of appearances to discover the possibilities it hides.
Our final panel of the day will consider Mastery: what becomes both possible and necessary once we have mastered a territory, skill or body of knowledge. Specifically, all the panelists are Master Practitioners of NLP, ready to reflect on what it means to master influence and communication through neurolinguistic programming. Our moderators from the first three panels will be joined by Steve White, a trainer and coach with a drive for excellence, and by symposium hosts Linda Ferguson and Chris Keeler. This final panel will be moderated by Mike Murray, a restless thinker who succeeds by seeing what other people miss.
It promises to be an extraordinary day. Whatever your interest in building a sense of possibility, you will find yourself educated, entertained, challenged and energized.
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Charbonnel Lounge  | Story, Song & Trance: The Evening Session
In many ways, the performing arts are the place where the possible and the practical intersect. Live performances require that the audience be lifted out of a time and place by a sense of new possibilities. The performers who lift them are both inspired by something outside the room and very wide awake to what is working for their audience.
This year, we have added an evening of performances to the HOPE symposium. Singers Bev Hagedorn, Willard Bond and Rob Fisher will make you laugh and move and maybe cry a little. They are gifted performers and NLP Master Practitioners with a range of tools for knowing what an audience needs to open their minds and their hearts.
Our singers will be joined at the microphone by storytellers who are celebrated for their ability to take you out of the room where you are and move you to adventures, wonders and laughter. You might even find yourself carried to new spaces in your own mind in a light, energizing trance.
The evening performances will take place in the Charbonnel Lounge, around the fireplace.
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Carole & Linda  | Coming Up This Fall at NLP Canada Training Inc.
All programs except the HOPE Symposium at 47 Queen's Park Cres. E. All programs require registration. Evening programs by donation to World Vision Canada. Call Carole at 416-928-2394.
Evening programs
Thursday, October 7 What do you want to change?
Thursday, November 4 How Hypnosis Works
Thursday, December 2 NLP & the Art of Celebrating
Short programs
Sunday December 12 Preparing for Success in 2011
Certification programs
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