 December 2010
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NLP Canada Training Inc. Newsletter
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| Happy Holidays!
Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, NLP Canada Training wishes you wonderful moments spent with people you love doing things you love to do!
Carole, Linda & Chris
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Greetings!
What will you remember about 2010?
It doesn't sound like we are asking you to make a prediction when we ask what you will remember about a year that is (mostly) past. But it can be hard to know what will live in our memories. As the days get darker and colder, we gather inside and begin to turn our lives into our stories of our lives. And that can change things.
There have been important events in your life that you were sure you would remember, clearly, forever. Yet when you try to recapture faces and voices and feelings, some are a little blurred, a little faded. There may even be gaps where you have lost information. You tell a story about the event and someone else who was there will remind you of details or simply remember things differently. Memories are funny that way.
Whatever choices you made in 2010, you made. There is no changing history. As you remember those choices, the way you remember will take on different highlights and meanings. There is no avoiding the changes in memory. Change happens in memory so that it can happen in us.
As 2011 approaches, take some time to revisit 2010 and think about what you want to carry forward in your memory. Find the spots that are unexpectedly bright, moments so vivid you could almost reach out and touch them. Find the faces that mean more than you thought. Find the ideas that have been biding their time, waiting for you to pay attention to them.
We look back and forward at the faces of people in our trainings and events, people bright and smart and attuned to their best selves. Clients becoming community becoming friends. Our hearts are full of the courage and hope of the people we have trained and coached. We are grateful for all of you.
Linda and Chris
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Introductions to NLP
If you've found your way to this newsletter, you've heard of NLP. Maybe you've taken training; maybe you've read books or done online or audio training. Maybe you've noticed that NLP has cropped up in conversations from time to time and you've made a mental note that you should find out more.
Here's a quick start guide to NLP:
· NLP stands for neuro-linguistic programming. It means conditioning your mind to achieve heightened awareness of information through your senses and attribute meaning to that information in a way that moves you towards goals.
* NLP offers practices in three areas: 1) knowing and managing your own choices; 2) influencing the choices other people make and 3) learning to replicate other people's achievements.
* NLP is a set of practices developed by people concerned with getting predictable results. It's not a theory or a science and it has not been 'scientifically proven.' It does take principles from various sciences and apply them to the problem of getting predictable and desirable results.
The bottom line is that NLP works by enhancing behaviours that come naturally when you are at your best. You already know how to do it: you just don't know what you know. Introducing you to NLP is a little like giving a mirror to someone who has never seen his/her own reflection.
Any of our courses can serve as an introduction to NLP because all of them include instruction in some core practices and a chance to experience the heightened awareness and subtle communication skills typical of NLP. Most of them also include the opportunity to learn with people who have already taken training and come back to practice.
In December, we are offering a one-day introduction to NLP called "Preparing for Success in 2011." We charge for our introductions because they are real courses, not commercials. Like any of our courses, they provide high-quality training in techniques that are immediately effective in giving participants new and better choices. When you register, you can expect to make real-time progress on goals you set, experience core practices of NLP, and learn a process for moving towards goals that you could use to guide yourself or others in the future.
In January, we are offering an evening introduction to NLP called Inspire! One of the interesting things about NLP is the way it allows us to think about things like inspiration as processes we can learn instead of gifts that have to be granted by the universe. Anyone can inspire and anyone can find inspiration when it would be useful to them. This program runs by pay-what-you-can donation to Shelterlink, a program for homeless youth in Stratford, Ontario.
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Managing Choice: A New Certification Program
Most of us  think that most of our choices are made logically and reasonably and only a few are really a matter of taking a chance on something we would like (or something we would like to be true). We like to think that, but as we will discuss soon, people from a number of fields have done research that says that we are wrong.
On the whole, human beings take chances because they cannot help but take chances. We are not good at predicting results in a world of continuous change. Because we get it wrong so often, there's no such thing as a sure thing. Even our best researched and best reasoned choices only allow us to take a chance on the way we think and hope it turns out to be meaningful and effective.
In the winter of 2011 NLP Canada Training will be launching a pilot program for a new certification in Managing Choice. Five separate one day programs will combine to provide an overview of the tools we use to make choices, the interplay of conscious and unconscious priorities that influence the choices we make, and the range of possibilities for making choices that satisfy us more often. These one day programs can be taken individually, or you can be part of the first group to earn the new certification by taking all 5 courses. Here's a brief look at each of the five days that make up the new certification:
Saturday, January 8: Elements of Choice. We'll cover the research on how people make choices and then consider how intention, motivation, knowledge and situational awareness can be managed to manage choice in ourself and others.
Sunday, January 23, 2011: The Well-Conditioned Mind. The best choices are the ones we make without effort, choices made within the zone. Explore the kind of conditioning that allows people to trust their instincts and make flawless judgements without struggle in appropriate situations.
Saturday, February 5, 2011: Whole Brain Thinking. Many choices are best made using all the resources available. In neurological terms, that means working with the whole of the brain's natural processing to apply our best resources to the choice we face.
Sunday, March 6, 2011: Creating Choices. This program explores how we create new possibilities when the existing possibilities do not meet our criteria or lead to the outcomes we want. Learn how to use analogy and metaphor, wider intentions, narratives and even mistakes to create real choice where none seemed to exist.
Sunday, March 27, 2011: Is It Your Choice to Make? Too often, this is the forgotten question. We agonize over choices without ever asking whether we are the right people to choose. Move from considering how to accept other people's choices to thinking from the point of view of the system or network.
Introductory Pricing: $175 + HST for each one day course or $700 for all 5 courses (payable by deposit and installments). All 5 courses must be complete to earn certification in Choice Management. |
5 Tips for Leading a Group
Whether you're running a business meeting or hosting a party, here are five steps to being a happy and effective leader.
1. Know what you want. Carefully and thoroughly imagine your goal for the group. What will be different when the group achieves this goal? Let yourself get emotionally attached. You want to apply some will power to moving yourself toward this goal and to sticking to it. Your energy should go to creating the conditions where this goal becomes possible: you are controlling yourself, not other people. That's why you need the will power.
2. Build connections. You want to connect with the influencers in the group, with the loud ones and with the ones who will stay at the edges, quietly pulling other people off center or pushing them forward. All connections begin with attention, so make sure you pay attention to each member of the group. As you connect, you will find out who is relaxed and open, who is distracted, and who has a personal objective that might conflict with your goal for the group. Build bridges wherever possible.
3. Protect diversity in the group.  A group of clones is not a real group: it makes for dull parties and unproductive businesses. As a leader, you can create space to allow people to be different without being difficult. Create opportunities for people to privately consider their own thoughts before sharing them. At a party, this might mean creating nooks for quiet conversations. In a meeting, it might mean asking people to make notes before responding out loud to an issue.
4. Change perspectives. As a leader, you are in a position to move people to consider things from a different point of view. You can introduce details to a big picture conversation or widen the range of discussion when people are getting stuck on the finer points. You can help people move around the room at a party or around the table at a meeting - sometimes metaphorically and sometimes by creating opportunities for physical movement. It's surprising how much is accomplished when people simply change seats.
5. Tell the group's story. Summarize, yes, but do more than that. Create a story that has a role for everyone, a common quest or a common obstacle, and engaging momentum. Respect the emotions in the room by voicing and shaping them so that they are both genuine and useful. A story without emotion would not be a very interesting story: a story without obstacles might end too soon. As you shape the story of your group's progress, you do more than state what has happened. You also shape what will happen next.
These are, of course, the kinds of tips that can take a very long time to master. Fortunately, they do not require perfect skills to significantly improve your experience and your results as a leader. As you move your attention between what you want for the group and what you are noticing in the group, you will find that you discover more of what you need to lead well.
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Pricing Changes Coming in 2011
We've held our prices steady for several years, but in 2011 some prices will rise to reflect changing conditions. Our special pricing for 2 people was originally intend to allow partners to take the course together. We first extended the pricing to family members, and then to friends taking the course together.
The pricing was never meant to reflect the value of the course. It reflected the reality that most families could not afford for both partners to take the course at full price. Since we are now extending the offer more widely, we need the price to rise to reflect more of the value of the practitioner training. Our primary costs are for marketing: when you bring someone else into the course with you, each new client costs us less and we share that saving with you.
The cost of our one day courses is also rising to reflect our commitment to providing effective change and professional development within a short form. All of our courses provide a rich training experience and many contain new applications designed to raise awareness and skill levels.
We will continue to provide evening events by Pay-What-You-Can charitable donations, and to occasionally provide special events to our community of NLP practitioners. We also have a limited number of bursaries available that substantially reduce the cost of training for full-time post-secondary students.
Register (with deposit) for 2011 practitioner certification before January 7, 2011 and pay the 2010 prices.
NLP Practitioner Certification $2,250.00 + $292.50HST = $2542.50
2 people may register together for $2650 + $344.50HST = $2994.50 on January 7 the price rises to $3300 or $1650+214.50HST = $1864.50 per person when 2 or more people register together.
Click here for our complete price list.
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Coming Soon to NLP Canada Training Inc.
All programs 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, December 9 Cookies & Conversation, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Thursday, January 6 Inspired! An Introduction to NLP, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Short programs
Sunday December 12 Preparing for Success in 2011, 10am to 5pm
An introduction to NLP that allows you to clear the way to get results in the new year
Managing Choice
A new series of 5 one day courses on how to recognize and influence the way people make choices. Register for one course at a time, or be part of the launch of a new certificate when you take all 5.
Saturday, January 8, 2011 The Elements of Choice
Sunday, January 23, 2011 The Well-Conditioned Mind
Certification programs
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