 March 2012
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Greetings!
The flowers at the top of the page were blooming under my window early this week. As cold as it was today, the flowers know spring is just around the corner. And one of the signs of spring at NLP Canada Training is the return of Mike Mandel's course in Ericksonian Hypnosis.
Of course, Ericksonian hypnosis includes some terrific storywork. As we build toward April, some of us will attend Tom Condon's workshop on Therapeutic Metaphor (Mar 24/25). Linda Ferguson will be offering an evening introducton to Storywork on March 20, and then Linda and Andrew Freund will present a full day Storywork course on April 1.
As I write this, I am winding down from a practitioner training that featured guest appearances from Andrew Freund and Kathleen Milligan, and the very fine work of Ron Vereggen as my training partner. It's an extraordinary gift to work as part of this team, and to watch their impact on our newest practitioners.
I hope you'll have a chance to experience them in person soon. Whether you're ready for quietly effective change or you just love a good story, March is a good time to visit.
Linda Ferguson, Ph.D.
Senior Partner
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Next Events at NLP Canada Training
All events take place at 47 Queen's Park Cres. E., Toronto, ON. All events require registration by calling Carole at 416-928-2394.
Tuesday, March 6, NLP SHIFTWORK, 7:30pm to 9:30pm
You might have heard about NLP but you're not sure what it is or how it works. You might have tried to talk about NLP with your friends and found it hard to explain why the techniques are so effective. Maybe you would just like to experience a small change that has a strong positive impact in your life. This evening introduction has been developed so that you can learn where NLP started, how it works, and why it is effective. You'll experience the impact of small adjustments in perspective, behaviour or physiology. You'll leave with more energy and a clearer sense of your own direction in at least one area of your life. Register by phoning 416-928-2394.
Tuesday, March 20, STORYWORK, 7:30pm to 9:30pm
How many stories do you hear in a day? How many stories do you use to make a connection or to make a point? Stories are such a natural part of how people think and communicate that they are consistently underestimated as a source of reliable and detailed information. Linda Ferguson tells stories that capture an audience's imagination and attention. In this presentation, she'll introduce you to storywork: the intentional use of stories to understand and influence other people. You'll consider the limits of rational intelligence, the alternative provided by story work, and you'll get to hear some of the stories that work for Linda. Register by phoning 416-928-2394.
Sunday, April 1, STORYWORK: Choose, Tell & Use Stories More Effectively
10am to 4:30pm
We will use stories of tricksters and fools to explore how stories work to build relationships and influence change. This program will help facilitators, managers, trainers, and coaches to choose, tell and use stories more effectively. An NLP background is always useful, but not required for this workshop.
Participants should bring:
1) a situation where they would like to use stories
2) a problem they believe could be influenced by a story
3) a short story they would like to be able to tell
Fees: $100 (includes HST). Registration required. Please call Carole at 416-928-2394.
Thursday, April 12, 7:30pm to 9:30pm
A special event in support of Trails Youth Initiatives
DEALING WITH DIFFICULT KIDSThis is a very special opportunity to listen as three terrific experts share their experiences and insights about what makes kids hard to handle. John Dafos is a terrific teacher who inspires, supports, and gets results from kids in challenging schools. Kathleen Milligan is a therapist who uses a unique blend of models to help kids and their parents find balance and resourceful. Nick Babiuk is the Programme Director at Trails. "In 1992, the idea seemed simple. If you could take urban kids who are struggling to deal with issues related to adolescence and give them a place to develop roots in a setting that makes them feel like family, then they will find their wings and the confidence to make good life decisions reaching far beyond the safety-net of Trails..." Watch for more information later this week. This will be a powerful and practical evening for parents, coaches, teachers, social workers and counsellors who work with youth. Please help us spread the word. $30 payable to Trails Youth Initiatives.
Ericksonian Hypnosis Certification
Sat/Sun Apr 14/15 and Apr 21/22
Learn hypnosis from Canada's finest teacher. Mike Mandel will teach you to lead yourself or others through deep, healing, useful trances.
Click here for more details.
Prepare to Succeed: An Introduction to NLP with Ron Vereggen
Sunday April 15, 10am to 5pm
How will you improve the results you'll get in 2012? Find out in a fun, fast-paced, interactive course. We'll explore core practices of NLP for setting goals and connecting with the resources (internally and externally) to make them real.
Whether you are looking forward to the beginning of the new year or dreading a long, cold winter, you'll have a chance to rediscover your inner optimist and generate the energy you need to get busy and get results.
Here's what we guarantee:
- You'll make real progress toward defining your goals for 2012
- You'll learn some of the core practices of NLP
- You'll practice a proven strategy for getting great results.
Connect with the full calendar of NLP Canada Training events by clicking here.
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New NLP Practitioner Brochure Available for Download
Click on the link below to download a new pdf brochure on the NLP Practitioner Certification. The brochure will make it easy for you to share information about the prac with your friends and colleagues. It's also a great way for you to keep track of the training dates in 2012 so that you can refresh your training or plan for your Master practitioner training. Click here to download the new brochure
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A Rare Opportunity for Training in Therapeutic Metaphor
Tom Condon is coming to Toronto, and NLP Canada Training has arranged a special price when 8 or more of us register together for his workshop on March 24 and 25.
Tom Condon is a well-known teacher of the Enneagram, NLP and Ericksonian Hypnosis who worked for many years with Carol Erickson (Milton's daughter). I've listened to his CD set on therapeutic metaphor and taken a course with him on the meta-model and the Enneagram. When I heard that he would be in Toronto this March, I rearranged our training schedule so that I could attend. I also contacted Enneagram North and arranged for a group from NLP Canada Training to register at member pricing (a $50 saving) if we gather a group of 8 or more people.
Click the link above for the details on the training and then call or email Linda to arrange registration.
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Mike Mandel's Home on the Web
Have you visited Mike Mandel on the web? You'll find links to his new podcast and his latest audio products. It's a great way to develop your interest and your skills. Click here to read more.
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 Mike Mandel is "Relationship Mike"
Relationship expert Mike Mandel is a trained psychotherapist, world-renowned hypnotist and jiu-jitsu expert. But he's learned his most important life lessons from his 30-year gig as husband to Heather. Read Mike's " Five Ways to Ruin a Relationship" by clicking on the picture.
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How to Choose Between NLP and Hypnosis
I often meet people at events or on the phone who are interested in both NLP and hypnosis. Sometimes they are looking for help with an issue and sometimes they want to study one or the other. They do not want to hear that both are strong, interesting ways of looking at the way people achieve change. They want help deciding which is right for them.
It is true that NLP and hypnosis overlap in many ways, and that NLP and Ericksonian or conversational hypnosis overlap enough so that it is often not practical to distinguish whether a particular technique is more one than the other. Even the lines of influence are blurry: NLP was developed by studying the work of Milton Erickson, a hypnotist, which makes hypnosis seems like the parent and NLP like the child. But, as happens often with human parents and children, the lines of influence depend on more than who came first. NLP developed into a more general set of practices than hypnosis. It is appropriate in more different situations and for a greater range of purposes.
In hypnosis, the role of the conscious mind is to get you to a hypnotist and enter into a hypnotic contract that will allow you to go into hypnosis for the purpose you specify. It offers an almost immediate and profound break from whatever state you are experiencing as you replace that state with a trance: an altered state that is often deeply relaxing. After you have experienced trance a number of times, you learn to enter it more quickly and easily, with or without the aid of a hypnotist.
Hypnosis is most recognized for dealing with pain management, memory, and changing habits. It may also be used in guided visualization and other techniques to promote physical and mental well-being. People who go into trance enjoy being separated from both their daily reality and the voice of consciousness that interprets that reality for them. They replace the voice in their head with the comforting voice of the hypnotist. To the extent that the hypnotist guides them effectively, they may come out of trance and behave or feel differently in relation to the issue that led to the session.
Hypnosis can be seen as promoting two separate but related goals. The first is the induction of trance which in and of itself creates a break from mental and emotional pain and promotes physical relaxation and healing. The second is the creation of change in attitudes or behaviours as a result of trance. This includes (but is not limited to) changing automatic behaviours to allow for increased choice, flexibility and focus. Because these changes occur unconsciously, they can be difficult to track or to "prove."
NLP, on the other hand, deals with the cooperation of conscious and unconscious processes in guiding human behaviour towards well-formed intentions. This means that it provides techniques for knowing what you want and taking the steps necessary to get it. What you want may include relaxation or pain relief. It may involve changing phobias, bad habits or other unconsciously driven behaviours. It may also include positively-driven goals, achievements or skill development. NLP is more useful than hypnosis in situations where people seek conscious awareness of how they are arriving at decisions or of the impact they are having on people or situations.
If you would like to experience yourself differently, then hypnosis will offer a rapid, safe, interesting way to do that. If you would like to understand and influence your own experience and your connections with other people, then NLP will offer you a strong and flexible model of change, learning and influence. Asking whether one is better than the other is like asking whether song or dance is a more appealing art form.
In the end, good NLP practitioners learn to recognize when people are naturally slipping into trance and to use those periods of relaxed focus to build agreement and make suggestions. Good hypnotists learn to read their clients' bodies, expressions, stories and patterns. They will build rapport, ask questions and develop metaphors in much the same way that NLP practitioners do. The difference tends to be that NLP is more than a way of influencing change in oneself and others. It is also a very useful set of practices for developing more acuity in perceptions to accelerate innovation, collaboration and learning.
If you want to change yourself, hypnosis can be very effective. If you want to change the way you build agreement, manage conflict and collaborate, then NLP is more effective. Hypnosis is a monologue that the hypnotist delivers on behalf of the client. NLP is a rich, interactive conversation. For some of us, that is the difference that makes the difference.
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Intuitive Pricing for 2012
Effective immediately, we will be adjusting our prices to make them easier to remember and administer.
NLP Certifications:
NLP Practitioner Certification $2600 = $2300.88 + 299.12 (HST)
Substantial discounts are available when you register with a friend or family member; when you are a full-time student at a post-secondary institution; or when you are an NLP practitioner certified by another institute. Some conditions apply. Call Carole for details.
2 members of the same family (1 payment arrangement): $3000 total, includes HST
2 friends (2 payment arrangements): $1625 each, includes HST
Full time student or NLP Practitioner Certified Elsewhere: $1050 includes HST
Ericksonian Hypnosis:
EH Practitioner $2050 = $1814.16 + 235.84 (HST)
EH Master Practitioner $2350= $2079.65 + 270.35 (HST)
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Next NLP Practitioner Trainings
May 12/13 and May 26/27 and June 2/3
July 9-14 inclusive
August 5-10 inclusive
NLP Master Practitioner Certifications
May 11/12/13 and May 26/27 and June 2/3/4
July 8-15 inclusive
August 4-11 inclusive
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