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Training for the Leader in You
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Dr. Linda Ferguson
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Greetings!
What's your first memory of taking charge of you?
In celebrating my tenth anniversary with the company last month, I told a story about deciding that I would play soccer. Before I was ten years old, we had moved across the country three times. I wasn't consistently involved in any activities outside school and I certainly was not an athlete (actually, I was one of the kids who dreaded the picking of teams ritual).
But when I was twelve years old, my dad coached my little brother's soccer team. I hung around the edges of practice, and got to know some other big sisters. We made posters and cheered when the team made the playoffs. We also started a campaign: we wanted to play the next year and we wanted my dad to coach us.
Girls soccer was still pretty new. We lived in Mississauga but Dad talked our way into an Oakville league. Then our Mississauga club started a girls program. We played in two leagues that summer, with 2 to 4 games per week (No one gets that kind of field time now). And I began to make myself into a competent soccer player.
I not only tolerated the conditioning drills at practices: I spent hours developing the ability to kick a soccer ball hard and (eventually) accurately. Within years, I would be an ace penalty shot taker, and then play on a team that won an Ontario Cup. At 17, I would coach and play rep soccer in the same season.
Do you remember the energy, the determination, the practice and the elation when you set out to do something and found what you needed to make it real? My love of training NLP began when I decided I wanted to lead myself in a new direction. Now I have a toolkit that works with natural processes to bring out the best in the people I train. If you're ready to tackle what it will take to bring out the best in you, come play.
Linda Ferguson, Ph.D.
Senior Partner
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Lead, Decide, & Influence: April at NLP Canada Training
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at 47 Queen's Park Cres. E., Toronto, ON. All events require registration by calling Carole at 416-928-2394.
NLP for Leaders, Tuesday April 9, 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Leaders are people who set the tone, the pace, and the direction for people who want to accomplish something together. You might be a leader in your home, your community or your organization, at least some of the time. Maybe you just want to be the captain of your own destiny. Linda Ferguson will describe the connections between NLP and leadership and offer you an experience of how NLP works to build leadership muscle.
No charge but donations to the Children's Aid Foundation will be encouraged. Bring cash or bring diapers, formula or other baby items. Doors open at 7:10.
Prepare to Decide, Sunday, April 14, 9:30am to 4:30pm
Building on the model of our most popular one day NLP experience, we're offering this introduction to how NLP allows you to prepare to make better choices. We'll offer an NLP process for preparing your state, your goals and your perspectives to allow you to make a decision and test it. As a bonus, Linda Ferguson will introduce connections between NLP and the model of decision making proposed in the new bestseller, Decisive, by Dan and Chip Heath. Details and pricing here.
Prepare to Influence, Saturday, April 20, 9:30am to 4:30pm
Would you describe yourself as influential? The desire to communicate more effectively is one of the primary reasons people train in NLP. This one day course offers you five steps that will make you more comfortable, more connected, and more effective when you want to influence the choices or behaviours of the people around you. As a bonus, Linda Ferguson will discuss the ways NLP works with the ideas in Dan Pink's new bestseller, To Sell is Human. Practice before you take the course: it only costs $1 to add a friend new to NLP to your registration. Details and pricing here.
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Price Drops on NLP Practitioner Certification
Have you checked our pricing lately? We've recently made some significant adjustments to our pricing for NLP Practitioner courses. You can now be certified by NLP Canada Training for just $1595 + HST, and that's still payable all at once or in convenient, affordable monthly payments. This new price applies to the weekend course that runs Apr 27/28 and May 11/12 and May 25/26. This is the final course before our summer intensives and your last chance to develop on the weekends until next fall.
Why have we lowered the price on the best NLP training in Canada? The world is not all about NLP, and we have had to think hard about where our training fits with most people's lives and experience. Most of our competitors are selling their courses on the basis of teaching you more terminology and more techniques. We think that's misleading. The most important thing to carry away from an NLP training is an understanding of how to get better results from natural processes and the things you are already doing well. That's not something that accomplished by teaching long lists of "meta programs" that sound more scientific than they are. We are not a science course: we are an extremely practical program that conditions you to make real progress in understanding the kind of communication that supports you or others in making better choices.
Our new price is in line with other programs for personal change, including personal training and great weight loss coaching. It's also well within the limits normally set by companies funding external training for their employees (check if your company would cover our course. We can help you make a request for funding). We want you to think of us as a conditioning program for your thinking. Like other good trainers, we'll teach you what you need to know to get better results and we'll support you while you make the changes necessary to implement what you learn.
Of course, the new price still includes all materials and a membership that allows you to return to the practitioner course free of charge for a period of two years from your graduation. It takes time to build good habits and you might want to come back for some reinforced learning or support for your new ways of thinking and influencing.
We are a certified educational institute and provide tax certificates for tuition for the practitioner certification course. We also offer no fees, no interest payment plans customized to make NLP affordable for you. Call 416-928-2394 and talk to Carole.
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Have you read our blog lately?
Linda Ferguson has written almost 700 blog posts (and over 60 articles). They're just some of the NLP we make available free so that people all over the world have access to the thought and practices we are developing in Toronto. Here are links to a few recent posts: How to make a decision (ask lots of questions)Have you ever been astonished by a decision made by someone close to you? You know this person well. You respect them. And then - apparently out of the blue - they make a decision you didn't see coming (read more)My love/hate relationship with NLPI have been involved with NLP (neurolinguistic programming) for more than ten years, and have been training NLP for almost that long. In that time, I have used NLP as a window into developments in the evolution of coaching and the discoveries of neuroscience. I have developed long-term relationships with clients who return to me for training because they find that my teaching is both powerful and practical. There are many, many things I love about neurolinguistic programming and the gifts it has given me in a decade.( read more) The gifts of persistenceI recently gathered some of my best friends and closest associates and asked them to bring as a gift a story of persistence. Persistence is not one of the sexier virtues, and it's one of the hardest to define. What's the difference between doing the same thing and expecting a different result (insanity!) and sticking to your plan long enough for it to work? ( read more) And if you're looking for a one page article, visit my page at ezinearticles.com. You'll find summaries of 61 short articles on different aspects and applications of NLP and hypnosis. |
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