In the past two weeks, I watched my four-month-old son learn to blow raspberries. Inspired by reading that this would be good for his language development (seriously!), and knowing that his mother can’t blow raspberries, I made the sacrifice and regularly blew raspberries at him. He was surprised at the start, then he started laughing. Then he started trying it out for himself. It took a while, and he ‘fell over’ a bunch of times. Even now, his raspberries are particularly sloppy. But he watched me and he did it – today, he can reliably exit a room and blow me a raspberry!

Interesting skills are usually the most difficult to transfer. We can learn Newton’s Laws, but it’s another story entirely to learn to think as Newton thought. Those tacit and almost invisible skills that sometimes leave behind traces of brilliance are the ones where we lack the language to teach the skills. Often we lack the explicit knowledge as to what is being done at all. Yet an infant can learn without language. They just look out at the world with eyes wide open and a willingness to explore, experiment and experience.

In NLP terms, we could call this modeling. Modeling is how Dr John Grinder learned to do Gestalt Therapy from Richard Bandler and Frank Pucelik, the process yielding what we now know as the “Meta Model”. Modeling was then applied by them, and the original study circle, to learn from Virginia Satir, Milton Erickson, Frank Farrelly and others, thereby creating the original foundations of NLP.

NLP Modeling (or NLP^Modeling) is more than just Strategies, and seems mostly taught explicitly and comprehensively as part of New Code NLP trainings.

Jeff has given me the lead on this event that will be the first of it’s kind in Asia where you will be able to learn not just more advanced NLP techniques, but NLP Modeling. We’ll cover more advanced NLP techniques of course. Though more than just a collection of techniques, what most attracted me to NLP in the first place is how NLP provides a mechanism to get access to genius by absorbing their skills.

If you’ve looked at an infant – like our son Alexander – you’ll notice how they can have their eyes wide open as they look out at the world, absorbing whatever lies before them. They don’t ‘analyse’ or ‘think through’ what they are doing; instead they just absorb the behaviours of those around them. At the dawn of NLP, Grinder modeled Bandler to as they developed the Meta Model, and they did it together to develop the Milton Model and so much else. Learning to model deliberately helps us take NLP to an entirely new level.

We are looking to run this over four weekends, currently:

• March 26-28,
• April 24-25,
• May 8-9, then
• May 28-30.

So, all up, 8-10 days of training where you can learn to:

• Identify, apply and use advanced language patterns to influence and persuade,
• Connect with that state where you are at your very best whenever you want,
• Learn to apply NLP Modeling (those skills that Bandler and Grinder applied when they founded NLP) to learn whatever you want to learn,
• Get more clear about what is most important to you than ever before,
• Build rapport and understanding from those around you,
• Connect with the metaphors, questions and beliefs that drive your life,

More generally, you can walk away enjoying experiencing more excellence, more often.

For more information, on how to become a Master Practitioner of Neuro-linguistic Programming with Dan Smith, click here.

Thursday 7 May – from 7:00pm – 100RMB

In this special master class, Greg Layton, outlines the latest NLP techniques that empower mastery of communication and the importance of these skills in coaching, sales, negotiation and relationship building.

Specifically he will discuss how to use the following NLP Linguistic Patterns and more importantly how to ensure your success in using them:

• Frames
• Representational System Predicates
• Metaphor
• Meta Model
• Milton Model

As part of the evening, Greg will coach a skills session on the Meta Model’s short form product, John Grinder’s Verbal Package ensuring that you come away with a new skill set to use immediately.

Having spent a few hours with Greg in the past week since his return from a modelling project at Shaolin, I am very excited that Greg has offered to share some of his high quality training with us.

7 May: Sorry, we’re full! But please put your details in the form below and we’ll put you on our wait list:

Hypnosis and hypnotic language patterns have been a part of NLP’s core since Bandler and Grinder modeled Milton Erickson, most obviously yielding the well-known Milton Model (and its antidote, the Meta Model) but having a far more pervasive impact than this might even imply.

Elsie will share her insights and experiences with a select group, covering topics including:

• What is hypnosis
• What is the “unconscious mind”
• Some application of hypnosis
• The process of hypnosis
• A group hypnosis experience where audience members may choose to experience deep trance and wonderful relaxation
• Some basics of self hypnosis

We are capping attendance numbers to ensure that this session remains intimate, so please register your place early.

Looking forward to seeing you there!