Open Coaching and Mentoring, Thursday 24/Jun/2010

Bringing Great NLP People Together to Practice
Note: The date of this night is different from what was previously advertised

Practice your NLP skills and help others at the same time!

Thursday 24/Jun/2010

We have gone through the effort to organise the venue and have done all the preparation for you.

All you need to do is RSVP to come with a friend for them to receive the benefit of personal coaching at a minimum fee.

RSVP is essential! Please let us know if you are coming and your friend’s name and contact email (for confirmation of spaces) by 12:00 Wednesday 23/June/2010.

If you are not bringing anyone, please let us know as well, we will do our best to match coach and clients.

If you are not a NLP Practitioner and would like to attend, please RSVP and let us know you would like to be a client only.


RSVP:

NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com and your friend’s name and contact email (for confirmation of spaces) by 12:00 Wednesday 23/June/2010.

Location: New Farm Library, 135 Sydney St, New Farm, Brisbane

Date: Thursday 24/Jun/2010

Time: Door opens at 6:00pm, 6:15pm for registration, session Starts at 6:30pm, Finishes at 8:30pm
Food: Some snacks, fruit, tea & coffee provided. Microwave available to heat food
Fees: $15 (to cover snacks and any materials produced)

We appreciate if you can pay by bank transfer prior to attending to help us organise this event. payment at the door will be accepted.

Bank Transfer to:
A/C Name:Blue-Sky Transformation
BSB: 064-116
Account number: 1015 5575
Reference: Your Name+”Café” (for example: Sonya Spencer Cafe)

Every payment comes with a receipt.

RSVP Essential!

See our first posting on Open Coaching / Mentoring to what it is all about and how it works. Fees stateted in the blog post might differ from this notification.
Benefits

  • For Therapist: Enhance your skills by learning in a coaching / mentoring environment
  • For Couples, Parents and Managers: if you’re not a practitioner, come as a client
  • For Individuals: Whether or not you are a practitioner, you can come as a client for some coaching and assistance!

What is NLP?
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of success. It has tools for creating and facilitating personal and professional change in yourself and others.
Find out More go to http://www.blue-skytransformation.com.au/whatisnlp.html

 

Public Event: NLP Cafe Brisbane Opens Thursday 27 May 2010

Topic: Increase your Talent, Increase your Profitability

So, you have all the task related skills to get the job done, but do you have the “Value Added Skills” that make you the one that companys want to keep and promote? Or the “Talent” that you can leverage in your own business?

Feel free to forward to your connections

Note: This event has been modified and is different from earlier publications

For just $15 for the night, you gain talents and add value to increase your profitability!

In this special public event you will learn simple but effective NLP tools to :

  • Redirect your thinking to think creatively and on your feet.
  • Enhance your ability to negotiate and gain powerful insight into others.
  • Redirect your client, team member or stakeholder’s thinking to create value for them and for yourself.

For just $15 for the night, you gain talents and add value to increase your profitability!

RSVP is Essensial, and there is limited seating so be in quick

Time

6:00 – Cafe Door Opens – Feel free to bring some food to heat up in the Microwave, have some snacks or have a cuppa (Tea and Coffee supplied)
6:30 – Session Starts
8:30 – Cafe Closes

Location: New Farm Library, 135 Sydney St, New Farm, (07) 3403 1062 and our number 0439 307585

Fee Payment: $15 dollars at the door

Tax Recipts available

Increase your Talent, Increase your Profitability, NLP is the Key

See you there

Sonya & Mark

Tuesday, 11 May 2010 – Open Coaching / Mentoring

RSVP Required: NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com for more details

Due to the recent fee charges from the New Farm Library, all events will go ahead if a sufficient number of members are attending.  RSVP is essential!

The focus is to help you practice your art and during the process you will be able to:

  • Let more people know what you can do for them
  • Deepen your skill set to provide quality services to your clients
  • Learn and assist fellow NLP Practitioners
  • Fostering a good reputation for NLP that will ultimately assist you.

See our first posting on Open Coaching / Mentoring to what it is all about and how it works.

!! Important !!

To ensure that everyone gets the chance to work with different people every time….

You need to bring a client for the session.
You will be working with clients who were brought in by other NLP Practitioners.

When RSVP:

For NLP Practitioners and Master Practitioners: NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com and please notify us the name of the person you are bringing as a client.

For Clients: NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com and please notify us if you are attending as a client and also, if you are bringing a person along as a client too.

Location: New Farm Library, 135 Sydney St, New Farm, Brisbane

 
Time: Door opens at 6:00pm, 6:15pm for registration, session Starts at 6:30pm, Finishes at 8:30pm

 
Food: Some snacks, fruit, tea & coffee provided. Microwave available to heat food
Fees: $10 at the door (to cover snacks and any materials produced)
Fee Payment: please confirm your RSVP with payment by Bank Transfer to:
BSB: 064-116
Account number: 1015 5575
Reference: Your Name+”Café” (for example: Sonya Spencer Cafe)
If you do a Bank Transfer, we can issue you with a receipt.

RSVP Essential!

Fees: $10 for preparation and printing materials and we also provide a snack, fruit, tea & coffee, and there is a Microwave/Kitchen to heat a meal.

Benefits

 
 

  • For Therapist: Enhance your skills by learning in a coaching / mentoring environment
  • For Couples, Parents and Managers: if your not a practioner, come as a client
  • For Individuals: Whether or not you are a practitioner, you can come as a client for some free coaching or therapy!

 

What is NLP?

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of success. It has tools for creating and facilitating personal and professional change in yourself and others.
Find out More, go to What is NLP

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Thomas A. Edison

When you become quiet, it just dawns on you. Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931). We are training people to become quiet when they want to.

Tuesday, 2 March 2010 – Open Coaching / Mentoring session

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Open Coaching / Mentoring session

NLP Café Brisbane
RSVP Required: NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com for more details

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Topic: Open Coaching / Mentoring (Public Workshop)

This is for both practitioners and public.

It is also great for those who are new to or know little about NLP to taste the way NLP coaching can be with a mentored coach. You can also sample what NLP is like.

Get Clarity – “Open Coaching / Mentoring Session”

With quality trained practitioners and professional coaches. Note that space is limited; RSVP now to get in quick!

For just $15.00, you gain insight, tools and skills for a better life & we deepen our craft!

Location: New Farm Library, 135 Sydney St, New Farm, Brisbane
Date: Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Time: Door opens at 6:00pm, 6:15pm for registration, session Starts at 6:30pm, Finishes at 8:30pm
Food: Some snacks, fruit, tea & coffee provided. Microwave available to heat food
Fees: $15 at the door (to cover snacks and any materials produced)
Fee Payment: please confirm your RSVP with payment by Bank Transfer to:
BSB: 064-116
Account number: 1015 5575
Reference: Your Name+”Café” (for example: Sonya Spencer Cafe)
If you do a Bank Transfer, we can issue you with a receipt.

For RSVP and for more information: call us on 07 3355 9714 or NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com

RSVP Essential!

Fees: $15 for preparation and printing materials and we also provide a snack, fruit, tea & coffee, and there is a Microwave/Kitchen to heat a meal.

Benefits

  • For Therapist: Enhance your skills by learning in a coaching / mentoring environment
  • For Couples, Parents and Managers: if your not a practioner, come as a client
  • For Individuals: Whether or not you are a practitioner, you can come as a client for some free coaching or therapy!

RSVP Required: NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com for more details

“Open Coaching / Mentoring Session” is as described in the Café post: Open Coaching / Mentoring session
This is a special session for NLP Practitioners who want to participate in the
Open Coaching / Mentoring activities, but this week with clients attending. If you want to be a client, plese indicate when you call or register by email.

What is NLP
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of success. It has tools for creating and facilitating personal and professional change in yourself and others.
Find out More go to http://www.blue-skytransformation.com.au/whatisnlp.html

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Nightwalking – how it went on 18/Feb/2010

This is how the nightwalking went….

    Following the stars - Nightwalking (before sundown), at Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane

    Following the stars - Nightwalking (before sundown), at Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane

  • We walked from the bottom of JC Slaughter falls carpark to the Mt Coot-tha Summit (had ice-creams, drinks and quite a few laughs) and returned by the same bush path. About 4 kilometers round trip.
  • The night’s darkness was not dark enough – there was too much ambient light coming from the city lights reflecting off the low rain clouds. Retrun trip was a bit darker with some of the clouds clearing. We would like to try again on a darker night, and therefore further out of town.
  • Brin and Mark entered a cave along the way and we believe that we experienced the amount of darkness required to get the effect.
  • Some did experience a level of heightened awareness on the return journey as there were darker parts of the path and by concentrating on the light object.
  • By spreading out, and therefore relying more on your own senses, there was a greater gain in sensory awareness as we were not orientating ourselves to the person in front of us and their ups/downs and sways that gave us more information about the path ahead.
  • It seemed to us that using the luminous ‘glow in the dark’ stickers or mobile pieces was ample to focus on and that the true luminescent paint is actually not that important. We may modify this hypothesis as we try future nightwalking events though.

Watch for our future Nightwalks on the Sunshine Coast and/or Gold Coast where we will go into the hinterland to be far enough from ambient lights.

See more Nightwalking photos on this link.



Last minute assembly in the dark - Ashley

Ashley

Creating the cap - Nightwalking (after sundown), at Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane

Serious Nightwalker - Brin

What the Nightwalker see's as they walk into the darkness

What the Nightwalker see's as they walk into the darkness

Nightwalking at Mount Coot-Tha, 18-Feb-2010 18:00

Hi again and welcome to all those coming to the first night for the year where we will experience Nightwalking – to increase your peripheral vision. With a little ingenuity, you can follow the description below after the location direction easily and manufacture your own nightwalking caps, increase your peripheral vision and have a heightened experience in the process.  If you want to read more on the night walking and the previously published guide, please go to http://nlpcafebrisbane.com.au/2009/11/11/nightwalking-last-nlpcafe-for-2009/ for our earlier NLP Café Brisbane post.


Free Event,  RSVP Required

Date: 18/Feb/10
Time: 18:00 for 18:30 start
Location: JC Slaughter Falls park, Sir Samuel Griffith Dr, Mount Coot Tha
Bring: Your nightwalking cap and your own snack/dinner and a bottle of drink to share. Recommended to bring also – a torch, mobile phone, insect repellent for your own safety and convenience.

Directions

Head north-west on Mount Coot-Tha Rd towards Sir Samuel Griffith Dr

Mount Coot Tha Rd turns slightly right and becomes Sir Samuel Griffith Dr

Destination will be on your left, the entrance to JC Slaughter Falls park.

You will need to park near the entrance of Sir Samuel Griffith Dr, as the gates are supposed to close at sundown or soon after.

From the parking area, we will find the nearest table area for those who have something to eat with them to have that together there. After about 30-40 mins (dark enough), we will try our night-walking hats and head off for the experiment.


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Please register you interest so we can keep you updated – NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com
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Calendar for 2010

For each NLPCafe night, unless otherwise mentioned – the following applies:

Food: Some snacks, fruits, tea and coffee are provided. There is microwave to heat up food as well.

Time:

6:00 – Cafe Door Opens – Feel free to bring some food to heat up in the Microwave, have some snacks or have a cuppa (Tea and Coffee supplied)
6:30 – Session Starts
8:30 – Cafe Closes

Location: New Farm Library, 135 Sydney St, New Farm, (07) 3403 1062 and our number 0439 307585

Fees: $15 at the door (to cover snacks and any materials produced) (New costs for 2010)
Fee Payment: please confirm your RSVP with payment by Bank Transfer to:
BSB: 064-116
Account number: 1015 5575
Reference: Your Name+”Café” (for example: Sonya Spencer Cafe)
If you do a Bank Transfer, we can issue you with a receipt.


Thursday, 18 Feb 2010, Night Walking,
This is a special session for NLP Practitioners and public participants who want to develop their peripheral awareness.
For more details please read our Café post on the 11/Nov/09: http://nlpcafebrisbane.com.au/

Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Open Coaching / Mentoring session
For more details please read our Café post on: Open Coaching / Mentoring Sessions

Thursday, 25 March 09
A fun night for sure! Let’s do the NLP Speed Circuit to strengthen your NLP muscles. You will end up feeling high on NLP.

Tuesday, 6 April, 2010
This is a special session for Practitioner and Master Practitioner only to test “Synchronised unconscious signal elicitation”. This part of the International Trainers Academy initiative to test a phenomenon that synchronises unconscious signal elicitation between the practitioner and their associates.

Tuesday, 11 May, 2010Open Coaching / Mentoring session

Thursday, 27 May, 2010
Master the art of Modelling part 1. This is a practitioner only night and let’s focus on the core of NLP by modelling another person to acquire an unique skill. More details and format will be published soon.

Tuesday, 1 June, 2010
Action-packed evening! Let’s do the NLP Speed Circuit to strengthen your NLP muscles. You will end up feeling high on NLP.

Thursday, 24 June, 2010
Master the art of Modelling part 2. This is a practitioner only night and let’s focus on the core of NLP by modelling another person to acquire an unique skill. More details and format will be published soon.

Tuesday, 6 July, 2010Open Coaching / Mentoring session

Thursday, 29 July, 2010
Practicing NLP Hypnotic Patterns

Tuesday, 7 September, 2010
Open Coaching / Mentoring session

Thursday, 30 September, 2010
Master the art of Modelling part 3. This is a practitioner only night and let’s focus on the core of NLP by modelling another person to acquire an unique skill. More details and format will be published soon.

Silent Exchanges™ Workshop

Silent Exchanges™ Workshop

When they were handing out Body Language Handbooks — Did they Run Out Before You Got Yours?

We spent a decade teaching Verbal Wizardry… now we’re training nonverbal wizardry! Learn Powerful Non-Verbal Communication & Leadership skills!

Brisbane, Australia – Sunday-Tuesday, 25-27 April 2010

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      Dear Communication Skills Students:

      If you think being a “good communicator” is good enough, think again. Nearly everyone’s a “good communicator,” these days. Nowadays, to own any given situation, you need to have mastered the following valuable secret that is repeatedly uttered behind closed doors amongst the most powerful and influential people around:

The most flexible element in any system… wins.

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John Grinder NLP – Patterns in our Relationships Video | NLP Academy

See John Grinder NLP – Patterns in our Relationships Video | NLP Academy.

John Grinder talks about habits impact our relationships. Filmed at the close of a workshop on pattern detection.

NLP Practitioner Training for 2010 in Brisbane, on the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast

NLP Practitioner Course, More information, to register, download our brochure

…offering certificates co-signed by the founders of the International Trainers Academy – John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll. This course is the only one available in Australia and NZ of this type.

The newly developed NLP Practitioner Course is being offered as a unique small group coached training in Brisbane. The first of the series started during November 2009, and there is a series of these being offered throughout 2010 in Brisbane, on the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. See our Training Schedule for dates of programs throughout 2010 and our Detailed Schedule for training provided by both our organization and our associates.

Module Descriptions

Our NLP Practitioner Course is practical, effective and full of profound concepts and information. The comprehensive 18-day program brings you the working foundations and principles of NLP. You will rapidly integrate the NLP techniques you have learned into your work and personal life.

Enjoy the unique coaching style of training in smaller classes which has a high facilitator to student ratio maximises your learning and ultimately your investment in the training.

An NLP Practioner qualification is Internationally recognized and allows you to continue with an NLP Master Practitioner certificate at a later stage with us or another NLP Training organization.

Course content

At minimum, the course will cover the following areas:

  • Calibration (input channels)
  • Rapport
  • Representational systems
  • Language patterns (Meta Model, Milton Model, Verbal Package)
  • Methods of verifying map alignment
  • Metaphor competency
  • Anchoring techniques
  • Multiple perceptual positions
  • Chain of Excellence
  • Epistemology of NLP
  • Hypnotic patterning, trance, hypnosis
  • N-Step Reframing
  • Working with the unconscious mind
  • Parts Interventions
  • New Code NLP Introduction (updated to the latest in August 2009)

Next Course Details (Brisbane)

Modules I, II and III Combo + Certification process
.If after completing our course you choose to be certified (training and certification are separate events) by us, your certificate will carry Grinder, Bostic St Clair and Carroll’s signature. The certification process will be rigorous to ensure the quality standards set by Grinder, Bostic St Clair and Carroll are maintained.

Why choose us?

This is a most unique course and is leading the advancement in NLP Training.

  • Unique Coaching format so you get maximum result from your training.
  • Small Class to provide you with quality attention. Our classes are small. The coached style of teaching, together with most effective way to learn and apply the art of NLP, ensuring a unique and accelerated learning experience. Be the one that stands out from the crowd with NLP
  • Highly Qualified Trainers with international experience.
  • Exceptional Quality and Practical Excellence.
  • Our course meets the criteria globally for certification with additional skills, information and knowledge from world leaders in the field of NLP.
  • Facilitated by currently practicing professional coaches and therapist who brings additional insight.
  • All of our training content is true to the core of the essence of NLP, which is modelling, at the same time includes the latest advancements that is the New Code of NLP. See NLP Co-creator, John Grinder’s own distinctions regarding training that can be found on the International Trainers Academy website.
  • This is the only training program in the region supported by on going, regular practice and continuous development facilities.

This course also offers the ongoing training and support through NLPCafeBrisbane. NLPCafeGoldCoast and NLPCafeSunshineCoast NLP Cafés are NLP practice groups, which aim to help NLP Professionals to advance their skills and individuals to learn to use the tools they were born with. We train in NLP Classic Code, New Code, and some of the most up to date developments in related disciplines. Attendance at the course guarantees your support at NLPCafe’s.

NLP Practice evening, Thursday 29 Oct 09, 18:30 – 20:30, New Farm Library

NLP Café Brisbane

Thursday 29 Oct 09

Topic: Have you elicited Unconscious Signals yet?

This is for NLP practitioners and NLP Master practitioners only.
Come and join us for this special session on Thursday 29 Oct 09

Topics:

1. Foundation Skills – Sub-modality fest (quick drill, different to our last week)
2. Main topic – Have you elicited Unconscious Signals yet?
3. New Code Change Format

RSVP required

Date: Thursday 29 Oct 09

Food: Some snacks, fruits, tea and coffee are provided. There is microwave to heat up food as well.

Time:

6:00 – Cafe Door Opens – Feel free to bring some food to heat up in the Microwave, have some snacks or have a cuppa (Tea and Coffee supplied)
6:30 – Session Starts
8:30 – Cafe Closes

Location: New Farm Library, 135 Sydney St, New Farm, (07) 3403 1062 and our number 0439 307585

Fees: $5.00 at the door

Benefits

  • For Therapist: Enhance your skills by learning in an environment that stretches your capabilities in New Code NLP and possibly a new process for you.
  • For anyone: Connection with your unconscious will be a feature.

RSVP Required: NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com for more details

“A Taste of Wizardry” evening event in Brisbane 27/Oct/2009

“A Taste of Wizardry” evening event in Brisbane!

Here’s some exciting news for those of you who could benefit from becoming more charismatic, more influential, and more effective as a leader.

We’re about to get our very first visit in Brisbane from NLP Trainer Jonathan Altfeld, based in the USA, who’s been training in Sydney & Melbourne about once a year for the past 8 years. Jonathan trained primarily with NLP co-founder Richard Bandler but has also trained with many others.

He’s known in NLP circles not only as being an expert at the casual & practical use of NLP in normal everyday circumstances, but also as a true innovator, having authored a range of very unique NLP home study materials and creating a line-up of very unusual courses not found anywhere else.

Jonathan does not teach the usual certification trainings anymore, or even believe that the typical common single path through all 3 certification trainings (Practitioner, Master Practitioner, Trainers
Training) is necessarily right for everyone. He believes what trainings we each take should begin with a great Practitioner training for a solid foundation, and then explore shorter courses from a range of high quality trainers, that are more targeted for your particular desired outcomes and life goals. After all, do we all buy the same brand and size of shoes? Of course not. If we do something as mundane as buying shoes in such a highly personal way, we should certainly do the same with something as important to us as our own training path and personal development truly is.

So, Jonathan has become known for his unique short courses in APPLIED NLP. He trains NLP for use in voice development, or public speaking, or sales, or training design, or modeling, or body language mastery, etc.

Sign up for “A Taste of Wizardry”, and… get 5 mini seminars in one evening!

This evening is only $39 for 3+ hours and 5 skills.

To check out the specific dates for each City and book now, go to Jonathan Alfeld’s website.



You’ll get a taste of each of the NLP courses Jonathan delivers and Jonathan will teach one skill from each of 5 of his applied NLP courses:

  1. From his “Finding YOUR Irresistible Voice” 3-day weekend course: Jonathan will teach powerhouse *Embedded Commands* delivery skills. As perhaps the top “voice development” guy in NLP today, Jonathan is arguably one of the top authorities on the optimal way to create this hypnotic auditory effect. Most NLP’ers, in Jonathan’s experience, have needed fine-tuning here.
  2. From his “Holographic Communication” 5-day Speakers course (which is being taught in Melbourne on this trip!): Jonathan will teach *Semantic Priming*: Here’s how to ensure people interpret what you say… the way you want them to. Why leave Interpretation to Chance or Free-Will, if you don’t have to?
  3. From his “Knowledge Engineering” 3-day Modeling/Belief Systems course: Jonathan will teach the distinctions (comparisons/contrasts) between *Inductive vs. Deductive* reasoning, more commonly known as backward vs. forward thinking. Further, you’ll learn WHY you benefit from knowing the distinctions, and knowing which you’re using at what time. Any NLP’er wanting/claiming to do truly clean, content free work — may not be quite as clean/content-free as they think, but this knowledge/skill will help get you there.
  4. From his “Silent Exchanges” 3-day Body Language weekend course: Jonathan will train *Unusual Nonverbal Pattern Interrupts and Handshake Interrupts.* Ever the Pragmatist… you’ll learn both obvious and subtle ways to interrupt someone’s attention without causing someone to think you’re being rude. And you’ll learn some extraordinarily subtle nuances to doing this well and influentially — even in a modern corporate environment.
  5. From his “FAST* Training Design” 2-day weekend course: Jonathan will train *Chunking Oscillation* for maximum interest, integration, and maintained attention span. This course teaches people how to (a) structure seminars for maximum impact/response, and (b) design exercise drills on the fly to meet any unique need (partly based on Ericksonian tasking). Oscillating chunking is one specific skill that helps fractionate an audiences attention, and create learning tension (not stress, but a push-pull effect during the learning process). In short, people will become and remain riveted to your delivery.

Upon arrival, you’ll be handed one complimentary copy of a CD valued at $25 from Jonathan Altfeld, as well as Handouts with Notes useful for reminders after the evening.
The tuition fee for this evening is AU$39 per person for ~3 hours of content training, one of Jonathan’s bonus CD’s, and a packet of notes to take home.

More information or Register on Jonathan Alfeld’s website

You can go to “A Taste of Wizardry” on Jonathan Alfied’s website, or straight to one of the Event Registration Pages if you are ready to register now.

NOTES: All Evenings begin at 7:00pm & go to ~10:00pm. Also. Each venue being reserved is of limited size; So book your place(s) now to ensure you don’t miss out!


     * BRISBANE: Tuesday 27 October 2009, 7pm-10pm
      A Taste of Wizardry - an evening with Jonathan Altfeld
      Venue: Mercure Hotel, 85-87 North Quay, Brisbane.
      Tel (07) 3237 2300

See Jonathan Altfeld’s website to check out the specific dates for each City and book.

Cross-Marketed with NLPCafeBrisbane

Cross-Marketed with NLPCafeBrisbane, raising the standard of NLP Practice groups.

To obtain any of the products that Jonathan Altfeld displayed or mentioned during the evening, visit NLP Products page to review or order now.

NLP Cafe Brisbane, 6/Oct/09 (Open to public)

NLP Café Brisbane
RSVP Required: NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com for more details

Tuesday, 6-Oct-2009

Topic: Open Coaching / Mentoring (Public Workshop) and Schedule of activities

This is for both practitioners and public.

It is also great for those who are new to or know little about NLP to taste the way NLP coaching can be with a mentored coach. You can also sample what NLP is like.

Get Clarity – “Open Coaching / Mentoring Session”

With quality trained practitioners and professional coaches. Note that space is limited; RSVP now to get in quick!

For just $5.00, you gain insight, tools and skills for a better life & we deepen our craft!

Location: New Farm Library, 135 Sydney St, New Farm, Brisbane
Date: Tuesday, 6 Oct 2009
Time: Door opens at 6:00pm, 6:15pm for registration, session Starts at 6:30pm, Finishes at 8:30pm
Food: Some snacks, fruit, tea & coffee provided. Microwave available to heat food
Fees: $5 at the door (to cover snacks and any materials produced)
For RSVP and for more information: call us on 07 3355 9714 or NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com

RSVP Essential!

Fees: $5 for preparation and printing materials and we also provide a snack, fruit, tea & coffee, and there is a Microwave/Kitchen to heat a meal.

Benefits

  • For Therapist: Enhance your skills by learning in a coaching / mentoring environment
  • For Couples, Parents and Managers: if your not a practioner, come as a client
  • For Individuals: Whether or not you are a practitioner, you can come as a client for some free coaching or therapy!

RSVP Required: NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com for more details

“Open Coaching / Mentoring Session” is as described in the 26-Feb-09 session… This is a special session for NLP Practitioners who want to participate in the
Open Coaching / Mentoring activities, but this week with clients attending. If you want to be a client, plese indicate when you call or register by email.

What is NLP
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of success. It has tools for creating and facilitating personal and professional change in yourself and others.
Find out More go to http://www.blue-skytransformation.com.au/whatisnlp.html

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NLP Practice evening, Thursday 24 Sep 09, 18:30 – 21:00, New Farm Library

NLP Café Brisbane

Thursday 24 Sep 09

Topic: Have you elicited Unconscious Signals yet?

This is for NLP practitioners and NLP Master practitioners only.
Come and join us for this special session on Thursday 24 Sep 09

Topics:

1. Foundation Skills – Sub-modality fest (quick drill)
2. Something new – What’s happening in the New Code NLP world?
3. Main topic – Have you elicited Unconscious Signals yet?

RSVP required

Date: Thursday 24 Sep 09

Food: Some snacks, fruits, tea and coffee are provided. There is microwave to heat up food as well.

Time:

6:00 – Cafe Door Opens – Feel free to bring some food to heat up in the Microwave, have some snacks or have a cuppa (Tea and Coffee supplied)
6:30 – Session Starts
9:00 – Cafe Closes

Location: New Farm Library, 135 Sydney St, New Farm, (07) 3403 1062 and our number 0439 307585

Fees: $5.00 at the door

Benefits

  • For Therapist: Enhance your skills by learning in an environment that stretches your capabilities in New Code NLP and possibly a new process for you.
  • For anyone: Connection with your unconscious will be a feature.

RSVP Required: NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com for more details

NLP not Therapy?

There has been much discussion in some circles, as to whether NLP is Therapy or not, and I love this one. Therapy might be over-used term for some, so it may have meanings attached for each person reading this…

Drawing an analogy from the another common definition – when is a hill a mountain or a so-called mountain actually a hill? There is no universal definition for hills and mountains, as there are differences world-wide on the distinction. There are admissions given for where a hill or mountain has been named by the local people. Some definitions quote height ranges, some quote angles for the structure, and some refer to the abruptness of the structure realting to the surrounding landscape. (See end of this Post for the full analogy). A mountain or hill’s height and name is very subjective.

So is the definition of NLP in relation to therapy, or is it the definition of therapy in relation to NLP….

Early quotes from Grinder and Bandler were all around therapy….

  • NLP was based upon the modeling of 3 major therapists. Not just any therapists, “master psychotherapists“, Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir, and Milton Erickson.
  • Grinder and Bandler reviewed many hours of audio and video of the three therapists and spent months imitating how they worked with clients, in order to replicate or ‘model’ the communication patterns which supposedly made these individuals more successful than their peers. The studies were an attempt to identify why particular psychotherapists were so effective with their patients. Rather than take a purely theoretical approach, Bandler and Grinder sought to observe what the therapists were doing, categorize it, and ‘model’ it.
  • “…when you watch and listen to Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson do therapy, they apparently could not be more different … People also report that the experiences of being with them are profoundly different. However, if you examine their behavior and the essential key patterns and sequences of what they do, they are similar. … The same was true of Fritz Perls … when he was operating in what I consider a powerful and effective way, he was using the same sequences of patterns that you will find in their work. – Bandler, R., Grinder, J. (1979). Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming. Moab, UT: Real People Press.. pp. 149 (p.8 (quote).
  • Book name examples – The Structure of Magic I: A Book About Language and Therapy. Bandler, Richard., and John Grinder (1975a). Palo Alto, CA
  • Later associations with ‘therapists’ – They also quote Frank Farrelly, creater of Provocative Therapy.

Therapy (in Greek: θεραπεία), or treatment, is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis. In the medical field, it is synonymous with the word “treatment”. With this association, it conjurs up some sort of fixing something. Moving to therapeutic, the definition is a little more open – A therapeutic effect is a consequence of a particular treatment which is judged to be desirable and beneficial.

My opinion….
For me it depends on what I am doing as to whether NLP is Therapy or not. One moment I may be using NLP for some ‘therapy’ with a client, and an hour or two later, I may be using a very different personal process that helps me with sorting out my intentions, and later defining an outcome with my finances, and later still writing an email for a work-related project. When does anything we ever do become therapy? By this definition: A therapeutic effect is a consequence of a particular treatment which is judged to be desirable and beneficial. I could help someone with the photocopier where I work and it be therapeutic – maybe it is if my treatment of my fellow staff members is congruent…. Talking may be therapeutic, and relaxation may also be. Both of these could also cause stress or anxiety under some circumstances.

It is my opinion that you cannot learn anything about NLP (on a training course) without at least being instructed on how to ‘do therapy’ – at least one of the patterns you will be trained in should involve therapy. You may never want to be a therapist, but you will learn ‘therapy’ amongst many other items.

Hill and Mountain analogy notes


Castle Hill in Townsville, Australia is named a Hill, but is often decribed as a mountain in the same sentenceAppreciate the beauty of the city and nearby Magnetic Island from Castle Hill, the rugged mountain that gives Townsville a unique rustic appeal.
The hill is just metres short of being classified as a mountain, and many years ago, a local Townsville man gathered other enthusiasts and they all started carting rocks and cement to the top and tried to make it a mountain so that it could be renamed a mountain. I don’t believe that it ever reached the ‘required’ height – but what book of rules was he reading? This guy could have saved a lot of time and effort if he had read the Dictionary – In the Oxford English Dictionary a mountain is defined as “a natural elevation of the earth surface rising more or less abruptly from the surrounding level and attaining an altitude which, relatively to the adjacent elevation, is impressive or notable.” Based upon this, it had to be natural (his fellow mountain making slaves could be classed as ‘natural’ in some senses, but man-made cement may not be), and it is already abrupt, impressive or notable.


The wikipedia definition of a mountain

In the United States, the following points of measurement have been used and taught in geography classes:
* Flat to 500 feet, base to highest point – Rolling Plain
* Highest point 501 to 999 feet above base – Hill
* Highest point 1000 feet or more above base – Mountain
Whether a landform is called a mountain may depend on usage among the local people. The highest point in San Francisco, California, is called Mount Davidson, notwithstanding its height of 990 feet, which makes it ten feet short of the minimum for a mountain in American appellation.
Other definitions of “mountain” include:
* Height over base of at least 2,500m
* Height over base of 1500-2500m with a slope greater than 2 degrees
* Height over base of 1000-1500m with a slope greater than 5 degrees
* Local (radius 7 km) elevation greater than 300m, or 300-1000m if local (radius 7 km) elevation is greater than 300m
By this definition, mountains cover 64% of Asia, 25% of Europe, 22% of South America, 17% of Australia, and 3% of Africa. As a whole, 24% of the Earth’s land mass is mountainous and 10% of people live in mountainous regions. Most of the world’s rivers are fed from mountain sources, and more than half of humanity depends on mountains for water.

NLP Practice evening, Tuesday 7 July 09, 18:30 – 21:00, New Farm Library

NLP Café Brisbane

Tuesday 7 July 09

Topic: Unconscious Signals, n Steps of Reframe, Words that move people

This is for NLP practitioners and NLP Master practitioners only.
Come and join us for this special session on Tuesday 7 July 09

Topics:
1. Practice – New Code NLP: unconscious signals and N steps of Reframe
2. Practice – From Impossibility to Possibility – Words that move people

RSVP required

Date: Tuesday 7 July 09

Food: Some snacks, fruits, tea and coffee are provided. There is microwave to heat up food as well.

Time:

6:00 – Cafe Door Opens – Feel free to bring some food to heat up in the Microwave, have some snacks or have a cuppa (Tea and Coffee supplied)
6:30 – Session Starts
9:00 – Cafe Closes

Location: New Farm Library, 135 Sydney St, New Farm, (07) 3403 1062

Fees: $5.00 at the door

Benefits

  • For Therapist: Enhance your skills by learning in an environment that stretches your capabilities in New Code NLP and possibly a new process for you.
  • For anyone: Connection with your unconscious.

RSVP Required: NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com for more details

Your Brain on Leadership? Assess Yourself!

Published by lisaj February 27th, 2009 in Applying NLP Now,

I just read a great article “Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership” from the September 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review.  It details fascinating new research by Daniel Goleman of “emotional intelligence” (EQ) fame.

The emerging field of social neuroscience — the study of what happens in the brain while people interact — will be familiar to any of you with NLP training. It’s the scientific proof of what we’ve been doing in this field all along. It talks about how two major characteristics of leaders — empathy and becoming attuned to others’ moods — affect BOTH their brain chemistry and that of their followers: “Individual minds becoming, in a sense, fused into a single system.”  Goleman and Boyatzis have detailed what happens in the brain chemistry during rapport, Read the rest of this entry »

Public Work Shop, Thursday 30 April 2009 – When your Strategy Turns Into a Tragedy!

NLP Café Brisbane

Thursday, 30-Apr-2009

Topic: When your Strategy Turns Into a Tragedy! – Open Coaching / Mentoring

This is for NLP practitioners and NLP Master practitioners and the unsuspecting Public.

Back by popular demand! Please join us and feel free to let your friends know about this work shop.

You will learn how to find out any of your subconscious strategies that repeatedly harm your relationships, careers or finances, in other words, a strategy that turned into a tragedy. For just $5, you will learn how to apply the process for yourself, to others and be assisted by other NLP trained professionals.

Seats are limited RSVP is Essential.

Practitioners: This is Jan Prince’s Stragedy Process which is based on Robert Dilts “Logical Levels”. We will share with you three different ways that you can apply this process.

Date: Thursday, 30 April 2009

Food: Some snacks, fruits, tea and coffee are provided. There is microwave to heat up food as well.

Time:

6:00 – Cafe Door Opens – Feel free to bring some food to heat up in the Microwave, have some snacks or have a cuppa (Tea and Coffee supplied)
6:30 – Session Starts
8:30 – Cafe Closes

Location: New Farm Library, 135 Sydney St, New Farm, (07) 3403 1062

Fees: $5.00 at the door

Benefits

  • For Therapist: Enhance your skills by learning in an environment that stretches your capabilities
  • For anyone: Find out any hidden strategies in your life that might be tripping you up from time to time

RSVP Required: NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com for more details

NLP Cafe Brisbane, 3-Mar-2009

NLP Café Brisbane

Tuesday, 3-Mar-2009

Topic: Open Coaching / Mentoring (Public Workshop) and Schedule of activities

This is for both practitioners and public.

As described in the 26-Feb-09 session… This is a special session for NLP Practitioners who want to participate in the
Open Coaching / Mentoring activities, but this week with clients attending.
It is also great for those who are new to or know little about NLP to taste the way NLP coaching can be with a mentored coach. You can also sample what NLP is like.

Schedule

6:10 Registration

6:15 Introduction

6:30 Start (No late arrival at this point)

7:45 Feedback from client

8:00 Practitioner Debrief / disussion

8:30 Cafe Close

 

Benefits

  • For Therapist: Enhance your skills by learning in a coaching / mentoring environment
  • For Couples, Parents and Managers: if your not a practioner, come as a client
  • For Individuals: Whether or not you are a practitioner, you can come as a client for some free coaching or therapy!

RSVP Required: NLPCafeBrisbane@gmail.com for more details

 

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NLP Cafe Brisbane – Open Coaching / Mentoring Session

NLP Café Brisbane

Topic: How to gain most out of Open Coaching / Mentoring sessions (NLP Practioner Only)

Improve and market your services with the “Open Coaching / Mentoring Session”.

This is really a landmark session to establish some of the ways we will be providing the Open Coaching / Mentoring Sessions throughout the year.

  • Do you want more people to know what you can do for them?
  • Do you want to provide quality services to your clients?
  • Do you believe we can all learn and assist each other?
  • Do you believe there are benefits for all in creating a good reputation that NLP deserves?

If you answer is ‘yes’ this is the session for you.

This is a special session for NLP Practitioners who want to participate in the Open Coaching / Mentoring activities.

You will experience the art of co-coaching to gain the most out of the Open Coaching / Mentoring experience.

You will also learn what you need to do and understand before you attend the Open Coaching / Mentoring sessions.

During the Open Coaching and Mentoring Sessions the general public can have a free session while you practice your craft. These sessions will allow you to:

  • Use effective client feedback, to find out what worked and what did not.
  • Observe different approaches from other practitioners via the co-coaching process
  • Using modelling techniques to gain insight
  • Bring your business card and marketing materials to allow interested potential clients to take and learn more about you.

  • For Therapist: Enhance your skills by learning in a coaching / mentoring environment

 

 


The structure of magic: A book about language and therapy (I and II)

The structure of magic: A book about Language and Therapy (I and II)

If you truly want to master the use of Meta Model, learn them from the originators of NLP in their first published NLP books.  These books establish the distinctions between the linguistic elements of the meta model for language, GDD, TDS, some of which are dropped or misrepresented in other books.

A must have for all NLP Practitioners, successful communicators and therapists who want to bring change to their clients.

Reviewed By Mark Spencer and Sonya Yeh Spencer, Certified Advanced NLP Coaches.

Emotional Choice – Lessons from the great Professor Albert Ellis

Do you know you have a choice to be calm rather than feel stressed? Professor Albert Ellis’s Rational Emotive Therapy & Philosophy, just like NLP, had demonstrated this choice.

We often live by many rules in our life. These rules express themselves Read the rest of this entry »

Using your brain for a change

Using your Brain for a Change

Do you want to know who is really driving the bus that is YOU? Bandler provided alternatives to the conventional wisdom and show you how to use submodalities to experience the life that you like to experience and pave the way for a better future.

This is one of the classic NLP books and serve as a fundation book to work with Submodalites.

Reviewed By Sonya Yeh Spencer, Certified Advanced NLP Coach.

My lessons with Kumi

My lessons with Kumi by Michael Colgrass

This is a wonderful and delightful book.  Written by the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award Winner, Michael Colgrass.  He has combined his extraordinary approach to human performance in this intriging teaching tale.

You will be following the main character, Nick’s adventure, high in the Montana mountains as he undergoes a rigorous training of mind, body and spirit that transforms his personal and professional life.

Nick’s notes on his growth and progress serve as a step-by-step handbook for the reader.

Reviewed By Sonya Yeh Spencer, Certified Advanced NLP Coach.

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