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I remember a boss that said to me once: "One page is worth a million dollars, two pages one hundred thousand".

Stories told in just six words Stories told in just six words, inspired by Ernest Hemingway's famous challenge.

For sale: baby shoes, never used. —Ernest Hemingway

Brevity is a virtue.

This is a collection of short short stories consisting of just six words. It was inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s famous challenge.

Six Word Stories with pictured

Have you ever had the need to compress your life, your direction, your outcomes into a few words?

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.

Becoming quiet

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

NLP Practitioner Course - Curriculum Detail

Our NLP Practitioner Course is practical, effective and full of profound concepts and information. The comprehensive 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.

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.

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.

Course content - NLP Practitioner Competencies

Below is a minimum set of competencies expected of an NLP Practitioner who has attended an ITA certified NLP Practitioner course. This list is not exhaustive and where time is available, we may include additional patterning.

Minimum Classic Code NLP Practitioner Competencies

Calibration (input channels)

Being able to calibrate in each of the sensory input channels (please notice that we distinguish
between ‘sensory input channel’ and ‘representational system’), visual,
auditory and kinesthetic.

The ability to distinguish between conscious and unconscious signals in non-verbal communication.

Rapport

• Mirroring
  
  Visual, auditory
• Cross-over mirroring
  
  Visual, auditory Alignments (including rep. systems manipulation)

Representational systems

The ability to detect the preferred representational system by:

• Eye movements
• Predicates
• Voice quality
• The ability to rapidly and smoothly adjust your communication (both verbal and non-verbal)
  to the preferred system of the client
• Overlap of representational systems as a method
  of inducing in the client whichever system they do not have access to, and use in pacing
  and leading the client from one representational system to the other (all 3 – V,
  A, K)
• Identification and utilisation of ordered sequences of representational systems, (sometimes
  referred to as strategies)
• Synesthesia patterns
• Submodalities and their use both as interventions (e.g. SWISH) and as barometers
  of the effectiveness of change techniques (for example, reports from clients immediately
  after doing a New Code game are full of descriptions of the submodality changes induced
  by the change of state)

Language patterns

• Verbal package
• Framing
• The two specification questions:
  
  • Nouns: Which/What ________, specifically?
  • Verbs: ______________, how specifically?

Methods of verifying map alignment (paraphrase, for example)

• The Intention question
• Modal operators and universal quantifiers
• Frank Farrelley’s provocation method (deliberate selection of ‘wrong’ and
  outrageous interpretation in order to provoke the client to ‘correct’ the
  agent of change and thereby offer a more grounded verbal representation)

Minimum metaphor competency

• Isomorphic/homomorphic mappings
• Naturalistic metaphors
• Metaphors using anchoring to specify to the client’s unconscious
  mind the elements in the metaphor that correspond to specific elements in the presenting
  problem or challenge
• Living metaphors
• Logical levels and logical types (defined in Whispering)

Anchoring techniques

• The ability to establish and successfully re-activate anchors in each of the three major
  input channels (V A K, and also spatially)
• Use of anchoring in change formats
• Change personal history/re-imprinting
• Collapse of anchors
• Time line interventions
• Circle of excellence (spatial anchoring)
  
  

Multiple perceptual positions

With special emphasis on triple description (the use of 1st, 2nd and 3rd position), with
full competency to move quickly and cleanly between these perceptual positions.

Chain of Excellence

• Breathing
• Physiology
• State
• Performance

Epistemology (from Whispering) with f1, FA and f2

• F1 Transforms
• First Access
• F2 Transforms
• Linguistic Representations

Being able to recognise the above distinctions and how they impact mental processing at different
points of representation.

Being able to design interventions and understand the leverage point of that intervention
in the epistemological distinction.

Simple hypnotic patterning

Using inductions and language patterns (portions of the Milton Model) to utilise both deliberate
and spontaneously occurring altered states.

Involuntary signal systems

• Arbitrary involuntary systems (like those found in step two of Six Step Reframing)
• Use of natural involuntary systems (pain and sensations associated with health, disease
  and dreams)
• Methods for assisting people who are disassociated kinesthetically to develop signals – the
  orienting response

N-Step Reframing (old Six Step Reframing)

• Calibrating and working with clients involuntary unconscious signals
• Working with ‘unconscious
  intention’, again through calibrating and working
  with involuntary unconscious signals

Tasking (especially for changing belief systems)

• Listening off the top for semantically packed words.
• Being able to set parallel tasks,
  that are isomorphic to the client’s ‘present
  issue’ to create change in the clients circumstances with the direct involvement
  of the client’s conscious mind.

Parts Interventions

• Recognise parts as a metaphor
• Negotiation between parts
• Parts integration
• Building a team

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.

A full NLP Practitioner qualification is internationally recognized and allows you to continue with an NLP Master Practitioner certificate at a later stage with us or another reputable NLP Training organization. NLP Practitioner status is awarded to students who successfully complete all three modules & the certification process.

The Training format is in two types, spread out (over 2 - 3 months), or the "Intensive" Programs, where the dates are more compressed so that if you are travelling, you can minimise the time you need to be at the location.

There are three areas of training that we cover all the way through your course:

Emotional Intelligence

provides the NLP foundation that enhances or establishes your “Emotional Intelligence”. The aim is to assist you to create a strong connection with your self, elevate your self-awareness and provides self-management skills. At times we offer this course stand-alone, or to contribute towards your eventual growth with the NLP Practitioner program.

Communicating with Precision and Effectiveness

is all about “Communicating with Precision and Effectiveness”. It offers many practical techniques so you can engage more meaningfully with clarity and eliminating many of the barriers to effective communication. This course provides the basis for ways NLP can enhance our communication skills specifically with others and in doing so enhance the quality of our lives.

Creating Change

is focused on bringing together all the foundations already taught and builds your capability by working with powerful NLP Patterns to create change. This “Comprehensive NLP – Creating Change” phase brings distinctions on NLP Pattern utilisation, more in-depth learning by working with “real clients” under supervision and integrates your skills and knowledge.

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Cautions regarding EQ tests

From http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s581804.htm For almost 100 years IQ tests were thought to be the most reliable predictor of individual intelligence and performance from the school class to the work place. But now there’s a new intelligence test coming into the workplace it’s Emotional Intelligence and it could determine your future.

EQ is a measure of our feelings – how well we understand our own emotions and recognise emotional states in other people. In modern management these criteria are increasingly seen as indicators of how well individuals will work in teams and who is best suited to lead or follow, or doesn’t belong in a team at all.

Reporter Jonica Newby goes to Swinburne University in Melbourne – one of the few labs in the world developing tests to measure EQ to find out just what’s involved in an EQ tests and ask is EQ something that can be measured?
TRANSCRIPT

Narration: This is the NSW training academy for prison officers. Attending, is prison superintendent David Mumford. He’s ambitious – he wants promotion. But his future may hang on how well he does on this test. A controversial new test. Of his emotional intelligence. We’re here to discuss the results. You’ve heard of IQ, well here comes EQ. It’s a measure of how well we understand and manage emotions. And like David, many of us may soon be judged by it. Employers are saying move over IQ, its EQ that counts. Small wonder its already reached our prisons.

David Mumford: I would say emotional intelligence is about 80% of the skills needed.

Narration: But critics ask, are EQ tests scientifically valid? Worse – could they be misused - to discriminate against individuals?

Dennis Garlick. If you use something like emotional intelligence and it hasn’t been validated, then that means you could be identifying or pigeonholing someone as being low emotional intelligence when in fact they may not be.

Narration: In the last few years, the EQ wave has swept across corporate Australia. It’s even entered our universities. This is a different sort of EQ test – a practical one. Students are racing against the clock to rewrite software for this robotic arm. And it’s more than a test of engineering.

Professor Con Stough: What we are really testing here is teamwork and personal growth during the course.

Narration: But is EQ really just a management fad – interpersonal skills rebranded with a sexy new name? Or does it have a hard basis?

Jonica Newby: Well, here at Swinburne University, I’m about to meet a group of guys who are trying to put scientific substance into emotional intelligence. Professor Con Stough is a neuroscientist who actually specialises in IQ. But he’s become fascinated by EQ.

Professor Con Stough: Emotional intelligence is actually about your cognitive understanding of your emotions. This is a new frontier for us.

Narration: Pushing that frontier, Stough and his team have developed what they say is the first truly scientific EQ test. And these executives have just sat it.

Professor Con Stough: We try to measure five basic cognitives; how much emotional information do you use to make decisions so you are more intuitive or less intuitive or analytical. How able are you to understand your own emotions and the differences between emotions. How able are you to understand emotions of somebody you are working with. And how do you use this information in an effective way.

Narration: It’s not surprising these women are anxious about their results. Swinburne University trials have shown this EQ score is 16% better at predicting career success than IQ.

Jonica Newby: So what is actually on an EQ test. Well I have one right here. So here goes. I have no difficulty portraying my emotions to my colleagues. And the answers are always, sometimes, seldom, never. It’s certainly nothing like an IQ test – which Professor Stough gives me next, for comparison.

Professor Con Stough: This is a test of pattern recognition. So what we have to do is complete the pattern so it makes sense this way and this way

Jonica Newby: This could take some time. I’m not sure why, but I think the answer is 4.

Professor Con Stough: Very good, that’s right.

Narration: And this exposes what critics say is EQ’s greatest weakness. With IQ tests, there’s a right or wrong answer.

Professor Con Stough: So here you can see that the brain is working very hard.

Narration: And as these scans show, you can relate IQ directly to what’s happening in the brain. So far, neither of those things is true for EQ.

Narration: And that’s what really gets up the nose of one of EQ’s biggest sceptics. He’s IQ expert and go-kart enthusiast Dennis Garlick. Dennis Garlick says the great thing about IQ is that it can be measured. Accurately.

Dennis Garlick: I have difficulty with the notion you can measure emotional intelligence. With IQ tests, what they’re measuring is known as a general factors of intelligence, and if you do well at visual and spatial test, you also tend to do well at verbal and linguistic tests.

Narration: In contrast with emotional intelligence, it hasn’t yet been established that there is a general factor.

Professor Con Stough: Well I say that’s a very premature answer to give everybody. I mean emotional intelligence is a developing field. But certainly we’ve found associations between our tests and the important criteria like leadership for instance, happiness, life satisfaction. So we’re definitely tapping into something, and we’re pretty confident that the properties of the test are good.

Narration: This debate over whether EQ can be measured is not just academic. It goes to the heart of how it will affect us all. These students are entering a workforce where EQ tests will increasingly be used. If the tests aren’t valid, the personal cost could be huge.

Dennis Garlick: One of the main concerns with emotional intelligence is that you could then have it pigeonhole people. Which means that because someone performs poorly on an emotional intelligence test, then that means that they won’t ever be able to get a job.

Narration: It is possible EQ will be mishandled – used to unfairly slot people into categories. That certainly was a criticism of IQ over the years. But EQ advocates stress that’s not their aim.

Con Stough: What we’re trying to do is trying to help people understand and manage their emotions in the workplace and we know that that’s something that’s been a problem in the past because of our focus just on intelligence.

Stough believes we’ll all benefit from EQ becoming as highly regarded as IQ.

Con Stough: Well I think in 10 years time, IQ will still be used for graduate selection and assessment. But side by side with the Emotional Intelligence test.
Topics: Health

* Reporter: Jonica Newby
* Producer: Steve Salgo
* Researcher: Carina Dennis & Owen Craig

Story Contacts

Prof Con Stough, Swinburne University, Melbourne VIC Australia

Dennis Garlick, Sydney University, Australia

Prof Warren Yates, University of Technology, Sydney Australia

Larry Marlow, Organisational Psychologist, Marlow Hampshire, P O Box 189, Balmain Sydney Australia Ph: 9810 9000

NLP Practice Group Schedule for 2010

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 November 09: http://nlpcafebrisbane.com.au/

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Open Coaching / Mentoring session

Thursday, 25 March 09A 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.

Tuesday, 5 October, 2010

Special topics, more details coming soon.

Thursday, 28 October, 2010Special topics, more details coming soon.

Tuesday, 2 November, 2010Open Coaching / Mentoring session

Thursday, 25 November, 2010

Special topics, more details coming soon.

How would you like to use NLP in 2010 to make a change to your life, work and the world?

How would you like to use NLP in 2010 to make a change to your life, work and the world?

We have asked the question to ourselves and some of the people involved in NLP development has also asked the questions. Here are some of the feedbacks. What is yours?

“I would like to use NLP to enhance a positive mindset through attention awareness for myself and others, and expand my capabilities by Modelling ” ~ Mark Spencer

“Use NLP to create the essential paradigm shift to grow into the person I want to be with congruence and assist others to enhance their capabilities through Modelling” ~ Sonya Yeh Spencer

“I would love to see the presuppositions of NLP being widely applied in society. Understanding and applying these principles could make a big difference” ~ Karen Moxom

“I would love to introduce year 12 students to the concept of state management, basic techniques to enable them to make the crucial decisions on career, relationships and self identify” ~ Margaret McConnon

News from our NLP Cafe's in Queensland

Welcome to another year of wonderful NLP Café activities. As we enter into our third year of operation and continue to evolve NLP Café Brisbane, we hope to bring you sessions that can elevate your NLP skills and ours!

Our particular interest this year is Modelling. Modelling is so critical yet not many NLPers seem to actively “Model”. NLPers who do model often are on their own in their endeavour and when they need assistance, experienced Modellers are few and far in between. This year we will organise special sessions for NLP Practitioners to practice Modelling. For members who are interested in running special modelling projects we are interested to hear from you and work with you outside of the NLP Café Brisbane setting too.

Another interest for us this year is the different ways to expand our sensory experiences, such as the Night Walking will provide.

The open coaching session with the public was a great hit last year and we will continue the session this year.

We will be adding cross-marketed events such as Jonathan Altfeld in April (scroll to April) and other great trainers as their events come up.

Be sure to watch for other schedules during the year as the training and NLP Cafe’s grows…

NLP Café’s in Queensland:

NLPCaféSunshineCoast.com.au

NLPCaféGoldCoast.com.au

NLPCaféBrisbane.com.au

NLP Practitioner Brisbane, Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast, Australia

ITANLP Calendar updated with our courses for Brisbane, Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast, Australia.

NLP Practitioner Intensive: This is a comprehensive 18-day program, but intensive (consecutive style), all completed between 3-23/Jun/2010 . Enjoy the unique coaching style of training in smaller classes which has a high facilitator to student ratio and maximises your learning and ultimately your investment in the training.

Location: Sunshine Coast, Australia Contact: bookings@blue-skytransformation.com +61 7 3355 9714

NLP Practitioner Intensive: This is a comprehensive 18-day program, but intensive (consecutive style) all completed between 9-29/Sep/2010. Enjoy the unique coaching style of training in smaller classes which has a high facilitator to student ratio and maximises your learning and ultimately your investment in the training.

Location: Gold Coast, Australia Contact: bookings@blue-skytransformation.com +61 7 3355 9714

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.

Sunshine Coast Dates

Gold Coast Dates

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 the NLPCafeBrisbane. NLP Café Brisbane is an NLP practice group, which aims 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 NLPCafeBrisbane.

NLP for your emergence

NLP for your emergence

NLP Practitioner Training in Brisbane (Venue Details)

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of success. This course has tools for creating and facilitating personal and professional change in yourself and others.

Is there anything wrong with having a personal advantage in life?

Course details





Location of Training
Brisbane International - Windsor‎

Cnr Lutwyche Rd & Bryden St, Windsor QLD 4030. Phone: 07 3357 3456.  http://www.windsorinternational.com.au



More Information

Take the positive step to improve your life today and empower the next generation. See our NLP Practitioner Training Courses in Brisbane delivered by by Certified Trainers of NLP, Trained and Certified by John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll.
If you were to train and become an NLP Practitioner, you would be able to employ your newly acquired skills as an agent of change working with individuals, groups, companies, global organisations and governments. As a technology, NLP has an amazing track record for instigating fast and efficient change in individuals and groups.

Say NO! to MEDIOCRITY and be the BEST YOU CAN BE!

Quality NLP Training now in Brisbane - NLP Practitioner Course

NLP Practitioner Course

Finally what you have all been waiting for - NLP Practitioner Course is now regularly offered as a unique small group coached training in Brisbane.

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.

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

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
* Trance and Hypnotic patterning (Hypnosis principles and experience)
* N-Step Reframing
* Working with the unconscious mind
* Parts Interventions
* New Code NLP Competencies (updated to the latest in August 2009)

This course also offers the ongoing training and support through the NLPCafeBrisbane. NLP Café Brisbane is an NLP practice group, which aims 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 NLPCafeBrisbane.






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.
  

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.

How could you contribute to building your Emotional Intelligence in 5 days?

Did you know the number one reason why individuals miss their opportunity to be promoted at work, increase their personal profitability and creating meaningful relationships is due to a lack of Emotional Intelligence? This is according to Harvard Business School's recent study.

The five key components of emotional intelligence (EI) are:

• Self-awareness: The ability to recognize and understand your moods, emotions, and drives as well as the effect they have on others
• Self-regulation: The ability to control or redirect disruptive impulses and moods, suspend judgment, and thinking before acting
• Motivation: The ability to pursue goals with energy and persistence, for reasons that go beyond money or status
• Empathy: The ability to understand people's emotional makeup
• Social skill: The ability to manage relationships, build networks, and find common ground

We would qualify and enrich these definitions during the course - For example, if you have been trying to 'control' your impulses and moods, or putting yourself down for certain behaviours, we would like to suggest that you increase your 'choices' of moods and impulses, and that you find reasons to pursue those new choices that provide better outcomes. This is how real change occurs for our coaching clients, and it is how we teach real NLP for change.

Careers, Workplace and Beyond

It has been said that IQ lands you a job, and EQ keeps you in the job. These days more employers, recruitment agencies and HR specialists are recognising the importance and overidding effect of a person's EQ on individual's performance at their job, their team effectiveness and an organisation's culture.

As a sailor, I can draw upon an analogy from sailing - apparent wind speed, which is the wind speed that is the sum of the real wind speed if you were standing still and the + or - of the wind generated by your progress through the water. Simply, it is the wind experienced by a moving object. I propose that increasing your EQ can change your apparent IQ, where you choose options and answers better.

Have you ever been watching a game show and you initially say to yourself or out aloud "B, the answer is B" and your intellect takes over and says "No, it is D" and you modify your answer to "D" - then the game show host says the answer was "B" (your first choice) after all. What would happen if you were able to understand the underlying process that drives you to choose the wrong answer instead of the right answer and be able to make the right decision more often? Would it be beneficial to your career, relationships and life directions?

Imagine if you could draw upon the right answer more often in life? It is not always the first choice as in this example. These internal messages are coming to us most of the time, we often just do not take notice... These answers or insights apply to every area of life from chosing what lane to drive in traffic, down to who to call, who to visit, what to say, and what is more important for you to spend your next 20 minutes doing. This is one of the elements of EQ that we teach - getting a greater connection with yourself. You are your best hope.

A career in management involves coping with complexity; a life of leadership relies on your coping with change. As you learn to lead yourself through the skills gained on these courses, your life of leadership will spill out to others, your career and what you actually achieve in life. Can you imagine being able to give yourself honest and useful feedback? If this was a habit for you, imagine how you would grow and how congruently you could give feedback to others?

NLP Module I (5 days), 3–7 Nov 2009, is designed to establish the foundations for Building Emotional intelligence.

Students of this type of training say that they approach life on a whole new level.

Module I is part of the NLP Practitioner Program

We have divided our course into 3 modules, allowing you to pace your study to your needs. Module I provides the Emotional Intelligence basis, a strong connection with self, self-awareness and self-management skills. These can be used stand-alone, or to contribute towards your eventual growth with the NLP Practitioner program.

A full 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.

Check this out right now and get ahead of the game.

NLP Practitioner Course, starting 3 November 2009, More information here or Click here to register

The newly developed NLP Practitioner Course will be offered as a unique small group coached training in Brisbane with the first of the series starting 3 November 2009.

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.

What's the connection between Emotional Intelligence and NLP?

Not all NLP training courses make a strong link back to the EQ, but we make a point of doing so. We believe that we should be releasing students that have worked on themselves before they are let loose to work on others and this is what this foundational part of the course achieves.

Remember that a career in management involves coping with complexity; a life of leadership relies on your coping with change. If you want to lead, you need to be able to cope with change.

NLP is all about change and we consistently teach our students how to make changes with ecology.

We are offering certificate programs 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.

Who does this sort of course?

People who know that a pre-requisite for a better, more fulfilling experience of life (personally and professionally) is their own internal change. So these people include those who want to:

• increase their own performance
  
• hone their skills to improve their career options
  
• seeking business improvement through increasing their own personal profitability
  
• learn the skills in NLP for a therapeutic or coaching profession
  

Reasons why people choose to get an NLP Practitioner qualification

We have found that those of you who want to study NLP come from 3 main areas.

The one thing common amongst most of them is their profound desire to better understand, work with, and change human experience and behaviour to achieve (and/or assist others to achieve) more of the life that they want.

The list of vocations that we get includes: Coaches, Therapists, Entrepreneurs, Executives, Managers, HR specialists, Sports Trainers, Project Managers, Program Managers, Business Analysts, Teachers, Trainers, Sales people, Lawyers, Medical staff, Single Parents, Parents, Couples, Personal Coaches, Developers, IT staff, IT Testers, Business Owners, Psychologists, Medical workers, Nurses, Telesales, Hypnotherapists, Body workers, Alternative healers, Networking specialists, Marketers, Speakers, Counsellors and anyone that works with people in some way.

See our more complete page of the reasons why people choose to get an NLP Practitioner qualification.

Check out the qualifcation of your trainers or you could have a cat!

Cat registered as hypnotherapist - From BBC's Inside Out program - This cat's name is George, and was successfully registered with three hypnotherapy organisations."
Checking your trainers or coaches credentials can be quite enlightening. Belonging to a Professional Body needs to be checked as best you can. If someone quotes the Professional Body that they belong to, the better Professional Bodies usually have an online register where these can be checked. You should also be able to check for their qualifying criteria as well.

This amusing but also disturbing article, the BBC's "Inside Out" program has found that the regulation of hypnotherapists in the UK is so lax that even a cat can become accredited.... Quoting from the article, Chris Jackson, presenter of Inside Out in the North East and Cumbria, registered pet George with three industry bodies. In the UK, George was registered with the British Board of Neuro Linguistic Programming (BBNLP), the United Fellowship of Hypnotherapists (UFH) and the Professional Hypnotherapy Practitioner Association (PHPA). Each one accepted a certificate from the non-existent Society of Certified Advanced Mind Therapists as proof of George's credentials.

The BBC article

Our registration with the ITANLP on the List of Trainers and their criteria for certifying.

Our registration with the ITANLP as a Certifying Institute and their levels of certification within the ITANLP.

The publication of our compliant course with the ITANLP

Our listing at the Professional Guild of NLP and the Professional Guild of NLP - Individual Member Code of Practice

Sonya's public entry in LinkedIn

Mark's public entry in LinkedIn

Our NLP Course starting in November 2009

I Didn't Sin—It Was My Brain

I Didn't Sin—It Was My Brain

I Didn't Sin—It Was My Brain Brain researchers have found the sources of many of our darkest thoughts, from envy to wrath.
by Kathleen McGowan; illustrations by Christopher Buzelli

From the September 2009 issue, published online October 5, 2009

This article talks about the research neuroscience has begun into such things as inhibitory cognitive control networks involving the front of the brain activate to squelch the impulse and other brain regions such as the caudate—partly responsible for body movement and coordination—suppress the physical impulse. These are interesting to follow, but as yet do not yet seem to have identified the solutions that many have already found in other modalities such as NLP.

Creator: Priamo della Quercia Date: 1444-1452 Medium: manuscript illumination Source: Yates Thompson 36. Reprinted with permission of the British Library.

More disagreeable forms of sin such as wrath and envy enlist the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC). This area, buried in the front of the brain, is often called the brain’s “conflict detector,” coming online when you are confronted with contradictory information, or even simply when you feel pain.... In the annals of sin, weaknesses of the flesh—lust, gluttony, sloth—are considered second-tier offenses, less odious than the “spiritual” sins of envy and pride. That’s good news for us, since these yearnings are notoriously difficult to suppress.

Why does being bad feel so good? Pride, envy, greed, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth: It might sound like just one more episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, but this enduring formulation of the worst of human failures has inspired great art for thousands of years. In the 14th century Dante depicted ghoulish evildoers suffering for eternity in his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. Medieval muralists put the fear of God into churchgoers with lurid scenarios of demons and devils. More recently George Balanchine choreographed their dance.....

For most of us, it takes less mental energy to puff ourselves up than to think critically about our own abilities. In one recent neuroimaging study by Hidehiko Takahashi of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Japan, volunteers who imagined themselves winning a prize or trouncing an opponent showed less activation in brain regions associated with introspection and self-conscious thought than people induced to feel negative emotions such as embarrassment. We accept positive feedback about ourselves readily, Takahashi says: “Compared with guilt or embarrassment, pride might be processed more automatically.”

The most notable thing about lust is that it sets nearly the whole brain buzzing.

Pride gets its swagger from the self-related processing of the mPFC, which Keenan calls “a very interesting area of the brain, involved in all these wonderful human characteristics, from planning to abstract thinking to self-awareness.” Using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), in which a magnetic field applied to the scalp temporarily scrambles the signal in small areas of the brain, he was able to briefly shut off the mPFC in volunteers. With TMS switched on, his subjects’ normal, healthy arrogance melted away. “They saw themselves as they really were, without glossing over negative characteristics,” he says....

It makes sense that we are so sensitive to being cheated, notes Matthew Lieberman, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles. “Mammalian survival depends on social bonds, and fairness is a really important social cue,” he says. Inequitable treatment might be an important sign that we are not valued by the group, he says, so we had better pay attention.

In response to unfair offers, the brain activates the pain detection process that takes place in the multitasking dACC. Interestingly, it also engages the bilateral anterior insula, an area implicated in negative emotions such as anger, disgust, and social rejection. The picture that emerges from fMRI is that of a brain weighing an emotional response (the urge to punish the guy who cheated you) against a logical response (the appeal of the cash)....

See the full article at I Didn't Sin—It Was My Brain from the Discover Magazine, Sep 2009

Derren Brown predicts the British national lottery numbers

Derren Brown again - 09/09/09 Derren Brown predicts the British national lottery numbers CORRECTLY ON LIVE TV!

On channel 4 on 11/09/09 Derren Brown revealed how he did this and it is mathmatical as many card/predictive demonstrations are.

An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org

An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org

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