NLP Academy

Libet and free will

04-02-2010T12:09:26+00:00

Hi Everyone.
In the few John Grinder seminars I have attended he has mentioned Libet’s experiment about Readiness Potential (RP) occurring several hundred (500) milliseconds before conscious awareness of the decision (or at least an awareness of the moment when conscious awareness is apparent) which poses questions about the subsequent implications for our definitions of free will. My initial thoughts are that :
1) What would the result be if the decision was more ‘important’? In Libet’s experiment the outcome does not matter i.e. there are no gains, then how might the result be different from a decision where there are differing levels of payoff associated with movement at different points. If this were to involve more ‘upfront’ consciousness then if it were a simple decision that with practice could then be delegated to the unconscious how might the result change over time?
2) Is there not brain activity associated with the conscious awareness and how does this map to the reported conscious awareness? If there is movement without conscious decisions does this mean that RP does not exist in these instances or we just never gain awareness of the decision because we do not need to e.g. driving on automatic.

Interested in any views/comments on the above or even the bit I haven’t even thought about yet which is the philosophical question of free will.

11th August- 23 August NLP Prac with coaching skills

31-08-2010T13:41:04+00:00

Thanks to all who made this course so memorable. John and Carmen, Michael and Hiran and Bill, David and Jack, and all the support staff who gave their time and expertise, not to mention the great people taking part.

Pretty intense course and learned more about myself than I was expecting or wanted to! But so glad I did.
...and what a place! Brighton!

Sounds like the next practice group is designed to reinforce the learning, so come on guys, get down there and keep it going.

Trainers Training 2010

12-07-2010T16:35:52+00:00

Hi all

Greetings to everyone involved in the August 2010 Trainers Training. I am really looking forward to the course. This course is a truly international experience with people from 19 countries attending. What’s more Brighton is a great place to be in August.

This course is the sixth consecutive annual Trainers Training John, Carmen and I have led together. Our intention when we started was to rejuvenate the field of NLP with a new breed of innovative trainers who focus on quality. We always have that goal in mind and some great trainers have come through the course. The field of NLP can only benefit from quality.

Now it’s your turn to shine, to let the world hear your music, to let your training personality ripple out and connect with people.
As away of getting to know each other, it would be a good idea if you upload a picture here. You can also post a bit about yourself in this thread. Some suggestions are below

a/ your name, if different from your user name
b/ where you are from
c/ what you do in life (hobbies, career, etc)
d// your outcomes from being on the course

Click this link for short video clip on what to expect at Trainers Training
http://www.nlpacademy.co.uk/videos/view/guide_to_nlp_trainers_training/

Please feel free to ask me any questions.

In anticipation

Michael Carroll

NLP Practitioner certification with coaching skills 11-23 August, Brighton

17-05-2010T22:05:57+00:00

Hello there,
I am looking for people willing to share an apartment or any other accommodation for 12 days in August in Brighton. Please, let me know if you are interested, we will search for options depending on number of people.

I also don’t know yet anything about where to get information about available accommodation options for rent. (Just checked the hotels around, pretty expensive of course). So, if you could share some tips and websites, i would appreciate.

Thank you,
Tatiana

PS about myself: so far, I’ve been only on PhotoReading course in NLP Academy. Looking forward for this one. Living in Belgium now.

PhotoReading

27-07-2010T13:34:00+00:00

Hey!

After the PhotoReading course we finished on Sunday I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread here where we can share our experiences of PhotoReading after the course and get feedback and support.

I look forward to hearing how you are all getting on!

Dave

NLP Practice Group in Merseyside

26-07-2010T13:15:49+00:00

Hi.

Once again, I’m in search of a practice group… this time in Merseyside! (Is there no distance she will not travel to practice?!) Well, erm, yes actually. It’s just that I’m working there mid-week so hoping to make the most of an evening or two…

Very happy to set one up or join an existing one.

Suzy

1st / 2nd attention terminology….

09-07-2010T14:32:13+00:00

I notice that this term has disappeared over the years, or become at lot less used in newer courses/literature.

Was this simply because it was so close to “concious / subconcious” that is was dropped as redundant ? If so, that makes sense- most people understand the (general) concept of concious/subconcious, but 1st/2nd attention was pretty much known only by those in NLP (way back - not sure when the term was dropped, so I suspect recent practicioners aren’t aware it even existed).

Or is it because it simply didn’t work as well ? (ie, it almost implies that information gets picked up by the concious mind 1st, which is incorrect….).

If anyone can enlighten me to this piece of NLP’s evolution, it would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any insights shared !

-Paul

Courses and contacts

17-05-2010T19:05:49+00:00

The NLP Academy is an excellent centre of learning for Neuro-linguistic Programming. Personally, I have found that you start with one course and your yearning to learn more grows.

I trained here last year with Michael, Carmen and John on their Premier Practitioner course and found it very useful for my personal development and professionally for my future NLP Practice. Bill Phillips runs the Photoreading courses here and he too is an excellent instructor. The photoreading course is excellent for people who want to read stacks of books and want to save heaps of time. Recently, the Academy ran Generative Trance by the superb Stephen Gilligan. This adds more tools in your toolbox

Furthermore, when you attend the courses you build up a network of contacts which is very beneficial to you!

Trainers Training - Brighton 2010

18-03-2010T17:29:44+00:00

Hey!

I have spoken to a few of you booked on the Trainers Training this year about possible apartment shares. I have found this cottage to share which I have stayed in myself before. Take a look at the details and post in this thread to register your interest. I will then leave it between you all to organise it from there.

http://www.brightonlets.net/annexe/index.html

Dave

NLP and Allergies

14-06-2010T16:17:21+00:00

If you are a allergy practitioner can you imagine a life without your own personal tailor made allergy?

Do you want to be a practitioner of non allergies?

How will you do it?

I walked into a local pharmacy the other day and was baffled to see hundreds of various products for allergies notably hayfever.I watch TV and listen to the radio and there are countless adverts for allergy relief tablets which I must add is all non prescription, are we being programmed to believe this is the only way?

How can someone who has never suffered an allergy before suddenly become literally overnight a allergy practitioner?

As non allergy practitioner what would you do to help them be non practitioner’s of allergies?

A allergy is a mistake by your immune where it mistakes the allergen as a pathogen and sets of a series of defences which result in the production of histamine which leads to your stimulus, swelling, itchiness, redness.

I must add as an ecology check that some people who are allergic to certain things such as peanut’s suffer from anaphylactic shock which can be life threatening, it is inappropriate to work with someone who has this reaction, please be thorough about discussing their past reactions before working with them!

What would you do?