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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!

Hey Neal. Good to see you on here

The forum is a great learning environment as well, a place to ask questions and share ideas.

What was your biggest takeaway from the Gilligan course?

Suzy

Great to hear from you Neal

I’m glad your enjoying a wide selection of our programs here at the Academy and I am looking forward to studying more with you on future courses.

Dear Suzy,

From the Generative Trance course with Stephen Gilligan, I found the Energy Sphere session very good.  Having a future state or something the client wants to change.  Is it right when you use this process the client has to create the energy sphere first putting the thumb and forefinger together on both hands.  From the middle of their body about 10cm away very slowly, meeting in the middle pulling away horizonally so that each hand ends up about 20cm away either side of the body.  Repeat the same process about 5 to 6 times.  Then do it again but vertically.  An energy sphere will now have been created.

With this energy sphere created, cup both hands together. Then move them out and around.  At this point the client or person doing this exercise should feel an energy between the hands.

Before creating the Energy Sphere, client walks into 3rd position looking at themselves in the future with the change state or future state.  they then walk into 1st position, imagining they are seeing, hearing and feeling this new state.  They jump out.

Next using the energy sphere the client the has created, they start the process slowly turning four revolutions standing up with their eyes closed.  The agent of change (AOC) guides them around moving the sphere at the same time.  The first revolution or turn the AOC suggests the resource ‘tenderness’.  the second turn the AOC suggests the resource ‘fierceness’.  The third the AOC suggests the resource ‘playfulness’. The fourth revolution the AOC asks the client to bring all three resources together.  I found a good suggestion with the partner I was practising with, as the client is turning using the phrase ‘weaving of tapestry’.  That’s about it!  Please correct me if I have missed something out.

The other helpful process was the ‘Good self/bad self’ which may help couples or relationships like father and daughter in difficult circumstances between themselves.

Thanks Jack and the same to you!

Hi Neal

I don’t recall the need to begin with thumb and forefinger - my recollection is that we begin imagining a sphere between our hands… Perhaps someone else remembers differently and can add to this.

My personal preference with this exercise would be to lose any content - i.e. words that you suggest like ‘tenderness’ - and instead, let the client choose their own supportive descriptors.

Yes, the good/bad exercise was interesting. What i like about it is that it goes further than simply offering a counter example to the negative… it proffers a third perspective that is much bigger…

Hi all

Suzie wrote

My personal preference with this exercise would be to lose any content - i.e. words that you suggest like ‘tenderness’ - and instead, let the client choose their own supportive descriptors.

I agree with Suzy here, let the client pick their own choices. I have had some amazing experiences with this exercise when the client self selects. The process is great.

Can you believe what we now call walk with X and Y originally was called walk with Grace and Power and that was in the New Code. New Code NLP was inluenced by Carlos Castenda’s books. The state of grace and power, impecability and lack of inner dialogue were major features in the books.

Grace and Power soon evolved into X and Y

Michael