Michael Carroll's Blog

I started an article yesterday with it being marathon season at the moment on NLP and Hypnosis tips for running. Due to yesterdays terrible bomb attack on marathon runners and spectators at the world famous Boston marathon out of respect I will not complete this article today. My thoughts are with the injured, the deceased and the families affected by this horrendous tragedy.

The differences between a NLP Academy Premier Practitioner and a NLP Academy Business Practitioner
This is a great question and one that I’m asked regularly hence my blog post today. Hopefully by the time you’ve read this you’ll have a much clearer idea into the similarities and the differences between the two courses.

It’s been a great month here at the Academy; we’ve just completed our NLP Premier Practitioner with John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll. It was a fantastic 2 weeks, we were joined by one of the most open, funny and special groups that I have ever worked with, though they all tend to be like that . The beauty of our 13 day intensive double track New & Classic Code approach is that our Practitioners have enough time to integrate, practice and have those breakthrough moments without us cramming the content into a 6 day course. We have found through teaching the Classic and New Code at the same time for you as practitioners is that you have the techniques wired inside of you completed unconsciously without the unnecessary need or focus on the theoretical side of NLP (you can concentrate on that after the practitioner if you wish to learn theory) .NLP is a doing subject like any skill or sport and that’s why we teach you to DO NLP here through NLP modelling, demonstrations and exercises. That way it keeps it relevant, fun and you achieve great results in the context of application you have chosen to apply NLP.

Hello from me.

I’ve been away of late on a nice little vacation hence the lack of blogs of late. A lot seems to be going on in the world right now with the crisis in North Korea and Baroness Thatchers death yesterday.

Morning to all, I trust you had a smashing weekend. We’re just 6 days from the start of a busy spring season of NLP, starting with the internationally renowned Premier Practitioner with John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll. We then have a very special one day event with John and Carmen called NLP Past, present and future. At the same time we will be running our New Code mentoring program only open to our ITA Trainers of NLP.

This is an interesting question which I have been contemplating over the past few weeks. Personally I feel the best way to discuss this is to transfer the same theory across different contexts. Would you seek advice about investing from someone who has never invested? Or have golf lessons from someone who has never picked up a club? Though these are two fairly cut and dry examples it provokes an interesting conundrum when choosing who to work with, surely it makes sense to receive coaching from someone who has been through a successful coaching process themselves. At the same time with the same theory let’s say your outcome from coaching is to be a happy surely finding and modelling someone who is happy all the time is the way to go right? Let’s say you want to lose weight, is being given advice from someone else who has lost weight is the way to go? Or like the happy person is finding someone who is healthy all time so has never needed to lose weight the person to go and work with? But if both the happy or healthy person hasn’t been formally coached then doesn’t that mean they’re out of the picture? Or have we all being coached one way or another informally in a professional and educational structure?

Sometimes people behave in ways that are inappropriate.  A person may have personal habits or little idiosyncrasies that others may find offensive.  When a child is growing up, their bad behaviors can be corrected and stopped, but what if the person that is acting in a terrible manner is an adult?  What if this person has no idea his or her attitude is offense and detrimental to others? To help a person identify their behavior there is something called NLP, which stands for neuro linguistic programming.  With the help of an NLP practitioner, a person can transform their bad behavior into a brand new productive attitude.

Neuro linguistic programming is characterized as an approach to psychotherapy, social communication, and both personal and interpersonal development. Neuro linguistic programming refers to the connections which occur between neurological processes in the brain and experienced based behavioral patterns. Hence, “neuro”—neurological—and “programming,” or learned behavior experiences. Neuro linguistic programming is typically referred to as a pseudoscience by the scientific community because techniques used in neuro linguistic programming often uses data based on subjective data, such as personal experiences, rather than more objective and scientific methods; however, many people have found benefits through the study and use of neuro linguistic programming and although its methods may not be scientifically proven, they are useful to those with an interest in the communication and psychotherapy fields.

Since some people have ethical concerns about NLP, we are going to attempt to address some of those concerns in this article. Neuro linguistic programming gives the NLP practitioner great power, and as Spiderman himself has so eloquently taught us, with great power comes great responsiblity. This power needs to be used responsibly both in informal and clinical settings. Fortunately, there is no shortage of responsible uses, and the dangers of abuse are very minimal. The reasons the dangers of abuse are so minimal is that even the subconscious mind is governed by one’s personal senses of morality and self preservation.

One day Seminar with John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair!

The countdown towards our spring season of courses with John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair has truly begun! This year midway through our Premier Practitioner course with John, Carmen and Michael we have scheduled an exciting one day seminar, ‘NLP Past, Present and future’ open to all. This seminar will give you aunique blend of an account of the origins of NLP from the co creator John Grinder, the latest developments in New Code NLP from two of the primary developers, innovative new accelerated learning techniques for language acquisition and the next steps for the future of NLP from two prolific developers. It will be an action packed day perfect for anyone interested in NLP, looking to develop their skills further whether they be a Practitioner or trainer… interested in accelerated learning, or simply just curious wanting to see John and Carmen in action. Of course in true Academy style we always look to give you with the best value possible for attending our events, so with this email you can purchase this course for just a third of the full price if booked before the 15th February.