What is it about charismatic leaders that captivates us? Part of the answer is their power to be their own unique selves. Yet, how could being ourselves, with the insecurities that make standing up in front of people challenging in the first place, be the most powerful way of making an impact? In this lively, interactive workshop, we will discover the truth behind this paradox, and learn techniques to transform our impact on others.

AIMS

The workshop will develop answers to these questions:

• What exactly is charisma, and how can I possess it?
• How can I captivate an audience and be attractive to others?
• How can I be more spontaneous in front of others?

This mixed media presentation will:

1. Describe the powerful Spiral Dynamics package as enhanced by Integral perspectives and,
2. Illustrate its practical usage in dealing with large scale change, from the highly successful South African transformation out of apartheid to the design of fresh initiatives in dealing with terrorism, fundamentalism, nationalism and the great global divides.

To explore the highest potential of the sharing NLP community and your role within it.

The workshop uses voice, musical instruments and movement to release our constrictions and enable flow of mind, body and spirit with full connection to our emotions. However unmusical you think you are, however uncoordinated you think you are, the workshop will gently and playfully bring you into your fuller self expression. Christoffer's workshops are renowned for their laughter and the joy expressed.

Clive Digby-Jones with Eileen is a Leadership Coach and through the Leadership Group facilitates boards of organisations and delivers executive coaching based on 'Authentic Excellence' (c), and leads innovation programmes. Clive's CV includes helping Disney become more creative when he studied Walt for the corporation using NLP.

1 The story of Fragmentation - There's hope for Humpty
2 Pursuing our inner structure - the Energetics of Being
3 Wholemaking and Soul-ful Living

John Gimber is a computer programmer by trade, but is also a qualified dance teacher of LeRoc, otherwise known as Modern Jive. This is a cross between rock and roll and French jive, and is fantastic fun and can be done by absolutely anyone, even those who can't dance.

John isn't trained in NLP, but has the ability to make a few simple dance moves become something far greater than the sum of their parts.

In his spare time, John is the webmaster for the NLP Development Forum and also webmaster for LeRoc-In-Bristol, a very popular website which has helped to bring the dancing community together in Bristol.

Scared to dance? Scared to try?

Dancing can be so much fun, especially when you know the secret to making it work!

In this event, we will teach a series of fun easy LeRoc moves, as if you've never danced in your life. After only a short period you will be dancing away having a great time, realising that actually... you don't need to know how to dance in order to dance!

So if you've got two left feet... I've got just the dance for you!

This event is open to anybody who can move and have fun. Partners are not needed - we will be moving everyone around throughout the class!

NOTE: Footwear can make quite a difference here, so try to bring something comfortable to wear that allows you to turn and spin e.g. leather soles, plastic soles, etc.

B.Eng., an executive coach of many years standing and former executive at Hewlett-Packard, runs a range of activities from Polo breaks through to executive renewal programmes.

Dr. Brian Kaplan is President of the British Institute of Provocative Therapy. He has been in professional medical practice for 20 years and studied orthodox medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture and other natural therapies.

He has been passionate about the powerful effects of Provocative Therapy since his original training with Frank Farrelly in 1996, and he continues to have regular contact with him.

Phil Jeremiah is Director of Training for the British Institute of Provocative Therapy. He is a Senior Psychiatric Social Worker with a successful private psychotherapy practice, and has many years of experience as a psychotherapy train

Provocative Therapy: Potent Re-Programming In Action

Pam and Peter are NLP master practitioners and hypnotherapists who originally trained with John Seymour in Bristol .

They have extensive experience in use of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, an interest which has resulted in contacts with the most recent applications of psychological type in the States

Against the backcloth of story telling and reflection about the role of stories in our lives, this workshop connects with some of Gilligan's work in this area, and introduces delegates to the work of Carol Pearson on archetypes ("Awakening the Heroes Within"), it gives an opportunity to delegates to experience their own personal relationship with each of the archetypes and to reflect on the implications for the next phase in their life journey.

The integration of these Jungian concepts, refreshed and made more accessible by Stephen Gilligan and Carol Pearson, with NLP inspired change work and life coaching provides a potentially powerful resource to clients, and with them, their NLP practitioners.

There is indeed more...

Spelling Sense: Spelling the Marvis Way is the result of this work.

Purpose and Outcome for Attendees:

You will learn how NLP modelling skills can assist in discovering how to build confidence in students to: help them to make sense of the detail in the words they hear; produce words in writing improve their retention, recall and motivation.

Holistic integration of Hypnosis and Meditation for Personal Development

Purpose

The purpose of this training is to develop a whole brain approach to thinking, feeling and behaving through developing an integrated use of meditation and hypnosis. Through the training you will learn to use a variety of meditations and levels of hypnosis to explore how you organise and process your reality. You will then learn how to use these processes to facilitate specific changes.

Human Development

For thousands of years different cultures have developed and practiced a wide variety of meditation and trance techniques to enhance thinking and spiritual practice.

Meditation

Many people think of meditation as a way of relaxing. It is also much more than that. Meditation is the systematic cultivation of resourceful mental states: one meditates to transform oneself and one's world. The practice of sitting in meditation is not an end in itself but is a process of changing the way our minds work - with repercussions on all aspects of living. Through the process of modelling we can identify the different skills and changes traditionally sought through meditation and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the process.

Hypnosis

Hypnosis is often thought of as a kind of relaxation or sleep. The coining of the name hypnosis from hypnos (sleep) by Braid emphasised this. He later tried to change the name when he had experimented more and realised that 'hypnosis could be used for active behavioural change. Through hypnosis it is easier to activate unconscious processes making active use of the patterning and creative abilities of the non-dominant hemisphere. The history and practical performance of hypnosis has been riddled with myths and rituals. Through the process of modelling we can identify the key processes (and tricks) in traditional induction techniques and create simpler, more effective ways of inducing trance and using hypnosis.

Integration of Hypnosis and Meditation

Through the modelling methodology of Developmental Behavioural Modelling and thirty years exploring meditation and hypnosis, John McWhirter has developed an integrated process that combines the individual benefits of meditation and hypnosis, creating more than the sum of the parts, offering a development tool to assist in a holistic approach to learning and personal development.

All of us are born knowing next to nothing, able to do very little for ourselves. In a short period of time each of us creates our own understanding, our model, of the world, and through this understanding we create effective ways to live in the world. Throughout our life we can greatly improve our effectiveness through education and training.

Sometimes the ways we develop personally are not effective and we benefit from assistance, advice and support through to coaching, counselling and therapy.

Therapists are no different. They also develop their own models with a similar range of effective and less effective behaviours and also benefit from education, training and support.

For the last twenty five years NLP has been one of the major resources for therapists to improve their effectiveness. NLP was created through the application of modelling to study the most effective therapists to identify what they did that was more effective than others. The result was a range of skills and techniques that others can use to improve their effectiveness.

The standardised therapy techniques in NLP do not match the richness, variation and creativity that is evident in the life problems people experience. NLP is not in itself a therapeutic methodology. It was never designed as one. It was designed to supplement other methodologies. Together these limitations create a major professional problem for those wanting to use NLP as their main approach to therapy.

In recent years modelling has been greatly extended and improved and these improvements, known as Developmental Behavioural Modelling (DBM®), have been applied not just with individual examples of effective therapy but to the process of therapy itself. The result is a holistic systemic modelling methodology for therapy.

The methodology integrates the best from science, clear thinking, precision, experimentation, testability, and verification, together with the best from art, creativity, intuition, and aesthetic and offers therapist further advances in their effectiveness. As part of a holistic approach the methodology includes a consultancy model that integrates the roles of advise, counselling and therapy with teaching, training, coaching and supervision.

A two year Systemic Therapy and Consultancy Diploma (prerequisite NLP Master Practitioner certification) has been taught and further developed and tested over the last ten years in England, Scotland, Denmark and Spain.

In this workshop you will learn key distinctions, skills and processes for effective therapy. This will include:

• How we all build our natural models of the world
• The different kinds of natural modelling: Mythical, Metaphoric, Magical, and Formal (scientific)
• Specific models for modelling and change
• How to model another persons model of the world
• Specific Language tools for effective information gathering
• How to direct the five senses for different tasks - the senses ‘able-to’
• How to identify specific patterns of behaviour, successful ways to do things - ‘sense-able ways’
• How to identify and select the most worthwhile things to change - the ‘sense-able choice’
• Different types and levels of change
• How to work differently with Difficulties, Problem, Limitations
• The difference in Coping, Solving and Learning interventions
• Conscious, unconscious and biological mind change
• To facilitate transitions in change: identifying transitions, partial completion and how to help make complete transitions
• A self management model for personal and professional development
• Specific learning processes and strategies
• How to evaluate therapy effectively
• To test the effectiveness of the skills directly through your own experience and that of other participants

Should NLP developers provide scientifically-based, quantifiable research results to validate their work?

NLP has at its disposal, through modelling, an exquisite range of tools & techniques which offer a superb opportunity to ask penetrating questions and demonstrate how effective it is. My personal experience has shown that NLP research can be experiential, based on real practice with actual clients - and yet retain the validity which satisfies high academic standards, with well-constructed studies bringing valuable insights to the practitioner/researcher, the research subjects and the wider community.

David Somerville MA, MEd, C.Psychol, AFBPsS: David Somerville is an independent consultant in Work Based Learning and former Director of the Work Based and Integrative Studies Programme at University College Chester. He was also Director of the MA programme in Personal Development and Director of the Centre for Individual and Organisational Development at University College Chester. As a Chartered Psychologist, David has worked for over 20 years in facilitating individual and organisational change in both public and private sector organisations. David is currently coaching and consulting on individual, corporate and community wellness.

Typically a command and control style of thinking is used in an attempt to deal with conflict, yet as Einstein so clearly pointed out, thinking that remains at the same level of the problem is incapable of bringing the solution. In a similar way this thinking style will often maintain or displace a conflict and inhibits transformation, which is a higher order of experience and imagination.

Such poverty of understanding reinforces a mindset that is limiting in terms of integral awareness because it seeks to translate conflicts only in terms of assumptions and emotions that share a common texture of immobilisation. It is precisely this immobilisation that leads to the stagnation of energy and ideas and to inertia, denial, blame or distraction, all of which are themselves components of conflict.

In general terms, at our current stages of development, society’s reflex is to respond to conflict experiences through fear, coercion and the squaring of round pegs. Common understanding from conflict management (and resolution) implies that imposition and control are the order of the day, rather than the acceptance of groundlessness and confusion. In fact society attacks sensations of groundlessness and confusion because it assumes that they too are features of conflict, failing to recognise them as the first buds of fresh growth.

Although thankfully this approach is adept at preserving safety during certain (short-wave) conflicts the compulsion to impose and coerce may be robbing many other (long-wave) conflicts of their teaching and healing messages and in so doing contribute to the stifling of the evolution of humanity as a global quality of consciousness.

This presentation suggests that we are able to move to transform conflict and to transform our self through conflict experiences (certain attitudes and techniques will be shared). It is also suggested that each conflict we experience emits a metaphorical sonogram, which if glimpsed may allow us to reweave the narrative that composes us, offering access to hidden resources and potential capabilities. Such openness to new meanings is a truly transformative state that can profoundly influence the direction and quality of our lives, contributions, organisations and crucial aspects of our individual, corporate and societal wellness.

Many people find that these ‘higher frequency’ transformative attitudes to conflict are inspirational, effective and sustainable, and they may be tempted to model this mindset, thereby generating a similar moodscape and receptivity to transformation. In this particular way, and perhaps in more mysterious ways that could be linked to collective consciousness, each individual who seeks conflict transformation and transformation through conflict may help to add momentum to the evolution of the wider integral picture.

Paradoxically, transformation through being open to groundlessness and confusion may be crucial to the movement of humanity from fractured self-interest to concerted planetary energy. It may be that if societal approaches to transformation can be rewired, the next spiral of evolution towards a united human consciousness may emerge. This presentation will speculate that once immobilisers are removed streams of evolution are freer to express themselves through a more attentive human consciousness and that humanity may move from being the inattentive expresser to the attentive expression of energy. This involves a shift from duality to unity.

Integral Conflict Transformation allows participants to step beyond what has been traditionally thought possible in conventional conflict management and resolution because it offers the potential for a vertical shift (transformation) as opposed to a horizontal shift (command and control). Our starting point is based upon a premise and a question. If we all carry different potentials, how can we expect to reach the potentials of others and our selves when they have not yet been formed?
Perhaps Integral Conflict Transformation is able to do just this.

This presentation is comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty and it seeks to re-enchant the mystery of groundlessness and confusion thereby enriching meaning rather than suggesting mechanisms of imposition and coercion, which create limiting assumptions and provide fertile ground for hostility, aggression, defensiveness and violence.

Sue is an accredited trainer of Quantum Reading™ and an NLP Practitioner. She has a Training Company (established in 1989) and also manages a number of projects in this Country and overseas.

Improving your reading is not just about going faster; it is about changing your approach to reading. You can, by changing the way you look at words, effectively download the contents of a book into your non-conscious brain and long-term memory, at speeds of over one page per second.

How it works

It is a whole-brain approach to reading using the latest knowledge of how the brain processes information. It unites the logic of the left brain, the conceptual abilities of the right brain, the conscious and non-conscious brains to process written information.

Is it different to Speed Reading? Yes! Speed Reading is doing what you learnt at school but faster, possibly up to 1,000 words per minute. Quantum Reading™ gives a 20 to 30 fold improvement over Speed Reading AND with improved comprehension. It makes what you read more meaningful and personal, giving a richer, more valuable insight and understanding.

What is Quantum Reading™?

Quantum Reading™ is a technique developed by Paul Hobbs of The Thinking Consultancy Ltd

Quantum Reading™ is about you being able to absorb written material, primarily from books, at speeds of between 20,000 to 30,000 words per minute. It is in effect like you being able to down load the contents of a book into your long-term, non-conscious memory and then being able to use or recall the information as and when wanted.

During the seminar, you will explore your own perceptual model of creativity and innovation, discover the rich variety of other people’s models, and try on the Steve’n’Pete way.

“If NLP’s so great, where’s my Ferrari?” OK, so I’ve never actually heard anyone say that, but I can sense it, lurking in the collective unconscious of the NLP community. The content, of course, varies: "Where’s my million pounds?", "Where’s my Nobel prize?", "Where’s my perfect partner (or queue of slightly imperfect ones)?", but the form remains the same. And why do you never hear these words spoken aloud? Because having been lured by the promises of NLP ("You can have whatever you want, be whoever you choose, do whatever you wish") into investing time, money and belief, people are terrified that the emperor might be sporting little more than a thong.

Now you may think that this is a strange thing for an NLP Trainer to be saying, but I’m hoping that by shedding some light on these shadowy concerns, we can ensure that everyone in the world of NLP gets all the fame, fortune and Ferraris they are entitled to.

WENDY SULLIVAN is an NLP Trainer and coach. She owns Discovery Works, a training and development company. She offers training in Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling, and also uses these tools in groups and 1:1 work.

MARIAN WAY is an NLP Master Practitioner, coach and psychotherapist practising in Hampshire. She has used Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling within Weight Watchers and offers personal development weekends and training in Clean Language.

Find out how you can integrate Clean Language into your own therapy/counselling work, and how you can apply what you learn to other symptoms too.

Purpose and Outcome for Attendees:

Understanding a client’s traits will help workshop participants be more effective during the coaching process. Learning how to read faces, will give the participants a foundation to start from. This is a new and fascinating topic, one that will be enjoyed by all. Face Reading offers new insights to human behavior and will compliment the services of the NLP practitioners.

Brian Van der Horst has participated in many meditative disciplines, and in the 80s, started wondering how NLP could be used to model the spiritual experience. Many greater minds that his, from Ken Wilber to George Leonard, Michael Murphy, to Steve Andreas have given wonderful versions since then, but Brian is still willing to share what has worked and not, and what might be a post-modern and post-mystical approach to this perennial pursuit.

More information on this presentation can be found here.

Outcome: To further their knowledge about the use of NLP in multinational organisations, to provide reference experiences that give the Science credibility and to share any experiences of their own with colleagues.

When you're living really well, you're like what?

If your community were evolving in ways that allowed you to live even better, it would become like what? If everyone is part of your community system - who aren't you building rapport with?

This is an experiential workshop to develop own and shared models of community development, find areas of collabration and challenge yourselves to be more congruent in your behaviours.

Healthcentered Integration: How To Re-Integrate A Disintegrating Body