Advanced Information Gathering  

NOTE: This is a course taught in the past through the NLP Institute of Chicago. Although we do not currently have a repeat of this course on our schedule, we would be happy to talk to you about your training needs and whether other courses might fulfill them. We will also be happy to explore the possibilities in bringing this course to your organization. Call us at (847) 677-6900 or email us.

  Thomas Edison said that genius was 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Good quality NLP work is 1% techniques and 99% information-gathering. 

   NLP practitioners have learned the power of the Well-Formed Outcome, the eight (sometimes not-so-simple) questions that can help clients find their way to what they want. We know that the questions we ask orient our thinking by sending our brains searching in a particular direction. The more useful questions we ask, the more useful information we gather. 

   If outcomes are important to you, you will find information here to help you in your work. In this two-day workshop you'll tune up your skills with the NLP Well-Formed Outcome, and add some exciting new pieces to the process. We'll discover: 

  • how to look behind what's going wrong, to find the useful information there; 
  • how to find and use the client's worst-case scenario; 
  • how to help your client look at her outcomes from other perspectives 
  • how to determine whether your client's outcome fits with his values; 
  • how to establish some useful benchmarks for the outcome.

Once you've gathered all of that information, then what? We will explore a powerful technique for making sense of all the information your client gives you. The experiential array, developed by David Gordon and Graham Dawes, provides a method for synthesizing all of the information you've gathered, so that you can begin looking toward an intervention. If you: 

  • gather lots of information, then
  • have trouble finding the "right" technique to use; or 
  • have difficulty staying solution-oriented; or If you want to: 
  • revisit and refine your skills; 
  • add even more skills to your information-gathering toolbox;

then join Gail Schiesser for these two days of fun and frolic. 

June 29-30, 2002, 9:30-5:00 each day 

1532 W Victoria, Chicago 

$249 ($199 if paid by June 15) 

Prerequisite: NLP Practitioner Certification

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