NLP CHICAGO NEWS

Issue #2
July, 1997

Here is the second issue of an email newsletter for graduates of the NLP Practitioner and/or Master Practitioner programs at the NLP Institute of Chicago. 
 

CONTENTS

1. Help Us with the Mini-Conference
2. News from Practitioners
3. NLP at Work: New Hypnosis Law in Indiana; Job Opening on East Coast
4. NLP at Home: We want your stories
5. New Resources: Books & Book Sources
6. NLP Resources on the Web
   NLP Information Center
   NLP and DHE site
   NLP Institute of Chicago
   
7. Inside the NLP Institute of Chicago More about training for the Institute
8. Coming Events: NLP Institute of Chicago 1997 Events Master Practitioner 1998 Dates
9. Coming Events: Elsewhere
10. Requests For Information, Ideas, and More:
11. About the Newsletter: How to get it; how to stop; etc.

1. HELP US WITH THE MINI-CONFERENCE

We are asking for your help. On September 19 and 20, we will be sponsoring our annual NLP MiniConference and we would love to have you be a part of it! Please consider sharing your knowledge and experience with NLP with others.

Think about how you use NLP in your work or in your personal life. If there were one thing about NLP that you could teach to other members of your profession in order to make their lives easier, more efficient, and/or more fun, what would it be? Are there ways you have combined NLP with other skills to make your work or personal life better?

Five Good Reasons to Participate:

• It's a chance to share your knowledge and advance the field of NLP. This is how any field grows and matures.
• You can help the Institute create a successful program that attracts new people to the field.
• We'll make it easy for you! If you would like to present a program but don't know what to present, we'll be happy to help you come up with ideas. Or you can volunteer to be part of a panel on using NLP in education or parenting or management or corporate training.
• Some of you have asked about training for the Institute. One of our criteria is having seen you train. Here's a great opportunity for that to happen. If this interests you, be sure to let us know, so we schedule you at a time when we will be free to sit in on your presentation.
• You can promote your business, practice, book, etc. In additions to talking about your work during your presentation, you will be able to display your marketing materials at the registration area and we will be happy to handle sales of books for presenters during the conference. Let us know if you want us to do this, so we allocate enough space.

The program will consist of 90-minute and 3-hour presentations. Three programs will be running in each time frame. All Friday programs will be aimed at business/ professional uses for NLP, at both beginning and advanced levels. All Saturday programs will be aimed at self-development, improving personal and family relationships, and similar personal issues, at both beginning and advanced levels.

Past conference attendees have included beginners for whom this event is their first NLP training experience, those who have attended one or more weekend programs, and NLP Practitioners and Master Practitioners. The biggest group is usually those getting their first introduction to NLP.

The MiniConference hours will be 9:00 to 5:00 or 5:30 each day. We will meet at the Holiday Inn Northshore in Skokie. Presenters will receive free registration to attend both days of the conference.

We will be mailing out the brochure featuring the MiniConference in mid-August. We need to hear from you by July 23 so that we can put the program together. Please call us with your ideas, or send us an email that includes the following information about your program:

Program Title
Length of Program (90 minutes or 3 hours)
Name(s) of all presenters; one sentence about your background
Brief description for the brochure; this should be one or two short sentences. Here's a sample:
Pet Rapport. Rapport is not limited to human-to- human encounters. Learn how to achieve rapport with your cat or dog. Susie Bear is a confirmed animal-lover and the owner of Pets Forever.
Longer description for the on-site program to help participants select programs. This longer description will also help us answer people's questions over the phone.
Phone numbers, fax, and email address where you can be reached.

If you know of other NLP practitioners who are doing something interesting with NLP, please feel free to pass this along to them. Thank you for your continuing support of NLP and of the NLP Institute of Chicago. We really appreciate it.

2. NEWS FROM PRACTITIONERS

Joanne Stachura (Practitioner 94) wrote that she was getting ready to leave the bank and go off on my own. Her last work day at the bank was March 31. The next phase of her life will be as an independent consultant and trainer. Her direction is toward team development, performance consulting and executive coaching.

Sue Ross (Practitioner 88; Master Practitioner 90) let us know that she is now full time faculty at Aurora University and still doing consulting with organizations through our company - The Communication Partnership.

Art Fox wrote(Practitioner 92), "It's good to get an idea of what's going on in the NLP community again. Although I use what I learned in NLP every day, I don't attend seminars or classes any more. I've found it especially useful with the writing I'm doing. I've been writing scripts for live trade show presentations. The scripts are supposed to convey information about my clients' products and persuade the audience to take some kind of action, usually talk to a sales rep and fill out a lead card. I find that embedded commands and addressing submodalities in the language really helps generate the actions I want. My best to you. Art Fox"

Susan Munaker(Practitioner Intern 91) is doing public workshops. One is scheduled for July; details are in the Coming Events section of this newsletter. Two more are still in the planning stages: Become Your Own Coach and Systems Learning, both are to help individuals and teams in organizations experience systems thinking.

Klaus and Virginia participated the NLP Community Leadership Project in Santa Cruz in June and enjoyed seeing former students including Terry and Marcia Fieland (Practitioner 93; Master Prac 94, Assisting 95 & 96, now living in Salt Lake City), Lillian Berg (Prac 91, MP 92, Assisting 9*), Joe Munshaw (MP 89, Assistant MP 90), Susan Munaker, Barry and Mary Tegeler (Prac 91, now living in Idaho Falls, Idaho), and Daniel Latch (Prac 88?, now living in Soquel, California). We also had a chance to chat with many of those who have trained for us including Robert Dilts, Judith DeLozier, Lara Ewing, Tim Hallbom, Suzi Smith, Shelle Rose Charvet, Marilyn Veditz Sargent, and Charles Faulkner. We met lots of trainers and institute directors from around the world, and lots of ideas were shared.

It's been fun hearing from so many of you in connection with the newsletter. Please let us hear your news. Are there issues that you talked about a lot in practitioner class? Wouldn't you like to let us all know how this came out? Have you married? Gone into a new field? Had a baby? Let us know!

3. NLP AT WORK: NEW HYPNOSIS LAW IN INDIANA; JOB OPENING

Barb Kehl passed along the following information:

"The state of Indiana has passed a bill (Senate Bill #74) that regulates the practice of hypnosis. This will also affect NLP practitioners because the language of the bill also covers anyone causing an altered state in another person. Of course this covers everyone in the state. Sadly it is obvious that the bill was wriiten by people who were not educated in what they are trying to regulate. However their intent was to stop unethical practitioners. The bill does prohibit the use of the title "Doctor" unless it is from a recognized accredited school. To get a license to practice hypnosis an applicant must have 350 hours of training from a state approved school, pass an examination and pay the prescribed fee which has not been set yet. The bill makes treating an individual for a medical, dental, or psychological problem without a referral a Class A misdemeanor. Basically this leaves stop smoking and weight loss as the only problems a licensed hypnotherapist can treat. This bill has passed both Indiana houses and the governor has said he will sign it. I'm writing to let you know this so that you can let others know through your newsletter and classes.

"Hope all is well with you. Barb"

If anyone has more information about this law, please pass it along.

We received this message some months ago, but these folks may still be looking for an NLP-trained sales trainer:

"GreenPages, Inc., a rapidly growing company in the Seacoast Area of New Hampshire/Maine needs a sales trainer with strong NLP skills. We are a reseller of computer hardware and software to large corporations across the US. Almost all of our sales are over the telephone.

"For the job, you need to be able to model the sales skills you are teaching, deliver skills training in a classroom setting, and conduct effective one-on-one coaching with sales people on the phone. Each sales training program runs three days a week over a five week period, so you must be within driving distance of our offices, or willing to relocate here (Seacoast Area on the New Hampshire/Maine border). We deliver at least 7 of these five-week training programs each year.

"We are a high-energy informal company, which stresses personal values, integrity and serving the customer in all aspects of our business. GreenPages is a fabulous place to work.

"We are open to hiring either a consultant or a full-time employee. We are looking for a top notch experienced trainer. For the right person, this is a great opportunity.

"If you are interested and qualified, please send email to mark_f@greenpages.com with information on your relevant skills, training and experience.

"Thanks,

"Mark Fourman"

4. NLP AT HOME

We would like to present your success stories here. How has NLP helped you with children, parents, spouses, dating, etc.? Let us know, and we'll spread the word.

5. NLP RESOURCES: BOOKS AND BOOK SOURCES

6. NLP RESOURCES ON THE WEB

NLP Information Center is a website devoted to introducing people to NLP and providing links and training institute information to those already familiar with it. In the past few months they have added a place for practitioner listings, which are divided geographically. If you would like to be listed, you can register online. Drop by and take a look at their site: http://www.nlpinfo.com

The NLP and DHE website maintained by Stever Robbins contains a wide range of information and lots of links to other sites. The site includes student reviews of NLP training programs. We would love to have reviews of our programs by some of you appear there. If you're interested, there are review guidelines on the site, which is located at: http://www.nlp.com/NLP

We have recently updated our website with current program listings and new links to other NLP sites. Check it out at: http://www.nlpchicago.com/nlpweb

7. INSIDE THE NLP INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
MORE ON TRAINING FOR THE INSTITUTE

After the piece in Newsletter #1 about training for us, we got a query from a graduate. What follows is a copy of Virginia's reply, which may also be helpful to others:

Thanks for your note. If you are interested in training for us, I would suggest continuing to develop your training skills by taking the trainer course from NLP Comprehensive or the one from NLP University, or both. I've taken both myself, although the one I took at NLP Comprehensive was an earlier incarnation and not as strong as their present offering.

In addition, I suggest taking every opportunity to train in a variety of contexts, paying attention to the states you are evoking in your participants, and learning to make adjustments to create the states most appropriate to the task at hand.

Every once in a while, we bring in an outside training program by someone without a national reputation. Frankly, our results with this have been less than wonderful, so we probably will only do it again if the person has some great content that seems to be in such demand that their lack of reputation becomes fairly irrelevant. If you have developed some particular expertise that is of interest to a significant number of people, then work it up into a training package and try it out locally with various groups to polish it. Then figure out the best way for us to get the sense of your work: invite us to sit in on your class, videotape yourself, or present an abridged version for the Mini-Conference.

There might be a chance to do one-evening programs, either as a general introduction to NLP, or on a special topic. There's little or no money to be made with these, but it could be a chance to become known. You may also want to consider submitting another proposal for our MiniConference. Your presentation last year was a nice example of unique content that was of interest to a number of people.

I'm not sure what your outcomes are in thinking about training for us. Fame? Fortune? Community? Something else? We do offer our trainers a modicum of fame (within a limited community). Trainers in practitioner or special weekend-length training are paid, generally about $500 per day, but given the time they spend developing the material, preparing themselves for the presentation, and (in the case of Practitioner) the years they continue to spend assisting with practitioner training, the average pay per hour must be a fraction of what they could make at the Osco camera counter, selling film and batteries.... Community is the reason most likely to be rewarded by the realities of the situation, as the people we are most likely to select to train are those who continue to assist in certification training, do MiniConference presentations, and make other contributions of their time and talent to the Institute.

If Fortune is what you want from training, then you will want to develop a great package in a high-demand area, such as sales skills, and market it to individuals and organizations...

Anyway, I hope these ramblings are some help. Let me know.

Yours truly,

Virginia

8. COMING EVENTS: NLP INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 1997 CALENDAR

NLP and Hypnosis,
Three weekends with Klaus July 11-13, August 1-3, and August 22-24

Skills for the 21st Century. We're counting on you to send your friends to this 3-day introduction to NLP on either July 25-27 or November 7-9. We are also looking for a west or northwest suburban location to do this program October 17-18-19; this will be a trial on the west suburban thing for us, so if you want to encourage this sort of geographic behavior, send you western friends to this one.

Conversational Change with Michael Banks, August 15-17

David Gordon's Modeling Training begins September 12-14 and continues for three more weekends: October 3-5, October 24-26, and November 14-16. We last offered this class in 1993, and don't expect to do it again until 2001, so if you want to develop solid skills in finding and replicating excellence in any area, give us a call now and register. (The class was half full before we even sent out the class brochures.)

NLP Mini-Conferences
NLP in Business, Friday, September 19
NLP for Personal Development, Saturday, September 20

Free Practitioner Preview/Introduction to NLP evenings. We hope you will bring or send your friends, family, and colleagues to these:
September 23
October 29
December 1

1998 MASTER PRACTITIONER SCHEDULE

Aug 28-30 Shelle Rose Charvet Words that Change Minds

Sept 12-13 Virginia Brubaker Advanced Submodalities

Sept 26-27 Michael Banks Timelines

Oct 10-11 Virginia Brubaker Motivation & Compulsion

Oct 24-25 Klaus & Virginia Advanced Hypnotic Patterns

Nov 6-8 Tim Hallbom and Suzi Smith Beliefs & Health

Nov 20-22 Klaus & Virginia Advanced Patterns

Dec 4-6 Marilyn Veditz Sargent Core Transformation

Mark your calendar now!

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9. COMING EVENTS: ELSEWHERE

If you are teaching introductory or special-interest programs utilizing NLP, let us know about them and we can spread the word.

10. REQUESTS

11. ABOUT THE NEWSLETTER

We're just getting started with this newsletter. For the moment, we're only sending the newsletter to graduates of our own certification programs (and to our trainers), although you are welcome to send it on to others. At some point in the future, we may also make it available by broadcast fax to those without email. We have no plans at present to print and mail hard copy, unless a volunteer comes forward to handle the work involved and potential subscribers are willing to pay for the service. We'll see how the newsletter evolves and let that guide future decisions about making it available to graduates of other institutes and (possibly) to those who are interested in NLP but have not taken certification training.

Please send us your news, requests, information, book reviews, etc. Send material to: brubaker@nlpchicago.com We originally had fond hopes of publishing approximately monthly, but now think of this as a little surprise to all of us when we publish another edition. The volume of your response (reviews, news, comments, ideas) will be a deciding factor in future frequency of publication.

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