NLP CHICAGO NEWS
Issue #3 Here is the third issue of an email newsletter for graduates of the NLP Practitioner and/or Master Practitioner programs at the NLP Institute of Chicago. If you have received this directly from us via email, you are on our list to continue to receive it. If you don't want future issues, send a message to brubaker@nlpchicago.com with the subject, Unsubscribe. If someone forwarded this to you or gave you the Newsletter on paper, you need to contact us with your email address in order to receive future issues from us.
1. NEWS FROM OUR TRAINERSGERRY SCHMIDT told us early this month that he won't be doing any more NLP training after this April. My hallucination about this is that he wants to re-focus and re-balance his life, but that's just my private movie... Gerry's last appearance here will be January 30-February 2 for NLP Foundations, which is also the first weekend of the NLP Practitioner training. If you would like to join us for that four-day weekend to experience Gerry's special magic one last time, you are invited to join us. The price for the general public is $495; as an NLP Practitioner, you can participate in this weekend for $250. DAVID GORDON has decided that he's tired of teaching Metaphor, so he'll fulfill his currently-scheduled training dates, then confine himself to other areas of training and consulting. David will be coming back to Chicago to train on other topics. He will teach Strategies in the 1999 Practitioner training and he will continue to teach NLP Modeling here The last time he'll teach Metaphor in Chicago will be June 13-14 of this year, as part of our Practitioner training. This weekend is open only to members of current and previous Practitioner classes. If you've previously completed a Practitioner course, you can take this weekend for $125. We don't plan to send out a special mailing on this opportunity, so this may be your only notice! Call us to reserve a place. GAIL SCHIESSER has decided to take her work into the area of personal and professional coaching and is now accepting new coaching clients. Gail teaches Precision Language Skills in our Practitioner training, and will be presenting two days on Advanced Information Gathering later this year. In her coaching practice Gail works with people who are interested in getting more of what they want now; after all, this is not a dress rehearsal.
2. NEW LOWER PRICES TO REPEAT PRACTITIONERWe've been giving a lot of thought about ways to serve the community of NLP Practitioners and Master Practitioners, to help them further their learning. Our Assisting program has been successful at attracting graduates who want to take their learning to deeper levels, but many people who have been interested in Assisting were unable to make the time commitment to attend four days of Assisting training plus the entire 24 days of Practitioner training. We think it's in the best interest of the entire NLP community to have people continue to learn -- both to learn new material and to get deeper understanding and experience with previously-learned material. Therefore we have decided to cut the price of repeating Practitioner training from $1425 to $750 for the entire training or $125 per weekend. I know that the opportunity to repeat Practitioner training has made a real difference in my own level of knowledge and skill, and this is also the report from our Assistants. There is so much going on in Practitioner training that it is inevitable that each of us misses some material because we are busy with our own internal dialogue. Assistants often stop me at a break in Practitioner training to ask if the trainer covered this same material last year; the answer is usually yes. If you're curious about what you missed, come and join us! If you're interested in training and want to be able to observe the trainers process without being as wildly distracted by the content as you were the first time, come and join us! Or if you just want to re-immerse yourself in the world of NLP, come and join us!
3. NLP ON THE WEB: RICHARD BANDLER'S LAWSUITThe lawsuits brought by Richard Bandler continue in the California court. If you are interested in reading the documents filed by Bandler's attorney, or responses on behalf of NLP Comprehensive and John Grinder, you can find information on the web at: http://www.nlp.com/nlp/random/lawsuit.htm
4. TRAINING PROPOSALS WANTED, part I: MINI-CONFERENCE PROPOSALSWe are asking for your help. On September 18 and 19, 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. The Mini-Conference has established itself as an important event in the Chicago NLP Community and is a great place to learn from others and to share what you know. 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? Six Good Reasons to Participate:
MiniConference OverviewThe 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. Each presenter and his or her guest will receive free registration to attend both days of the conference. We will be mailing out the brochure featuring the MiniConference in late July or early August. We need to hear from you byMarch 31 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 Deadline for Mini-Conference proposals is March 31, 1998. 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.
5. TRAINING PROPOSALS WANTED, part II: ONE-DAY WORKSHOP PROPOSALSWe are interested in your proposals for one-day programs for possible use in either a day of pre-conference workshops to precede (or maybe follow) the Mini-Conference or as stand-alone programs to include in a seasonal brochure. The programs we seek will serve as feeders for NLP Practitioner training, so should have appeal for those who are not yet Practitioners (although an additional appeal to those already certified is a nice bonus!) We are currently considering scheduling one or more such programs during the February to June period of 1999, although we may find other places for them as well. We would love to see proposals that appeal to business folks. We would also love to see proposals with primary emphasis on personal development. If you want to run ideas past us before developing a full proposal, feel free to call, write or email us. Or just charge ahead with a proposal and tell us:
Program Title Payment for one-day programs would be one-half of profit (tuition minus costs for brochures/ads, training room and coffee, handouts, trainer travel expenses, and any other direct expenses of the workshop). Please tell us if there is a minimum you must make in order to do your program.
6. HELP US REACH FUTURE PRACTITIONERSSo far, the enrollment for the 1998 Practitioner class looks slightly higher than last year, but it's still far short of the number that we could support with a rich and delightful training experience. You are our best advertisement for the value of NLP. As you move through the world, please let others know about NLP, talk to them about the value of Practitioner training, and let us know about people who should be on our mailing list.
7. COMING EVENTS AT THE NLP INSTITUTE OF CHICAGOADVANCED INFORMATION GATHERING. August 13- 14, 1998. Gail Schiesser will teach this new program which picks up where the Well-Formed Outcome and Meta-Model leaves off. She'll teach you to use the Experiential Array, developed by David Gordon and Graham Dawes. Our Modeling students have found the Experiential Array to be an extremely useful tool, and now you can learn it, too. MINI-CONFERENCE 1998. September 18-19. There's more information about this in section 4, above. 1998 MASTER PRACTITIONER TRAINING. Here's the basic information on the 1998 program:
Aug 28-30, Shelle Rose Charvet: Words that Change Minds Mark your calendar now! MODELING 1999 WITH DAVID GORDON. We had only planned to sponsor the Modeling class every four years, but everyone had such a great experience last fall in the 1997 class that we can't bear to wait 4 years to do it again! Here are the dates for 1999:
September 24-26
8. COMING EVENTS ELSEWHERELAB PROFILE Consultant/Trainer Certification Program, July 6-17, 1998, Burlington, Ontario. Shelle Rose Charvet is running this progam for those who have already learned the LAB Profile and are using it on a regular basis. Gail and I plan to attend and it would be fun to have you there, too! There are discounts available for registering by January 31. For information contact Success Strategies at (905) 639-6468 or email to shelle@cgocable.net. TRAINER TRAINING at NLP Comprehensive, April 21- 27, in Colorado. This is probably your last chance to see Gerry Schmidt and Lara Ewing do this program together. Call NLP Comprehensive at (800) 233-1657 to get more information. If you are teaching introductory or special-interest programs utilizing NLP, let us know about them and we can spread the word.
9. REQUESTSThis area of the newsletter is for your networking. Do you want to form a study group? Find others interested in applying NLP to stamp-collecting? See who else is using their NLP skills in a particular area (geographic or subject-matter)? Do you have office space available? Let us know and we'll get the word out.
10. ABOUT THE NEWSLETTERWe'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. 11. CLOSING NOTEThank you for your support of the NLP Institute of Chicago, and of this newsletter. Klaus and I wish you a winter of cozy comforts and a spring full of blooming ideas!Virginia |