NLP Courses

[flyingjase]

Has anyone attended an NLP course? I've heard some good things about them but never spoken directly to anyone who has attended one.

Any idea of costs or companies to use?

Cheers

Jason

[justinp1]

Buy the Derren Brown book.

It costs a tenner and will save you thousands on NLP seminars. There are much better ways to implement such psychological theories than to call each other genies and practitioners. The comparison to NLP practitioners and pyramid schemes are quite eye-opening!

[Stephanie Plum]

TA works better - close to NLP but more suited to organisational needs, been around ages, proven to work etc etc etc

I use it in my training and people always get it and can start practising it with immediate benefits

[flyingjase]

Thanks, but what is TA??

[jamesw2000]

What he said^ ?

[Stephanie Plum]

flyingjase said:

Thanks, but what is TA??

Transactional Analysis - PM me if you want more details.

[CoachRob]

There are stacks of CD's and stuff available on the net on NLP.

I've seen it used loads and use it on myself when I'm being stupid.

My wife wondered over the edge of a cliff on a sledge with our friends 4 year old on her lap. She had bad dreams for ages until we used NLP to re-position how she see's it in her head.

The incident now makes her laugh as we turned them into clowns and turned the mountain to jelly!

Like a lot of things, it works for some and others won't let it work,

However you decide to learn about NLP, it's whatever suits you best. Start with a teach yourself NLP book and go from there.

Rob.

[TDIPLC]

I read NLP For Dummies a couple of years ago.

Cost about a tenner and told me everything I needed/wanted to know

[Jasper Gilder]

I'm with Stephanie - TA is just as good, I know people who preach NLP like it's the second coming. It's a useful technique - but one of ever so many. Buy a book - see what you think - then spend the money on the courses in USA

[Leftie]

I know some people swear by it, but my only indepth experience is a colleague who now sells NLP courses having been to the US and done the 'grand poo-bah' course, and came back as an instant expert a few weeks later. Mind you, before that she would sell you goat sacrifice as a 'model of understanding' if she thought she could make a few bob out of it.

I think: money for telling you what you already know, and I would buy the book and have a bit of real world practice to see if it works for you.