Tad and Adriana James present an accelerated course in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). While traditionally courses in NLP took anywhere between 21 to 28 days Tad James realized this was totally impractical in today’s frenetically busy society. So he developed a “crash course” which takes 7 days to complete and is now available on DVD. While the course is an acceler­ated Practitioner NLP training courses, it also covers as part of the program hypnosis and Tad James Time Line Therapy and this is quite a bonus. The course is presented in easy to understand manner on 16 DVDS ! This is certainly the most comprehensive NLP training course ever offered via this medium and available to study in your own home.

 

Tad and Adriana have a relaxed presentation style which is informative yet enter­taining, multimedia graphics are also used to explain simple concepts as well as a vast number of demonstrations of techniques.

 

The introduction to NLP includes simple concepts such as C > E (Cause and Effect) and the importance of taking responsibility for our lives. This key concept outlines how most people are on the “effect” side and blame “XXXX” (include whatever you wish to place here) for their problems. While those who succeed accept that their present life conditions are the result of conscious and unconscious states of mind from the path. This is a difficult concept to accept for, as Adriana explains, we like to live in the “gray zone” where things are too good but aren’t too bad and hence fear­ful of change we refuse to take risks or take responsibility for our lives.

 

One of the things that becomes very clear even within the earliest sections of this course is that it is based on practical applications and techniques not theory. I found a comment by Adriana especially “common sense”, if the our theory of the relationship between cause and effect doesn’t work for you, then work as if it does, be cause it gets results. In other words al theories they present are “working hypothesizes” and rather than getting bogged down in debates about details they have forced on the results and hence achieved a level of success in their courses not matched by many other NLP schools.

Adriana and Tad also emphasize the importance of rapport and working together with a client. They make it clear that whether we are using hypnosis, Time Line or NLP, it is not possible to “change” someone, but only to facilitate a change. Indeed, we cannot even hypnosis someone, we simply provide the tools by which they can hypnotize themselves. While certainly a well trained practitioners can ease a client into change and help them achieve deeper states of consciousness, the emphasis still is on co-operation.

 

On the first DVD there is the presentation of the “Learning State” which is a key for­mula within the NLP practice. It helps with gaining and retaining information and while useful for everyone has proved especially useful for children with learning diffi­culties. In association with this is also presented the stages of learning.

 

Tad and Adriana also focus heavily on the wider applications of NLP. Since Tad comes from a business consultant background and Adriana from music (she was a professional violinist), both emphasize different applications of NLP – from busi­ness, to family, education, health and performance optimization. The overall focus is on excellence in whatever field they discuss NLP.

 

It is structured with various exercises etc which can be done at home, simply pause the DVD and do the exercise then go back to the program.

 

Some of the things which I found instantly useful were such skills as setting out-comes, understanding what we really want and how to make and break rapport.

 

The sections on Sensory Acuity (DVD 2) and Language presuppositions (DVD 3) were incredibly empowering. From these skills alone I found a radical change in the way I understood other people. I noticed more, understood how they communicated more and was able to decode their sensory clues as well as their what they commu­nicated (rather than what they said).

 

DVD 4 explores the fascinating world of metaphors and how they can be used to get “around” the critical faculty and influence the unconscious. We come to understand how metaphors work, how to deconstruct a clients problem and how to create a metaphor which will work. There is also an extended question and answer section which covers everything from secondary gain and attachment to illness, to selecting clients, who not to work with and the nature of problems.
 

DVD 5 really begins to explore the techniques and practices within NLP. It begins with meta-programs and how to understand the nature of a client’s problem(s) (and hence frame a solution) and then moves into sub-modalities. We learn how to elicit sub modalities from a client, how to map them and “map them over” to create a change in the way a client processes a specific piece of information.

 We are given a demonstration where a client who likes jelly lollies and wants to give them up, maps the sub modalities over to those of meat fat which she despises. This is one of the major “quick fix” techniques used in NLP and is covered in some detail with a further excellent discussion of the ecology of NLP work, client compli­ance, ethics and related issues.

DVD 6 Follows on with the basic “quick fixes” of NLP and examines the use of the Visual swish. It considers how to understand a given behavior, discern its trigger and then create a swish pattern which replaces it with a new behavior. Since this is one of the more commonly used NLP techniques for minor problems and behaviors, it is covered in quite some detail. There is also all an excellent demonstration using a person who wants to no longer bites her nails and then this is followed by a num­ber of questions and answers.

DVD 7 explores the highly significant NLP subject of anchoring. This methodology is one of the foundation practices in NLP. We get a solid introduction to how Anchor­ing works and explore Basic Anchoring, Resource Anchoring and Collapsing An­chors. We then come to understand how what to do when collapsing Anchors is dif­ficult because the negative state and the goal are too far apart. The solution being Anchor Chains and we are taught how to construct a Chain of Anchors, what to place in the intermediate Anchors and what backward and forward states are. In­cluded are a number of Anchoring demonstrations.

DVD 8 explores the fascinating world of Strategies. It examines motivational, deci­sion and self assurance strategies and how to elicit these. The most interesting sec­tion is on eye patterns and how these patterns supply information on the way in which the client develops their own strategies. This is quite amazing to watch in a demonstration as you see a person’s eyes explaining what sub modalities they use in their strategies i.e. visual recall, visual construct, auditory recall, auditory con­struct, kinesthetic (feelings) and auditory – digital (self-talk). There is also a demon­stration of eye tracking. There is a good discussion of problems with using eye tech­niques such as people to “look to talk” and cultures where it is not encouraged to look at a person when communication.

DVD 9 begins with Introducing reframing, while it is primarily a short introduction, it does cover who reframing works and basic techniques. Also discussed is how to “build” an NLP model from the various techniques provided. The bulk of this DVD covers Parts Integration.

Using this technique we then learn how to create a model of the clients strategy and use predicates to respond to it and in sales and personal situations optimize our re­sponses to a clients specific strategy.

DVD 10 is the start of the Time Line Therapy section. This is a unique modality de­veloped by Tad James which having similarities to NLP type techniques is quite unique. It is not found in any other NLP school. On this DVD we are introduced to Time Line Therapy, come to understand how it works and the way to get the best results. There is also a solid discussion of the problem of secondary gain (i.e. where people attached to negative emotions). Practical techniques outlined include how to elicit the Time Line, how to get the client used to using it and techniques to remove negative emotions. There are demonstrations of the major Time Line techniques.

DVD 11 continues the outline of Time Line Therapy; it begins with a comprehensive demonstration of dealing with anger on a Time Line. We then receive an outline of the second “dealing with negative emotions” technique and a full demonstration of it. Questions and answers explores such issues as dealing with secondary gain, the dangers of not completing a Time Line session, dealing with anger and suppressed emotion as well as the importance of ongoing maintenance in dealing with negative emotions.

The second section of this DVD explores the pre-requisites for change, the need for the client to put into practice what they have gained from Time Line Therapy includ­ing the development of boundaries and personal limits.

DVD 12 begins with an exploration of anxiety which is one of the major sources of requests for intervention, yet is easy to dissolve. Since work with phobias (past) or anxiety (future) can trigger traumatic memories we get advice on how to deal with such memories when they arise and disassociate the clients from such events. Time Line Therapy does not recover traumatic memory, its aim is to dissolve the pain and to do this the content of the memory does not need to be recovered and indeed ex­ploring the memory can hamper efforts to release its emotional content.

The next section explores the difference between negative emotions and limiting decisions and the way to decode what a limiting decision is. All negations and nega­tive beliefs are limiting decisions. There is also a challenging discussion of the rela­tionship between limiting decisions and disease and accidents with important insight about the relationship between total individual responsibility (cause) rather than liv­ing as a victim (effect). This is clarified so we do not link being the cause with excus­ing the effect (the perpetuator) or by transferring the blame from outside to inside and becoming self destructive.

We then explore how to work with the future i.e. how to master the secret of creating your own future. We begin with the foundation of S.M.A.R.T and then the actual “creating your future technique”. This is a powerful technique which has a myriad of uses and exceptional potential.

The DVD is finished with a demonstration on how to deal with phobias.

DVD 13 is the beginning of the Hypnosis training section of the program. It begins with a discussion of misconceptions about hypnosis and Tad and Adriana also clar­ify that nobody ever hypnotizes anyone else; that all the practitioner does is assist the client in self hypnosis. This is followed by a solid historical background of how hypnosis developed, ranging from extremely early forms of hypnosis, such as in In­dia and Egypt, to the evolution of hypnosis in modern times with special reference to the development of modern psychology. Also offered is a discussion of different forms of hypnosis and the basic concepts behind hypnosis. They especially focus on the work of Milton Erickson and permissive approach to hypnosis. It is also inter­esting to see how they use hypnosis techniques while teaching the history of hypno­sis and give students an experience of the simple Ericksonian method.

DVD 14 continues with hypnosis training outlining the whole procedure for Hypno­sis. Beginning with pre-talk, we learn suggestibility techniques and then how to in-duce and deepen trance. There are some great suggestibility techniques including the dictionary and the balloon and postural sway.

DVD 15 goes further into hypnotherapy examining the use of the Pendulum, tech­niques for deepening trace and stage hypnosis.

DVD 16 goes into advanced levels of training with NLP, discussing the various lev­els of NLP training (four levels). There is a fascinating discussion of how language relates our nervous system and how to use meta-programs to understand language and people. They also introduce other aspects of Master Practitioner training such as Values, advanced techniques, introduction to presentation skills, compulsion blowout, advanced Time Line therapy and modeling. Modeling being that technique that you find a certain behavior that is of value, you can model it, capture it and ap­ply it to yourself and others.

This is followed with a discussion on the spiritual aspects of training as represented within Tad and Adriana’s experience and teaching of Huna and the importance of understanding the higher aspects of the mind. There is also a demonstration of Higher Self therapy and the course is completed with a summing up.

It is difficult to summarize a truly comprehensive series which offers such extensive coverage of NLP, Time Line Therapy and Hypnosis. The best I can say is that the whole series kept my attention and that I used everything I learned from this course. The course is very professionally presented, includes a wide range of techniques which are easy to master, uses computer generated graphics and diagrams to help the learning process and includes a large number of demonstrations so you can see what is being taught in action. This is certainly a wide ranging course covering eve­rything from basic NLP and Hypnosis through to introductions to Huna and Higher Self Therapy. While certainly not a replacement for “in house” training, it is a great way to learn the basic practitioner level of NLP and related modalities at home.

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Living Traditions
May 2007
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