Then frankly, you're interested the older transfer technology for learning NLP.

When NLP was originally developed, the only method of transfer was training. Little was understood about the multiple levels of experience, almost nothing about the structure of generalization. So, exercises were created to entrain behavior. That is, get participants to simply repeat in sequence behaviors – techniques – that NLP’s originators had modeled.

Only that’s not how the original models, Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir and others, did it. Erickson often said don't copy me, create a new therapy for every client. Meanwhile, NLP around the world is too often taught as a collection of techniques. Even worse, because these programs train behavior, their participants must practice to generalize these skills to other areas of their lives. Most people never do. Since the practice processes were almost all created for therapists, few people have easy opportunities to practice them outside the training context.

A major innovation in learning NLP.

NLP authors and innovators Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner have been rethinking the basic elements of NLP, taking everything apart to find the essence of change. Steve has published ground-breaking work on Self Concept, Scope and Category. Charles has brought a new descriptive organization to NLP found in everyday language and profoundly easy to use.

The trend in NLP trainings worldwide is to shorter, abbreviated, or special interest trainings. This is often because they have to concentrate on the content application of specific techniques. The NLP Comprehensive Immersion Programs teach you HOW TO THINK AND ACT BEYOND TECHNIQUES. You will be able to use what you learn as easily at work as at home or anywhere else you choose.

You’re smarter than ‘they’ think!

NLP training programs often start with un-useful assumptions. You can check this out for yourself. If they offer to train you in creating outcomes (also known as goals, targets, results), then they assume you don’t know how.

If you don't know how to set goals, how did you decide you wanted to take NLP?

You already had goals.

And the awareness to notice you wanted more.

And the skills to decide what to do to increase your choices.

In the New NLP Comprehensive Immersion Programs, we assume you are already skilled, that you are living your life, that you are full of experience, and that you want more. We start with your competencies and build on them. Through ALL NEW PROCESSES we help you to notice what you are already good at, and then show you how you can expand those skills to enhance other, less satisfying areas of your life. Every day of the program, you are increasing your resource base and expanding your capabilities.

Artistry is not a technique.

To become more artful and discerning with the abilities you need to deepen your awareness – both of what you already know and how it connects to new organizing principles, and perceptions. This program will take your professional and personal evolution to new levels of artistry, specificity and subtlety through who you are and who you want to become.

Where the NLP Comprehensive Practitioner Immersion Programs teaches participants to become aware of the alphabet of experience, the NLP Comprehensive Master Practitioner Immersion Program encourages you into the world of intervention artistry. The alphabet of awareness becomes the vehicle for developing multiple perceptions and synergistic multi-level change work.

The next step on your journey starts here:

Summer Immersion 2008

Sunday, July 27 through Saturday, August 9

Winter Park, Colorado

Winter Immersion 2009

Week One: February 1 - 7

Week Two: April 19 -25

Denver, Colorado

“You don’t just learn it – you live it!”

You've been to trainings ... They're where you practice a series of steps, in a procedure, as if you're never done it before. This may work fine for learning software or if you are a small child. But as an adult you have a wealth of experience, and most of this experience isn't procedures. You have insights, rules of thumb, exceptions to the rules, and so much more. What if all of that experience could used to accelerate your learning? What if you could start there? 

The Immersion Program is specially designed to identify, validate, and use your life experiences to acclerate getting the NLP skils in an easy, naturalized way.  Go Here to find out if this exclusive program is right for you!

Summer Master 2008

Sunday, July 27 through Saturday, August 9, 2008

Winter Park, Colorado

The NLP Comprehensive Immersion Master Practitioner Program teaches you HOW TO THINK AND ACT BEYOND TECHNIQUES. You will be able to use what you learn as easily at work as at home or anywhere else you choose.

Where the NLP Comprehensive Practitioner Immersion Programs teaches participants to become aware of the alphabet of experience, the NLP Comprehensive Master Practitioner Immersion Program encourages you into the world of intervention artistry. The alphabet of awareness becomes the vehicle for developing multiple perceptions and synergistic multi-level change work. This program will take your professional and personal evolution to new levels of artistry, specificity and subtlety through who you are and who you want to become. Go Here to discover more...

Summer Hypnotherapy

Monday, August 11 through Saturday, August 16, 2008

Winter Park, Colorado

Neo-Ericksonian Hypnosis with Michael Watson - a Six Day Certification Intensive in the Art and Practice of Hypnosis

A remarkable program to deepen and extend your hypnotic laguage skills with the remarkably skilled Michael Watson! A great add on to your Immersion Program, or a great stand alone experience: Go Here!

LAB Profile Certification

Monday, July 14 through Friday, July 25, 2008

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

LAB Profile Consultant/Trainer Certification - a 10 Day Advanced Certification for those who are already knowledgeable about MetaPrograms and want to train others in their use. If you have at least a solid Practitioner program to your credit, and have read and studied enough about MetaPrograms to know their value, this is the course for you. Go Here!

This Summer's Training Team Includes:

Steve Andreas

Steve Andreas is an NLP Trainer and developer of new patterns with his wife Connirae. Steve has produced over twenty-five videotaped and audiotaped demonstrations of NLP methods and numerous articles. Steve and Connirae are the co-founders of NLP Comprehensive in Colorado and authors of Heart of the Mind and Change Your Mind -- and Keep The Change.

Tom Best

Tom Best, an international NLP trainer for the last nineteen years, currently directs Best Resources, a San Antonio, Texas based training and consulting company. His background in cultural anthropology and work with indigenous people has allowed him to investigate the connections between NLP and traditional or "primitive" cultural practices. He is particularly interested in the interface between personal identity and the cultural matrix from which it evolves.

Charles Faulkner

A prolific innovator, Charles has pioneered methods for accelerated language learning, as well as medical and financial decision-making. He is particularly well-known for his work with futures traders and his research on the role of "metaphor" in communication and behavior. Charles is the author of Metaphors of Identity, Submodalities: An Inside View of Your Mind, Worlds Within a Word, The Essence of Intuition, The Mythic Wheel of Life, Creating Irresistible Influence with NLP, co-author of NLP In Action, and chief architect and co-author of NLP:The New Technology of Achievement, and Success Mastery with NLP.

Henrik Lell, H.P.

Henrik A. Lell, H.P.’s work explores the relationship between the well-being of natural systems, business and mental health, and bridges traditional and modern norms of culture and perception. He is a German state-licensed alternative health practitioner and psychotherapist with extensive training in alternative medicine, psychotherapy, clinical hypnotherapy, coaching and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP). 

He lives in Berlin, where he has a private practice for psychotherapy and coaching.  He facilitates seminars in the areas of health, holistic life, mental training, and psychotherapy at the Paracelsus School, the largest educational institute for alternative healthcare in Germany and Austria.

Jan Prince

Jan Prince is a certified NeuroLinguistic Programming Practitioner (NLP), psychotherapist and executive coach who has provided personal coaching, conflict management training, meeting facilitation, and interpersonal communication training to individuals and international corporations since 1983.

She has helped people identify their personal and professional goals, the strategies to achieve success, and how to identify and overcome the internal as well as external obstacles to that success.   She has worked in Finland as well as in the United States, and her book, From the Inside Out – Building a Healthy Identity, is published in English, Finnish, and German.

Her depth and breadth of experience allow her to understand and connect with people from all walks of life.

Adam Reynolds

Since working in our office as a High School student and his Practitoner Training in 1990 Adam Reynolds has been a key member of NLP Comprehensive. He has coached, coordinated trainings and trained NLP both for us and other organizationsl.  He has dedicated himself to understanding human communication in its many forms and works as a consultant, therapist, coach, and trainer. His training style clearly demonstrates his passion for learning and his depth of understanding human interaction. In his trainings people experience highly applicable learning in a creative environment that results in greater awareness and change. He is currently engaged primarily in corporate consulting and coaching and continues to train for us out of his love of the field and this community of NLP'ers.