Some of my first exposure to training NLP was to take place in Italy with my good friend and colleague, Alessio Roberti of NLPItaly. I remember sitting in a small piatsa in a wonderful walled town called Città Alta, the upper part of Bergamo with its rich heritage of art and history, discussing a forthcoming course.

Alessio and Phillip   

  Città Alta Bergamo

I do not speak any language other than English. It is not out of disrespect of peoples tongues, just as people who have worked with me know, I am hopeless at speaking another language.

After many courses over the years Alessio Roberti has grown his company to be perhaps one of the best NLP training organisations in the world, and along with other subjects and the publishing arm, has become the successful person he should be. I am privileged to be involved with him.

One of the translators in Italy who has work with me for a number of years is Elena Martelli.

  Elena is an exceptional Italian language teacher to foreign students, and she comes from Bologna. She also translates books and articles, and keeps me in my place when I do my training courses.

Her one failing is that she is a "rocker", loving the music of such groups as Red Hot Chili Peppers, compared to me who is a "mod", liking the music of the Beatles.

Her saving grace is that she takes me in the evening to a gelateria, or ice cream shop, which seems to be open all hours in Milan called Jack Frost, (Via Casati Felice 25, Milano).

I am off to Milan this weekend to give a PhotoReading course in the Hilton Hotel.

Please Elena, coconut, liquorish, and toffee ice cream, all in the same cone, perhaps following a Baffu pizza.