The end of the November 2009 Master Practitioner in Gaziantep.
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NLP Master Practitioner Gaziantep, Turkey
Today we finished another Society of NLP Master Practitioner course here in Southern Turkey.
Great fun was had by all the participants, my translator and myself, as we learned so much together.
Good luck my friends.
Participants on the NLP Master Practitioner, Gaziantep, Turkey
It is always sad for me when a course closes, as it is time that the participants, the translator and myself go our separate ways.
We have traveled a long journey together, discovering our deeper self, and with the NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner, no matter which country I may be in, it gives me great satisfaction to notice the differences achieved by each and everyone, differences that they had wanted, and even some they did not notice yet.
Part of the NLP Practitioner Society of NLP course involves the Fast Phobia Cure, ( 
Türkçe versiyonu ) removing phobias in one easy session of only a few minutes.
Duygu Akinal in Gaziantep holding some creepy insects in her hands, after the fast phobia cure
Here we can see the lovely Duygu Akinal (orumcek) in Gaziantep holding some creepy insects in her hands with a big smile on her face after only a few minutes of the Fast Phobia Cure. Just before I worked with her, only the words of bugs, and she would be itching, and fear etched her face.
Oh I love my job, being able to help people, being able to help people help themselves and others.
Thank you to the participants on the Gaziantep NLP Practitioner course of October 2009 for your input and willingness to work with me.
Now I must sleep, as I have to be up at 2am to catch two planes to Milan in Italy to give part of an NLP course there.
SLEEEEEEEEEEP
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Milan here we come
An early start again to the airport, as I set off for Milan to give a two day Master NLP Practitioner.
It may seem as if I am a jet setter, to far flung countries, but it is not like that.
I arrive, and get straight to work delivering the course.
In the evening, after closing down, tidying up, getting back to the hotel, it is time to eat, then to bed.
At the end of the course, I usually catch the last flight back to the UK or to my next destination.
So, it is rare that I see any new places, as I am in and out.
I am often asked, why not spend an extra day?
This trip I will return Sunday evening, and the very early Wednesday morning I set off for a three week trip to Turkey and Italy. The stay in the UK of two days does not give much time to wash and iron my shirts.
But I love my job.
I was never a Boy Scout, but I do like their motto, Be Prepared. I was in the Boys Brigade, the ones that wore the long trousers, with their motto, Sure and Steadfast.
Tomorrow is an early start when I travel to Rome to give another PhotoReading and Mind Maps course.
Despite telephone calls, salesmen trying to sell me things and services, trying to understand people and the messages they are really telling me whilst telling me something else, being led down the garden path by others and being aware enough not to let it happen, catching-up on my administration work, I have been able to get all my “stuff” ready for my trip to Rome.
My teaching aids are ready, my suitcase is packed, my shoes are clean, I have checked-in on-line for the flight and picked my seat, and the taxi is booked to pick me up at 5:30am.
I am prepared, and I am sure that I will be steadfast in my delivery of the courses.
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Türkiye’de NLP Kursları, NLP in Turkey
Today I have had great news, the final dates and agreement of more NLP courses in Gaziantep, Turkey, for this year, 2009.
In co-operation with GAP (GAP Danışmanlık) and Mehpare Kileci, we will holding a Society of NLP Practitioner course, 24th October – 30th October, and the Society of NLP Master Practitioner course from 3rd November – 8th November, both 2009.
It means quite a tight schedule for me as the weekend in between the two courses, the NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner, I am to be in Milan being one of the trainers for NLPItaly’s NLP Master Practitioner, my two days being 31st October and the 1st November, so I will be flying in my sleep or sleeping whilst I fly.
I know some of the participants in Italy are looking forward to being with me again in Milan, so I have to make the journey. I will not let you down guys.
For the participants attending the Master NLP Practitioner in Gaziantep, I hope that we will be joined by a very good friend, fellow NLP Trainer and colleague, Alessio Roberti. It will be like the old days when we worked together many years ago, introducing NLP into Italy. It will be fun and a great time.
Phillip Holt
Alessio Roberti
training in 1999
There are some situations one can plan for, and some we can not.
Sometime times we plan ahead for what we presuppose will occur. It could be for a business meeting, a presentation, a meal with friends, a date with a loved one, a wedding, our health, our future.
How often does what we plan happen as we planned for it to happen? Rarely, as so many outside forces influences the outcome, beyond our control.
Not even Darren Brown, a mentalist, a magician, an illusionist, a hypnotist, a person who has studied NLP, and has now become a television personality performing the most amazing feats at this time on TV weekly, can predict the future. A couple of weeks ago on “live” TV he predicted the results of all numbers drawn in the UK Lottery. How did he do it? Well, as I said he is a mentalist, a magician, an illusionist, a hypnotist, a person who has studied NLP, and an illusionlist.
I remember being on a TV program by Granada and Discovery TV, Extraordinary People, commenting on another performer Jess Rose, and his performance was amazing, yet predicable. That is to say, I still do not know how Darren Brown does what he does so well.
I too do not know what will be happening in the coming weeks.
I will be in Milan, Italy, from Thursday till Sunday, presenting a PhotoReading and Mind Mapping course at the Concorde Hotel, and the following week in Rome giving the same courses to another set of participants.
I have a plan of what I am going to do, what I am going to teach and present to them, and I am preparing and planing the trip.
Already, things are not going to plan.
I have heard my normal translator will not be with me, and who will be my new person, I have no idea. I have no idea of how good they will be, or have they worked with me before.
My laminating machine I use to prepare a handout has finally gone to the scrapheap in the sky, halfway through producing the final product.
I have hoped to have heard from people so I can plan for future dates, but the telephone stays silent.
Poo Poo happens and will always happen.
Am I disheartened? No.
Slightly unhappy? Yes.
Poo Poo happens, so there is only one way forward, accept it and get on with solving the problem with joy and fun.
Both my sister-in-law and her husband in Malaysia have cancer of the liver and stomach. The prognosis is not good, in fact the end is very near.
The husband has given up, and has done for some time. Yes he is very ill, but he does not help himself, expecting other people to do the fetching and carrying, his wife has taken the same attitude.
It is a big struggle to get the sister-in-law to do things for herself, not to give up. To get out into the garden to see the beauty of the flowers, to listen to the songs of tropical birds, to hear and watch the ever changing heavy tropical rain storm.
Carpe Diem. Seize the day. Enjoy the day. We do not know what will happen.
So, I am looking forward to starting my next tour of many countries, meeting new people and old friends and challenges.
I am planning ahead, but will have to make adjustments, like going to buy a new laminater, which I can do with a smile on my face and happiness in my heart.
So where ever you are in this small world of ours, enjoy what we have now. Be kind to yourself and to others. What you give out, you will get back.
Enjoy.
My work takes me to many countries, giving training course, teaching participants how to gain control in their lives, and should they wish how to help other people too to gain control, I give lectures, talks to business people, educationists, students, clubs and the general public. Much of my work now is in this field.
I also continue on a now smaller scale to see clients on a private basis, what is known as 1-2-1. It gives me immense satisfaction to work with these people, who may have suffered for many years over a fear or phobia.
Oh how I would love to work with the BBC presenters on a nightly program called The One Show, when shear panic was evident when spiders were shown each night for a week. The presenters Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles could be seen retreating behind their seats as spiders were produced to for them to observe. In a later program it was shown that this same fear or phobia was just as evident for frogs, and for Christine, moths.
Why should people suffer so much, when in one session this irrational fear can be overcome, removed, and if they should so wish, to handle these wonderful creatures?
I gives me great joy to be approached sometimes by people who asks for my help, to work with them for perhaps just a few minutes, and they walk away with the problem gone, they can stand on the top floor of a tall building, walk onto an aircraft, stroke a dog, walk out of their house that they have not left for many years. OK, I usually sent about two hours with a client for that one session.
I also does not matter that I have usually have no further contact with the clients. Why should I? Do they want me hanging on to them asking them “are you OK?” They need to get on with their life.
Often the clients report “that it is as if I never had the problem“. Great, why should what had been before does not interfere with what happens now.
I remember one lady in Istanbul who had a fear of heights, one quick session, and we went up to the restaurant on top floor of the hotel overlooking the Bosphorus, the end wall being totally being glass. She stood there, nose on the glass, and said she was fine, but perhaps it was not high enough.
A business man who prior to seeing me could not drive on a motorway, or even drive over a bridge, and said that if it worked he would make me a millionaire. I know he now drives himself all over the country, yet I have never heard from him.
An actress who had lost confidence with herself and her acting, so much so that she was going to be written out of the TV soap opera, yet she is still there many years later. I have had no further contact with her, and so it should be that way.
A senior police office that had not been able progress through interviews that would enable him to reach the next level in his career. He needed something special for him that was missing. He has since gone even further in his career, as I watch news about him.
All I have seen just once, and have had no further contact., and I believe this is what it should be if they so wish, as they have a new life.
Do I want to hold a spider or a frog? No, not really. But, if I needed to I can without fear.
A fear or a phobia is learned, and if something can be learned so it can be unlearned by something else stronger.
Email for more information holt@nlpnow.net.
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Playing with Phillip’s Sausage
I was playing with my sausage today whilst I went for my daily constitutional.
Every day I go for a walk, get the exercise, to get the heart beating, and to get out of the home.
As I walked through the town center of Kingston upon Thames, I say it, just there on the footpath, a £20 note.
It was mine.
As I approached the area I picked up the £20 note, I had noticed the usual throng of Sunday shoppers, visitors and other people just out for a walked, and no-one else saw the money just there. It was only after I bent down to pick the £20 up, did a woman notice and smile at me as we passed each other.
I often find money having been thrown away or dropped, and as my previous article outlined, the streets of London are paved with gold.
Today, I struck gold.
A £20 note found.
It has been a quick trip from Rimini in Italy, back to the UK, flying out the same day to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a few days of meetings and giving training, back to the UK for a couple of hours, to go to Milan to be part of the training team for an NLP Practitioner, then back to the UK.
Jet lag?
There has been no time to get it. It is a matter of keeping state and not allowing it to happen.
The whole trip has been sometimes sad, sometimes astonishing, sometimes fun, sometimes hard work.
I was sad to leave yet another fantastic group of 60 participants in Milan starting their journey of learning NLP, having teaching them important aspects of NLP, anchoring, sub modalities, state control, including Antonio, plus other elements of the Practitioner course.
After handing over the course to Claudio Belotti, another NLP trainer I have worked with for many years, seeing him develop into a great, with Elena Martelli my translator, we headed for lunch at New York New York, a great restaurant near the Stazione Centrale.
My flight back to the UK was from Bologna, a wonderful city, which by Trenitalia Eurostar train, only one hour away. The UK is way behind Italy in the modernisation of their rail system, with the Italians laying a new track from northern Italy to the south via important cities, perhaps halving the journey time.
Previous journeys on Trenitalia had been a strange experience, having to travel first class standing. (click to read).Yesterdays journey did not fail to make me smile.
The Eurostar train glided out of Milan’s Stazione Centrale (the Central Railway Station) ten minutes late, with the lady train manager racing up and down the carriages shouting something in Italian into her hand phone.
I must learn Italian one day.
Shortly after leaving the station the train came to a sudden stop, but soon started again, and continued its’ very high speed but smooth journey to Bologna, with Elena and myself sitting back in the laid back second class seats.
An announcement was made by the train manager in Italian about the journey, and she repeated it in very good English.
Then the restaurant car made and announcement, and I saw a smile cross Elana’s face, but being given in Italian, I could not share Elena’s hilarity.
The girl on the public address system repeated the announcement, again in good English.
She said that the restaurant car was in the center of the train, and then commenced to say, that first class travelers would be receiving complementary coffee, croissants, newspaper, water, the list went on and one what the first class travelers would be getting free of charge.
There was no mention of second class travelers.
It was as if she was saying, “you other lots of sub standard travelers, look what you are missing, you should have paid a little bit more, and you would have got all that too.”