An interesting talk about myself, Phillip Holt, by the Turkish broadcaster and University lecturer E lif Canan Onat.
Elif has requested that I remove this Youtube entry.
A recommendation, I hope of my work and training in Turkey.
Yaptıgım calısma ve egitimler ile ilgili bir tavsiye duymak ve izlemek isteyen kişilere, lütfen buradaki videoyu izleyin.
Ali Gök, July 2007
Yaptıgım calısma ve egitimler ile ilgili bir tavsiye duymak ve izlemek isteyen kişilere, lütfen buradaki videoyu izleyin.
An English version can be seen by clicking here. 
English version
Zehra Gurol, July 2007
For someone who would like to see and hear a recommendation for my work and training, please see the video here.
Türkce versiyon icin burayı tıklayarak izleyebilirsiniz. 
Türkçe versiyonu
Zehra Gurol, July 2007
Sorry it is in Turkish, but I think he says good things about me.
Also it is unedited.
Mehmet Tanbas, 2007
Today we finished a PhotoReading course here in Istanbul. It was a small group compared to my last course in Bangalore in India (click to read), but that made it more personal, and the great part was that they wanted to learn.
Mind Map, so I stepped-in to demonstrate how one can ask the book a question, and know unconsciously where to open the book to get the answer.
The book given to me was in Turkish over four hundred pages long, I think on the history of Ataturk (click to read), the founder of modern Turkey.
Now I neither speak or read Turkish, at most ten words.
The participant asked me a question about Ataturk (click to read) and Istanbul that he wanted the answer to.
I quickly PhotoRead the book in less than two minutes as he asked me the question, and I opened the book at a particular page pointing to a specific paragraph.
I handed the book to the participant to read that paragraph, and another participant looked over his shoulder. I got the answer very correct, the exact answer to the question, the words and thoughts of Ataturk. The participant looking over the shoulder started to cry in disbelief.
Suddenly the participants knew that PhotoReading works. We continued the course well into the evening, enjoying each others successes as we activated the inner knowledge that we had absorbed, knowing that we are all on a jouney of discovery, with the chance to acquire knowledge to give us an advantage over others in all aspects of our life.
PhotoReading requires the belief that it works, once you have it, and you PhotoRead at 20,000 – 30,000 words per minute, absorbing the information into the inner mind, then the information is available to you.
Today I had a telephone conversation with a gentleman in the UK about taking/participating in NLP courses, and the vast numbers of trainers offering trainings. Could I advise him? How he could become good at NLP? what was the correct path to take?
My strategy has been to go to the originators, the developers, those that hold the intellectual rights to the technologies I want to learn. See articles of my journey of learning, click. I do not want to learn from someone who has read a book, heard from someone else, or who has plagiarised someone else’s work. I respect others knowledge, give credit when required, and seek official accreditation to teach their work as a licensed or certified trainer.
I told him that if he could, why not attend a course given by Richard Bandler himself on NLP, there would be many hundreds of people on the course, which the gentleman did not like, he wanted a smaller participant number.
Why not come to Turkey? The courses are much cheaper. Accommodation is very much cheaper and flights are very cheap.
What a great idea. Come to Turkey to attend the next Certified, Society of NLP Practitioner course, given by my good self, here in Istanbul.
I am running a number of courses in the next few weeks, in conjunction with NLPGrup.
Society of NLP Practitioner 9 July – 15 July
PhotoReading 30 June – 1 July
Mind Maps 8 July
Others are following over the next few months.
All courses are given in English, I speak only English, and there is translation into Turkish.
Call me on Skype VoiP, contact name NLPNOW,
My Turkish mobile number (Turkey) 05384068230
Email me holt@nlpnow.net, or visit my website www.nlpnow.net
Contact NLPGrup on (Turkey) 0212 31 77 77, or visit their website www.nlpgrup.com
Like music, (click for more) certain films have had a great influence on my life, and I enjoy watching time after time. I never grow tired of them.
Call me sentimental, (mental), but the Olivia Newton-John film Xanadu hits all the right buttons. In this cult movie, Olivia Newton-John portrays Kira, a Greek muse who attracts a painter dissatisfied with his career.
This musical follows the romance and the fulfillment of dreams, to the creation reality out of dreams with the dance hall called Xanadu, with the help of a retired musician played by the ever smiling Gene Kelly.
The movie includes such pop hits as Magic, Party All Over the World, I’m Alive and the title song Xanadu, played by the ELO – the Electric Light Orchestra.
My first exposure to Xanadu was in Saudi Arabia, buying cassettes of LP/CD’s to listen to, as there was nothing else to do in the early 1980’s, no cinemas, pubs, clubs, TV to watch. The music gripped me, it told a story, it was only years later that I came across the movie.
Another movie close to my heart is the black and white film called the Dambusters. This movie tells of the real life wartime story of the RAF (the British Royal Air Force) having to attack dams in Germany, to disrupt the Germans manufacturing industries, to bring the war closer to an end.
It tells the story of the dedication of the air crews, in training and to give their lives so others can live, it tells how Barnes Wallace, despite being ridiculed, worked out how to achieve the outcome needed, and that failures were a learning curve. Read the article on NOP click here.
The BBC created a radio series back in the 1970’s called The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams. Unusually this radio series was then transformed into a TV series of the same name, and the book followed. A few years ago, a new movie was produced, but sorry to say not as good as the TV series. For a start the original robot Marvin was replaced, although, the real Marvin did play a cameo part. Marvin say one of the most outstanding statements for me:-
“I’m so depressed, I have the brain of a planet, and all they ask me to do is open the door, I’m so depressed.”
It is in the movie that we can see that the human brain always needs completion, if you ask it a question, it will always try and find the answer, if you give it the answer it will try and find what the question was.
42 is the answer.
The Wizard of OZ, the 1939 film starring Judy Garland, tells the story of a young girl trying to get home with her pet dog Toto. The only way back is to visit the Wizard of Oz. She meets friends on her journey, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion, and together they have adventures and challenges which they overcome. When they meet the Wizard, it is then we realise we all have the same powers to meet our own challenges and adventures.
The latest film is What the Bleep Do We Know. A beautiful animation, film and documentary, telling the story of a woman going through a crisis, but coming to a realisation, that we must see things from a different perspective.
Very heavy on NLP, this film needs to be watched a couple of times to get the inner meaning, but it brings together all I teach in my courses.
The above films have a deeper meaning, a metaphor which we can all learn from.
Sentimental old me.
Türkçe versiyonu
Mind Maps has been called “the Swiss Army Knife for the Brain”.
Developed by Tony Buzan, it is used by hundreds and thousands of people and companies worldwide. I have successfully taught Mind Maps in China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Italy and the UK, to individuals, public groups, schools, universities, and companies. Organisations such as HSBC Bank, Shanghai Airlines, Arrow Weld, Global Communications, Sheffield University et al.
Mind Maps can be used in many areas of our lives:-
Personal
Family
Educational
Business
Professional
What makes Mind Maps so powerful is that they use the brain as it should be used, using both sides of the brain’s hemispheres, with the use of pictures, colour and movement, key words, and progressive radiant ideas.
If we consider that the brain has two hemispheres, the left and right, the left being understood to be the logical, mathematical brain and the right being the creative brain, we can see from our educational background that we have been taught and we work very left brain. We write in black and white, in straight lines. We think in logical sequences.
We only use half our brain capacity, only our left hemisphere.
Using Mind Maps brings into play our right hemisphere, the brain that likes colour, movement, creativity, doubling our processing power.
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We implement Mind Maps in PhotoReading, the ability to absorb words at 20,000 – 30,000 WPM.
I use Mind Maps for speeches, presentations, talks, and I never leave anything out.
The one day Mind Map course teaches you and your company the background, why we use Mind Maps, with loads of examples to practice.