Drs Ron and Edie made an interview while I was up in Edinburgh, that has now been made available on the Meta-NLP website. Check it out

Unfortunately, I will not be assisting at the upcomming Master Practioner with Paul McKenna, Richard Bandler and John LaValle. This is partly due to my own commitments at home, but also due to the influx of bods wanting to assist. I look forward to seeing some familiar faces at future training events.

In the meantime my sights are firmly set on the Patterns of Physical Transformation (PPT) seminar in early June with Drs Ron and Edie Perry.

What a fantastic seminar we’ve all had. I have learnt loads, and the delegates have been great. The assisting team were congratulated by Richard, Paul and Michael for the work we have been doing. Richard even complained that we weren’t leaving enough of them for him to deal with!

For all the other assistants that may read this; thank you so much for the opportunity and support you all gave. I learnt a ton from all you guys and hope I have also managed to instill a little curiosity as well. I look forward to seeing you all at furture training events.

Tina and Steve; thank you so much for the opportunity to excel, for your trust and support, and for the experience. This event has gone a long way to benchmark my own skills, which I can now build on… again!

Look forward to seeing you all at the end of May for the Master Prac.

I’m getting my taxi back to Gatwick this morning, to then fly out to Italy to be with my wife and kids…

After a fairly long morning with Michael Neill bringing us all up to speed, Paul launched in to the Fast Phobia Cure. I have to say that he didn’t teach it the way I would have. He presented a tool set of procedures that can be applied to cure phobias, and skimmed over the actual FPC.

 We had some snakes and some spiders there to test the work. We also had ladders, a box to put claustrophobes in and some needles. All went swimmingly. Very few ab-reactions which was pleasant.

Went out for a Tawaineese meal with some of the other assistants. We had a great time, but have only just arrived back home at 2am… got to be there early for the last day tomorrow.

We did some more work on belief swishes today, and a little more on timelines. George and David tried out my MindSpa briefly. I think they were both fairly impressed with the results.

Went out with some of the assisting team this evening to a curry house. The curry was criminally mediocre, but the company was brilliant. Unfortuately we ended up chatting ’shop’. Today is the first day I felt we really bonded as a team.

Tomorrow is ‘phobia day’ so we have to all be at peek condition.

Today we had loads of fun. We had a few ab-reactions which were fairly easy to deal with. We did Timelines, which is one of my favorite subjects. Looking forward to teaching the handshake interupt (again) tomorrow or Saturday. Had a chat with David at lunch about our stations. I think we have it fairly well down, but we’ll see…

I had my name tag changed, which was nice cos previously it said “Jenkyn Jonathan”, so lots of delagates were calling me “Jenkyn”… which is not my forename! I used finger magic on several of the assistants, all of whom were very intrigued…

Tommorow we are also going to have an assistants dinner at a chineese restaurant down the road from the Ibis.

Today the trainers covered the 6-step-reframe and the eye accessing cue model. The delegates appeared to have a few problems with the reframing model. It’s a model discovered by observing the work of Virgina Satir. It bases itself on the premise that we have ‘parts’ within our psyche that are resposible for particular behaviours, and that these parts can be interrogated to determine their intention and further alter their behaviour. I use this reframing model with a lot of my clients that ask for allergy cures.

I dealt with a couple of delegates who became agitated and uncomfortable with their own emotions. Often they were not being very sensible with their choice of subject to use a particular technique on. Much of this was quickly corrected with a quick state change. I am finding that the role of an Assistant is much more than simply facilitating the training of delegates in NLP and often spills over in to a full blown therapist role, which is not really why I’m here. Anyway… I digress.

Today we mainly consentrated on hypnoisis and hypnotic inductions. Most of the delegates managed to grasp the concept very quickly, and the smoothness will come with time. By the end of the course I expect all the delegates will have a firm grasp of what it is they are expected to do, and enough experience to then build upon. This is the advantage of learning from Paul and his team rather than from some dummies guide.

Met up with a few of the assistants after the course to discuss some of the technologies we had been using. TFT is a bit of a sore point at the moment, in fact I think I am the only assistant who does not pescribe TFT to uninitiated clients.

Tomorrow I don’t have to be there until 9am which is really nice, although I’ll probably end up getting woken up by my alarm anyway!

We have a very bright bunch of delegates. I am very surprised at how quickly they have managed to pick up some of the exercises, and have begun to experiment and explore other avenues of exploration. We covered basic anchoring, state control (as a product of physiology and neurology), One-point, and the importance of endorphins. We are never too sure what is going to happen the next day, although we do know that Saturday will be “Phobia Day”!

I had a brief chat with Kate Benson about the upcomming PPT course. I am really excited about it. The results I have achieved with it have been beyond my expectations.

For the course we have been buddied up with another assistant. My buddie is Dave Marsden. We’re getting on really well. We have been asked to propose a Station title to present on Thurday. We chose Complex Equivalence and Representational Predicates. Joy!

This evening I attended the Paul McKenna Assistants Pre-seminar Meeting, where all the assistants met up to disuss the in’s and out’s of dealing with the delegates over the course of the next 7 days. The meeting was chaired by Tina Taylor and Steve Crabb who are the Senior Coaching Assistants. During the meeting we learnt to understand when best to intervene and how to deal with some of the issues that can arrise.

We did some interesting exercises with state acuity and roleplayed some of the problems some delegates can throw at you as a coach. I am very excited about the rollercoster that is about to begin (maybe it already has!), and particularly excited about the experience of a new perspective. I will try to update my blog with my experience of the next few days… (daze?)…