Society of NLP Licensed NLP Practitioner 7 day intensive course
13th – 19th October 2008
Nowton Court, Bury St Edmunds

• Cure phobias in minutes.
• Become an exquisite communicator.
• Read and manipulate unconscious communication.
• Learn rapid negotiating skills.
• Learn all this and much more on this 7 day workshop.

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A Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner is someone who has learnt to use the attitudes and techniques of NLP to enhance their effectiveness and advance those same skills in others.

Jonathan Jenkyn and Alexander Rowe are both Licensed NLP Trainers through the Society of NLP with several years of experience working as NLP therapists and training assistants with Paul McKenna PhD. Each trainer brings with them an exciting and dynamic attitude towards the way in which NLP can be applied and utilized to leverage rapid and lasting change in each of their clients. These trainers will use the same techniques they are teaching, to program your unconscious with the tools and techniques you can use immediately to enhance your effectiveness and success in your field of expertise.

Join us this October for our Licensed NLP Practitioner course at the Nowton Court Village in association with the Heritage Wellbeing Centre. This unique venue, just outside Bury St Edmunds, is not only a relaxed and peaceful setting in which to learn, but also offers participants on this course the unique opportunity to reserve one of the luxuriously appointed rooms for the duration of the entire workshop. Jonathan and Alexander have negotiated a preferential rate for these rooms, so please mention your participation on this course when booking.

Your investment for this course is only £1499! This fabulous offer makes this 7 day course one of the most cost-effective Society of NLP Licensed NLP Practitioner trainings in the UK this year. Book before 13th September and we’ll give you a further £100 discount off your course fee. This course is strictly limited to 25 participants, so book now to guarantee your place.

The Licensed NLP Practitioner Certificate is awarded for demonstrating the ability to use the attitudes, principles and techniques of NLP with yourself and others.

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Call either of our trainers to find out more about this course, and how you can benefit by utilising NLP in your life.

• Alexander (07921 218428)
• Jonathan (07789 405404)

Steve Tromans, owner of www.justbewell.com, has recently launched a new website promoting and selling hypnosis recordings from some of the most qualified Hypnotherapists and NLPers in the world. Covering a gamut of topics from Smoking Cessation through to Creativity, each CD has been vetted and guaranteed by Steve Tromans to be of the highest possible quality. I recommend everyone that wants either support for a change they are experiencing, or simply an idea of the types of issues hypnotherapy has been applied to, to visit http://www.selfhelprecordings.com/.

Check http://www.selfhelprecordings.com/ regularly to find recordings by Jonathan Jenkyn. 

Teaching Wellness

Module 1: Wellness Day
28th August 2008

This course has been especially designed to incorporate two unique workshops, presented by a team of the most skilled and qualified trainers in the UK. Uniquely designed and tailored for teachers and educators, you can learn a set of skills and tools you can immediately apply in your personal life and your career.

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Utilising one of the worlds’ most potent personal development technologies, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), you can enhance your effectiveness as a teacher and better communicate with your classroom.

When you consider that at least 229 teachers across primary, middle and secondary schools this year took time off because of stress or stress-related illness in Suffolk alone, it’s easy to see that the wellbeing of educators in this region is cause for concern.

This workshop module has been specifically designed with stress management in mind. Learn how to de-stress your mind and body, and prepare for the winter term… and beyond. By attending this workshop module you can:-

• Rapidly reduce your stress levels.

• Turn frustration into feelings that work for you.

• Understand basic motivational strategies.

• Learn language patterns that will make you a more effective communicator.

“In this module I will teach you how to realise your greatest potential, and how to continue to develop this ability beyond the bounds of your imagination.”
– Jonathan Jenkyn

Jonathan Jenkyn, Alex Rowe and Sarah Tonin bring to this module their own unique experience and attitude to reinvigorate and recharge your system ready for the beginning of the new term, allowing you to build a unique toolset of skills and techniques you can use at any time.

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This course is suitable for everyone: No prior knowledge of NLP or related technologies will be necessary.

Module 2: Teaching Wellness with Kate Benson
29th August 2008

This is a unique experience to learn from Kate Benson (International Director of Education for the Society of NLP) presenting material designed specifically for teachers and education professionals.
Kate has spent the last 15 years developing a wide range of courses focusing on supporting learning and learners. This 1 day module is a rare opportunity to learn some of her most effective tools. By attending this workshop module you can:-

• Create an optimum learning state in your students.
• Utilise anchors in the classroom.
• Pace and lead your class to optimise learning
• Communicate elegantly using the power of language with precision.
• Overcome barriers to learning, and plan for success.

“Kate Benson is an expert in applying NLP in the education sector. She is thoroughly organised, highly skilled and the love for what she teaches comes across in her presentations. I guarantee you will have a thoroughly enjoyable experience.”
- Dr Richard Bandler (co-creator of NLP)

During this module you will learn some of the key communication skills that will make you a better and more effective educator. Tools and skills you can use immediately in the classroom with instant results.

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This course is suitable for educators and teaching professionals. This module requires that you attend Module 1: Wellness Day or have an NLP Practitioner licence.

So I’ve been doing loads of stuff… none of which has been to do with writing on here. Sorry.

I have been in a podcast on the PPT site (click here) and written an article for the very same site (click here), amongst the plethora of other things going on in my life.

The new year brings new business and new opportunities. See you all then.

You’ll hear lots of NLPers and Hypnotists refering to anchors as if everyone knew what they were. Anchors are one of the very basic and over generalised terms for a stimulus that acts as a shortcut for a state or feeling. Our lives are littered with anchors, and often they can be the cause and solution to many problems.

“Whenever he touches me like that, it make me think of how my dad used to treat me.”

“When she talks to me in that tone of voice it makes me feel dreadful.”

“When I see a picture of my daughter when she was 3, it reminds me of how wonderful that time was.”

“When I smell even a hint of cut-grass my mind gets whisked away to a holiday in dorset I had when I was 7.”

Anchors can accommodate all of our sensory repositry and any combination of them as well. We see, hear and feel things that put us into different (un-)resourceful states for different reasons. When an anchor is accessed often, it is common for the anchor to generalise and become a much quicker or stronger state change than it was originally. The neuro-cortical pathways strengthen, and it soon becomes habit to react in that way. This is often, but not always, how phobias are formed, and is also how we learn, as small children to open doors or hold a pencil.

In my practice I use several methods to create and collapse anchors. One of the easiest tricks to use with a simple finger-pinch anchor is “stacking anchors”. This is used to collect a series of similarly resourceful states and anchor them to a single trigger.

Exercise 1

Think of a time in the past where you felt mildly under stress. (DO NOT pick a traumatic or very stressful memory!). When you can remember that event, pinch the thumb and index finger of your left hand together. Hold it for about 5 seconds and then shake your head and stop thinking about the memory.

Now, think of a time when you felt super confident. When you have it, pinch the thumb and index-finger of your right hand together. Hold it for about 5 seconds, release and shake your head to stop thinking about the memory.

Now think of a time when you felt very relaxed. When you have it, pinch the thumb and index-finger of your right hand together. Feel the confidence behind the relaxed feeling. Build up the feeling a little more, and then release and shake your head to stop thinking about the memory.

Now, this is the collapsing anchor part. Fire off the left and right hand anchor at the same time, but when you release them this time, release your left hand first and then 1/2 a second later, release your right hand. Do this at least 5 times in a row.

Now, the test: think about the occasion you felt mildly stressed about before. Does it feel the same? Do the same images and sounds fill your head? Unlikely… you have now succesfully collapsed the anchor.

Hypnotist use stacked anchors to get people feeling ‘hypnotised’. Anyone that speaks in public, such as politicians, use stacked anchors. They are very powerful and often overlooked. How many good states could you stack in to a single finger pinch? What other ways can you think of to anchor? How could you anchor good states in to people you are talking to, without touching them?

If you would like to find out more about this or any other aspect of NLP or Hypnosis, then contact Jonathan directly on 07789 405404 or jonathan@entrance.me.uk. 

The Secret, for those uninitiated souls, started as a DVD. An associate of mine sent me a copy some 18 months ago, in the hope that I would find it appealing. I watched it in hope, but sadly I found nothing new. Since then it has spawned a book, t-shirts, gold-member clubs and a touring seminar (think Tony Robbins).

[Spoiler warning]

In essence The Secret is about the difference between going away from pain, or towards pleasure. It’s a simple reframe in NLP terms where the internal representations of aims and objectives are changed from being a statement about what one does not want, in to what you do want. It seems like on over simplistic shift, but it does work. However, within The Secret it is presented as some sort of Cosmic Ordering catalogue, where you can simply ask for anything, and you’ll get it. It’s just not that simple!

If you were to reframe your desire not to be lonely, for example, then The Secret might recommend that you reframe so that you imagine married with the most attractive hollywood star you can think of. No matter how improbable, The Secret would sugest, your unconcious will start making changes in your life to make this ‘dream’ a reality. In so doing you are no longer representing your relationship status by how lonely you are (pain), but rather by how much closer you are to your dream (pleasure). Realistically this just is not going to happen, unless you are a hollywood star yourself, or have asperations to be. Would it not be better to deal with what the opposing force to “not being lonely” is. This will give you a much clearer objective. Maybe all you really want is to be around good friends, or to find that special someone, whoever that might be.

By narrowing your dreams and desires you are preparing yourself for failure. Broaden them, and you increase your potential for success. Think about any event in the past that you may have had to plan in advance. Did the event run the same way you visualised it would? Did it feel the same? better? worse? It’s never the same. Were you disappointed it wasn’t the same? Of course not.

I see many people who have followed The Secret, and they become greedy, egotistic, narrow-minded and overall have no shared reality with the rest of the planet. They believe they can have anything and everything they want or desire simply by thinking about it to the exclusion of everything else. They tend to become obsessed, and lack the ability to see the larger picture about their environment. After all why do you want money/ relationships/ success? To keep it for yourself? Would that make you ultimately happy?

If you are interested in unleashing your full potential, then call me on 07789405404 to book your consultation NOW!

NHR is often talked about in seedy backstreets and bars around NLP seminars by NLP practitioners and professionals, most of whom heard a rumor than someone amongst their group has been on an NHR seminar. Their are significantly more NLP seminars run than NHR, and other than a set of DVDs there is no literature at all on the subject, and as such it is often discussed like the black ark of NLP. Both Richard Bandler and John LaValle are vague in their literature as to what NHR is; And this is not by chance. Most people start by asking the question “What is NHR?” or “How does NHR differ from NLP?” These questions are not easy to answer without an understanding of how and why NLP came about.

NLP is a set of tools that leave behind them a set of techniques. NLP uses observances to model, replecate and improve a process. “Eye accessing cues” for instance are an observation which gives the Practitioner a clue as to how the subject might be processing information as part of a process. The “Visual Swish” is a tool created from the observation that people pigeon-hole information by using various submodalities. Most of the tools that fall under the NLP banner are mathematical observations of a particular behaviour or process which can be used to leverage a change.

NHR is much more about state awareness, state control and deep state accessing. It goes one level below where NLP stops and begins to discuss and understand some of the underlying mechanics of NLP. We all filter reality based on the state we are in. Someone who is in a happy uplifted state is much more likely to filter their reality in such a way as to keep them happy, than to filter and find ways of feeling depressed. Every state you enter and move though serves a purpose, either as an end state to participate in a process or (more likely) as part of a chain of states which you move though to participate in a process.

When an NLP Practitioner begins to model a subject, they often are looking for the picture they make or the sounds in their head that ’starts’ a process. It is often considered that a Kinesthetic shift is 1 or more processes down the chain in the process model. This is not true. Every single experience you encounter begins and ends in a Kinesthetic shift; the pictures and sounds are anchors for your unconcious to shift to another state. Yes, by being aware of, and altering, the pictures or sounds in your head you can change the next state you enter, but it’s important to understand that the new state is also the catalyst for an entirely new chain of filters, hence why constant calibration is so important. With NHR you become less clinical with the process, and much more aware of a state chain, which can be broken, relinked, looped or deepened.

The NHR course in Edinburgh run by META-NLP was the very first NLP related seminar I attended. When I went along I was not only a total novice, but I was also a total skeptic as far as Hypnosis was concerned. I think this belief was shattered within 4 hours of the first day. I found that NHR course to be the single most empowering seminar I have ever attended, and can 100% recommend the course to anyone wanting to understand and use NLP/Hypnosis/NHR for personal or professional use.

NHR is not kludged together with NLP, because they are different. Very different. They have different purposes and different techniques. Their aims are the same, and the processes may seem similar, but do not be fooled. As a technology, I use NHR much more than I do NLP, but use the pre-text of NLP to illicit the change. And I’m not alone. Richard uses NHR techniques thoughout all of his more recent seminars to teach NLP much more effectivly. Strange huh!

With warm weather comes Hayfever. 2.5 million people in the UK suffer from Hayfever every year, particularly during the summer, and it can make an ordinarily pleasant holiday feel much more like a hospital admittance. When I was younger I remember suffering from Hayfever terribly. Runny nose would then be followed closely by running eyes and then a general irritation. One of my predicates in the work I do is that, if you weren’t born with a behaviour or disorder then it is something you have leanrt to do. I was not born with Hayfever, it was a reaction my immune system learnt at a later stage. If I leanrt to do something, I can unlearn it just as quickly, if not quicker. Hayfever is simply a signal (if slightly overpowering) that their is something in the air that might cause a problem, and that we should do something about it. In fact the Hayfever symptoms are not the problem our unconcious is trying to warn us about, but rather the effect the pollen might have on us in someother way. It just happens to be that the signal indicator is stronger than any problem the signal might cause us anyway. This is sometimes called an over-generialisation and abnormal response to a normal stimulus. 

Our immune system and physiology are intrinsically linked to our brain and neurology; They are one in the same in my opinion. A change in physiology immediately effects our neurology (or state), and likewise a change in our state immediatelly effects our physiology. In fact the change is pretty much seamless. Your uncoincious is responsible for many, many tasks that you simply take for granted. Your breathing rate, heart rate, internal temperature, eyes blinking, sweat glands, digestive tract, immune system, balance, and much much more beside. Now imagine that you could conciously change one of these variables. What would that mean? Sure it’s easy to blink or to breathe quicker or slower, but what about speeding up your heart rate. That seems out of concious control… if not dangerous!

Exercise 1

Try that now. Speed up your heart just by thinking about it. Pretty tricky huh.

Ok, now imagine that you are on a dark alley, and the lights around you bigin to flicker. Your in an area of town you don’t recognise, and you can hear footsteps behind you. The foot steps are getting quicker and closer… and closer. Until…

Your heart rate should now have increased, if only slightly.

So if though visualisation you can control unconcious processes like your heart rate, or internal temperature etc, then what is to say that you can’t also change the way your immune system reacts to pollen. It’s not that unrealistic really. If you begin to realise that thousands of Hayfever sufferers suddenly stop having Hayfever spontaneously every year, in the same way people quit smoking or lose weight, you can begin to realise that this is simply another process that can be modeled with NLP. What allows these people to free themselves from Hayfever? How do they do it? In my practice I have a 90% success rate at curing allergies using a single technique that take 30mins to perform. There are no negative side effects and no drugs or remedies. It is all done though a single simple visualisation technique.

If you are interested in releaving yourself of an allergy, or in any of the other work Jonathan undertakes, then don’t hesitate to write or call (07789 405404) immediately for your free, no obligation consultation.

The responsibility for our name is commonly firmly in the hands of our parents. When my first child was born we were able to choose her name some 3 months in advance to her arrival. It didn’t seem to take us very long to pick a suitable name given the amount of time she would be stuck with it. The name seemed to both myself and my wife as elegant, and stirred up images of innocence, exploration, curiosity and playfulness. The name we chose was “Alice”. Soon after deciding on the name we told our family and friends:

“Oh, you can’t call her that. I have a friend called Alice, and she’s horrid.”

“There’s a little girl at my childs playgroup called Alice, and she’s a terror. Don’t call her that.”

Suffice to say we stuck with “Alice”, but it was interesting, if not at first confusing, that other people had a different first impression of the name than we did. What is even stranger is that she hadn’t even been born yet, and they already had preconcieved ideas on what she was going to be like because of her name.

When our second daughter was due, we decided on a name, but agreed not to tell anyone the name until she was born so as to avoid the orchestra of distain. Instead we code-named her ‘Number-5′. No one could be angry at that?! ‘Number-5′ became “Fuchsia” when she was born, and oddly everyone thought though it was an unusual name, it was pretty. They had no other preconceptions of “Fuchsia” other than the flower and the colour. The fact that we primerily chose the name because of the Gormenghast character seemed of little interest or importance.

I recently went to the Higher Evolution center in Ipswich for an open evening for meditation and to learn what it is they do there. It is run by the Buddhist Community in Ipswich, and as such many of the staff there are ordained and have ‘new’ names. I was able to speak with one of the members there about this practice, and it does seem to make sence. The new name is given to them by a teacher who knows them very well. The name is expected to represent their character much more distinctly and give them an icon or symbol with which they can identify for their spiritual journey. Both Alice and Fuchsia have their names because of how my wife and I felt about the names before they were born. We didn’t know them when they were given their names. We had no idea what they would be like when they were older. And what is even stranger is that I believe the names suit them… how can that be true?

In certain magik traditions each person has a true-name. This is often a name hidden from them, but holds mystical power for anyone that knows it. It is a name that is unique for each individual and can be used in incantations for positive and negative effect.

Exercise 1

Imagine you are meeting me for the first time. Imagine I introduce myself as “Jonathan” (which I am very likely to do!). Now become aware of the conceptions/visualisations/feelings/sounds you are having about that name. Do you think of other people you know called Jonathan? Their positive and negative qualities? Maybe a character from a book? Some people immediatly contract the name to “Jon” or “John”. What does this do to how you feel?

“Jonathan” does nothing to descibe anything about my qualities as a person, and yet it is very likely you have preconceptions about who I am, what I sound like or other aspects of my personality. Maybe you have met me before, but more likely you haven’t, and this is really my point. You feel like you already know basically who I am, without actually having made a real assessment based on actual expereince. This preconception can be a very powerful tool; why do you think celebreties have stage names?

To take this line of thinking even further and potentially blow your head miles away from your shoulders, what does a word really mean. Richard Bandler is amongt many that believe that words themselves are the fabric of magic. Every single word on this page is constructed from a combination of 26 finite letters, a defined syntax and a regular grammar, and yet we still use this simple construct to communicate our feelings, experiences and ideas. Each word has a distinct meaning, however we very likely have different internal representations of what that word means to us.

Exercise 2

Just think of the word “Dog”. What do you think of? Write it down before you continue with the exercise.

What colour was the dog? Was it sitting or standing? What breed was it? Was it big or small? Was it happy or agressive? Did you think of a dog at all, or maybe something else entirely?

I didn’t ask you to think of a “small white fluffy dog sitting on a red carpet”. I asked you to think of a “dog”, but your representation of a dog is such that you think of something much more specific than just a dog. Your model of the type of dog I was expecting you to think of was insufficient and so you filled in the gaps for me.

This simple concept is a key part of hypnosis and NLP and is used to great effect.

Exersize 3

Think of the word “relax”. What do you think of? Write down everything you are aware of.

Warm toes? A holiday in the sun? Heavy arms? Your bed? A favorite seat? The feeling of a pillow against your face?

Again all I really asked you to do was to think of the word “relax”, and yet you spiralled out of control and found all sorts of representations of what “relax” means to you. And this is the important key. What “relax” means to you. A “dog” can be defined much more easily, than “relax”. To “relax” as a dictionary definition and as an experience are very different. “Relax” is a subjective thing, its something you feel and then connect with a common word used by others to describe a similar experience… or do they? Surely this exercise has shown that the way I feel about the word “relax”, and the way you do the same, are different.

Every part of our language has loaded implications and will be interpreted differently by each of us. This is what truely makes us unique and special. Once you begin to understand that not everyone understands ideas in the same way you do, you might begin to communicate much more efficiently.

Smoking Cessation is a hypnotherapists bread and butter. On the whole, I get more people coming to me to help them stop smoking than any other change. To help someone stop smoking is also one of the hardest of all the changes I do. You would have thought that hypnotherapists would have a set rote or procedure for this specific change, but no. It really requires the hypnotic or NLP practitioner to evaluate the client very rapidly and to use the leverages they find to make the change as quickly as possible. There are some people who are particularly susceptible to this type of work and other for whom it is much more difficult. There are so many factors to any single session, that often it feels like everything is stacked against the change. One thing however is crucial: The client must be 100% committed to the change. Without this single factor, any work I do it fairly likely to fail. I cannot make some one stop smoking, in fact it would be morally wrong for me to apply a change that deprives someone of pleasure. For most clients this tipping-point is reached once the negative effects of smoking outweigh the positive effects they receive from smoking. I can help apply weight to the balance, but it is in the clients court to decide if that limit has been reached.

Another factor that can often make my work more difficult is the fact that the anchors for smoking are very common. For many other changes the anchors are sparse, but obvious, such as spider phobias or drug addiction. Smokers are bombarded with anchors that require them to think about smoking much of the time, and it is also very easy to fulfill the desire or craving they might have to smoke. This means I have to be absolutely sure that the new responses for the anchors are well integrated. It is also very important I cover all eventualities.

One of the major reasons people fail to stop smoking is their belief that the work I do stops once they leave my office. It is absolutely crucial that clients continue to run the patterns over and over again until these new patterns become habits. They must do them consciously to begin with so that the change can be made at an unconscious level. I had one client recently with whom I was having a great deal of difficulty with, after a mammoth 45 minutes I finally found the leverage I’d been looking for, and began applying pressure. The client reported that for the first day they found it easy to reject cigarettes, however the following day they succumbed to the cravings and slowly began smoking again, having failed to continue the new patterns we had discussed. Oddly they only told me this some 3 weeks after the initial session. By this point all the work we had done together had most likely been unraveled, suffice to say that this client continues to smoke, never came back for their top-up session and is probably bad mouthing the entire field of hypnotherapy by now. We are progressively living in a blame culture where we are all too ready to apply blame, but almost never accept it ourselves. The responsibility for the change a client wants rest firmly on the shoulders of the client. This client simply did not follow my instructions and was not committed to the change. In so doing he lost faith in the process and so sabotaged the change.
This all said, the success rate I have with clients wanting to stop smoking is much above the common methods for smoking cessation. If a client is committed to the change, but finds it difficult, I will remain committed too. I will do whatever is necessary to make sure my clients get the change they really want.

Jonathan charges 2 months worth of cigarette budget or £200 whichever the greater for a session with him. Alternatively his “Stop Smoking… NOW!” mind-programming pack is available though this site and sites across the UK. If you want to find out more about smoking cessation or any of the other work Jonathan undertakes then don’t hesitate to contact him on 07789 405404, or email him at jonathan@entrance.me.uk.