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Recently, on social media, an NLP Practitioner asked a question about a client who reported having a phobia, and with whom he used the NLP Fast Phobia Cure, which may have partly worked, but it came back a few days later?
Learning NLP for Changework, Coaching, Counseling, Psychology, & Therapy
IGNORE the "cookie-cutter" typical NLP path.
Chances are, that's NOT useful for you.
Create a more Purpose/Goal-Driven path, here!
Recommended NLP Seminars or NLP Training for Therapy, Counseling, Psychotherapy, & Change-work
- Our Irresistible Voice. Every changeworker owes it to themselves and their clients to help 'grease the wheels of influence.' Your voice is your vehicle for change. Don't cause resistance in your clients -- help them accept your messages by making your voice more irresistible -- we can dramatically help you do so.
- Our NLP Practitioner Training. This is the main foundation of learning NLP for any & every purpose. It's the core skillset for using NLP on our selves and others. A Must-take for any serious artist of change. HINT: Don't be fooled by others -- take a course longer than 7 days by someone who has trained with either or both of the founders of the field, and DON'T COMPROMISE on your skills.
- Our NLP Master Practitioner Training. If you want to go beyond the foundation into becoming artistic with NLP, into replicating excellence through NLP modeling, take a Practitioner course, then take this course. There are no substitutes. HINT: Don't be fooled by others -- take a course longer than 7 days by someone who has trained with either or both of the founders of the field, and DON'T COMPROMISE on your skills.
- Our Silent Exchanges™ . If you've ever been mystified about nonverbal communication, perhaps missed signals, or misinterpreted gestures, you really need to get yourself to this course. Jonathan has learned how to train completely nonverbal conversational skills. You'll learn how to develop unique nonverbal lexicons with anyone you meet. This creates a magical and private connection with absolutely anyone.
Recommended NLP DVDs for Coaching, Therapy, Counseling, Psychotherapy, & Change-work
- Our "NLP Skills-Builders Series DVD Set 1: Building Hypnotic Rapport" 2-disc DVD-set. Use NLP techniques to connect powerfully with your clients, extremely quickly. Put people at ease, make greater progress sooner, and thereby generate more grateful client word-of-mouth referrals. Works like a charm!
- Our "NLP Skills-Builders Series DVD Set 2: Sharpening Your Influence " 2-disc DVD-set. Covers 2 Skills: (1) How to Elicit & Play-Back people's personal (contextual) values, for mutual benefit. (2) Examples of 6 of my favorite Sleight of Mouth patterns for influence, each applied to 6 different common objections people raise. Learn how to easily influence others -- ethically!
- Our "NLP Skills-Builders Series DVD Set 3: Unbridled Motivation" 2-disc DVD-set. Filled with NLP-based techniques and language tricks for motivating audiences. The other sets in this series are wonderful, but Set 3 in particular will directly enhance your ability onstage to motivate audiences.
Recommended NLP CDs/Audios for Coaching, Therapy, Counseling, Psychotherapy, & Change-work
- Our "Finding Your Irresistible Voice" 2-CD-Set. Explore our foundational set for improving your voice. If you're a therapist and you haven't ever worked on your voice -- shame on you! :)
- Our "Irresistible Voice 2" 4-CD-Set. This is the follow-up to our first most popular program, and picks up where the first set left off. If you want state-of-the-art voice development, pair this with Irresistible Voice 1.
- Our "Metaphor Machine" 2-CD-Set. People who can move others using stories and elegant metaphor are natural leaders & influencers. Use our easy-to-adopt systematic process to develop fabulous metaphors, real-time!
- Our "Lie Detection" mp3's. . If you're a therapist then you're probably already reasonably good at reading people. Don't leave your intuition up to chance. Now you can learn to be far more confident in your judgement -- as to when clients are lying to you. Your client interventions require you to be able to tell truth from lies.
- Our "Calibration Skills" mp3's. . Now you can learn when business prospects/vendors/associates are being truthful with you -- or not. Information is power -- don't let yourself be deceived.
- Our "Belief Craft" mp3's on CD. . Recorded in Summer 2008 -- Featuring Doug O'Brien & Jonathan Altfeld teaching a combination of Knowledge Engineering & Sleight of Mouth. Not "easy listening" - this material trains how to unpack beliefs, belief systems, and decision sequences, and then use persuasive language to overcome objections and change beliefs. Very targeted mind-chaning material.
Recommended NLP Books for Coaching, Therapy, Counseling, Psychotherapy, & Change-work
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- Knowledge Engineering (& Belief Craft) have evolved, into GeniusMapping™
- As of September 2020, we're in the process of moving from Tampa, Florida, to the Youngstown Ohio area. Currently, during the Coronavirus era, we're mostly focusing on Zoom-based Coaching, and aligning resources to run online courses.
- How "Civil Engineering" totally reframes the word "Stress," redefines the phrase "Stress Management," and leads us to embrace Stress!
- Many NLP Practitioners are more sloppy with their thinking patterns, than they'd like to admit, or... would even notice.
- Watch NLP Co-Founder Richard Bandler use NLP to eliminate Michael Strahan's phobic response to snakes -- in minutes (with Kelly Ripa bringing over a BIG snake at the end to test Michael's response). Spoiler alert: It worked ridiculously well.
- No matter what skill you want to learn, no matter what fears or concerns or hesitation you may have, there are and will always be a wide range of approaches, to learning that skill. It's important to keep that in mind when making learning choices.
- Many more famous people have been trained in Ericksonian (indirect) Hypnosis and NLP than you might guess. There are certainly far more who have strong interests here than have publically admitted so.
- On January 1, 2015, Jonathan Altfeld and 20 other co-authors released a digital book entitled "Creating Business Growth."
- What are the Four Stages of Learning?
- Anand RaoLondon, UKAttended Course : Belief Craft Seminar
"I thoroughly enjoyed the training which has helped me to fill in a tremendously powerful area of skill in NLP, that I had previously avoided by thinking it was going to take too much effort to learn. Combining [SoM] with KE gives a context in which to precisely use language patterns."
2005 - Silke ScheidereiterGermanyAttended Course :
Thanks for a wonderful & mind altering weekend - it was worth every single penny! [...] my brain just can't stop generating new ideas & solutions, identifying patterns, going through the huge pile of new information. [...] I still don't have a clue as to how you managed to get that much data into these few inches of my brain in such a short time!!! NLP seems to be much more effective & powerful than I ever dared to dream of.....
2000 - Steve BoyleyNLP Trainer, Vancouver, BCAttended Course : Linguistic Wizardry
In 8 days I get to know the delegates who attend my NLP Training seminars. I find out how much they have learned from previous seminars they have attended, by direct observation of the skill they demonstrate, as well as through direct inquire into their perceptions of previous training experiences. I regularly hear positive commentary about Jonathan's Linguistic Wizardry seminars. The confidence and proficiency with the skills Jonathan has taught them, is plainly evident. In addition, people I have trained have subsequently attended Jonathan's Linguistic Wizardry seminar and provided me with very positive feedback on their experiences with Jonathan.
http://www.nlpmind.com2007 - Byron WoodsonPhiladelphia, PABought Audio : Knowledge Engineering
Jon Altfeld's Knowledge Engineering Home study course is the best money on NLP I've ever spent. I've read all of the early NLP books, and most of the books in their bibliographies. I've also been to one 14-day training. To date, most NLP has been 'intellectual' and 'peicemeal' for me. Since listening to Jon's seminar and reading the transcript, I've been able move from 'knowing about' to 'knowing' how to model other people's experiences and belief systems, and with way less effort. Jon expanded on Dilts' Normalized Belief Structure. The way Jon builds and weaves this structure enabled me to understand clearly how it worked. His course indirectly set up the "NBS" as a lynchpin, integrating other aspects of NLP for me. Most of the stuff I've exposed myself to in NLP focuses on either the sensory systems or the language. This KE course has enabled me to understand how sensory-systems are integrated into language. This has me tracking people's experiences and languaging not like a 1-2-3 beginner dance instruction, but rather like keeping up with a good salsa tune! And with a partner to boot! Through the course, he leads you to using this tool in simple and dynamic ways. Using the "NBS" has enabled me to attend to, understand and track the experience of anyone I talk to. It has also enabled me to deal with people more powerfully. Two days after finishing the course, using this tool, I both defused one, and prevented another almost-guaranteed argument with my girlfriend, in the same night! This is the first NLP product that I've read and/or experienced that enables me to easily attend to, track and deal with another person's belief systems in real-time/uptime. This home study course actually puts the 'programming' in NLP.
2004 - Michael RoachCoach, London, UKAttended Course : Belief Craft MP3 Set
"Jonathan & Doug together make a winning team putting a new & exciting spin on how to be successful using sleight of mouth. You'll find in just a few days, your abilities & understandings of how you can use the language patterns of sleight of mouth confidently & covertly in everyday communication increasing by leaps & bounds. Even more you'll be able to target with precision your communication to achieve the outcomes you want. Take the next steps in enhancing your influence & persuasion skills now, attend Belief Craft. I was thoroughly entertained & entranced by the dynamic duo of Jonathan & Doug, both masters in their ability to train, & check that we as delegates were mastering the skills, & able to put into use the ability to craft other people beliefs, & even better we got to update our own. I thoroughly recommend this training for anyone who wants to be more successful in elegantly using the the patterns of Sleight of Mouth & knowing the appropriate contexts to use them in."
http://michaelwilliamroach.com/2005 - Chris ArellanoNorth CarolinaAttended Course : NLP Practitioner Training
Through this experience, I've gathered many things that I did not have before. I am able to see things, and see them from new perspectives. I have learned and am still learning how to improve both myself as well as those with whom I come in contact. Things I have just described are somewhat vague in description yet very profound to me. I owe much of this trance-formation to Jon for providing the tools and facilitating the use of these new tools in a positive direction. Thank you.
1998 - Maureen StevensonCafe Manager, Nottingham, UKAttended Course : Belief Craft MP3 Set
"As a person who has never attended any NLP or KE Sessions before, I have found the whole experience useful to me and feel that I am going away with a wealth of knowledge I believe will guide me through many areas of my life. I am excited about attending more trainings in the future."
2005 - Jerleen NearhoodCarrollton, TXAttended Course : Persuasion Summit
High level training of persuasion with a class attendance of well-informed students that made the experience awesome. The trainer combination was unsurpassed with the best in the field of persuasion and communication.
2001 - Joseph KaoLondon, UKAttended Course : Knowledge Engineering
Everything I’ve bought from Jonathan invites you to stretch yourself, or as Jonathan puts it, to be aggressive with your learning. And when you do the exercises and actively engage with the material, you’ll find there are few products on the market that produce as great an impact in your skill development as Jonathan’s do. Jonathan and Doug’s new Belief Craft MP3s are a thorough grounding in two skill-sets: Knowledge Engineering (how to track beliefs conversationally), and Sleight of mouth (how to reframe a person’s belief in at least 16 different ways). Once you actually do the exercises – I found that you immediately start to hear far more belief structures in people’s everyday language. My thinking has become more flexible, and I can more fluidly create fresh perspectives for my clients and friends in everyday conversation.
2009 - R.B.Management Consultant, MichiganAttended Course : Flirtopia DVD-set
What I got from my first two hours after Flirtopia: I sat next to a flight attendant on the way back home, & had tremendous fun chatting with her with just one outcome in mind - I wanted her to feel really good! I found myself really enjoying using what I had learned over the weekend, & I could tell that she was getting a LOT of energy out of it - even though I established early in the conversation that we were both married, just to be safe (hanky-panky is a kind of pollution I could live without right now). It was a great conversation that made me feel really connected with a person I wouldn't ordinarily talk to, but the great part happened as we were getting off the plane. She reached in her bag & took out her book of frequent flyer coupons (the kind they give passengers when they want to appease them) she had, & very generously gave them to me - every single one. I was blown away! So I got at least 25,000 frequent flier miles out of my first two hours after the training - & I made this woman very happy in the bargain! What a hoot! I wanted you to know that I really enjoyed the company of the instructors & assistants. They were all tremendous, & really added a lot to the learning. As I left the hotel Sunday evening, I thought to myself that these are the kind of people I really enjoy having in my life. Generous, helpful, skilled & fun-loving are words that come to my mind to describe the members of your team.
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