COURAGEOUS BUT NOT IN PUBLIC SPEAKING

After General Ulysses S. Grant defeated General Robert E. Lee in the Civil War in 1865 and returned to Washington D.C., the crowds were ecstatic to see and hear him. Here was a man who had distinguished himself as a soldier, having fought in several wars, and who had just brought an end to the bloody American Civil War. Here was someone with the courageous fortitude to go against a well-armed army, to lead the charge, and to live with threats from assassins on a daily basis. But when he got to Washington and the crowds yelled “Speech! Speech!” Grant looked for every way to avoid speaking and he did. Why?

“He was deathly afraid of public speaking.”

He had the credibility to speak having earned it over a lifetime. He had a great story to tell just coming form the surrender of Lee at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. He had the opportunity to speak as crowds urged him on. So what was wrong? What the fear? Guess he didn’t have the right state! And sadly, there was no Neuro-Semantic Presentation Skills training going on in the United States that year — or for the next Hundred and Thirty-five (!), so he missed out. But you don’t have to!

This year, in July and August, in the beautiful state of Colorado — you can learn the art of public speaking, the structure and strategy of effective presentations, of accessing your best presentation states, how putting your thoughts together into an effective speech to inform, to inspire, to motivate, to empower, and to unleash potentials. If you want to train NLP— you can take your training and presentation skills to the next level and unleash more and more of your potentials as a Trainer. You can train and certify under the ISNS (International Society of Neuro-Semantics) and become part of a national Institute in your country.

If you want to train the short “gateway” trainings, you can do that, or the Self-Actualization Trainings, or the first two modules in the Meta-Coaching system, or you can take the things you’ve been training and turn them into Neuro-Semantic trainings, and that’s just the beginning.

Two of us on the leadership team are training NSTT (L. Michael Hall and Colin Cox). And beginning this year at NSTT, you will be exposed to five additional trainers who are in the Master Trainer Track. And so you have a community of international trainers to learn from and model. The Master Trainer track in Neuro-Semantics is very, very different from what’s called “Master” trainer in the rest of NLP. Everywhere else there are no benchmarks. Well, for that matter there are no benchmarks for presentation skills or training skills in the first place. In fact, those who have paid someone for the title of “master” trainer typically find that they have to really, really work at just reaching the benchmarks for “Trainer” in Neuro-Semantics. That’s the level of the standards we use and how rigorous we are in holding people to the standards. There’s no need to let people off the hook— we want top-notch trainers who can deliver, who can produce, who can and do live the materials that they train.

Ready for the Challenge? Here are the standards for application. They are high, and they are not for everyone: You will need a Certification in NLP Practitioner. A certification in NLP Master Practitioner. A certification in APG (Meta-States). And a recommendation form a licensed Neuro-Semantic Trainer.

Now if you are a NLP Trainer (from a legitimate organization), you can become a Neuro- Semantic NLP Trainer at fifty-percent of the cost. And for Neuro-Semantic Trainers, revisiting is at twenty-five percent of the investment.

Training: Neuro-Semantic Trainers’ Training (NSTT) Dates: July 24– August 8 Venue: Country Inns of America Hotel and Conference Center Grand Junction Colorado, USA Contact: L. Michael Hall, [email protected] Write for — Application and Registration Form