NEURO-SEMANTICS ENTERS BRAZIL

At the end of September I was in Brazil and had the privilege of introducing Neuro-Semantics and Meta-States to the NLP community there. Invited by Dr. Jairo Manchilha, I got to speak to the LatinAmerican Congress of PNL as the keynote speaker. The theme of the Congress was: NLP and Genius and as the pre-conference workshop, I did the Accessing Personal Genius (APG) training, and at the Congress my subject was provocatively, Neuro-Semantics: A Step Beyond NLP. I say “provocatively,” and yet it did not provoke like it would have, say in Europe!

There were 120 or so at the Congress itself. And prior to the congress I enjoyed the privilege of introducing 80 very passionate Brazilians to the Meta-States Model. So in the end, we certified 80 people in Meta-States (which is also Coaching Genius, Module II of Meta-Coaching). Now those 80 are licensed to jump logical levels in a single bound, climb the ladder of Meaning- Making all the way up to Meta-Land, and have the right and responsibility to set higher frames of mind and make transformative changes.

It was a great delight to also see and spend time with Dr. Paulo Jose Brindeiro again. He first met me in Geneva for APG some years back and then in Grand Junction Colorado. And Paulo has committed his time, effort, and money to creating a practice group in Rio de Janiero for those who want to practice and use and develop their skills in Meta-States. Paulo single-handled translated the APG manual into Portugese, and “just for his own learning and development” he translated Unleashed (!) and was the person who did the basic translation of Mind-Lines. Paulo was a medical researcher prior to retiring and as you can tell, he didn’t retire, he just signed up for a new profession— being a Neuro-Semanticist! We just need a thousand more like him around the world!

While a medical doctor, a cardiologist, Jairo has been an NLP Leader in Brazil since 1993 and has led the PNL Congress for the past 9 years. And having learned NLP via Robert Dilts, he has a much broader vision than most which has enabled him to lead the way in terms of collaboration and cooperation within the NLP Community. In addition, Jairo set me up with the Quality Imprint company who began translating Mind-Lines into Portugese (to be ready in a 4 weeks or so) and next year, there will be two more books— Unleashed and Inside-Out Wealth translated as well.

Now this was my first trip into the heart of Latin America. I had been down to the bottom of Mexico where David Murphy runs Neuro-Semantic NLP Trainings in Chipas, Mexico. But that

was as far south as I had been until this trip. The person primarily leading Neuro-Semantics in Latin America is Omar Salom who regularly trains in Equador, Panama, Columbia, etc.

For APG there was simultaneous translation which I really, really like and prefer. But for the Congress we reverted to sequential translating and Maíra Larangeira Carvalho (Jairo’s daughter) provided that and did a fantastic job —even imitating the numerous voices that I provided to my delight and that of the audience.

The response in Rio de Janeiro at the APG training and the Congress was overwhelming— tremendous excitement about the new things in NLP that Neuro-Semantics represents. Not only did I find the people of Brazil extremely open and friendly, but the PNL people were as open and passionate about NLP as you can imagine. So I’ll return next year in Sept. to speak at the Congress PNL again. This time the theme is NLP and Prosperity and will be at Belo Horizonte, Brazil. And prior to the Congress, I will do the three-day training on Inside-Out Wealth. And probably one of the Self-Actualization workshops and APG ... all in order to prepare Brazil for Coaching Mastery for ACMC credentials in 2012.

Since returning I have already had several emails of PNL People in Brazil wanting to be a part of the vanguard of the Neuro-Semantic NLP movement there! So you can expect to see some of them at the First International Neuro-Semantic Conference next year (July 1-3) in Colorado.