NSTT — 2010

As you probably already know —Trainers’ Training for NLP and Neuro-Semantics generally occurs once a year, every year. I say generally because last year (2009) we did not run NSTT. That was due to the recession and the low numbers who applied for the training. This year (2010) is different. This year we are not only running NSTT once, but twice— once in Hong Kong and once in Colorado USA.

Here in Hong Kong we also have introduced a new format for NSTT— as we are doing Trainers’ Training in two parts. We have never done that before. And yesterday we completed Part I of NSTT—2010 Hong Kong. With 48 in the training, we have the largest group ever. And co- training this along with me was Colin Cox. And because Lena Gray has now entered into the Master Trainer Pathway, Lena was present as one of our benchmarks and also present to make some presentations (that we benchmarked for the next level). Also benchmarking were the three Neuro-Semantic Trainers that we have in Hong Kong — Mandy, Wilkie, and Salina.

Mandy Chai sponsored NSTT in Hong Kong. She and her staff of people provided a beautiful venue for the training. Most of the participants are based here in Hong Kong, but we also have people coming from many other places —two from Egypt, and one from the Netherlands, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, mainland China, and Qatar. And we also had people trained from just about every splinter group in NLP and that, of course, made for some very fascinating discussions.

With 48 participants, that enabled us to have 6 teams of 8 people. Four of the groups were English speaking and two of the groups Chinese speaking. Now each trainer-in-training made a presentation each day in their groups as well as a final presentation to the entire group on the last night. And while we provided benchmarks on 7 platform skills (group rapport, engagement, framing, metaphors, state induction, voice, spatial anchoring) and 4 training skills — the final benchmark for the competency scoring will occur in Part II. So in-between the two parts, each participant has a personalized Development Plan for working on his or her knowledge-base, skill development, experiences in trainings, etc. Of the 48, eight were already NLP trainers and some others were already trainers in other disciplines.

Colin and I co-trained this part and in June, Omar Salom (from Mexico) will be here to co-train Part II with me. And we have just confirmed that Colin and Lena will be returning as well. So Colin will join Omar and myself .... and we will find another place for Lena to do another presentation.

A group picture was taken and when I get it as a file, we will put it on the website or send it out.

Part II of NSTT—Hong Kong occurs in June, June 4-10. And immediately following that is the next NSTT this year— NSTT—Colorado. The dates for that training is June 19 through July 3. Already I have received the registration and application of several people for that one.

If you are interested in becoming a NLP and Neuro-Semantic Trainer, then write to me privately and I’ll send you the brochure on it and an application for that training. The prerequisites for the training is that you already have Certification as a NLP Practitioner, Master Practitioner, and a Meta-States Practitioner (APG training).