Neuro-Energetics Trainer's Training
Humanistic Neuro-Linguistic Psychology applied to training:

HNLPsychology is the study of how Mind creates reality through language and behavior. John Overdurf and Julie Silverthorn developed this aspect of NLP as they searched for what is beyond traditional NLP. Their answer is Humanistic Neuro-Linguistic Psychology. HNLP is an excellent extension to conventional NLP that has an incredibly positive aspect on a trainer's skills. The science of HNLP comes from Quantum Physics and Spirituality. The underlying messages from HNLP are that reality is a construction, and that we are all interconnected and are part of something much larger.

The first trainer training course based on HNLP was held in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in August 1997. In the course, the participants learned about dissipative structures and how to use the Chaos and Order theory to enable students to break through to a higher order. John and Julie taught how morphogenic fields are a metaphor for training and how to create morphogenic fields that support training by having congruently aligned internal representations.

Training and Presentation Skills:

To practice presentation skills, the participants formed into groups of about five. For exercises, each person received feedback from a trainer and a member of the group. Over 12 days of training and 4 days for certification, that is a lot of feedback!

The participants learned the importance of state control in training. That is, the trainer controlling their own state by anchoring in themselves the trainer state and to have the skills to elicit and anchor states in their audience. Eliciting and anchoring states in the audience is always fun and there was no exception at this training. As an assistant, I was treated to a brilliant display of behavioral flexibility as participants elicited and anchored all kinds of wonderful states.

The students learned about group process. They then went on to study the 4mat system based on the work of Kolb and McCarthy. From this point, the participants created presentations to suit the different learning styles of the 4mat system. The next item on the agenda was Satir categories. These are five different postures which are used to communicate archetypal messages (which are out of your audiences' awareness). The participants learned to create charisma by cycling through each category. This proved terrific fun as students were encouraged to exaggerate postures and tonalities to get comfortable with categories they were not naturally using. The manual gave some extra useful information on the meta message, the high value and metaprogrammes of each Satir category. Next the participants were given the opportunity to entrance us with their command of hypnotic language patterns and how hypnosis is useful in learning. This led naturally into metaphor training and multi embedded metaphor and nested loops. As an assistant, I was entranced by the stories and how quickly the students excelled in multi embedded metaphor.

The Language of Change:

In both Humanistic Neuro-Linguistic Psychology™ and traditional NLP our middle name is linguistic. The more a trainer can facilitate change through language the more elegant that trainer will be perceived to be. This is the case for answering questions, handling hecklers or dealing with people issues that arise in an NLP training. John and Julie covered their Beyond Words Model, which is languaging change through the quantum field. The linguistic presuppositions of this model applied to training are extremely useful. This, together with Cartesian coordinates and several other exquisite language models, began to equip the participants with sufficient tools to produce elegant results in the training arena linguistically.

The Specialties:

Neuro-Energetics recognizes that some people who enroll in an NLP Trainer's Training want to work in niche areas. To cater to this, John and Julie invited eleven additional certified NLP trainers who are already successfully training NLP in certain niche markets. These additional modules were exciting and useful for the participants. The UK trainers presented some useful modules as outlined below.

Max Hellicar: NLP and Business Consultancy:

Max is a business consultant who predominately uses NLP models for his consultancy work. His NLP coaching model is both practical and elegant and highly useful to model.

Dave Soehren and