.Contact Organiser: Julian Campbell ...

Tel: 01473 326980
........07710 781782


Updated: 27th March 2008


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We welcome everyone with any level of experience, training or just interest in NLP, from the vaguely curious to master practitioners and trainers. We all have something to learn by exploring NLP related topics with like minded people, be they practitioners, business trainers, coaches, teachers or other people who may have heard a little about NLP and just want to learn more.

Since we set up the group in 1996, we have met regularly in Colchester and held practice and information workshops on a monthly or more frequent basis. This probably makes us the longest continually running and independent NLP Group in the UK. We are not aligned to or supported by specific NLP training schools.

Our main aim is to provide a regular opportunity to review, develop and practice NLP skills and understanding. The atmosphere is informal and topics are pitched at a level that is understandable for all. Over the years many newcomers have first 'cut their NLP teeth' with us. We like to put emphasis on turning what we learn into practical use in our daily personal or work lives. We also hold sessions of broader interest on related topics.

Our group is one of a national network of NLP groups in the UK. For listings and information on other groups see the Association of NLP ANLP and British Board of NLP BBNLP websites.

If you are relatively new to NLP, click to read a short introduction to NLP.

Our events are public workshops that often can help individuals on their journey of personal development. However please note that some of us are professionally qualified and insured to help individuals with personal issues and can arrange more formal private therapy sessions, if needed.

Click here to see what range of topics we have covered in past years.

We meet on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month (except for late July/August, Christmas and bank holidays) at the Friends Meeting House, 6 Church Street, Colchester CO1 1NF (Click for map)

The Meeting House is in the centre of Colchester, close to the Mercury Theatre and the Jumbo Watertower. Best parking is in St Mary's Car Park just over the footbridge on Balkerne Hill. (N.B. Beware of parking on the double yellow lines around there; the traffic wardens are pretty strict, whatever the time of day or night!)

Meeting room doors will open by 7.15 p.m.
Join us for tea/coffee, biscuits, etc, and networking before we start the main session at 7.30.
We aim to end at around 9.30.

For the time being, we will continue to ask for a contribution towards costs of £5.00 per evening. (Concessions are available, please just ask.)

If you are not on our email list and would like regular reminders and updates, drop us an email and we will add your name.

You can also join the group at MeetUp.com http://nlp.meetup.com/147 where you can view profiles of some those who may be attending or promote yourself.

Please call me if you would like additional details: 01473 326980 or my mobile 07710 781782.

Forthcoming Meetings

Proposed dates for our 12th 'season' September 2007 to July 2008

Note: our regular NLP meetings are held on the second and fourth Mondays of the month.

2008
Diary of Events
14th Jan

The Art of Calibration ~ THE essential skill needed to apply ALL NLP techniques or tools effectively.
Any precision instrument or tool needs to be calibrated for it to be accurate and fit for purpose. However expert a marksman you may be, you're likely to miss the target every time if your rifle is not calibrated. So it is with your ability and effectiveness to communicate, create rapport, interact with or influence others, but with one big difference: humans can measure with infinitely more finesse and flexibility than any machine.
Learn to recognise and read those unconscious, non-verbal responses. How and what do we observe in others that can mean we 'read them like a book' and often find that we know more about them in the first few minutes of conversation than they know about themselves!

28th Jan

At this session our topic we will be Basic and Advanced Anchoring
Excellent communicators have usually developed a high degree of skill in the effective use of anchors. Here's an opportunity to work on your own skills.
To start, we will look at how we set anchors in ourselves and others, using all the representational systems. Through exercises and experience try out what best helps you to change your state or maintain a state. Later we'll work on how we anchor states in others.
While self-anchoring and triggering anchors is in the main a conscious process, setting anchors in others is unconscious and requires creating a trance state.
11th Feb

Developing the power of your Unconscious Mind . . . Y
One of the Presuppositions of NLP suggests is that all change is created at an unconscious level.
NLP and Hypnosis go hand-in-hand and both tap into the power of the unconscious mind so understanding the trance state is an important element in understanding the process of personal or behavioural change. This evening we will look at the relationship between your unconscious and conscious mind and how you can go inside and make changes.
As with most of our meetings, this will be a combination of giving you information, discussion and practical experience.

25th Feb

Using NLP Presentation Skills
Most of us are required to make presentations of some sort from time to time, if not regularly. This evening we will work on applying NLP patterning to enhance our abilities to create a memorable and positive learning experience for our audiences.
When making NLP Presentations we work to capture the whole of our audience by using multi representational system language to capture and anchor powerful learning states, communicating to both the conscious and unconscious minds of our clients.
Imagine the effect you can have when doing this well.

Keeping it at an easy level of detail, we ran through the 4 Mat system with it's 4 learning styles and try out some practical applications using the 'Why', 'What', 'How' and 'What If' frames in presenting, while addressing your personal congruency as presenter.

10th Mar

Motivation
This evening we worked on the patterns we employ to create motivation and those needed to maintain it in ourselves and in others.
This comes under the NLP heading of Meta Programmes, the ingrained habitual thinking patterns that we don't always know are there and could be described as the default settings of our brain.
How do you spur yourself into action?
How do you keep yourself going through challenges and distractions?
How well do you encourage others to do the same?

14th Apr

Creating Inspired Relationships - How to make your intimate relationship fire on all four cylinders
What is it that allows some relationships to flourish, while others flounder?
How can you remove judgement from your relationship?
How can you deepen understanding of your partner, predict their behaviour and influence them with elegance and grace?
While it may be true that opposites attract, unless you have practical non-judgmental way of addressing differences, things can rapidly get out of hand!
David Klaasen and his wife Pam gave another fascinating session about the Language And Behavioural Profile (LAB), this time focusing on relationships. It is said that by using the language and behavioural profile you can learn more about someone in 20 minutes than 20 years of marriage. While David and Pam have only been married for 12 years, both of them have learned how to use the language and behavioural profile to transform their relationship.Tonight, they will be sharing some of the insights they have gained from the LAB Profile. You will get a chance to practice some of the key questions to ask that will help you uncover and recognise the fundamental motivational patterns that your partner is running. They will focus on some of the patterns that can easily cause friction in a relationship if they are out of sync. On this fun and highly interactive evening, we asked our partners some interesting questions and gained new insights that allowed an even more profound and deeper understanding of what really motivates them.

Monday

28th April

 CATCH UP & REVIEW Session

From time to time, it is worth while taking time to stop and review the NLP experiences and learnings that you have had recently. This evening we will do just that!

There we will revisit, discuss and do further or advanced exercises on some of the topics we've covered over the last 7 months and reflect on what changes in skill or attitude we have incorporated.

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12th May
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26th May
 Spring Bank Holiday - No Meeting
9th Jun
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23rd Jun
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Mid July
or thereabouts

 NLP Summer Picnic Event

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