[Neurons] Question on an entry door for international work

[Yunus Hassan]

hi 

i am not sure if i can give you advise, maybe you can give me some. 
i am doing an NLP practitioner course in march 2009. my question is, do you think i should do the practitier course or the neuro semantic course first ? 

thank you very much

yunus
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  From: Alison 
  To: neurons at neurosemanticsegroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 10:48 AM
  Subject: [Neurons] Question on an entry door for international work


  Hello

   

  Can I ask a question?

   

  I did a two-week NLP training earlier this year and came away with the feeling of something great but was pretty confused as to how I could use NLP in my work (international development). The course had launched into a set of practical exercises - swish technique and all that, followed by the New Code. I saw it as a menu of techniques and kept missing the punch-line. I "failed" to pass to practitioner status and with the confusion and failure was ready to jettison the field. BUT J I re-framed and sat down at the computer to search for more information on the Internet to help me make more sense of NLP and to find out how on Earth I could use it in international development scenarios. Lots of interesting stuff and then I stumbled on some articles by Michael Hall on neuro-semantics - aah - here we go, this was now starting to make sense.

   

  Now, my problem is where is the context, where is the entry door? It is such an enormous field that it is possible to feel you have to be an expert/master practitioner to be able to apply NLP/neuro-semantics. Is there a mechanism to help you find which bit of this field is appropriate for you?

   

  It seems to me that the approach to use it all for "change" is:

   

  ·            Either tips and tricks, NLP exercises

  ·            Or modelling on someone who does it well

   

  But can you help more with where to begin? Do any of your books look at the entry? In the course I did it was very personalised, it turned out that there were a lot of therapists on board, but I was working as a communications officer for the European Commission at the time - therapy was not an option. (The course had not been described as for therapists which is why I went, but it was definitely structured for them).

   

  If this is the sort of question I am permitted to ask I would love to have some guidance as to where/how to use this great information in a group setting, where people from different cultures, different social classes, rich and poor, have to get together to implement a project. It is a fantastic market for NLP/n-s because of all the underlying issues but has there been any work in this sort of area, and have you got any literature that is directly relevant? How can I wade through all the great literature and pull out something that helps us to side-step our differences and focus us all on the project in hand? (Would it help if I listed the steps that we go through, for example, problem identification, actors involved/effected, project identification/changes required, consultations (in situ and in Europe), project formulation, project implementation, communication, monitoring and evaluation, final behavioural changes effected by the project - now I'm writing this I am thinking its such a great field for NLP/n-s!)

   

  With very many thanks for any thoughts.

   

  Best wishes,

   

  Alison Eades

                              

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