[Neurons] Report on the 2018 NLP Leadership Summit

Wed Jan 17 01:34:36 EST 2018

From: L. Michael Hall

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              REPORT ON THE 2018 

        NLP LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

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The NLP Leadership Summit began in 2012 as an experiment to answer the
question: Can those of us who have been in the field for 15 or more years as
trainers or leaders get together and explore the future that we want to
create?  We began in London during the NLP Conference because many of us had
met there for many years.  What we discovered was that we all shared a
common vision about quality, credibility, standards, etc.

Two years later we took a bold step and agreed to meeting for 3 full days in
a Summit to address the common problems we all face.  We planned it in 2014
and then we made it happen in 2016 in Alicante Spain.  Those of us there
found it a highly enriching experience and so we planned another 3-day
Summit.  This time we doubled our numbers and expanded into many more
countries - 23 in all. 

We have now completed the 2018 Summit with 75 to 80 leaders, 15 were
"sponsored" by a member.  Those 15 were "young NLP Leaders" who we sponsored
as a way to mentor those with less than 15 years as a "leader" in preparing
them as the next generation leaders.  With the Summit members we have 14 NLP
National Associations represented.  At the 2018 Summit, we had one of the
original three founders, Frank Pucelik, two from the very beginning- Robert
Dilts and Terrace McClendon and several others who have been in NLP from the
late 1970s and 1980s.

What really stood out I think to everyone was quality of the people present
as well as the shared vision and values among us.  We held what is called a
colloquium- a guided information conversation designed to enable us to
understand and appreciate each other more.  Our aim was and is simple - to
associate with one another.  And yet we all have a vision of one day having
a unified international body, an umbrella organization that can coordinate
our efforts, enable us to do so much more together than alone or apart, and
to have a way of encouraging compliance to the ethical and training
standards.

What came out of the Summit this time?  Similar to the previous Summit,
various work groups have been organized to work on a variety of issues-
standards, ethics, media response, technology, fourth-generation NLP (we are
now in the fourth generation), membership, designing ideas for an
international body, etc.  What we would eventually like to do is to create
an international umbrella body that would be able to embrace all of the
Associations.  This should have been done 40 years ago, but it wasn't.  And
we all sense that the time has come to remedy that. 

Unlike so many meetings that we all attend, one thing about a group of
action-oriented leaders, is we tend to get things done.  After the second
Summit, we created a website, www.nlpleadershipsummit.org .  We set up a
process for those recognized as "leaders" in the field who can sign-off on
the NLP description and values and who has 15 years of being recognized as a
"leader" to be welcomed into the Summit.

The next Summit will be 3 or 4 days, January 9-12 and unless we find another
place, we will return to Alicante, Spain.  And eventually I'm sure that we
will host the Summit in various places all around the planet. 

              See www.nlpleadershipsummit.org   for more information.

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director 

Neuro-Semantics 

P.O. Box 8

Clifton, CO. 81520 USA                             

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