WHY TAKE THE ADVANCED CLASS ??
Progression from Foundations to Advanced asks a lot of our students. There are often time and money questions, as we would expect. But beyond these normal-world kinds of challenges, participation in the Advanced course asks our students to begin to apply all of the Foundations-level perceptual and behavioral skill sets toward doing specific, whole pieces of change work with each other.
Approached this way, the NLP Marin model truly serves those people who want to learn to live and work with the world more peacefully, fruitfully, and respectfully than ever before.
The outcome frame, representational systems, accessing cues, perceptual positions, anchors and anchoring, association and dissociation, and sub-modalities—all of these pieces come together within the even-more-remarkable framework of Advanced-level information and patterns for change. In the Advanced course, students move from beginning to know how to use the NLP Marin tool set to actually learning to do elegant change and communication work within our very beautiful version of the NLP model. By the end the course, everyone who wants to will have the wonderful, life-changing experience of doing a whole piece of work with a civilian—someone not in the class—who has no experience of NLP!
In the course of the Advanced weekends we will fold everything we already know into everything we are just beginning with. We will cover important material related to the rest of the outcome frame. We’ll learn a variety of structured, precise language patterns that allow us to shift another’s map of reality with a few quick statements or questions. We will learn how to get incredibly accurate and useful access to the invisible structure of any stuck experience, and to be able to do that each time in only one or two seconds. We’ll explore the amazing territory of hypnotic language patterning, as well as learn to tell stories that provoke both specific and general changes within the listeners. We’ll learn to do Neuro-Linguistic Programming in its rawest form—by noticing and directly revising the strings of VAKOG events that go on within any human who struggles with any kind of block or frustrated Desired State. Toward the end of the course, we will be ready to move all the way into the amazing territory of beliefs and belief/identity-level change.
Along with all the communication and change tools you will learn and experience, you will engage in a powerful, self-discovered, graceful art of creating a new relationship with yourself and others. NLP Marin is about embracing and working with life, not overcoming it. Being the journey of becoming more conscious of how you specifically are you, and how you do you so well and with this awareness those aspects of you that you wish to change.
Of course, when you ask yourself whether you want to continue to Advanced, you can also notice that one the best parts of the experience will be getting to also continue with the rather interesting and important people you started all this with. They have made an investment in you, as well as in each other.
We so much look forward to having you continue with all of us. I’m sure that Shannon will be contacting you about all this. So…please come join us!
Carl