Let me tell you about some trainings that I did recently (June 2008) with The Christopher Howard Company Training. 

Here’s an update for you on my trip: I had a wonderful three-day celebration of my 50th birthday with family and friends the first week of June. Then off to Los Angeles…..

I knew that it would be intense – three, seven-day trainings with just one day off in between – but I really had no clue as to just how intense it was going to be. Every day was from 9am or 10am until 7 – 7:30pm for the first two training weeks, then, 9 or 10am until 8 – 8:30pm for the final weeks training. This, of course, did not include the time needed for homeplay (their word for homework), or other projects that needed to be done.

To say that I learned something is the understatement of the millennium!!!! I think that I was on overload by day 3 – which is exactly where they want you – the more scrambled you are, the less your conscious mind fights the process. I know that this sounds like brain washing, but it isn’t. The more we are able to get out conscious mind out of the way, the easier it is for our unconscious mind to take in what we are learning.

Here’s how the learnings broke down:
Week 1: Basics of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) as a practitioner, Neurological Repatterning™, Results Coaching, and Ericksonian Hypnosis. This included learning about how the brain creates neurological pathways for all of our ‘habits’, behaviors, and emotions, as well as how to change or eliminate those pathways that are no longer serving us. Upon completion of the training, along with a huge test, and many hours of listening to CD’s – and actually doing the processes on each other, of course – we were given certificates of each of the above.

Week 2: Master level of NLP (as a practitioner), Advanced Neurological Repatterning™, Master Results Coaching, Master Hypnosis, and Performance Consultant. What this meant, was that we learned the process to a deeper level, as well as other techniques in each discipline. After doing so many processes on each other (and, of course, using real problems or issues that we had) it was getting harder and harder to think of a problem to use – isn’t that an issue you wish you had? One of the many things that was so cool happened during our final hypnosis practice. We did full body catalepsy on each other. Now you are probably wondering what that is and why it is so cool – well, you know when magicians put someone in a trance and then put them up on two chairs (just suspended by their head and feet) – well, we did that!!!!!! It is so awesome what our minds can do!!!! We did not learn it as a parlor trick, but as proof of just how powerful our minds are – and this is our unconscious mind that I am speaking about. So, after another really big test, many hours of practicing, and studying, we were given the above Master level certificates. A lot of work, but well worth it.

Week 3: Now we changed our focus to Platform and Presentation Skills. This week was totally different from the first two. We had a different trainer (instructor) and we learned how to give a presentation from the ground up. Our first exercise was to stand in presenter’s stance without moving, fidgeting, or talking for 3 minutes. I know that doesn’t sound like much, but three minutes is a really long time with you are just looking at your audience and they are just looking at you. But by the end of the week, we gave a 30-minute presentation on the topic of our choice with wall charts and everything that we had learned during the week. It was really amazing, the transformation in everyone’s presentations. We were taught layer by layer how to give a really informative, entertaining talk. By the end of the week, after all of the presentation exercises, another big test, and a couple of other projects, we were awarded completion certificates as well as certified as a NLP Trainer. We had a couple of really special guest speakers: Mark Victor Hansen (of the Chicken Soup series, among many other things), and Roger Love, a voice coach to many stars and celebrities.

By the beginning of our third week we were all starting to see that what we were learning really works. For me personally, I learned that I am not the same person I was before going. The first week we did something called a neural bridge. This allows you to take a behavior that is undesirable (like procrastination) and change it into something desirable (like focused motivation). In case you have not figured it out yet, these were the two I used for my bridge. After the first week, we only had one day off (Sunday) before we started the second training. I spent almost the entire day and evening doing my test for the Masters class. By Tuesday morning, I had both my master’s test and another test done for the class – now these tests were not due until the sixth day, and I had them done on the second day. If you had known be before, you would have known that this was not usual behavior for me – I was known as the queen of procrastination. I had not even realize that there was anything different until I was talking with a friend on that Tuesday morning about having the tests done, and she asked if it might have anything to do with the neural bridge we built —well, you should have seen the light bulb that went on over my head – it was an amazing feeling, to know that this was no longer an issue for me, and even better, that I now have the tools to help others make this same change. The processes I learned are simple, quick, and effective, and I can’t wait to start sharing the wealth with all of you. I have lots of projects to work on now, as well as the classes I already teach. I don’t know how these new teachings will affect my current classes, but I am sure that they will, or maybe not for now, and just be in addition to what I am doing.

If you are interested in learning how these new learnings can help you change your life, please email or call, and we can discuss the matter. I am also available for Results Coaching. You may want to take advantage of these new services (and no, they aren’t listed on my website yet, but they will be soon) before my rates go up. It is not unusual for the coaching sessions to be $3000 and up – no, I will not be charging that to start, but I can foresee a time when I will be charging even more, because I will help you get the results you want, and, yes, I am that good. I am also available for speaking engagements, so if you know any groups that are looking for speakers, I am available. That is another awesome benefit to this training – I am no longer scared of public speaking…..in fact, I look forward to it! You can’t beat it – as our new catch phrase goes – ‘this sh*t works!’

So, there you have it, a month of trainings that have changed my life.  If you are interested in learning more, or having a Personal Breakthrough Session with me, please email me.