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Set the tone for a new year—actively engaged in an exceptional training opportunity designed to help you accomplish your goals!

Spend January 16th through January 22nd, 2012 with NLP Trainer John Overdurf in Oregon for an intensely meaningful week-long training with outcomes you’ll incorporate into your life!

John Overdurf is internationally known as the finest Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Trainer in the U.S. and Europe. NLP is the art and science of communication, and assists us to deeply understand each individual’s unique non-verbal and verbal experience of life. Why does this matter? Doing so helps us to develop a deeper rapport with others, and experience connectedness on levels that amplify our most important personal and professional relationships.

* Uncover your own personal genius
* Study how your mind shapes reality through language and behavior
* Learn how to create the results you truly want in your life, while creating value for others in the process

The seven-day Master NLP Training workshop will be highly experiential with group interactions, demonstrations, exercises, and discussions in a fun, easy-going, and stimulating environment. Upon successful completion of this training, participants are eligible for NLP Practitioner Certification, HNLP Practitioner Certification, and HNLP Coaching Certification.

Location: Fairfield Marriott Inn 6100 South West Meadows Road · Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035
Day 1 through 6: 1pm- 7pm* Day 7: 1pm- 6pm*
*Ending times of each session may vary slightly due to course content + discussions

$2995.00 includes seven-day training + practitioner training downloads
$500.00 deposit to enroll + receive practitioner MP3s
Balance of $2495.00 due two weeks prior to beginning the training

To register for this training event, see John Overdurf’s website or call Diane Ulicsni at 503.740.6614

January 16^th through January 22^nd, 2012

What a fantastic way to start the new year – engaged in the perfect training that will finally help you to accomplish your goals and change your life!

To register now:  go to johnoverdurf.com, or call Diane Ulicsni at 503.740-6614

John Overdurf is internationally known as the finest Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Trainer in the U.S. and Europe.

This is an once-in-a-lifetime training in human excellence that you will certainly want to attend. Why? NLP is truly the Art and Science of Communication. Do you think your profession or relationship would benefit from excellent communication?

NLP is about you learning the methods and techniques for helping yourself and others to achieve outstanding and amazing results in any field. NLP helps you to understand, deeply, each individual’s unique non-verbal and verbal experience of life, which helps you to develop a deeper rapport and connectedness.

It offers ways and means for uncovering your own personal genius. NLP is a practical skill that I think should be taught very early on in school. Kids would have a much easier time learning and being in charge of their emotional states.

93% of communication is known to be unconscious or non-verbal. Do you think it would be useful if you knew if someone was in agreement or disagreement from non-verbal cues? (You bet!)

HNLP is the study of how mind creates reality through language and behavior. The NLP training helps us create the results we truly want in life, while creating value for others in the process.

About HNLP, John Overdurf, and John’s Master NLP Training

The NLP training is for the busy professional who wants the newest streamlined coaching practitioner training developed and taught by a recognized leader in the NLP and coaching fields. If you are new to NLP or you are already an NLP Practitioner or Master Practitioner you’ll benefit from the strong emphasis on how to conversationally coach the unconscious mind.

Neuroscience has long known that our unconscious functioning precedes conscious awareness by a 1/2 second. This means that most if not all coaching issues like motivation and procrastination, indecision, conflicting priorities, burnout and overwhelm, and performance anxiety are a result of automatic (unconscious) reactions and patterns which occur before conscious awareness. Amazingly, though, most coaching programs available today rely heavily on conscious processing through questioning, analysis, and tasking. It’s like trying to steer a train by asking someone in the last car to change the direction of the entire train. It simply won’t work.

The January 2012 training will teach you how to work with unconscious processes that are at the root of most coaching issues, yet do it in a natural, conversational way that makes this approach adaptable to any context.

Through his 30 years of experience in the fields of therapy, training, and coaching John is able to simplify complex concepts into practical step-by-step processes with tremendous scope in the “real world.” The result is a training where you’ll acquire cutting edge conversational skills effective for business, coaching, and therapy while shifting your paradigm of change and what is possible in your life. John’s teaching emphasizes the balance of skill development while also transforming from the inside out to create congruent competence. Skills alone make a technician with no humanity or heart. Transformation alone is inspirational, but sometimes lacks the “how to” details. Because John teaches to both the conscious and unconscious mind you’ll have a direct experience of skill development and personal transformation – and to the extent you are open and ready for it, increase your congruence and belief in yourself to be a positive presence in life.

More NLP Training Session Details

After you register for this training you will be able to download the Advanced Coaching Practitioner Experience which is an entire Practitioner Training program. Listening to the material in advance will assist you in developing a familiarity with the information and the skills to maximize your learning during the training. By the time you take the class, this familiarity will enable to have more “hands on” and question and answer time during class. Following the training you’ll have this material as your own follow-up program to further integrate your learnings.

Training session topics include:

• Coaching and how it differs from therapy and consulting
• NLP/HNLP and the coaching field
• Optimal coaching states
• HNLP coaching overview
• HNLP conversational change model
• Conversational elicitation of strategies and outcomes
• Determining unconscious congruence and motivation
• Utilization of naturally occurring states to create powerful change
• Integrating transformative, non-linear, hypnotic language patterns into your coaching work
• Conversational approaches to installing and testing remedial and generative strategies
• Beyond goals – why goals don’t work and what does
• Common coaching issues and how to deal with them
• Turn-key office protocols and client forms
• Sensory acuity—how do develop extraordinary skill in reading other’s unconscious processing through eye-accessing, voice qualities, and physiology
• New advanced HNLP processes to develop rapid natural states of rapport
• Linguistic skills applied specifically to coaching
• How to ask the right questions at the right time to create a change in the listener’s perception as well as language patterns to create facilitate unconscious receptivity in the listener
• Anchoring – processes to create significant and instantaneous shifts in emotional states in ourselves and others
• Sub-modalities – techniques for changing and revising the coding system the brain uses to create meaning
• Alignment and parts integration – techniques to create core change

The training will be highly experiential with plenty of group inductions, demonstrations, exercises, and discussions in a fun, easy-going, and stimulating environment.

Upon successful completion of the seven day training, participants are eligible for NLP Practitioner Certification, HNLP Practitioner Certification, and HNLP Coaching Certification.

Location

Fairfield Marriott Inn

6100 South West Meadows Road · Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035 USA

Hours

Day 1 through 6: 1pm- 7:00pm*

Day 7: 1pm- 6:00pm*

*Ending time may vary slightly due to course content

Training Course Tuition

$2995.00 – includes seven Day Training and Practitioner Training Downloads

$500.00 deposit to enroll and receive Practitioner MP3s

Balance of $2495.00 due two weeks prior to the beginning of the training

Cancellation Policy: Non- Refundable deposit can be applied to any other johnoverdurf.com training. You keep the MP3s. The remaining balance is fully refundable with written notification received seven business days prior to the first day of the training.

Certifications

Optional NLP/HNLP Certification

This is a streamlined training. Only the NLP information directly relevant to coaching will be presented. If you are not already an NLP practitioner, you must have listened to all the information on the Practitioner MP3 at least once prior to the training or before receiving certification.

Successful completion of training and completion of written review:

$100.00 Certification fee.

Optional HNLP Coaching Certification:

Successful completion of training and successful completion of HNLP Coaching Practicum/Evaluation:

$100.00 Certification fee.

NEWSFLASH: NLP has now been fully approved as educational credit toward a Master’s Degree in Applied Coaching with Derby University in the UK!

Ready to speak with confidence, professionalism, and panache? Join the Speakers Excellence Training workshop with expert trainer John Overdurf in Portland this July.

Presenting your true self effectively and confidently will positively add to your professional persona, your practice, your approach to all that you do. To dive into such professional development work this summer in a fun environment, Presenting Yourself: Speakers Excellence Training will be offered July 23rd through 27th in the afternoons/evenings. Additional (morning) sessions are also offered to supplement the intensive training program geared to enhance your overall presentation and public speaking skills.

Dates: July 23rd through 27th
Time: 1:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Fairfield Marriott Inn, 6100 SW Meadows Road, Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035
Phone: 503.670.7557

Registration and course info: Click on training page found on calendar at johnoverdurf.com.

Boost your professionalism, your presentation skills, and your self esteem this summer. The work you engage in through this workshop will carry over into all elements of your personal and professional development and last a lifetime!

Calling all trainers, coaches, H/NLP practitioners wanting to up-level presentation and speaking skills! Plan on attending the Speakers Excellence Training workshop – with expert trainer John Overdurf – this July.

Presenting Yourself: Speakers Excellence Training happens July 23rd through 27th in the afternoons/evenings. Additional (morning) sessions are also offered to supplement the intensive training program that will enhance your presentation skills like no other.

Dates: July 23rd through 27th
Time: 1:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Fairfield Marriott Inn, 6100 SW Meadows Road, Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035 (503.670.7557)

Registration and course info: Click on training page found on calendar at johnoverdurf.com.

Boost your professionalism, your presentation skills, and your self esteem!

An intensive HNLP training week is happening in Portland this summer with an amazing professional in the field. Here’s what to expect from the training with John Overdurf that is geared to certify participants in both HNLP and coaching.

After registering for this amazing training program, participants will be able to download the Advanced Coaching Practitioner Experience—an entire practitioner training program. Listening
to the material in advance will assist in developing a familiarity with information and skills geared to maximize learning during the training week. Once engaged in the actual training week, this content familiarity will enable a more hands on approach during the workshop sessions. This material creates its own follow-up program for participants to further integrate core content.

Sample of coaching topics explored in the intensive training week
* What coaching is and how it differs from therapy and consulting
* What NLP/HNLP has to offer the coaching field
* How practitioners can reach an optimal coaching state
* HNLP coaching overview
* HNLP conversational change model
* Conversational elicitation of strategies, outcomes
* Determination of unconscious congruence, motivation
* How to use naturally occurring states to create powerful change
* How to integrate transformative, non-linear, hypnotic language patterns
into coaching work
* Overview of conversational approaches to installing and testing remedial and generative strategies
* Beyond goals—why a traditional goals coaching model doesn’t work (and what does!)
* Common coaching issues (and how to professionally deal with clients)
* Understanding turn-key office protocols and client forms
* Sensory acuity—how do develop extraordinary skill in reading others’ unconscious processing through eye accessing, voice qualities, physiology
* Advanced HNLP processes to develop rapid natural states of rapport
* Linguistic skills specific to coaching—how to ask the right questions at the right time to create a change in the listener’s perception as well as language patterns to facilitate unconscious receptivity
* Anchoring processes to create significant, instantaneous shifts in emotional states in ourselves and others
* Submodalities—techniques for revising the coding system the brain uses to create meaning
* Alignment and parts integration—techniques to create core change

This training will be highly experiential with plenty of group inductions, demonstrations, exercises, and discussions in a fun, easy-going, and stimulating environment.

Upon successful completion of the week-long training, participants are eligible for NLP Practitioner Certification, HNLP Practitioner Certification, and HNLP Coaching Certification.

What are you waiting for? Dive into your preferred profession with this intensive training week. You’ll be amazed at the experience!

John Overdurf’s HNLP Coaching Intensive Training week is coming to Portland this summer! If you’re a busy professional who wants the newest streamlined coaching practitioner training developed and taught by a recognized leader in the NLP and coaching fields, if you are new to NLP, or if you are already an NLP practitioner or master practitioner you’ll benefit from this workshop that places strong emphasis on how to conversationally coach the unconscious mind. (Bonus: this particular training also certifies participants in H/NLP and coaching.)

Neuroscience has long understood that our unconscious functioning precedes conscious awareness by a half second. This means that most if not all coaching issues like motivation and procrastination, indecision, conflicting priorities, burnout and overwhelm, and performance anxiety are a result of automatic (unconscious) reactions and patterns which occur before conscious awareness. Amazingly, though, most coaching programs available today rely heavily on conscious processing through questioning, analysis, and tasking. It’s like trying to steer a train by asking someone in the last car to change the direction of the entire train. It simply won’t work.

John’s summer intensive HNLP training week will teach participants how to work with unconscious processes that are at the root of most coaching issues, yet do it in a natural, conversational way that makes this approach adaptable to any professional context.

Through his 30 years of experience in the fields of therapy, training, and coaching John is able to simplify complex concepts into practical step-by-step processes with tremendous scope that connects to real world contexts. The result is a training program in which participants will acquire cutting edge conversational skills effective for business, coaching, and therapy contexts while shifting the paradigm of change and what is possible in life. John’s teaching emphasizes the balance of skill development while also enabling transformation to occur from the inside out to create congruent competence. Skills alone make a technician with no humanity or heart. Transformation alone is inspirational, but sometimes lacks the how to details. Because John teaches to both the conscious and unconscious mind participants will have a direct experience of skill development and personal transformation, and to the extent are open and ready for it, will increase congruence and belief in the self to be a positive presence in life.

HNLP is the study of how mind creates reality through language and behavior. No matter what you think you are, you are always more than that! John Overdurf coined the term Humanistic Neuro-Linguistic Psychology™ (HNLP) to describe this branch of NLP. Through extensive research in quantum physics, ancient spiritual systems, hypnosis, neuroscience, and the experience of life, this natural extension of traditional NLP was created.

We hope to see you in the training this summer. More specific details coming to this blog soon, and found at johnoverdurf.com.

We all have regrets, each and every one of us. But, guess what? The past is the past – and we can’t un-ring the bell! The choice is accepting that what is….is! No matter what happens, accept the fact that the present moment is exactly as it should be, and, is a result of all actions leading up to it. This is a challenging concept for many of us to grasp. This doesn’t mean we agree or disagree in the moment.

Ask yourself – how long am I going to hang on to this story?

Take responsibility. Once you accept the moment for what it is, you own it! It’s your life, after all. Own every single piece of it, even if you didn’t invite it. You can only create new responses if you own the present moment.

When you fear or constrict you are working against the natural forces of the universe. Stop talking about it, churning on it, griping about it. Own it and you can create a new future. After all, what is accomplished if you spend time in blame, in negative, circular thought patterns? Nothing.

Why not instead view every person, situation, event, as your guide, your teacher. Ask what can you learn from each situation – and find the not-so-hidden gem once you free up your brain space from negative thought patterns. It’s amazing what can happen when you go here!

Unconscious choices come from conditioning. Conscious choices can come from stepping back for a moment to observe the situation before taking action.

Consider this visual that takes its cue from nature -
Attention is the garden.
Intention is the seed
Actions are the water that nurtures for growth.

To stay focused on increasing your consciousness, you can ask yourself the following questions:
What is my life purpose?
What is my positive contribution?
What peak experiences can I remember?
What are my unique skills?
What are the best qualities I contribute to a personal relationship?
What are the qualities I look for in a best friend?
Name three or four or five people I would consider heroes.

Think carefully about your answers. Let them percolate. Sit with them for awhile and see what other questions, other answers may arise, leading you to an Ah Ha! moment.

Go on – make it happen!

I was so happy to be sitting with 300 other people who represented all religions, all shapes, sizes, and nationalities. Deepak, whose medical background is as an endocrinologist, emphasizes that existing in a state of non-judgment offers a very high state of consciousness. He speaks of what you put out into the world, you get back. The universe runs on the law of cause and effect. Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind. An easy concept to grasp! Another way to say this, which we have all heard since we were quite young, is that what we sow is what we reap. When we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our own karma is happiness and success.

What great news! You and I are essentially infinite choice makers. Whether we like it or not, everything that is happening for us in this moment is a result of the choices we have made in the past. (When I reviewed my own life, this wasn’t fun to look at, but certainly enlightening, and I can see it is the truth for me.)

However, many of us make choices unconsciously, and therefore we don’t think they are choices. And yet they are. For example, if I insulted you, you would most likely make the choice of being offended. If were to pay you a compliment, you would most likely make the choice of being flattered. But think about it: your reaction is still a choice. You could go either way – making the choice of not being offended by a certain type of comment or choosing to be flattered by a compliment.

As a group, we discussed how we have so many conditioned reflexes that can be triggered by circumstances into predictable outcomes of behavior. Pavlov, of course, was famous for demonstrating that if you give a dog something to eat every time you ring a bell, soon the dog starts to salivate when you merely ring the bell and don’t offer the treat. Most of us, as a result of conditioning, have times of repetitious and predictable responses or reactions that are automatically triggered by people and circumstances, too. Think about the daily triggers you experience to see this very simple concept at work.

Becoming a conscious choice maker, then, seems to be a very important component in creating the kind of life you want. You can, of course, continue to complain, rant, and rave about the world and its current condition. Just watch how the law of cause and effect works in your life when you stay stuck on this negative mode! You could also choose to bring to your conscious awareness actions that will bring peace and joy to those around you. And why not? There’s no harm in shifting your perspective here.

Ask yourself before making a choice – what are the consequences of this choice that I am making? Will this action bring fulfillment and happiness to everyone concerned? Then ask your heart (remember, the heart has more intelligence than the brain!) for guidance. Check in with yourself to gauge i you feel comfort or discomfort in whatever it is you are going to say or do. Your body, nay, your heart, will feel clear and whole if it’s truly the right action to take, one that will benefit you and those around you.

As I’m sure many of you discovered, certainly this past week, as long as you give you will receive. The more you give the more you receive. Deepak Chopra says that the more you practice giving, the easier it gets, and, interestingly enough, the more you practice receiving the easier that gets, too. (Some of us have a difficult time receiving gifts from others – compliments, a kind word or deed.)

Our true nature is affluent. And, today is “Pay it forward” day – a perfect time to practice giving without expectation to others. Pay for someone’s coffee, donate goods to someone in need, offer a kind word or assistance to a stranger – anything you have to offer is a perfect gift to another!

After the workshop with Deepak, I did commit (to myself) to give something to everyone with whom I come in contact. I silently wish strangers happiness, joy, and laughter, health, love, and wealth. Also, I committed to gratefully and graciously receive all gifts life has to offer me. Nature, sunlight, rain, snow, my daughter, my friends, my animals, my clients, the sounds of birds in song. Good health and material things like wealth, too. Why not?

Life is energy, and keeping that energy circulating is important so that it comes back to you. (What goes up must come down; what goes out must come back. It’s all flow. If you stop the flow, you interfere with nature’s good work.)

I felt pretty good leaving Deepak’s seminar, and wondered how I would do better in the world of giving and receiving. We learned much, much more about being in the moment, slowing down, trusting life. Right now, during this moment, I am so very grateful for the people in my life. I have a charmed and loving life, full of friends – people I care about and people who care about me. I am so very grateful to all of you who have stopped for a moment to meet me, share with me, love me. My wish for you is that all of your desires are fulfilled, effortlessly, spontaneously, lovingly.

Thank you for being in my life. Now, pay it forward today – and, all days! It’s easy and rewarding. Try it.