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.

This intensive 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 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.

Get in gear in the new year! Training begins January 16. More details can be found in previous blog entries, and on my home page at dianeu.com.

Happy new year! Happy new you!

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

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!

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!

Dates: July 15th through 21rst
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.
Course tuition: $2995.00 Includes seven-day training and practitioner training downloads. $500.00 deposit to enroll and receive practitioner MP3s.

Certifications: Optional NLP/HNLP Certification is part of this streamlined training program. 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.

Upon successful completion of training program, there will be a written review for both HNLP Coaching Certification and HNLP Coaching/Practicum evaluation. ($100 evaluation/certification fee for each.)

See johnoverdurf.com for more details!

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!

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!

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.

For those of you who missed this intensive training that focused on NLP techniques and coaching best practices, John plans to be with us again in Oregon this coming summer (end of July, 2011). Not only is he excited to offer his basic NLP training course again, but he also plans to offer a presentation skills course geared to the coaching/training professional. This skills building course will definitely help you overcome any fears of speaking in public, and will focus on how to communicate naturally and conversationally to adapt to a variety of coaching contexts.

Anyone can benefit from the exploration of how to effectively coach the unconscious mind. John’s NLP training course will explore how to work with unconscious processes found at the root of most coaching issues which will help equip NLP trainers with some critical and amazing skills to share with our clients.

Interested in expanding your skills during an intensive week that may change your practice and your life? Contact me today at dianeslistening@gmail.com or 503.740.6614 to learn more about the training courses, and how to register. More information will posted later this spring on this site, so check in here, too!

It is possible to make significant improvements in a short period of time, but for improving or changing to last, well, repeatedness is the answer.

In my previous blogs, I have presented some interesting information about neuroscience and how spect scans are able to gauge or track that what you pay attention to creates muscle or a significant pathway in your brain. This superhighway of what you are paying attention to is critical conditioning. For example, if you are paying attention to “what if I panic?”, you can develop strong neurons for panicking. If you are focused on “what if I am totally confident?”, then you can develop strong neurons for confidence.

John Overdurf calls this scenario the Cycles of Observation. These Cycles of Observation can alone determine our reality through:
* the quantum zeno effect which, as you know, is how the duration and frequency of observation effects the rate of change in both objective and subjective terms.
* the relative detail, patterns, and/or progression that can be observed. Notice, for example how frequently you observe something or place your attention on something; how much time that observation/attention lasts;
where this attention starts and finishes (and/or does it?); what you pay attention to between observations; what meaning you make of it all; how you keep that meaning constant.

Whew! That’s A LOT of observing going on! But, it’s really important to pay attention to where your mind is, where the focus spends most of its time, and what patterns you might be creating that could be redirected towards something more positive.

Why not consider paying attention to something positive and repeat that multiple times?

Most of my clients aren’t seeing me because they are paying attention to something positive repeatedly – they are seeing me to resolve whatever pattern or story they are stuck in, the tape that stops them from creating and maintaining healthy patterns to create a healthy life and life choices.

In individual client sessions, I ask many questions on the first visit as many people have said there is no greater knowledge than knowledge of oneself.
What’s curious is that many people are oblivious to themselves and it’s others who know only certain aspects of their personalities. Remaining stuck in a state of darkness about ourselves keeps us stuck and prevents progress. Change is only possible where there is an element of awareness or consciousness present.

Defenses that are ingrained habits have to be resolved or worked through so we can picture and be ourselves as we really are. Only then is it possible to transform. This is when we are no longer ruled by circumstances but we become rulers of our circumstances.

This is where our lives truly change and become enriched.