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John Overdurf’s HNLP Coaching Intensive Training week is coming to Portland in January 2012 – which is right around the corner. 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 week-long 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.

The intensive HNLP training week in January 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 in just a few weeks!. More specific details can be found in previous posts on this blog, at johnoverdurf.com, and by calling Diane at 503.740.6614.

As we roll into a new year and new decade, thoughts often turn to what could be better, different, fresh in our lives. Many of us make resolutions or promises to change old ways. Some consider themes for moving forward or set goals to tackle challenges.

Whatever your new year ritual consists of, please consider the hopeful possibility of new – new habits, new thoughts, new patterns, new people, new adventures, new approaches to your life. New can be scary and exhilarating at the very same time, but you can start out simply, too. On your morning jog, try a new route. On your lunch break, a new cafe. On the weekend, a new routine.

The new – no matter how small – can take you down paths you’d otherwise not see. You might see something you’d normally miss. Run into an old friend. Catch a surprising glimpse of natural beauty. Notice a neighbor’s yard in a different way.

When we shake it up even just a bit, the opportunities for growth and change become seemingly endless. How exciting is that?!

Happy new this new year!

Best,
Diane