Meet The Assistants 4: Adrian Brown

PROFILE

I first got into NLP in 1993, after reading a book by Paul McKenna on hypnosis.  There was a section at the back of the book where he'd recommended a lot of other books, and Richard's were listed there.  So, I read lots of books about NLP before I came on my first course in 1999.  That was with Paul McKenna, Richard Bandler and Michael Breen, with a company called McKenna Breen Training.

Well, it was quite a difference from any training course I'd been on before.  Back then I was an accountant, and six months earlier I'd been on an accountacy course.  That one day course was the longest year of my life. I came on NLP Practitioner course and we laughed so much in the first morning, and I thought: this is just such a different way of training!

Once I'd done the Practitioner, I went and practised NLP with lots of different people.  I also used the NLP to pass my accountancy exams.  I did it through strategy work.  I got loads of different memory strategies and learning strategies and applied them to what I was learning.  Things like: getting the information I needed and learning it in a specific way that allowed me to remember so much more than when I was at school.  The next thing I did was leave my job and travel round the world for 9 months.

When I came back from my round the world trip, I went and did NHR in Edinburgh, then I did the NLP Master Practitioner, and the DHE.  I soon went abroad again for 6 or 7 weeks on another trip.  And that's how life was at that time.  For the next few years I did a little bit of work, a little bit of travel, a little bit of work, a little bit of travel.   The work I was working doing was on accountancy contracts.

Some time later, I went on to do Trainer Training in Orlando.  What I will say about the Trainer Training is that it was excellent.  Really good fun.  I learned loads of things that I wouldn't really have expected to learn.  Things that I don't want to divulge since it's a lot of fun - but it's a completely different way to look at how to deliver training!  I've assisted at a quite a lot of the Practitioner and Master Practitioner courses in the UK and the US - in fact, I've lost count of how many.  So I'm well experienced in helping delegates quickly grasp NLP.

I am now a personal development consultant.  I work with people with fears and phobias and also train people in NLP.  I'm running some NLP training courses, and different courses on communication and strategy teaching.

I am a Managing Director in my own company, Beyond Limits, and I'm also Training Director and co-owner of another one, called Rapid Reaction, which is a first aid company.  And of course, I use NLP to do the first aid training. 

What I will say that NLP has done for me is it has given me an attitude to find the best applications and the best strategies to do things quickly and easily.  So if there's something I want to do, I find out who's the best at it, how they do it, then I find out their strategy then I apply it into my life.

It's been a great time.  Life is fun!

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