The Unlimited Knowledge Company Is Here! - by Matthew Wingett

Bernardo Moya, the CEO of NLPLIFE TRAINING, is a busy man.  Between meetings to discuss the best way to publicise his brand new company, The Unlimited Knowledge Company, and sorting out details on the new www.theukco.com website, he spares me half an hour to talk about his brand new project. When we meet in a bar in The Square Mile near to his City office, Moya bubbles over with enthusiasm for his latest brainchild.

 

So, what is The Unlimited Knowledge Company all about?  

 

Moya hardly pauses to take a breath.

 

"To steal a slogan for a few moments," he begins. "The Unlimited Knowledge Company is designed to do exactly what it says on the tin." He says it with a quick smile - a glint of humour playing around his eyes.  "The fact is that I want to make The UKCo 'unlimited' in as many ways as I can.  Some of its products will have a superficial similarity to NLP LIFE TRAINING's seminars, in that we will be finding the best minds around to give the seminars.  However, The UKCo won't necessarily focus solely on people who do NLP - although the speakers will be interesting to NLPers, that's for sure."

 

I ask him what he means. He continues:

 

"I guess what I mean is that in The UKCo seminars, we have the opportunity to invite people to speak whom NLPers can model. It's always the case with NLP that we keep an open, enquiring and curious mind in play. For NLPers, The UKCo will give them the chance to see and hear firsthand individuals who have achieved amazing things in their lives. That provides everyone who attends an amazing learning experience. And that is what this is about: inviting the leaders in their fields to share their insights and knowledge to help us all improve our lives."

 

He pauses a moment, briefly in thought: "And I do mean all," he adds.  "My plan is to make our seminars available to people all over the world, to people who can't make it to London to attend, and to people who can't afford to spend the time or the money to stay a night in a hotel. That way, too, we're going to make this company unlimited."

 

So, how does he intend to do it?

 

"It's simple. There's no doubt that being in the same room with the high calibre people we're getting to talk at our seminars, maybe having the opportunity to meet them, say hello - absorb their presence - is a great opportunity.  But we will also be webcasting our seminars around the world. The day in London with the Attend-In-Person offering will cost £250 - but a day at home, or wherever you need to be to log on to our website and download the webcast - well, that will cost a mere £40.  It means we can reach out to more people, and give them the opportunity to learn plenty - wherever they are."

We are seated at a table in a swanky bar below ground, with a very smart look, and chrome surfaces reflecting Sky One in the background. He catches sight of the television playing on the wall and says to me.

 

"And that's not all. I'm in negotiations with a tv company at the moment to get a regular slot - maybe every day.  The whole idea is to get the positive vibes and useful and sound advice that we experience in our NLP LIFE TRAINING seminars out to as many people as possible. It won't cut across NLP LIFE's lines because Richard Bandler's seminar training is unique and very special - but to be able to give people a lift on an ongoing basis - that is where The Unlimited Knowledge Company comes in."

 

So, The UKCO will be running more workshops with Richard Bandler, as well?

 

"Oh, yes. Another thing that The UKCo will do is make it possible for Richard Bandler to get his message out to even more people than ever before. The techniques, attitudes and skills he teaches are just too useful and too powerful to keep limited to the NLP community alone. It'll be a great thing to extend his reach and increase his popularity as he breaks out from solely being known as the co-creator of NLP and becomes more of a household name. And as he gets better known, then more people will seek out NLP Practitioners and Master Practitioners for help. So, we NLPers will win from The UKCo's workshops, too!" He laughs and adds: "NLPers: get the word out about The UKCo to as many people as you can! We're all going to benefit in the long run as Richard's fame spreads... I guess, that's another way in which The UKCo  is unlimited."

 

So, what is the first seminar called?

 

"We're back to the name on the tin again," Bernardo laughs.  "The first event is called the Be Successful AND Happy Workshop." He shoots me a look. "- And make sure you put the caps on the AND," he adds.  "Because that's a lot of what the workshop's about. The speakers I've got are a really exciting combination. I believe that you'll see a depth and breadth of knowledge in this event that you just don't get at personal development style seminars."

 

And they are?

 

"Well, we've got Dr Richard Bandler, for a start. Richard's inspirational speaking style and his ability to make change in people is well recorded. As I have said, NLPers who have been through our trainings will know just how powerful he is. As an authority on success and happiness, he is a must - and as an amazing speaker he makes for great entertainment, too. That's a potent package in him alone. Then there's Dr Robert Holden, the founder of The Happiness Project, and pioneer of positive psychology. Robert has plenty to say about the way to find - and indeed - make - happiness. Then we have the serial entrepreneur, Richard Farleigh, who is best known as one of the Dragons from the BBC's The Dragons' Den. Finally we have Piers Morgan, the straight-talking judge from ITV's Britain's Got Talent. He sure knows a thing or two about success, and he's pretty controversial at times, too. It promises to be a lively event!"

 

My next question is on a more philosophical level. Why is the seminar being called the Be Happy AND Successful workshop? Why such an emphasis on the "and"?

 

Bernardo answers without a break: "We've all heard of mega-stars who seem to have it all - you know: ultimate success - and whose lives should be declared a National Emergency. And we've also heard about people who give it all away to find happiness - until they end up with nothing BUT happiness. Well, these kinds of myths that are promulgated in the media and in folklore kind of imply that you can't be successful AND happy. We hear old sayings that reveal the presuppositions so many people have. Things like: Money can't buy you happiness, and The best things in life are free…"

 

I ask him: isn't it true that the best things in life are free? Bernardo clearly appreciates the question:

 

"They can be… sometimes.  And sometimes they're not.  What I'm getting at is that although those sayings have a good intention, they can have an undesired side-effect. They limit people's choices. They get people thinking that you can't be happy if you're rich, or that money isn't really important. From there, the next stepis to say that you don't need money. And pretty soon you find people not reaching their full potentials because they've got some unhelpful complex equivalence that says that they have to choose: success OR happiness.

 

My next question could be awkward: Is that your complex equivalence, I ask. That having money means success?

 

Bernardo shoots his fast eye at me, and grins. "I like it," he says, and laughs. "Good question! But no, that's not what I think, either. I was just explaining one track of the complexities surrounding many people's ideas about money, success and happiness. Here's another one: While some people believe that success is measured by the amount of money you've got, others believe that success is about something quite, quite different to having money. It's all of these interesting ideas and myths that I really want to challenge. Because it's these unspoken beliefs that people pick up from the culture around them, and which hold them back. That's what this workshop is all about. Busting the myths. Exploring together the nature of success - and how it can bring happiness. Or the other way round. Setting yourself a direction in life where you just go for happiness with every fibre of your being - and you have great success, too. I think a lot of people are confused about what they want from life, and then wonder why they don't get it. That's why we're here. To give people ideas to help them grow, and come to new realisations."

 

You mean: free them from their limiting beliefs?

 

"That's it!" Bernardo smiles. "And I guess that's another reason why we're called The Unlimited Knowledge Company!"