Richard Bandler

Richard Bandler - Co-Creator of NLP

"There is a difference between learning about NLP and learning to do NLP. When I got together with Paul McKenna back in 1994, I decided that one of the most important benefits that we could bring to people who are interested to teach them how to do NLP as I originally intended it to be used - to create more love and freedom for every human being on the planet.

So often I hear of people who attend other courses who can talk about NLP - but do it? No way. This is one of the main inspirations behind offering our 7 day Practitioner Training Programme - and one of the many reasons it has been so successful; the events themselves have sold out time and time again. Our people can do. This has been a continual source of inspiration to me.

NLP is about learning to learn the way your brain learns rather than the way you've been taught to learn. It's about learning to move quickly beyond limitations. It's about making your mind up, rather than your mind making up you.

All of the models that I created and the lessons I learned from people like Moshe Feldenkrais, Gregory Bateson, Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson are about creating choice in your life - so that you can learn to do new things for yourself - different things - beyond the edges of what you thought possible before.

When I first began teaching, we took six months to train our practitioners. This wasn't because I ever believed it really took six months - it was because that was the minimum amount of time required to be accredited in the state of California.

Then, for a long time, we taught the trainings over 20 days. But NLP is an evolving methodology and times have changed. When you apply the process of NLP to the learning of NLP, you learn how to do it fast. It really can be that simple - but only if you, and the people teaching you, really know what they're doing.

By the end of day one of the Practitioner training you will be doing things that you wouldn't be able to do on any other training. By the end of day seven, you will have experienced working with the full range of NLP skills - as well as having the attitude and perspective that makes NLP effective.

One thing that people really need to get about my life's work is that it's not about therapy or business or 'networking' organisations - it's about freedom."