Perhaps a warm bath for lost souls, you see when we had to work the land we did not have the time to indulge in the luxury of crisis. It is only since we have become fat and bloated that we indulge in ourselves
It cannot be overlooked that it is only recently all these therapies have come about. As nike says ‘just do it’. If yoi don’t think about it it can’t bother you.

Take a pill if your that bothered certainly don’t entrust your life to someone who became a ‘master’ for a thousand quid in a hall with loads of other converts.

Nlp pah, surely no one can be that dumb…

Everyday in everyway I’m getting stronger and stronger…repeat after me

I went to see Anthony Robbins last year and he was amazing, so much so that it changed my life. I believe Coaching and NLP to be a very strong tool to improve your life. Sounds like you just had a bad experience that has made you think the way you do but take it from me its good stuff.

Please think about seeing someone else to help yuo on the right path or if you are willing to transform your life fully go see Anthony Robbins when he is in the UK this June, you will never look back.

All the best

Kaz

1 NLP has been in existence for 30 years. Many respected therapists and hypnotherapists have trained in NLP. I am not aware of any who are critical, and many use it some of its techniques. The co-creators of, NLP, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, created NLP from watching leadin therapists, such as Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls.To my knowledge, all of these worled closely with Bandler and Grinder, and were favourably dispossed to them.

2 There is not much in the way of quality control in NLP and there have been many feuds between different factions, often related to marketing. Timeline therapy is one offshoot of NLP, which has been promoted by Tad James.

3 The central claim of NLP is that it is possible to make rapid therapeutic changes-curing phobias in a few minutes. This seems to annoy other types of therapists, who instead say that many sessions are required.

4 My own experience of NLP is that highly skilled experts can indeed do this-I have seen this done in front of large audiences many times.

5 I would also add,that many techniques require a fair degree of skill from the therapist/practitioner (or life coach). This is not so much in using any given technique but in watching the subject closely and making sure that you have done the job. If the subject is uncomfortable, reluctant or feels that the process isn’t working, he/she should know.

6 It sounds to me like your coach didn’t have the skill to notice that you weren’t getting it and do a proper job.

7 If you want to find out about NLP for yourself, I would watch a DVD of someone like RIchard Bandler or Paul McKenna working with a demonstration subject. When you see someone’s problem disappear in a few minutes, it is hard to be sceptical.

8 You might also care to research Ericksonian hypnosis, one of the majjor influences on NLP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Comaze
http://www.comaze.com/biography.html
http://www.nlptrb.org/nlp/trainers/directory/

who also works with a company called inspirative http://www.comaze.com/links.html
endorsed by John Grinder

http://www.inspiritive.com.au/

Comaze seems to be working hand in glove with another NLP trainer called Greg Alexander (username: GregA). The leader seems to be a user called FT2, who upon close examination seems to be promoting zoophilia (bestiality) on Wikipedia also. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/FT2

They seem to be showing the sort of censorship attempts that are common on the Scientology Wikipedia site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

Professional accountability seems to have gone completely under the radar with NLP. I think its too much of a commercial pusher to be just down to “true believers” promoting their cult. I think the activities of Comaze.com and collaborators shows pretty much how unethical NLP companies can be to promote their interests.

Halliburton

What a shambles! There are a lot of well meaning people out there who are persuaded by others into parting with a great deal of money for hokey training.

It takes just two weekends to become a Master Practitioner in NLP! and about £5000. It takes about a decade to get mastery in anything else. I have worked in the field of therapy, counselling and coaching for 10 years and still wouldn’t call myself a master.

Seems to me, from reading your blog, there’s nothing much wrong with you, you just need to focus on being a great writer.

Very best of wishes with your dream.

I agree, shopping around is very important. But good knowledge of the field is also very important. There are good studies now that point out most unvalidated methods and raise the important issues. Basically it is unethical in psychotherapy, education, and related areas to use unvalidated methods. It is indefensible because there are perfectly good validated ways of doing things (backed up by controlled studies).

Here is a great site that raises awareness of the research-practitioner gap. It is quite an eye opener, but also points out some fairly obvious dubious snakeoil (eg Rebirthing, etc). http://www.srmhp.org/0101/raison-detre.html

A huge amount of time, money, and care goes into making rigorous research designs to actively falsify every therapy. The ones that survive the testing are valid. The one’s that fall are bunk. A lot of them nowadays are not even tested as reviewers and researchers will not see any reason to test pseudoscientific theories. A lot (eg NLP) have fallen by the wayside but have been re-packaged in various forms (eg TIR (Traumatic incident reduction) and NLP have been found to be simple re-packaged versions of Dianetics (scientology).

So the research-practitioner gap is pretty wide now. Charlatans are getting better at conning public bodies, and postmodern (new age) ideas are very comforting but grossly misleading in real terms. But with higher levels of education, and bodies such as SRMHP raising awareness of dubious therapies and the issues involved, that gap may reduce in time.

ATB
Chris