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Stone Age NLP Modelling The Mysteries Revealed
Arguably the most comprehensive NLP Modelling course on offer anywhere in the UK and combined with an African adventure and unique modelling assignment among the San Bushmen hunter gatherers of the Kalahari Desert
The Invitation For two years Openmind Training has developed an NLP Modelling project among the San (Bushmen) people of the Kalahari Desert in Africa as the core component of our NLP Master Practitioner programme. The results have been fascinating and have been presented to the NLP Conference in London for two consecutive years. In 2010 our efforts achieved a major breakthrough. A casual conversation between Fran Burgess and Greg Laws has evolved with blinding speed into a truly extraordinary modelling project. We now offer you the opportunity to participate in this event. Fran Burgess and Derek Jackson are the founders of the prestigious Northern School of NLP in Lancashire. They are considered by Robert Dilts to be the leading authorities on NLP Modelling in the UK. With three decades of experience in NLP they have a vast foundation of knowledge on the subject in general and have written an NLP Experience Cookbook of over 50 of their own and adapted NLP patterns. Fran and Derek will both be accompanying us to Africa in 2010 and will lead the modelling project. For the first two years our modelling approach has leaned heavily on a single modelling framework. What is especially exciting about Fran and Derek’s expertise is that they are not tied to one particular methodology but have first hand experience of the full range of NLP modelling approaches on offer in the NLP community. For those with a thirst for this knowledge, here is a shot glass of this exciting diversity:
On this amazing journey into modelling through the discovery of the world of the Kalahari San, you will be giving yourselves the unique opportunity of developing your NLP practice in a manner only known to a few, and in a way that brings the process alive. You will:
In the process you will:
Who should attend this course? This course is open to anyone with a minimum of a Practitioner certification in NLP including those who have already qualified as Master Practitioners and Trainers.
This modelling course also counts as credits to a qualification as a Master Practitioner of NLP. Along with our 4 day Advanced Skills Seminar in May 2010 and the Mysteries weekend in June 2010, you have 16 days of Master Practitioner hours, in excess of the 15 days required by INLPTA certification. The Modules The modelling course includes two core modules, one weekend in the UK and a full ten training days in Botswana, southern Africa. A synopsis of these modules is as follows: Module 1 : The Mysteries of Modelling Revealed Dates: 26 and 27 June 2010 Venue: Wiltshire, UK As part of the full modeling course, or as a standalone training event, you are invited to this unique 2-day experience, where you will:
Dates: 26 July to 6 August 2010 Venue: Botswana, southern Africa 3 days in Maun, Botswana
5 days in the Kalahari with the San Bushmen
2 days in Maun, Botswana
The Africa Itinerary
27 to 29 July 2010 – we spend three full training days at base camp on the delta. Our training venue is a lodge on the banks of the Tamalakane River. Training times are 9am to 1pm and then 4pm to 7pm after a midday siesta. Master choreographer Fran reserves the right to mess with our programme. Accommodation at the base camp is on beds in luxury tents (that means better than dome tents and mattresses in Africa). 30 July to 3 August – We set off some 250km into the south west Kalahari Desert for our time with the San people. We camp in quality two-man dome tents on camping mattresses in a remote campsite where the San set up camp with us in their traditional grass huts. A fully functional ablution is available with hot water, showers and toilets. Outstanding bush food is produced three times a day by Anne. We now drop deeply into our modeling work, engaging the San in an exclusive and totally private encounter. 4 to 5 August – we head back to base camp in Maun on the delta to consolidate and integrate our learnings. 6 August – there are two options available. Fly out today in time to catch an overnight flight from Johannesburg back to the UK, landing in the morning of 7 August. Alternatively sign up to the optional 3 day/2 night safari in the Moremi Game Reserve from 8 to 10 August. Then fly out on 10 August and arrive back in the UK on 11 August. The Trainers/Guides
Fran Burgess and Derek Jackson are co founders of the Northern School of NLP, having both been involved in NLP learning and training for over 25 years. They have consistently pursued their understanding and practice of modelling as the foundation of all NLP practice, bringing to their school the best NLP modellers from the States and the UK. Derek is an ex Chair of ANLP and currently is Chair of The Professional Guild of NLP. Fran is a UKCP registered NLP Psychotherapist, and has just completed the first draft of The Experience Cookbook – a book which turns models into experience.
The Testimonials
The Northern School of NLP is the only NLP institute in the world that I know of that places so much emphasis on the generative engine of NLP: Modelling. I am profoundly grateful that they give me the opportunity to share and demonstrate with their students the whole cycle of the modelling process. They have fascinating exemplars and I always feel that I myself have grown as a result of being there and am coming away with so much more than when I arrived. Rather than simply focusing on the existing toolset of NLP, Fran and Derek have committed themselves to both embracing the true legacy of NLP and pushing its frontier by continuing the quest, through modelling, for the deeper structures 'beyond the obvious.' I feel that they are genuine partners in the mission to 'create a world to which people want to belong.' Robert Dilts
Linda Marshall The first few nights back I couldn't sleep. I hated the confinement of the four walls, missing the night sky of the Kalahari. It is changing the way I work. There really aren't words to describe the experience. Very humbling and awesome. I have never come across people who are so open and full of love, being hugged by people who gave me their whole bodies and being, to experience eyes that I could just drop into with only openness and love. Just experiencing that with Qwexwa and also Kaoga showed me I have a long way to go to being that accepting and open. What a gift. Deirdre Gough
The African Safari
The San Bushmen
If you ever dreamed of coming to Africa, safely, this is your chance. The Health and Safety stuff
Once your booking is secure you will receive detailed health and safety information along with reams of additional advice to make your visit to Africa as comfortable as possible. In the interim however, here is some information to set your mind at ease. This is not an adrenalin rush adventure and the trip will suit any individual in reasonably good health. We have been running these trips for years and have hosted all manner of people from youngsters to wise elders in their seventies, super fit to over-weight, experienced campers to many who had never slept in a tent before. Anne and Greg have decades of experience with camping in the wilderness and, regardless of whether you have camped before, you will be exceptionally well looked after. The food that Anne can produce over a camp fire in the desert will amaze you. We cater for most diets and allergies although supplies are limited so please enquire about your personal needs.
The Costs The full cost of the 2010 Stone Age NLP Modelling project in the Kalahari is £2200 This includes:
The fee does not include:
Contact
We would be delighted to share more with you about this amazing experience.
0845 050 8448
info@openmindtraining.co.uk
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Take this broad suite of modelling methodologies to the San people of the Kalahari and the excitement of such a venture is nothing less than profound. We already know the excellent results we can achieve through cognitive modelling and our experience has increasingly nudged us in the direction of symbolic modelling and the deep metaphoric structure of experience. Spare a moment to consider the potential in the sensory based approach of intuitive modelling within the world of the San’s astonishing sensory acuity. Immerse yourself without restraint into the powerful San healing dances guided by somatic modelling. These are some tantalising insights into the magnitude of this learning experience.
Modelling is the generative engine of NLP. Ever wondered what lies behind the magic of NLP patterns? This is it. No matter what profession you are in, modelling gives you the tools to generate patterns of excellence. For example, in recruitment to model the ideal candidate for the job, in sales to model the most effective sales strategy, in therapy to generate highly specific client solutions or simply for your own personal benefit to take your NLP learning to the highest level. You can even make a good living specialising in modelling contracts to clients, taking your skills to diverse working contexts.
26 July 2010 – arrive at Johannesburg International Airport, South Africa by 10h00 for connecting flights to Maun, Botswana. Arrive in Maun, Botswana at 15h00 where you will be welcomed at the airport and transported some 15 kilometers out of town to our base camp on the edge of the Okavango delta. Settle in, freshen up and relax with your first African meal prepared by master bush chef Annie Laws. An evening welcome and orientation.
Greg Laws has nearly three decades of experience on three continents in training, coaching, communications and public speaking. He is a certified Master Practitioner of NLP through the International NLP Trainers Association (INLPTA) and was trained as a certified INLPTA trainer under the founder of INLPTA, Dr Wyatt Woodsmall. His work in the environment sector included projects with cabinet ministers in Nelson Mandela’s government, school children, remote rural villagers and within some of South Africa’s most notorious townships. He has appeared on television and radio on numerous occasions and is a part-time professional writer, published in a number of prestigious wildlife and travel magazines, both in South Africa and in the UK. He is a founder and Director of Openmind Training Limited in the UK.
Raised among rural Zulu in South Africa, Anne has a deep connection to Africa, a profound empathy with Africa's people and a deep love of the Kalahari. Her core competency lies in ecopsychology and she has an intense interest in rights of passage and vision quests. Along with her partner Greg, she has exceptional skills in travel into the African bush and is an experienced and competent off-road guide. She is a professional photographer and has been published in a number of wildlife and tourism magazines. Anne is a highly skilled chef specializing in catering for large groups in remote wilderness locations and is a legend in Botswana for her passion for catering in the desert for all manner of special diets. Anne is also qualified in First Aid with excellent knowledge of medical care in the African wilderness. 
A wonderful setting for a unique course. as a novice camper, I was impressed at how easy it was to get back to basics with Greg and Anne (if you can count the dining experiences we had as 'back to basics'). I remained impressed at the diversity of our culinary experiences and the comfort of the whole experience. Working with the Bushmen on the master practitioner has been at times awe inspiring and I am glad to have met and shared this with a really wonderful and interesting group of people. I am not sure anything can beat camp fires, NLP and the Kalahari. 
The San are the oldest living culture on Earth. These diminutive hunters still hold onto a culture that is easily 40,000 years old, possibly even three times that. Their egalitarian lifestyle is under threat and, although they might not live as hunter gatherers all the time, they certainly embody the cultural norms of egalitarian people. They share everything, they build profoundly strong communities, they tell amazing stories, they are the world’s most competent game trackers, they love children and they hold healing dances that are astonishingly powerful. They are known as the harmless people and offer an insight into humanity as it existed for millions of years. An experience with the San is unforgettable and quite life changing. Greg and Anne offer you an introduction to the San like you could not access anywhere. They are very dear and close friends of the group we visit and the experience is authentic, genuine and mutually beneficial to them and us. You will not experience the San as tourists but as old friends.
We will visit the Kalahari Desert in the southern winter where the risk from creepy crawlies and mosquitoes is very low. We will give you advice on taking malaria precautions although we do not take any ourselves. This is a personal choice. There are no other prevalent diseases in Botswana other than Aids. Again we will offer sound advice although, outside of intimate relations with local people (definitely not allowed among our San hosts), we will bring our own needles in case of medical emergencies. The Desert is quite safe although we do carry a fully comprehensive medical kit. We also carry a satellite phone at all times and are in 24/7 range for Medical Rescue International to airlift patients out within hours should this unlikely necessity arise. You must have travel insurance to embark on this trip as MRI will not fly if you don’t. All these precautions are way over the top for the area we are visiting but this is something we offer to reassure you anyway. | ||
