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How did this year's Trance of a Lifetime come into being?

 if you don't care about this,  just scroll down  : )

 About 5 years ago it hit me that All We Are is Change and that if we were, then it was not a matter of creating change, making change, but rather catching it, directing and re-directing it.  This dramatically changed how I approached coaching and my life. By late 2007, I developed a model that had this belief at it's core but worked more at the level of attention called Attention-Shifting Coaching or the ASC model.

 I then discovered what I was doing in coaching matched a lot of the newest research involving the Quantum Zeno Effect, new findings about how our brains work based on PET scans and the physiology of 'Aha’ experiences.  
So if All We Are is Change then how we experience change was related to where our attention is directed as we are in the process of changing each moment. This accounts for the quality of our experience and also sets the direction we move toward or away from.

The model is based on the  simple formula:
Source of Attention   + Type of Attention + Target of Attention  =Result

Source :  Angles of Point of View
From what point of view does the attention originate?
Perceptual Position 

Type:   Expansive or Focused

This correlates with Inductive or Deductive Functioning 

Is the field of attention more open or more focused? 

Target: Object of Attention  

On what is the attention directed?

If you shift any one or more of these you will get a different result.   The training in ASC teaches how to manipulate all of these but do so conversationally.

If you'd like to more about this model, click here to hear a 2 hour TelecoachingU Class

 At the beginning of 2009, I felt like it was time to really switch gears and decided that instead of further refining the details of this model, I wanted to turn the spotlight away from the client and back on self.  So the theme became "Coaching the "I".  In TelecoachingU we spent about 4 months of classes applying ASC to self.

Creating a model that one can use in the heat of the moment demands simplicity.  It's not easy to do 7 -step technique on your own when you have an unwanted reaction to some one or some thing.  So the focus on the classes was on how to create processes and practices that anyone could use. So when Trance of a Lifetime  2009 came around these were some of the main themes of the that experience along with really looking at some of the original work of Korzyblski and Non-Aristotelian logic.  We also experimented with techniques to change brain wave functioning.  It became apparent we were starting to deal with pretty interesting things like the construction of concepts of identity, ego  (in the Eastern Philosophy sense)  and even of reality, in a new way, but it was still kind of rough.  It also become evident that what we were really learning was how to "Coach Beyond the"I". 

This Fall, for the first time in a couple of years I taught Beyond Words which is a linguistic model Julie Silverthorn and I developed back in the early to mid 90's.  Basically it is a system for how to use language to transcend itself.
 The idea was, how could we create language patterns that would take a client off his or her map long enough for the unconscious mind to re-organize itself.  Over the past 7-8 years I continued to streamline it.  While many coaches and therapists loved that way of working they had challenges really being able to generate the appropriate language patterns on the fly.
So in preparation for the Conversational Change Beyond Words training this Fall I decided to take the whole model apart and rebuild it with my current understanding.  Though this experience and later developments, all of these threads wove together to something very streamlined and this is what Trance of a LIfetime 2010 will be about:

Coaching Beyond the "I"- Directionalized Ambiguity and Cultivating Exceptional States of Consciousness

This year's offering is really two courses fully integrated into one.  You will not only learn unique and powerful skills to coach others, but also to coach yourself through life.   It will take your coaching abilities, life skill and consciousness to the next level and then some.

 

Trance of a LIfetime 2010:

This training will feature this new, ground-breaking transformational linguistic model:  

Directionalized  Ambiguity

 It will teach you how to systematically de-consruct the reality creating the problem and then using simple questions to create an "Aha" experience allowing for a new reality to be constructed. It can be done with the client's conscious content or can be done content-free. 

Perhaps more importantly, you'll learn powerful non-verbal skills that are absolutely critical to delivering transformative language patterns effectively.  It's one thing to construct them.  It is another to deliver them effectively.  ( No Im' not just talking about rapport, sensory acuity.  They are obviously important, but there's more.)  There are some very significant discoveries in this area.  I've constructed unique exercises that will help build these skills to increase your linguistic elegance in coaching.

Have you ever had "Aha" experiences where you felt a signiÞcant shift in the way you perceive reality and really felt differently?  Many believe these are moments that are few and far between, but what if there were ways to culture your ability to create these types of "enlightening" experiences willfully?

 

 This training will also feature unique and safe, effective exercises and practices that will culture exceptional states of performance and consciousness. While some of them come from ancient traditions, all are practices which have been researched scientifically and are rooted  in current neuro-science.    

What does this mean?  It means you will not be subjected to "new age" techniques that have been taken out of context used improperly.  You will learn principles of practice that allow you to reap the benefits in a way that is natural, transformative and puts you in synchrony with life.

 

Sampling of  Additional Topics covered:

  • HNLP Beyond Goals Model (in preparation material)
  • The Nature of Change - conscious and unconscious 
  • New Model of How Reality is Constructed 
  • Attention-Shifting Coaching 
  • Embedding Unconscious Process Instructions 
  • New Model for Parts Integration 
  • Linguistic Elegance Drills And much more
      

Are you interesting in learning... 

  • How All You Are is Change, and having direct experiences of this?
  • What are the newest findings in neuro-science that give us precise tips for how to run our nervous system?
  • What are the two linguistic constructions on which all limitations are built? 
  • How can you use these constructions to transcend limitations? 
  • What are the basic mechanics of our sensory processing in reality construction and how can you make them work for you? 
  • What are the crucial non-verbal skills -not usually taught  or perhaps recognized -to effectively deliver transformative language patterns? 
  • What are the critical elements for constructing transformative language patterns that potentially create one sentence interventions?
  • What are safe effective ways to use confusion, uncertainty, not knowing for significant change?
  • How can you powerfully directiionalize the thinking of a listener through the use of simple questions? 
  • How can you create distinct messages to the unconscious mind for sub-modality shifts, inductive and deductive processing and other attention-shiftsconversationally? 
  • What are Quantification Chains and how can you use them to alter the type of quality of the listener's attention? 
  • What are the three Gunas (the three universal energies)  and how can you use them to deepen the use of linguistic interventions in coaching? 
  • How can you create exceptional states of consciousness through manipulation of your brain waves. 
  • What would your life be like having more "Aha" experiences that you can cultivate willfully?

 
Who is the course designed for?

This is an advanced course which predominately attracts dedicated folks who are already
Master Practitioners and Trainers. You will be learning information which is really beyond
the classic NLP information, but unquestionably builds upon it.

While this course certainly presupposes a solid background in basic NLP skills, my style
of teaching is to teach to multiple levels. If you listen to the preparation material before
coming to the live course, you will be ready to roll. I recommend you listen to the preparation
material multiple times if possible. It is not important that you fully understand everything,
nor do you need to be able to do everything you hear, but rather be acquainted with the
content so it becomes more familiar. There is no substitute for repetition.

I offer a Master Practitioner Certification for those who are interested in that. In those cases,
to fulfill the classic Master Practitioner requirements you will receive MP3 preparation material that
will acquaint you with classic material. There is a brief written review which you are required to
complete before receiving your certificate. You can complete this at any time.

Minimum Eligibility:

Certified Practitioner of NLP
Post Practitioner Coaching Experience (Contact me if you have questions about this.)

Investment:

Early Bird Registration by April 5, 2010: $3995.00

Registration after April 5, 2010: $4495.00

Enrollment Deposit:  $500.00

Includes Coaching Beyond Goals and Conversational Change Beyond Words Pre-course MP3s

and pdf manuals.

Balance of tuition due two weeks prior to the start of the training.

Cancellation Policy:

Non- Refundable Deposit can be applied to any other johnoverdurf.com training.
You keep the MP3s. The remaining balance of 3495.00 is fully refundable with written notification
received10 business days prior to the first day of the training.

Optional Certifications and Requirements

Master Practitioner of NLP and HNLP Requisites:
1. Certified Practitioner of NLP
2. Successful completion of course
3. Completed listening to Classic Master Practitioner Pre-course MP3 and
    successful completion of accompanying Linguistic Analyses and Written Review
4. One time fee of $200 which includes the Master Practitioner Pre-course MP3 and
     Conversational Change Beyond Words MP3 (The MP3s alone are $350 value.)

Certified Coach Requisites
1. Certified Practitioner of NLP and/or HNLP
2. Successful completion of course
3. One time fee of $200

Certified Master Coach Requisites:
1. Certified Master Practitioner of NLP and/or HNLP
2. Certified Coach
3. Successful completion of course
4. 500 hours of documented of paid coaching experience
5. One time fee of $200