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Powered by NLP! Fortunately our facilitators respectfully "reeled us in" when this happened.

What did I learn and what did I take away? I learned about the Nicaragua University, thanks to Karl and Nandana, that provides a PhD in psychology with an emphasis in NLP where students do not have to reside in Nicaragua to attend. I also found out about some offspring techniques, Mind Sonar, designed by Jaap Hollander and Social Panorama, designed by Lucas Derks. Each technique uses aspects of NLP and is being taught separately from a typical practitioner training. I learned that Catalan from Romania, who is the leader of the INLPT group has created an association for training psychotherapists in NLP in thirteen countries.

At times my new learning was on a smaller chunk size, during informal conversations. One discussion was about modeling and what modeling is and isn't. There was also considerable disagreement about the length of an NLP certification training and what specific curriculum "should," be included. I also found out that not all NLP trainings have the same curriculum. Some NLP trainings don't teach Milton Model and some include Meta Programs in their Practitioner curriculum while others include it in their Master Practitioner curriculum. I learned that some NLP trainers only do demonstrations without describing or discussing the techniques and instead just tell participants to do the exercise.

We did not always arrive at a conclusion, but the interactions were lively and thought provoking.

The most spontaneous moments were also the most memorable for me. There are two that stand out for me. One occurred in a small group when I was the facilitator. Our group members were; myself, Melody, Shelly, Nadana, Heidi, Anneke M., Fabiola, Jaap, Ueli, and Judith. Our group was discussing how do we get other people to come to NLP trainings, or "How do we get people to play with us?"

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