NLP
Things get
better by
change not
by chance
the modeller may choose not to install them. “So, I didn’t go jumping
off diving boards but I did acquire additional skills in pistol shooting
achieving scores beyond the level of expert. Importantly for me, you
learn what human potential is all about and how to exceed what people
see as humanly possible.”
The modelling process consists of capturing, coding, replicating
and transferring expertise. “So when it came to transferring expertise,
I realised that I had to study training and I’ve now been modelling
training for over 30 years and have been including what I’ve learned
about the training – and learning – process into the INLPTA Trainers
Training making it the most sophisticated Trainers Training anywhere
in the world.”
Wyatt suggests that most training in the business world is a waste of
time and money. People appear to understand and change when in the only covers part of the map but some people think it covers the whole
training but then go back to how they were when they return to their of it. Even before I came into NLP, I was modelling spiritual states, what
‘real’ world. “So, how can you burn people’s bridges so they can’t go went on and what spiritual teachers actually do. Spiritual models tend to
back? Things get better by change not by chance.” have religious accretions attached, and belief systems, too. I’m interested
In Cybernetics, one of the original influences on NLP, you take in removing the beliefs and isolating the techniques to be able to modify
output from a system and reintroduce it into the system to change and improve the ‘spiritual technology’ so that I can discover how the tools
methods and increase performance – true feedback. “This can also work and put them together a collection of tools.”
be applied to human learning. We ask the question ‘how will your Wyatt clearly believes in the power of NLP, especially in modelling
behaviour be different in the future’? human performance and transferring those models to others for
“If your behaviour isn’t different, you haven’t learned anything. performance improvement and has developed a high level of skill in
You can’t stay the same and get rid of your problems at the same doing that. Even his spiritual studies include an element of modelling.
time, you have to become “not me”. We need to push people out of There is much more depth to Wyatt Woodsmall than a single article can
their comfort zones and into the area of ‘not me’ and allow them to convey and you really do need to see and hear him in person. He will
let go of ‘old me’, so they don’t go back. This can lead to incredible be talking at the NLP Conference in November, an event that he has
transformations.” supported for many years. Details of his websites are in the box along
Most Trainer Training concentrates on memorising and applying with a few opportunities to engage with him in person.
learning. We start by learning how to learn and pushing for the ability
to learn how to learn how to learn, a generative approach.
Future plans
Wyatt has recently begun a series of trainings with Eben Pagan,
whose stage name is David De Angelo, developer of the largest dating
INLPTA Master Coach Training in United Kingdom with Wyatt Woodsmall and
Tom MacKay from Sep 16-22, Oct 9-14, and Nov 16-21, 2009.September -
advice site on the web
www.dating.com. They plan to do one training
http://www.nlpcoachingtraining.co.uk/
every three months together and will be putting product online in the
Wyatt will be presenting on the Sunday morning at the NLP Conference in
near future. “Eben is a master of internet marketing and I’ve been
London (13th – 15th November 2009) – on ‘What is Ecology After All?’
doing Executive Coaching with him for several years. We recently did
Details and to book -
http://www.nlpconference.co.uk
a 5 day training called ‘Advanced Learning and Teaching techniques’
More information about Wyatt and his interests at
www.inlpta.org -and
based on the Michel Thomas model and a training on Leadership. We
www.thescienceofidiots.com
plan to do a training on ‘the general developmental model’ soon.”
Wyatt’s interest in spirituality was an area that I wanted to explore.
“When I was first teaching NLP, I introduced some spiritual elements
Books
to NLP and I was attacked by others in the community for it. Now
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING The Michel Thomas Method: Freeing Minds One
Person at a TIme by Marilyne Woodsmall and Wyatt Woodsmall (Paperback -
spirituality is assumed to be included.”
Jul 4, 2008)
NLP is one element in widening the understanding of human
People Pattern Power: P3 : The Nine Keys to Business Success by Marilyne
potential. “Ken Wilber has done more than most to attempt a complete
Woodsmall and Wyatt Woodsmall (Paperback - Jan 1999)
understanding of a human being and you do need the whole map. NLP
rapport - Autumn 2009
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