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Our ‘Theme’ for meetings in 2010 is:
“Unconscious Competence”

How it all began.

This theme began life as an article by Jamie Smart, of Salad fame, about the NLP and Hypnosis we use all the time without knowing it, without asking ‘permission’ from the person we are with, and without making it obvious. Reading this article, one of our long standing members, Mavis Kerrigan, suggested it might make a good theme for 2010. I have called this ‘unconscious competence’.

NLP and me.

When I first came across NLP in the early 90’s, reading ‘Frogs into Princes’, I was immediately struck by it’s power and potential for positive change. The Master NLP Trainer Dave Marshall, who took Jenny and I on our ‘magical journey’ through diploma, prac and master prac constantly taught us that NLP is primarily an attitude of mind. For me it has developed into a magnet, which has allowed me to explore other paradigms of thought, other models of the world, and enrich my own life and experience as a result. A magnet which attracts and holds onto anything useful.

NLP is not Therapy, it models good Therapists.

My view, and this is personal to me, is that the ‘qualification labels’ in NLP are misleading at best and downright wrong at worst. In my view NLP is all about discovering who you are and how you operate in the world. And discovering that other people actually do it differently! Not wrong - just differently. It does not give everyone who learns NLP the right to start ‘therapying’ other people, who have clearly got it wrong and are poor deranged fools.
Once you know more about yourself, it becomes possible to live your own life in line with your values and beliefs. Or change them for one’s that serve you better. NLP gives everyone, who learns it, the opportunity to be better at anything they want to be better at. With practice, and more practice this becomes excellence and ‘unconscious competence’. Without practice it just fades away.

The NLP-South experience.

At NLP-South I am clear that our purpose is to allow you all to practice the new skills and understandings you have made in your journey through NLP, other training and life. Whether you are a complete novice or an ‘old hand’. To add to these skills and to get other perspectives on what you have already studied. To enrich your use of these skills. To continue expanding and realising new potential in your life, work and self, for the betterment of all.

Speaker request.

My request to our ‘guest speakers’ for 2010 is to honour the spirit of ‘unconscious competence’ and help us all realise how good at this we already are. Adding from their special and unique perspective, experience and history some ‘nuggets’ of pure excellence for us to share and make our own. I realise that to achieve this we may need to spend some time ‘consciously incompetent’.
A state of being from whence excellence springs.