Revealed - The truth about coaching, hypnosis, NLP and how to go beyond it

NLP hasn’t evolved very far since it was first conceived. As an NLP Trainer with 16 years Coaching and Hypnosis experience, all Jonathan Clark sees is more of the same - more Meta Model questions, more techniques and more complaints from disgruntled students who got less than they paid for! So he’s done something about it…


Interviewer: Jonathan struck me as a fascinating exponent of personal development. I was so impressed with your skill and depth of knowledge and ability to help people truly change their lives that I invited you to talk at my business seminar, which you did and it went down a storm so things have really developed since then, haven’t they, you’ve now developed your own methodology called HGE, it’s a definite breakthrough or progression or evolvement might be a more appropriate word from NLP I think, and its really fascinating to me because I think NLP as I’m sure you’ll explain later on, has done the world an incredible service but at least to me seems to have stopped progressing, but I think certainly what you do Jonathan is a really fresh and by what I’m seeing a more rapid way of truly evolving all these desires we have as human beings in health and relationships, money, business and so its very, very fascinating so you’ve written a book - we are now basically talking about that book or talking about HGE really. . So formally hello


Let’s get straight into it, because we would like pack this with as much information for people listening as we possible can so why don’t you start Jonathan if you would like to with a brief history of what NLP was and why you got involved, and then what began to frustrate you leading to your own HGE involvement.

Jonathan: Well there’s an old phrase that says that people get into personal development either out of desperation or inspiration and I’ve yet to meet someone who is inspired to do it. People often go into a philosophy or a mind set or a set of techniques to try and get them through the day, I was no different from that. I was the shy specky kid with asthma and a duodenal ulcer by the time I was sixteen because I was so scared of talking to people, and I got into it purely because my brother studied psychology and I read all these books and found it fascinating. If I could burn a whole in my stomach with my brain what could I do that was a little bit more useful?

And so I started learning all these things for my benefit - I got into personal development, read all the standard books most people have read and then started to kind of push it a little because a lot of that stuff was very conscious, very techniquey, very kind of… you had to force yourself to do it, it was like affirmations, telling yourself “you’re happy, you’re happy, you’re happy” when the other part of brain was screaming at you that you’re not happy at all.

So I started to look at things like Neuro Linguistic Programming, NLP, hypnosis, life coaching, and some other esoteric things like Feng Shui,, energy work and all that kind of stuff, a lot of the people I was listening to had some sort of esoteric discipline as well and in fact if you look at all of the major personal development people, all the big names they all look at some kind of esoteric spirituality aspect and that intrigued me - I thought maybe I’m missing something, maybe there’s a side of life I don’t know anything about, because at the time I didn’t ever look at that kind of thing, in fact I poo poo’d it.


NLP I found to be very practical hands on, you could read it and use it the same day - you could fix phobias in under an hour, you could take away nerves, you could make people confident, you could change beliefs, you could do amazing wonderful things in a very short space of time which really blew my head off - if you know how the brain works you can basically program it to do anything you want, so that fascinated me, the ulcer disappear, my asthma disappeared, I got fitter and healthier, started taking care of my physical body, changed career completely.

Interviewer: Ok and this is all self done.


Jonathan: Incredibly powerful self-work, and I had never seen it fail, I had only ever seen NLP work, so my enthusiasm took off like a house on fire and I started sharing it with people, I started running seminars at weekends, I started working with individuals and because I didn’t know it might not work it always did. It was only later on I found some NLP people have problems with that and after 2 years of working with people in the field, and actually working with exam nerves and phobias and confidence, ME, massive health shifts in people, stuff you wouldn’t believe, transformational health changes, I thought one day somebody might actually ask me for a certificate, or a qualification and because my background was financial services I very much believe in that stuff, I thought right I’m going to have to go and get trained.


Then I discovered that issues would come up with students and the trainers were unable to bail them out, the trainers actually had no field experience, they were textbook perfect but had never worked with people in the real world so I had to keep bailing people out because I had been doing in for two years, and that really was a huge convincer to me about my ability, and it surprised me and also kind of disappointed me as well that the household names in the field weren’t actually up to scratch, in my opinion, I coined a phrase “always a trainer, never a therapist” because they could talk about it, there’s a lot of text book people out there but when it comes to the real world application they just haven’t got the chops for it.

Interviewer: It’s the age old thing about teachers isn’t it?


Jonathan: Correct, teachers you know, as apposed to coaches. . Coaches do it. But, so having done that for a while I decided I could help people more than what I am currently doing in my current career, which is a financial advisor, I was getting great results using NLP in the financial services, my sales doubled and my appointments halved, and my managers wondered what I was doing, and all I was doing was some of these techniques, rapport techniques, building connections with people, having people like you and trust you, having two way trust going. I then decided I’m going launch my own business and do this on the side, build it up and then eventually go self-employed. I did that, my income immediately doubled after two months I was working half the hours, and I had always been taught that self-employed businesses fail within the first two year and those that succeed fail within the next two years. I’m helping people and doing something that I felt I was born to do and I’ve basically been doing that ever since. Now I have looked at the current stuff that I’ve been training and thinking this needs to grow and evolve, there are certain things that most personal development areas don’t cover, or there’s certain holes or certain gaps, I’ve plugged them and I now want to get them out to the world.


Interviewer: OK, so now tell us what HGE is and maybe you can preface that by saying what these missing links were that were frustrating you.

Jonathan: Well, what often happens with most technique based skills is that there’s often heart missing, there’s often a kind of humanity aspect, and they become very cold and calculating and very kind of logical and sensible, and for a lot of people that’s not enough, a lot of NLP people are very academic and very much into systems orientation and the way things work, however, for something to give you complete balance, if you really want to be successful in all areas you need to include a more humane, what would you call it . . holistic approach as well, so there has to be some kind of higher purpose, there has to some kind of creativity or inspiration behind it.

Another hole I noticed was that very often people wouldn’t use a lot of the techniques that they’d learned because it was full of technical jargon that put people off. They start to sound as if they were into some strange cult. It also excluded people who wanted a more spiritual experience, typically if you look at any of the mind disciplines out there they’ll either be very conscious, logical academic or they’ll be very kind of spiritual, esoteric and kind of ‘green’ issues and most camps that I meet, most people fall into one or the other, what I wanted to do was bridge the gap and explain why both sides have advantages.

Also the majority of the technologies out there have been around for a long, long time and aren’t developing and aren’t evolving themselves, there are too many cliques, too many politics and people arguing who the original inventors were and not enough making it user friendly and making it publicized.

In most complimentary alternative methodologies, as these might called, I think the aromatherapy guild released statistics last year to say that 25% of qualified aromatherapists actually earn a living doing it. Coach University recently sent out statistics talking about the 30,000 life coaches on the planet, I think 10% of them make a living from it, and making a living was £15,000 a year or less.

Interviewer: Doesn’t surprise me, is seems that any training method, it’s very few people who actually apply it and actually sustain it.

Jonathan: That’s the problem with most conventional training, it doesn’t do that, what I looked at was answering these niggles that had always been around for me and people would bring these up to me and I had the sort of standard stock party line phrases that everyone else had but I just felt as if I wasn’t walking my talk and I was hypocritical until I got them fixed, so I’ve spent the past sixteen years tweaking this, developing it and answering those questions for myself. I don’t believe I’ve got the right to advise someone else unless I’m doing it myself, so I had to fill those holes, and I feel as if I have.

Interviewer: Yeah ok . . . good.


Jonathan: For those of us who want the balance and the success and want to ‘thrive’ instead of just ‘survive’, then there’s a kind of four areas you need to look at, and the big picture is simply that, there’s four aspects to you, you have a spiritual aspect, you have a mental aspect, you have an emotional aspect and you have a physical aspect, and if you fail to take care of one of those areas in your life . . . it will bite you! It is as simple as that, people who have the money, the toys, the things they want to play with, the supportive environment, the bank account, the relationships and all the external physical tangible things, those are great, but not just on their own. Ideally you also want to have the ability to understand your own emotions and to be able to change your emotions, not be burdened with traumas and hassles from the past, ideally to change that and let it go, also the ability to think flexibly and creatively, so that you can think outside the box and think laterally and come up with solutions to your problems, and also to have the freedom to choose your spirituality or your esoteric development or whatever path you want to follow. I think we all have those four god given rights and the one that you fail to nourish and nurture, is the one ultimately which will come up in your life as a problem.


I think this is the key, I think understanding HGE enables you to understand every other practice discipline, procedure, process, every other ‘ology’ out there. HGE explains the mechanics of how they work, so that’s going to save you a lot of time and money buying useless books or pointless treatments or courses that promise a lot but don’t deliver much. You’ll actually be able to predict and understand how something works and why it works or also predict why it won’t work in advance. That’s the way I look at it, I’ve spent 16 years mastering this stuff so you don’t have to. Let’s cut to the chase. The full story is a free report at www.NLPandbeyond.co.uk

Interviewer: Alright, so what’s your universal message, when you say it like that?

Jonathan: You can change anything about yourself that you don’t like and you can have anything that you want. The book you will find is more of a training manual than it is a text book, it’s full of exercises, it’s full of real practical ‘hands on’ go and do this now, you’ve learned about it now go and do it. If you’re willing to do those things you will get immediate results in your world, that are categorically there in front of you, tangible. And that’s what personal development fans want.

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Jonathan Clark is a Certified NLP Trainer and Coach, and with over 4000 hours of therapy and coaching experience dealing with real people in the real world, he wanted self-help to evolve. For the full scoop get the free report at www.thelatentpowerofyou.com

Just when you think you're onto something big...

OK, I might be one of the last people in the Western World to see "Casino Royale", but I can go one better than that!

I just spotted Richard Branson in it! He's being frisked by airport security.

Then I check on AOL and discover 305 other websites that mention this, going as far back as last November.

So much for sensory acuity!

Did you spot him?

Calling All HGE Enthusiasts...

I'll be running my "Life On Purpose" 3 day Foundation Skills training June 9-11th at the usual Country Club venue. This is an excellent opportunity to repeat the training for only £71, or come and assist and learn "secret behind the scenes stuff" and I pay you £71.

Either way, you're more than welcome to join in on the fun and games, and hear my latest thinking on the fundamentals of getting what you want naturally, easily and quickly.



Let me know if you're joining us, or not.

Keep smiling!

Jonathan

Lucy Black wanted to ask...

If any of the students on Master Prac [and anyone else for that matter] would like to meet up to attend the Glasgow Uni lectures?

Some of them seemed interested, but we didn't formally arrange anything.

For your info, here's a link

http://www.glasgowsciencefestival.org.uk/programme6.html

Thank you,
Lucy

Thanks to Tom for this...

thought you might like this

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/fun.games/04/30/mind.reading.toys.ap/index.html

of course Darth may not be the appropriate IR

cheers

Tom

Latest News...

Wow! Just finished our first ever Miracles On Demand + Dramatic Magic Huna courses, run simultaneously! We had new healing guides, new symbols, perfect weather and magic moments galore! What a special week.

And Master Practitioner is rapidly approaching - 7 weekends over 7 months, the full story is on the main website - if you're still a Practitioner then come and join us, and take your NLP skills through the roof!

Jonathan

Presupposition anyone?

I hereby invite you to this unique second level of Huna training…

"Dramatic Magic" is the astonishing new HGE training in esoteric magic for Jonathan's students who want more personal power...

Oh my stars and garters! I'm SOOO excited about this. To read the full scoop you have to go to

http://jonathanclark.org/event_details.asp?event_id=141

Tad James on AussieTV

This is a video available at Tad's site - under downloads - should it be uploads from Australia? Here is a direct link so you can simply enjoy. Please remember to have respect for all MOW's when observing the hostess...

http://www.nlpcoaching.com/4Video/kerryann.wmv

cheers

Tom
it's about 27Megs ...

There's a 17th!!

If you want to be happy, be happy! I read that somewhere about 3 years ago and it kind of goes along well with the other 16 - if you want it be it - kind of along the same lines of Gandhi, I think it was him anyway! - Be the change you want to see

And that works brilliantly for clients who are having 'problems' communicating - ask them to imagine how they'd like it to be and then ask them to take at least one step towards being the person they see in their 'future' each day. i've found it helps enormously, though as I'm not completely without 'stuff' find that sometimes the halo slips, and after I think, aha, I didn't act as if.

All of that asides, which almost amounts to a but ... love your 16 Brian!!

16 Rules to Live by

Howdy,

Although I know all of us abide by the presuppositions of NLP at every minute of every day i found this post on a surf and thought I'd share it. A nicely skewed view on how to be happier -

Here are the 16 rules I try to live by:

1. Get and stay out of your comfort zone. I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone. I hear people say, "But I'm concerned about security." My response to that is simple: "Security is for cadavers."

2. Never give up. Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn't have an opportunity.

3. When you're ready to quit, you're closer than you think. There's an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: "The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed."

4. With regard to whatever worries you, not only accept the worst thing that could happen, but make it a point to quantify what the worst thing could be. Very seldom will the worst consequence be anywhere near as bad as a cloud of "undefined consequences." My father would tell me early on, when I was struggling and losing my shirt trying to get Parsons Technology going, "Well, Robert, if it doesn't work, they can't eat you."

5. Focus on what you want to have happen. Remember that old saying, "As you think, so shall you be."

6. Take things a day at a time. No matter how difficult your situation is, you can get through it if you don't look too far into the future, and focus on the present moment. You can get through anything one day at a time.

7. Always be moving forward. Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. The moment you stop improving your organization, it starts to die. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.

8. Be quick to decide. Remember what the Union Civil War general, Tecumseh Sherman said: "A good plan violently executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

9. Measure everything of significance. I swear this is true. Anything that is measured and watched, improves.

10. Anything that is not managed will deteriorate. If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.

11. Pay attention to your competitors, but pay more attention to what you're doing. When you look at your competitors, remember that everything looks perfect at a distance. Even the planet Earth, if you get far enough into space, looks like a peaceful place.

12. Never let anybody push you around. In our society, with our laws and even playing field, you have just as much right to what you're doing as anyone else, provided that what you're doing is legal.

13. Never expect life to be fair. Life isn't fair. You make your own breaks. You'll be doing good if the only meaning fair has to you, is something that you pay when you get on a bus (i.e., fare).

14. Solve your own problems. You'll find that by coming up with your own solutions, you'll develop a competitive edge. Masura Ibuka, the co-founder of SONY, said it best: "You never succeed in technology, business, or anything by following the others." There's also an old Asian saying that I remind myself of frequently. It goes like this: "A wise man keeps his own counsel."

15. Don't take yourself too seriously. Lighten up. Often, at least half of what we accomplish is due to luck. None of us are in control as much as we like to think we are.

16. There's always a reason to smile. Find it. After all, you're really lucky just to be alive. Life is short. More and more, I agree with my little brother. He always reminds me: "We're not here for a long time; we're here for a good time."

Thanks to Bob Parsons (www.bobparsons.com) for his thoughts...

Aloha

Brian

BootCampers & Small Business Owners

Folks,

Jonathan mentioned an online networking tool on Sunday called Ecademy. I have included a link below that will enable you to register for free and receive a free 1 month network pass. This will give you some time to look around and get a feel for the site and decide whether it will work for you or not.

No bank detials or anything will be taken at this point if you don't want them to be.

I thought I'd post it here as sending these out directly through ecademy means the emails will keep on coming!

It is a great site and since upgrading my account last night my profile has already been viewed 46 times (of course each of these viewers then received an email which connects them back to me).

I've also been able to post, for free, my ebay CD listings in the ecademy marketplace and, of course, this means you can post your services, courses, training days, whatever in there as well...Still For Free!!

There is some guy on there selling this Fully Booked Bootcamp idea for people just like us. Looks like a good course, perhaps I'll get on it!

Anyway, click right here and you'll get taken to the site.

Enjoy

Brian

New Projects for 2007...

Fully Booked Bootcamp - enquiries still coming in, the group is forming nicely, I'm really excited about this year long programme and if you're not on it, stand back and watch what happens to the businesses that are!

Entrancing...Have a look at www.trulyhypnotic.com which is a new website I've launched...

Profitable - Also I'd recommend www.meanttoberich.com as well - seems this guy is up to something really rather curious...

Both websites were created quickly and easily [without any programming ability] using the really inexpensive (i.e.£23 per month) website creation software from

http://www.WebsiteWizard.com/index/dashboard

which I heartily recommend - it has all the bells and whistles you'd ever need - pop ups, surveys, autoresponders, broadcast module, built in Merchant Facility, audio, video - it's awesome! And it's Polish!

If you haven't got a website, and even if you do, grab one of these!

Another interesting link

Hello again,

I frequently browse...it's a talent. And when I do I come across little interesting snippets that spark conversation and debate.

So here's another. It goes for about 10-15 minutes so relax and enjoy this irreverent look at models of the world.

Click here to access Link

Aloha

Brian

Science Learning Ancient Knowledge Shocker

I was having a browse and found a wee link to share to start us of in the New Year. It's good to know that science is finally catching up with the ancient knowledge. One day we might actually know as much as we did all those years ago...which will be nice!
I hope you manifest all that you want in 2007 and perhaps we may bump into each other on the journey.
Aloha.
B

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6216913.stm

Spare a thought for Jim and Jo

I just wanted you to know that my friend and client Jim O'Grady, whom some of you know from Practitioner and Master Practitioner courses, was involved in a serious car accident near Dumfries on Wednesday Dec 20th. He is in intensive care, more as a precautionary measure, but his carer Jo, and her sister who was also in the car, both lost their lives. Many of you knew Jo too, because she devoted her time to always being by Jim's side and caring for him in every way possible.

I'd like to ask you to spare some thoughts and good wishes for them all, and let's focus on Jim recovering quickly and easily. He's a fighter, and as stubborn as an ox, so lets hope that gives him an advantage in his recovery.

The first thing that came to mind when I got the news was the book "When Bad Things Happen To Good People" by Rabbi Kushner.

What I'm feeling right now is hard to put into words. I keep hearing the word "wrong". And so close to Christmas too - apparently they were on their way to Jim's sister's 80th birthday party.

So whatever you're doing over Christmas and New Year, spare a minute or two to send them all some positive energy.

Thank you

Miracles on Demand completes the year...

Thanks to everyone on "Miracles on Demand" this week - a really sweet and evolved way to officially end my training year of 2006. Our weather control finally worked! Friday is gorgeous! Pity it's a day late!

And thanks to Phil on the course for the following comment:

Again many thanks for the course.

The first day in itself was worth coming as it vastly improved the
framework I had, and included things, such as Na, which I guessed were in
there, but had not read about. As an ex aikidoist this is particularly
important that the concept of centering is included in the Kahuna name.

I wonder if any of the others on the course really appreciate how much and
how long they could have studied metaphysics without coming up with the
quality of understanding and knowledge you gave on the course.

Aberdeen Master Pracs

Is there one of us in Aberdeen? I have some indication of work and I feel Aberdeen is just a bit beyond my geographical scope on a regular basis. I'd be happy to have a chat about it. Jackie

Hi team - need some help - anyone any experience

of finding that someone's unconscious doesn't want to come out and play?? I have a client who has previously been treated badly by a therapist and was left back at age 4 in traumatic circumstances - he ended up in hospital.

He is keen to get rid of his ASFG with timeline. I started by using the human pendulum to get the root cause. At the first question I asked the normal - is it ok with your unconscious mind to let this go blah blah. It said no. Quite emphatically. I then went on to the various other questions raising the point that by hanging onto it, it was going against the Prime Directives of the unconscious mind blah blah. I still got no even though it recognised that it was in conflict. I asked for the reason and it appeared (through his voice) to fear of going back to hospital.

I thanked the uncon for its co-operation and assured it that all would be done safely quickly and easily. Then I brought client back to sit down.

He was very surprised at what happened and I continued to re-assure him that we had had a good result and asked him to communicate with his uncon more often so that it felt more secure.

I am intending doing some hypnosis next time, some healing scripts and some which alleviate the fear of letting go.

Has anyone come across anything like this before and is there any advice as to how I would be best dealing with it??

Many thanks. Jackie

Bootcamp Quarter Full Already!

That's right, 6 of the 24 places available have been snapped up already, and the Bootcamp hasn't even been marketed fully. If you have the slightest inkling that you want to build a thriving practice in 2007, and you're ready to do what it takes, then call Eileen on 0800 072 5792 ASAP before it sells out.

Initial phone consultations start next week!