The first of our NLP Practitioner courses for 2005 kicks off on the 2nd to 8th April 2005 at the Church Hall in Brown Edge, Staffordshire. We were originally going to hold these courses at the local hospital but room booking policies have changed making it nearly impossible to ensure that we have a fixed room for block of dates. The church hall is easier to book and offers more room, so we decided to move the courses!

Our hypnosis training videos are in the final stages of editing and we shall offer these shortly.

Well, it's a new year and it's often a busy time for hypnotists and NLP practitioners alike. Perhaps it's also time to consider how many more methods are available: how many techniques can make a profound difference to those who ask for help.

It's often those who don't ask that require the most help though: I am tweaking my non-verbal receptors to make sure I really understand the messages presented.

I have a lot to achieve this year and have set my goals accordingly. If I aim for the skies, then the clouds are only the start! I guess that means that if there's something strange orbiting the planet this year, don't go inside: it's just me making changes the easy way because the only problem is knowing what needs to change isn't it?

We ended up migrating to a new server with all the latest .NET releases and this caused us a few problems with DLL registration failures and authentication. After some five days of work, we have finally restored our service!

Apologies if you tried to access the site during this period: we think that everything is back online again!

Lots of stuff to start working on now. This means that I can sell products through the site. It took a while to get it all working, but now that I have the method, I can start packaging and accepting orders.

It's always good to hear success stories - it's even nicer knowing that there are more people feeling good because they've made others feel good! At the top of the tree must be Richard Bandler because he's trained me to train people to become "agents of change". How many people has he indirectly changed through teaching his techniques to people like me?

I often wonder about hypnotherapists who don't use or understand NLP. I think I would struggle to know what to say without knowing the Meta or Milton models. Today, I've answered 3 people on Usenet who have asked "do you have a script for 'x'". My reply - I don't use scripts - learn to meet your client in their model of the world and learn to communicate within that world (I've been slightly more helpful than that as I've given an outline of processes too, but I've suggested they free themselves from the limitations scripts impose).

Effective change is based on effective communication - become creative - use positive intention, your imagination and add a sense of humour: then you'll succeed every time.

Apologies for anyone trying to post anything to the site this evening - we had a database issue with our service provider, but they seem to have resolved it - we hope. I guess this means we're back online properly and people should be able to contribute again.

Thanks to everyone for their feedback on the site - we're always glad of any comments we receive and will do our best to accomodate (who said we're too easy?).

Anyway it's late and I've had enough for a Saturday. Hope you like the changes to the site.

P.S. Please contribute to the discussions and make the couple of weeks it's taken to get the software online worthwhile. Thanks.

Please feel free to comment - feedback is always welcome.

If we don't know what's wrong, how can we fix it?