My very first NLP Training was an NLP Practitioner Training with Tad James. But my introduction to the notion of NLP came two years earlier while I was “working” for Tony Robbins as an unpaid staffer at his Fear into Power and Date with Destiny seminars. At a staff meeting, when someone asked Tony how we could learn the kind of skills he had learned, he said to take an NLP Training.
I immediately began researching NLP and decided that Tad James had a most serious and professional approach to NLP Training that felt right to me. And his own training had been with the founders of NLP, Richard Bandler and John Grinder. We had to listen to 24 audio tapes (this was in the early 1990’s) three times each and then pass a detailed exam BEFORE we were allowed to take the training. It was a lot of work, but it was so worth it! The 7-day Practitioner Certification Training was intense, really enlightening and exciting, and a lot of fun!
I had intended to learn the NLP techniques for use in my life as a writer, an educator and a parent – and believe me, what I learned in that first course certainly enhanced every relationship in my life, but I decided to go on to the Master Practitioner and Trainer Training because this stuff was just too amazing to keep to myself. I have been studying NLP and practicing as an NLP Coach ever since.
