Steve says hello!

[Steve Colegate]

Have just left corporate employment.
My area of expertise is NLP (Nero - Linguistic- Programming).. I know its a really naff tittle but all the ologies were gone!
I apply NLP to real life business applications (Solving problems) as both a trainer of NLP and a consultant. I love training, my real passion tho is coaching, working with business people to turn their business dreams and aspirations into reality. I also have a regular slot on BBC local radio as a "life Coach" I never chose that particular label but I do life coaching on a referal only basis and the PR can't do me any harm.
I also love sport and with the London Olympics on the horizon (albeit a distant one) I'd love to work with budding Olympians to teach them how to get their minds trained to be champs.

Dislikes are rudeness, direspect and people like Paul McKenna and Derren Brown using the power of psychology for entertainment.

Steve

Steve

[annethedonn]

welcome Steve

[mumper]

Hi Steve, welcome to the forums.

I used to work for someone who was into NLP and DHE and trained with Richard Bandler and John LaValle. He didn't like Paul McKenna either.

[Russ]

Hi Steve

Welcome to the forum.

Have you read Influencing with Integrity - Management Skills for Communication and Negotiation and is it any good?

Can you recommend any easy reads for the curious mind?

Russ

[Arial]

Hi Steve


Welcome to the forum, fascinating stuff NLP. My son is qualified in it as well. :D

Look forward to catching you on the boards.

[Jayne]

Hi Steve,

Fancey having a radio star on here :lol: Welcome to the forum :D

Best Wishes

Jayne

[sarahpatience]

Hi Steve,

Welcome to the forum, really informative site you have there, I knew nothing about NLP but sounds very interesting.

Sarah

[Steve Colegate]

Thanks for all your welcomes. I nearly missed them I thought that I was supposed to get a mail sent every time I posted a post or recieved a reply??

Look forward to meeting you all on the forum soon.

Steve

[babybiz]

Hi Steve, what a superb job you have (that title threw me a bit though!). You must get such a kick out of helping people do something they didn't think they could.

Tashxx

[Steve Colegate]

Thanks Tash.
Yes I do love what I do.. The only real frustration is that coaching does attract get rich quick coaching schools and coaches which is not good for the industry or those that would benefit from coaching if they were willing to believe the positives. :)

[Rob Holmes]

Hi Steve,

A belated welcome :)

I used a business coach a few months ago and it was very successful.

I wish you all the best!

Rob

[Ravenfire]

Hi Steve and welcome to the forum :)

Toni

[directmarketingadvice]

Hi Steve

Welcome to the forum.

Your field is one which interests me. I've got a client who's a NLPer/hypnothrapist.

Do you get all your clients from referrals? How did you build your business to get to the point you had enough critical mass that you could rely on that?

Also, I'm curious, what's the problem with McKenna and Brown?

Even though they may trivialise it, I'd have thought that they do a good job at creating awareness of NLP and related methods.

In particular, I thought that McKenna's recent series on Sky was a good showcase for NLP/Hypnotherapy.

Obviously, you feel different and you do so from the perspective of someone in the industry, so I'd be curious to hear what specific downside you think they bring to NLP.

Steve

[Steve Colegate]

Hi Steve.
I'm not at the critical mass stage yet as I have only recently stepped into to world of running my own business.
I have already discovered that advertising returns very little, targeted mail a little better, personal recommendation still the best. Taling to people about what you do is fine, the trick is to ask them to remember to either pass on your name or let you know when they come across someone who might be interested.

On the McKenna and Brown thing I do feel like a bit of a hypocrite as I do have a slot on local radio.

I had no issue with DB up to the oint that he tranced a video gamer and placed him in the game for real. I jsut felt that was overstepping the mark. He had no permission to mess with someones reality strategy and I don't think it was responsible to play with something as fundamental as the ability to distinguish fiction from reality in the name of entertainment.

On the Mckenna thing its more of delivering as distorted perception of NLP. NLP polarises opinion. It is powerful and already attracts amateur therapists to its ranks which I don't think is such a good idea. In the hands of a trained therapist NLP is an exellent additional set of skill.
Paul is not a trained therapist but is performaing therapy for entertainment.. You also only get to see the things that work and have entertainment value..

Cripes someone push me off the soapbox.
Steve

[americatelefon.com]

Hello and welcome

[directmarketingadvice]

Hi Steve

I'm going to push you back onto your soapbox :)

I don't watch Deren Brown's show regularly, but I did see the Video Game item and I thought it left an unpleasant taste in my mouth.

I thought he was interesting when he first got on TV but, after that, it just started to be small variations on the same themes. I guess that means he'll have to try to be more and more shocking. And I'm not sure that's a good thing.

Paul is not a trained therapist but is performaing therapy for entertainment..

I had no idea that he wasn't a trained therapist and, to be honest, I don't know the differences in training between someone who's a practitioner and someone who's a therapist.

You also only get to see the things that work and have entertainment value..

I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. I think NLP is very powerful and very useful and showing it, even in a slightly over-favourable and distorted light, is good.

It opens people eyes to something that could be possible for them in their lives.

Whether that's something that's abused (by incompetent or unscrupulous therapists) is a different thing. But that's an issue that exists with a lot of therapies (don't get me started on AA).

Steve

[clairemackaness]

Hi Steve, welcome.

I went on an NLP course last year and loved it. I managed to getmy husband to empty the bin without asking him, so it works for me! (LOL)