The Mastery InSight Institute of NLP
global newsletter - Dec 5, 2008
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Contents of today's newsletter!
- Today's article: "The Pure FUN of using & learning NLP!"
- Holiday Offers: "Holiday Combo's, Gift-Wrapping, & Drop-Shipping!
- 4 New Student Reviews: Just received 4 new testimonials for my "Irresistible Voice" seminar (scheduled again for Denver in April!).
- New Products: Audio Set "Belief Craft" & "Persuasion Summit" DVDs Re-Release!
- Still honoring expired November rates through the weekend (Monday Dec. 8) Save money on upcoming events! (There are 1st-five-to-register incentives on several events still available!)
- NLP & Selling/ Dallas TX, January 2009
- Holographic Communication/ Toronto, Ont, January 2009 Already 1/3 Full!
- NEW: Mental Renovation -L1 Chambersburg, PA, February 2009
- NEW: Mental Renovation -L2 Chambersburg, PA, February 2009
- Linguistic Wizardry Washington DC, April 2009 Our LAST LW Training, Just Added!
- Irresistible Voice Denver CO, April 2009 Our FIRST-ever Denver visit!
- Advanced Belief Craft/ Melbourne AU, May 2009 Altfeld & O'Brien together!
- Holographic Communication/ Melbourne AU, May 2009 Already Half-Full, 7 months away!
- Belief Craft/ Baltimore, MD, June 2009 Just Added -- with Altfeld & O'Brien together!
- NLP Master Prac/ Baltimore, MD, June 2009 Just Added -- with Altfeld & O'Brien together!
- Holographic Communication/ London, UK, July 2009 Just Added!
Page Directory: [ "New Article" ] [ Holiday Deals! ] [ New Reviews! ] [ Audio/Video ] [ Calendar ] I've been reviewing my website, and my newsletters, over a period of time... and it's become laughably obvious that I sound way too serious online sometimes. Oh, I do take the quality of my work and my business presence seriously, but I don't take life too seriously, and I don't take myself too seriously either. Life's too short for that, and by contrast to how it might seem, I tend to bring more than a few rays of sunshine and laughter and fun to just about any and every pursuit or situation. So the reason for today's article is to share another, playful side of me. Because I don't know if it comes across through my website or my newsletters how much fun I think it is both to learn NLP, and to LIVE it. Fun for me -- fun for my kids -- immense fun for Everyone! Changing Perceptions is an Enormous amount of fun! So, let me take you back to one of my visits to Melbourne Australia. I've gone out to lunch on Lygon Street during one of my courses, with a large contingent of my student group, accompanied also by my good friend NLP Trainer James Tsakalos. James seems to feel it's an essential Melbourne experience to try this restaurant's "Special Hot Chocolate". I find out later on, that he actually feels it's an essential experience to be the butt of a practical joke! So, the waiter takes a typical white cylindrical ceramic mug, places it upside down on a saucer plate, puts a teaspoon of hot chocolate on the bottom surface of the mug which is pointing upwards, then paints the top with whipped cream. Sure enough, when I lift it to my mouth, I get a moustache of whipped cream, and no more than a teaspoon of hot chocolate before I realize the mug is mostly empty. What a beautiful illusion! (And a cheap practical joke!). It seems my life is increasingly filled with such fun moments! Yours could be too! (Just remember, the word "Gullible" is actually NOT listed in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary! Amazing!) This is a fun rant. Just for shits & giggles. For anyone who gets annoyed when strangers talk on their cellphones in front of you in public -- on speakerphone!! One night about a month ago, I headed out to a favorite spot to grab some Dinner. I sat at the bar and ordered a semi-healthy appetizer. Normally -- a great place to go. That night, however, the last 5 minutes of my fun was polluted by some guy who apparently wasn't aware of the degree to which he was offending everyone (30+ people) at the bar. He strolls in with a large cellphone (like a crackberry; errr, blackberry, but everyone's so addicted to them I call them crackberries), and it's on Speakerphone. It's clearly too much work to hold it to his ear, so he holds it to his mouth. And he's speaking LOUDLY. It's an inch from his mouth, the speaker sound is turned way up, and he's speaking loudly. Which is to say, ALL of us can hear his conversation. Not just me -- 2 seats down from him, but I'm watching EVERYONE around a rather large rectangular bar watching him. Listening to him talk to what appears to be a business partner about moving money around from here to there. After several minutes of utter fascination with his willingness to share this ongoing conversation of his with all of us, I finally decide it's time to do something about it. So I start scanning a range of options, looking at the situation from multiple perceptual positions. Instead, I figure, "when in Rome...." and I decide to explore what mirroring his behavior will do for the entire context. So I take out my cellphone, and I start alternating between pressing two buttons, that cause my phone to beep, incredibly loudly. Too loudly, it seems, for him to stay properly focused on his conversation. LOL. I can hear he & his co-hort beginning to have difficulty communicating. After about 30 seconds of this, I look over at him, pretending to be dumbfounded, WHILE I continue pressing the buttons, and say, LOUDLY, "OH.... I'M SORRY... IS THIS DISTURBING YOUR CALL? I APOLOGIZE, I GUESS I FAILED TO ASK EVERYONE AT THE BAR IF THESE LOUD BEEPS WOULD OFFEND ANY OF YOU." And then I looked across the bar at several other groups who were already laughing at my antics, and I asked "IS MY PHONE PISSING YOU OFF??? GEE I'M SORRY... I CAN'T HELP IT.. MY FINGERS DON'T WANT TO STOP!!! CAN YOU PUT UP WITH IT FOR ANOTHER HOUR OR SO? PLEASE?" Meanwhile the guy with the Crackberry looks over at me while his buddy's saying (on speaker) "what's going on?" And he looks at his crackberry, pauses for a while, and ultimately says "Let me call you later." He ends the call, and a massive round of applause erupts -- followed by not less than 3 people offering to buy me a beer loudly enough for Crackberry-guy to hear it. Meanwhile the bartenders are all "high-fiving" me. He then chooses to save face by apologizing, and while nobody wants to hear it, I immediately ease up on my nonverbal communication and accept his apology with grace. Unfortunately none of the others at the bar really wanted to converse with him, which was their own choice to make. Finally Crackberry-guy got up and left. I'm not quite sure how I lucked into this, but I managed to avoid an argument, prevent 30 people from lynching a guy, stop someone from disturbing me and others, get a standing ovation, get 3 free beers (turned 2 of them down!) and 4 high-fives, get him to decide to leave without further aggression. Not a bad night, come to think about it. LOL! I see this as just an example of being able to assess a situation, consider the dynamics of the situation from multiple perspectives, and creatively find an ideal way of engaging with the scene in an optimal way, for optimal outcomes. NLP gives us so much in the way of a fabulous (and often fun) toolbelt for these purposes! Making every situation a ripe opportunity to live life with a sense of light-heartedness and best intentions for the most possible number of people... is an immensely fun way of life. I believe that every workshop & training opportunity NEEDS to be equally fun and enjoyable. I do believe in rigorous efforts, but I believe in wrapping them with fabulous experiences whenever possible! If you think about it... (and I know you will!)... don't you agree with me? What a great way to move through the world! I'm often asked how I seemingly effortlessly come up with such creative angles to handling or resolving unique problem situations. I think the way in which I approach running courses encourages this sense of play and exploration, not only in terms of book knowledge but in terms of real-world behavioral situations. In other words, I think I make that sense of fun with NLP... not only contagious and adventurous, but also still as high a quality training experience as you can get anywhere! Might you want more of a sense of adventurous fun in your own life -- while also learning how to help yourself & others to a richer, more rewarding life experience? I don't know too many people who wouldn't benefit from more of this!
Page Directory: [ "New Article" ] [ Holiday Deals! ] [ New Reviews! ] [ Audio/Video ] [ Calendar ] To take advantage of any of these specific offers, email us a direct response OR call our office 717-264-8444 to take advantage! FYI: We can Gift-Wrap these in advance, print a simple custom gift card, AND drop-ship to your gift recipients! Gift-Wrapping is FREE during this special one-week Holiday Offer! Get both Voice CD's for their normal combined total of $209 plus shipping, and for 1 week only, I'll also include a free 20-minute coaching session by phone or Skype after you've gone through the CDs! -- Get $15 off any ONE title ($84 + shipping), $45 off any TWO titles ($153 + shipping), $60 off all 3 titles ($237 + shipping)! Get 3 copies for $135 ($45 apiece), instead of $210 total ($75 saved!). Get 4 copies for $160 ($40 apiece), instead of $280 total ($120 saved!).
Page Directory: [ "New Article" ] [ Holiday Deals! ] [ New Reviews! ] [ Audio/Video ] [ Calendar ] And if any of these jazz you up -- remember, I'm running this course again in April in Denver CO -- and the lowest rate is available right now (along with a few open seats with first-to-register bonuses, still!). "Jonathan Altfeld taught me what makes a voice command authority and then taught me how to make my voice command authority." - Jay, Washington DC
Training with Jonathan is an experience to be savored like a fine wine. The irresistible voice seminar was the third time I attended a seminar with him. To be honest, I have both versions of his CD set on voice and used them often in early years of my career, My colleagues and clients have always commented on my voice. I had done a lot of voice work and thought that I had a great voice by now. One week end with Jonathan and WOW what an exciting surprise! My tonality and resonance took a giant leap forward. I learned to celebrate the nasal qualities of my voice and use it to advantage. My breathing became smooth and effortless. My volume control and enunciation improved markedly.. I was not the only one! Jonathan was busy flitting around the room... a posture correction here a jaw manipulation there. Soon everyone was showing vast improvement. Oh and did I mention his NLP skillset ? Like an invisible magic wand, he is always busy layering in embedded commands and coaxing the best from your subconscious. I learned so many new things just watching him work. Why is he so good? Because he cares about his students and he cares about his work. It shows. Thanks for a great week end Jonathan.
- Hugh Cole (Texas Tranceman), Hypnotist, Dallas TX
Jonathan Altfeld is filling a much needed niche in the NLP community: training and developing the use of voice control. It is very well recognized and documented that voice control is a key element when inducing trance, persuasion, and building rapport. Yet Jonathan is the only trainer that offers workshops on the subject. If your voice has been a source of frustration for you, then I definitely recommend that you purchase his Irresistable Voice CDs and/or attend one of his workshops. All of Jonathan's seminars are well structured, individualized, and pragmatic. It is extremely easy and fun to learn from Jonathan. - Zach P., Portland OR
If you want to improve the sound of your voice, this is the workshop for you. From the very first day, massive changes were made in every participant's voice. I was astounded at how, with just the right coaching and tools, I was easily able to shift my voice during the training, and now two weeks later, I am still able to do so, continuing to improve as I apply the techniques and skills that I learned in the course. Even when I'm not thinking about it and intending to speak well, the improvement remains. How do I know that my voice has dramatically improved? It used to be that I got interrupted a lot and people would drift off, on purpose or otherwise, as I was speaking. Now, people listen in a way that they never have before. Last night at a social event several people were hanging to my every word until I had to literally dismiss them. That never used to happen. The day after the training, I used my new voice speaking skills on the telephone to make a sale that was double the cost of the training. In other words, in one day, the workshop paid for itself twice over! Then when I met with that client, she spent most of the time with her eyes fixated on me while I spoke as if I were some sort of Svengali. Another client asked me if she could put my name out on a highly influential completely non-commercial local bulletin board because she felt so good about our work together. She also wants to help promote me in other ways. You can't buy that kind of publicity! I've taken several trainings with Jonathan (and lots with other trainers) and I can say without hesitation that he is one of the top NLP trainers in the world. His focus is not on bedazzling the participants with his amazing skillset, although he certainly has the ability to do that if he wanted to. Instead, he channels it all into building your skills, step by step, so that you walk away having learned and practiced and gotten good at, whatever it is that the seminar is about. And, unlike many trainers out there, he doesn't play 'hide the ball' with the most important information. He gives it all to you and has you practice it over and over, layering in more and integrating more with each round, until you find yourself with a solid skillset. If your objective is to acquire skills and get really good at the subject matter of the workshop, I can't give a better recommendation. I took the Irresistible Voice training because there were a number of specific skills that I had been wanting to get good at for several years. The top three were to speak with greater resonance, to deepen my tonality, and to use rhythm effectively. I had worked on these things but actually 'getting it' had eluded me until the seminar. With Jonathan's very specific coaching and the exercises, it finally all came together and I left being able to naturally use my voice as I had wanted to for so long. In this workshop, the objective was to have our voices sound far more aesthetically pleasing and to use those pleasing voices to better effect. That objective was achieved, and exceeded. Every single participant sounded dramatically better by the end of the workshop and, as a bonus, was able to use language patterns more powerfully. If your voice is anything less than perfect, take this training. It's fun, it's effective, and it will pay for itself very very quickly. - San Francisco participant (Name withheld by request).
Page Directory: [ "New Article" ] [ Holiday Deals! ] [ New Reviews! ] [ Audio/Video ] [ Calendar ] Finally, after 4 years, the Belief Craft seminar is available as a new Audio set. This Audio set combines Knowledge Engineering with Sleight of Mouth, into a more synergistic approach to using both systems for targeted belief changes. Join me, Jonathan Altfeld, and Doug O'Brien, for over 13 hours of high quality recorded material, fully edited for topical brevity. This seminar was taught as the first 3 days of a longer Master Practitioner training, but also as a self-contained 3-day seminar. (The rest of the Master Practitioner audios will be coming in a few months!). We've released all 13+ hours and our Belief Craft manual -- as an .mp3 set on a SINGLE data CD, containing all the .mp3 tracks and our manual as a .PDF as well. Here's the website link where you can learn a LOT more about this new audio set, and order your very own copy of Belief Craft! Those who have already bought these early and are awaiting shipping -- our first production batch did not print properly -- and now that I am back from my training trip to Holland, we'll be re-manufacturing (& verifying/validating) these over the weekend & early next week. I will fulfill all pending Belief Craft orders pronto -- your CDs are the highest priority on our task list right now.
Back in 2001 in Safety Harbor Florida, I co-taught another seminar with Persuasion master Christopher Tomasulo, called the Persuasion Tactics Power Summit. This was an amazing workshop -- very different from traditional NLP approaches to persuasion & influence. Most such courses deal with language patterns. This course was all about what you do before you get into a persuasion situation -- so that all your ducks are in a row already... so that your deck is already stacked in your favor...! We recorded the event digitally, and released VHS tapes along with 3 booklets and a follow-up CD. We released 8 hours of Chris & I training his unique brand of Persuasion (jam packed with great material, beautifully edited). Finally, all 8 original edited hours of material have been re-released now on DVD. The retail price for the full media set, including 8 hours of DVDs + 3 booklets + additional CD, is $299. You can find the Persuasion Summit DVD-set order page through our Products Index page.
Page Directory: [ "New Article" ] [ Holiday Deals! ] [ New Reviews! ] [ Audio/Video ] [ Calendar ] FYI: our Secure Event Registration Forms are now loading JUST FINE. January 10-11, 2009 -- NLP & Selling, Dallas, TX 15-19 January 2009 -- Holographic Communication -- Toronto! February 21-22, 2009 -- NEW COURSE: Mental Renovation (Level 1 for New NLP Enthusiasts), Chambersburg, PA February 28, March 1, 2009 -- NEW COURSE: Mental Renovation (Level 2 for Practitioners & Master Practitioners), Chambersburg, PA April 17-19, 2009 -- Linguistic Wizardry -- Washington DC April 24-26, 2009 -- Irresistible Voice -- Denver, CO May 2009 -- Advanced Belief Craft -- Melbourne, Australia -- featuring both Jonathan Altfeld and Doug O'Brien! May 2009 -- Holographic Communication -- Melbourne, Australia June 10-12, 2009 -- Belief Craft -- Baltimore, MD -- featuring both Jonathan Altfeld and Doug O'Brien! June 10-20, 2009 -- NLP Master Practitioner Intensive -- Baltimore, MD -- featuring both Jonathan Altfeld and Doug O'Brien! 9-13 July 2009 -- Holographic Communication -- London UK
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Article: The Pure FUN of Learning & Using NLP
Story #1: Fabulous Practical Jokes
Story #2: How to take 30+ really annoyed people and entertain them with an NLP mirroring process!
Living the Life...
Special Holiday Offers for the next week! (Until end of Friday December 12!)
Offer #1: "Voice Overhaul"
Offer #2: "NLP Skills-Builders" DVD Sets (Rapport, Influence & Motivation)
Offer #3: "Wholesale 3 or 4 copies: Irresistible Voice CD-set"
4 New Testimonials for my Irresistible Voice course!
What makes a voice command authority!
Why is he so good? Because he cares about his students and he cares about his work. It shows.
Structured, individualized, and pragmatic!
Every single participant sounded dramatically better
by the end of the workshop!
(1) NEW BELIEF CRAFT Audio Set Released
(2) PERSUASION SUMMIT DVDs Re-Released!
(3) FLIRTOPIA DVDs Will Re-Release Shortly (in final production, still - sorry!).
Upcoming Global Seminar Schedule
(November rates honored through late Monday night!(December 8 2008)!January 2009
It's been too long since we trained in TX! We'll return in January to teach 2 action-packed days of learning how to use NLP effectively in sales. Grab the 1st-to-register bonuses & still get the October rate today & tomorrow!
This 5-day course on Presentation Skills with NLP has gotten absolutely stellar student reviews as the ultimate training to master 'state-chaining' skills. Rave reviews from NLP beginners all the way up through Trainers. Anyone with a fear of public speaking will easily eliminate it (with a sense of fun, as surprising as that sounds), and experienced speakers stand to gain so much more of an edge. Half the seminar time will be nuts & bolts applied NLP for stagework, and the other half will be your own individual stage presentations recorded on your own DVD, back-to-back. This course is now 1/3 full, already!February 2009
After over a decade training NLP around the globe, Jonathan Altfeld has evolved a deeper understanding of patterns of personal development & change that sometimes do not equate to typical ways of training/learning NLP. Level 1 of this course is open to absolutely anyone who feels stuck in their lives, unsure of how to break free and achieve more -- yet doesn't think the 500+ person hype-driven seminars are for them. Let us help you do an inventory of what is and what is not working -- and help lead you through exercises that WILL make a difference for you -- and provide you additional tools & resources for staying on track.
After over a decade training NLP around the globe, Jonathan Altfeld has evolved a deeper understanding of patterns of personal development & change that sometimes do not equate to typical ways of training/learning NLP. Level 2 of this course is open to NLP Practitioners & Master Practitioners who thought their NLP certification training(s) would help them solve everything -- but yet, they still feel stuck. Level 2 will explore advanced ways of changing core patterns (like using metaprograms to change our metaprograms), like actually changing core beliefs and then testing to ensure those changes are in place. This course is ONLY for people who've been ready for transformation, but didn't get it elsewhere. Let us help you turn Frustration, into Freedom & Relief.April 2009
After some 9 years, we're finally putting this course to rest, and updating our offerings. We bumped our Cincinnati course out on the calendar for Washington DC, instead. In this course, students learn more pragmatic ways to use NLP conversationally. This course teaches flexibility with persuasive language skills. Our most popular course ever -- taught *31* times globally. Hope you can make it before this course disappears!
Taught in London, NYC, Melbourne Australia, & San Francisco last year -- with profound results! Attendees can expect amazingly powerful shifts in the sound quality and resonance and depth of their voices. Check out our student reviews! Just added -- grab the 1st-to-register bonuses!May 2009
This 3-day course will combine advanced Knowledge Engineering skills with advanced "Sleight of Mouth." Pre-requisites of Knowledge Engineering & Sleight of Mouth CDs or courses will enable us to reach extremely levels of competence in changing & rewiring belief systems. The webpage for this will be up shortly.
ALREADY HALF FULL! Get your seat registered with a deposit if you want to ensure a seat! This 5-day course on Presentation Skills with NLP has gotten absolutely stellar student reviews as the ultimate training to master 'state-chaining' skills. Rave reviews from NLP beginners all the way up through Trainers. Anyone with a fear of public speaking will easily eliminate it (with a sense of fun, as surprising as that sounds), and experienced speakers stand to gain so much more of an edge. Half the seminar time will be nuts & bolts applied NLP for stagework, and the other half will be your own individual stage presentations recorded on your own DVD, back-to-back. November is the first month to pay in full & get the lowest rate!June 2009
This 3-extended-day (9am to 9pm) course will also be the 1st 3 days of our Master Practitioner course. One can attend either the entire course, or just the Belief Craft seminar by itself. This is a great opportunity to learn how to unpack belief systems... and completely rewire/change them.
Doug O'Brien & Jonathan Altfeld will again run their 10-day Master Practitioner course (with 1 day off in the middle), but with long days -- 9:00am to 9:00pm will be typical. If you've been waiting for a serious (& seriously fun) Master Prac course here in the USA, that won't skimp on training hours or rush you through important material, get yourself registered ASAP! Our students this past year RAVED about their training.July 2009
This 5-day course on Presentation Skills with NLP is becoming increasingly popular even amongst NLP trainers, not to mention complete beginners. Anyone with a fear of public speaking will easily eliminate it (with a sense of fun, as surprising as that sounds), and experienced speakers stand to gain so much more of an edge. Half the seminar time will be nuts & bolts applied NLP for stagework, and the other half will be your own individual stage presentations recorded on your own DVD, back-to-back. We had to cancel this one in 2008 for London because of visa issues -- Now Resolved! MULTIPLE early-registration incentives/bonuses apply, so register early!