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One thing is certain. You're here at this website, exploring and learning NLP, for your own reasons. If it hasn't already become obvious from visiting this and other NLP Training websites, there is no one single recommended path, or purpose, for learning NLP.

Over thirty years ago, NLP was developed primarily for and amongst an eclectic group of therapists, for rapid and profoundly powerful changework. Since the early days it has grown dramatically to encompass a vast range of extraordinary human skills, and is now used by hundreds of thousands of people across the globe. Perhaps millions.

This is because there are many, many different reasons to learn NLP. And there are many, many different ways to learn NLP. How do you begin to choose where to start? Or what's next? Which trainers are best for you? Which home study materials? Hopefully this page will give you a recommended framework for further development, wherever you are, whatever your background, whatever your reasons for learning NLP, and however far you want to go with your studies.

Out of Hundreds of Reasons to Learn NLP,
the Mastery InSight Institute can best serve you
in these Five Key Areas of Development.

So if you fit into any of the following five reasons to pursue NLP, you stand to gain a great deal from our organization (and our affiliations with business partners).

Let's first explore your learning style: Are you more "options" oriented, or "procedures" oriented? Whichever you are, you should embrace that, and follow a path that best serves your style!

Options-oriented people like to have lots of choices, don't like to be told how to do things or what to do in sequence, rather they would prefer just to be shown what they can accomplish, or told what the end result should be, and they'll find their own pathway. Procedures-oriented people like to be instructed what to do in the optimal sequence. They like checklists. And they associate completing that checklist in order, with success. Which are you?

If you feel "lost" with all of the choices available to you with NLP, then chances are, you're more Procedures-Oriented, and THIS PAGE IS FOR YOU! If not, then feel free to explore our site in your own preferred way.




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Teaching / Training / Public Speaking / Presentation Skills

If you do any of the above as part of your career or lifestyle, we can dramatically improve your game. If your income is tied to how you perform on the platform, how well you sell onstage, &/or how you package information & call people to action, we can help you dramatically raise your income.

Speaking & giving presentations is one of those pursuits where you can ALWAYS improve. If you think you're good enough, if you truly don't want or need to take your skills or knowledge or performance or income to a higher level, then fine. Otherwise, you would do well to pursue all of the following specific recommendations. Our students continually agree: "Our courses ought to be Required Learning for every teacher & speaker."

Recommended Coaching Programs for Speakers

One-On-One:

Our trainer Jonathan Altfeld has several Inner Circle coaching clients that he sees in person on occasion or works with online, to improve their public speaking skills. About half are executives from managers up through CEO's who regularly have to give influential presentations. The other half are niche public speakers who do platform sales while training. Jonathan's targeted feedback has been highly valuable to these people, many of whom command high six & seven figure incomes.

When a speaker is leaving money on the table (in other words, not selling as much as they can/could to their highly qualified prospect audiences), Jonathan helps them close more sales, more easily, making his services not a liability or cost, but a really wise investment. When a presenter or speaker is working to earn $1000 a day instead of drawing $3500 for a 90-minute keynote, Jonathan's services can help them bring their "A-Game" out, thereby increasing a speaker's earning potential.

To discuss coaching services from Jonathan, complete our online feedback form or call 717-264-8444. You'll know very, very quickly just how smart a decision you'll have made -- typically within the first hour. For serious speakers, not hiring Jonathan would be a very costly mistake -- because whatever you're currently making as a speaker, you could always be earning substantially more.

Recommended NLP Seminars for Speakers

The first question you may be asking is, "Should I take a Practitioner or Master Practitioner training?" The answer is, 'if you can afford the time/money to attend such courses, definitely do it!' Longer NLP courses offer us a wonderful self-fulfilling developmental journey whose benefits are profound, dramatic, and long-lasting. But the following specific courses, are much more targeted "must-do" recommendations.

  • Our FAST™ - Finesse Accelerated Skills Transfer. This is a 2-day course designed to teach training-design skills to speakers & trainers. If you've ever wanted to know how Jonathan designs his courses, redesigns them on-the-fly as needed, and often brilliantly constructs in-class exercise drills to meet specific needs, this course teaches you his unique methods for course design & student tasking within a classroom setting. This very special 2-day course is what sets Jonathan's work apart from so many other trainers who can't get past their cookie cutter origins. This course has only been trained once before, and if we receive enough requests from you we may add it to our US or UK Calendar for 2008.
  • Our Holographic Communication™. This is the course every speaker reading this page should RUN, not walk, to sign up for. 15 students maximum accepted for each of these events, which is more like an intensive speaker's coaching program. We record your stagework sessions throughout the course on your own DVD, back to back, including targeted positive feedback before & after every presentation. Come read our student testimonials & review our video case studies!
  • Our Linguistic Wizardry™. This course is great for speakers who either don't have the time or money for the full 5-day Holographic Communication training, or who want a refresher of SOME of the material from the Holographic course. There's about 50% overlap on the specific skills taught between this course and the Holographic Communication course. So this course is not only great fun, but fabulous for fresh practice with feedback, of skills learned elsewhere.
  • Our Irresistible Voice™ . This course is a must for anyone who uses their voice to communicate ideas, messages, and calls to action. You're either turning people on, or off, with your voice, and there isn't much middle ground. Grease the wheels of influence -- improve your voice. Get it done! Every single day with a whiny, tinny, gravelly, or annoying voice translates to lost opportunities, ignored messages, & restricted income!

Recommended NLP Videos/DVDs for Speakers

Recommended NLP CDs/Audios for Speakers

Recommended NLP & Other Books for Speakers

Therapeutic Metaphors
Therapeutic Metaphors

David Gordon

Dynamic Learning
Dynamic Learning

Dilts, R. & Epstein, T.

Effective Presentation Skills
Effective Presentation Skills

Dilts, R.

Influence
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Cialdini, R.

Training Trances
Training Trances

Overdurf, J. & Silverthorn, J.

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Business Influence / Negotiation / Sales

Recommended Coaching Programs

You stand to gain immensely by getting an experienced and creative business & life coach on your side. Hire Jonathan as your coach -- but only if you're truly ready to step up to your own maximum potential. Most of Jonathan's clients are at the CEO or General Manager level, but that's not a pre-requisite.

Rapid Access Option: If what you need the most is rapid & brief access to Jonathan's unique mind and insights to deal with problems as they come up, put Jonathan on retainer (Call +1 717-264-8444). Most executives opt for this, and call randomly as "fires" need fighting.

4 1-hour Calls a month plus Email Support. This is optimal for busy people who know they're not performing optimally, who've lost the big picture, and need occasional discussions with a coach to help create a plan of action to get back on track, and then make steady progress towards results. Most of Jonathan's clients with this program are executives who have decided to leave their current jobs or careers and want to plan an extraordinary exit-strategy.

8 30-minute calls a month plus Email Support. If you need a regular touch-base with your business coach, and need help staying on track, this is the option for you.

Recommended Seminars

  • Our Holographic Communication™. Anyone who needs to influence others in a business setting through presentations of any kind stands to improve their performance & results significantly with this course. We will make you more influential at this course, guaranteed.
  • Our Linguistic Wizardry™. If what you do brings you into close contact with a lot of individuals, this is the NLP course for you -- this is a rapid 3-day whirlwind tour of the kinds of NLP skills that make communication skills more compelling, more memorable. You can't afford to miss this course, especially if some of your competitors may be taking the time to make their own language more charismatic!
  • Our Irresistible Voice™ . Our belief is -- your income is proportional to your charisma. Your looks, we can't do much about. Your wardrobe, should be chosen as appropriate for each context. But your voice -- we can help you overhaul it, and take nasal or mousy voices... and dramatically transform them into warm, resonant, charismatic sounding voices. This course is a must for anyone who uses their voice to communicate ideas, messages, and calls to action. You're either turning people on, or off, with your voice, and there isn't much middle ground. Grease the wheels of influence -- improve your voice. Get it done! Every single day with a whiny, tinny, gravelly, or annoying voice translates to lost opportunities, ignored messages, & restricted income!
  • Our NLP & Selling . Finally we're offering our 2-day course on Sales/selling skills with NLP. Two targeted days of applying NLP to your selling process. Works beautifully with all of your existing skills/methods. Helps you do what you're already doing, better, and adds additional skill to your process.
  • Recommended Videos/DVDs

  • Our "NLP Skills-Builders" double-disc DVD Sets. There are 3 sets. All would be useful in this context.
  • Recommended CDs/Audios for Business

    • Our "Finding Your Irresistible Voice" 2-CD-Set. This is our 1st, and most popular, audio program.
    • Our "Metaphor Machine" 2-CD-Set. People who can move others using stories and elegant metaphor are natural leaders & influencers. Use our easy-to-adopt systematic process to develop fabulous metaphors, real-time!
    • Our "Lie Detection" mp3's. . Now you can learn when business prospects/vendors/associates are being truthful with you -- or not. Information is power -- don't let yourself be deceived.
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    Recommended Books

    Book Cover
    Persuasion Engineering

    Bandler, R. & La Valle, J.

    Psychology of Persuasion
    The Psychology of Persuasion

    Hogan, K.

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    Beyond Selling

    Bagley, E. & Reese, E.

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    Changework / Therapy / Counseling / Hypnosis

    Recommended Seminars

    • Our Linguistic Wizardry™. Not only will you improve your ability to use NLP to help people change... but the 3-hour 'grand-finale' skills-integration exercises in this course will do nothing short of knock-your-socks-off. These "Village Council" exercises have been hailed by changeworkers as being one of the most profound training experiences available for learning how to develop flexible, creative NLP-based interventions.
    • Our Irresistible Voice™ . Every changeworker owes it to themselves and their clients to help 'grease the wheels of influence.' Your voice is your vehicle for change. Don't cause resistance in your clients -- help them accept your messages by making your voice more irresistible -- we can dramatically help you do so.
    • Our NLP Practitioner Training . This is the main foundation of learning NLP for any & every purpose. It's the core skillset for using NLP on our selves and others. A Must-take for any serious artist of change. HINT: Don't be fooled by others -- take a course longer than 7 days by someone who has trained with either or both of the founders of the field, and DON'T COMPROMISE on your skills.
    • Our NLP Master Practitioner Training . If you want to go beyond the foundation into becoming artistic with NLP, into replicating excellence through NLP modeling, take a Practitioner course, then take this course. There are no substitutes. HINT: Don't be fooled by others -- take a course longer than 7 days by someone who has trained with either or both of the founders of the field, and DON'T COMPROMISE on your skills.

    Recommended NLP Videos/DVDs for Change-workers

    Recommended CDs/Audios for Change-workers

    • Our "Finding Your Irresistible Voice" 2-CD-Set. Explore our foundational set for improving your voice. If you're a therapist and you haven't ever worked on your voice -- shame on you! :)
    • Our "Metaphor Machine" 2-CD-Set. People who can move others using stories and elegant metaphor are natural leaders & influencers. Use our easy-to-adopt systematic process to develop fabulous metaphors, real-time!
    • Our "Lie Detection" mp3's. . If you're a therapist then you're probably already reasonably good at reading people. Don't leave your intuition up to chance. Now you can learn to be far more confident in your judgement -- as to when clients are lying to you. Your client interventions require you to be able to tell truth from lies.
    • Our "Belief Craft" mp3's on CD. . Recorded in Summer 2008 -- Featuring Doug O'Brien & Jonathan Altfeld teaching a combination of Knowledge Engineering & Sleight of Mouth. Imminent Release - October 2008!

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    Relationships / Flirting / Seduction

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