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Stuart Eggerton, London, UK Dec 2000 KE Training	I am astounded once again having just attended another of Jonathan Altfeld's seminars. It's amazing how the whole experience is literally packed full of immediately applicable modelling tools, which are allowing me to realize my potential in modeling complex belief systems with ease.      Jonathan's style is relaxed and fun while learning an incredible amount of material over the 3 days.      Jonathan's personality shines through at his trainings, and in my opinion you get much more than you pay for. [ Back to Top ]
Michael Beale, Strategy Development Mgr, BT Gov't Marketing Dec 2000 KE Training	I can throroughly recommend this course for anyone who is interested in developing their skills in modelling excellent performance, developing opportunities or solving problems. The skills apply equally well to concepts at work as well as to personal issues. In addition the reletavely small numbers helped create an exceptionally positive atmosphere and enabled excellent individual feedback. [ Back to Top ]
Peter Freeth, Consultant and Chairman of the NLP in BT Group, British Telecom, London Dec 2000 KE Training	Less than 5 hours after the end of Jonathan's KE course in London I'm visualising extensive and complex belief systems hidden within language - and keeping up a 'full time' conversation at the same time. Why is this useful? In the past I may have gotten to a strategy and thought "I'm done" whereas now I hear and see the whole complex structure. Key decision points and` behaviours are emerging which are many times more complete, powerful and elegant than anything I would have arrived at previously through standard 'strategy elicitation'. Before today, I knew people who I thought were complex, now I know that they're no more complex than anyone else, they just hide their beliefs better. This means that I know that I can now choose to work with everybody rather than just the 'easy people'. I am now creating subtle and elegant interventions without thinking about it and I know how much that is going to benefit me more and more over time. And I had a great time too!      Tonight I listened to my wife talking about one of her friends and I heard and saw whole structures fitting together both for my wife and for her friend. When I played some of the rules back to my wife she was amazed at how simple, elegant and 'true' the model was. I'm not telling you that I'm an expert right now, but that I am already integrating the new knowledge. I will never cease to be amazed at the things my visualisation system does for me!      The point about the solution being in the problem just sank in too. When [name-omitted] said "I have a fear of driving over tall bridges" he was giving us the answer which I only realised today after restating his problem as "I can't drive over tall bridges" - i.e. he is fearful but drives over the bridges anyway - it doesn't stop him. Wonderful. [ Back to Top ]
Michael Roach, London, UK Dec 2000 KE Training	"I used to think modelling was strategy elicitation and from that I could never figure out how people like Richard Bandler so successfully modelled Erickson etc. I thought that maybe it was innate genius or maybe its something they don't teach explicitly now. In this training Jonathan brings his expertise from the domain of Knowledge Engineering (modelling experts and encoding that knowledge in software) together with his expertise in NLP. Judging by the number of NLP Trainers attracted to this training as well as people with little or no NLP training to those at a different level, the ability to learn how to model effectively is something highly desirable.      What I had no idea of how to do before was how to code the information that I elicited. A Knowledge Engineer writes the rules that enable an expert system to make decisions, and while Cyberspace may be an overused word, its interesting to think of having a dataspace to represent the matrix of information you construct to build your model. Jonathan as a trainer is constantly calibrating to the group and the individuals within, customising the training as required. He's generous with his time enabling you to continue to learn after the days training has finished in the company of those who choose to come on the training, and the informalities afterwards. I recommend this training to those who want to learn how to model the excellence in other people and make it their own." [ Back to Top ]
Nick Fortune, London, UK May 1998 KE Training	"In three days time", he said, "you are all going to be better knowledge engineers than most of the people I have worked with." I blinked. That sounded like quite a claim. I also had to surpress an urge to check the wording on the flyer in my pocket just to make sure I was in an NLP training & not a computing one.      Let me declare an interest at this point. Jonathan's been a friend of mine for some years now, & I'd have probably gone along even if the topic had been Spectroscopic Anomalies In Samples Of Lunar Cream Cheese. And even if the subject did turn out to be more computing than NLP, it would still be useful to me, professionally. Still, as we continued to learn about how expert systems & knowledge bases worked, I wasn't the only one wondering...      Of course, we needn't have worried. Mr. Altfeld conducts his seminars like a Grandmaster laying a trap for a particularly wiley opponent. The opening moves seem so innocuous & then, it all comes together, & by the time you realise you've learned something, it's too late...to do anything except have fun using your new understanding, that is!      The real topic of the seminar is modeling. Modeling is arguably the heart of NLP &, until now, a subject that has been pretty much opaque to me. No longer. Jonathan melds techniques from the world of computing with meta modeling to produce a solid methodical approach to the subject, which is uniquely his own.      What can I say? We had a lot of fun, we learned a lot, & most important, what we learned was useful & obvious in its application. If you get a chance to attend one of these events, do it! [ Back to Top ]
Silke Scheidereiter, Germany May 1998 KE Training	First of all thanks again for a wonderful & mind altering weekend - it was worth every single penny!!! I'm just after getting back to Germany & my brain just can't stop generating new ideas & solutions, identifying patterns, going through the huge pile of new information... & just going completely bananas......lol Sounds pretty cool... & it definetely IS! ;-))) I think the drive from the UK to Germany never seemed that short & productive before.....      I still don't have a clue as to how you managed to get that much data into these few inches of my brain in such a short time!!! NLP seems to be much more effective & powerful than I ever dared to dream of.....      You're a brilliant trainer & I'm glad to have had you as my "personal introduction" to NLP & Knowledge Engineering. Thinking back I can still feel the excitement of learning (& I still DO...) & the warm welcome I got from you & the group. Being relatively new to the whole field of NLP that means a LOT...at least to me!      Thanks a million & I hope to see you again in the future.....maybe for another training?! ;-)))      All the best & take care of yourself! [ Back to Top ]
David Gould Personal Change Consultant Bristol, UK May 1998 KE Training	Jonathan has not been doing NLP all that long, & yet his skills already surpass almost all the other trainers'. Most of you will probably be wondering how he does it. Luckily, Jonathan has decided to teach us in a special 3-day training he calls "Knowledge Engineering & NLP".      Because of the original nature of the material being taught & because of Jonathan's mastery of teaching at many levels simultaneously, the training suits all levels of NLP™ ability. He is also very good at tailoring the training to the participants: most of what we did was made up as we went along & yet, because it all went so well, I assumed it had been planned! Jonathan is quite happy teaching something completely irrelevant to the material if he thinks it's useful to the trainees. I found this particularly refreshing.      Jonathan's manner when teaching is very similar to when he's not teaching. He is a very friendly & likeable person, & shamed me with his superior ability to party into the early hours of the morning. Even then, the learning doesn't stop. It probably never will. I confidently recommend this course to everyone, especially those who want to progress a lot faster with NLP™. [ Back to Top ]
Ted VanderNoot, London, UK May 1998 KE Training	I thoroughly enjoyed your course on Knowledge Engineering & NLP™. It was well presented & extremely interesting. I was also very impressed with your skills. Your approach of teaching to both the conscious & unconscious minds simultaneously was very effective. As far as I'm concerned, you're definitely in the same league as Richard Bandler, John LaValle & Michael Breen.      Your presentation of the models of Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Engineering & how computer software systems can learn & decide was quite interesting. But using these models to then explore modelling in the NLP™ context was mind-blowing! It was really cool how well we were tracking beliefs by only the second day. The AI & KE approach to NLP™ made it transparently obvious which points in a belief to use most effectively for change work or how to identify when we need more information. And this let us use the Meta-Model much more elegantly to elicit the information we needed. Not only could we track beliefs & language patterns "on the fly" but we could unravel their interconnections & their interactions conversationally.      I thoroughly recommend your course to anyone who wants to improve their skills at tracking language patterns & modelling. I look forward to taking this course again the next time it's in London. [ Back to Top ]

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