I am new here, and to NLP. I am reading as much as I can in books, and online. I am married and we have three boys @ home. It is not feasible for me to go jetting off to some NLP conference half way across the country. So…… I am doing all I can on my own. I have read several of the post in the different forum area and now feel COMPLETELY intimidated. All the terms and jargon. I can see I am going to be extremely lost for awhile. Well not sure what else to say. I live near the capitol of Idaho, in the United States. I am a Driver Trainer for a local trucking company. I got to thinking about it the other day and realized that for possibly the last 20 years I have been a instructor, teacher, or trainer of some sort. I find NLP and it’s possibilities fascinating and incredible. I just hope I have what it takes to be able to learn it and put it to practical use in my life and career.

It is great to have you on board. Most of us are new here too, but we hope to get to know each other in this new ground of NLP-conections.

Life compansate itself in its own way..just keep your mind open learn as much as you can and build up your carreer...congragulations I know you will enjoy

Perhaps you could find someone near you that wants to learn about NLP and go through some exercises together. I think that will give you a great improvement over just reading books.

Some stuff is much easier to do when you see it demonstrated but sometimes you just have to go from where you are at the moment . Working with someone else will help in many ways.
1. It is much easier to have someone guide you through a process rather than read a book each stage.
2.You can build your sensory accuity more easily when working with someone as they can give you feed back as to how well you are doing.

Your job is a great place to start as you are interacting with people all day. You could learn a lot by choosing one thing to notice each day with the people you are training. A good start would be to listen to language your students use and work out their primary representational system from the words they use. "An insiders guide to sub modalities" would be a good book to get you started.

As you get really good with recognising language you can notice how this matches with other parts of the person.

Does a mainly visual person tend to be better dressed? Can they spot details more easily?
If someone is a mechanic, do they tend to use more feeling words?

You can also observe how people move as this often relates to the sub modalities they prefer. The quality and the speed of their movement and speech tend to follow one another. Really fast speakers are often more visual. People with a lovely tone to their voice tend to be more auditory.

This is all contextual, so be very careful not to over generalise but you will learn some great skills this way. Just the process of listening to words and observing will make it much easier for you to use NLP.

Saw this posting late on but.... Welcome to the Forum Loren...... there are a lot of people here who started out learning/reading/practicing NLP, Hypnosis etc... by themselves.

I know that I did and it was 9 years between be getting my first book on NLP, teaching myself techniques and practicing on willing friends then finally going to Practitioner training and getting a piece of paper that told me I could now officially do what I had been doing for the previous 9 years.....

This is the right place to ask questions because not only are there lots of people who are learning and are at different points on their journey, there are also members who have some knowledge of NLP that they can be coaxed to imparting....... sometimes

Jason

southnick wrote:

Perhaps you could find someone near you that wants to learn about NLP and go through some exercises together. I think that will give you a great improvement over just reading books.

Some stuff is much easier to do when you see it demonstrated but sometimes you just have to go from where you are at the moment . Working with someone else will help in many ways.
1. It is much easier to have someone guide you through a process rather than read a book each stage.
2.You can build your sensory accuity more easily when working with someone as they can give you feed back as to how well you are doing.

Your job is a great place to start as you are interacting with people all day. You could learn a lot by choosing one thing to notice each day with the people you are training. A good start would be to listen to language your students use and work out their primary representational system from the words they use. "An insiders guide to sub modalities" would be a good book to get you started.

As you get really good with recognising language you can notice how this matches with other parts of the person.

Does a mainly visual person tend to be better dressed? Can they spot details more easily?
If someone is a mechanic, do they tend to use more feeling words?

You can also observe how people move as this often relates to the sub modalities they prefer. The quality and the speed of their movement and speech tend to follow one another. Really fast speakers are often more visual. People with a lovely tone to their voice tend to be more auditory.

This is all contextual, so be very careful not to over generalise but you will learn some great skills this way. Just the process of listening to words and observing will make it much easier for you to use NLP.

WOW, Thank you! those are some excelent ideas. Please, by all means keep those ideas coming!

aikijason wrote:

Saw this posting late on but.... Welcome to the Forum Loren...... there are a lot of people here who started out learning/reading/practicing NLP, Hypnosis etc... by themselves.

I know that I did and it was 9 years between be getting my first book on NLP, teaching myself techniques and practicing on willing friends then finally going to Practitioner training and getting a piece of paper that told me I could now officially do what I had been doing for the previous 9 years.....

This is the right place to ask questions because not only are there lots of people who are learning and are at different points on their journey, there are also members who have some knowledge of NLP that they can be coaxed to imparting....... sometimes

Jason

I am having such a BLAST learning these things! Not 1 day goes by that I don't have at least a couple " Ahh Haa" momments.