having taken Charisma Enhancement from Banlder/Lavalle in 2002 in Mexico, I just finished the 5 day HC in Orlando FL

(the following is written with due respect to Richard Bandler and John LaValle)

why a person should take Holographic Communication i-n-s-t-e-a-d- of Charisma Enhancement

the reader may or may not know that there are plenty of non NLP courses teaching public speaking/group presentations AND several established NLP training centers offering trainer’s training,the turbocharged NLP option to public speaking courses. (Hopefully why I use “turbocharged” will become apparent as you read this). And whether you have extensive public speaking experience but want to refine your skills or are a newbie who wants to stand out from the pack from the start, this course is a must for you

the reasons why I think Holographic Communication is the superior choice:

1)extensive practice at state chaining

NLP trainers use the term “state chaining” to refer to a sequence of emotional states that REALLY skilled public speakers(whether they are corporate speakers, evangelists or even some comedians) will lead the audience through when they are on stage. These speakers may not call it that and some may not be deliberately doing this but that’s the end result. Few skilled established NLP trainers will disagree that state chaining is an integral part of any well designed training (whether NLP based or not) yet this skill lies at the heart of what most NLP trainers refer to as nested loops. unfortunately few trainers will provide enough TIME, PREPARATION and PRACTICE in their training to r-e-a-l-l-y learn/master the skillset of state chaining. (NOTE: getting practice with nested loops doesn't insure you are good at state chaining)
There are several skills that comprise the art of state chaining, including anchoring, state elicitation, use of tonality, etc
Jonathan teaches IT ALL

2)material and drills designed to "read" your audience while presenting

Depending on the speaker in question, some are more focused on delivering their content, and less so on the response from their audience. You need to be focused on BOTH. Few trainers will address this with any real level of detail and most will not set up drills to practice it. Jonathan does BOTH

3)Preparation and practice with language patterns designed to generate the time distortion effect for learning. this wasn't taught at my Charisma Enhancement

4)immediate feedback on demos. FEW TRAINERS will offer you a comprehensive verbal review of your performance DAILY both good and bad. Jonathan does both. (this is not the same as some "green" well intentioned trainer's assistant giving you their "hepfull comments")

5)Getting your audiences’s A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N.

this is a skill in itself- Jonathan coaches and drills students on this everyday thoroughout the training using what he calls developing a HEADLINE

Finally, this is not a complete list of all skills taught by Jonathan and there were other skills that Jonathan presented not directly related to group presentations, in response to our requests during training.He went out of his way to deliver on those.

Jim Rapson