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Interview with Dr. Tad James, Master Trainer of NLP, Hypnosis and Creator of Time Line Therapy™ Techniques and Dr. Adriana James, Master Trainer of NLP, Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy; The Tad James Company.

Interviewed by Max Watts, (B.Sc, MABNLP, MBBNLP, MTLTA, MAHA)
MD of Kanousei, Trainer of NLP, Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy™

8th November 2006 @ The Grace Hotel, Sydney, Australia.

Max Watts: Let’s start from the beginning, so Tad how did you get into NLP?
Tad James: I was in business consulting, and clients were paying me fees but I wasn’t getting client compliance, this means that the clients weren’t doing what was being asked. At the same time I went to a fire walk with Anthony Robbins and found that he had an incredible degree of compliance getting people to walk on hot coals – something clearly more dangerous than what I was asking business consultants to do! So I decided at the point that I had to learn this NLP stuff!

MW: Since then what’s the greatest impact NLP has had on you personally?
TJ & AJ: The greatest impact is the personal success and satisfaction we have experienced. NLP allowed us to increase our income dramatically, increase our sense of satisfaction at doing what we do. As a career path we would highly recommend NLP to anyone who asked.

MW: What would you say to a new Practitioner of NLP going into this career?
TJ: Go out and do it! Use it now! Don’t sit around and study, learn to use the techniques in the real world! Once you are successful come back and train others!

MW: What inspired you to create Time Line Therapy™?
TJ: I was already a trainer of NLP when I created Time Line Therapy™. I was standing outside of a practitioner class talking to a student, we were experimenting with her Time Line and she found that her anger on a single event disappeared. I thought to myself, “now that could be useful!” Along the way we have been lucky to be able to do the Secret of Creating your Future Seminar® and been lucky enough to do Time Line Therapy™ Techniques with thousands of individuals and in groups, so we have accumulated a large experience base regarding how to let go of negative emotions and limiting decisions. In 2001, I got together with Adriana and found she was ‘thinking outside the box’ and that has helped to allow our Time Line Therapy® trainings to grow and evolve to become an even more effective technique. Today, next to me, nobody knows Time Line Therapy™ Techniques better than she does.

MW: Lets look at NLP and Time Line Therapy’s™ applications across various contexts, how specifically can NLP be used to get successful results in Executive Coaching and Leadership Development?
TJ: Adriana and I use Time Line Therapy™ when we do executive coaching, it is the most effective technique for enhancing performance and our students also find it to be the most effective technique for getting rid of blocks to performance. Imagine an executive who let go of all his anger, imagine how much more effective he could be if he could make that change? Imagine a sales person fearless, still with a large amount of integrity, what kind of increase would he have in sales? Imagine a board of directors with their values totally aligned, what kind of increase could be expected in their business? We have worked with board of directors, individuals and groups using Time Line Therapy™ for the last 22 years and the results never cease to amaze me. We had a company in Middlesborough, UK go from No.5 in the world to No.1 in the world and with other companies we have increased their net worth by 10 times and all inside of a year or 2.

MW: What would you say to people in today’s business world?
TJ: I was a business consultant for years, if you’re in business now and you are reading this, drop everything and take an NLP training! It will repay your expenditure 100 times. I have a Master’s degree in Communication and knew nothing about communicating with employees or fellow business people until I took NLP. NLP improves communication in all areas of business, management, sales, all the way up to the board of directors.

MW: What words do you have for the leaders in government and business in today’s world?
TJ & AJ: Leaders of society and of the world need to know that through NLP, it’s possible to achieve goals and outcomes with a win-win intention. The most visible part of the effect of NLP is through the dramatic increase in performance and productivity that will occur with the adoption of NLP into business and government.

MW: What are the main benefits of NLP, Time Line Therapy™ and Hypnosis in the context of rebuilding relationships and in relationship therapy?
AJ: If a couple has been together for a while, they have probably realised that over time negative anchors accumulate. We think it’s not necessarily whether or not negative anchors happen, it’s more important to get rid of them. Many psychotherapists today doing couple counselling have people sit across and tell each other what things are wrong. Virginia Satir used to have couples sit across and remember the sparks they had when they got together for the first time. We use Time Line Therapy™, Hypnosis and NLP to assist couples to let go of negative anchors and bring the relationship back to how it was at the beginning.

MW: NLP is often used by sports professionals, how useful do you think NLP is in increasing peak performance?
TJ & AJ: We have used NLP to dramatically increase performance in sports environments. One of the university basketball teams in the State of Hawaii used the Secret of Creating Your Future® Audio Program to go from the bottom of their conference to the top in one year. Coach Lauderdale had his entire team listen to the Secret of Creating Your Future® Audio Set – it was that which produced the results!

MW: What was it in the Secret of Creating Your Future® Seminar specifically that created the results?
AJ: It was getting rid of their negative emotions and limiting beliefs.
Shelley Taylor Smith is an Olympic Champion Marathon Swimmer; she injured her back and then took a NLP Practitioner Training. During training she couldn’t sit in her chair, and by the end of the training the pain had disappeared and she regained control over her body. She was able to source how she created the injury and changed that into perfect health. It was so valuable to her that she went on to be a trainer of NLP and is now coaching young athletes using the skills she learned in these trainings.

MW: How do NLP and Time Line Therapy™ techniques compare to current mainstream popular therapies such as CBT, SFT (Solution Focused Therapies) and Transactional Analysis?
TJ & AJ: We believe that all therapies are good, valuable and they produce the results that they do. Time Line Therapy™ techniques and NLP seem to produce results that are quicker than traditional psychology. Not in every case of course, because in some cases traditional psychological therapies may be needed.

MW: Some people reading this may be going through a negative time in their life right now, what would you say to them?
TJ & AJ: Life happens to all of us, some experiences are positive, some are of hurt, anger, sadness, frustration and a whole range of other emotions, Time Line Therapy™ techniques can transform painful experiences into positive learning’s that propel us to the next level, giving meaning to life and restoring inner powers.
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