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If you are involved in any area of the health care sector and would like to take your communication and influence skills to astonishing new levels, this is the course for you. Learn advanced approaches to developing positive and productive outcomes for clinicians, patients and clients, managers and their teams … not to mention for yourself, your family and friends ‘The Language of Healing and Health’
The Society of Medical NLP presents the 2009 Health Practitioner Licence Course
Nottingham, England November 25-29 inclusive
Suitable for CPD*, PDP and PREP
Dear Colleague,
For many years, medicine has concentrated on deficit and repair. Its approach has been problem-oriented, and the attention paid by its researchers and policy-makers to health and well-being (except as an absence of disease) has been negligible.
As a result, the need for skills and resources that help our patients (and ourselves) to move towards wellness, as opposed to away from illness, has become painfully clear. While Western medicine has been highly successful in defeating most infectious diseases, it is largely ineffective in dealing with the abundance of complex, chronic conditions, such as anxiety, depression, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, obesity, addictive behaviours, chronic pain, stress, and many musculoskeletal disorders.
One of the reasons is almost certainly that the simple cause-effect theory upon which the war on infection was based continues to be applied to problems that are complicated, multi-factorial, and often unique to the person seeking help.
While Evidence Based Medicine is crucial to the protection of the patient from spurious treatments, it has, unfortunately, been applied in a way that reduces, or even eliminates, the individual physician’s experience and intuition. This, together with increasing reliance on technology-based tests, is widening the gulf between patient and practitioner, and actively weakening the healing relationship. Multiple research projects suggest that a positive relationship between health profession and patient or client may be responsible for much of the success of the clinical outcome.
Several studies show that up to half of the problems for which patients seek help have no identifiable organic cause. It follows, then, that ignoring the quality of the healing relationship not only adversely affects patients, but actively weakens health professionals’ ability to help those who turn to them in need.
How can we help resolve the problem?
The Society of Medical NLP was formed to advance the principles and techniques of NLP, as co-created and developed by Dr Richard Bandler, specifically in the field of health care. Building on a technology of change established since the mid-1970s, it has proved highly valuable to the hundreds of doctors and other health professionals who have undergone our unique Medical NLP Health Practitioner and Master Practitioner licences. Countless numbers of patients and clients have benefited from their expertise.
Medical Neuro-Linguistic Programming is more than simply ‘Neuro-Linguistic Programming taught to doctors’. It has been systematically developed out of more than 15 years of full-time clinical practice together with the experience of doctors, medical students and allied health professionals we have been training since 1998. It offers a unique, practical, three-part consultation model that integrates seamlessly with the existing skills and practices of health professionals of all specialties. It also presents approaches to help the practitioner successfully intervene in some of the more troubling biopsychosocial conditions for which increasing numbers of patients are seeking help.
Since Medical NLP is a constantly evolving methodology, each course is somewhat different from the one before it. This year, our Health Practitioner Licence Training, covers both the underlying principles of NLP and the newest theory and practice of Medical NLP. Two licences (one by Dr Richard Bandler and his organisation, The Society of NLP) and the other by The Society of Medical NLP will be issued to successful participants.
What will I learn?
Medical NLP offers advanced techniques to:
Understand and manage:
Learn how to:
Explore explicit techniques to approach:
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... and much more ...
Who will benefit from this training?
Our last course was attended by General Practitioners, Consultants and Registrars from Anaesthesia, Pain Medicine and Surgery, Counsellors, Communication Skills Tutors, Nurses, Clinical Nutritionists and Psychologists. This course is open to health professionals of all interests and specialties, but, above all, it is directed at those who wish to transcend a purely mechanistic approach to health care. Practitioners of Medical NLP tend regard themselves as practitioners of ‘salutogenic’ health care - that is, an approach that focuses on health and well-being, rather than deficit and repair.
What is my colleagues’ experience of the course?
These are just some of the comments from previous course participants:
“The course way surpassed my expectations. It has changed my view of the therapeutic encounter and given me a great source of ideas on which to work”
“Overall a very significant event” “Very enjoyable. Lots to think about” “I learned 10 times more than I expected. Fantastic clarity” “Much more than I expected” All course ratings were scored at 4/5 or 5/5 and all participants said they would recommend the course to colleagues and would come on a further course Who are my trainers?
Your senior trainer is Garner Thomson, experienced NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, and developer of the Medical NLP Health Practitioner and Master Practitioner courses, with the support and endorsement of Dr Richard Bandler. He is co-founder of The Society of Medical NLP, author of Magic in Practice: Introducing Medical NLP - The Art and Science of Language in Healing and Health (Hammersmith Press), editor of Dr Richard Bandler’s newest book on hypnosis, Guide to Trance-formation (HCI), and co-author with Dr Bandler of the forthcoming book, Living Up. With a background in Social Psychology, Garner Thomson has more than 30 years’ experience in communications, and more than 20 years in NLP, 15 of which have been full-time, working almost exclusively with patients by referral from doctors in primary and secondary care.
Even at the full rate, the cost of The Society of Medical NLP training has been held well below that of most regular NLP Practitioner courses. However, mindful of the present economic climate, we are offering further discounts to all registered members of www.magicinpractice.com, NHS employees, those who act now to book and pay, and participants who book in groups of three or more.
To pay, complete:
Option 1. £1379.00 – Full course fee.
Option 2. £1,297.00 - Employees of the National Health Service, participants who register and pay by October 10, 2009, and applicants referred by name by previous course participants (inform us of your referee and/or NHS status by email at info@magicinpractice.com).
Option 3. Group bookings of three or more people made and paid for by October 10, 2009: £1,197.00 per person. Please email us at info@magicinpractice.com with the names of your group.
Option 4. GB£750 - Previous Society of Medical NLP course participants who wish to brush up their skills and take advantage of recent developments in the curriculum. Subject to availability. Email us with the date and venue of your course.
Please note: Since we cannot guarantee either the discount price or available places indefinitely, we are asking you to contact us now to register your intention to attend. Click here for booking and various payment options.
What happens after the course?
Uniquely, we offer all course participants a free, lifetime e-mail advice service. After successful completion, you will be able to discuss cases and request guidance and advice from your course trainer.
Accommodation:
We can provide information about reasonably priced accommodation in the Nottingham area. Please let us know if you need a list of hotels and B&Bs by emailing us on at info@magicinpractice.com.
Finally - please note that we prefer to keep courses smaller and more intimate than many other NLP trainings so all participants can receive the personal attention they deserve. Places are therefore limited, so ACT NOW and click here for booking and payment options.
Previous participants have been credited with 15 CPD points by the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Application pending.
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