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The Hero’s Journey and The Generative Self

This major NLP event will take place in Nijmegen, Holland on January 25-27, 2007
Sponsored by IEP (Holland’s leading NLP Institute since 1984)

Two great trainers
Two great minds in NLP and Ericksonian hypnotherapy meet for this workshop. Robert Dilts is one of the worlds most renown and creative NLP developers. He developed many of the models and techniques taught in NLP Master courses all over the world today. Stephen Gilligan is the famous Ericksonian therapist and trainer who developed the ‘Generative Self’ model, a next evolutionary step in Ericksonian hypnotherapy. To see them collaborate is a unique opportunity and a special, inspiring experience.

More information on Robert Dilts.
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Hero with a thousand faces
Robert and Stephens theme for this year is ‘The Hero’s journey’, a blueprint for personal transformation that has been handed down through the centuries. In 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces' mythologist Joseph Campbell describes a great myth found in many different forms in just about every culture across time. This is the recurring myth of the person who is called on a “hero’s journey” to transform their life and bring a gift into the community. The phases in this myth - the basic process of transformation - is always the same, even when individual expressions differ. The myth has three stages: the innocence of the garden, the exile and trials of the desert, and the call to return into the community with a new self. In this workshop this myth will be used as a model for developing a Generative Self that is capable of deep inner happiness and significant external accomplishment.

More information on Joseph Campbell and the Hero’s Journey
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Myth, NLP and trance
Robert and Stephen demonstrate how personal problems and symptoms can be a threshold behind which a positive personal transformation is waiting. At certain moments in our lives, we feel a pull or a push that seems to ‘call us’. A problem or a symptom may function as such a calling, but more pleasant experiences may function as callings as well. If we listen to this calling, we take the first step in a journey of learning and development where we will inevitably encounter obstacles and tribulations. Confronting these ‘dragons’, forces us, as it were, to develop in new directions. We cross a threshold where we leave our customary comfort zone. This workshop helps you – and those you coach – to find your inner dragons and confront them under the guidance of your inner mentors and protectors. To this age old mythological path, Robert Dilts adds the innovative modern dimension of ‘Third Generation NLP’ while Stephen Gilligan will of course add the concepts and techniques of his Generative Self model. In the tradition of the great hypnotherapist Milton Erickson, you will discover how to recognise problems and symptoms as “thresholds” into new identities, and how to sense and utilise resources to further the hero’s journey.

Practical specifics

Date: January 25, 26 and 27, 2007

Workhop cost: Euro 700,-- including coffee, tea, hand outs and lunch

Euro 700,-- = USD 880,-- or GBP 475,--
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Registration: Registration form

Location: Nijmegen, Holland

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Sponsor: IEP, Holland

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