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‘The Language of Healing and Health’
The Society of Medical NLP
presents the
2009 Health Practitioner Licence Course
University of Stirling, Scotland
April 23-27 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:
- save time
- decrease risk
- improve patient and client concordance and adherence
- promote positive health
- upgrade service management, and
- improve clinical outcomes
Understand and manage:
- spontaneous hypnotic states (something that traps all patients - and some practitioners )
- critical first impressions
- the therapeutic relationship
- the underlying factor in all dysfunction
- the Iceberg Effect - what verbal communication conceals
- the Hidden Agend - what nonverbal communication reveals
- language and altered states as tools for transformation
- the Games Patients Play
Learn how to:
- achieve instant concordance and adherence
- avoid Compassion Fatigue and Emotional Contagion
- ask questions that elicit quality data and bring solutions to light
- identify, access and stabilise the patient’s inherent resources
- decode and reconstruct the patient’s model of ill-health
- transform illness behaviour to self-efficacy and health
- overcome the tyranny of Chronopathy - the diseases of time
Explore explicit techniques to approach:
- stress, depression and anxiety disorders
- chronic pain
- IBS and other gastro-intestinal dysfunctions
- Dermatological problems
- phobic responses
Also ...
- Manage your own stress levels and restore work-life balance
- Help the Heartsink
- Reduce the risk of patient dissatisfaction and litigation
- Minimise unnecessary repeat visits and telephone calls
- Create unique techniques for helping your patients or clients, family, friends - and yourself
... 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, an, 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.
What will this training cost?
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 a further discount to all registered members of www.magicinpractice.com and those who act now to lodge their intention to attend.
Please note that after we open this course to the general public, we cannot guarantee either the discount price or available places so please act now. Click here and send an email with your name and telephone number and we will give you a priority access link to details about fees, accomodation and discounts.
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SPECIAL OFFER: The first 12 people to sign up for this course will receive a complementary copy of Guide to
Trance-formation, the latest and most definitive book on Hypnosis and NLP written by Dr Richard Bandler
and edited by Garner Thomson. This book is not yet published in the UK.
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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:
Aside from the special discounts, we are arranging de luxe accommodation at favourable rates on site in Scotland’s only award-winning Conference Centre of Excellence in 300 acres of peaceful parkland. We can also provide information about comfortable B 7 B accomodation within easy reach of the course venue. Those who wish to take advantage may send us an e-mail at info@magicinpractice.com with your name and telephone number and we will send you a priority access link.
Finally - please note that we prefer to keep courses smaller and more intimate than many other similar trainings so all participants can receive the attention they need. Places are therefore limited, so ACT NOW and click here to get your priority access link.
Participants will be credited with 15 CPD points by the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
Our websites:
www.medicalnlp.com
www.magicinpractice.com
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