Student's Experience

Karna and Kirk's Story

KARNA

When I registered for the Programmer training I was hoping it would give me some insight into a possible future career in counseling, but I didn’t realize that it would be such a life-altering, life enhancing experience. When I stop to think about it, there is no area of my life which has not been impacted by NLP.

My ten-year career with a Fortune-500 company has involved much sales training to develop rapport, communication and negotiation skills. NLP took those skills to a new level of interacting with customers and I ended up doubling my income during the first year of learning NLP!

The training was invaluable in the area of relationships. I learned techniques which helped me to see the best in people and ways to take the negative emotion out of my interactions with people.... past, present and future. I was sometimes amazed when I would work on an emotionally-charged issue in our class and find that by the end of the exercise, the charge was gone and I saw clearly how the problem had begun and how to resolve it.

One of the greatest gifts I received was being able to finally heal a deep wound of the loss of someone I loved and the grief, pain and guilt I experienced after his suicide.

Some of the smaller gifts were learning ways to change ingrained habits, knee-jerk reactions and behaviors I didn’t like in myself. You actually begin to learn how the brain develops patterns and you learn techniques for creating new strategies for having what you want, doing what you want, and even being who you want to be in life! NLP helped me realize just what I do want in my life and then gave me specific tools to begin to see my dream future and how to make it come true.

When I signed up for the training, I convinced my then-boyfriend to also take it and we discovered how NLP could help us both individually and as a couple. I don’t even know how it happened, but the way we communicated changed during the class. It seems like we are better able to step into each other’s world and speak each other’s language now. We had so much fun taking the class together the first time that we are taking it together again.

Our relationship is deeper, richer, more honest and less conflicted than it has ever been. And now we are able to use the techniques we’ve learned to work with each other to make the changes we want.

Kirk and I finally got married last summer and our life is very good. I know that I am indeed on my way to that new career of helping people through NLP.

I’m enjoying today, and I can also see the future I want.... and how to get there. I didn’t have any of that before I discovered NLP.

NLP helped me realize just what I do want in my life and then gave me specific tools to begin to see my dream future and how to make it come true

KirK

NLP has been a win-win way to achieve personal growth in my own life while learning how to help others achieve the same.

Participating in NLP I have observed positive changes in many people in a short amount of time. I am one of those people. I have learned better communication skills and ways to help me better understand others. NLP helped me to become more curious about people and what is really important to them, which in turn, stimulates me to evaluate what I want in life. It has helped me to gain more of the character and integrity to which I aspire.

In business, I have gotten better at stating my wants and taking care of myself. I am much better at calibrating and understanding where people are coming from. I also learned a lot more about conflict resolution. When I started the training I had a second business with a guy where my role was primarily to provide money and business leadership. I had had some “funny feelings” about him but he seemed like such a nice, straight-forward guy that I discounted that he could be cheating me. During the first weekend of the training we learned calibration skills and by paying attention to his behavior, and lack of congruence, I was able to search out what was really going on and stop it.

Now I have skills so people can’t take advantage of my generous and easy-going nature. And I still get to be generous and easy-going when it is appropriate.

In my relationship with Karna, we’re much more intimate. We are both strong personalities. When we fight we now go to problem-solving much more easily and with more ability to listen and truly hear each other. We know that neither of us has the intention to hurt each other and that in fact, we want the best for each other. We know that it’s a trust and that everything will be OK.

To me NLP is the most logical and effective way I have discovered to make wonderful changes that need not be analyzed, only enjoyed.

NLP has enhanced my life and relationships and I don’t have to think, work, or try hard to make life happen for me. It just does!

I want more of that and I want to help others achieve their dream life too.

— Karna and Kirk

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