Two things NLP gurus don't want you to know. Stay tuned.
This is Damon Cart from NLP gym.
Two things NLP gurus don't want you to know.
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been working on for about six months now and doing the live training and the
online training and the enrollment will finally be open January 6 through
January 20th Also dr. Matt is coming back to Santa Cruz.
he'll be teaching a live workshop on personal branding on February 4th and 5th
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So what don't NLP Gurus want you to know?
Well first of all you might be thinking well Damon,
You're an NLP guru why are you saying this or what don't you want us to know?
Or why are you revealing this? Actually I'm not an NLP guru, I'm not any sort of guru
A guru, I think of as somebody who's trying to pretend like they're enlightened.
And I'm not one of those people.
Yes I know NLP I've been studying it for years
I've been practicing it. I'm a coach, I'm a teacher, not a guru.
I don't want to be worshipped and I'm definitely not enlightened and I don't want people
to necessarily live by my example. I'd rather you create your own life.
The first thing that NLP gurus don't want you to know is that
certifications are meaningless.
most practitioner programs,
most master practitioner programs, or certification programs.
And yes they are absolutely meaningless.
Now you might have had a good teacher.
Or you might be going to a good teacher to get a certification.
All that's wonderful.
I'm not saying that there aren't great teachers out there who do certification programs.
What I'm saying is that the certification itself means nothing.
I've seen people go through several NLP certification programs,
I've seen people with walls full of certifications,
and it doesn't say anything about their skill level.
Your skill is what's important and you don't need a certification to certify that you have skill.
Because all I've seen is that none of these certifications say
anything really about a person's skill. Now a person can have certifications and
be highly skilled of course.
I've got a folder full of certificates that is in my closet and is just collecting dust.
they've never made me any money,
they've never created any sort of skill for me.
I've had to practice to create the skill.
So one big mistake that a lot of NLP practitioners make,
is they think the certification means something. They think it means that
they have some sort of skill. They show their certification around as if
that does anything. And it does nothing, it says nothing, it does nothing.
it's just like belts in a martial art system like Taekwondo or Karate,
You can have someone who has a black belt, and they really know what they're doing.
and they're dangerous or they could prove themselves in a fight. but then you
also have people who have black belts, they wouldn't know the first thing to do
or they would get their ass kicked in a fight
So it's sort of the same thing in NLP a certificate really doesn't mean
anything. Sure there are some Institutes that are stricter than others,
but overall there's no governing body in NLP that defines who has the
skills to be called a practitioner or a master practitioner. And a lot of NLP
gurus don't want you to know this, because they're really selling these
certificates. they are saying oh you know if you take my course, you will get a
certificate, or if you take this online course you'll get a certificate.
People want something tangible and a certificate is symbolic of that.
but again it's not real. it says nothing about how skilled you are.
The second thing that NLP gurus don't want you to know is that NLP trainings are more a
demonstration of NLP than actually teaching you NLP. What does that mean exactly?
okay, if you watch somebody do something well, you will probably learn
something. and if you listen to a lecture and you take notes, you will learn something.
but NLP is extremely experiential. therefore unless you're
actually practicing it unless you're getting supervised practice,
any practitioner training or certification training or Master practitioner training
you're not cultivating NLP skill. therefore you're not cultivating the NLP
understandings. there's a saying in the type of yoga that I practice, Ashtanga
Yoga, that it's 99% practice in 1% Theory. I've applied that to NLP in my practice.
I would say though that NLP is more than 1% theory
and more than 1% understanding cognitive understanding I would say it's
more like 10%, and 90% practice. you're not practicing you're not really
learning NLP. and most trainings most certification trainings whether they're
practitioner or master practitioner have been shortened so much, that in some
cases you don't get any practice at all. you especially don't get any supervised
practice. and a lot of training is actually you get practice. I'm about to
get wet here the water is coming up. there's a lot of trainings where you do
get some practice, but it's not supervised practice. now you might be
thinking, well no I took a training, we did practice, and there had resource
coaches. most of those resource coaches are not really skilled NLP practitioners.
they may have certificates, I'll give them that, but they haven't really
practiced themselves. I know this because I've been a resource coach for a number
of other teachers' practitioner trainings. some of the most world-renowned
Institutes in the world for NLP. and their resource coaches didn't know squat.
they didn't know much NLP at all. so the blind are leading the blind. it's like
watching a yoga teacher at the front of a yoga class teach yoga and demonstrate
yoga postures, while you sit back and watch, and you're thinking you're
learning yoga, or you're cultivating that ability to do yoga.
Or you're becoming more flexible, more balanced, and stronger. that can't happen.
you cannot just watch demonstrations and expect to learn it, to learn yoga. NLP is
the same way. I'm not saying you shouldn't take trainings that offer
certifications. and I'm not saying you shouldn't take trainings that
demonstrate NLP, rather than help you cultivate the skill. what I am saying is don't
fall under these illusions, of a certificate meaning something, or that
just because you attend the training, and you watch a great NLP teacher teach and
demonstrate, that you're somehow learning NLP. it's just not true. how you do
learn NLP is by your own practice. supervised practice is even better, but
it's hard to find an NLP trainer. a good one, a competent one, who will sit and
supervise you as you practice with someone else. if you can find that, that's
great. just remember don't buy into these illusions, and make sure you're
practicing on a regular basis. check out my website NLP-GYM.com, follow me on
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session with me. also I'll be going live January 9th 10th and 11th on Facebook
and YouTube probably at noon Pacific Standard Time, to give you a taste of what I will be
teaching or what I have taught in the online practitioner training. I'll give
you some useful tools, and some ways to practice NLP. take care.