By Bernard Frit

I was also at the Richard Bandler's 1996 residential Trainer's Training and here are some personnal comments about the training in addition to Stever's review.

As Richard said, welcomming us, we were litteraly "In the middle of Nowhere" and the food at the hotel was terrible. And even though I had been unable to phone in France from my room (something was wrong with the phone network but where? may be nowhere !!!) I think the Black Bear Casino and Hotel has the advantage of being inexpensive. The room rate was $60 per day and here in Europe the same hotel would be rated at $150 per day.

This training was my first training with Richard Bandler and I was very impressed by his personnality, his precision, his energy, his vision, his ability to drive all the group through a 6 days journey visiting so different states, so amazing places. He is great !!!

Going back home, I spent a couple of weeks in a state of confusion, switching alternatively in fast time states and slow time states (time distortion). Strange, strange ! And now I am facing to a big issue : I used to teach NLP in such ways I think they are no longer valuable, now. Stever wrote in his review that most of the material Richard taught us was developped in the last 5 years. So I have to integrate all this stuff very quickly now. So don't stay too long without coming to Richard's seminars !!!

I have never seen so many yong people attending to an NLP seminar. They were strongly skilled and they did great presentations. I have to change my beliefs about having years of experiencing things.

About all the different nationalities, I can add they were also people from Mexico, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherland, France at least 15 nationalities. Most of them did their presentation in english (I did mine), some did it partly in english and partly in their native langage and the rest (essentially the japanese) did it completely in their langage. I had never experienced being entertained by presentations done in a langage I can't understand a single word (even though we learn *kusu* : oh shit ! in japanese). Some of these incomprehensible presentations were really great. That will give you some information about the quality of the trainees, of the training and of the trainers.

All the presentations were video recorded so every body could go back home with his own tape containing the three presentations. Now, we can watch the tape and notice the skills acquired between the presentations. This tape has some kind of a dynamic effect, keeping myself on a flow, making each new skill dawning in the day-to-day life.

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