By Kevin Creedon

I recently completed a 14 day seminar on language and relanguaging with Christina Hall. Calling it a seminar is a bit of an understatement, it was more of a revolutionary evolution of the foundations of NLP.

The 'seminar' began with an exploration of how time is expressed in language, and how different temporal representations presuppose certain possibilities. This could sound like familiar territory to advanced NLPers yet what unfolded was a dramatically different time model. My solid, intellectual understanding of how we use time to build our strengths and limitations was stretched in several new directions at once. By the end of the first 7-day segment, my time relanguaging was more fluidly precise and creatively much more impactful.

Another main element is the Meta-Model which Chris has evolved far beyond How specifically? etc.. She teaches the process of the meta-model, instead of the technique. The meta-model, typically understood as a way to recover deleted information, is really a much-more-than-one-way street. It can be an elegant tool to "chunk-up" powerfully generative beliefs, resources and generalizations.

I would like to say we did this or we did that but that would be a disservice to everyone reading this, as well as to Chris and to her abilities as a trainer. Her training is an ongoing and precise processing of experiencing and learning, not a lecture/demonstration show. Here's two of my favorite quotes from the training.

"You don't have good or bad or right or wrong, until you decide when something is over."

"Not all visual predicates are born equal, you look at and see a situation differently"

--- Chris Hall

I've been enjoying my new relanguaging skills both with clients and friends. I've had profound impact with people who would never permit me to NeLP them formally. A friend of mine, a ballet dancer said empathically and congruently "I can't turn." By relanguaging just three of his statements, he was "spontaneously"convincing himself of how easy it will be to improve his skills. Two days later he told me that he's become a turner (A turner = someone who does 3+ pirouettes reliably.) In addition, my home life has become nicer since I started relanguaging my own internal dialogue.

The greatest gift for me was the many opportunities to discover how limitations had been built, and then how to initiate the unwinding of limitations into really wonderful new probabilities. (A probability = possibility on steroids with a double latte on the side.)

The training took place in Gilroy, about 90 minutes south of San Francisco. The training site was adequate (i.e. average) and the town, in my opinion, sleepy. The class was limited to just 24 people with a keen commitment to exploring the depths of language patterning. The training is not for slackers, there's a lot of homework, both during and between segments--yet if you're committed to yourself and your clients, you may want to get try to get an invitation to next year's class.

It has a prerequisite of Master Practitioner, but more important than an MP certificate is a solid understanding of systemic NLP. Also if you're a technique collector, you could think you'd be disappointed until you realize how the processing Chris teaches will make every technique you already know more dynamically powerful and powerfully dynamic.

PS: If you haven't experienced much epistemology or systemic NLP, you may want to prepare for the Chris' class by getting the audio tapes and doing the exercises from Robert Dilt's Unified Field Theory. (From the Dynamic Learning Center in Santa Cruz.) No dates have been set for next year's Language Certification Training but you could call The NLP Connection at 408-425-3614 and ask.

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