Crisis and the Wheel of Change
Prerequisite: Open entry but recommended at least 2 days of NLP Training. This course is not currently scheduled.
A two day training useful to anyone who wants to get someone to change – your clients, your organisation, your society or yourself.
- Would you like to learn how to make every coaching session more like your best sessions?
- Do you want new ideas to get those more challenging clients to let go of unhelpful patterns?
- Are you open to a new model of coaching based the unique change style of each client?
- Do you want to integrate new coaching skills into the coaching style that already works for you?
In the past almost all models of change have been developed as if one coaching or consulting style fits all clients. But clients are not all the same, and until you understand the differences, you can’t get reliable results. Often, each expert teaches a style of coaching or consulting which fits with their own way of making changes in their own personal life. My aim is to show you how to get comfortable with more than one style. You’ll learn how to quickly assess where your client is up to in the “wheel of change” and identify what practical interventions would help move them to the next stage. In this weekend we’ll practice with each of the coaching styles. And I’ll show you one reason why you responded more to one of the above 4 questions than to the others.
We will also consider change as a response to crisis. I train people recovering from major social trauma such as war, tsunami and earthquake, on several different continents. What decides whether someone has a resilient response to change, a brief collapse from which they recover, or a chronic state of PTSD? If you understand that, you understand how to help business people stay resilient through the current prolonged economic crisis. Successful business people know when to change their tactics to cope with the stage of the economy. When to agree, when to disagree. When to think carefully about the problems, when to move from that and focus on the solutions. Worrying about the economy doesn’t fix it. In fact, to be able to quickly respond to the opportunities of this time it helps to be able to get yourself into a good state of mind and ride the waves of change. Great advice but how do you actually do that? That’s where understanding the process of change itself is important.
Richard Bolstad is an NLP Trainer and the author of numerous books on coaching, NLP, and creating a more cooperative world. He teaches in New Zealand, Asia, Europe and the Americas. For free samples of his trainings and books, check out www.transformations.org.nz
“Someone I’ve enjoyed learning from over a number of years is Richard Bolstad, one of the most thorough and competent therapists & trainers in NLP. He is one of the very few who is constantly developing new distinctions in understanding and practice, as well as congruently living what he teaches. His extensive background as a trained nurse, student of Asian martial arts, and his cross-cultural experience with Anglo/Maori relations in New Zealand, and Anglo/Japanese relations from his teaching in Japan, provide a rich and wise background for his work. Besides being personable, engaging, and high energy, he is very skilled, with a rare breadth and depth of knowledge that is detailed and ecological. He is very open to and welcoming of feedback, which I think is one reason why he is so capable. The book RESOLVE: A New Model of Therapy is an excellent introduction to his work.” – Steve Andreas, NLP trainer, author, and developer.