An Evening with Frank Farrelly Oct 3 2008

You heard it here first, Frank Farrelly will be doing an evening slot at the Queens Hotel Leeds Fri Oct 3rd 7.30 - 9.30pm.
This is a unique opportunity to see a master of communication up close!

The price is just 25 pounds on the door and 20 pounds when paid in advance

Places will be on a first come first serve basis and e-mail tina@tranceformingnlp.com to reserve your place.

Provocative Therapists and The Association for Provocative Therapy

Real Training in Provocative Therapy
I first met Frank Farrelly in 2004 and was amazed at how Provocative Therapy had lacked any proper promotion and marketing. Apart from the original book, there were no commercial materials in the public domain, so it was quite difficult for people to really explore this approach. Some of the people I encountered who had "trained" with Frank IMO (to put it politely) really did not demonstrate any of the PT skills I had come to witness from seeing Frank.

NLP Trainers and studying Provocative Therapy
As many will know as well as studying Provocative Therapy up close with Frank, I also trained in NLP previously and this proved useful in unravelling Provocative Therapy to gain a greater insight into this skill set. Unfortunately some people will call themselves "provocative therapists" having merely read the original book or having attending a weekend event. Even this week I read one NLP trainer's bio who claimed to have "extensively studied Frank Farrelly's work" which in this instance is a bit of a "stretch" as a claim...

Provocative Therapy is not NLP
I set up The Association for Provocative Therapy with Frank Farrelly's agreement and blessing to promote a quality of standards in PT. In recent years I have written extensiely about what I consider to be craziness in the world of NLP where trainers fabricate qualifications and make ever increasingly ludicrous claims about this approach. In the wrd of NLP there has also been a tendancy to "bolt on" all manner of other approaches and one trainer even advertised their NLP Practitioner training would include training in Reiki! The AFPT promotes Provocative Therapy as taught by Frank Farrelly. In two weeks time I will be presenting the at the IASH conference in SF USA and discussing how PT can be viewed from an NLP perspective, but Provocative Therapy is not NLP and should be treated differently.

Nick
www.nickkemp.com

NLPers that struggle with PT and Frank opportunities

I first trained extensively with Richard Bandler leaning about NLP in the 1990s. I am forever grateful for Richard first mentioning Frank in a 2003 NLP Master Practitioner course in London when he famously proclaimed

"If you think I'm wild, you should see Frank!"

I did exactly that in 2004 when I attended a four day Provocative Therapy event in the UK. I instantly recognised the similarities between Richard and Frank and especially the similarity in attitude. The 2004 event was a very small group made up of 50% NLPers to those who had not trained in NLP, but were therapists. Notable NLPers included Andrew T Austin and Jamie Smart. Amazingly this event was not properly recorded in audio or video format, but I still have a record of the session Frank did with myself as I took my own recording device and wrote a full review of the event which can be found here http://provocativetherapy.info//content/view/26/42/

The NLPers that Struggle

During the first two days of the 2004 event, I struggled to "park my NLP head" and explore Provocative Therapy as an approach in its own right. By day 3 I begn to realise just how elegant this set of tools can be and that there is a real sophistication to PT. In subsequent years I have seen many NLPers really struggle to park their NLP heads and some longstanding trainers who met Frank in 2005 really struggled to shift from their preconceptions. This trend continued during the 2006 and 2007 events with some hilarity as seminar delegates made such ludicrous comments as "Frank really knows his NLP"

Of course many NLPers who have greater insights appreciate that Frank is working on many levels andthis is one of the reasons why Bandler and Grinder were interested in him in the 1980s. Some NLPers only train with one trainer almost to the point of obsession and these IMO are the ones that ultimately are the least skilled and least flexible in working with clients, forgetting that the creators of NLP modelled a range of different individuals...

Frank Opportunities

Frank Farrelly still runs workshops at the age of 77 and seminar details can be found at http://www.associationforprovocativetherapy.com/. Many NLPers appreciate that frm an NLP perspective they can see pattern interrupts, use of timelines,use of metaphors and many other elements they can describe in NLP terms, but PT is certainly not NLP! Both approaches have been invaluable in inspiring my Provocative Change Works approach (see http://www.provocativechangeworks.com/) which will be outlining at the San Francisco Institute for Advanced Studies of Health conference Sept this year!