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