ACCESSING PERSONAL GENIUS with Michael Hall, Ph.D. - 2006

March 10, 11, and 12, 2006 *
(Friday through Sunday)
9:30 a.m. - 6:00 pm

* March 9, 2006 - NLP Primer
(Call for Details)

Silver Cloud Inn - Near the Portland, OR Airport
1518 NE Glenn Widing Drive, Portland, OR 97220

• Are you a Writer, Artist, Life-Learner, Professional, Counselor?
• Do you have business or life goals ... looking for real genius?
• What if you could... really could access a natural genius ability within yourself to not only get answers, but create from your own personal genius?
• Want to know the secrets of how?

Now is the time to Access Your Personal Genius!

A Positive Change brings Michael Hall, Ph.D. to town !

Dr. Hall is a renowned and prolific author on Neuro Linguistic Programming. If you are familiar with NLP, you probably read one of his brilliant books that so clearly explain NLP techniques.

This special three (3) day workshop is being planned to take place at one of our Portland/Vancouver Hotels (location currently being finalized). Updates to follow in the coming weeks!

Workshop Registration Fee

Price: $435.00 for 3-day APG workshop and includes materials
(Also includes Special Saturday Dinner and Mindmapping)
Discount: Ask about our "Friendly" Discount

NLP PRIMER: Thursday, March 9th, 2006, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
This is for those of you who have read books on NLP, but haven't had an initial class. Free book and CD included.
Price: $50.00 for an NLP Intro

EXTRA SPECIAL EVENING EVENT: Saturday, March 11th, 2006
FREE Dinner with Mindmapping Presentation with Cat Wilson and Rich Aanrich
Price: $20.00 for Guest Dinner & Mindmapping (Attendees of APG are FREE)

Act Today

Now is the time to save your seat in this exciting workshop!

You won't want to miss this exciting opportunity to experience this workshop!
Space is limited.

We have arranged a very special discount for attendees of this seminar at the hotel Silver Cloud Inn, so please be sure to mention A Positive Change and the name of this workshop when making reservations. The hotel provides a shuttle from the airport, as well as a delicious breakfast. All rooms have a view of the waterfront. You will love this serene and comfortable accommodation.

FOR INFO: Call Cat Wilson or Rich Aanrich at A Positive Change today at 503.525.0595.

Meta-States® Certification Training
And Advance Modeling Using the Meta-Levels of Neuro-Semantics®

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Dr. Michael Hall

Michael Hall is a developer, researcher, coach, trainer and prolific author in the Cognitive Sciences. He has a PhD in cognitive behavioral psychology and has developed the most cutting-edge new concepts in NLP and NS today, the Meta-States Model, Matrix Model, and co-developed the Axes of Change Model. Michael co-founded the International Society of Neuro-Semantics and The Meta-Coach Foundation (MCF). Michael is the Academic Director and Researcher for the MCF and has authored and published more than 30 books to date.

Accessing Personal Genius

National Board For Certified Counselors Approval Status Provider # 5724 This course provides 24 hours of CEU credit for counselors. Certificates will be issued. The Institute of Neuro-Semantics ® is approved by The National Board For Certified Counselors to offer continuing education activity for National Certified Counselors. We adhere to NBCC continuing education guidelines. Click here for Approval Status

"ACCESSING PERSONAL GENIUS" (3 Day Training) March 10th, 11th, and 12th, 2006 Portland, Oregon USA Sponsored by A Positive Change

We begin the basic Meta-States Training by introducing the model and applying it to the subject of "personal genius" (or personal mastery). The design of this training has evolved over the years of training. Through it we have discovered that most people pick up on and learn the Meta-States model as a model best by learning to apply it to a specific area of concern. And what could be a better than applying to self? And especially to applying to how we can set the higher frames that enable us to truly be at our best? That's what this training is about. In 2006, "Accessing Personal Genius" will immediately be followed by "Living Genius." Following is a class description of what you can expect with APG.

The Meta-States model represents the next step in NLP as it takes NLP to a new and higher level. It is also the foundation for the emerging field of Neuro-Semantics. As such, Meta-States represents a different kind of thinking, it's about a non-linear kind of thinking, systemic thinking, and being able to follow the natural reflexivity of the mind.

In providing a dynamic application of Meta-States by showing it's immediate application to your own personal mastery, we demonstrate the supreme practicality of Meta-States. This also allows you to discover how to think in non-linear ways about your own mind and self-reflexive consciousness. By taking your mind up-and-up and away into the higher reaches of human awareness, we move up "the levels of mind" where we can access our higher executive powers. This enables us to develop focus, intentionality, meaning, pleasure, etc. Then you can more efficiently use the higher levels of mind for problem solving, creativity, relationships, etc.

The following synopsis provides a description of the 3 Day Basic Meta-States Training that leads to Certification in Meta-States and provides the foundation for Neuro-Semantic Certification.

Synopsis of "Accessing Personal Genius"

Day 1: The Model: Introduction to the Levels of Mind or Meta-States Model

1) Introducing Meta-States as a Model of Reflexivity in states of consciousness

Introduction to using and working with meta-cognitive abilities, how to recognize and monitor our own self-reflexive awareness, to step out of the muddles and closed-ended loops.

2) Meta-Stating Learning: Accessing the experience of Accelerated Learning

Introduction to how we can learn about our learning in order to create a mental-emotional state of accelerated learning. This enables us to re-label and reframe our inattentiveness and to learn how to learn best using our strengths.

3) Meta-Stating our Concept of "Self:" Self-Acceptance, Appreciation and Awe (Esteem )

The Neuro-Semantic approach to self-esteeming involves accessing the resources states of acceptance, appreciation, and esteem and applying these to our self. This provides a very quick route to cut out self-contempting, self-depreciating, etc. It distinguishes between self-esteem as a human being and self-confidence as a human doing.

4) Meta-Stating "Thought" with "Confirmation" to Generate the Gestalt of "Belief."

The Meta-Yes-ing Belief Change Pattern

In Neuro-Semantics we distinguish a mere "thought" from a "belief" in terms of logical levels. We can "think" and even fully "understand" lots of things that we don't believe. When we believe, we move up a level and confirm or validated the thoughts in some way. By so validating a thought, we say "Yes" to it. When we say "No" to it, we dis-validate it and reduce it from a belief to a mere thought. Since limiting beliefs get in the way and define therapeutic dysfunction, the ability to quickly and even conversationally transform beliefs gives a therapist a very powerful therapeutic intervention.

5) Dragon Slaying & Taming: Meta-Stating Morbid States:

The power of meta-stating not only creates our highest and most profound states, but misused can create layers of negative thoughts and feelings about our states. To the extent that we turn our psychic energies against ourselves, we put ourselves at odds with ourselves and create Dragon States. Neuro-Semantics enables us to slay, tame, and transform such dragons.

Day 2: Higher Levels of Mind for "Genius"

1) Meta-Stating Concepts: The Neuro-Semantics of Human States

As a model about the structure of meaning at multiple levels, Neuro-Semantics distinguishes associative meanings (Stimulus-Response meanings) and contextual or frame meanings. Since we frequently suffer from having a "poor relationship" to some concept which can undermine our personal mastery, we will want to be able to work more efficiently with conceptual states.

2) Meta-Stating Using the "As If" Frame: Meta-Stating the Concept of a "Miracle"

Utilizing Brief Psychotherapy's "The Miracle Question," we use a meta-stating process to spatially anchor "possibility thinking" in a chair to give ourselves a chance to step aside from "the kind of thinking that created the problem" and to think "outside of the box."

3) Mind-to-Muscle Pattern

Concepts and high level principles can be turned into "muscle memory" as we recognize when our fingers "know" a keyboard, and the function keys on a computer keyboard, or when our body knows how to drive. To take great ideas and to put them into neurology transforms and empowers us so we can effectively handle the challenges of everyday life.

4) Meta-Stating Pleasure: Meta-Pleasuring ― Gestalting Happiness

Pleasure at the primary level of experience essentially involves stimulating the nervous system and all of the sense receptors. Yet there are higher level pleasures, the meanings and values that we endow things with. Discovering our strategy for pleasuring puts this dynamic into our hands so that we can take charge of it, rather than living as a passive victim who demands that others and things "make" us happy. This also details the structure of addictions and in De-Pleasuring, we can undo the semantic damage that occurs when we over-load an event with too much meaning.

Day 3: Qualifying and Texture Your Genius States

1) Meta-Stating Intentionality: Taking an Intentional Stance with Our Highest Objectives

In "consciousness" we have both attentions and intentions. By strengthening our highest intentional meanings, we can begin to live more purposefully as we access and use the higher levels of our mind to direct our everyday attentions. The Aim Game.

2) Meta-Stating Committed Focus: Accessing Your Personal Genius

A pattern for accessing, strengthening, and containing a focus state of "flow." Accessing the personal genius of impeccable state shifting, focus, self-trust, commitment, and ability to get lost in the moment.

3) Meta-Stating Congruence: Meta-Alignment and Integration

A pattern for ending incongruence and internal conflict that would undermine personal efficacy and power. This pattern clears up such incongruence by aligning everyday activities and behaviors with one's highest values, purposes, and beliefs. Great for anyone who wants more mastery and congruence in the way he or she works, plays, or moves through the world.

4) Meta-Stating Integrity Beyond Language, or "Spinning Icons.

A second pattern for alignment and congruence using a nonpropositional approach. Designed to create a higher level from for congruence without needing to put the solution into words.

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