1. Customized Training to Meet Your Specific Needs

You will always have one main trainer teaching the entire course. Guest trainers and assistants are used, but you will always have one trainer with you throughout the program. One main trainer is important because then he can adjust to group needs. He will spend more time on one subject, and less on another depending upon the group’s speed. This format also allows the trainer to be able to get to know each student’s needs and be able to meet those needs in a more thorough fashion. This is the only way to guarantee a high quality experience for each student. If you are interested in getting experience from a variety of trainers, go to a conference. At a conference you can pick up a little bit of information from each teacher. “When you really want to learn the skills and make them a part of your life, come to IDEA Seminars where the training format is designed around YOUR needs, rather than a standard format.”

2. Whole Mind/Whole Body Learning

Throughout the training, you will take part in a series of simple, fun and enjoyable physical exercises that enhance whole-brain learning by using cross-lateral movements. These movements enable you to access those parts of your brain previously inaccessible. They assist in spelling, writing, listening, reading and comprehension. It also improves left/right coordination, breathing and stamina, coordination and spatial awareness, hearing and vision.

Statistical research has shown that movement, especially those that cross the body’s lateral midline, have positive effects on learning. Cross-lateral movement has been discovered to stimulate, release and relax students, as well as assist them move through learning blocks. Contralateral movements are effective because they stimulate the receptive as well as the expressive hemispheres of the brain, facilitating integrated learning.

3. Choice is Freedom

From IDEA Seminars point of view, NLP is about adding more choices to our lives, not about adding more rules. Participants reach a point in every training where they have learned to exercise personal choice in their lives. When they achieve this level of learning, their entire world opens up and they learn what it is like to have pure freedom. They realize they are no longer imprisoned by their past thoughts and feelings or by other’s words or actions. We teach people this because we firmly believe in the old adage: you can give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but if you teach a man how to fish, he can eat for a lifetime

4. Self-Change vs. Therapeutic Techniques

NLP is famous for the therapeutic techniques like the phobia cure. Unfortunately, many of the techniques are meant to be performed by a therapist on a client. Many people searching for their own solutions come to NLP training only to learn how to do techniques with other people rather than how to make changes in their own life. Realizing this, IDEA Seminars has developed a training design, known as Mind Design^TM, that allows our students to learn NLP in the context of self-development and self-change, rather than learning it to do a technique on someone else. We have spent years developing Mind Design^TM to allow students to use the principles and concepts of NLP for their own personal growth.