How John and Carmen work

Carmen and John work together as a team. They write their books together, prepare their seminars together, and design and carry out their corporate interventions together. Their collaboration is exquisite and enormously successful at creating innovative breakthroughs in the field of NLP.

In the public NLP training setting, John usually leads the morning, framing the content through intellectual style description, metaphor and NLP exercises. John has real presence and his style is warm and humorous. Carmen takes the afternoon. Her style is warm, playful, challenging, creative and very different to John. She makes the content come alive by creating a playful and inquisitive context through exercises, games, and tasks that your average NLPer may not expect and certainly will not have experienced at other NLP seminars. John and Carmen are not average, they are masters of their craft and experiencing them work together is like listening to poetry read by two skilled artists, both creating something special in you, the finale bringing you to a new place in the way you organise your sensory experience.

What to expect at a seminar with Carmen and John

Carmen and John present NLP in the way it's designed to be presented in this century. John is enormously proud of his co-creation of NLP, but he is not stuck in 1975. Life has moved on and so has John Grinder, we now have the brilliant New Code as a model to update the flaws of Bandler and Grinder's work of the 1970s. John may well challenge your interpretation of NLP, he may make statements that differ from the so-called mainstream thinking in NLP. He does so as the co-creator of NLP who is radically extending the field of his creation. Carmen may well challenge you, you might get enormously playful, you may be mystified at a game or task, but later when you review your learnings you will know you learned so much about yourself and the states you accessed through Carmen's elicitation.

So when attending a seminar with Carmen Bostic St Clair and John Grinder, suspend your expectations, enter a resourceful state that includes a high tolerance of ambiguity, much of what you will learn has never been presented before, it's new, it's exciting, it's creative. Most of all expect to learn a lot, but not in the way of conventional NLP seminars.