Summary: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id551693038"></a>This episode marks a new direction for the Practical NLP Podcast! Up to now we’ve been talking you through various aspects of NLP in a structured way – essentially the episodes build up into an audio home study pack for an NLP Practitioner course (<a href="mailto:andy@coachingleaders.co.uk">contact me</a> if you’d like to license them for your own Practitioner courses).<br> From now on, I’ll be interviewing various stars of the NLP field – people I rate and admire. The episodes will be quite a bit longer – rather than the 10 minutes or so of most of the episodes so far, we could go up to an hour.<br> A couple of weeks ago I was running some corporate trainings in Malaysia, so while I was in a closer time zone than usual to Australia I took the opportunity to interview someone I’ve wanted to talk with for a long time – Melbourne-based NLP trainer and innovator James Tsakalos.<br> James is somewhat unusual in the NLP field these days because he runs super in-depth NLP Practitioner trainings that are 28 days long! He’s also developed some exciting new approaches, notably Spiral Somatics.<br> Our conversation ranged far and wide, covering among other things:<br> <br> * Why it’s not easy to choose an NLP Practitioner course until you’ve already had quite a lot of experience of NLP, so you just have to hope you get lucky unless you do some research beforehand<br> * Who James really admires in the NLP field<br> * A great process for making perfect choices – the ‘Trousers of Time’! (process notes to follow but James explains the steps pretty clearly in the podcast)<br> * Why reading <a href="http://amzn.to/2co8Vbx">Terry Pratchett’s books</a> about witches is a great preparation for being an effective NLP Practitioner<br> <br> Duration: 46m 28s<br> <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id551693038" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen and/or subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts here</a><br> If you want to subscribe using something other than Apple Podcasts (e.g. if you have an Android phone), here’s the feed: <a href="http://nlppod.com/feed/podcast/"> http://nlppod.com/feed/podcast/</a><br> Only the most recent 10 episodes of the podcast are available free on Apple Podcasts. You can download back episodes (with transcripts!) from the <a href="http://webstore.nlppod.com/nlp-podcast-episodes/">online store</a>.<br> Links to some of the things we mentioned in the conversation:<br> <a href="http://www.altfeld.com?a=14211">Jonathan Altfeld’s Knowledge Engineering</a><br> Notes for running the Trousers of Time process (to follow)<br> Where to catch James running a course in the near future:<br> <a href="http://nlpmelbourne.com.au">NLP in Melbourne</a><br> <a href="http://nlpmelbourne.com.au">Spiral Somatics in Melbourne</a><br> <a href="http://nlptrainingworld.com/">Spiral Somatics in India</a><br> <a href="http://nlptrainingworld.com/">Spiral Somatics in Dubai</a><br> <a href="http://jamestripp.co.uk">Spiral Somatics in the UK</a><br> Books mentioned in this episode:<br> <a href="http://amzn.to/2co4bCX">Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Chris Cowan</a><br> <br> <br> <a href="http://amzn.to/2cnQ1Rq">Books by Terry Pratchett</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
