A POST FROM THE LAST NLP AT FERNLEIGH:

I’ve just come back to Fernleigh. Last weekend, we ran a weekend NLP course with my guru, Sue Knight.

Sue Knight

I met Sue in India when I started my NLP training. She’s calming, perceptive and I noticed that when she talks, people change. She gets results. She uplifts people.

I wanted some of that, so I set out to follow what she does.

Sue has a way of giving feedback, she tells me challenging things, about my behavior and how it might change, in compelling ways that makes me inclined to pay attention and comply.

On our way to Fernleigh, as we wound our way along the luscious and green Broke road, past the quaint town of Wollombi, her advice was: ‘Ask more questions;’ ‘Do less work’, which I think means ‘Talk less’ and ‘Let people discover for themselves’ I spent the weekend trying to follow that much-needed guidance.

I am sometimes tempted to reject suggestions because they were suggested to me, and I realized this was also true of some people that I coach. I began to see how much other people could learn from being asked a question rather than told an answer.

We arrived at Fernleigh – and I my heart lifted. I love this place, I’m privileged to have it and I live to share it with people.

It was so green, I’ve never seen it so fertile. We went for a drive, and up on the plains atop the mountain, the grass was so thick and high that it felt like swimming through an ocean of rippling seaweed. The gardens were a kaleidoscope of colour, the trees fluttering with noisy Australian birds.

The delegates were very interesting, the varying levels of experience that were able to teach one another the techniques while learning more about it themselves. I love the model of organic learning, challenging people and nurturing them, letting them grow.

It was a budding, sprouting, haphazard growth of all kinds – for me, for the delegates it was a top up, or for others an introduction, but we all got a feeling that we’ve started something here. We’ve made a new beginning.

So happy. Can’t wait for the next one!