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Into Europe, where we had a reunion with an NLP Business Practitioner group from Denmark. Well, to say ‘we’ is incorrect, it is my husband Colin (or as I call him Spence) who is a member of this group, as he participated on the full practitioner in Copenhagen and as the tutor I don’t usually go to the reunions. But no-one was going to keep me from visiting Berlin and I am so glad that they didn’t. What a special place! There are some very significant places in the world and this is one of them. How loaded with emotion this place is and how steeped in history yet it is as if history happens before your very eyes here with all the amazing developments. At the same time Berlin is struggling financially. But the outcome of our visit is that we are planning to run a Master Practioner here in the Autumn of 2006. (I hear that one of the Danish delegates might be holding a future reunion on one of the Swedish Islands—I think I might just smuggle myself onto that trip too!)

The opera house is in the distance!

A view of the Opera House, Copenhagen

Denmark…

…is as ever very close to our hearts. I say ‘our’ in each of my writings as hubby goes with me now whenever I travel abroad and that has changed my experience of working overseas so very much and so very much for the better. I love Copenhagen and run a Practitioner course there each year.

Restoration of Hagia Sophia

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Turkey

And Istanbul is another of those very significant places—an amalgam of culture and faith of east and west. And Istanbul is where I have chosen to run two Trainer Trainings in 2006. Here is some of the feedback from the course that I ran there this year.

The alps are in the distance

View of the Alps, Provence

France

Well in between all of these trips we did manage to get a pure holiday—bike touring in France. 10 days in the saddle cycling through Provence and the Luberon. And we plan to do the same next year. We cycle just the two of us and carry what we need but we do cheat a bit and stay in good hotels. This year we did the tour in temperatures of 40° on the road some days and managed distances of up to 80km a day. Very well worth keeping fit for!

Some alumni!

Waiting for Sue.

Alumni reunion

You may have seen the details of our Alumni reunion and if you have attended my open programmes up to and including a Practitioner course then you should have received an invitation for the draw. If you were eligible and you didn’t get an invite do let us know so that we can update our databasefor the future. And there are bound to be some who cannot make it so we do have a waiting list and we can put you on that.

Lake just outside the conference centre

The conference centre pool.

Finland

And then there was Finland. My visit here was to give a talk at the NLP association conference and the trip was made special by the wonderful hosting that we were given. When we arrived we were given a tour of Helsinki and had a typical Finnish meal. Wow, it was wonderful with such new combinations of flavours—small pickled cucumbers with honey and soured cream; fried herrings the size of sardines with buttery mashed potato; a glass of Helsinki beer; dessert Baked Lapp cheese with cloudberry jam. Hmmm, makes my mouth water just to think about it. And the talk went well too!! And Finland just might be the setting for an Advanced Trainer Training next year

Cherai Beach

Bix Manor Kerala style

India

Beyond words although I did manage some to attempt to express what we experienced there. We are supporting Ashok Subramanian and his family business BrainOBrain to develop a network of NLP training throughout the whole of India ( nothing like a challenge eh?) and I will be keeping the news of that on the website. The next events in 2006 are a foundation course in Bangalore and a Leaders Programme in New Delhi and a Practitioner possibly in Kerala around Christmas time 2006

Merazonia

And of course we continue to look for ways to support my youngest sons work in Ecuador in his wildlife refuge. Some funding is provide by the sale of paintings and ponchos some by sponsors. The Alumni reunion is designed to support his work there too and we will be holding a raffle the first prize of which is a chance to work in the refuge for two weeks in the heart of the south American rain forest.

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The Map is the Territory
What excuses can I offer for there being such a gap between the last news page and this one. Well maybe the content of this one will clarify that in a way in that we have been travelling the world and continue to do so. We realised that between June and September this year we had only spent a handful of days at our home in the UK so just where have we been? Well the tour started in this country when Enact Energy invited me to work with them down in Sunny Cornwall. How could I resist and what a place to work. The centre is Fistral Blu on the famous surfing beach near Newquay. And Enact, well they sponsor the plant a tree campaign and do so for every installation that they make. Their vision includes an Enact Forest built on the success of their business.		How about this for a training venue?

Berlin Railway HQ, Berlin Into Europe, where we had a reunion with an NLP Business Practitioner group from Denmark. Well, to say ‘we’ is incorrect, it is my husband Colin (or as I call him Spence) who is a member of this group, as he participated on the full practitioner in Copenhagen and as the tutor I don’t usually go to the reunions. But no-one was going to keep me from visiting Berlin and I am so glad that they didn’t. What a special place! There are some very significant places in the world and this is one of them. How loaded with emotion this place is and how steeped in history yet it is as if history happens before your very eyes here with all the amazing developments. At the same time Berlin is struggling financially. But the outcome of our visit is that we are planning to run a Master Practioner here in the Autumn of 2006. (I hear that one of the Danish delegates might be holding a future reunion on one of the Swedish Islands—I think I might just smuggle myself onto that trip too!) A view of the Opera House, Copenhagen Denmark… …is as ever very close to our hearts. I say ‘our’ in each of my writings as hubby goes with me now whenever I travel abroad and that has changed my experience of working overseas so very much and so very much for the better. I love Copenhagen and run a Practitioner course there each year. Hagia Sophia, Istanbul Turkey And Istanbul is another of those very significant places—an amalgam of culture and faith of east and west. And Istanbul is where I have chosen to run two Trainer Trainings in 2006. Here is some of the feedback from the course that I ran there this year. View of the Alps, Provence France Well in between all of these trips we did manage to get a pure holiday—bike touring in France. 10 days in the saddle cycling through Provence and the Luberon. And we plan to do the same next year. We cycle just the two of us and carry what we need but we do cheat a bit and stay in good hotels. This year we did the tour in temperatures of 40° on the road some days and managed distances of up to 80km a day. Very well worth keeping fit for! Waiting for Sue. Alumni reunion You may have seen the details of our Alumni reunion and if you have attended my open programmes up to and including a Practitioner course then you should have received an invitation for the draw. If you were eligible and you didn’t get an invite do let us know so that we can update our databasefor the future. And there are bound to be some who cannot make it so we do have a waiting list and we can put you on that. The conference centre pool. Finland And then there was Finland. My visit here was to give a talk at the NLP association conference and the trip was made special by the wonderful hosting that we were given. When we arrived we were given a tour of Helsinki and had a typical Finnish meal. Wow, it was wonderful with such new combinations of flavours—small pickled cucumbers with honey and soured cream; fried herrings the size of sardines with buttery mashed potato; a glass of Helsinki beer; dessert Baked Lapp cheese with cloudberry jam. Hmmm, makes my mouth water just to think about it. And the talk went well too!! And Finland just might be the setting for an Advanced Trainer Training next year Bix Manor Kerala style India Beyond words although I did manage some to attempt to express what we experienced there. We are supporting Ashok Subramanian and his family business BrainOBrain to develop a network of NLP training throughout the whole of India ( nothing like a challenge eh?) and I will be keeping the news of that on the website. The next events in 2006 are a foundation course in Bangalore and a Leaders Programme in New Delhi and a Practitioner possibly in Kerala around Christmas time 2006 Alex and friends Merazonia And of course we continue to look for ways to support my youngest sons work in Ecuador in his wildlife refuge. Some funding is provide by the sale of paintings and ponchos some by sponsors. The Alumni reunion is designed to support his work there too and we will be holding a raffle the first prize of which is a chance to work in the refuge for two weeks in the heart of the south American rain forest. I think that monkey to the left must be a Master Practitioner!

The Map is the Territory