Communication Essentials

Course Overview:

Introduction
Learn new ways to connect deeply with your clients and patients. Remember names easily and build a stronger memory. Establish rapport with anyone, even when dealing with difficult people. Pace and lead elegantly out of tough situations into solutions. Solve communication problems at work and at home. Become attuned to visual, auditory and kinesthetic styles of learning, and how they relate to your brain, risk-taking, relationships, handling stress, and your well-being. Balance both sides of your brain for an optimum learning experience. Learn the power of Nonverbal Communication in delivering your message and understanding others. Packed with of practical skills you can use right away!

Where are You Headed? Charting Your Course 
Help your clients set their direction with solution-oriented outcome thinking. Learn personal ecology, conversational backtracking, the power of asking key questions and how to set clear and achievable outcomes that fit all aspects of your life. Based on Systems Theory, Cognitive Change, and using the latest methods, this weekend will give you tools for reaching your most important goals.

The Power of Your Language
We'll cover what to say and how to say it in crucial conversations, speaking the language of influence, the precision model, re-framing, matching metaphors, being heard the first time, and getting your point across in 30 seconds.

Change Your Mind, Change Your Life!
Build yourself a better brain. Learn the architecture of your mind using neurological levels. Gain greater understanding and clarity about where you’ve been, where you are, and where you’re going. Learn tried and true NLP changework processes you can use to help yourself and others.

How taking this training will benefit you.

Course Description
Based on the therapeutic methods of Milton Erickson, Fritz Perls, and Virginia Satir, you’ll learn new and updated skills for helping professionals, plus how to deal with difficult people, clarify and achieve your goals, and speak the language of leadership. There’s more: systems thinking, timing, nonverbal communication, and influencing with integrity. You will learn practical skills you can use right away that will help you build your practice and make lasting positive changes.

The training begins with "people skills." You'll learn important new things here, even if your people skills are already good. There's new and fascinating information about the three learning styles: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Learn how to know which system a person will be most able to receive the information you have for them.

Discover your style and consider how it is woven into to every area of your life; relating to others, managing stress, making decisions, business dealings, and risk-taking. The “art of connection” teaches how to read the cues from others, determine their communication style, tailor your language to meet them, and creating good rapport, even in challenging situations.

You’ll learn the power of nonverbal communication, the masks of perception, positive language patterns, and states of excellence. The "language of influence," developed by world-renowned Dr. Milton Erickson, enhances your communication in business, sales, and personal relationships. Through self-study, you’ll be able to recognize your "blind spots" and learn multiple ways to minimize or eliminate them. Psycho-geography will reveal how physical proximity affects your interactions, enabling you to recognize cues and make necessary adjustments to maximize your interactions and avoid difficulties as you get top results. This is particularly relevant to business communications.

Each richly experiential day of training brings fun, new friends, and exciting strategies for building confidence, negotiating like a pro, transforming criticism into valuable feedback, defeating old patterns of self-sabotage, taming undermining internal voices that have been holding you back, being a better speller, responding in a new way in a challenging situation, learning a new skill or action, and modeling an expert.

Become adept at taking multiple points of view to provide more possibilities. Review difficult events from past events to "tape edit" the sights and sounds to ensure a better outcome in the future. Learn the tools peak performance consultants employ to facilitate, mediate differences, and find agreement. Learn the psychological processes Olympic athletes use to set new records.

Whether you are looking for tools for a better life at home, at work, in your community, personally or professionally, during a transition at any stage of life, you'll find them in this training.

Continuing Education Credit

Approved by NASW for the following Helping Professionals:

• Licensed Clinical Social Workers
• Mental Health Counselors
• Marriage and Family Counselors
• Licensed Professional Therapists
• Licensed Professional Counselors
• Certified Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychologists

Other professional organizations also grant CEUs for this course. Contact your organization directly to confirm.

Tax Advantages: 
Participants often find their tuition to be 100% tax-deductible as a business or continuing education expense. Check with your tax preparer or the IRS to confirm.

Your Decision
to take Communication Essentials is an important one. It is a decision that will have lasting and positive effects on your life and the lives of those around you.

Most people come to this training witha list of areas of their lives they want to improve and enrich, and leave with much more than solutions. They gain the ability to create continuous growth and improvement through out their lives. The skills you will are generative.

In this training you will gain information and new perspectives. You will meet new people and form lasting friendships; you will learn many things about yourself and engage in activities that enrich your life.

The learning environment:
The training is a lively blend of presentation, demonstration, practice, and written notes. Working in small groups, you will apply, refine, and integrate the skills and patterns you will be learning. Our goal is for these new abilities to become a comfortable and integral part of your daily life. A detailed training manual is included.

Your classmates 
People drawn to this work come from a variety of backgrounds and professions. They are a vibrant learning community, ranging in past years from ages 17–85. Many participants are professionals who want to continue to advance their careers. Others describe themselves as “regular people” who want to be better parents, enjoy closer loving relationships, and make increasingly better life choices. They value learning and growing and understand that by doing so, they will improve their life and the lives of those around them. They share an interest in communication, leadership, psychology, language, coaching, education, the helping professions, personal growth, learning, mind/body connection, creativity, and mental, emotional, and physical health.

As you consider taking this step, you may want to think carefully about the aspects of your life you want to change and transform, and which ones you want to keep the same or enrich.

Most people come to NLP training with a list of areas of their lives they want to improve, and leave with much more than solutions-they gain the ability to create continuous growth and improvement through out their lives.

In this training you will gain information and new perspectives. You will meet many people and form lasting friendships; you will learn many things about yourself and engage in activities that enrich your life.

Tuition Reimbursement or Sponsorship
 Your employer may pay for your training. Many companies provide financial support to their employees for their professional development. The next three paragraphs are for your approval manager at work.

For Your Employer
Many companies sponsor their employees to bring these skills back to the workplace.

Productive and effective employees require solid skills that adapt easily to the rapidly changing world of business. Good technical knowledge just isn't enough in today's marketplace. Quality communication, customer care, and strategic thinking are essential.

Join organizations like Providence Hospitals, Microsoft, Kodak, NIKE, the United States Forest Service, Gripsack, Boeing, Wells Fargo Bank, Bonneville Power, the US Navy, Hewlett-Packard, Portland Public Schools, AT&T, non-profits, community activist groups and others who understand the value of these skills and have sponsored their employees to complete this training. Some choose to pay the tuition directly and others reimburse the employee when the program is complete.

The focus here is on building skills. This training is interactive, with many exercises and role-plays to teach participants the "how" of great communication and personal effectiveness. Behavioral acquisition is our objective. It works. We guarantee it. Your organization will reap the benefits.