The year began with unexpected large amounts of snow, staying indoors, but great photo opportunities ensued

In Jan and Feb I ran two major in house trainings for international software companies, got great feedback from both

In Jan The Art of Good Fortune for Business event in UK goes brilliantly with excellent content from Sparticle

Ran first London Provocative Change Works event filmed and released as Provocative Change Works for Anxiety 4 DVD set

March - Presented Mindscapes event in New York with Doug O Brien and Andrew T Austin, great workshop but nightmare to get filmed, 2 video guys let us down, Rob to the rescue!

Also discovered John Fluevog shoes in NY, just fantastic, bye bye all other shoes and I now only wear Fluevogs.

In May once again co presented with Frank Farrelly in Leeds and we both managed to watch the entire 3 seasons of Deadwood in 4 days with 15 hours solid viewing on day two!

Conservatives and Liberals form coalition, oh dear…

Notice that major allegedly “successful” NLP training company goes into voluntary arrangement with taxman owing over 200k while at the same time trying to flog courses on excellence, with a following of seminar groupies!

Provocative Change Works in Warsaw 3 days, finally discover Pizza Hut, thank god decent veggie food at last!

Continued sonic explorations with Martin Simpson, world class guitarist, songwriter and all round brilliant guy who is poised to release another brilliant album in 2011

Mid year receive an Influx of requests to present on other trainer’s NLP Master Prac events for 2011 – “Just when you think you’re out, they pull you back in!”

Aug - Co presented in Boulder Colorado 7 days Advanced Mastery Training stayed with Steve and Connirae Andreas, wonderful folks, perfect training and all will be revealed on future DVD set

Pope’s UK visit once again demonstrates the power of religious hypnosis and not in a good way either…

Intensive PCW London event, yes intensive, but very worthwhile, some material will appear in the book

The internet becomes festooned with dreadful clips of people doing terrible “street hypnosis” demonstrations all adding “hypnosis” as their middle name! Even worse is the outbreak of “Secrets revealed” marketing…Organized a FB cull of such folks

Ran evening event with Doug O Brien in NY, great fun and as ever loving NY and its people.

Back to San Francisco to run daylong event on PCW before running two events at the conference including a debate on Steve Andreas client session.  Met some great folks including Hiro from Japan (no not the TV series) and discussing possible interest in far East

Someone asks if they can be “my apprentice!” sorry I’m not that kind of guy…

The lunacy on NLP online forums continues as 43 post on whether they think Bandler is a Satanist and over 8000 people apparently view the posts (I say “apparently”, because you can’t really trust any stats offered on such forums) There is also a new proliferation of daft events as the nlp market declines and everything from “Damsels in Distress’ to ‘New age aura reading” promoted in the UK!

Presented at the London NLP Conference on Provocative Change Works to a packed room. Finally met Dave Bowman from Anglo American (they have distributed my products for a decade) and hooked up with some great trainers!

Royal wedding announced, Cameron's big to assess UK's "happiness" - call me cynical but all seems like a useful diversion from real life issues...

Lord Young forced to resign after spouting that we have never had it so good with the clinking of wine glasses in the background…

Decided to just run one Polish event per anum, sorry Poland…

Suddenly get a bunch of enquiries from people who have attempted “hypno analysis”  On looking at this approach it’s very clear to me why the clients have not found any success…

Irish economy goes into meltdown and is once again bailed out…This seems to be a recurring trend in these troubled times where there is one rule for the rich and one for the poor

Riots in London, some folks appear on Sky News in HD full faces shown to camera, not very smart…

BBC Radio 4 programme on NLP, pretty much shows how the field is very polarized with far too much defensiveness and attempted “ownership of ideas” a missed opportunity…

Wikileaks provides endless entertainment for one and all, just showing how secrets have a habit of getting out…

Snow hits the UK and as usual everything grinds to a halt…

Sussex police reveal the craziness of some folks abusing 999 calls, one guy phoned because his Chinese taka way was late, another because he had lost his slippers…

Stories from the Outside Inn with Doug O Brien in UK, next year this will be in New York only. This was the best yet version of this event, quite extraordinary and many of the group stories are now at www.storiesfromtheoutsideinn.com

James Naughtie makes the gaffe of the year on BBC Radio 4 almost as good as famous Jools Holland The Tube gaffe in days gone by

Get to hear demos of Martin Simpson’s next CD to be released in 2011, WOW!

Mid Dec - Finally some rest and preparation for Jan 2011 India trip with the magnificent Andrew T Austin. Also organizing next year’s events which include New York, Budapest, London, Colorado, Warsaw, Swindon, Leeds and many other places! 

Year ends with even more snow, make mental note to never run events in either Jan or December from now on!

Merry X Mas everyone and have a very cool Yule