I was asked recently about my training in NLP and I was surprised at how many NLP events I have attended and assisted on over the years! So here's Nick Kemp and NLP at a glance!

1999 – 2003

During this period I trained extensively with Richard Bandler in the UK, USA and Ireland. Here are the trainings I attended during those years -

NLP Practitioner
NLP Master Practitioner
NLP Meta Master Practitioner
NLP Trainer Training
Design Human Engineering
Neuro Hypnotic Patterning
Persuasion Engineering
Hypnosis with Richard Bandler

From 2000 – 2008 I assisted on countless Bandler courses in London. These included NLP Practitioner, Master Practitioner and numerous Bandler Hypnosis courses. I also personally interviewed Bandler on a number of occasions and these interviews can be found on www.nlpmp3.com. I especially enjoyed the 2000 - 2003 period.

From 2004 – 2008 I ran NLP courses certificated by Bandler’s Society of NLP. Each year I ran NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner events as well as hosting other international trainers.

In 2006 I was asked to talk about NLP on BBC Radio and appeared for 26 weeks working with phobias. I also began writing articles on NLP for The Middle East Educator, Rapport and other magazines.  Many of these published articles can be found at www.nickkemp.com.
I started to create what then became Provocative Change Works having met Frank Farrelly creator of Provocative Therapy in 2004 and who was cited by Bandler as an influence on his creation of NLP*

In 2008 I was asked and agreed to become an board member for The Association for NLP (ANLP) which promotes standards and ethics in NLP and is not aligned to any commercial NLP training company.  In the same year I was invited to present at Robert Dilts IASH Conference in San Francisco to present the PCW material and return in 2010 to the same event. In 2010 I was also invited by Steve and Connirae Andreas to present the PCW work at The Advanced Mastery Training in Boulder Colorado. I returned in 2011 to present 3 days on PCW as well as 4 days co training with Steve Andreas and Richard Bolstad. In 2010 and 2011 I presented the PCW material to The NLP Conference in London.

* “You know, Farrelly had to be one of the most courageous people on the face of the earth to do the wackiest things he did. It was obvious that he made sure that he made people do new behaviours while they were enjoying it.  That meant when they did them again, they weren’t frightening; they were fun.  If they’d thought about having their problem again, they would laugh.  He was probably the first person to really do neuro-hypnotic repatterning… to tell you the truth.  He didn’t think about it in the formal sense that I did.  To tell you the truth, when Frank Farrelly described to me his theory, he was as wacky as Virginia Satir and as wacky as all the rest of them.  What he did was really great. What I respect about Frank is that he stuck to his guns.  No matter how much they told him therapy should be boring or how much they told him he was over the edge, what he noticed is he made people better. “

(Bandler talking about Frank Farrelly)