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You, Unlimited is mainly about the Enneagram. The Enneagram is personality typing system where you divide 6 billion people in 9 types. Richard Bandler hates it, but I really improved on it with my own version. As the Enneagram is about 180 degrees the opposite of NLP, the book is about the reconcilation between the two. Like NLP the Enneagram was first introduced in the 70s as a critique of psychology. Rather than looking at people as basically all the same, the Enneagram suggests that you encounter nine different types of people in your life.

For my, this critique also holds for NLP. Now I know NLP looks at everyone individualistically and my book You, Unlimited still does the same for the major part of human existence. Yet in certain area's there are easily recognizable patterns of behavior, problems and motivation. The subtitle of the book is "Mind Reading the Masses with NLP". The "with NLP" part is added by the publisher, but thats how I feel about it. The Enneagram is a great model to mind read people quickly and acurately.

Of course the Enneagram isn't real. Its only a model. One has to justify the use of a model. There are a number of benefits of using this model. Among them:

- Better understanding of your own most basic patterns in life
- Clear instructions how to stay away from stress and move towards relaxation
- Better way of dealing with other people

But there are a few special benefits for NLP practitioners like me who coach people to get over psychological problems. First of all: where NLP teaches you how to solve problems, the Enneagram shows what to solve and where to go. I know that NLP is all about freedom. Yet most people have little clue as what to do with their life. The Enneagram gives great pointers. I have linked the Enneagram to the nine personality disorders of the World Health Organization. Not that everyone has a disorder, but one can clearly see little things seep through the cracks. And that brings me to the second benefit for NLP coaches: spot the borderliner. Each Enneagram type has a different way of dealing with NLP. Working with Borderliners has taught me that they need a different approach to benefit best from NLP. Ever since I start using the Enneagram personality typing I was able to spot a Borderliner early on and change my coaching strategy. All this is in the book of course.

For a number of years I have tried to interest Ben Mack to go and train with dr. Richard Bandler and learn NLP from him. Ben has met many NLP practitioners who had no clue what NLP was about, so his view was kind of skewered. Luckily, this year Ben has actually done the NLP Practitioner no less. Having Ben go to Bandler was an anxious time for me, having two explosive characters that close together. As far as I can tell everything went well. Very well it seems.

Having become a NLP enthusiast, Ben now has a number of live calls where he helps people overcome problems with NLP. I know Ben is a great teacher and entertrainer, he was just lacking some basic techniques to influence brain processes. Now that he has learned Bandler's powerful technology, it immediately shows! Listening in to the calls, I notice all the changes that have happened to Ben these last couple of weeks. Not only can he explain all the basis NLP techniques in eloquence and ease, but he is also what I call a natural. NLP is easy to learn and everybody can learn it. Yet most people need to practice for a number of days or even weeks. With Ben it comes out ever so naturally. Adding his years of experience in magic and performance now creates an enormous impact on people's lives.

When you want to hear a great example of embedded metaphors, story loops, tonality and the simple way of bettering your own life, listen to Ben Mack's live calls. Having worked with hundreds of NLP Practitioners, I recommend to work with Ben Mack if you have the opportunity. If not, just make sure you listen to his calls or get the NLP mp3. Here is the link to one of the best calls: Ben Mack's NLP Bas Ass Call.

We'll be doing a wonderfull NLP Practitioner Course in Las Vegas from November 1st to 8th 2008. The course is certified and licensed by dr. Richard Bandler and his Society of NLP. As the detailed program explaining what we are going to is too long for a blog post, we have created a 11 page PDF brochure. When you want to know in detail what we are going to do, fill in the form below and the program will be send to you immedeately.

Your privacy and trust is for me as important as it is for you, so I promise to never ever give your information to any third party.

The Enneagram is the best way to discover your own personal style and personality traits. My book "You, Unlimited" is all about the Enneagram and NLP, but to give you a preview I have written a free report with all the steps that I use to determine your Enneagramtype. It includes health level, wingtypes and survival patterns. The best way to find your own Enneagram type is to work with an Enneagram consultant because the Enneagram is all about real life so paper or internet test are wrong most of the time. This report is the next best thing to a live consult as it describes the process a good consultant would use to help you find yourself. When you fill in the following form, this report is send to you immedeately:

Your privacy and trust is for me as important as it is for you, so I promise to never ever give your information to any third party.

For the last ten years dr. Richard Bandler has redefined NLP with a number of advancements on specific techniques. And rather than making stuff more diffcult, he has made the basic techniques to feel good more and more simple. Running your brain more effectively has never been easier. To give you a first hand experience of the power of these innovations, I have created a free report describing all the basic techniques needed for an easy and releaxed, but firm control over your emotions. Fill in the following form and this report will be emailed to you immedeately.

Your privacy and trust is for me as important as it is for you, so I promise to never ever give your information to any third party.

Here are a number of testimonials with clients and participants I have worked with over the last couple of years.

“Hi Joost,

Only a few months ago I was looking for someone to help me recognize (again) the workings of the wondrous world of our brain, www.nlp in other words. Through the source, Dr. Richard Bandler, I came to you and after an initial acquaintance I enrolled in your practitioners course in Zwolle.

I cannot say but: It has been a wonderful experience. At last starting to work with NLP in an easy and simple way by intensive practice from finish to start. From finish to start because it proved to be so effective that you first let us put into practice what we learned in theory only later on, sometimes a lot later. On looking back I know it has been a good decision to begin the NLP practitioner’s course with you and I am looking forward impatiently to the first day of the master’s course in which I enrolled.

In the meantime I also started my own “NLP on the Veluwe”, offering me fantastic surroundings to help people enlarge their arsenal of feeling good.

It has been a privilege to get to know you.

With kind regards,

Remco Bakker”

//”Hi Joost,

I can sincerely say that NLP has changed my life. First of all my private life has greatly improved because I have changed. I am better at dealing with my kids, people around me approach me in a different way and my love-life too is on the move (upwards this time).

After I had completed the NLP Practitioner’s course with you I started my own business and this is doing well. Each day I am still amazed at how simple it actually is to feel good by just wanting it. I enjoy daily things much more and I have a much better contact with people who are important to me.

I cannot imagine anymore that there was a time that I didn’t feel like this.

Joost, thank you for your lessons and your confidence.

I’ll see you next year for the Master’s course, I am looking forward to it.

Greetings,

Annemarie
www.brainconstructions.nl

/”Looking back at the past months and weeks when I followed the Practitioner’s course with Joost, it is astonishing, with hindsight, how easily I appeared to have stepped over awkward events or nasty thoughts, while I used to have been upset by them for weeks, if not months.
And almost day to day I am still surprised that, walking in the street, driving my car or sitting behind my computer at night, I simply feel fantastically good! Being foolishly happy in Dapper Street. (The title of a famous Dutch novel) . Something like that ....

Joost has given me a toolbox as it were, containing a wealth of useful NLP tools. Some do their work well immediately from the beginning, often unconsciously and without me being expressly occupied with them in my head. About others, I feel, I will yet be able to discover their usefulness and meaning in day to day practice, with my family or in my job.

The first changes – as I hear from people around me – are already visible and tangible. I look better amd healthier, have lost weight and practice sports every day. I haven’t become a saint at all however, and sometimes the ‘old pitfalls’ appear. But the NLP instruments immediately do their job, whether applied consciously or working unconsciously, and put me on the positive track again.

The Enneagram, which is so emphatically applied by Joost, is actually a very strange – really anti-NLP – phenomenon. And though I personally still have doubts about its universal application and am conscious of the adherent danger of dogmatism and fatalism , it does work for me in personal practice. For I recognize many of the (positive and especially negative) characteristics of the 9 (mediator) in myself. And Joost’s statement that Discipline is the greatest challenge and solution for me is indeed all but too true! Enervating but valuable, so ....

Joost, thanks for the inspiring lessons. I am looking forward to the new year.

Greetings,

Gerrit Jan

www.227search.nl

“Dear Joost,

Herewith my mail on the occasion of the NLP course in Zwolle (neurolinguistic programming) followed by me.

After having successfully concluded the course for licensed practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming, I want to express my thanks as to the skill with which Joost van der Leij conveyed this to me and our group.

As far as I am concerned, the lessons were given in a very pleasant and effective way. It also pleased me very much that the group consisted of a diversity of people, i.e. men and women of various ages all with their own background.

Through a national magazine I came into contact with NLP. Since I own a medium-sized company in the centre of the country and I am always looking for improvement in my management, I took the step to follow this NLP course.
Through NLP my way of managing has changed rather a lot. NLP is very much oriented on practice and because of this I have changed and been able to improve my insight into the relationship with clients and personnel at various points.

Moreover, I booked tremendous results by feeling good and the positive approach and I am already looking forward now to follow the subsequent Master’s course.


I am completely willing to give comments to people who want any advice.

With kind regards,
Harm-Jan Boeve
Mail address: hjboeve@habovo.nl


“Dear Joost,

Last Friday I successfully concluded my private practitioner’s training with you. What fun it was to learn how to feel good in a simple way. As soon as the day was over and I drove home again, I was looking forward to the next time I would be able to learn about NLP again. A fascinating part of your training is the Enneagram. This was a real revelation to me. It seemed as if all the pieces of the puzzle fell in place. Suddenly I understood more about myself and the people around me. Moreover, in combination with NLP I could finally feel good about who I am and also let other people be themselves. And it was noticeable!
From that moment onwards I regularly hear “What a good mood you’re in!” and “you are radiating lots of energy!
And it feels like that , too. It is a pleasure to know how to feel good. And I am especially looking forward to teaching this to others, too.
My practice in Amsterdam will be mainly specializing in coaching kids (to learn young is to practice when old)!!). But everyone is of course welcome with me in Amsterdam.
Joost, thanks for your enthousiasm, your patience and especially thanks for the knowledge you conveyed to me!! I am proud to haved learned NLP from someone who did his training with the master himself, Richard Bandler.
I am already looking forward now to do my Master Practitioner course with you at the end of next year.

Best wishes,

Peggy Steijn”

First Reaction by one of the participants of the Using Even More of Your Brain for a Change seminar

"Straight to the point:

- Excellent: I very much enjoyed Bandler's jokes, all the material he thought and all the demonstrations. He transitioned very smoothly, the nested stories felt really captivating and interesting. I attended a Bandler's event for the first time and his presentation met all my expectatons and more.
- Improvement possible: I found La Valle's style very different from Bandler's. I'll divide my feedback regarding La Valle in two: a) his stories/jokes and b) his NLP teaching. His jokes had funny content, if I thought about it. His presentation of the jokes however, I found chunky and, well, not really my taste. Now, regarding b), the situation completely changed! Every time La Valle switched from jokes and stories to NLP cases or exercises and teaching, I found him very very professional and extremelly smooth. (In comparison to Bandler - I could not even notice a switch from one to another!)
- Excellent: I found the organization of the event excellent!
- Improvement possible: Selling of the materials I found slow in the payment process and some materials finished! I would expect that you would know what sells most, and have more material prepared to buy. I would expect a better service in this respect for the price we paid.

Overall impression: Excellent, I feel satisfied and, well, changed. Any possibilities for improvement I described I send as honest feedback

--Nikolay"

2008 brings a very special opportunity to people in Europe. Dr Richard Bandler, the co-creator of NLP and genius of Design Human Engineering and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning will teach his newest discoveries in the field of human evolution and development.

For the first time ever, Richard Bandler and John LaValle will teach this seminar in Amsterdam especially for all those people in Europe truly interested in learning NLP from its creator and being at the leading edge of the latest technologies.

As many of you know Richard teaches very few seminars each year and spends his time continuing his research and development building new models of excellence and precision, building on the solid foundation of NLP. You may have wanted to train with Richard in the past but not been able to travel so far now this training, on your doorstep in Europe is accessible and easily within your grasp.

Dr Bandler has trained the most prominent people in the field of NLP and his technologies are used in our schools, colleges and major institutions and corporations. His discoveries are used wherever humans create, learn, change and communicate!
Some of you will have learnt NLP from great trainers who have trained with Richard, some of you may not have been so lucky. Here is your chance to experience learning mastery from the master himself.

Richard will be joined by John LaValle. John has co-trained with Richard for many years and is in our experience the best NLP trainer in the world! Whether you are in business or coming along for yourself you can’t imagine now how easy it is to learn with John Lavalle

This seminar will book very quickly and may be filling up as you read what amazing opportunities await you;

Learn the difference that makes the difference to yourself and others around you
Develop your own techniques as you progress
Drive your own brain to lead a better life
Overcome limitations to your life and career
Teach your neurology to do things in ways that work for you
Discover the art and science of advanced communications
Change your beliefs so they bring you joy and success
Have more fun on a seminar than you ever imagined you could
Be successful in your business work and career
Identify ways to learn new skills easily and effectively
* Make sure you are in the optimum state for success

This seminar is a unique collaboration between European Institutes of NLP and will be staffed by the best NLP trainers in Europe. There will be someone who can help you who speaks your own language and can ensure that you get the very best from the training. You can order your tickets at: Richard Bandler in Amsterdam

Here is the video of my performance in Atlanta 2006:

Ben is about to launch this video as part of a 9 DVD set on Direct Response Branding. If you want to be part of this launch, go to this page and sign up for free.

I am proud to have my no.1 selling book here in the Netherlands, published in the US.

When you work on your self-development it is imperative to know who you are. But it is not enough. You also need powerful techniques to improve and better yourself. "Know Thyself," is an important first step, and the Enneagram provides just that: a deep and comprehensive knowledge of one's character. As the Enneagram offers a clear map of typical problems and challenges for your personality, the latest techniques and tools developed in the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) help you to find your way out - a way to grow quickly and happy without reservations. To truly become You, Unlimited.

Copy Writing Second Opinion - Checking the Neurological Impact of Your Messages

Whether it is on a website, in an advertisement or the message in an ad spot; I come upon well-meant texts very regularly that achieve the opposite of what people had aimed at because of a lack of knowledge about the neurological impact of words. Well-known examples are of course "Don't take drugs" or what I heard on the radio today: "Working with us is a challenge every day."

It is often possible to make a few crucial alterations in order to turn this unintended negative effect of the chosen words into text reaching the effect aimed at. This means that nothing has to be changed in your campaign as far as contents is concerned, but that it will nevertheless be made possible to achieve the optimum result.

People often ask me if I myself have experienced all kinds of things and if that is the very reason why I have started to do this work. Of course everyone's life is different but it certainly helps if you have had experience with this sort of business. That's why I think it is a good idea to introduce myself properly. So that you know a little bit what sort of person I am.

This is the reason why I openheartedly tell you about what I have experienced. Besides my own shortcomings that I ran into I also experience on a daily basis what has happened to other people. It is my opinion that with a good insight into the person I am, it will be easier for you to decide whether or not to follow private sessions or workshops and seminars.

Some people don't realize this but I am busy giving private sessions all day long. I see hundreds
of people a year. Whether it is about problems with fear, emotions or anger, I solve them every day. In the seminars I give I also meet a lot of people who I can teach to feel good in a relaxed and easy manner.

In general most people succeeded very well in applying the NLP & NHR techniques to feel good in my presence. In the end, however, it is a matter of applying them well without me. That is the reason why a great number of people have asked me about making it possible for me to make a recording of the instructions and put it their disposal.

This I have done now. On the "How to Feel Good Audio mp3s", you can find the following tracks:

1) Introduction: How does our brain work
2) Becoming better at thinking, imagining and feeling
3) Turn around feeling technique: How do you stop an acute negative feeling and replace it by a positive feeling
4) Black / White Replay technique: How do you stop negative images and replace them by positive images
5) How do you stop negative thoughts and make them so ridiculous that they will disappear
6) How do you prevent making bad decisions and instead make good decisions
7) When to use what

In total the mp3s contains almost an hour of material.

Reactions on the CD:

"I received your CD, very revealing! Thanks a lot.

After my practitioner's training, quite a lot of years ago in the meantime, I rounded off two (different) NLP Master-trainings. That's why I can confidently say that I very much like the approach on your practise CD. Your story is lucid and practical, you can immediately start off and moreover, it is quite a lot of fun to listen to."

After having listened to the How to Feel Good Audio CD I got the following enthusiastic reaction:

"Hi Joost,

I spoke to you on the telephone yesterday. Received the cd today and just listened to it and of course practised. I would have liked to tell you this personally on the telephone but you cannot be reached at the moment and I want to get this off my chest as quickly as possible.

What I discovered in myself is a super surprise to say the least. I came to the part of taking good decisions. I imagined a bad bargain, a black skirt my boyfriend liked very much but which I immediately wrote off as rubbish and a tarty thing. After that a very good buy and that was my waterbed, the best buy of my life.