Derren Brown: Archive
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From: Blue Chip
Date: Thu Dec 19, 2002 4:57pm
Subject: RE: [Derren Brown] Re: hypnosis practice.
>Hi BC,
>
>I quote:-
>
>"If you're in it to help people you don't take THAT much from
>them, especially as the people who need NLP most are generally the
>emotionally and/or financially less fortunate".
>
>You have written very intelligently fo the most part IMHO, however, I find
>your
>last comment to be an ridiculous assumption at the least, and a real
>insult to
>many at the worst.
>
>Please justify this statement.
>
>Just for your information, before you make any assumptions about me, I
>attended
>one day out of a twelve day NLP course, and found it to be overpriced IMO.
>The
>people who attended were a real mix, from Teachers, a policeman, sales and
>marketing people as well, as well as an artist and counsellor. In General,
>people with stable financial and emotional qualities.
>
>Darren
Thanks for the compliment, and yes, your point is fair. I will certainly
take the opportunity you have given me to clarify (rather than justify) my
point-of-view, and hopefully with assumptions or presumptions.
I would suggest that the people at that seminar were not the people who
"need it the most", but were the people who were best in a position to be
able to afford it. And I bet some of them were being sponsored by their
employer.
I do NOT mean 'everybody who learns NLP is badly off in some way'
I DO mean 'everbody who is badly off in some way should have the
opportunity to try NLP'
...and this is the dilemma.
If you have £100,000 pounds and a lot of determination, you can be pretty
much assured of being a millionaire by the end of the year. If you
struggle to pay the food bill or are so depressed you can't leave the
house, then it's not going to happen (without a lot of luck.)
NLP can be used as the most incredible personal improvement programme, the
problem is, that the people who need the MOST improvement (especially those
who can't/won't say "i'm broke" or "i'm depressed") are the people who have
the least amount of access to NLP
I think the key words in my original paragraph were "need" and "most". And
I had really hoped to avoid insult by carefully chosing the word
'unfortunate'. I mean, you can't really blame someone for being
unfortunate. Stupid or foolish, maybe, but bad luck is hard to avoid
without the correct skills; and if those skills are in he 'restricted
access' section of your society/environment, then you're kinda stuffed from
the word go.
I hope that makes sense, if not, by all means ask.
NLP suggests: There is no failure, only feedback.
L8rz,
Bc
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