Previous 2010 Course Details

Many people will know that Nick Kemp has been running invitation only events since 2005 on the theme of "The Art of Good Fortune". On Feb 6th 2010 Nick will be unveiling "The Art of Good Fortune for Business" which is a one day introduction on how to market a successful business. The even better news is that Mark Zaretti, MD of Sparticle Limited, has agreed to present a section on creating business excellence online. Both Nick and Mark will share secrets that they use, but don't teach others, on this one day event. Please note this will be a small event to ensure that everyone receives the best attention and places will be offered on a first come first serve basis.

The day will include the following:

"Difference Dictates" - Making your brand stand out in the crowd
Attract more customers - Generating memorable copy in advertising
Getting the best "bang for buck" on a business budget on the net
Identifying strategies for business success, "work less to earn more"
7 Big myths busted
Common mistakes made by small business and how to avoid them
The difference between "price" and "cost" in business - why good fortune is more than just money...
The language of persuasion in promoting your company - generating client interest

About Nick Kemp

Nick Kemp has been involved in sales and marketing for two decades, has negotiated a number of multi million pound contracts, is a highly sought after international communication trainer, has been a guest on BBC Radio on many occasions, runs 10 successful websites as well as Nick Kemp Training, which offers business and personal development trainings. He is well known for his provocative sense of humour and insistence on producing the very best results in business and asking "those tricky questions" that make people think in new and innovative ways!

What people are saying

"Our day with Nick Kemp was a turning point. The solutions are obvious as we look back on them! But on the day Nick found us confused and stressed and left us clear and focussed. We changed the company name to reflect the range of products we now have and this has immediately helped to communicate to existing and new customers so much better. Nick's direction has meant these changes are felt within the organisation as well. The ideas came from ourselves with his guidance - and this means we have so much more ownership of the process. The follow-up from Nick has also been welcome - checking, tweaking and confirming the original plan as it rolls out. The focus and clarity Nick brought to us has meant increased sales activity as well as a more efficient work pattern to deal with this. From struggling to striding!"

Mal Williamson - Director Engage Now - Nov 2008

"We wanted to help our staff consider that there is more than one response to a given situation, and help them explore a range of possibilities in terms of reactions. Alongside that is the awareness of the power and effect of language to help increase rapport, not only with colleagues, but with our customers.

Feedback from Nick's work was impressive, in the highly regulated world of insurance we do have to operate to a script when talking to customers to meet FSA requirements; however we are now looking at the specific words we use.

Additionally our staff are more aware of their 'state' as a major factor in improving our ability to perform tasks, and how to seek to control this."

Sue Lewis - Operations Manager,
Towergate Partnership Ltd

About Mark Zaretti

Mark Zaretti has an understanding of technology and media in business based on over 10 years of industrial experience at some of the largest companies in the world. In 2004 he founded Sparticle Limited with the goal of providing a professional IT and multimedia marketing service to companies and individuals. In his own words... "I.T. is just glue, it's what you stick together that matters". The MD of a business that has taken on more staff and gained more clients in the middle of a recession, he knows a thing or two about building a client base, which is why his company now has clients throughout the UK, Mainland Europe and America. It is this unique perspective, as a business man and a provider of Web based marketing that he will be sharing.

What people are saying about Sparticle Limited

"What was so refreshing about working with Sparticle Limited was the way they thoroughly investigated my marketplace in order to deliver a website that is really focused on my target audience. With a comprehensive consultation process, I knew I would receive a highly relevant and professionally designed product... one that I am proud to show my customers."

Andrew T Austin, Author and Founder of 23NLPeople.com

Nick Kemp a Frank Farrelly endorsed Provocative Therapy trainer and the founder of The Association for Provocative Therapy (AFPT) will be presenting a one off event in London on the evening of Feb 26th and all day Feb 27th in London.
Nick Kemp is one of the few recognized Provocative Therapy trainers and this is the only London event he will be running in 2010.
His international training schedule for UK, Europe and USA can be found at www.nickkemp.com Nick has trained intensively with Frank Farrelly since 2004 and co presents with Frank Farrelly in the UK each year as well as being recognized as a controversial figure who is passionate about duty of care with clients and ensuring the highest quality of training possible for workshop attendees.

This is some of what you can expect

An evening of Provocative Change Works™ Demonstrations
Friday 26th February 2010 at 7 - 9pm

Nick demonstrates the patterns and strategies used in Provocative Therapy that influenced the co creators of NLP as well as his own Provocative Change Works™ approach showcased in the acclaimed Therapeutic Excellence and Provocative Change Works™ for Phobias DVD sets.

See examples of Nick at work and what Frank Farrelly has to say about Nick

Provocative Therapy in Practice - Doorways into Provocative Change
Saturday 27th February 2010 at 10 - 5pm

Discover

• How to use The Provocative Icon System™ as created by Nick Kemp and endorsed by Frank Farrelly
  (each workshop attendee will receive a set of AFPT training cards which cannot be purchased by the general public and are only available at AFPT trainings)
• Learn the patterns of provocation created by Frank Farrelly to create accelerated therapeutic change
• Learn the structure of a Provocative Therapy interview
• Learn how to shift client states using provocative humour
• Practice Frank Farrelly endorsed PT exercises to develop conversational change in client sessions
• Receive free automatic associate membership of The Association for Provocative Therapy

There will also be an opportunity for some attendees to experience a one to one Provocative Therapy interview with Nick Kemp (please request when booking)

What People are saying about Nick Kemp

"If you're interested in provocative therapy you want to read his stuff on the internet. What a guy. And he's got a heart of 144 carat gold!"

Frank Farrelly
Creator of Provocative Therapy

"Nick Kemp has modeled the different patterns in Frank Farrelly's Provocative Therapy so that they are easy to learn. In addition, he is everything you might wish for in a colleague - available, creative, eager to discuss ideas and learn as well as teach."

Steve Andreas
NLP Developer and Author

Pricing £125 for Sat 27th training day
(early bird, just £99, when booked before December 10th 2009)

Evening event (7pm - 9pm) £25, (£20 when paid in advance)
Please note that there are limited places available for this event, so book early to secure your place

This workshop sees the meeting of three very different trainers, styles and personas to bring the very best of therapeutic change work to New York City.
Each trainer will present their own style of working and their own tips and tricks developed from their clinical practices for producing effective therapeutic change.
This workshop will be an advanced level experience and all participants are expected to have at least some prior training in clinical and personal change work.

The Trainers

Nick Kemp first met therapeutic legend Frank Farrelly in 2006 and spent three years intensively studying Provocative Therapy to become a Farrelly endorsed Provocative Therapy trainer having attended many of his trainings as well as having hundreds of hours of one to one contact with him discussing the Provocative Therapy approach.
In 2007, Kemp released a DVD of his "Provocative Change Works™" approach which had commentary and an introduction from Frank Farrelly himself. Farrelly has been pivotal in developing this work and provided a great source of inspiration and encouragement.

Regarding Nick Kemp, Farrelly was heard to say:
"You are totally disarming and beyond formalisation. There is ease and naturalness about you and you make people relax really quickly. You got the power man!"

Doug O'Brien is a Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP, and a Certified Hypnotherapist. In 1988, while assisting at NLP and NAC training seminars with Anthony Robbins, Doug achieved the designation of Master Trainer. He now conducts numerous seminars of his own around the globe (specializing in the "Sleight of Mouth" patterns of Robert Dilts, NLP Certification Courses, and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy) and helped found Columbia-Presbyterian's Department of Complementary Medicine.

"There are only a handful of people in the country whom I have personally trained and am totally confident in recommending. Doug O'Brien is one of these few." - Anthony Robbins, Author of "Unlimited Power" and "Awaken the Giant Within"

Andrew T. Austin is a controversial and sometimes outspoken NLP therapist and trainer who is now also the esteemed author of The Rainbow Machine - Tales of a Neurolinguist.
He is often the last port of call for clients who have exhausted all other possibilities and has often thought of calling his clinical practice, "last resort technologies."

"Andrew Austin is clear, original, and outspoken about mental illness, medication, and psychiatry. His skills were honed by years of experience in the "trenches" of psychiatry, so he knows what he is talking about" - Steve Andreas, author of Transforming Your Self and other books about therapy and personal change.

This AFPT approved event is an opportunity to learn Provocative Therapy from the source. The weekend will include an opportunity for some to work one on one with Frank Farrelly. Nick Kemp founder of The Association of Provocative Therapy and creator of The Provocative Icon System™ will be teaching many of the latest exercises that assist in developing insights into this therapeutic approach. The AFPT policy is to run trainings with small groups to ensure that each attendee receives the very best attention. Places are issued on a first come first serve basis and we fully expect this event to be fully subscribed. Attendees of this event also receive automatic Associate Membership of the AFPT.

What People are saying about Frank Farrelly?

"Frank Farrelly's Provocative Therapy is like a treasure buried deep in the shadow of traditional psychotherapeutic modalities. These CD's provide you with a treasure map that lifts the techniques, methodology and attitude off the page and into the very real world of working with patients and clients. Be warned - while Frank is working with his clients, these CD's will be working on you..."

Michael Neill, NLP Master Trainer/Bestselling author on Frank Live in Leeds CD set

"Frank is a solid co-therapist -- not a carbon copy. His core of lovingness is easily apparent and available... He is also a wizard at destroying the meta-communicating bacterium 'why'. A body free of this bug may never be the same again. You've read Groddeck, Eichorn, Redl, Laing, Kopp... Read Farrelly!"

Carl A. Whitaker, M.D., Family Process.

"...your demonstrations of therapy... were really great. I liked your style enormously. All of your expressions of yourself while here were a kind of enlarging and expanding experience, combined with a total buoyancy we all need. Meeting you was the best therapeutic experience I've had in a long time."

O. Spurgeon English, M.D., Temple University Psychiatry Dept., Philadelphia, PA.

"Frank Farrelly... is a really exquisite example of requisite variety."

Richard Bandler and John Grinder, Frogs Into Princes.

What People are saying about Nick Kemp?

"Do you know Nick Kemp? - (he is) exceptionally bright, and I have immensely enjoyed communicating...The kind of exchanges that I have been having... are the kind of activities that I think can really advance the field."

Steve Andreas, NLP Author, Trainer, Developer

"Nick Kemp is what a trainer should be."

Doug O Brien - Master Trainer & Hypnotherapist

"I have known Nick Kemp for a number of years as both personal friend and mentor... no one has done more to promote Frank Farrelly and his highly effective treatment modality of "Provocative Therapy" than Nick Kemp. In 2004 when both myself and Nick met Frank Farrelly for the first time, the only readily available material was the classic 1973 book, "Provocative Therapy." Since that meeting, Nick and Frank have become firm friends and there is no doubt the rest of us have benefitted enormously from this unique relationship. Now with numerous audio and DVD training products produced and promoted by Nick Kemp, Frank Farrelly's work is more readily accessible than ever before.

With this is mind, I had the very great pleasure of attending Nick's first "Provocative Change Works™" course in Leeds. Having extensively studied Provocative Therapy and seen Frank work one-to-one sessions live with clients on several occasions, I was astonished at the level of expertise demonstrated on the stage. I have no doubt that with his modelling skills, Nick Kemp has managed to "get" the PT model in its entirety. Watching Nick interact with his clients left me in no doubt that he is the very embodiment of Frank's humour, wit, skill and flexibility. I suspect that anyone familiar with Frank Farrelly's style of working will get that spine tingling sense of familiarity when watching Nick work and that the mantle of Frank's ground breaking work has truly found its lineage, and his experience and dedication to detail makes him one of the best trainers and change work therapists in the UK today."

Andrew T Austin
Clinical Hypnotherapist, Neurolinguist & Author of "The Rainbow Machine"

Frank Farrelly's Provocative Therapy is one of the most fun and EFFECTIVE ways of helping a client to actually change since, well, ever. Nick Kemp is one of the few people on the planet who really understands what Frank Farrelly is doing in his Provocative Therapy AND CAN TEACH IT TO OTHERS. How do I know this? Because even after reading Frank's books, listening to his recordings and even sponsoring a live Provocative Therapy workshop with him in New York a couple of years ago, I was still in the dark as to what specifically it was Frank was doing and why it worked. When did I start to understand it all? When I sat down with Nick and he explained it to me. Nick has integrated Farrelly's Provocative Therapy with Ericksonian Hypnosis in a unique was that makes the original even better. He calls it Provocative Change Works™. He teaches it in a way that is fun and EASY to implement. YOU will be DOING it before the weekend is over.

Doug O Brien, Trainer

• All-New Content
• 3 New Trainers and a 5-trainer team. We are pleased to have international trainers Nick Kemp (UK), Danie Beaulieu (Canada), and Lucas Derks (Holland), along with returning trainers Andy Austin (UK), and Steve Andreas (US).
• 7 Full Days (one day longer than last year).
• Each Trainer will be sharing in-depth knowledge of the gems of his/her recent work. Plus we’ll be continuing the practice of live client-session demonstrations with people who have no background in NLP.

What is Provocative Change Works about?
The evening will focus on exploring Provocative strategies for therapy as created by Frank Farrelly, creator of Provocative Therapy and how these can be integrated with Milton Erickson's hypnotic work. I specialize in anxiety issues, phobias, anger, jealousy and food related problems.
Expect a lively evening with new approaches and ways of working.

Who is Nick Kemp?
I am the creator of Provocative Change Works™, a Frank Farrelly approved Provocative Therapy Trainer, ANLP Board Director, Creator of Human Alchemy Products. I co trains with Steve Andreas, Frank Farrelly, Andrew T Austin and Doug O Brien on an international basis and am known for humour, occasional mischief and excellence in communication...

Why will I find this interesting?
This approach is for anyone interested in producing excellence in communication whether in a therapeutic or business context. This "road tested" material that I use in my successful private practice where I regularly see up to 50 clients each month.
My philosophy is to share what works best. All attendees will automatically qualify for the early bird rate for the Oct London Provocative Change Works™ intensive!

Part 1: Provocative Change Works™ for Business - 8th October 2010 7-9.30pm

During this evening Nick Kemp will reveal many of the insights and strategies that have helped him to create a number of highly successful businesses, some of which had multi-million pound annual turnovers.

Here are some of the things you can expect during this evening session:

• Lighting the fuse - taking an idea to market and getting on the map
• Provoking client responses by provocative thinking
• Strategic thinking to create powerful creative business outcomes
• Creating impact in your communications in the visual and auditory realms
• Pricing and the psychology of pricing as a filtering system
• Creating the best delivery systems for your business

What the Business community is saying about Nick Kemp

"Everybody enjoyed the course immensely and I would like to thank you for guiding us through a very useful and insightful two days.Great feedback and lots of good work done after the course as well.

Jacqueline de Rojas
Vice President McAfee UK and Ireland

"Our day with Nick Kemp was a turning point. The solutions are obvious as we look back on them! But on the day Nick found us confused and stressed and left us clear and focussed. We changed the company name to reflect the range of products we now have and this has immediately helped to communicate to existing and new customers so much better. Nick's direction has meant these changes are felt within the organisation as well. The ideas came from ourselves with his guidance - and this means we have so much more ownership of the process. The follow-up from Nick has also been welcome - checking, tweaking and confirming the original plan as it rolls out. The focus and clarity Nick brought to us has meant increased sales activity as well as a more efficient work pattern to deal with this. From struggling to striding!"

Mal Williamson
Director Engage Now

"We wanted to help our staff consider that there is more than one response to a given situation, and help them explore a range of possibilities in terms of reactions. Alongside that is the awareness of the power and effect of language to help increase rapport, not only with colleagues, but with our customers.
Feedback from Nick's work was impressive, in the highly regulated world of insurance we do have to operate to a script when talking to customers to meet FSA requirements; however we are now looking at the specific words we use.
Additionally our staff are more aware of their 'state' as a major factor in improving our ability to perform tasks, and how to seek to control this."

Sue Lewis
Operations Manager Towergate Partnership Ltd

Part 2: Provocative Change Works™ Advanced Skills Workshop - 9th-10th October 2010

This is an opportunity to learn the approaches that make up the Provocative Change Works™ tool kit, which is equally effective in personal development, therapeutic intervention and business contexts.

Here are some of the things we will be learning during these two days:

• Identifying and utilizing the first 26 Provocative Icon cards for accelerated provocative change
• Exploring the "Full Representation Hypnotic Inductions" to change client "stuck states" to fluid states
• Time Framing client sessions - how to create a future client session while working in the "here and now"
• Practising the PCW exercises to develop multi-level sensory awareness and exquisite state control during client sessions
• Learning the art of improvised and creative interactions, for accelerated results in therapeutic and business situations
• Working one on one with Nick Kemp as demonstration subject (limited opportunities due to time considerations)

What people are saying about Nick Kemp in therapy and personal change

"You are totally disarming and beyond formalisation. There is ease and naturalness about you and you make people relax really quickly. You got the power man!"

Frank Farrelly, Creator of Provocative Therapy

"Do you know Nick Kemp? - (he is) exceptionally bright, and I have immensely enjoyed communicating...The kind of exchanges that I have been having... are the kind of activities that I think can really advance the field."

Steve Andreas, NLP Author, Trainer, Developer

"Nick Kemp is what a trainer should be."

Doug O Brien - Master Trainer & Hypnotherapist

"I have known Nick Kemp for a number of years as both personal friend and mentor... no one has done more to promote Frank Farrelly and his highly effective treatment modality of "Provocative Therapy" than Nick Kemp. In 2004 when both myself and Nick met Frank Farrelly for the first time, the only readily available material was the classic 1973 book, "Provocative Therapy." Since that meeting, Nick and Frank have become firm friends and there is no doubt the rest of us have benefitted enormously from this unique relationship.

Andrew T Austin
Clinical Hypnotherapist, Neurolinguist & Author of "The Rainbow Machine"

You may also want to listen to:
Provocative Change Works™ Intensive interview in 4 parts with Nick Kemp.

Download the event flyer:
Provocative Change Works™ Intensive London (PDF - 0.4Mb)

This conference is for you if you work in any area of behaviour change and want to understand the influence of language on supporting individuals to achieve their (and your) outcomes quicker than you ever thought possible

All the presenters are experts in their fields of language and behaviour change and have years of experience of working with clients who have complex needs - successfully achieving positive outcomes for the clients and themselves.

The areas of work is broad ranging and includes mental health; mental well-being; phobias; weight loss and slimming; smoking; anxiety; confidence; alcohol; drugs (substance misuse); depression; obsessive compulsive disorder; panic attacks stress, personal coaching, well-being amongst many others.

Conference programme:
9.00-9.30 Registration

Presentations
What we say and how we say it - Andy Austin
Change work and words - Nick Kemp
The eyes have it - what people are saying without speaking and other body language stuff - Alan Johnson
Limiting beliefs - whose are they? - Nigel Hetherington

Workshops - there is a choice of 2 workshops
13.30 - 14.45 Workshop 1
Conversational coaching - LAB profile technique and working with groups - Lesley Hoyle
Metaphors and weight management - Andy Austin
Provocative change and health behaviour - Nick Kemp
Resources for recovery - alcohol and drugs - Alan Johnson
Language of change - Nigel Hetherington
15.00 - 16.15 Workshop 2
16.15 - 16.30 Final panel

Download the event flyer:
Mind Your Language (PDF - 0.5Mb)

The day will focus on learning and integrating the three key elements that form the basis of the Provocative Change Works approach, namely

• Using Provocative strategies and approaches to resolve client problems
• Integrating non specific hypnosis
• Using time frames to change client perceptions

All attendees will have the opportunity to use The Provocative Icon System designed to teach many of the strategies created by Frank Farrelly. The day will consist of a series of exercises that explore how to shift client "stuck states" conversationally by working in a multi layered manner. I will also be including exercises that I have found to work best with client conditions, that have been successfully "road tested" with literally hundreds of clients.

I will also be teaching the structure of creating a successful client session from initial enquiry, to the first session, step by step, detailing the use of time to create the very best results for the client. Attendees will need to have some background in NLP or Hypnosis as this will be a fast paced event with lots of emphasis on precision and working in a multi layered manner. I will also include a section on how to frame the session so that the therapist is effectively creating the session CD for the client by using language effectively so the client continues to learn in between physical sessions with the therapist.

During the day I will be doing a series of 1 to 1 demonstrations with delegates to show how to integrate the three key elements that underpin PCW can be used to maximum effect.

Conference Presentations
Over 50 presentations to choose from, impossible to attend everything. Seven NLP presentations being offered concurrently throughout the day, all three days.

Full Day Seminars Oct 28, Nov 1
Pre- and post-conference seminars with Charles Faulkner, Al & Marylin Sargent, Shelle Rose Charvet, Nick Kemp, Dee Kinder, Diane Kramer & Diane Husinga, Richard Gray, Patrick Merlevede & Carl Harshman, Judith Delozier & Patricia Novick. Topics include NLP basics, "Provocative Change Works," wellness programs for the underserved, "Extraordinary Self" program, NLP & substance abuse, cognitive modeling, coaching for health, metaprograms measurement, and the structure of grief.

Documentary Film Screening, Sat
One World Wisdom explores core values running through Indigenous cultures. This half-hour film examines the meaning of healing and community toward global renewal. Features the Hopi, Lacandón Maya and Quechua traditions.

I will be teaching and demonstrating the Provocative Change Works approach that I use with great success in dealing with a wide range of client issues, including OCD, phobias, anger, jealousy and other issues. Attendees will also get the opportunity to work with The Provocative Icon card system

STOP PRESS Nick Kemp will also be hosting a discussion on a video session by Steve Andreas, NLP Developer and Author at the IASH Conference
This session shows Steve working with a client using some of Nick's PCW approaches.

Conference Presentations
Over 50 presentations to choose from, impossible to attend everything. Seven NLP presentations being offered concurrently throughout the day, all three days.

Full Day Seminars Oct 28, Nov 1
Pre- and post-conference seminars with Charles Faulkner, Al & Marylin Sargent, Shelle Rose Charvet, Nick Kemp, Dee Kinder, Diane Kramer & Diane Husinga, Richard Gray, Patrick Merlevede & Carl Harshman, Judith Delozier & Patricia Novick. Topics include NLP basics, "Provocative Change Works," wellness programs for the underserved, "Extraordinary Self" program, NLP & substance abuse, cognitive modeling, coaching for health, metaprograms measurement, and the structure of grief.

Documentary Film Screening, Sat
One World Wisdom explores core values running through Indigenous cultures. This half-hour film examines the meaning of healing and community toward global renewal. Features the Hopi, Lacandón Maya and Quechua traditions.

• Application: Coaching, Personal Development, Therapy
• Level: NLP Practitioner and above