The Alchemy of Change
October 25- November 6, 2010
Levels 1 and 2
Reflect for a moment on the difference between driving your car knowing that the owner’s manual is probably in the glove compartment, should you ever need it
and driving your car knowing that you have …
- The expertise of a factory trained engineer
- The skill of a formula one driver
- A road map that shows every highway, shortcut and landmark
you are ever likely to need.
Are you a coach, therapist, educator, activist, business owner, trainer, consultant, public-speaker, sales person, performer, artist?
Are you a player or just a spectator? Are you passionate about learning, and developing new skills to deepen your essential understanding of the world?
Learn creative problem-solving, and communication skills that will give you the leading edge in any and every situation.
This course is a high-energy, content-rich, immersion in specific practical skills, valuable in themselves, and more than that, priceless as the means for you to engage in the creativity that allows for unlimited scope in how you can apply and create brand new skills and applications; in your own life, and for the benefit of your clients, students, and team members.
This training is about how learning happens, not as theoretical knowledge, but as a window into the dynamics and practicalities of learning to effect change for others; to transform your understanding of what you can achieve, and give you the means to achieve it, and to facilitate it for others!
Whether you use these skills for therapeutic purposes (as a new career, or to complement your current career) or in business, or for educational purposes, they will transform what you do for the rest of your life! Most importantly they will change how you do what you do.
You will learn not just that it is a good idea to live at cause, and at choice (rather than as a victim of circumstances) you will learn how to do so!
A Residential NLP, Coaching, and Hypnosis Training Immersion
that will transform your sense of what is possible!
Comprehensive . Professional . State of the Art
The Alchemy of Change
Residential . Hands-on . Accelerated Immersion . A content packed NLP and Hypnosis Practitioner and Master Practitioner Training and Certification Intensive at a venue that has been dedicated to radical personal transformation since 1993
Manzanita Village. October 25 – November 6, 2010
Level 1 October 25-30
Level 2 November 1-6
Michele Benzamin–Miki and Caitríona Reed
Special early bird price for this training see below
Learn to facilitate profound lasting change within yourself and for others through The Five Changes innovative rapid-learning hypnosis, hypnotherapy and NLP immersion. Get ready to work hard, to learn powerful new skills, to let go of limiting beliefs and habits, and to have a lot of fun doing it.
Have You Ever Wondered?
Have you ever wondered why the profound experiences you have at peak times in your life are elusive and seem impossible to replicate? Or that meaning and happiness evade you more frequently that you would hope? Wouldn’t you like to learn skills that would enable you to become a master of your inner states? And learn them more rapidly than you ever dreamed was possible? Would you like to be able to facilitate the same profound lasting change for your clients, team-members, family-members, friends, or patients simply and easily?
You will learn some of the same mind-skills, perspectives and attitudes that were employed and applied by some of the greatest teachers, leaders, and creative minds in history – skills and attitudes that have been systematized for the first time. In addition you will learn the specific application of a wide variety of particular techniques that will allow you to apply these mind-skills effectively whenever you need or wish.
In addition you will receive an exhaustive manual and audio recordings to supplement your ten-day learning immersion.What you learn will enable you to become a master communicator, while learning to manage your internal mental states. The combination means that you can navigate ANY situation you encounter with deliberation and on purpose. It’s as simple as that!
The skills you will learn are so specific, and perspectives so universally applicable, that when you have learned them you’ll wonder how you ever managed before.
Whether you’re a health care professional, artist, activist, life or business coach, teacher, performer, organizer, clinician, business owner, salesperson, or entrepreneur … if you interact with other people you can use these skills to give you ever greater flexibility and provide value to your clients, students, patients, colleagues. and friends.
What This NLP Training Consists Of
Changing or Eliminating Inappropriate or Undesirable Behaviors . Developing verbal and non-verbal Communication Skills . Uncovering and Resolving Internal Conflicts . Understanding personal values and eliminating incongruence . Developing Meaningful Goals & Clear Strategies for Attaining Excellence . Accessing Altered States to Rapidly Effect Change . Verbal and Non-verbal skills for building rapport and empathy . Language patterns and conversational hypnosis . Transforming and replacing limiting, belief, emotions, and decisions . Time-line processes and hypnotic regression . Accessing Resourceful States of Competence & Confidence . Varieties of Expanded Awareness to effect lifelong change . Ericksonian and Elman hypnosis
Recoup the Cost of Your Registration
Use these skills to recoup your investment within weeks or even days! Seriously, in today’s marketplace hypnotherapist, with very much less training than the in-depth training you will receive here charge between $150-$200 for an hour-long session.
With this training in NLP and hypnosis along with appropriate marking strategies, you should now earn a minimum of $200-$350 and per hour. We will also cover marketing to enable you to use your new skills to benefit others.
What if …
you could learn the skills that will allow you
to give and contribute more than ever before?
What if you lived fully at Cause, at Choice,
and learn the creative response-ability
that lets you use every situation
and every human encounter
for maximum mutual positive benefit?
Your Trainers
Caitriona Reed and Michele Benzamin-Miki have been catalysts for transformational change for thousands of individuals in their work as hypnotherapists, Zen and Vipassana teachers, and as NLP practitioners.

Caitríona Reed
They have always challenged themselves towards effective innovation, seeking out ways to brings the greatest positive transformation in others. They have integrated disparate modalities (e.g. Buddhism and NLP) to illuminate and deepen each, and to produce a synthesis that is more than the sum of the parts. They are noted for making complex subjects simple, without over simplifying them, and accomplishing in hours or days what was once considered the work of months or years.
Embodying traditional approaches to ancient wisdom, they have integrated cutting-edge applications of NLP, Hypnosis, and personal and organization change-work to bring you this intensive NLP training that is unique in its power and effectiveness.
More Than NLP and Hypnotic Techniques
What you will learn is more than a series of techniques and patterns. This work is inherently practical and tends to move beyond techniques and belief systems. This will be a practical, hands-on training. You will learn by doing; and by practicing throughout this training with your class-mates. Because this is a residential course there will be a lot of opportunity for this. We use new paradigms of intensive rapid learning so that by the time you leave, much of what you have learned will have become second-nature to you.
For maximum effectiveness it is important for you plan to continue working intensively with the material for the weeks following the training, both with paying clients, and as your own course of study. That way, you begin to move towards the improvisational mastery that brings this work most fully to life. As you do you will find that you develop the confidence to know that you can work with the most challenging clients and situations for the benefit of all concerned.
Caitriona and Michele will mentor you in that process with follow-up teleseminars.
This is not a retreat. It is a training intensive. Come prepared to learn, work hard, and have revelations, breakthroughs, and a lot of fun.
What if ….
everything you imagined to be unchangeable,
everything you thought it was too late to change,
can be changed, transformed,
and more easily than have ever dreamed possible?
In Detail
It’s honestly not possible to list everything you will learn in this training, and if you are new to this work you may not be familiar with the terminology in the list below – but here’s a breakdown of some of the elements of the training:
NLP as a tool for success . General Semantics . NLP Principles . Leading and Pacing . Goal setting and Clarification of Intention . Presuppositions . Model of communication and focus . Cause or Effect . Tools for Expanded Awareness . Sensory Acuity . Rapport . Representational Models . Internal Representations . Eye Patterns . Submodalities . Momentum Patterns, Neural Bridge . Anchoring . Hypnotic Language patterns . Meta programs . Transforming Emotional States . Change . Milton Model . Behavior Psychology and stimulus . Strategy Elicitation . Chunking . Recipes for success . Specific tools for Visioning . Reframing . Parts integration . Strategies . Repatterning . Communication . Performance Analysis . NLP Master Training . Definitions . Modeling . Resources for success . Outcome Training . Reason vs Results . Quantum Linguistics . Values . Values Elicitation . Values Alignment . Anchoring .Value System . Developmental Values Models . Complex meta programs . Trance . Rapid Trance Inductions . Hypnotic language . Hypnotic techniques . Sales Process . Creativity . Effective presentations . Persuasion . Sleight of Mouth . Advanced Submodalities . Metaphors . Advanced Repatterning . Therapy . Deep Trance . Hypnotic Inductions . Steps for Inductions . Ways for Creating Long Term Change . Hypnotic Regression and Time-Line . Hypnotic Language Patterns . Embedded Commands . Hypnotic Questions . Hypnotic Imagery . Hypnotic inductions . Sleep Programming . Indirect Hypnosis . Dream Work
Know that these elements, taken as a whole, constitute a powerful modality for effective, rapid, lasting change; as well as powerfully effective communication tools unmatched in any other discipline.
Cost: The price you see below include accommodations and meals, ($400 value) as well as learning materials, recordings, test, and certification ($1000 value).
Dates. October 24 is your travel day. We will begin the morning of Monday, October 25. We will go until the evening of Saturday, October 30. Level 2 begins the morning of Monday November 1, and continues until noon November 6. Plan to leave no sooner the afternoon of November 6.
Register Now
Cost of entire course $4997
Includes meals and accommodation at Manzanita Village
Early-bird special !! pay only $3700 !! (until July 31)
You will receive our two volume 400 page training manual and course audio
Payment options available
Questions? Call 800-619-8416 voice mail
760-782-9223 direct line


