Hello, members and friends of IASH:

Are you a polarity responder or a procrastinator?  Please don’t look at the special message for you near the end of this bulletin.

September is getting closer!  Are you registered yet for the 2008 International Conference?

View the conference schedule at a glance

We have already told you this will be an amazing conference!  Take a look at the “program at a glance” chart showing the schedule.  This chart shows the three days of the main conference and there are links to the pre- and post-conference seminar descriptions. Click on any presentation title to see the details.

Look under “presentations” for narrative descriptions of the presentations.

Early bird rates expire July 10!

July 10 is the last day to enjoy the early bird rates for the upcoming IASH conference in September.   You can register on the web site and pay using your credit card securely through PayPal.

The Early Bird rates are $50 less than the regular rates for the conference, and $21 less for each of the pre- and post-conference seminars.

When you sign on and enter the registration page, the rates on display will automatically be the correct rates for your category.  If you qualify for a member discount or presenter discount, that will be the rate displayed to you.

The conference registration rates are:

For the conference:
$325 Early Bird Rate ~ New Members (Includes $60 one-year membership)
$275 Early Bird Rate ~ Member Discount

$375 Registration ~ New members (Includes $60 one-year membership)
$325 Registration ~ Member Discount

For each pre- and post-conference seminar
$99 Early Bird
$120 Pre & Post

For one day attendance at the conference
$150 One Day

Check the web site:

In the “Discussion” section you will find at least one message from someone looking for a roommate at the upcoming conference, unless that person has already found one.  You are welcome to post your own notice in that area.  (Thanks to the security features on the web site, you can send e-mail messages back and forth without exposing your e-mail address to malicious users.)

Take a look at the “Articles and Discussion” section of the web site, under “Recent Articles,” for two articles about healing with NLP, including fascinating piece by Carla Woody and a personal account by Steve Andreas about how he responded when a pressure tank blew up in his face.  Also see below in this E-Bulletin for a short article by Robert Dilts about the origin of eye accessing cues.

At the 2006 conference, there was intense and heated debate about the pros and cons of developing professional certification or licensure for the practice of NLP. In response to that discussion, we will have an article about a political conflict that took place in Colorado almost two decades ago to outlaw the unlicensed practice of psychotherapy.   Look for that article next month.

More articles will be placed on the web site as we receive them.  If you would like to publish an article on the IASH web site, send a query to editor@nlpiash.org.

The IASH PLANNING CALENDAR we sent you in last month’s E-Bulletin is now up the web site also.  Refer to your own e-mail in-box or look on the web site under 2008 Conference, E-Bulletins, for a copy.

Help us spread the word:

If you have a web site for an NLP-related business, please let your contacts know about IASH!  Put a link to the IASH web site on your site.  Thank you!  If you need technical assistance, contact sponsors@nlpiash.org.

Just for fun:  In Memoriam

With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person.   Larry LaPrise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey," died peacefully at age 93.   The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin.  They put his left leg in.  And then the trouble started.

Back to our roots

The theme of this year’s conference is “Back to Our Roots,” reconnecting with the origins of NLP.  Here is one such early memory:

The Discovery of Eye Accessing Cues
By Robert Dilts

I have a very clear memory of a key moment in early 1976 when I was in John Grinder’s Syntax 100 class at UC Santa Cruz. We had been discussing the generative power of language.  John gave us the assignment to notice something that we had not paid much attention to before, give it a name and notice how our experience of it changed. After class I was talking with John to get a little clarification about the kinds of things he meant. At a certain moment, he said, “What about that? Your eyes just moved to the side.”

As soon as I became aware of the movement, I remember being cognizant that I had “gone inside” and had been thinking about something that was just below my conscious awareness. I gave this phenomenon the name of something like “unconscious cuing.” From that moment it was as if scales fell from my eyes and I suddenly became aware of all the things people did unconsciously to cue themselves: blinking their eyes, touching their faces, looking to different locations, making little gestures, noises and facial expressions, etc.

John seemed pleased with these observations and gave me more specific assignments with respect to observing various cues, including eye movements. I vividly remember sitting with Judith DeLozier during one of Bandler and Grinder’s weekly evening group meetings and looking into each other’s eyes as we asked each other questions and noticing the spontaneous movements in different directions.

My early work with eye movements culminated with a research study at the Langley Porter Institute in San Francisco in 1977 correlating EEG recordings of brain waves with eye movements and representational systems. This study was written up in Roots of NLP (1983) and also appears in the Encyclopedia of Systemic NLP (2000) - which can be browsed for free at www.nlpuniversitypress.com.

Expanding the network of IASH

Maryam Webster, a member of IASH and presenter at this year's conference,   is also a member of ACEP, the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology. IASH members who are interested in the Energy Psychology movement may want to check out their website at www.energypsych.org.  They hold an annual conference which has included such speakers as Rupert Sheldrake and Gary Craig. IASH and ACEP are exploring possibilities for collaboration and partnership.

Carla Woody will lead a full-day pre-conference seminar at IASH.  This program will provide a taste of the deeper work possible at the 10-day workshop with Carla later this year in Bali with the Bali Institute for Global Renewal (www.baliinstitute.org). For more information about that workshop, entitled "Navigating Your Lifepath," please visit the Bali Institute website.

AND NOW: A vitally unimportant message from IASH to polarity responders, procrastinators, and those with loopy decision strategies

Do not do this right now. It is time, or maybe it isn’t time yet, to put off postponing your action to register for the IASH conference.

Take your time!   If you do not save money by registering by the Early Bird Deadline of July 10, IASH will make more money from your registration.

We know:
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