NLP Practice Group - Next Meeting: Mon 6 Feb 06

[Natalie Dee]

Hello Everyone,

If you want to join us on our next NLP practice session in London, please register for the next London NLP Practice Group on Mon 6 Feb 2006.

Please note attendance cost: I have raised it by a pound to £8.00

Dates for your diaries for Jan - Mar 2006, NLP Practice from 7-9pm:

Mon Feb 20th
Mon Mar 6th
Mon Mar 20th

Please note room change to Cherokee (it's in the main building in the Diorama Arts Centre, if you arrive late and the front door is locked use my mobile to contact me and I'll open the door for you - see bottom of email for address/map details).

If you haven't been before and would like more details please go to: http://www.natalie-dee.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8 (http://www.natalie-dee.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8)

Thank you to those of you who have already registered your attendance - take my mobile no. with you in case you need to contact me on the evening: 07977 440755.


We are only allowed water in the room, so please do bring a bottle of water with you.

And, if anyone wants to get together for a social after we finish at 9pm, there are plenty of places moments away we can go to.

All the best,

Natalie
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Natalie Dee
Lifestyle Management Coach, including NLP, EFT & Hypnotherapy

Office 0870 041 2101
Web www.natalie-dee.com (blocked::file://www.natalie-dee.com)
Venue details are:
Diorama Arts - Room: Cherokee
3-7 Euston Centre, Regents Place
London NW1 3JG

See their website for details of how to get there: http://www.diorama-arts.org.uk/findus.htm (http://www.diorama-arts.org.uk/findus.htm)

Closest underground stations are: Warren St, Euston Square, Portland Place and Euston
Link to map below clearly shows venue location and stations nearby:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=529121&y=182358&z=0&sv=NW1+3JG&st=2&pc=NW1+3JG&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

[Don]

Note: the pay-for event list above is not sponsored nor supported by the owners of this forum. Normally, we would delete this as being advertising. However, Ms. Dee has also posted summaries here of what was covered, so people who do not attend and pay for the event can get a brief version of what was covered for free. Therefore, we are not deleting it.

In most cases, however, advertising in these forums is deleted.

[Terry (existing)]

Nice point Don, though I think we should encourage such groups regardless of charge, since meeting rooms cost, so even covering such cost requires payment. HSA for example is a non profit group, but we need to cover cost of meeting space so a charge is made to all members except life members who have usually paid for twenty five years anyway as well as contributing skills and knowledge to the group..

[Don]

Ah, Terry, I wish it were that easy! I agree that we should support good groups, even if they do charge money. The question is, are people getting what they feel they are paying for? If a person goes to groups and then is led into taking courses and eventually thinks they were ripped off, if the person putting on the courses has vanished, it is possible that the offended individual could sue the owners of this forum for representing the group.

Unlikely? Yes. Possible? In our society, definitely yes. It would probably be thrown out of court, but it might cost many thousands of dollars in defense!

Therefore, we do not recommend hypnotherapists, schools, or groups. When people do make such recommendations, we generally make a post stating that the recommendation is only from the individual and not an official position of the forum no matter how good that hypnotherapist, school, or group might be. The only exception to this is when schools or groups operated by the owners of this forum, as well as the owners of this forum themselves, are mentioned.

If you not, I virtually never advertise here anything that I have done, and Skip doesn't advertise (except for apples--YUM!--and then not directly).

[thackaray]

There's direct, indirect & covert advertising that you see on these forums as well.

[Don]

Yes, there is.

Many people have a URL as their sig. Should we delete that? We've sort of decided not to, especially when posts aren't clearly advertising.

But the question is, do we want to have these forums filled with ads? We simply try to limit the most obvious and those that directly direct to sites where you have to pay to go on them or where the sole purpose is to buy something.

If someone likes a book, video, workshop, etc. and says so, that is a type of ad. However, if the positive review does not point to a direct point of purchase, we have let them go through. I have personally recommended videos from some instructors, but I usually don't tell people where to go to buy them. Sometimes they're available on eBay. Perhaps they're available from multiple sources.

The key to avoiding ads that are banned is to not include links to the only places that sell a product and, if you are recommending something, not to write a typical "Wow! This tape really helped me!" pseudo-personal experience de facto ad. Instead, say why, in depth, you feel a product is good.

[Terry (existing)]

Well Don, glad it is you who have that headache and not me (G). The difference between some ads and normal conversation is so razor thin, I wouldn't want to be the one who decided what was ads and what was just normal communication. For example, I often comment on how grateful I am for the existance of the HSA in Alberta. Now I am not advertising it's true, but surely it might be constued as such by someone local who is looking for a good therapist, or by a therapist who wants to join such a group? Yet even if it were my intention to advertise this Society, it would be no benifit to me personally, since I am retired, but certainly would be of great benifit to the person needing a support group. All I can say, is, "May all your decissioons benifit, and non constrain" (G)....

[Don]

Terry, you're right. The moderators do their best, but there is no way we'll be perfect. Mea culpa in advance.

I would point out, however, that these forums have far less editing and/or deleting than many of the other forums out there, and we remain mostly free of advertising.

[Charlie]

Terry, you're right. The moderators do their best, but there is no way we'll be perfect. Mea culpa in advance.


Not good enough, Don. (Not even with the guilt pre-frame.)

You & Skip are essentially Cyber-Gods, and we, your worshippers, expect you to be ABSOLUTELY PERFECT ALL THE TIME.

Please get with the program.

Now.

[Don]

You'll just have to accept our imperfections as perfections.
War is peace
Peace is war.
Military intelligence.
Jumbo Shrimp.
Microsoft Works.
:rolleyes:

[Natalie Dee]

Hi Don,

Thanks for being so understanding. I also think is a useful tool for everybody.

Natalie