Finalising dates for Provocative Change Works in Poland very soon! This will be the first time I have presented this work in this country and am really looking forward to it.
Details will appear on www.nickkemptraining.com
Monday, 10 November 2008
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Stop Press - workshop news for 2009
In the next few weeks I will be revealing dates for USA, UK and Euopean Provcative Change Works workshops! There will also be new products for 2009. Check the news section of www.nickkemp.com as well for other news!
Sunday, 28 September 2008
More Provocative Change in Private Practice
Since returning from the USA life has been extremely busy in private practice. Taking a two week break has really recharged the batteries to step back from the hustle and bustle of seeing so many private clients.
Discussing the Provocative Change Works approach with longstanding NLP Trainers and Practitioners has reinforced my view that this combined approach to private work is the most accelerated and comprehensive way of producing sucessful outcomes for clients. The key difference is that "the Provocative Element" ensures that the client is quickly moved from any "stuck state" to a greater state of well being. I have seen the equivilant of a whole month's worth of clients in just 2 weeks!
Discussing are in place for some very exciting new workshops and products for 2009, so watch this space!
Saturday, 6 September 2008
Day 1 at the IASH Conference in San Francisco
Yesterday was the first presentation of two slots for the IASH conference in San Francisco. The challenge for me was to condense the PCW material down into a 90 minute slot and I reckon I did a pretty good job, with 4 demos and also getting the group to practice a PT exercise. This was the first ever presentation in the USA, so I was curious to see how it would go!
It was a packed room and kind of strange to have people videoing me and a bunch of folks with laptops taking notes! I am impressed with the IASH presenters and certainly am getting great feedback about the PCW approach!
It was a packed room and kind of strange to have people videoing me and a bunch of folks with laptops taking notes! I am impressed with the IASH presenters and certainly am getting great feedback about the PCW approach!
Thursday, 14 August 2008
The difference between Provocative Therapy & Provocative Change Works
The differences between "Provocative Therapy" and "Provocative Change Works"
In recent times I was explaining to a colleague about the difference between Provocative Therapy and the Provocative Change Works approaches. The Provocative Change Works approach is very different in a number of respects to Frank Farrelly's Provocative Therapy which is detailed in the original book of the same name that was published in the mid 1970s.
Provocative Change Works uses the "provocative elements of communication" alongside NLP and hypnosis tools. I originally studied NLP with Richard Bandler who in my opinion was greatly influenced by Frank Farrelly. In a 2007 interview I did with Richard, he commented:
What I respect about Frank is that he stuck to his guns. No matter how much they told him therapy should be boring or how much they told him he was over the edge, what he noticed is he made people better
Richard Bandler
Although Frank does not describe what he does in Provocative Therapy as "hypnosis", many clients report going into "trance like states" This was certainly my experience when I first met him in 2004 and had my first interview with him!
In Provocative Change Works I combine Ericksonian hypnotic patterns with elements of Provocative Therapy. I have found this combination of tools to produce the fastest, most successful and lasting results when working with clients. This combined approach which I use in my private practice is demonstrated extensively on the "Provocative Change Works for Phobias" DVD set.
In classic Provocative Therapy the therapist will start the session with the question "What's the problem?" In Provocative Change Works I may use this approach during the session, but not always at the start of the session. This is of course very different from the NLP question "What do you want?"
In private practice I ask clients to complete a set of notes prior to seeing me in person and then begin the session by implementing "yes sets" to set the direction of the interview. Provocative Therapy also does not formally use sub modality work as found in NLP to change client states, but the Provocative Change Works approach does use this tool set alongside provoking the client while taking note of the different rep systems the client is using to feedback his or her responses.
Provocative Change Works also uses the "right here, right now" philosophy that Frank uses in Provocative Therapy and everything that occurs in the session is about what is happening in each moment and normally without many of the overt techniques used by some NLP practitioners. I have had excellent results working conversationally with clients without a great deal of "formal trance work" but do still use some hypnosis when working with clients. The "Internal Voice Tempo exercise" is one of the main approaches I use from the Provocative Change Works tool kit which is excellent for dealing with anxiety related issues. With Steve Andreas's encouragement (and editing!) I have written up this approach and published it in his online newsletter.
On the Provocative Change Works for Phobias DVD set, I provide an audio commentary during the needle phobia session where I describe how I switch between PT, NLP and trance work, and frequently chain specific states to produce successful outcomes for the client. There are many other differences between these two approaches, but it's true to say that Frank Farrelly, Richard Bandler and Milton Erickson are the primary influences in creating the Provocative Change Works approach with astoundingly effective results. I run trainings in both Provocative Therapy (in "the classical sense") and my own "Provocative Change Works" approach.
In recent times I was explaining to a colleague about the difference between Provocative Therapy and the Provocative Change Works approaches. The Provocative Change Works approach is very different in a number of respects to Frank Farrelly's Provocative Therapy which is detailed in the original book of the same name that was published in the mid 1970s.
Provocative Change Works uses the "provocative elements of communication" alongside NLP and hypnosis tools. I originally studied NLP with Richard Bandler who in my opinion was greatly influenced by Frank Farrelly. In a 2007 interview I did with Richard, he commented:
What I respect about Frank is that he stuck to his guns. No matter how much they told him therapy should be boring or how much they told him he was over the edge, what he noticed is he made people better
Richard Bandler
Although Frank does not describe what he does in Provocative Therapy as "hypnosis", many clients report going into "trance like states" This was certainly my experience when I first met him in 2004 and had my first interview with him!
In Provocative Change Works I combine Ericksonian hypnotic patterns with elements of Provocative Therapy. I have found this combination of tools to produce the fastest, most successful and lasting results when working with clients. This combined approach which I use in my private practice is demonstrated extensively on the "Provocative Change Works for Phobias" DVD set.
In classic Provocative Therapy the therapist will start the session with the question "What's the problem?" In Provocative Change Works I may use this approach during the session, but not always at the start of the session. This is of course very different from the NLP question "What do you want?"
In private practice I ask clients to complete a set of notes prior to seeing me in person and then begin the session by implementing "yes sets" to set the direction of the interview. Provocative Therapy also does not formally use sub modality work as found in NLP to change client states, but the Provocative Change Works approach does use this tool set alongside provoking the client while taking note of the different rep systems the client is using to feedback his or her responses.
Provocative Change Works also uses the "right here, right now" philosophy that Frank uses in Provocative Therapy and everything that occurs in the session is about what is happening in each moment and normally without many of the overt techniques used by some NLP practitioners. I have had excellent results working conversationally with clients without a great deal of "formal trance work" but do still use some hypnosis when working with clients. The "Internal Voice Tempo exercise" is one of the main approaches I use from the Provocative Change Works tool kit which is excellent for dealing with anxiety related issues. With Steve Andreas's encouragement (and editing!) I have written up this approach and published it in his online newsletter.
On the Provocative Change Works for Phobias DVD set, I provide an audio commentary during the needle phobia session where I describe how I switch between PT, NLP and trance work, and frequently chain specific states to produce successful outcomes for the client. There are many other differences between these two approaches, but it's true to say that Frank Farrelly, Richard Bandler and Milton Erickson are the primary influences in creating the Provocative Change Works approach with astoundingly effective results. I run trainings in both Provocative Therapy (in "the classical sense") and my own "Provocative Change Works" approach.
Nick Kemp
Friday, 25 July 2008
Review of Provocative Therapy DVD set
"This package is a real delight. For those who have been lucky enough to see Frank Farrelly in action it is reassurance that you really can believe that you saw what you saw. Provocative Therapy is so distinctive a form of therapy it is easy to think that, surely, it couldn't have been like that. It was. And for those who have yet to witness the burlesque of psychotherapy, these DVDs bring you closer than the pages of his book and even than audio recordings of his workshop sessions. Your next step is to get up there in the chair next to him and have the experience head-on. You can even get some sense of what that would be like because the DVDs offer different angles.
Provocative Therapy might seem strange, it might seem like fun, it might seem shocking, and it can be all of those but beyond that it's profound. The Provocative Therapy symbol is a harlequin, upside down, with one foot balancing the Eastern Yin-Yang symbol and the other holding its Western equivalent, the twin masks of Tragedy and Comedy. Psychotherapy, as a field, has tended to align itself with Tragedy though its aim is to assist the person to move on into the world of Comedy. Unfortunately, in Western culture it is Tragedy which has the cognitive kudos. The intellectual heavy-hitters steer clear of Comedy as it can bring their ivory edifices crashing down with ribald, thigh-slapping guffaws. Dangerous stuff, humour. Rigid ideas beware.
Frank Farrelly's form of psychotherapy mashes Tragedy and Comedy together in a head-on collision. What that provides for those who sit with him is a fresh, often a startlingly fresh, perspective on the ideas and feelings which are holding them in thrall. And, here, you see it in living colour.
Provocative Therapy might seem strange, it might seem like fun, it might seem shocking, and it can be all of those but beyond that it's profound. The Provocative Therapy symbol is a harlequin, upside down, with one foot balancing the Eastern Yin-Yang symbol and the other holding its Western equivalent, the twin masks of Tragedy and Comedy. Psychotherapy, as a field, has tended to align itself with Tragedy though its aim is to assist the person to move on into the world of Comedy. Unfortunately, in Western culture it is Tragedy which has the cognitive kudos. The intellectual heavy-hitters steer clear of Comedy as it can bring their ivory edifices crashing down with ribald, thigh-slapping guffaws. Dangerous stuff, humour. Rigid ideas beware.
Frank Farrelly's form of psychotherapy mashes Tragedy and Comedy together in a head-on collision. What that provides for those who sit with him is a fresh, often a startlingly fresh, perspective on the ideas and feelings which are holding them in thrall. And, here, you see it in living colour.
There are three full client sessions, plus discussions on them with client and watching participants. There is also Frank's introduction to his work, a meanderingly lateral presentation that hops associatively, bip, bam, boom, from one thing to another, but conveys more of what he is about and of the man himself than any neat bullet-driven PowerPoint structure ever could.
It comes with extras, too: an audio CD of Nick Kemp interviewing Frank about his encounters with NLP's Richard Bandler and John Grinder, plus another audio CD of excerpts of Frank's reading his 'Me and God', thus far only published in German translation. You also get a booklet which is, itself, an estimable extra comprising an article by Nick Kemp along with one Frank co-authored in the 'Sixties. Hell, that's a long time ago, must be out-of-date by now. Nooooooooooo.
This package is a great way to introduce yourself (if you've missed out on it) or your friends to a psychotherapy that challenges so many of the ideas that have become the accepted wisdom of the field, yet maybe ain't so smart after all. Everybody with any interest in change work should take the Provocative Therapy challenge."
- Dr Graham Dawes reviewing the Provocative Therapy DVD set
Thursday, 24 July 2008
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