Yet another NLP Coach speaks out

"Joost,

You're welcome and thanks!

I found the NLP Practitioner course with Joost very exciting. I had an idea of what NLP was, but that turned out to be not quite right. Yes, determining the enneagram type. I have a bit of many types in me. Joost: "You only think you do". That is because I'm a mediator. After the first weekend where we determined our enneagram I suddenly started viewing others and myself differently. Have gained more understanding for people and for myself. That in itself is worth the effort.

Joost knows how to keep you captivated. He talks fast and plenty, throws a lot of nonsense in and has wonderful anecdotes that he tells in such a way that it sticks with me. I have noticed that I can throw out full sentences and they don't come out for no reason. Just sitting and listening to Joost makes sense. His style is full of humour, confrontational and sometimes even shocking. But always with the best of intentions to make me conscious and to allow me to learn.

There's a lot of interaction with the group. There's a lot of laughing. Certainly when Joost starts shooting his gun loaded with humour at us. In my coaching practice I immediately started to apply what I had used in practice. And it works. Joost taught me that you can make many suggestions to your coaching clients, if you just give them some space.

I can certainly recommend the Practitioner education. Next year, I hope to take the master's class.

Arnoud Moraal
Moraal Resultaatgericht Coachen"

"After a year of practical experience with the techniques learned during the Practitioner course and experience gained in my coaching practice it was time for a sequel: the Master Practitioner.

Luckily, in the meantime, Joost's book Brain training was published, so that I could re-read what I had learned.

During the first week we practiced together to reverse the feeling, to rewind in black and white and the timelines. My group was nervous and eager to do well, so that mistakes were made which in turn turned out to be very educational. Whatever you feel or think: the customer is right. So it was very important to listen to the effect it has on the other person while practicing. I learned that using the acquired techniques that much more was possible by making your own variations and by being creative.

I started straight away in my own practice with my clients and was surprised in a positive way by the effect it had. Especially stacking the good feeling (confidence, love) from previous experiences and taking these as a force into your future is very effective. And I have regularly used the technique of doing past experiences over with the strength you have in the present, without changing the highlights of the experience. To my clients' satisfaction.

The second weekend was about the deep trance. What an experience! It is so valuable to experience while in a trance and it is marvellous to be allowed to guide a person in and towards a trance.

It is wonderful to be in a trance at least 3 times during one weekend. What a gift!

After that weekend I have begun to feel it is quite normal to bring my clients into a trance and give them good suggestions. And they go with it and it is much easier than before.

The third weekend was about creativity: presenting, painting and singing. It was delightful to do. A part of me emerged that usually lies subdued.

I truly enjoyed myself. Painting in a trance was a very strange experience for me. My hand would move through the paint and over the canvas by itself. And I didn't know what the result would be. Extraordinary and the style was totally different to what it normally was. So that is what I have in me: incredibly cool!

Guided by the voice coach we sang and here too I could redefine my limitations. The best part was the one on individual cases. I received such wonderful feedback that gave me many new insights, which I used immediately in my current project. And successfully so. And it also resulted in a coaching assignment for me.

The last weekend was another deepening experience. To compile your own mixing console for your sub modalities guided by each other and then reaching ecstasy by operating the right buttons on your mixing console guided by your fellow students. A combination of visions, sounds and senses like I've never experienced before.

To experience your own life path and future under the superb enthusiastic guidance of Joost and being guided by your fellow students with sounds that had a negative and positive connotation for me. Great to have experienced that. Great to be able to contribute to other students' experience.

Joost is very strict at selecting the right people who will make the sounds and especially how they do it. With the intention to make the experience a super perfect experience for us, the students. What a great care! Even if it is not always clear why Joost does the things he does. I have experienced that I am very easily open to negative influences. It's a gift to have been made aware that it is my own choice to allow this to happen. And the fact that I am less and less bothered by it because I can do something about it myself by using my own good feeling. Even if it doesn't work the first or the second time.

An absolute must if you want to get to know yourself better and be able to add your own personal interpretation to NLP."

Arnoud Moraal