I love NLP, it's a field of study (and practice) that the more you do the more you want to do. That's why the recent change in the NLP landscape caught my attention.
For those of you who aren't aware, international Self-Help guru Paul Mckenna has announced that after this May there will no longer be any more Paul Mckenna Trainings for the foreseeable future. Paul on his site cites his reasons as "I will be taking a break due to work commitments overseas." Paul is known originally as being a stage hypnotist who turned NLPer and so began a very successful training career and business, delivering trainings to over 50,000 people and co-building what is reported to the largest NLP training organisation in the world.
This most likely will be a BIG change to the UK NLP training landscape, given that Paul Mckenna Trainings which had hundreds of attendants per Prac and Master Prac seminar is the #1 school people were learning NLP at.
So you may be wondering, just what is the NLP Self-Help guru and 3 times best selling author doing? He's off to the US, after signing a deal worth circa $30M with the Discovery Channel to deliver a new type of self-help day show around his "I can make you thin" program. Apparently the show is being put together by the makers of Reality TV show Survival and The Apprentice. Knowing Paul's past history he will do very well, with his captivating audience style, years of experience in front of the cameras and knowing how to capitalise on an opportunity.
He has signed up for a 3 year deal and will present his "I can make you thin" program is to be shown on prime time US TV starting in March.
Paul has had a lot of TV focus in the last two year having two shows run on Sky One ("I can make you thin" and "I can change your life") and has been seen on the daytime TV such as GMTV in the UK and the Ellen show in the US.
You can catch a nice edit of Paul on the Ellen show below:
Paul on The Ellen Show:
