NLP Practitioner Bursaries
We give occasional bursaries to our NLP Practitioner training programmes for people involved in charitable works helping young people.
"I specially wanted to sponsor someone from Kids Company as it's a charity, working locally to me in South London, supporting vulnerable young people. I'm delighted that Lorna, as our first Bursary recipient has been able to make such practical and generative use in her work from our NLP Practitioner training programme," Judith Lowe, Lead trainer and MD, PPD Learning
Here's Lorna's story:
NLP Practitioner - PPD Learning Bursary
Completing my training with PPD Learning has been magical. My journey from the moment of attending the first day of the course to graduating on 4 April (my youngest daughter’s birthday) has been alchemical and the impact of change continues in all areas of my life.
I work for Kids Company. Judith Lowe and PPD Learning decided that in light of the work that this London-based charity does with and for children and young people, a member of its staff should receive a partial bursary for their NLP Practitioners’ course. It is an honour to have been the first recipient: I saw a brilliant opportunity and seized it and this turned out to be truly Visionary.
The structure and content of PPD Learning’s training course and the excellent support from the training assistants supported my quest for growth, greater self-awareness and transformation. There is no doubt that I found some of the course modules challenging but the results are well worth it. I actually came to love the emotional upheaval and consequent expansions and contractions that I experienced on each successive day. I was grateful for the many synchronous and ‘Eureka’ moments.
Although committed to personal development, the benefits of the NLP Practitioner training have perhaps most been felt at work with the young persons I work with. After completing the course, I explained to one of our young persons the personal development and empowerment programme that I had devised and wanted to deliver; the problem was that I could not think what to call it. Within seconds, he replied, “call it Dream to Reality” - a new class was born. The effects have been outstanding and this is evidenced by the many “wows”, hugs and thanks for inspiring lessons. I use the same NLP exercises and techniques in my Women’s Group and one participant wrote that she felt refreshed and had learnt things of importance about herself and the views of other people.
The sponsorship exercise is my favourite thus far. It is a delight to see these young persons touched by genuine, profound and unconditional compliments and insights. Seeing them reconnecting with more of their potential and inner resourcefulness has moved me to tears. Judith is spot on when she says that “evolution [and] learning is natural; we are hardwired to learn.”
The PPD Learning NLP Practitioners’ course comes highly recommended. I thank Judith Lowe, Robert Dilts, and all the others at PPDL of course, for their respective roles as gate-openers on my route to personal and professional re-discovery.
Lorna Preddie
Education Co-ordinator, Teacher and NLP Practitioner
The Urban Academy, Kids Company
