NLP Northeast

Cricket Kemp
Cricket's first degree was in English Literature, She has teaching certificates in secondary English and Drama, and a PGCE for nursery/infant. She spent the first five years of her career teaching ESL and training primary school teachers in Nigeria, first as a volunteer, and then on contract. She taught secondary remedial classes in Newcastle upon Tyne for eight years, and then led a team working with teachers and pupils in Cleveland secondary schools, to alleviate problems with disruptive and underachieving pupils. She gained an MA in Counselling and Careers Guidance from Durham University. She has been a RELATE counsellor.

Cricket Kemp Cricket joined Tioxide (processor of titanium dioxide pigments) in 1985, and was Human Resources Manager (Training and Development) for Tioxide Group Services until December 1994. She is self-employed as a business and education consultant and has been on the faculty at Management Centre Europe in Brussels. She was course materials author and tutor in personal management skills for an MBA course. She is an accredited Trainer of NLP and manages NLP Northeast, which began running NLP training in 1989.

She is presently pursuing research into how Magical Spelling changes the right-left brain coordination patterns in learners, enhancing all literacy learning for these learners.

Cricket has presented eight times at ANLP conferences, and has had three articles published in Rapport. She and Caitlin Walker successfully undertook a significant piece of research for Ealing Education Services into the skills of teachers who can motivate young people.

 

Caitlin Walker
My aim is to lead groups by example - I enable individuals to pay attention to their current patterns of thinking and behaviour, to notice the impact of these patterns on others and to create home grown change within individual, group and organisational systems. I use the processes of Clean Questions, NLP, Symbolic Modelling and Systemic thinking to leave individual and group systems able to generate their own solutions, making these change processes part of their everyday thinking.

Caitlin Walker My areas of expertise include the proven ability to research, teach and present original ideas within a variety of business contexts. Pacing and leading effective communication with a broad variety of individuals and groups in contexts as varied as inner city teenage gangs to Senior Management Teams. I mediate between individuals and groups to promote greater understanding of self and others.

My mission is to enable more people to make sense to more people more of the time. My attention is often focussed on those in vulnerable situations for whom it is vital that they be understood clearly.

 

Ian Berry
My name is Ian Berry. I’m a North-Easterner. I am a teacher. I’ve been a philosophy student, a plumber’s mate, and a lighthouse keeper.

I’ve been a teacher for 21 years and I’ve enjoyed most of the rewards that classroom teaching can offer.

Ian Berry I first stepped into NLP by way of a book: “Using Your Brain For a Change” and I’ve been practising and perfecting doing so in my teaching ever since.

My area of interest is in applying the “L” of NLP to the schoolroom- both the classroom and the staff room. Deepening, widening, and enriching the experience of teaching and learning through effective use of language is important to me. Whether “behaviour management” is the issue, or student report writing, or the delivery of well-structured and well-presented lessons, language matters.

Since 1991 I have co-developed for NLP Northeast the NLP Spelling Strategy (featured in a double-page article in the NUT’s “The Teacher” magazine in?) and delivered it to at least 1500 “interested parties”.

Since 1997 I have also co-delivered the then first UK NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner Courses for Education Professionals (for Ealing Education Authority). It is important to me that NLP becomes available to all teachers everywhere.

The Professional Guild of NLP will, I hope, help to forge even stronger links between NLP and the Education Profession at all levels. The modelling methodology of NLP, and its existing techniques and skills, can help to move education forward in the UK. Developed with the needs of the teaching professional in mind, and delivered from within the framework of a recognisable and assured code of practice, I expect to see NLP take its rightful place in the development of education in this country.

 

Mike Treasure
Mike Treasure has been working with NLP for over a decade, finding out how it fits together and being prepared to re-model the basics in a search for a coherent whole. His approach to metaprogrammes involves taking them into another dimension in order to clarify their interactions in his and other peoples' lives.

Mike TreasureHe is noted not just for his knowledge but also for his ability to explain aspects of NLP clearly and lucidly, with specific examples from everyday life, whilst encouraging an environment where people are free to think in a flexible way.

Mike has an academic background in Physics, much experience in co- operative business and the voluntary sector together with some experience in education. He lives in County Durham with his wife and two children.

His presentations at the ANLP conference include "Joining Up NLP" and "The ecology of NLP in everyday life".

 

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NLP North East
Cricket Kemp
Caitlin Walker
Ian Berry
Mike Treasure