Paul Mckenna going mainstream in the US?

Posted on 4:46 pm by Tom
NLP Times

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. 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.

Greetings all. I was an audience member for Paul's upcoming show on TLC (The Learning Channel) in the States. From what I have been able to gather, the US show is similar in format to the UK show. I was able to attend the last two episode tapings. You can see me sitting in the front row, in the middle section to Paul's left, in the last chair. Several interviews were conducted with the women sitting to my immediate left. I am the man with short brown hair in the tweed sport coat. The experience was incredible. Paul was not only hilarious, but quite magnanimous as well. He spent a significant amount of time with anyone who had questions for him between taping segments. I was sitting next to Claire Singh when she is thanked at the end of the show. She looked fantastic and was as confident and friendly as can be. All in all it was a great experience and Paul was fantastic. I am hooked! I look forward to the show airing on 3/16/08 on TLC. As a student of media psychology I am very curious about Paul's NLP seminars. I hope that he one day brings them to the States! Cheers. Shane

glovesave33-I will be looking for you this sunday!! Can't wait for the show to start.

Wow, that is awesome glovesave33.

Have the programs started airing in the US yet?

The programs starts here, in the U.S., Tomorrow night. I am so excited that I can barely stand it!!