RRP Accomplishments at IASH 9/2008
September 19, 2008 by rfliotta
Frank was extremely busy throughout the IASH conference connecting with supporters of the Research & Recognition Project, updating others on the progress of RRP, generating enthusiasm for the goals and objectives of the project, and defining future directions. All of the accomplishments made on behalf of the RRP at IASH would be too lengthy to list, but here are a few highlights.
NLP founders and continued developers, Judy Delozier and Robert Dilts, reaffirmed their support of the project and spent a couple of quality hours with Frank reviewing progress and future developments and international networking possibilities. They will also do their part to get the word out about the project internationally. To that end Shelly Rose Charvet is putting together a short PowerPoint enabled Project introduction which will be available shortly.
Frank Bourke with Steve Andreas presented to the entire body of IASH regarding the goals of RRP and what has been accomplished thus far in this developing project, since its inception at IASH in 2006. Frank also did a presentation about his effective work with 9-11 survivors utilizing NLP to address trauma.
Frank met with Tom Hoobyar, marketing specialist, and made the decision to redesign the NLP RandR website to make it more useful, functional, and informative. Enhancing the site’s utility as a forum for marketing, public relations, and communication between people working on various aspects of the project were defined as goals. Plans for a future push for more volunteers were made. Richard Liotta, Ph.D. and Yan Tsirklin joined the marketing and public relations team.
Tim Hallbom and Frank revisited the NLP Practitioners Evaluation Project which has been under development for over a year. Efforts to join the project with NLPt in England and update the IASH community with a presentation at the IASH conference were canceled when Paul DeCarlo, from England could not make the conference. Paul, Tim, and Frank, had been scheduled to do the presentation. Frank is currently attempting to detail the expense of conducting the study using Jeb Browns data processing Corporation Acorn, along with outcome instruments from his “toolbox”.
Susanne Scott and Frank reconnected on the planning and development of an NLP, crisis intervention team that would go to emergencies such as 9/11 and Katrina to render NLP-based services. Money to fund such a venture might be made available in conjunction with the research being done on PTSD.
Frank also met with Kamiko Bokura from Key Institute in California, who will be presenting to a group of NLP health professionals in Japan in November. Kamiko will be introducing The Research and Recognition Project to the group along with details of the PTSD research under construction and possibilities for Japanese replication studies.
Connections were made with other developers in the field of NLP, including Wayne Perry, regarding new technologies that could be useful in furthering the development of the research projects and opening up other options for that work (look for more about this is a future post). Numerous individuals from the NLP community signed on to volunteer time for the project in various realms including research development, sharing of resources, and networking. International contacts with people from NLP institutes in various countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Mexico, France and Japan were established and enhanced.