Let the structure take the strain

June 9, 2026

This Autumn, I will run a Trainer Training Programme for those who want to develop this way of working.

A programme about becoming a designer of learning and learning how to influence by your example and your state when you present.

“Let the structure take the strain.“

Those were the words Peter Honey spoke to me over forty years ago.

I was supporting him in running Action Training programmes and we were standing outside the training room. I was suggesting that we needed to intervene with the group.

Peter simply looked at me and said:

“Let the structure take the strain.”

He was completely at ease. He trusted the process. He trusted the group. He knew that if the experience had been designed well enough, people would discover the resources they needed for themselves.

Peter Honey, together with Alan Mumford (who was my manager for a period), brought Kolb’s Learning Cycle into everyday life and work. In those Action Training programmes we designed experiences and then meticulously studied what happened. Every contribution was observed. Every response noted. Patterns emerged.

Looking back, I realise that I was studying the structure of experience long before I discovered NLP.

Which perhaps explains why, when people ask me what I do, I rarely say that I teach.

I design experiences.

The learning happens within those experiences.

Sometimes I facilitate them.

Occasionally, particularly in India, the experiences seem to arrive and find us.

For me, this is the essence of NLP. Not the delivery of content, but the study of how people create their experience and how that experience can be transformed.

This Autumn, I will run a Trainer Training Programme for those who want to develop this way of working.

A programme about becoming a designer of learning as well as learning how to influence by your example and your state when you present.

I will invite participants to model how I structure and facilitate my Practitioner programmes, explore a series of preparatory video sessions on the principles that underpin experiential NLP training, and then join me for six days of intensive online learning.

The final stage is where the real learning begins.

An apprenticeship.

An opportunity to assist me online or in person and demonstrate what you have learned in practice, whether in France, Spain or India.

If this way of learning and training speaks to you, send me a message.

We can arrange a Zoom conversation and explore whether this unique programme is the right fit for you. Core programme October 26-30 (note that there will be pre-programme videos and post-programme apprenticeship