The STATE of NLP in HONGKONG and CHINA

NLP was introduced to Hong Kong by Father George Zee already in the 1980’s.  However, only a few workshops were held until the early l990’s. In fact the very first Practitioner class was organized in 1993. In the previous years George Zee had invited a number of NLP trainers to Hong Kong to give individual workshops on topics that interested them.

The NLP scene in Hong Kong developed more or less along the lines experienced in other countries. One group advocated the fast track and offered one week wonders. While another group maintained the 130 hours standard.

In many ways Hong Kong was fortunate since Judith DeLozier, one of the co-developers of NLP, came to Hong Kong every year for the last 10 years and as a result today NLP is considered a must for anyone in the training business.

Currently NLP in Hong Kong and China is going through a crisis.  There are simply too many people trying to run NLP Practitioner courses so the quality has deteriorated. Some trainers are running evening classes where NLP is simply demonstrated and you go home and do the exercises yourself. This approach currently brings in hundreds of students. This may be a good introduction but may not provide a very deep appreciation of what NLP is. If you want to spend a bit more time you can also sign up for a week long course where you spend the afternoon learning about NLP. Of course if you want to go for the big time you can also sign up for Anthony Robbins weekends held in Singapore or Malaysia. This will cost you a bit of money since you will have to travel the four hours flight from Hong Kong to Singapore as well as the course fee and accommodation. And you will be in the presence of the great man together with 5,000 other people. They do provide Chinese translation.

On the Chinese mainland there has only been a few NLP classes. Doing NLP in China is not easy since you have to take into account the attitude of the authorities.

Perhaps more important the general economic level in China is much lower than in Hong Kong. You can only charge a minimal amount of money there. So unless you are very passionate about teaching in China most people only do it once or twice.

The potential of course is huge but more development is needed before it become viable. A number of US and Hong Kong trainers have given individual courses in some of the large Chinese cities.  If someone wanted to know where the next practitioner class is going to be in China, your best bet would be in Hong Kong.

NLP in mainland China is still in the infant stage. Not many people know about NLP and there are virtually no NLP books available in Chinese. In Taiwan there were about 40 NLP books translated into Chinese but the publisher is no longer printing the books. They are now available in photo copy format only from one of the NLP Institutes there. Also there is a difference in the writing system between Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China

Leo Angart

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