What have people been saying about us?

Owen Fitzpatrick and Brian Colbert make an extremely effective team. Their humor, precision and keen sense of people are what NLP is really about. John La Valle, Advanced Master Trainer of NLP, President of the Society of NLP I spent 21 days this year with these two and I wasn't bored once. World Class in Every Way. Aidan O Connor, Head of Sales Royal Liver Insurance. The IINLP has helped me change the way I look at life and armed me to combat the greatest adversary of all: my mind! DP Fitzgerald, TV Presenter Boy what a course if I felt any better I’d be twins. The Podge and Rodge of the self improvement movement! The futures so bright I gotta wear shades Today is the start of the rest of a wonderful life.  Bob Brennan, Personal Development Facilitator, Kinsale  Owen and Brian have a unique training style: starting off with confusing you,encouraging you to laugh and have fun, sending you to ‘sleep’ every evening.And at the end of the course you will go home with the skills and confidence to go for it and trust in yourself,no matter what life presents to you. Rosemary Clarke, European HR Manager Creative Labs. Every Doctor, every therapist, nay every person would benefit from taking these courses. They will leave you happier and better able to communicate with others. Dr. Alan Moran, Dundalk After doing my Licensed Practitioner Training I had already decided to do my Master Practitioner with Brian and Owen.NLP is a great addition to my toolbox,especially as a practical and effective way of instilling change in myself and others.Owen and Brian are a great duo with a unique ability to keep their audience interested and motivated to learn .They also manage to challenge set ways of thinking and behaving and create instead more useful and effective strategies for living .I fully recommend the experience Patrick J Psaila, Psychologist Malta The best double act since Dolly Parton! Joe Harrington, Programme Director East Coast Radio If anyone wants to know about NLP, I cannot imagine a better way to do it, than to study with Brian and Owen.  Their unique style combines humour that makes learning a joy and teachings that seems to have constant "penny dropping" moments.  Thank you for opening my eyes to the possibilities... Jim Conway.  Training & Development Advisor, Alliance & Leicester plc David  O Farrell, Mind and Body Consultancy writes: I just wanted to say a big thank you to all at the Institute for your ongoing support, encouragement and professionalism show to me over the years. Once again lads,another wonderful international learning experience,10 days packed with Knowledge, Learning, Practical Interventions and Lots of Fun Read more... I learned enough on this course to work on for the rest of my life.I approach this course with an attitude that I would learn new skills that I could use in other areas such as coaching .I now see it as a very Life enriching experience. Absolutely Brilliant course and both of you were terrific.I have never experienced such a synchronized and effective partnership.Today it has all come together for me and I look forward to working on myself first. Phil Murray, Irish Life I’ve learned that I have the freedom to run my own mind, I doubt there is anything more valuable-gracias ,go raibh maith agaibh! Gerry O Doherty, Hypnotherapist & Coach   Darlene K. Turner, U.S.A, Progressive Edge Communications writes: Using wit, wisdom and superb skill Brian and Owen will seamlessly weave together for you the concepts of NLP in a manner which makes them effortless to grasp. Through their course you will become aware of the ways in which you can increase rapport and enhance interpersonal communication. Read more... Robert Spykerman, Doctor writes: Speaking strictly not as a doctor but as a human being very interested in personal development, I have found NLP a wellspring of interesting new ideas and techniques applicable to many areas, particularly those which involve human interaction of nearly any sort. Read more... Brian and Owen are like the very best teacher you ever had: they make learning fun, and give you the confidence, to know that you will be living working and being in all the most effective ways possible for you in your future! Sue Holden,  Organisational Development  Consultant and Executive Coach If you want to feel good about yourself your life and how to do things and if you want to easily and simply change things you don’t like then these guys can show you how you already have it just tune into it plus you’ll have a great laugh learning and enhancing all the stuff you already know.It’ll be money well spent. Vivienne Kerrigan, Hypnotherapist Ann Caulfield, Facilitator and Trainer writes: A very belated Thank you for the Master Practioners course in Oct/Nov. It was brilliant. I really enjoyed it and got a lot from it. It is certainly a way of life and not just a course. I have been enjoying exploring and making changes all the time. And, its a great skill to constantly have the choice to be in a good state all the time – or most of it anyway!! I’m still only human?   Read more... Brian and Owen employ a teaching strategy of learning by doing. They combine language, anecdotes and  humour to deliver an unforgettable learning experience. Paul Power I have truly enjoyed your NLP Practitioner course. Owen and Brian demonstrated a distinctive style of training. They did a superb job to make the course informative & fun. I came all the way from Saudi Arabia to attend the course at IINLP and it was indeed worth the journey. I strongly recommend the Irish Institute of NLP to anyone who wants to discover hidden positive potentials within him/herself and others. Abdulaziz Bin Hussein, Psychologist, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia GO ON this course.... Brian and Owen will teach you things that you never knew, they'll teach you things that you always knew but weren't sure of, and, most importantly they'll teach you things that you always knew, but didn't know that you knew... I can tell you that if you are alive, keen, eager, alert, smart, fun to be with, vibrant, charismatic, enthusiastic, attractive, healthy, wealthy, happy successful, lovable, lucky or most important .......if you would like to be..... THEN GO!! Terry Harmer, Training Director, NLC Training NLP has really changed my life and others for the better. This would not have happened without Brian and Owens wonderful training programme. I will continue to use these skills for the rest of my life. Marie Donovan, Bank of Ireland Graham Egan, Counsellor / Therapist writes: I highly recommend Owen Fitzpatrick and Brian Colbert…..for me it has been a rare and unprecedented opportunity to learn new skills and tools which taught me how to identify and change my negative emotional states and how to achieve and maintain a resourceful and a useful way of thinking/feeling. Read more... I found the NLP Practitioner course a great new learning experience giving me a new awareness of both myself and others a new way of looking, thinking and feeling. It was extremely well run, fascinating, challenging and great fun. Shiela Iveson, Chef I have read much and watched a lot, but your course gave me my first chance to say and do things for myself. There is no better way to learn than by practice, and I can say I have learned a tremendous amount that has everyday practical application. What is more you also created an atmosphere where people were not afraid to have a go and be wrong. Thanks again................................................................................... Tony DeLacy, CEO Dalegate Just writing to thank you most sincerely for introducing me to such a wonderful & positive personal development tool. I honestly feel that I learned more useful things over those 10 days than I did in my 3 years in college. The greatest thing about NLP, in my opinion lies in its simplicity & obvious immediate results. Gillian McNamara, Psychologist On this course I've learned how to plan and direct my life in the way I want to go. How to achieve and map out the steps I must take. Owen and Brian have such enthusiasm for what they teach, they become the favorite teacher you've ever had. What I've learned has inspired me to achieve what I really want and to just go for it. Neal Kelly, Musician Brilliant-Life Changing!!! Chris Keegan, Communications Consultant G.Deena M. Craig, Counsellor writes: One of the best decisions I have made in my life was to do my Master Prac with you at the Irish Institute of NLP. Over the years, I have trained with various schools and institutes across the spectrum of Complementary Therapies, including other NLP Trainers, and I have attended many seminars and workshops. Although they all has something to offer me, all of them put together do not add up to the usefulness, powerfulness and effectiveness of the training you offer at the Irish Institute of NLP. Read more... The poet Emerson Said: "Knowledge eliminates fear". NLP has given me knowledge & workable tools that have cut right through my long held fears that kept me stuck. I know longer need theory, but something that puts power back into my hands - practical, usable power. NLP gave me what my extended library of self help books never gave me, it gave me back me. Christina O'Rourke, Counsellor/Lecturer Hemant Joshi, Accountant, Bahrain writes: I thoroughly enjoyed the comprehensive NLP training by you and Brian. I chose to come to Ireland for the Master Practitioners' course all the way from Bahrain. Read more... Thank you Owen and Brian for introducing me to life changing tools that i can apply to every area of my life, for giving me the choice of letting me choose what state I want to be in under any situation for opening my mind to new possibilities and giving me solutions that work. An education of the future: a must do course for everybody, everybody!!! Michael Mc Clean, Donegal Your NLP Practitioner Course honestly has to be classed as the best training experience that I have ever had. I'm glad I travelled home to enjoy it. You guys really do know your stuff and more importantly you know how to share it too. The training you delivered taught me how to focus on and develop my own infinite abilities. The training also gave me a new and entirely bigger, brighter, sharper, more colourful outlook on my life and what I want to do with it, both personally and professionally. Kevin Dowdall, Inventory Manager, Orleans, France