Therapeutic and Coaching Excellence with PCW

This 3-month online course, follows the 3 month training on classic Provocative Therapy as created by Frank Farrelly. It focusses on the use of the Provocative Change Works (PCW) model developed by Nick Kemp and it's use in achieving excellence in coaching and therapy.

PLEASE NOTE THAT IT IS STILL POSSIBLE TO JOIN THE TRAINING. IF YOU SIGN UP YOU WILL GET A RECORDING OF WORKSHOP 1 AND MATERIALS AND BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE SUBSEQUENT WORKSHOPS AND PRACTICE SESSIONS LIVE SHOULD YOU WISH TO.

Workshop Content

We’ll be covering the following:

• The PCW “skeleton key” in understanding, identifying and deconstructing problem states
• Why “building rapport” is irrelevant when working with clients
• Real life case studies using the PCW model, that are stranger than fiction
• The art of working conversationally and jargon free with Provocative Change Works
• Working in an improvised manner without relying on preplanned techniques
• Metaphorical elicitations and challenges for “frame busting” in client sessions
• Why you never need to spend more than 10 minutes on a hypnotic induction when working with clients
• A further exploration into Frank Farrelly’s strategies that he used but never taught in his 50 years of clinical work
• 1 – 1 opportunity to work with Nick Kemp

These modules are highly interactive with plenty of opportunity for Q and A. There will be homework and practice sessions in between the monthly courses.

More about Provocative Change Works

Provocative Change Works consists of three approaches to shift clients from “a stuck state” to a more fluid state, allowing for greater freedom and choice. This conversational way of working requires the practitioner to pay close attention to client responses, whilst maintaining their own excellent state control. These are:

Provoking or stimulating client responses by verbal and non verbal interactions

Using non-specific or indirect Hypnosis and metaphor explorations – to create “fluid states” for the client. Eliciting and challenging metaphors

Time Framing – Promoting new ways of moving through time and space.

These are:

• Provoking or stimulating client responses by verbal and non verbal interactions
• Using non-specific or indirect Hypnosis and metaphor explorations – to create “fluid states” for the client. Eliciting and challenging metaphors
• Time Framing – Promoting new ways of moving through time and space.

The practitioner deliberately provokes (calls forth responses from) the client by adopting different discrete stances, which stimulate the client into new ways of thinking and feeling. The practitioner seeks out resistances in the client and then approaches most what the client seeks to avoid in the discussion, and identifies the client’s “blind spots”, using a great deal of humour and by working in an improvised manner.

Great use is made of “sensory rich language”, and the full expression of this, to engage the client, and thus take them on a journey outside their existing beliefs and experience, to a new sense of freedom. The practitioner works in a multi layered way ithout the limitations of some conventions found in many talk therapy approaches, such as removing the impression of “formal therapy as much as possible from the interaction. 

What is 'Provocative' in PCW?

What people are saying

Frank Farrelly – Creator of Provocative Therapy

“You are totally disarming and beyond formalisation.
There is ease and naturalness about you and you make people relax really quickly.
You got the power man!

Frank Farrelly - Creator of Provocative Therapy

 “Do you know Nick Kemp? – (he is) exceptionally bright, and I have immensely enjoyed communicating…The kind of exchanges that I have been having… are the kind of activities that I think can really advance the field.”
He is everything you might wish for in a colleague – available, creative, eager to discuss ideas and learn as well as teach.”

Steve Andreas – Author, Therapist, NLP Developer

 “I’ve watched the work of Fritz Perls, Anna Freud, Carl Rogers, Moshe Feldenkrais, Alexander Lowen, and a few more of the “names” in the psychotherapy field. Your clinical work surpasses some of them now, at a comparatively young age. Given your passion for clinical learning, love of people and creative spirit, I suspect I’ll be dropping your name onto that list of recognized “names” in the psychotherapy field one day.”

Frank Bourke Ph.D. Executive Director of the NLP Research and Recognition Project, former lecturer Cornell University and researcher London University