PCW (Provocative Change Works) Generation 3.1 12 month Development Programme (2024-2025)

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Welcome to 3.1 Generation PCW (Provocative Change Works) Development Programme. This is the latest development in the PCW model created by Nick Kemp and taught in UK, Europe, Asia and USA. Nick has been developing this model over two decades and we already have excellent evidence of success in coaching, business, therapy, sport, and personal change. Nick has been secured work teaching this model in the business sector as well as the health sector with funding from the Wellness Group and teaching the NHS.

We know you know! Yes we know there's a lot of information on this page (Nick says it's like War and Peace!), just like there's a lot of experiences, learning and opportunities on the 12 month Generation 3.1. PCW programme. We want to give you a chance to explore it all so please read on but just in case you want to jump to some key bits here are some handy links:

A summary of this fantastic programme

What you can expect when you book on

Certification

Who should attend

Outline of the programme

Training dates

Your investment

The application process

Learn About The New Generation 3.1 PCW Programme

Join us for an amazing immersive, fun, and challenging programme and be at the forefront of the next phase of development of the Provocative Change Works (PCW) model.

The Provocative Change Works (PCW) model is constantly evolving and this is the chance to be part of that evolution.

Are you interested in:

Taking your conversational change and influence skills to a whole new level?
Undertaking continual professional development in a supportive and dynamic environment?
Learning how to work in the here and now with presence and connections?
Exploring how to deal with challenging client issues that often don’t get resolved with standard approaches?
Learning advanced communication skills that can be used in a range of environments including coaching, therapy, training, business, education as well as for personal development?
Discovering a unique model that was influenced by the effective Provocative Therapy approach developed by Frank Farrelly?
Developing a fluidity and confidence to create your own bespoke techniques to assist with client change?
Being part of a growing international community of highly successful coaches, therapists and trainers?

Whether you are a coach, NLPer, hypnotherapist, therapist, work in business, education or interested in your own continuing personal development, PCW can provide you with skills and tools to enhance what you do and a great opportunity to explore a model with a range of practical applications in a wide range of areas.

Here's a summary of what this fantastic programme is all about.

The PCW training programme:

Provides a unique and excellent opportunity to learn the art of Provocative Change Works live with its creator Nick Kemp.
Learn a unique model of change that builds on the amazing Provocative Therapy of Frank Farrelly and moves much further beyond
provides you with the opportunity to really develop your skills and gain confidence in using this elegant form of influence, communication and change work.
Is immersive and multi-layered and offers support throughout and opportunities for you to really hone your skills and expand your knowledge.
provides an opportunity to become a Certified Practitioner of PCW or Certified PCW specialist depending on previous experience (certification is not compulsory - you can still attend without going for certification).
This is the only currently planned online PCW certification training for 2024/2025

Nick Kemp the creator of PCW (Provocative Change Works) explains the thinking behind the development of the PCW Generation 3.1 programme.

Nick Kemp writes:

"Oct 2024 will be the start of the latest generation of PCW. This is specifically to expand and refine the PCW model as well as bringing Provocative Change Works to a wider audience. Previous experience of PCW is not essential to be part of these monthly trainings, which will also include 1 - 1 work and assignments. The training allows people to participate at all levels from complete beginners to more experienced students. Those with more experience will be helping run the group exercises and themselves be evaluated on their performance.

Generation 3.1 PCW is also for those wanting continual professional development that would of course be standard in any other field of professional learning. This is the way we best learn and develop the model. I'm also mindful that this development means collaboration and using the "PCW hive mind" to share experiences of how the model can be used in a huge diversity of environments. This also means that the emphasis is not solely on myself".

We are particularly interested in developing the model for use in the following areas:

Wellness (therapy and coaching)
Education
Business
Sport
Creativity

What Can You Expect When You Book On?

When you book on, you get the following over the 12 month programme:

11 live workshop sessions with Nick Kemp* - (see dates and topics below).
Up to eight, 45 minute one to one sessions with Nick to enhance your skills and understanding.
Additional practice group and CPD opportunities are also included in this programme.
Resources and assignments including a comprehensive illustrated manual, video footage and assignments to complete between sessions
Access to an online group of smart like-minded people where you can ask questions, discuss PCW, get support and arrange practice sessions with fellow attendees
Complementary attendance at selected related events
Certification (see below)
Over 60 hours of training

* Should you not be able to make a particular session you will be provided with access to the recording of the session so you don't miss out.

Interested In Certification?

The programme teaches advanced conversational change and influence skills usable in a wide range of personal and professional contexts. While it is possible to attend the programme without going for certification, we are aware that many people will want to work towards certification.

The programme will provide the opportunity for you to getting certified in one of the following:

Provocative Change Works (PCW) Practitioner
Advanced PCW Practitioner
Specialist Provocative Change Works (PCW) Practitioner

Certification is not guaranteed and is contingent on meeting requirements and demonstrating evidence of skills an

Nick Kemp writes:

"I’m keen that all certifications are not box ticking exercises or simply certifications of attendance, but rather represent genuine skill development. Frank Farrelly would always say “Show me the evidence” and therefore those wanting certification will be expected to submit case studies and demonstrate the skills in live settings throughout the programme".

Who Is The Programme For?

The programme is ideal for anyone who wants to develop high level advanced conversational change and influence skills.

Attendees on our previous programmes have come from a range of backgrounds including: therapy, sports coaching, training, business, NHS, complementary therapy, hypnosis, NLP and academia.

The programme is open to people who:

want to explore PCW for the first time
want to combine PCW with other modalities
have experience of PCW and want to take their skills further
want to specialise in particular areas

Outline Of The Programme

The programme comprises 4 modules consisting of three workshops each with Nick as well as homework, resources and practice sessions throughout.

Module 1.

The Art of Provocation

Module 1 Includes the following –

Lighting the fuse with Frank Farrelly’s Provocative Therapy
Deconstruction of Frank Farrelly unreleased video footage
The misconceptions about “provocation”
Why rapport as typically suggested is a misconception
How to frame a client/group session
The 3 PCW approaches that are unique in this way of working
Exploration of the stances used in the PCW model.
Exploring psychoeducation in client sessions
How PCW works equally well in coaching, therapy, academia, business and sport.
Exercises in being a client and a coach using PCW
Examples of client cases
1 – 1 live sessions with Nick

Module 2.

Trance and Time Framing

Includes the following –

How trancework expands and compliments the PCW stances
The two techniques NLP developer Steve Andreas voted the best of all tools for working with clients.
The template for exploring how to deconstruct client problems.
The art of working conversationally in sessions
How simple is best when using conversational hypnosis.
Dealing with specific client sessions including anxiety, phobias, anger and depression
Why expression is essential for effective communication
Creating and utilising stories in client work
Creating a feedback loop using time for accelerated change
1 – 1 live sessions with Nick

Module 3. Integration and Fractionation

Includes the following –

Using fractionation conversationally in sessions

Working with groups using PCW

How everything is essentially problem solving

Advanced use of stances used with hypnosis.

Applications of PCW in “wellness (therapy & coaching), business, sport and education

Advanced exploration of PCW stances and using stance combinations Deconstructing client sessions

Module 4.

Show and Tell -The "Mystery Curveball Module"

This module will all be about “show and tell” and evaluation and demonstration of skills. Expect a highly unpredictable sessions which are all about working with fluidity and in an improvised manner. This module will include evaluation for certifications and those seeking certifications will be asked to demonstrate work in sessions.

More About PCW

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 elegant conversational way of working requires the practitioner to pay close attention to client responses, whilst maintaining their own excellent state control.

These three approaches 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 PCW 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. This means “running suggestions up the flagpole” and seeing if the client responds. The practitioner creates the movement in the session and can be talking for large sections of the interaction which is very different to many other talk therapy approaches.

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 without 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. The key attitude of interacting as if chatting to an old friend means that the practitioner quickly creates real rapport with the client and the client often discusses the issue as it is rather than how they believe “they should respond” in this clinical situation.

Many witnessing this style of working can be initially quite surprised at the amount of energy, fun and honesty that results from this approach. This makes the client session very much like any interaction between old friends where each person may interrupt the other, tease the other, wander off the point and behave in other ways which typify such encounters. This apparent freedom is of course underpinned by all the ethical and professional principles of good clinical practice. The benefit of this is that one can have warm caring and human interactions, which enables the client to find their own solutions from a new and useful state.

A big influence on the development of Provocative Change Works was Frank Farrelly who Nick knew personally. PCW incorporates elements of Frank's traditional Provocative Therapy as well as including a range of additional approaches within the PCW model.

'Provocation' in the context of PCW and change work

The term provocation in PCW is often misunderstood. In this clip below Nick explains what provocation means in the context of PCW and how it is used.

Training Dates

The dates for the live online workshops with Nick Kemp are below. These are delivered via Zoom and run on a Saturday from 10am- 2:30pm UK Time.

Access to watch session replays will be made available to all participants shortly after the live sessions and remain live for at least 12 months after the programme ends. As a result if you are unable to make a session live you can catch up with the replay.

2024 Dates

October 26th, November 9th, December 7th

2025 Dates

January 11th, February 8th, March 8th, April 5th, May 3rd, June 7th, July 5th, September 6th

Optional practice sessions

There will be optional live online sessions led by PCW Practitioners. These usually run from 10am-11:30am approximately UK time on a Saturday. Dates TBC.

We also encourage participants who wish to, to meet up between sessions and arrange to practice during the programme

One to One Sessions with Nick

You will be entitled to up to 8 one to one sessions with Nick. These will last up to 45 minutes and take place via Zoom or Skype. These will be arranged at mutually convenient times.

Your Investment

Delivered over 12 months the programme provides an excellent opportunity to develop advanced skills in change work in an immersive and supportive environment. There various options to invest in this opportunity. The total cost for the programme is £2.200.

If you are a previous 12 month programme student there is a special rate of just £1.300. We also offer a special rate for SAARC countries. We are also offering a referral payment. If you refer someone who books on you will receive an affiliate payment – contact us for details.

We can offer a PAYMENT PLAN for the programme. Contact us for details.

Ready To Take The Next Step?

If you are as excited about this programme as we are, and want to join us, now is the time.

Places are strictly limited so that Nick can fulfil the requirement to ensure quality and provide sufficient time for each participant.

If you want to take advantage of the early booking price, pay the £200 deposit by 24th August 2024 to secure your place and we will be in touch to find out which balance payment option you want to go for.

Any Questions?

If you have any questions contact us at info@aetherandalchemy.net and we will be happy to help.

In addition, if you want to organise a short zoom with Nick to discuss how you can get the best from the training and what you want from the included 1 - 1 sessions with Nick, drop me a line and we can arrange that.

What People Are Saying....

We have had great feedback on the PCW trainings we have run. People get a lot out of it and often come back to develop their skills further. Here are just a selection of the great things that have been said about PCW and Nick.

“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 has modeled two different simple processes which are part of his Provocative Change Works™ set of tools for working with anxiety and other strong emotions that I have found enormously useful in working with clients. He has also modeled the different patterns in Frank Farrelly’s Provocative Therapy so that they are easy to learn. In addition, he is everything you might wish for in a colleague – available, creative, and eager to discuss ideas and learn as well as teach.”

Steve Andreas, NLP Developer and Author

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

Frank Farrelly on Nick Kemp (June 16th 2006)

“Nick Kemp makes Provocative Therapy accessible to NLP trained coaches and therapists. My recommendation is to get his DVD set from the workshop in Boulder Colorado, watch DVD number 6 – an excellent example of what can be done – and then go back to the beginning and learn how he does it. You may be surprised how much of NLP already depends on provocation! “

Richard Bolstad, International NLP Trainer, Psychotherapist

“Unassuming and yet beneath that quite persona there is a depth of knowledge and integrity. Very likable and easily approachable, Nick has that magical knack of making people feel good and his methodology is so easily understood that his workshops are refreshingly effective. I will recommend Nick to anyone wanting to have the tools for a better life.”

Dr A Abraham, India

“I have known Nick Kemp for a number of years as both personal friend and mentor… no one has done more to promote Frank Farrelly and his highly effective treatment modality of “Provocative Therapy” than Nick Kemp. In 2004 when both myself and Nick met Frank Farrelly for the first time, the only readily available material was the classic 1973 book, “Provocative Therapy.” Since that meeting, Nick and Frank have become firm friends and there is no doubt the rest of us have benefitted enormously from this unique relationship. Now with numerous audio and DVD training products produced and promoted by Nick Kemp, Frank Farrelly’s work is more readily accessible than ever before.
With this is mind, I had the very great pleasure of attending Nick’s first “Provocative Change Works” course in Leeds. Having extensively studied Provocative Therapy and seen Frank work one-to-one sessions live with clients on several occasions, I was astonished at the level of expertise demonstrated on the stage. I have no doubt that with his modelling skills, Nick Kemp has managed to “get” the PT model in its entirety. Watching Nick interact with his clients left me in no doubt that he is the very embodiment of Frank’s humour, wit, skill and flexibility. I suspect that anyone familiar with Frank Farrelly’s style of working will get that spine tingling sense of familiarity when watching Nick work and that the mantle of Frank’s ground breaking work has truely found its lineage, and his experience and dedication to detail makes him one of the best trainers and change work therapists in the UK today.”

Andrew T Austin, Therapist and Author

“I’ve been studying the PCW model with Nick for a while now and the more I learn the more I understand the nuance and skill of this approach. Initially it can seem almost random and hard to judge what is going on. But having worked with clients utilising this approach I have found it highly effective and brings about significant shifts in how they think about their problem.Nick himself is a very generous man, who is genuinely interested in sharing what he has learnt, and sharing his experiences with others. If you’re curious about discovering a different approach to your skills then I highly recommend attending one of his courses.”

Brooke Hender Hypnotherapist

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High Level Overview of the Programme

The programme will consist of the following four modules.

MODULE 1: The Art of Provocation

The first quarter of the programme is designed to include the following:

The origins of Provocation from Frank Farrelly’s original work
The difference between the provocative frame and traditional ways of coaching and therapy
How to work with ‘process” rather than getting stuck in unhelpful analysis
The history of PCW to date and how the model has evolved
The 3 PCW approaches that are unique in this way of working
An introduction to the 40 stances used in PCW
1 – 1 live sessions with Nick

MODULE 2: Incorporating conversational trance work

The Second quarter of the programme is designed to include the following:

How trancework expands and compliments the PCW stances
The importance of psychoeducation in client sessions
How to use client notes and structure a live session
Using voice, tone and rhythm to provoke client change
The myths of hypnosis and how to avoid overreliance on techniques
Advanced exploration of PCW stances and combining stances
Creating a feedback loop for client change
Working 1 – 1 with Nick

MODULE 3: Integration and Practice

The third quarter of the programme is designed to include the following:

Advanced deconstructing client sessions
Using fractionation conversationally in sessions
Introducing conversation metaphor elicitation and challenges
The template for problem-solving in business, therapy, sport and coaching
Marketing your practice and avoiding common mistakes
Group curveball exercises
Website and marketing dos and don’t

MODULE 4: The Reality check time

This module will all be about “show and tell” and evaluation and demonstration of skills including:

Presentations from students on using the PCW model
Live evaluations of skills with Nick observing
Live work with members of the public
Certificate evaluation
Final round out of year course

The monthly slots will run 10 – 2pm with one short break
All attendees have the opportunity for 6 one to one 40 minute slots with Nick
Additional catch up/Q and A and practice slots will be available throughout the year

Your Investment

The Full price to people who have not taken a previous PCW one year programme is £2,400 for the year
For those who have taken a previous PCW one year programme there is a special repeater price of £1,300,

About Nick Kemp

Nick Kemp, a visionary inspired by the legendary Frank Farrelly, has pioneered Provocative Change Works (PCW) as a groundbreaking approach for personal development and effective communication strategies. With an impressive track record spanning over three decades in the realm of personal transformation, Nick is a seasoned expert in Hypnosis, Provocative Therapy, and NLP techniques. He brings this wealth of knowledge to life through engaging workshops, personalized individual sessions, and dynamic business trainings.

Having forged a close partnership with Frank Farrelly himself, Nick co-founded The Association for Provocative Therapy and crafted his own distinctive PCW methodology. His influence extends far and wide, with a global reach that includes teaching engagements across borders and a loyal following of private clients seeking transformation. Nick's expertise has been showcased in various publications, featured on esteemed platforms such as BBC Radio, and sought after for tailor-made in-house business trainings as well as captivating public workshops on a worldwide scale.

What People Are Saying About Nick Kemp

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

Frank Farrelly on Nick Kemp (June 16th 2006)

Steve Andreas, NLP Developer and Author

Richard Bolstad, International NLP Trainer, Psychotherapist

Feedback From Previous Participants

A flavour of topics that participants who have just completed the previous 12 month programme commented on:

Personal Transformation and Growth

“This course has made me reflect deeply on my own values, my strengths, and the areas I want to work on. It has been a profound journey of self-discovery”

“I’ve learned so much about myself—this program really pushed me to reflect and grow in ways I never imagined.”

A Supportive Collaborative Learning Environment

I felt safe to share my thoughts and experiences without judgment. It’s rare to find a space so open and supportive.”

Practical Application

“I left every session feeling like I had learned something I could apply right away.”

Connection and Community

“I met so many amazing people—each session left me feeling more connected to a community that continues to inspire me”

“I’ve built lasting relationships with people from different industries and backgrounds. The network I formed here has been invaluable.”

Engaging Learning

“The interactive format made everything so much more impactful. It wasn’t just theory; we applied what we learned in real time.”

“The sessions were so engaging! The hands-on approach made everything more relatable and useful.”

“I loved the interactive nature of the sessions. It wasn’t just someone talking at us—it was collaborative and engaging. We got to apply what we were learning in real time.”

“The activities and discussions were so helpful. They made the content stick and were fun to be a part of.”

A Comprehensive Learning Experience for All

“The program was so well-rounded. No matter where you’re starting from, there’s something valuable for everyone.”

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