NLP Trainer

Bio:

Marjorie Rosenberg, MFA, has been working as a business English trainer in Austria for the last forty years. In addition, she has completed her NLP Master Practitioner and Trainers’ Training in Santa Cruz, California with Robert Dilts and has run a number of workshops and seminars for teachers in Europe and the USA as well as corporate clients in Austria making use of NLP techniques to help them in their jobs. While teaching at the University of Graz, she carried out research projects on how people learn and published two books on learner preferences as well as a number of books in the field of business English. At the moment, she is working on a book covering NLP coaching techniques to address specific situations in the workplace. Her recent publications include ‘Teacher wellbeing and techniques to achieve it’ (Modern English Teacher, Jan- Feb 2024) and ‘Making use of Neuro-Linguistic Programming’ (The Teacher Trainer, Nov 2024). She is currently Joint-Coordinator of IATEFL BESIG and a past president of IATEFL.

Session Synopsis:

Our journeys – looking back and embracing where we are now

This keynote talk will look at the journeys we have taken to get where we are today and the implications of the journey for the future. Journeys rarely occur in straight lines but rather in curvy or even divergent paths. What is interesting for us to examine, however, are the lessons learned on our way from our personal starting points to the present. There are those of us who started out in other fields and ended up in jobs we are now doing as well as those of us who planned their careers from the start. We will be looking at the different skills and talents we bring to our jobs, the setting of our goals and how they may be modified over time, the assumptions we all deal with on a daily basis, the people around us who have influenced and helped us, as well as the changes in our personal and professional lives and the affects these have had on what we do and who we are today.

The audience will be involved in the various steps of the talk and encouraged to share their own experiences with others through discussions and in the whole group. Specific ideas will also be suggested which can be implemented throughout the conference to encourage sharing by participants of particular experiences in order to create a trusting space in which all can learn and thrive.