The second class I presented at this year's NGH Convention in Massachusetts was a two-hour workshop on achieving business success during challenging times. I prepared a slideshow presentation and brought along my laptop and projector and when I checked to see if it would work just before the event - only half of each slide showed up! I was very upset, to say the least, and didn't know exactly what I was going to do about it. After calling Theresa, my paralegal and webmaster, to find a solution and none could be had from a distance on the phone, I decided to relax and just see what developed when I arrived at the room. I decided if I had to do without the slideshow, that's what I would do.
When I arrived at the lecture room and started to set up the equipment a young AV man walked in to set up my microphone for recording and I asked if he knew anything about how to set up a projector. He said yes, but he wasn't familiar with my unit. Nonetheless, he said he'd try. Within just a few minutes (as people were walking in the room to take the class and the room was filling up) he worked out the problem and we had the slideshow available with a minute to spare. Amazing! His name was Chris and I thanked him, but I wanted to acknowledge him in this newsletter. It is my hope that someone reading this will pass it on to him. To him it seemed commonplace to fix a computer/projector connection. To me it was Nirvana. Thank you again Chris!
The rest of the presentation went so well that when the two hours was up and there were two or three slides left to show, almost every one stayed to listen until the very end. There were also lots of additional suggestions for business success offered by attendees that they were using and they were obviously seeking more information with which to flourish in these challenging times. It is a tribute to the resilient nature of everyone to succeed in any environment.
As for the rest of the convention, all in all, it was a great success. More than twelve hundred people from all over the world attended. People came from as far away as Australia (a big contingent) to Hong Kong and India. All of those people come to share what they know and learn what they can to help improve their abilities as Hypnotists so they can help heal the world. It's an unbelievable experience to see so many people striving to learn more each day. They are all truly lifetime learners.
The convention has just about every type of class and workshop you can imagine, from Past Life Regressions, spiritual hypnosis, pain relief, anxiety and stress relief to workshops on how to run a teleconference or on line radio or television show. There were also a great number of marketing workshops to help people figure out how to be successful in the burgeoning new field of alternative health care. It was a wonderful weekend.
Blessings,
Ted
