DR. JOHN M. LA TOURETTE HAS RUINED ME!!!

April 1, 2006

DR. JOHN M. LA TOURETTE HAS RUINED ME for any other trainer.....

Because once you have FOUND THE BEST....

You CANNOT settle for ANY ONE LESS....

I'm back from Toronto, early. As some may remember, I flew to Toronto last week to study and be certified as a licensed Practitioner of NLP under Canada's 'TOP NLP Trainer" who came HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by Richard Bandler(Stated on her website) and John & Kathleen Lavalle who recommended her to me, personally....

They will be hearing from me shortly....

I honestly do not believe that they have ANY idea exactly who is 'representing' them in Toronto, Canada...

To say she is sub par is being very,very,very kind...

Originally, she was able to gain rapport with me on the phone by telling me the most important thing for her students to bring to her classroom was a 'sense of humour' because her method of teaching involved everyone having alot of fun while learning those essential NLP SKILLS....

Well...

I sure like having fun while learning some new & useful skills.....I *always* have fun learning new & useful skills in Doc's class...

She claimed her classes regularily have 25-35 students so there would be plenty of hands on experiences...

.......I like hands on experiences :-) And yep....we enjoy those in Doc's classes also...yep...sure doooooo.....

I arrived that first morning to class absolutely jazzed about starting her training...So it was just a little blip when I found that I couldn't enter the building without an access code which she never bothered to tell her students anything about....No problemo...(tick tock,tick tock)I just waited until someone else from another office in the building came along, struck up instant rapport with them and they let me in...I thought, 'oh...maybe it was a test!!' No, she had simply forgotten....I didn't even mind walking up all those flights of stairs because they 'didn't use' the elevator on the weekends... And to be honest, I even thought, 'cool' more 'teacher time' when I found out that there were only *5* students in the class....which by end of first day were categorized into :

1)"Teacher's Desired Meal Ticket to/in Japan" (The Japanese Business Man she caught in her spidery web and dragged up from Bandler's

seminar in Orlando.)

2)"The Brown Noser" (The local DEEP kinesthetic fella(relative brought in for 'filler'?) she kept chained in a cage in the corner)

3)"The Teacher's Pet"(The sweet, wide-eyed 'I've just found myself so this week is all about me'' married, harried mother of three

recently relocated to the bustling metropolis of Toronto from Newfoundland)

4)"The Well-Connected Urban Gorilla Teacher Wants to Get to Know Better"

(Grizzled, jaded, black-humoured 30 plus yrs. with Global News Television veteran

ENG camera man looking to finally break free and create his own films full time. )

and finally....

5)"THE KAHUNA MIND TRAINED MOST THREATENING, INTIMIDATING, SCARIEST BITCH ON TWO LEGS she has

ever encountered in all her '12 intensive training years with Richard Bandler'.....

.........ME!!!!!! ......lil' ol' ME!!!!!!!!!!! HUHHHH???? and I was being GOOD....I mean that!!! I was sooooo low key, controlled and held back because I sensed, she was a little intimated by me, which REALLY took me by surprise because, after all.....she did keep reminding us that she had trained for 12 years and never, ever missed a chance to study with 'world renowned' Richard Bandler...and here I come along, and apparently, every skill she had learned ....vanished!!

Just think how she would have reacted if Sandy Godheart was in her class!!!!

She started class the first day(and each day thereafter) by reminding us how exorbitantly expensive she was....and then informed us that we'd better book our night to take her out to dinner early, because well...just because....and then she reminded us that she never 'works', she just likes to have fun(Had she been honest & used the word I never 'teach' instead of 'work' I would never have booked her)...meanwhile, no one was feeling any rapport with her whatsoever....no one was feeling that she was very qualified...and NO ONE liked being reminded of how much it just cost us to be in her closet sized classroom and NO ONE was having 'fun'....It was just her at the front of the class like some horrid comedy act you wanted to mercy kill...Bizarily(?) Yes, it's a word now....She had Richard Bandler's hand motions and even worse, facial expressions down to a *T*...she wore no make up at all and some how, she managed to contort herself to physically look exactly like Richard Bandler....

....every girls' dream of course....

Except she couldn't tap into RB's genius....everything fell terribly flat...and just lay there....slowwwlllly dyyyyiinggg.....

Her idea of 'teaching' was this....

Start class late every day....

end it at least an hour early,

and throw in several twenty mins. breaks

and at least a two hour lunch break...

Show a long movie in the afternoon, a training tape or two...

TRY and intimidate the students to buying teacher a meal or AT LEAST Starbuck's coffee at each break...

Which, wouldn't have bothered me if I hadn't just $flown$ in from another province, paid big for a decent downtown hotel she recommended and was being constantly reminded that I was paying her a SHIT LOAD of money for her to actually TEACH ME SOMETHING....

There was not ONE NEW THING that I learned in that class....

First day we had to sign a long multi page contract and I insisted I read EVERY page in full before I signed it...She didn't like that...

She also told us at the end of the second day that ANYTHING we say is 'fair game'...there is no 'confidentiality' clause....ANYTHING we WRITE is fair game for them to use in their materials(she wanted students to write her stories for her children's book)....So I told her, 'fair game' anything of mine, and I promise you, I will sue your ass...'

She'd tell us to read certain pages in the manual, talk all the while we were trying to read(which particularily pissed of the Japanese Gentleman)....then she'd command 'do it'....

When she'd get the 'do what exactly?' look, she'd start laughing(in that wierd all by herself way) and make some crazy statement like, 'NOTHING HERE IS REAL'....It's ALL an ILLUSION....(yeah, so's my cheque)

She was disintegrating fast....

For the first few days we all desperately maintained she must have some fabulous trick she's going to pull out of her hat that's going to make sense of it all, but there was just nothing coming...

.....we started talking mutiny.....the brown noser must have tipped her off, cause then she forced us not to eat together anymore.('Walk around downtown by yourself and keep your visual over 50ft up)...Yeah...o.k. then...That was on the 3rd day....

On the 4th day, "V" (the Newfie) had a 'breakthrough'..she found a 'goal' for herself...She laughed, she cried, she was all veklempt....I was happy for her...I honestly was...Then, as my Urban Gorilla buddy put it, '"V" drank the Kool-aid......The rest of us were still overwhelmingly, underwhelmed....

On the 5th day, feeling cocky, 'Teacher' then brought in her 2 'star' Master practitioner's to show us what they could 'do'.....

and pit them against me in some ' VAKOG mind exercises'.... :-)

.....and I smote both their asses.... :-)

Then she didn't allow us to do 'break time' together.....

And *I* was not allowed to talk....The other's still were....but I was not....That happened the morning of the 6th day....

After going way above & beyond in 'rapport skills' for 5 excruciating days, finally, I pulled the gloves off on the 6th day...Or rather, "I called her out" on the 6th day(fade in theme song from 'The Good, The Bad & The Ugly')....I sliced,diced, sauteed, fillet'd, and DEEP FRIED her and I pointed to her and I announced to the class, 'THIS exorbitantly fee'd "trainer"(by her own admission) is what 12 YEARS of training with NLP"S CREATOR has produced....A teacher who was completely UNEQUIPPED to get a class of *5* people in rapport with her....I announced that the first thing I was going to do when I arrived back in Montreal, was fire off an official letter of complaint to the NLP Society, Richard Bandler, and John & Kathleen LaValle..

I demanded a full refund on the spot, she gave it to me and I left....

My Urban Gorilla buddy lasted another hour, then followed suit.

Because I was paid up until the Sunday with the hotel, rather than go through the hassle of trying to be refunded for the remainder, I offered the room to my new 'Japanese Business Man Buddy' who was so grateful for my kind gesture,(he didn't like his room) I now have an open invitation for a place to stay 'anytime I want' in Japan and/or New York City where he also happens to spend a great deal of time....AND with my 'new best buddy' (sorry McDreamy ;-) the Urban Gorilla who has 30+ years of filming experience JUST HAPPENED TO MENTION...He'd like me to remember him when I am ready to launch my own seminars if I 'ever need an award winning good cameraman to film it' etc.... :-)

AND NOW

I have to face the plain & simple truth....

DR. JOHN M. LA TOURETTE HAS RUINED ME FOR ANY OTHER TRAINER!!!!

Because

Apparently, I can not even stand to be in a room with a teacher who is not EXCEPTIONAL....My standards after experiencing Dr. John M. La Tourette have become to high for 'average'...The foil was pierced, the glass shattered....It's Dr. J. M. La T. OR BUST!!!!!!

DR. JOHN M. LA TOURETTE DELIVERS BIG!!!!

DR. JOHN M. LA TOURETTE *ALWAYS* GIVES 100 TIMES MORE THAN YOU EXPECT!!

DR. JOHN M. LA TOURETTE, GOD I MISS YOU AND YOUR KICK ASS TRAINING!!!!

So don't anybody try and get to a Dr. John M. La Tourette Seminar UNLESS

you want YOURSELF RUINED FOR ANYONE LESS THAN THE BEST!

Sincerely,

Aileen W. Donovan (uncertified)