Inner Critic: Friend or Foe?

Inner Critic: Friend or Foe?

Please welcome our first in a series of four "mini-courses," especially for those who are new to NLP Marin to get a low-cost, high-value, bite-sized experience of some powerful Transformational NLP tools and perspectives.

Great to invite your friends, family, and colleagues to join you, so you can do the course together!

In two, 2-hour sessions over two weeks, you will discover the secret intentions that all parts of you — including your Inner Critic — have for you. You will learn the pitfalls of trying to overcome yourself, and our unique approach that works so, so much better. You will also go through some simple exercises that will leave you with more inner equilibrium and peace, and which you can take back into your life, immediately.

How Inner Critic: Friend or Foe? will go:

This mini-course will consist of two weekly two-hour live sessions in which you will do interactive group exercises and discussions, facilitated by Karilee Wirthlin and LiYana Silver, Transformational NLP Practitioners and staff at NLP Marin.

All sessions will be recorded and will be made available via our course portal. While you are encouraged to attend the sessions live, you will receive the recordings if you have to miss any session.

Who is This For?

What You Will Learn

You are welcome to join Inner Critic: Friend or Foe when:

  • You are in possession of an Inner Critic and you’d like for it to stop giving you such a hard time
  • You are new to NLP Marin and/or Transformational NLP
  • You have zero experience with NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
  • You are interested in having a low-cost, high-value, bite-sized experience of some Transformational NLP tools and perspectives

If you have a little or a lot of experience with Transformational NLP and NLP Marin, you are also welcome to join us.

  • Your Inner Critic's secret intentions for you
  • Why beating up on the inner voice that beats you up, never works
  • How to get your Inner Critic rooting for you
  • The pitfalls of trying to overcome yourself (and our unique approach that works so, so much better)
  • Simple exercises to experience more inner equilibrium and peace
  • The surprising way to find motivation within yourself without being harsh on yourself
  • Discover that rather than being unmotivated, unorganized, or unworthy as you may worry you are, you are actually quite wise, wonderful, and valuable

Meet your facilitators for Inner Critic: Friend or Foe?

Karilee Wirthlin
Transformational NLP Practitioner
General Manager, NLP Marin

As General Manager of NLP Marin, Karilee oversees and manages processes and operations across NLP Marin including finance and accounting, operations, sales and marketing, and human resources. By ensuring a strong foundation of operations, she accelerates innovative course development that brings Transformational NLP into the world.

Karilee brings to NLP Marin her extensive experience in running her own Silicon Valley digital marketing consulting practice and combines that with her love of Transformational NLP. Karilee’s professional passion focuses on utilizing technology to bring people together and creating high-performing teams.

Karilee began her training at NLP Marin in 2012, became a certified Master NLP Practitioner in 2013, and became a Transformational NLP Practitioner in 2014. She’s served as a teaching assistant in the back of the room of many of our courses for several years. She also holds a BA in Computer Science from Mills College in Oakland, California. In her leisure time, she enjoys crocheting, crossword puzzles, reading, family genealogy and scrapbooking, and spending time with her two nephews.

LiYana Silver
Transformational NLP Practitioner
Marketing Consultant, NLP Marin

LiYana Silver is a torch-holder for a world-to-be in which the epidemic of self-haters has long become absurd.

Through a unique process that combines Transformational NLP and body-based coaching, LiYana helps people stop self-warring and relax into their embodied confidence and clarity. LiYana specializes in working with those who are going through the hardest times of their lives and helps them transform the painful residue left by eating disorders, body dysmorphia, relationship ruptures, and workaholism — so they feel comfortable in their skin, know their worth, are clear about their contribution to the world, feel at home in their lives, and naturally trust themselves (even with life and work’s hardest choices).

In addition to being a certified Transformational NLP Practitioner, LiYana is also a certified Holistic Health Coach and a Registered Yoga Teacher. She is also deeply influenced by her training in mindfulness, movement-meditation, trauma awareness, Attachment Theory, Spontaneous Writing, Vajrayana Buddhism, and by her former 10-year career as a contemporary dancer, performing throughout Europe, Israel, and with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York City.

LiYana is the author of FEMININE GENIUS (Sounds True, 2017), and periodically offers in-person retreats and online courses in addition to maintaining her private practice. Her work has been featured in Huffington Post, Forbes, Yoga Journal, and Jezebel, among others. She also mamas her son (who was born just after her certification at NLP Marin), paints in oils, dances, takes deep breaths, and (mostly) eats sitting down.

WHAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE TO SAY


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    CMT
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    BodyMind learning
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    Entrepreneur
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    Changework practitioner
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    Transformational/Results Coach
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    Have worked with Carl Buchheit for a number of years and have found his trainings powerful and informative. His humor, kindness and intellect are unparalleled and the training is truly unlike anything else available.
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    Computer Networking Engineer and Sales Trainer
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    Core Competencies was, and continues to be, a life changing experience for me in the best possible way.
    Ken Griffin
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    Carl is a genius, and hilarious to boot. His commitment that choice is possible everywhere and in all ways has fundamentally rewired my relationship to self, other selves and life itself. Doing so much practice in the weekends is also extremely helpful--not only to preparing students to do the work with others, but also in getting us more of what we ourselves want. And I love Michelle and Carla too!
    Kelly Notaras
    Book editor
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    Transformational Coach
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    Partner, HolacracyOne
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    Teacher
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    NLP Practitioner
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    Executive Coach
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    Ph.D., clinical psychologist
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    Ph.D.
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    retired teacher
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    Health and Wellness Professional
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    Broker, Investor, Entrepreneur
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    Retail sales, Natural Food Coop
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    So much respect for all the love around the classes.
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    Senior Mortgage Banker-Broker Presidents Club
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    Executive Coach
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    Writer
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    Coach, Consultant
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    Speaker/Teacher for Writers and Novelist
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    Through this training, I personally have gained many insights of myself/family/professional life that has changed the directory of my life for the better.
    Bahgu Hinit
    NLP Practitioner & Investor
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    These studies in this school are the biggest act of love I can give myself, and the main reason for me to be based in USA.
    Ariel Gubkin
    NLP Practitioner
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    NLP Marin makes a big promise to help people better understand ourselves as human beings and you improve our relationship with ourselves and the world at large... and they deliver.
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    NLP Marin gives you the manual on being human that we all need to make great sense of life and our relationship to it. This is the most complete and most necessary program for anyone in a coaching, change-work or therapeutic profession. Or, really, for anyone that lives and works with other humans. We require all of our coaches to complete Foundations through Masters, at the very least, and strongly encourage them to take the whole NLP Marin curriculum.
    Ali Schultz
    COO of Reboot.io
  • Anonymous
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    Anonymous
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    Anonymous
  • Anonymous
    Across all measures, the world-class Transformational NLP Marin Training Center has to be THE BEST on the planet--most experienced, most knowledgable of the history and the attention to the lasting, and often quantum transformation of behaviors and the belief and identity structures that hold them in place. There is an unwavering attention to rapport-building and safety, allowing students to go with respect, to places of unknown territory, and be able to make significant shifts in their unwanted present experience and have a felt sense of what it is like to step into their desired state in life, and experience the next level of change that takes them to new and even better experiences.
    Anonymous
  • Anonymous
    I can only describe it as an incredibly deep "coming home" to self; which has enabled a deep rapport with others and most importantly, life.
    Anonymous
  • Anonymous
    Life now flows so much more easily and everything feels like a beautiful co-creation with life- business, relationships, health, finances...
    Anonymous
  • Anonymous
    After a few months of treatment, I thought, "Change shouldn't be this fun? Or could it? It is. Wow." With Carl the word "breakthough" became a regular part of my vocabulary. So much so that I joined his NLP classes so I would have buddies to talk about these aha moments with. Seriously! Carl's unique version of Transformational Neuro-linguistics Programming (NLP) allowed me to put my past in the past - where it belongs. And to Carl I say a heartfelt thank you.
    Anonymous
  • Anonymous
    Rising up from a childhood of neglect, I did more than my fair share of crying in a therapist's office. I was stuck in familiar, extremely painful and unwanted behaviors that did not serve me well. Relentlessly seeking relief, I tried more and more alternative therapies - even seeking help from a Peruvian Medicine woman! I wound up at Carl's door wondering what NLP was about and if it could it help? The answer was an overwhelming - YES.
    Anonymous
  • Anonymous
    My mother gave me life. Carl gave me a life worth living.
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  • Anonymous
    While the tools and skills I have learned through NLP Marin have been invaluable, it is the complete change in life stance, and releasing and healing my conscious and unconscious pain and patterning, and finding a deep appreciation for all the different aspects of me and my whole life journey that has been truly invaluable.
    Anonymous
  • Anonymous
    My NLP training at NLP Marin has deeply expanded my ability to understand and map the terrain of people's inner landscape while lovingly helping them to guide themselves to having the life they always wanted. This NLP training has helped me do this with a level of sophistication and grace that I am so thankful for and taught us to do this while keeping their sense of empowerment in tact and strengthened.
    Anonymous
  • Anonymous
    I have been able to bring Transformational NLP to my work with individuals with very entrenched eating and weight-related behaviors that have plagued them for most of their life, and they can't wait to come back for more, because it works elegantly, and it feels great! I just had a client, a VP of Marketing in a multi-national corporation, say to me: "You are a genius...You should get a Nobel Peace Prize for all Womankind"--I'll take credit for the delivery, but that was all NLP Marin!
    Anonymous
  • Anonymous
    Learning NLP at NLP Marin is one of the best things that I have done. It was a fun learning experience in an extremely supportive and compassionate environment. I love Carl, Michelle, Carla and the support staff at NLP Marin.
    Anonymous
  • Anonymous
    My clients have benefited from the work as well. It has created a much deeper connection and understanding that opens them up to explore their lives much more deeply and directly in a positive and safe way. It is wonderful to see the epiphanies light up and the excitement of experiencing new ways to overcome what has been holding them back.
    Anonymous
  • Anonymous
    My relationships with the world has shifted to a much broader loving, wise, understanding, curious, confident, and encompassing connection with others as well.
    Anonymous
  • Anonymous
    I have also become much more connected, and compassionate with myself. It feels good not to be hard on myself and to laugh easily every day! My creative process is flowing again which brings so much joy!
    Anonymous

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