I first met Tad James in May 1993, when I attended his Accelerated NLP Practitioner Certification in Irvine, California. I was presenting NLP sales training programmes at the time and decided it would be useful for me to get a qualification in NLP. However, I was a little dubious about the hypnosis part of the training. "What use would that be to me?", I wondered. Still it was included in the price so I might as well go for it! I went along to the training with my complete knowledge of hypnosis gained from watching stage hypnosis shows on television! I wasn't ready for the shock I got.

The hypnosis segment took place during the last few days of the training. I'd been in trance a few times, experienced arm catalepsy and thought it was a lot of fun. Then, I watched Tad do a demonstration, combining Time Line Therapy@te chniques and hypnosis, with a lady who wanted to heal her eyesight. She wore glasses and didn't want to any more. I was transfixed by the elegance and power of the intervention Tad demonstrated. I was sold on hypnosis. Then I noticed something else. During the demonstration I had taken off my glasses. And I haven't worn them since. I've been studying hypnosis and working with Tad from then on.