When I first met Frank Farrelly back in 2014, I was immediately amazed by his level of skill and equally astonished at how poorly his work had been promoted. There was an original website that was a year out of date in terms of training dates, two longstanding “Provocative therapy associates” I met in the UK had never promoted him (‘We are no good at organisation” they said”) and aside from some trainings in Germany and infrequently in other parts of Europe, Provocative Therapy was the best kept secret on planet Earth.
In days gone by David Lake and Steve Wells had written some good articles on Provocative Therapy and Graham Dawes in the UK was one of the few people who had a grasp of Frank’s work. Unfortunately most of the hosts golbally didn’t get the public to sign release forms, so it was almost impossible for people to get any information. Worse still some people had intellectualised Frank’s original Provocative Therapy work and I even heard of people talking about “Provocative Therapy written exams” as part of courses. Frank hated such ideas along with his work being called “reverse psychology”
Part of the challenge in getting the word out about Provocative Therapy was that its very multi layered and Frank rarelly explained his work. Instead he would do what he called “interviews” or demos and rarelly did workshop attendees even do exercises. In my first 4 day Provocative Therapy training, we did just two exercises in four days.
When I started hosting Frank in 2005, I soon discovered that PT was beyond the understanding of most NLP trainers and practitioners. When I interviewed Richard Bandler on Frank, it was clear to me that Richard didn’t really have a grasp of what Frank was doing. A year later I interviewed Frank on Richard and Frank commented on how NLP tended to get stuck in logical, digital, sequential sequences.
Studying NLP was invaluable in decoding Frank’s work, but NLP v Provocative Therapy is like “dial up” compared to broadband. PT is far more multi layered and of course jargon free. Provocative Change Works (PCW) takes the very best of Frank Farrelly’s classic work and adds other elements which makes it even more effective.
When Frank passed, he instructed his son to pass on his entire archive of work. There is an extraordinary amount of information almost all unreleased in the public domain. Frank was quite brilliant and its a real pleasure to bring his work to over 15 countries around the world that previously could only learn from his original book. I can say with reasonable confidence that if I had not met Frank and started to make his work more available, Provocative Therapy would remain relatively unknown
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