I once heard Eric Robbie say that if Richard Bandler is the Pope of NLP, he would have to be a Cardinal and while this might sound like bragging, I believe that Eric is a masterful trainer and that his contributions in the field of NLP are vastly underrated.
Eric is an incredibly astute observer. If you learned about SMEACs (sub modality eye accessing cues) during your NLP Practitioner or Master Practitioner course, he is the guy who first noticed that they exist. His sensory acuity is off the charts!
Very neat party trick, where he tells you about the submodalities of your internal images, sometimes even down to the colours you are thinking of. And the cool thing is that he teaches this skill and after I had learned it from him, I was able to teach it to others, which makes him a fantastic trainer in my opinion.
Other really valuable contributions by Eric are the discovery of Meta-Programme accessing cues and my personal favourite, his revised structure and way of teaching the Meta Model, which is a thing of beauty.
If there are criticisms, they are that he sometimes could speed up his trainings and certainly that he should get off his ass and publish more!
I have read several of his articles on NLP and he is so knowledgeable and has such a different way of looking at things that the NLP community is poorer for not having more of his stuff widely available.
So, come on, Eric! Publish, publish, publish! Please? The next G&T is on me!
