Saturday 14th November 2026 | 9.45 – 13.30 

Thomas Spencer Hall, Whittington Staffordshire near Lichfield.

Places are limited - book your place below.

What gets in your way?

Do you ever find yourself knowing what you want to do, but somehow getting in your own way?

Perhaps you:

• Overthink things or get caught in unhelpful thoughts
• Keep falling back into the same habits or patterns
• Hold yourself back or lack confidence
• Talk yourself out of opportunities
• Find it difficult to get your point across
• React in ways you later wish you hadn’t
• Know you want something to change, but aren’t quite sure how to make that change happen

What will you take away?

By the end of the workshop, you’ll leave with:

• A clearer understanding of what may be getting in your way
• Greater awareness of some of your own thinking and behavioural patterns
• Two simple NLP techniques you can start using straight away
• Practical ways to interrupt unhelpful thoughts and responses
• New ideas for thinking, feeling and responding differently
• Greater clarity about what you might want to change next

Plus you will hopefully have an enjoyable time and meet some new people!

A local workshop for the local community

Change Begins Here is being held face-to-face in Whittington, near Lichfield.

Having recently moved to the area, I wanted to create an accessible local event where people from Whittington, Lichfield, Tamworth and the surrounding Staffordshire area can come together, learn something useful and experience NLP in a relaxed, friendly environment.

Parking is available and there is a local bus service from Tamworth and Lichfield

Who is the workshop for?

This personal development workshop is suitable for anyone who is interested in:

• Personal development
• Building confidence
• Understanding themselves better
• Changing unhelpful habits or patterns
• Improving how they communicate and respond
• Creating positive change in their personal or professional life
• Supporting others

You don’t need any previous knowledge of NLP,

Whether you want to build your confidence, change an unhelpful pattern, communicate more effectively or simply understand yourself a little better, come along with an open mind and a willingness to explore what could help you move forward.

Your £5 also supports St Giles Hospice.

The workshop costs just £5 to attend, and all proceeds will be donated to St Giles Hospice.

As the event is taking place in Whittington, Staffordshire, near Lichfield
supporting a charity that is such an important part of the local community felt especially fitting.

So by booking your place, you’ll not only be investing a few hours in yourself, you’ll also be helping to support the work of St Giles Hospice.

Meet your trainer

Jo Creed

Hi, I'm Jo Creed.

Since moving to the Midlands, I’ve really come to love the area - the people, the sense of community and the beautiful countryside. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to start running more local, face-to-face events here. It feels important to me to create opportunities for people in the area to come together, learn something useful, meet others and hopefully leave with ideas and tools that make a real difference.

I came to NLP with a background in human and business psychology and over 25 years’ experience in coaching, training and senior leadership roles across healthcare, public and commercial sectors. I know what it’s like to be on the hamster wheel of stress, responsibility and “shoulds”. NLP helped me step off it, put myself back on the priority list, and choose a different way forward. That lived understanding shapes how I train, connect and support people every step of the way.

For over 25 years I've been helping people develop greater confidence, create meaningful change and become more effective communicators through NLP, coaching, Clean Language and behavioural psychology.

I've trained hundreds of people across the NHS, public sector, private organisations and independent businesses.

One of the things I love most about NLP is that it isn't just something you learn during a course. The skills become part of how you think, communicate and coach, often making a difference every single day, both personally and professionally.

What matters most to me is how people experience the training. I don’t believe in delivering a course and then disappearing. Everything I do is centred around the Beyond NLP family - supporting people to apply what they learn in their work, relationships and everyday lives.

My workshops are always fun, practical, supportive and highly interactive, because I believe the best way to learn is by experiencing the techniques rather than simply hearing about them.

What is NLP?

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It is a powerful approach to understanding how we create our experience of the world and how this impacts how we feel, communicate and behave.

Rather than simply helping us become more aware of those patterns, NLP gives us practical ways to work with them, challenge them and change them. This can create greater flexibility, new choices and very different ways of thinking, feeling and responding.

Neuro

This relates to our internal experience - how we think, remember, imagine, interpret situations and respond emotionally. NLP helps us explore how that internal experience is structured and how changing aspects of it can change the way we feel and respond.

Linguistic

Language does far more than communicate information. The words we use can shape meaning, reinforce beliefs, influence emotion and affect what we notice or overlook. NLP explores both the language we use with others and our internal dialogue, helping us recognise where language may be limiting us and how different questions, perspectives and ways of expressing things can open up new possibilities.

Programming

Over time, we develop patterns and habits - ways of thinking, feeling and behaving that can become almost automatic. Some serve us incredibly well whilst others may continue long after they have stopped being useful. NLP provides ways of working with those patterns so we can interrupt automatic responses, create alternatives and build more useful ways of responding.

At its heart, NLP is about practically creating change. It helps us understand the patterns behind what we do, expand the choices available to us and develop new ways of thinking, feeling, communicating and behaving that can create very different results.

Workshop details

Date: Saturday 14^th November 2026

Time: 9.45 – 13.30

Venue: Thomas Spencer Hall, Church Street, Whittington

 WS14 9LE

Cost: £5

All proceeds donated to St Giles Hospice

Places are limited.

Ready to join us?

Book your place for just £5

Once your booking is complete, we’ll use your email address to send your booking confirmation and any important information you need about the workshop. 

A quick favour: please use the same email address on this form and on the Stripe payment page.

It helps me match everything up easily and avoids any confusion with your booking confirmation.

This workshop is for attendees aged 18+.

Please note the Terms & Conditions for your booking

1. Booking and attendance
Places at this workshop are limited, so please only book if you genuinely intend to attend. If you can no longer make it, please let us know as soon as possible so that your place can be offered to someone else.

The ticket price is £5 and all proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to St Giles Hospice.

2. Cancellations and refunds
If you are unable to attend, please contact us as soon as possible. Tickets are non-refundable if you cancel or do not attend, but we will do our best to make your place available to someone else.

If Beyond Training Solutions Ltd has to cancel the workshop, your £5 ticket fee will be refunded. If the workshop is postponed or moved to another date, you will be given the option to transfer your booking or receive a refund.

Nothing in these terms affects your statutory consumer rights.

3. Nature of the workshop
The workshops and training courses provided by Beyond Training Solutions Ltd are educational and developmental in nature. They are designed to support learning, personal development and behavioural change.

They are not intended to provide psychotherapy, counselling, medical advice or treatment and should not be regarded as a substitute for appropriate medical, psychological or psychiatric care.

4. Health and wellbeing
Although participants may experience useful personal insights and positive changes as a result of the workshop and techniques taught, the workshop is not designed to diagnose, treat or cure any physical or mental health condition.

If you are currently receiving treatment for a physical or mental health condition, or have any concerns about whether participating is appropriate for you, you should seek advice from your GP or another suitably qualified healthcare professional where appropriate.

5. Your participation and wellbeing
You are responsible for your own wellbeing and for deciding the level at which you wish to participate.

The workshop is interactive and may include discussions, reflection and practical exercises. You are never required to share personal information or take part in an exercise that you do not feel comfortable doing.

You are welcome to pause, take a break or choose not to participate in any particular activity.

6. Suitability and conduct
Beyond Training Solutions Ltd reserves the right to decline or discontinue a participant's attendance where, in our reasonable opinion:

• the workshop is not appropriate for their current circumstances;
• their participation may adversely affect their own wellbeing or that of others; or
• their behaviour significantly disrupts the workshop or the experience of other participants.

Where reasonably possible, we will discuss any concerns with the participant first.

7. Medication or health considerations
If a medical condition, medication or anything else affecting your health could impact your concentration, judgement, mobility or ability to participate safely, you are responsible for considering whether attending and taking part in particular activities is appropriate for you and, where necessary, seeking suitable professional advice.

8. Photography and recording
Photographs or short video clips may occasionally be taken during the workshop for promotional purposes.

You will be made aware if photography or filming is taking place and you can choose not to be photographed or recorded without this affecting your participation in the workshop.

Where we wish to use clearly identifiable images, video or audio of you for promotional purposes, appropriate consent will be obtained separately.

9. Confidentiality and respect for others
Some workshop discussions or exercises may involve participants sharing personal experiences.

We ask everyone attending to respect the privacy of other participants and not to repeat or share personal information, stories or experiences disclosed by another attendee outside the workshop without their permission.

Beyond Training Solutions Ltd cannot, however, guarantee the actions or confidentiality of other individual participants.

10. Practical exercises and applying what you learn
Any demonstrations, activities or practical techniques used during the workshop are provided for educational and personal-development purposes.

You are responsible for deciding whether, when and how you use anything you learn following the workshop.

If you apply techniques within a professional role, you remain responsible for working within the scope, ethical standards and professional requirements of your own profession or organisation.

11. Changes outside our control
Occasionally, circumstances outside our reasonable control may require us to change the venue, timings, trainer or other arrangements for the workshop.

Where this happens, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you as soon as possible and to provide a suitable alternative.

12. Personal belongings and travel
Participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements and personal belongings while attending the workshop. Beyond Training Solutions Ltd cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage to personal belongings except where liability cannot legally be excluded.