Mike Murray: The Advantage

A preview of the Symposium footage. . . the first 10 minutes.

Pictures from Day 2 of the Hope Symposium

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Hope Symposium Day 1

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from Karen Petcoff

The Symposium will take place in Emmanuel College, Room 119.  The room is at the south of the building (it’s the end of the building closest to the park).  I’m not sure which doors will be open (there is a main door in the middle of the building and the door in the pictures on this site, just outside our room).

Parking is likely to be tricky.  The Victoria College site says:  ”Victoria is able to accommodate most requests for campus parking in the parking garage located under Rowell Jackman Hall at 85 Charles Street West.”  Charles St. is the street just north of Emmanuel College.  Here’s a link to a map that shows parking at 85 and 140 Charles St. Parking at Victoria  costs $9/day.  Parking at St. Basil’s Church (northwest corner of Bay and St. Joseph Sts.) costs $6/day, but is about a 10 minute walk from our venue.

There will be no coffee or tea onsite.  There is a cafe on Charles St. run by Victoria University and a Second Cup on Bloor across from the museum.  We will have water at the room.

If there’s something else you’d like to know, email me at news@nlpcanada.com and ask!

Kathleen Milligan

As any dictionary will tell you, there are two parts to hope. First of all, there is the wish or the desire. Second, there is the expectation of the fulfillment of that wish—you might also call it trust.

Kathleen Milligan works with women who have been diagnosed with “unexplained infertility.” Like hope, conception has two elements. Once conception is addressed as a physiological process that also has an emotional/spiritual/psychological component to it, conception rates increase.

Women begin their journey towards creating a baby with hope, but as their continued attempts to conceive fail, the belief that their wish will be fulfilled is eroded. Their process has only half of the hope equation in place.  We go back to that original wish and we re-start the journey. Kathleen helps women build hope so that women can build a baby—perhaps one of the biggest things you can hope for—the creation of another human being.

Read our media release.

contact: Linda R. Ferguson, Senior Partner

email: news@nlpcanada.com

Cell Phone: 289-242-5089

Weekend Symposium Explores the Difference Hope Makes

Eighteen speakers in two days will talk about how they support hope in themselves and others

Toronto – 11 September 2009 – On September 19 and 20, host organization NLP Canada Training invites participants to join the Hope Symposium 2009 at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. Speakers were invited to talk about the ways they discover, develop or support hope in themselves and others.  Internet security expert, Mike Murray will travel from San Francisco to lead the weekend’s line up of coaches, consultants, entrepreneurs, teachers and alternative health experts.

Murray combines his interest in technology with a fascination with how people make choices. He trains IT security experts to anticipate human influences and also works with organizations to develop human systems. Murray studied NLP (neurolinguistic programming) at NLP Canada Training before moving to the United States.  He will be joined at the podium by a variety of coaches and consultants including Dr. Barb Luedecke, Ron Vergeggen, James Perly, Mike Verhey, Maxx Kochar, Alan Crossley and Christine Laperriere.  Their expertise ranges from leading mid-size corporations to facilitating change and growth in individuals across a wide range of fields.

The symposium also showcases Kathleen Milligan, a hypnotherapist who is frequently featured in Canadian parenting magazines for her work with fertility, pregnancy and children.  Kathleen is lively, funny and very effective in helping people find good reasons for hope in difficult situations. She will be joined by counsellors who work with homeless youth and women with eating disorders.

Several experts in teaching and training will also offer their stories of the difference hope makes. From the classrooms of inner city schools to the training rooms of growing Canadian companies, these speakers know how to teach the processes that sustain hope. They include John Dafos and Iryna Reim. Sheri Andrynyk, of Women for Women, combines expertise in coaching, networking, sales and communication. She’ll be speaking on how to help others to get extraordinary results.

The weekend will be hosted by Linda Ferguson and Chris Keeler of NLP Canada Training Inc. This is the first symposium hosted by their organization. “We knew it was the right time,” says company founder, Keeler. “We are very honoured to have trained so many really interesting and effective people. They have great stories to tell at a time when Toronto needs more stories of hope.” Keeler emphasizes that all are welcome to register.  “You don’t even need to know what NLP stands for; you will learn what we stand for when you hear the difference our speakers are making.”

The Hope Symposium 2009 will run September 19 and 20 at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. Registration at 10 am each day; the symposium will close at 5 pm each day. The symposium costs $40 for a weekend pass or $30 for a single day pass. Registration is required.  Call 416-928-2394 to register.

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Mike Murray, Michael Murray and Associates

When you look around the wilderness (or turn on the Discovery Channel), what can you notice about yourself in relation to the other occupants of the globe?

You’re not as strong as a gorilla nor as massive as a hippopotamus.

The cheetah or the antelope would out run you in a second.

You can’t reach the eagle’s highs nor the whale’s lows.

And your teeth aren’t even in the same league as the shark or the alligator.

So how did your ancestors manage not to starve to death?  How did you manage to get here?

The answer isn’t “Hope”.  But hope and the answer are inextricably linked…. tied together like binary stars.

Mike Murray has spent more than a decade helping companies large and small to protect their information by understanding their vulnerability posture from the perspective of an attacker.  From his work in the late 90’s as a penetration tester and vulnerability researcher to leadership positions at nCircle, Neohapsis and Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, his focus has always been on using vulnerability assessment through penetration testing and social engineering to proactively defend organizations.

Mike is currently the CISO of Foreground Security, where he leads engagements to help corporate and government customers understand and protect their security organization . He is also in charge of the advanced curriculum of The Hacker Academy, where he trains security professionals on the newest methods of computer penetration testing and social engineering to help them better protect their organizations.

Mike has a variety of other diverse interests: he leads Michael Murray and Associates, where he and his team work with organizations to assist them with their human systems, from their  organizational design and efficiency to the career paths and development of their individuals. Mike’s thoughts on security can be found on his blog at Episteme.ca, and his work on helping build careers can be found at InfoSecLeaders.com and ConnectedCareer.com.

Andrew Reid, Big Fish Interactive

Most people I meet who are focused on goals place their thoughts and

energy on what needs to happen leading up to their goal. They name the goal

(the finish line) and then either build a detailed step by step strategy of

how to get there, or set a less defined plan of some of the new behaviours

they will need to do for a successful outcome. Makes sense and pretty

straight forward; identify a goal and build a plan.

But what happens when the new goal is so different (and fun and audacious) that they can’t

recognize their life having achieved their new dream? Consciously, a

wonderful new goal or dream is all positive and hopeful but sub-consciously,

it may not resonate. Strategy is overrated if the new experience on the

other side of finish line has not been clearly identified.

On September 19, I’ll speak about personal and professional results using

NLP techniques to apply hope and conviction in experiencing goals such as

working at a Scottish castle, taking on the world in international sports,

influencing company-wide change, and living in possibilities on the other

side of the finish line.