I started studying NLP around 1985 and got well and truly hooked by the Phobia cure (as it was then known). Ove rthe next few years I went on the usual run of courses and spent my time being continually amazed at the things people accomplished.
During this period I started putting bits of NLP into the other courses that I used to run (I was a personal Development trainer for a large multinational) until eventually thew wraps came off and, just before I left the company, I ran a basic NLP introduction course.
Then, in 1991 I left and set up, with my old boss, an NLP based training company for both business use and public NLP Trainings. (in the meantime I had taken NLP Trainers training.) I continued running courses for this company until I retired in 1997, and went to live in Spain.
I now offer a web site that is about self development using NLP and other methods that is completely free.