I HAVE LOST an intimate FRIEND AND my MENTOR OF NLP. DEMISE OF DR. DAVID J. LINCOLN IS AN IRRETRIEVABLE LOSS.
By VM Ramalingam
Tears are rolling down and I am struggling to hold my mind remain calm at the sudden demise of Dr. David J. Lincoln who was a pioneer and a leader of promoting the learning of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) in India. He is the Founder-President of ANLP, India.
There was no inkling of illness when he was discussing with me ten days back about the forthcoming online program of “Coaching with NLP”. He is no more.
I have lost my close friend, Associate and Mentor of NLP. He got me the identity of “NLP Master Trainer”, the highest professional state of NLP.
Although he was seven years younger to me, it was through him that I was inducted to the world of NLP.
I became his friend ever since he conducted his first program on NLP practitioner at Mumbai in 2004. Then, he was a visitor from ANLP of England. The program was organised by a training organisation called ‘Peak Performers’ at ‘The Club’, Mumbai.
There, I was awarded, back-to-back, his first signed certificates of NLP Practitioner and “Practitioner of Hypnotherapy.
Thereafter, David came and settled in Goa. He founded ANLP, India and invited me to join as one of his associates.
He was authentic, optimistic, inspiring, outgoing, and expressive. People could see him cheerful, positive and charming always. His personality had a certain bounce and verve that so powerfully impacted the people who had worked with him. He could inspire people without effort. He was a paragon of NLP, an excellent psychologist and a healer par excellence.
Our intimacy has grown very strong over 15 years. We had certain mutual privileges and respected individual priorities. Never we had conflicts. It is very difficult for me to digest that Dr. David John Lincoln is no more. The star in my horizon of connecting world has disappeared. In my mind, visual memory, I will hold him for my professional excellence.
