Generative Modelling
Generative Modelling
Generative Modelling

Live in Bristol and Online


Live in Bristol and Online


6 - 9 November 2026

10:00am - 6:00pm (UK time)

6 - 9 November 2026

10:00am - 6:00pm (UK time)



Generative Modelling


The NEXT Generation of Modelling


Generative Modelling


The NEXT Generation of Modelling


Generative Modelling


The NEXT Generation of Modelling




Become a ‘next-generation modeller’ by attending this ‘Generative Modelling’ seminar with Stephen Gilligan, and enjoy the delights of Stephen’s work on multiple layers.


  • Learn how to enter the ‘Generative Modelling State’ for modelling human excellence in any context
  • Learn the core structure of the notion of generativity to go beyond surface structure learning to deep learning through modelling
  • Observe Stephen Gilligan conducting live client complete sessions on stage, with people who are experiencing heavy life challenges
  • From the Generative State - experience a ‘complete deep trance identification’ (DTI) with Steve, whilst he is conducting the change work, with clients
  • Deploy the Gilligan patterning, assimilated in the DTI phase (above) and apply it in practice sessions with course colleagues
  • Shift attention to a meta perspective to unpack and systemise the processes you modelled
  • Test the steps of the model with course colleagues

The process of the seminar is facilitation and not explicit teaching. You and your course colleagues will be guided through the modelling process below


  • Learn the Generative State for Modelling
  • Access the state to ‘Deep Trance Identify’ with Stephen Gilligan
  • In the Generative State, replicate what you have assimilated from Stephen
  • Refine and streamline the patterning
  • Systemise the patterning into steps
  • Test



In this course, you are modelling one genius in his natural habitat for excellence, Stephen Gilligan, conducting live therapeutic generative change sessions.


After the course, you can apply the Generative Modelling format learn through modelling in any context you seek a deep learning experience from an exemplar of excellence.


Stephen Gilligan was in the pioneering NLP group organised by Grinder and Bandler to test the modelling work which built NLP. After the modelling with Milton Erickson was complete, Stephen entered a unique mentorship with Milton lasting 5 years.


Stephen’s experience with Erickson positioned him as a leading expert on Ericksonian Hypnosis.


In true modelling style, Stephen generalised and added to what he learnt from Milton into therapeutic systems for change, such as ‘Self Relations Therapy’, The Generative Trance and Coaching systems, and more recently The Creative Mind Process


All of the above and more will be available in Steve’s work at this unique event



To be a Next Generation Modeller complete the form below



To be a Next Generation Modeller complete the form below



To be a Next Generation Modeller complete the form below




Course Investment


Full Investment

£1,499.00 + 20% VAT (£1,798.80)


Attend the Live Training


£799.00 + 20% VAT (£958.80)




Online Attendees Outside the UK


Only £799.00



Saving you £700.00


Until 5 November 2026





The Training Venue



Bristol Grand Hotel By Sunday - BS1 2EL



To book your accommodation directly at the event venue with a 15% discount,
please book through the hotel’s website and enter the following discount code: GRAND15


Website - https://bristolgrandhotel.booksundays.com/


Telephone number +44 (0) 117 9291645










About Stephen Gilligan




Stephen did his undergraduate work in psychology at UC Santa Cruz, where he met Bateson, Bandler, Grinder, and Milton Erickson, the great psychiatrist/hypnotherapist. In his shamanic way, Erickson initiated Stephen into anima mundi, the soul of the world, and its luminous interconnected mosaic. Stephen then earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University in research psychology. From there he's been practicing, writing, teaching as a psychotherapist / coach, and always looking for ways to absorb the countless contradictions and struggles of consciousness into generative integration.


Stephen's extensive travel and teaching in different cultures over the past decades has illuminated for him the infinite shapes and forms of people but, even deeper, that our shared humanity is much deeper. This experiential knowing seems especially vital now, as old forms crumble and differences are pushed ever closer together. As a result, Stephen believes that the journey is about feeling the deeper wave of consciousness that can hold and heal the brokenness and possibilities of the world.