Today I received another package from Frank Farrelly in the USA crammed with historic audio material from his decades of working. I purchased a second high end cassette deck to assist with the tape to digital transfers. This is a mammoth task as there are literally hundreds of hours of material dating back to the 1970s!

These are the only known recordings of many of these workshops and radio interviews and as well as Frank’s Provocative Therapy there is also material on his interest in Parapsychology. The first plan is simply to transfer everything and then get back to editing and final production later. Fortunately most of the audio is of a good quality and the tapes have not degraded over time. In fact compared to many of the NLP tapes I have purchased, these are quite excellent and totally listenable.

As I transfer material, I back it up on two separate hard drives and give a third one to Frank, so we have all material stored in two locations in different countries! I am saving all files in wav format to preserve the best sound quality, but inevitably this uses up a lot of hard drive space. In fact alongside video of Frank I have archived from UK events since 2005, his material is close to filling a terabyte of data!

Some of the audio has also been transcribed and will be available to members of The Association for Provocative Therapy as I am keen that members receive a host of benefits rather than simply a certificate of membership. It’s fascinating to hear “the younger Frank” from forty years ago working with clients and it’s no surprise to me that he was such an obvious influence on the creators of NLP who of course developed their work over a decade after Frank created Provocative Therapy. It’s been quite an amazing experience meeting Frank, working with him and now detailing his work, which is of huge therapeutic value. I’m not surprised that he met so much resistance over the years as his approach is quite revolutionary and challenges many of the traditional thinking found in other talk therapies.