The Lightning Process

Rewire Your Brain. Transform Your Being. Reclaim Your Life.

THE LIGHTNING PROCESS

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The Lightning Process

The Phil Parker Lightning Process® is a powerful mind-body training programme that teaches you how to influence your health and wellbeing by changing the way your brain and body communicate. Rooted in cutting-edge neuroscience, the Lightning Process® shows you how to rebalance your nervous system, retrain unhelpful neural pathways, and take back control of your life.

You’ll develop practical tools and skills to:

  • Rewire your incredible brain for health and resilience

  • Identify and shift limiting beliefs and behaviour patterns

  • Use brain rehearsal techniques to create the future you want

  • Switch off stress and activate your body’s natural healing system

The aim? A healthier, more balanced nervous system – so you can rest, recover, and thrive.

  • Testimonial 1/6

    I came to the LP with the hope of seeing significant and lasting change and improvement in my CFS/ME symptoms that significantly and negatively affected my life and those around me for almost 10 years.  I emerged with energy, motivation and joy that I had not experienced for longer than I could remember! I have slept better, thought clearer, and am experiencing life more fully than I have for over a decade! Every day I continue to experience positive changes as I navigate stressors with new the tools Nikki has taught me.

    - Anonymous, 2026

  • Tesimonial 2/6

    I have lived with depression for over 15 years. The LP course equipped me with valuable strategies that made me feel empowered, and with these strategies I have noticed that I am feeling lighter, smiling more, engaging in more positive self-talk, have more energy, able to enjoy the little things for the first time ever, and generally just feeling a lot more positive about life. I have postponed my follow-up appointment with my psychiatrist because I am feeling so much better, but if I had seen her, I think she would have been very surprised and curious about how this long-term patient managed to climb out of such a bad depressive episode with no changes in medication. In fact, sometimes I’m still surprised myself!

    - Anonymous, September 2023

  • Testimonial 3/6

    My journey with Fibromyalgia started 10 years ago, and has been a rocky road. Nikki was great in providing answers and transparency before the training as well as throughout, and the environment was an extremely supportive and encouraging one. Before doing the course, I had an understanding of the role my brain might be playing in my symptoms, but I didn't have the tools I needed to make the choices that would change my outcomes. After the training, I have noticed HUGE change in my life. I thought I was coming to the Lightning Process to help with pain and fatigue, and I've left with so much more than that. I've left with a tool that I can use in so many areas of my life from here on out to live the life I love and that God has called me to; an abundant one (John 10:10). 

    - Alicia, 2023

  • Testimonial 4/6

    Following a lifelong battle with unaddressed anxiety, I fell into a bit of a pit I could not get myself out of. In the midst of this desperate situation, I turned to Nikki and the Lightning Process in September 2021 on a recommendation from someone from our church. Nikki's caring and pragmatic facilitation of the Lightning Process really helped provide me a framework and some tools to get me through this difficult time. As Nikki said, if we are hitting a nail into the wall with a banana, it doesn't matter what we do, it's not going to work. But if we swap the banana out for a hammer, it becomes very achievable. In concert with counselling, self-care and God, the Lightning Process is one such tool. Nikki's genuine care for her clients, and her willingness to be open about her own struggles - makes the process a safe and warm environment to learn. So if you are in a dark spot, or you feel like you've tried everything - what have you got to lose and, more importantly, what have you got to gain. 

    - James, 2022

  • Testimonial 5/6

    It was such a privilege being able to go through the Lightning Process with Nikki as my Practitioner. Where I had been ‘stuck’ for quite some time, I saw phenomenal breakthrough over the LP weekend. I learnt so much through doing the course and now have fresh excitement and hope for the future with great clarity. I would thoroughly recommend Nikki and the Lightning Process to anyone who has any area of their life that is not quite as they wish it could be. As a Practitioner, Nikki is warm, safe and extremely knowledgeable. Her insight and observations were spot on, for all of the attendees on the course, and it has been a joy getting to work with her.

    - Emily, 2022

  • Testimonial 6/6

    Firstly I came to the LP as I was struggling with addiction and unhappiness within myself and felt I was on a downward spiral which I wasn’t enjoying. My life appeared to be quite sad, however since attending the seminar and learning the tools and how with choice and effort I can live a happy, joyful, fun and positive life, a life I know I can have and deserve. A life I love. I have been using the LP daily since and have found this to be an amazing change to my mindset and also in assisting me with a positive approach to how I go about my life on a daily basis. I feel now that when ever I am going in to the pit, or experiencing anything that is not life enhancing I can stop, do an LP, bring the smile back on to my face, remember I am on track and I am doing great. I love the person I now am and will continue using the LP to enhance my positive life I am now living.

    - Dave, 2022

About the Lightning Process

  • The training is delivered in three transformative stages:

    Stage OneFoundations

    Listen to a short audio session that explains how your brain influences your body, and why this matters for your health.

    Stage TwoLive Training

    Over three half-day sessions, I’ll guide you through powerful techniques to rewire your mind-body connection using neuroplasticity. These sessions take place in person and are tailored to your unique journey.

    Stage ThreeOngoing Support

    Following the training, you’ll receive at least three personal coaching sessions with me, Nikki, a certified Lightning Process® practitioner. These sessions will support and empower you as you apply the tools in daily life and continue your journey of transformation.

  • Our brains are integral to our health and wellbeing – influencing our immune system, sleep patterns, digestion, endocrine and hormonal activity, behaviours, feelings, thoughts and perceptions.

    Our brains are always ‘on’. And here’s where Neuroplasticity comes in. Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to re-wire itself dependent on how it’s used. Not only can the brain literally create new life giving neural pathways, it can even grow (neurogenesis).

    And if you’ve ever been stuck in your physical, mental, spiritual or emotional health, then this is good news! This is the best news because it means that you can change things.

    Understanding the connection of the mind (neurology) and the body (physiology) means that we can change unconscious, unhealthy default patterns, and instead consciously influence our brain, our health and our life.

    • Anxiety / Overwhelm

    • Depression / Hopelessness

    • Panic Attacks

    • Low Self Esteem

    • Burn Out

    • ‘Stuckness’

    • Chronic Fatigue / Post viral fatigue

    • Fibromyalgia

    • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)

    • Food Sensitivities

    • Insomnia

    • Weight issues

    • Digestive Disorders

    • Perfectionism

    • Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD)

    • Auto Immune Disorders

    • Migraines

    • Chronic Pain

  • The Lightning Process® combines Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), coaching, principles of physiology, psychology, and also osteopathy.

    It gives you the skills you need to :-

    • Help re-wire your fantastic brain

    • Recognise beliefs and behaviours that effect your life

    • Learn brain rehearsal techniques to create better future outcomes and recovery

    The Lightning Process also helps you switch off your stress response and switch on your parasympathetic nervous system so that your body can recover, heal naturally and thrive.

  • A systematic review of the evidence base for the Lightning Process

    Objective

    This systematic review evaluates the methodological quality of existing studies on the LP and collates and reviews its reported efficacy.

    Highlights

    • First systematic review into the Lightning Process.

    • Found a variance in quality of studies from good to fair and in reported patient outcomes.

    • All studies evidenced a level of benefit from the intervention, commonly for majority of participants.

    Click here for more research on the Lightning Process

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Friday 16 January - Sunday 18 January

Friday 20 March - Sunday 22 March

Friday 1 May - Sunday 3 May

Friday 19 June - Sunday 21 June

Friday 31 July - Sunday 2 August

Friday 11 September - Sunday 13 September

Friday 30 October - Sunday 1 November


All in-person training occurs at 2b William Pickering Drive, Albany, Auckland, NZ

Generally the courses are run in person in Auckland, however I am open to travelling around NZ 

Dates 2026