What, exactly, is NLP? It's a set of techniques that people use naturally when they are being most effective. Think of it as powerful tools for finding what you need in yourself and in your connections with other people. When you practice NLP, you become more perceptive, more intuitive, more influential, and more effective in getting what you really want.
NLP Practitioner training provides an exploration of the fundamental practices of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and NLP New Code. For more than 30 years, NLP practices have allowed practitioners to refine the integration of their minds, senses, bodies and imaginations. Practiced in a wide variety of fields and contexts, NLP allows people to strengthen their own identity, set useful goals, and influence change in others. NLP Practitioner Certification training includes three units over approximately 60 training hours (54 in-classroom hours).
Most people find that the course provides what they need to begin their own personal practice of techniques so they can develop mastery. Practitioners are also encouraged to repeat all or part of the training for a period of two years without additional cost. They also have a chance to repeat with a difference (for optimal learning) at regular practitioner evenings and events (small additional fees may apply).
The first unit of the NLP Practitioner Certification develops skills in self-management and whole-brain thinking. What you notice internally and externally influences what you think. What you think drives what you do. What you do gets results. The first weekend of the course teaches you to make choices about what you perceive so that you can think and act in ways that get results you like.
In the second unit, you will develop new skills and increased acuity in understanding how other people are perceiving situations and achieving results. You will also learn to tailor communication to be more precise and more effective in replicating other people's achievements and in influencing their thoughts and actions.
The third unit focuses on making language work more effectively for you. You will learn that combining a strong intention with non-verbal rapport allows your words to have power that is almost magical. By the end of this unit, you will have learned to ask irresistible questions and to tell stories that naturally create compelling agreement.
COURSE OVERVIEW
Unit 1: Focus on Strengths
◆ Know what you want to do and what you want to be
◆ Step into states to support your performance
◆ Transform your past into resources
◆ Apply strengths to meet challenges
◆ Create ongoing success
In this first unit of the NLP Practitioner certification, you will learn to make better choices about what you do and what state you are in while you do it. You will practice effective methods for combining the roles played by conscious awareness and unconscious processes in achieving what you want. You will experience ways to change the meaning of your past experiences so that they support your future achievements.
Using NLP techniques, you will learn to change the processes by which you perceive yourself without sharing details of your personal history. You will develop a range of tools that are effective, non-intrusive and energizing. Each tool is approached from a variety of perspectives so that you can apply them to your own experience or use them to facilitate change in others.
NLP concepts and practices include: representational systems, submodalities, personal edits, overlap and translation of representational systems, choice points, anchoring, well-formed outcomes, state, disassociation and association, accessing and building of resources.
Unit 2: Focus on Learning and Influence
◆ Know what you want from relationships
◆ Understand the layers of nonverbal communication
◆ Make distinctions between your experience & the big picture
◆ Step into someone else’s experience
◆ Build a model of shared success
This unit is normally taken after completion of Focus on Strengths.
Just as neurology, language and physiology combine to produce states and achievement in individuals, they combine to produce the social connections that allow us to thrive in working with other people.
You will begin with exploring the way in which you influence other people and are influenced by them. You will determine what you want to know about others and how you want to use that knowledge to form effective working connections. Using a variety of techniques, you will pay new attention to the difference between your individual experience and your experience in relationship with others.
You will learn how to gain more information than you thought possible about someone else’s experience.
NLP concepts and practices include: calibration, rapport, pacing and leading, verbal and nonverbal elicitation of responses, perceptual positions, Ability to shift consciousness to external or internal stimuli, as required by the moment's task, optimal learning states, modeling.
Unit 3: Focus on Effective Language
◆ Build agreement through language patterns
◆ Create experience through sensory language
◆ Use metaphors to anchor concepts
◆ Ask the right questions for precision & persuasion
◆ Build narrative patterns to drive action
This unit is normally taken following completion of Focus on Strengths, and Focus on Learning and Influence.
The whole of our message is conveyed by our choice of words working in combination with the physiology of our communication (voice, gestures, or appearance on screen or page).
Become aware of words in ways that are seldom taught in conventional speaking and writing courses. Learn to combine sensory information with abstract content to increase understanding and create messages that “stick.”
You’ll learn to express agreement through patterns as well as content, to ask questions to get to the information you need and to ask questions that allow others to reach the right conclusions. You’ll learn to choose words that bridge the way you think and the way other people are thinking.
NLP concepts and practices include: the Meta Model, the Milton model, framing and reframing, chunking, and metaphor creation