NLP Practitioner Certification Course Curriculum

WEEKEND ONE: Personal and Professional Excellence

You will learn how to: Get in rapport quickly, even with difficult people, deal more effectively with emotionally challenging situations, and develop ways to better understand other people's points of view. Use "Anchoring" skills for accessing and operating in the most effective states for the job at hand. You will also be able to consistently eliminate your own unwanted reactions to other's behaviors and feel more in control of your feelings and behavior. You will learn the "New behavior Generator" Technique for rapidly building successful habit patterns. You will gain essential knowledge of how the mind works, the nature of perception and how to fine tune your senses. You will also build more behavioral flexibility to access and utilize the resources needed to achieve your desired outcomes - even in challenging circumstances. You'll learn use space to avoid conflict and create ease of communications. You will also gain useful techniques for better managing meetings and groups.

  • Rapport, establishment and maintenance of
  • Pacing and Leading (verbal and non-verbal)
  • Calibration (sensory experience)
  • Representational systems (predicates and accessing cues)
  • Anchoring (VAK) and Anchoring Techniques (contextualized to the field of application)
  • Couple Re-anchoring
  • Anchor Integration
  • Perceptual Positions - self - other - observer - meta
  • New Behavior Generator
  • Psychology of Space
  • Dissociation and Association.

WEEKEND TWO: Communications and Relationship Excellence

You will Learn:

To use the Meta-model and "Pointers" to gather clear and specific information from others. Learning the Meta-model will improve your ability to speak and think with clarity. You will learn how to influence with integrity. You will learn how to ask the type of questions that give you the answers you need. You'll gain listening skills to identify and use the hidden messages in everyday language. Linguistic and nonverbal information gathering techniques to clarify communication, identify the structure of existing limitations, and determine clear, achievable outcomes.

These modules make it possible for you to be in charge of yourself and more successful in any interpersonal situation. Create more personal success with all kinds of people, and learn to use limiting situations to trigger states of effectiveness. You'll gain additional deep level rapport skills and learn how to read the behavior of others much more effectively. You will learn "Guided Search" (transderivational search) to pinpoint the origin of any life event from the past, positive or negative.

WEEKEND THREE: Negotiation / Mediation

Getting what you want in life and with others is the focus of this weekend. During this time, you will gain a variety of win-win negotiation tools that can be used in any kind of inter-personal or business related situation. You'll also learn the language patterns of influence and the requirements for achieving any predictable outcome or goal. This weekend will help you become more congruent in everything that you do because you will learn how to resolve your inner conflicts.

  • Context and Meaning Reframe Agreement Frame
  • Conditional Close Six Step Reframing Conflict Integration Models
  • Mediation and Negotiation

WEEKEND FOUR: Strategies for Success

During this weekend you will begin to learn the modeling processes for creating success and excellence that is making NLP so famous. During this weekend you will learn that NLP is not a set of techniques; it is a methodology. (For example, Change Personal History is not NLP, it is a technique that was developed from behavioral modeling people who could create new perspectives on limiting decisions they made about themselves while growing up.) As you move through this weekend, you will learn how to create the future you want by identifying your unconscious patterns of behavior, as well as your own patterns of excellence. You will learn how to change the patterns that are holding you back, and how to build upon your natural patterns of success. You'll also learn how to model other people's effectiveness, including the same creativity strategy that Walt Disney used so successfully.


WEEKEND FIVE: Submodalities

Submodalities are the building blocks of thought. They are the thinking subsets of your five senses: vision, audition, kinesthetics, and olfactory/gustatory. They are how your brain codes information. You will learn how to unlock this coding and create more resourcefulness almost instantly. As the book An InsiderРїС—Р…s Guide to Submodalities, by Richard Bandler and Will McDonald states, It takes a very small incremental shift in the structure of subjectivity to be able to make a significant change.

Mapping across submodalities The Swish Pattern The Fast Phobia/Trauma Process Recoding for Motivation Learning how to run your own brain Mediation and Negotiation.

Beyond "Visualization" techniques to "programming the software of your mind."


WEEKEND SIX: Understanding Yourself and Others - Meta Programs

A major NLP Presupposition is that we are consistently creating our own reality through our beliefs, perceptions and filters. Another is that we are constantly communicating these beliefs and filters through our language patterns and nonverbal behavior. Carl Jung identified personality types by sorting thinking styles into several categories: introvert vs extrovert, thinking vs feeling, perceiving vs judging, and intuiting vs sensing. From these basic four 'type' distinctions, he was able to make a number of important predictions about how a person might behave or be motivated in various environments. In the field of NLP, there are similar linguistic distinctions that are much more precise in every context. These distinctions are called sorting styles or more commonly, meta-programs. In this module you will learn how to reliably predict someone else's (or your own) success in any given situation by linguistically identifying their meta programs in a brief conversational process. Meta programs are linguistic distinctions and are a very precise way of identifying personality type preferences. You will also learn the significance of each Meta Program as they relate to problem states and Contexts vs Successful ones.

  • Criteria
  • Motivation Direction: Toward Goals vs Away from Problems
  • Procedures vs Options
  • Internal vs External Decision Strategy
  • Attention direction: Self vs Other
  • Motivation Level; Proactive vs Reactive
  • Match vs Mismatch
  • Chunk Size: Detail (Specific) Vs General
  • Rule Structure
  • Convincer Strategies
  • Content Sorts: People, Things, Information, Location and Activity
  • Time Orientation
  • Work Style: Independent, Proximity or Cooperative
  • Stress Reaction: Thinking, Emoting, Choice
  • Meta Strategy Sequence: VAKO/G

During this final weekend you will also integrate the skills that you have been learning in the proceeding six months.


Certification Requirements

What's required to become a Certified NLP Practitioner?

  • Attend at least 15 out of 18 full days of training. (Attendance is tracked in 1/2 day increments.)
  • Participate in a minimum of 6 hours of practice sessions (over 6 months).
  • Read two books (to be assigned in class).
  • Complete in-class feedback sessions each month.
  • Select a special interest focus to apply NLP in your daily life.
  • Demonstrate the ability to use NLP skills and concepts.

Tuition Reimbursement

Many organizations will reimburse their employees for continuing education. Check with your supervisor or human resources department to verify your company's policy.  If you would like our help explaining how the NLP Practitioner Certification Program will help your on the job performance as well as your company or organization, just give us a call 800-767-6756 or 801-277-2014, or send us an email.


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