NLP Practitioner Certification
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General Course Structure & Outline
This course is designed to run over a minimum of 15 days and contains in excess of 130 hours of time in the training room.
A modular structure is offered so that you have the opportunity to:
- have time to absorb what you learn in each module.
- have time for skill development between modules.
- have time to practise and to read.
- schedule commitments around training dates.
- attend to your work commitments.
- have your weekends.
Please note that each module requires the preceding modules as prerequisites.
What is given below is the typical general organisation of the course content. Please note that the order of presentation of the content sections can be changed to suit the requirements of the group.
Other variations occur to suit different markets. For example, in Melbourne four 4-day modules are presented and the content closely follows what is shown below. In Sydney, the program covers all the essential material in three modules and additional practice is gained through the required attendance at Study Groups and at least one supplementary weekend.
Course Content
The principal content of the course is:
- Well Formed Outcomes
- State Management
- Rapport
- Calibration
- Meta Model
- Milton Model
- Anchoring
- Strategies
- Submodality
- Patterns
- Reframing Patterns
- Triple Description
- Time Processing & therapy utilising Timeline
Course Modules
Module 1
Given full participation in this module, you will have the opportunity to learn:
- the fundamental concepts and presuppositions of NLP.
- how to use an advanced questioning model to derive solutions for problems more quickly, more easily and more effectively.
- how to use the natural processes for interpreting events to much greater effect in meetings, presentations and daily communication.
- how to handle information more easily and effectively.
- how to present information to others more effectively.
- how to establish the background for your message, so that it will be better understood by others.
- how to make decisions more effectively.
- how to mediate between people who are seeking a common goal but who are using very different approaches.
- how to interpret people's eye movements.
The following table lists the principal content for this module.
|
Content |
Your Opportunity: |
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Fundamental NLP concepts and presuppositions |
Learn the core concepts, principles and presuppositions of NLP |
|
Meta Model |
Learn an advanced model for asking questions with the purpose of understanding how a person, or group of people, is working with a problem. This model allows you to facilitate people to construct solutions to problems rather than continually reconstruct the problem. Ask questions that uncover the optimum way to achieve desired outcomes. |
|
The Role of the Senses |
Detailed study of how the senses (sight, hearing, feeling, smell, taste) and language are used to make meaning of events. Learn how to make more effective use of the senses in daily communication. |
|
Handling information |
Learn how to organise information for your own use and for conveying important messages to others. |
|
Creating well formed outcomes |
Learn how to be clear about what you want achieve Ensure that your outcomes are aligned with your personal values Work in a realistic time frame Check for true desirability of the outcome Convert obstacles to milestones of success Identify resources Plan the steps |
|
Rapport Skills |
Learn how our unconscious processes govern our perceptions of each other. Understanding these processes creates the opportunity to develop rapport – when it is most needed – with ease and grace. |
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Perceiving Multiple Perspectives |
In human relationships it is possible to perceive any dynamic from three, or more, perspectives. Gaining insight and understanding into human relating demands it. You can develop your natural ability to hold multiple perspectives of your interactions with others. |
|
State Management |
For achieving any outcome we need to be in the right frame or 'state' of mind. Being in the right state no longer needs to be a matter of chance. You will discover how you create your state of mind at any time and how you can adjust and enhance it as you want. |
|
Anchoring Patterns |
An introduction to the power of anchoring. |
|
Eye Patterns |
Discover the valuable information revealed by eye movements. Learn when eye patterns are useful and when they are not. Destroy some dangerous myths about eye patterns. |
Module 2
Given full participation in this module, you will have the opportunity to learn:
- how to create optimal states for presentations, meetings, interviews.
- how to create optimal states for the variety of tasks you have to perform every day.
- a model for the structure of thinking that we use to perform tasks.
- how to redefine the way you, and others, think to be more effective in your business communications.
- how powerful reframing is when linked appropriately to a person's or organisation's values.
- how to use a model for resolving conflict.
- advanced language patterns for communicating your message more precisely and more clearly.
- learn the power of metaphor.
The following table lists the principal content for this module.
|
Content |
Your Opportunity |
|
Anchoring Patterns |
Learn applications of anchoring to deal with specific challenges or to create enhanced state for achieving extraordinary results. |
|
Introduction to Strategies |
Learn how we use our senses in particular sequences in order to perform different tasks. Learn how to ensure that the sequence used is appropriate for the task and, if not, how to adjust it. |
|
Establishing agreement when people conflict |
Learn a powerful model for establishing an agreement between people who are in conflict. |
|
Logical Levels and Logical Typing |
Learn how to think about how you make classifications. That is, how do you decide what types of problems, issues, ideas are similar or not. Many problems in business life and in daily life result from poor classification of the issues at hand. Accurate Logical Typing will help avoid this whole set of problems. |
|
Reframing |
Learn to examine if events and the things people say really mean what you think. The meaning we attribute to any event is determined by such factors as when, where and how we see and hear the event. You can learn how to examine if the "obvious" meaning is really the most useful. You can also learn how to ensure that your message is much more likely to be interpreted the way you want it to be. |
|
Language Patterns to guide Unconscious process |
Lasting change is produced when appropriate guidance is given to the Unconsicous processes we use. Unconscious processes need to be facilitated with high levels of skill and with attention to ecology. The Milton Model is extended and practised to help you learn how to access Unconscious process. |
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Metaphors |
Metaphors abound in today's language. Learn how to avoid the cliches and to utilise the rich diversity of human experience to communicate powerfully with others. |
Module 3
Given full participation in this module, you will have the opportunity to learn:
- the fundamental role played by an individual's way of perceiving time in influencing how they interact with others.
- how to work with your own and others' ways of processing time.
- how to make anchoring processes even more effective, more quickly.
- the nature of behavioural modelling.
- how to investigate others' expertise to help you begin to learn how they produce that expertise.
- how to refine your learning processes – essential in today's rapidly changing environment.
- how to use metaphor effectively.
- how to use other people's experience to help them understand your message.
- how to change beliefs about who you are and what you are capable of.
The following table lists the principal content for this module.
|
Content |
Your Opportunity |
|
TimeCode |
Learn why time management courses do not work for many people – and what to do about it. Learn the neurological structure behind the different ways people work with time. Learn how to detect this structure. Learn how to develop flexibility with your own perceptions of time. |
|
Advanced Anchoring Patterns |
Learn advanced applications of anchoring to deal with specific challenges or to create enhanced state for achieving extraordinary results. |
|
More reframing patterns |
Change patterns for eliminating unwanted behaviour and responses and generating new resourceful behaviour patterns. |
|
Introduction to Behavioural Modelling |
Learn what is meant by "modelling excellence". Understand why just "copying" someone else does not guarantee the same results. Begin learning how to find out how the experts produce their expertise. |
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Strategies and Generative Learning |
Learn how strategies relate to learning which is generative. More in-depth treatment of this central part of NLP. |
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Belief Change |
Learn a straight-forward, yet powerful and effective, method for changing beliefs about who you are and what you can do. Learn when to use this technique, and when not to use it. |
Module 4 (including Assessement)
In this module there is significant focus on developing your skills to more refined levels and deepening your understanding of how to apply the knowledge and principles of NLP.
This module also caters for the particular interests and strengths within the group participating. It also offers you the opportunity to draw together all the knowledge and skills from the previous modules.
Given full participation in this module, you will have the opportunity to:
- comprehensively review the previous modules and enhance your associated skills.
- learn how to employ the advanced language patterns from Module 3 to much greater effect.
- learn how to change personal or group habitual behaviour to more effective patterns of behaviour.
- learn how to draw creative solutions from situations involving opposing interests.
- review any areas which you feel require extra attention.
- review earlier content in detail.
- learn additional Patterns for Change.
- learn additional non-curriculum material which is of benefit.
- draw on the resources stored in your past.
- redesign how you can approach your future.
- establish an effective plan for your continuing development.
- develop your skills to a self-sustaining and generative level.
- have your skills assessed for certification and receive quality feedback.
- complete all assessment requirements.
- integration of the content and skills from the previous modules to be able to "think in NLP".
- celebrate your success at the end of course party!
As well as delivering new content, this module completes the requirements on the INLPTA curriculum for NLP Practitioner or for NLP & Coaching Certification. Behavioural assessment tasks are assigned during this module.