NLP Practitioner Programme

Course Structure

Our Practitioner programme is split into 4 modules spread over four months. This allows time for students to integrate and practice all the learnings and come back with questions based on what has been learned.

The Basics

A simple model of communication that will enable you to easily understand how you communicate with yourself and with others
The empowering assumptions that underpin NLP and which can change the way you interact with and experience the world around you;
Discover the links between your mind and your body so that you can take control of and engage with your experience in a way that works best for you
The stages of learning and what it is that makes for easy learning for you
Discover and use the logical levels of learning and change

Rapport – the key to all successful and influential relationships

How to build and maintain rapport with others, and even more significantly – with yourself.
Experiencing the impact of ‘how you do what you do’ and how that influences your communication with others.
Become aware of how use of your own voice can build and maintain rapport in relationships
Learn how to elegantly disagree and speak your truth with others whilst maintaining rapport.

Well formed outcomes – the essential key to achieving your goals

Clarify what it is that you want
Generate practical well-formed goals or outcomes and make them undeniably achievable
Learn how to gather specific, high quality information from other people and how to use it to achieve your outcomes
How to identify and eliminate any blocks which may have prevented you from achieving your goals in the past
How to work with others, assisting them to get really clear on their outcomes

Representational Systems – how we use the information through our senses

Discover how we experience the world around us through our five senses
Learn how to increase the range of what it is that you see, hear and feel so that you know more about what’s really happening around you
Explore eye movements and discover their significance within communication

Submodalities – the way we internally code information

Learn how you store and order information about your experiences
Discover how this can easily be changed in order to allow your experiences to work more effectively for you
Use submodalities to rapidly change unwanted feelings and behaviours
Learn how to use the SWISH pattern to break unwanted habits

Strategies – the unconscious processes that drive our behaviour

Discover what internal strategies are, and their significance in relation to your everyday behaviour
Identify a number of your own significant strategies
Discover how to identify other peoples strategies
Learn how your strategies get activated
Change your less useful strategies into more useful ones and use your effective strategies more often

Language Patterns – using language with awareness and elegance

Learn how to identify the patterns of language that you and others use when communicating and how this enhances or detracts from the progress made while communicating
Learn how to use meta model language patterns, to ask questions which will help to get the information you need with speed and precision
Learn how to use metaphor easily and effortlessly
Challenge and work through objections elegantly
Know just the right question to ask to get to the root of a problem
Use language patterns to gain greater acceptance of your message when communicating
Learn to negotiate with elegance and quickly gain agreement on opposing viewpoints
Learn powerful conversational techniques to assist someone in clarifying their mind and emotions

Anchoring and States – the power and effect of associative conditioning

Learn how we ‘anchor’ our experiences associatively
Identify your everyday anchors – both personal and professional
Use resource anchors to strengthen your personal resources and how to access them whenever you choose
Work with anchors to remove negative and unhelpful feelings from past experiences
Create powerful chains of resources to get yourself and others out of stuck states like procrastination or confusion
Identify your base state and how this impacts your way of being in the world

Parts and Perspectives – the key to developing personal congruence

Work with parts to resolve internal conflict and gain congruence and clarity
Learn to develop creative solutions to resole internal conflict
Review and gain powerful insight into situations of interpersonal conflict
Identify the real intentions of your behaviour and emotions

Time Lines – Your internal time machine

Eliciting your time line
Explore the direction and location of your time line and its effect
Learn how you organise events in your life in relation to time
Use your timeline to resource and discover about yourself

Our Philosophy

Assessment