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Minimum NLP Training Standards

A.          NLP Practitioner Certification

A demonstration of ability to identify the following basic skills, techniques, patterns and concepts of NLP and to utilise them competently with self and others:

·         Presuppositions of NLP

·         Present state to desired state

·         Well Formed Outcomes

·         State Management

·         Rapport

·         Sensory acuity & calibration

·         Representational systems (primary and lead)

·         Association, dissociation, perceptual positions

·         Accessing & building resources

·         Meta Model

·         Milton Model

·         Meta Programs (Basic - based on Jungarian Psychology) - elicitation and utilisation

·         Metaphors

·         Submodalities

o        VK Dissociation

o        Swish Pattern

o        Standard Belief Change

o        Changing drivers

·         Eliciting Strategies

·         TOTE

·         Reframing

·         Parts Integration

·         Spotting and utilising incongruity

·         Basic timeline work

·         Logical levels

·         Process versus content

·         Perceptual Positions

·         Well Formed Outcome

Duration of training must be a minimum of 130 hours (over a minimum of 7 days, face-to-face training), in the basics of NLP patterns led by a Certified Trainer of NLP from a recognised training institute.

B.     NLP Master Practitioner Level

A demonstration of the ability to identify the following basic skills, techniques, patterns and concepts of NLP and to utilise these competently with self and others:

·         Integration, mastery and elegance of NLP Practitioner skills

·         Ability to manage one’s own state

·         Ability to do change work with self and others

·         Precision and resourcefulness through all representational systems

·         Conscious and unconscious embodiment of the NLP presuppositions

·         Ability to track logical levels

·         Ability to separate process from content about process

·         Ability to establish and maintain levels of rapport

·         Sleight of Mouth Patterns

·         Change and Install Strategies

·         Multi-level communications

·         Meta Programs (complex) – elicitation, calibration, utilisation, change, flexibility

·         Values – elicitation, calibration, clarification, utilisation, change work

·         Advanced submodality work

·         Advanced timeline work

·         Advanced Milton modelling

·         Modelling – elicitation, replication, transfer, utilisation

·         Advanced patterns and techniques – such as sliding anchors, reimprinting, contextual marking, etc.

Duration of training will be a minimum of 130 hours (over a minimum of 9 days, face-to-face training), of advanced training taught by a certified trainer of NLP from a recognised NLP Training Institute.

C.     NLP Trainer Level

A demonstration of conscious and unconscious competence in all NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner skills both overtly and covertly. And a demonstration of the following NLP Trainer Specific skills: 

·         Pacing and Leading

·         Design of presentations

·         Delivery of presentations using NLP skills

·         Building group rapport

·         Ability to answer questions

·         Utilisation of spatial anchoring

·         Design and execution of evaluation methods

·         Design and execution of teaching exercises to provide covert and overt learning 

·         Use of deep and shallow metaphors as a teaching aid

·         Demonstrate NLP processes and techniques while teaching

Demonstration of personal artistry to integrate the skills of NLP into his or her own behaviour

Duration of Training will be a minimum of 130 hours (minimum of 14 days, face-to-face training) Duration taught by a certified trainer of NLP from a recognised NLP training institute.