About NLP courses
There are four main levels of qualification: NLP Practitioner, NLP Master Practitioner, NLP Trainer, and NLP Master Trainer. Each level builds on the skills of the previous level.
Here at JSnlp from our Bristol, UK base we provide the following courses; NLP Practitioner, NLP Master Practitioner & NLP Trainer.
What is an NLP Introduction course?
Typically these courses are one or two days long. Their purpose is to allow you try out a particular organisation’s approach to teaching NLP to see if you like it, before buying a full NLP Practitioner training.
What is an NLP Practitioner training course?
In the late seventies, Neuro-Linguistic Programming was being born as a new discipline. Judith DeLozier worked with John Grinder, Robert Dilts and Richard Bandler, and she remembers that by trial and error, they discovered that it took around twenty days of intensive training to get a student up to a reasonable level of competence. At this point they were capable of applying the NLP skills successfully with themselves and with others; in other words, they were able to practice NLP. This was called the NLP Practitioner level of training. 120 hours or 18/20 days is still recognised as the international standard for the Practitioner level of qualification. In the UK, the Professional Guild of NLP sets the highest standards and requires this minimum of 120 hours over at least 18 days.
What is an NLP Master Practitioner training course?
This is an additional 120 hours/18 days which will give you a whole range of new skills in addition to deepening the Practitioner skills. Your skills should reach a new level of smoothness and elegance as they become more integrated into your behaviour.
What is an NLP Trainer training course?
Designed to teach you the NLP skills of training, this course enables you to become a trainer of NLP skills, an NLP Trainer, teaching Practitioner and Master Practitioner courses. It also enables you to use NLP training skills to become a more effective trainer or teacher of anything.
What is an NLP Master Trainer?
Typically, an NLP Master Trainer has years of experience teaching NLP at all three levels, and is qualified to accredit NLP Trainers.
How do you learn NLP on a course?
Because NLP is skills, rather than information, you have to learn them by doing them. You cannot really learn skills from a book, or listening to CDs, although these can be helpful additions.
At an NLP seminar, the trainer will introduce each skill or process and demonstrate it. This is typically followed by questions and answers, before students practice the skill in twos or threes. This is the all important experiential learning exercise in which you learn the skill by doing it. Examples might include outcome thinking or mental rehearsal. Course tutors will be available to help you if you get stuck.
In between seminars you practice the most important skills in practice groups with other students. Practice groups usually meet for a couple of hours once a week at someone’s home in the evening. On a daily basis, you might apply some of the most useful NLP skills in the areas of your life that you wish to improve. For example, you might use outcome thinking questions to generate different choices, and mental rehearsal to build your competence and confidence in each new choice.
With a new seminar every month, and a new set of skills to practice, month on month more of the skills become integrated, habitual and effortless. The cumulative effect of this learning process on personal and professional development over the months is usually quite striking. See students testimonials, and the research document in the resources section for validation of these results.
