The first stage of your NLP journey starts at the Practitioner level, where you will master the key techniques and methodogies that are the foundation of the art and science of NLP.

Our Practitioner courses are run for people in business and for those who want to use it within a work context. Our small, focused groups are mainly made up of business and people managers, HR, Trainers, Coaches, those in sales or those who run their own business. Therefore the courses offer many case studies and practical discussions on how to use NLP within your work, as well as building up your network of business peers.

Our intensive Practitioner course includes pre-study (audio CDs and a written test), which help prepare you fully for the practical live training, fulfilling the minimum ABNLP requirement of 120 hours of training.

Our Practitioner courses are run with flexibility at the forefront of our minds. We know and appreciate how challenging it may be to dedicate a whole 7 days to the live element of the  course, so we run our courses over weekend blocks or in evening sessions, as well as offering a 7 day intensive course if preferable.

Overview of the course:

Session One

Introduction to NLP and what it's all about

Rapport - the foundation of excellent communication skills

Session Two

Submodalties - quick fix techniques to get rid of a bad habit or change a minor behaviour or state to increase performance and results

Session Three

The conscious use of language - increasing the impact of the language you use by being aware, consciously and unconsciously of the effect of your words and delivery

Session Four

Anchoring - controlling internal states and accessing past positive states to transform someone from an unproductive negative state to one of action, belief and results.

Session Five

Strategies - understanding why people do what they do, how they learn, live, communicate, buy, sell, and run their lives the way they do

Session Six

NLP in Business - boost your business performance and results by using specific NLP techniques within this context

Breakdown of the course modules in more detail:

What NLP is all about

• The definition of NLP
• The NLP communication model
• The NLP principles for success
• Creating achievable outcomes
• The presuppositions of NLP
• The prime directives of the unconscious mind

Communication skills

• Creating the rapport you need to increase the effectiveness of your communication skills
• Using sensory acuity and the representational systems to develop deep rapport
• Discovering what internal representations are all about (how we represent the world in our minds)
• Become an expert in the visual, auditory and kinesthetic representational systems
• How to change our internal representations using sub-modalities (how we encode and give meaning to our internal representations)
• Changing certain beliefs or attitides using sub-modalities to create positive and empowering change
• The art of reframing and how you can use this at sales and negotiations

Language skills

• Increasing your language skills to become a master at communication, questioning and listening
• Using metaphors to leave behind a powerful subliminal message
• Learn Milton Erickson's model of language, and at the other end of the spectrum Meta Model specifics
• Use the Hierarchy of Ideas to increase your negotiation skills and influencing skills

Anchoring

• How to anchor a state and utilise that anchor for positive and repetitive success
• How to chain anchors to create change and momentum while eliminating stuck states such as procrastination
• How to collapse anchors to get rid of negative states
• How to build resource anchors for personal use at any time you may need them

Strategies

• Discover how you create strategies in all areas of life and change any strategy that is not serving you effectively
• Elicit other people's strategies to help them and increase your communication power with them
• Learn these vital skills to work with strategies in areas such as selling, love, learning, spelling, which will all increase results and success

Resolving internal conflict

• Silence that self doubt or self belief once and for all
• Eliminate any lack of confidence or destructive attitude about yourself and your capabilities
• Learn an incredible tool to ensure you become at one with yourself and your internal voice, in alignment and therefore in control of your life

BONUS SESSIONS

• NLP in Business - the five step sales process
• Negotiating and Influencing
• Maximising Presentation Skills

The Practitioner courses cover about a quarter of the full body of NLP knowledge, so you leave the course not only with a certificate but with a strong foundation of skills and knowledge of NLP to start using immediately. To gain further skills and knowledge, you can go on to attend the Master Practitioner and Master Coach courses and following that, the Certified Trainer's course.