NLP Course Descriptions

Free Intros

These three-hour workshops provide a "hands-on" experience of NLP. They provide insight into how NLP could be useful in your unique life circumstances. They provide the opportunity to meet our trainers and some of our students and have an experience of our training environment. They are useful and valuable whether or not you take further classes.

This is an actual workshop, not just a marketing presentation. We would, of course, be pleased to have you come train with us. However, to start, we invite you to come just to experience this fun and free workshop. 

Practitioner Certification—The Core Competencies of NLP

The Core Competencies of NLP is a combination of two classes (NLP 1 and NLP 2) which constitute the basic training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming leading to certification as an NLP Practitioner. We offer this training in two segments to give greater flexibility as to when (and how far) each student goes. Both NLP 1 and NLP 2 are offered twice each year.

NLP 1: Foundations of Communication and Change

Nine Days (Three 3-Day Weekends)
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each day

In NLP 1 you will learn the basic skill set of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Supervised practice supports the integration of these powerful tools into your behavior. They are automatically and naturally available to enhance communication and connection with others. The perceptual and behavioral skills and tools that you learn have been proven to work wherever people are relating and working together with a common objective. They are being effectively used in:

• Management, leadership, and training
• Therapy, counseling, and coaching
• Education and parenting
• Personal relationships
• Personal change and growth

Major Themes of NLP 1:

• Learning how we humans create and maintain our patterns of behavior and experience and how you can change in ways that you want.
• Methods to change internal perceptions and associations (your internal map of reality) to enhance life success.
• Learning to use language more precisely for effective connection and communication.
• Learning to consciously use your body and your voice, as well as your words, to enhance connection, communication, and understanding.
• Learning how to identify outcomes and goals that are motivating and achievable.
• Methods to eliminate internal blocks and create resourceful states in any situation.

NLP 2: Advanced Communication and Change

Fifteen Days (Five 3-Day Weekends)
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each day

This course builds on NLP 1 (which is a prerequisite). The primary objectives of NLP 2 are to expand your skill repertoire through the completion of the Core Competency tool kit. Supervised practice supports the further integration of and competence in the NLP1 skill set along with the new tools.

Certification as an NLP Practitioner is available at the end of this class.

Major Themes of NLP 2:

• Developing greater precision in the use of the spoken word to enhance communication and understanding.
• Developing elegance in outcome specification.
• Learning how to access hidden, internal barriers that limit success and sabotage efforts.
• Learning how to get access to the source of internal conflict and how to resolve it.
• Developing the ability to create or change meaning by reframing to establish a new, more useful perspective.
• Learning to develop new internal and external behaviors for greater competence, more effective decision making, and sustained motivation.
• Learning how to use vagueness in the spoken word to enhance communication and understanding.
• Learning the value of and developing skill in the use of story and metaphor to enhance communication and understanding.
• Introduction to the structure of beliefs and how to change them.
• Skills integration and testing for Practitioner Certification.