The following descriptions are the Core Content and Desired Outcomes of an NLP Practitioner Programme.
Each Training Organisation and trainer will implement these with their own emphasis.
In addition there will be other NLP content, which will vary from organisation to organisation depending on their own unique skills, attributes and experience.
NLP Practitioner Certification Core Content
Presuppositions of NLP
The ability to apply a practical understanding of the basic NLP beliefs and assumptions to support successful behaviour.
Ecology
The distinction on ethics and the consequences, results or impact of any change that occurs on the wider system.
Well Formed Outcomes
The ability to apply the framework of questions to ensure ecological, desirable and attainable goals and objectives.
State Management
The ability of an individual to monitor and have influence on their emotional responses to situations.
Rapport
The ability to establish and maintain a level of relationship sufficient to achieve desired outcomes.
Sensory Acuity
The ability to notice the subtle changes in behaviour that indicate internal changes in another person.
Calibration
The ability to notice patterns in behaviour so that changes in intensity can be detected and interpreted.
Representational Systems
The neurological mechanisms behind the five senses which indicate preferred methods of gathering and processing information.
Sub Modalities
The ability to notice and adjust the inherent qualities of internal representations.
Perceptual Positions
The ability to take different perspectives from which a situation can be viewed to gain more information.
Meta Model
The ability to apply this language model to enable the deeper structure of experience to become more apparent.
Milton Model
The ability to apply the range of influential language patterns and strategies used by Milton Erickson to induce an altered trance state.
Anchors
The ability to make conscious use of stimulus response patterns to affect shifts in experience.
Strategies
The ability to identify internal sequences of behaviour that are habitually used to achieve an outcome.
Frames
The use of setting boundaries on contexts to transmit, make and alter meaning.
Reframes
The ability to increase choices through offering additional meanings to experiences.