Course Description
Certification as a Practitioner of NLP consists of 49 hours of training
(Approximately 2 optional hours for practicing the patterns, answering questions
and the giving of additional materials will be offered during the evenings.).
Satisfactory completion of this training will result in eligibility for
certification with the Institute for Neuro-Semantic™ Studies. Each section of study results
from a carefully constructed model designed to build one on the other.
Comprehension of each subject moves the student to the next level of expertise.
Thus, students must attend each class and participate in the exercises. Training
will consist of lectures, demonstrations and exercises. Students will perform
numerous exercises for both practice and retention. NLP is learned by doing. The
following subjects are covered during the 49 hours:
- Definition and History of NLP - During the first part of
the training you will experience the power of NLP through experience. NLP will
be defined. The history of NLP will reveal the impressive body of material
upon which NLP is based.
- The Key Presuppositions of NLP - The Key Presuppositions
of NLP represent the beliefs that excellent communicators hold. A major goal
throughout the practitioner training consists of your behavioral integration
of these presuppositions meaning you operate from the habitually and
unconsciously.
- The Three Qualities Of Exceptional Communicators:
- Know your outcome .
- Have observational skills .
- Exercise behavioral flexibility. The NLP Practitioner training provides
the training necessary for behavioral modification. By controlling your
behavior you will be equipped to control the conversation and to obtain your
outcome. NLP rapport building skills allow for flexibility of behavior.
- Elicitation of a Well-Formed Outcome - Learn to identify
and develop high quality descriptions of specific goals for change that are
positive, practical and ecologically workable for everyone.
- Sensory Acuity - You will learn how to read the
non-verbal signals from other people. Each state change in a person will be
accompanied by external signals from their body. Sensory acuity skills enable
you to read the state changes by their body language. You have unconsciously
been doing this all your life. Sensory acuity skills permit you to bring this
to conscious level and to use the skill to facilitate communication.
- Calibration - You will enhance your ability to read
people and detect state changes. Calibration means you can detect the meanings
behind each physiological shift the client makes. This skill will facilitate
your ability to communicate more effectively and to recognize therapeutic
needs, changes and confirmations.
- Building and Maintaining Rapport - Much of communication
happens out of awareness or at the unconscious level. NLP rapport skills teach you how to communicate at the
unconscious level. Mirroring, matching, pacing and leading skills will enable
you to become "like" the other person. People like people who look and act
like them. You will learn how to mirror and match physiology, tonality and
predicates (process words). Rapport skills permit the practitioner to be
flexible in communicating. Flexibility allows for control of the conversation.
- Representation System
(The Movies of your Mind)
- The brain receives information
through the five senses. In NLP we refer to the five senses as the
representation system. We not only receive information through the
representation system, we also represent this information in the brain through
this system. You will learn how the representation system provides the basis
to all thought processes. The emphasis and power of NLP states that change
work is done at the process and not the content level. The representation
system is fundamental to mental processes. Understanding of the representation
system provides basic knowledge for communication and change fundamental to
all NLP communication and therapeutic skills.
- Submodalities (The qualities of your movie)- A
submodalitiy equals the smaller coding
of the representation system. Submodalities define the qualities of our
internal representations. Visual in NLP describes one of the representation
system or modality. To discover the submodalities of the visual representation
system one would ask whether the internal picture acts as a movie/still, black
and white/color, bright/dark, etc. You will learn how higher levels
(Meta-Levels) govern submodalities and hence, perception. Knowledge of
Meta-Levels and how they influence submodalities will result in your ability
to resolve grief, change beliefs, change values and to change the feelings of
any memory in brief therapy. All permanent therapeutic changes happens at
Meta-Levels. Knowledge of submodalities allows the practitioner to
communicate and to do therapy with precision. An introduction to submodalities
comes early in the training. The advanced therapeutic use of submodalities
happens during the latter part of the training with far more training in the
Master Practitioner Level. Learning the basics of submodalities gives the
student immense control over running his/her own brain.
- Meta-States® - Developed by L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.,
Meta-States refer to the brain's ability to have thoughts about thoughts. Each
thought about a thought functions at a higher logical level and therefore
modulates the original thought. For instance, you can experience anger towards
something or someone. Now, appreciate your anger and notice how that changes
your perception of your anger. Or, better yet, apply a thought of calmness to
your anger and notice how that changes your anger. Utilizing this simple yet
profound cognitive process provides a powerful tool for state control.
Throughout the Practitioner (And Master Practitioner) training, you learn how
to manage your states through Meta-States.
- The Swish Pattern - Developed by Richard Bandler, the
Swish Pattern uses the principles of submodalities to eliminate unwanted
behaviors such as bad habits. Richard Bandler says that this presents one of
the most effective techniques he has developed.
- Strategies - Strategies describe the mental sequencing of
representation systems that define the function behind all behavior. The
explanation of strategies comes early as an introduction during the first of
the training. The elicitation, utilization, design and installation of
strategies take up one full day of training in the final week.
- Association\Dissociation - This important distinction
describes the mind's ability to remove much of the emotion from a memory. Let
us experiment. Recall an unpleasant experience. If you see yourself in the
picture of the memory, you have dissociated from the memory. If you look
through your own eyes, you associate into the memory. Association usually
results in more emotion. Dissociation as a rule removes much of the emotion
from the memory.
- Fast Phobia Cure - Based on association\dissociation, the
Fast Phobia Cure permits the erasure of limiting and traumatizing experiences
or perceptions. The erasure of the images and strategies will remove the
behavioral limitation which have resulted from the experience or perception.
- Anchoring - Anchors developed in NLP as a product of
Pavlov's concept of stimulus response. Anchors define the triggers for states
and behavior. You will learn how to establish triggers for selected responses
you desire both in yourself and others. Behavioral change techniques based on
anchoring provide material for several techniques during the second third of
the certification. Specific techniques taught in anchoring include: setting
self-anchors including a resource anchor, uptime and intime anchors, building
a circle of excellence, integrating conflicting unconscious parts through
collapsing anchors, change personal history, collapsing visual anchors and
overcoming doubt and chaining anchors.
- Reframing - Based on the NLP presupposition that all
meaning depends upon context, in reframing you learn how to discover alternate
contexts and meanings for the positive intent behind the behavior. Reframing
allows for the separation of the person from their behavior. New approaches
for unwanted behaviors become evident through reframing. All behaviors have
positive aspects. Reframing allows for the discovery and preservation while
exploring for new possibilities more appropriate. The procedures permit the
keeping of the positive intent intact while achieving the desired outcome
through appropriate behavior. Included in this study of reframing include the
following areas of NLP.
- Conscious\Unconscious - The distinction between what is in
conscious awareness and what is not will become a part of your conscious
awareness. You will also come to appreciate that the unconscious mind is a
friend and not a foe. Freud's concept of the unconscious as the Id and
innately evil will be repudiated.
- Unconscious Sabotaging Frames (Dragons) - The genius of NLP is
that it gives the NLP practitioner the tools to direct unconscious
sabotaging frames (Unconscious Parts) to the healing power present in
everyone. Much time will be spent on these dragons, i.e. those minor
personalities within all of us that operate contrary to our total good.
- The Visual Squash - The NLP technique called The Visual Squash
will be taught during this training. You will receive an advanced version.
The Visual Squash allows for the resolving of conflict between parts and for
the integrating of conflicting parts. This is an especially powerful and
useful technique.
- The Six-Step Reframe - The Six-Step Reframe provides the
communicator with a formal reframing process that provides ways of stopping
unwanted behavior through providing healthier alternatives. This way of
reframing allows the preservation of the positive intent of the unwanted
behavior. At the same time, new and healthier choices provided other choices
for fulfilling the positive intent of the unconscious part. First introduced
during the practitioner training, we devote much more time to this model
during the Master NLP Practitioner Certification Training.
- Language Patterns:
- The Meta-Model - NLP basis itself on the
language patterns of the Meta-Model. This model is a series of questions,
which allows the practitioner to transform low quality descriptions from the
other person into high quality explanations. The Meta-Model restores the
deletions, distortions and generalization that all speech (surface
structure) contains. These surface structure descriptions we use often cause
poor communication. The Meta-Model allows the practitioner to get to the
real problem in the deep structure (internal representation or image) of the
mind. The word "Meta" means above. The Meta-Model utilizes language about
language, i.e. which chunks meta to the language in use. Knowledge of the
Meta-Model allows the practitioner more flexibility in controlling the
communication.
- Milton Model - This model came right out of the work of
Milton Erickson, M. D. Erickson has the reputation as the world's foremost
hypnotherapist. The Milton Model acts as the inverse of the Meta-Model. The
Meta-Model goes for specifics. The Milton Model utilizes general, large
chunk language and allows the client to search for their own answers. Such
language patterns frees the NLP Practitioner to work at the unconscious
level. The Meta-Model brings one out of trance. The Milton Model induces
trance.
- Chunking - Chunking refers to the ability to go from
general to specific language or vice versa. The Meta-Model and the Milton
Model provide the practitioner the tools necessary for flexibility of
language in chunking up to general language or chunking down to specific
language. Such skills enhance the practitioner's ability in building rapport
and in public speaking.
- How to Utilize Your Time-Line to Initiate Change - Based
on our recent book, Time-Lining: Patterns for Adventuring in "Time",
you will receive introductory training in:
- How Your Brain Tells Time
- Through Time and In Time
- Eliciting Time Lines
- Developmental Periods
- Steps Into Time-Lining
Using Time-Lining In Eliminating Negative Emotions
- The Drop Down Through Technique - Bob Bodenhamer says, "This is the
single most effective pattern for bringing about quick and permanent changes
in healing old hurts that I have ever used." This pattern utilizes the
metaphor of dropping-down through to uncover the unconscious mental
thought-frames that drive our unresourceful states. Once these thought-frames
of mind are uncovered, the pattern utilizes the higher resource frames that
are equally revealed to bring about quick and effective change.
Guarantee - Fully
Guaranteed. 100% Money Back Guarantee on this training. If after the first
day of training, you decide that this training is not for you, just let us know
and we will refund your full tuition payment.
Certification:
Certificates of Competence from the Society of Neuro-Semantics will be provided
participants in good standing with The Society of Neuro-Semantics. The Society
of Neuro-Semantics is one of the leading Certifying International Organization
on the USA continent -- for NLP and Advanced NLP Certification. The Society of
Neuro-Semantics provides certification for this course as Meta-NLP Practitioner training
MODELS
USED IN THIS TRAINING
NLP
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A Model of Communication about human processing
that empowers us to "run our own brain." Using the
"languages" of mind (our internal cinema of sights, sounds, and
sensations) along with language, we "think" and frame things using
these see, hear, and feel dimensions. As were present data to ourselves on the
inner screen of consciousness, that internal movie signals our bodies to go into
a state¾a
mind-body or neuro-linguistic state and that governs the quality of our life and
experiences. Developed by a linguistic and computer student about human
excellence and genius, NLP provides insights and specific step-by-step
techniques for running your own brain, managing your own states, communicating
more effectively and elegantly with yourself and others, and replicating human
expertise.
META-STATES®
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A Model of Reflexive Consciousness that extends
the NLP Model, taking it to the next level. It details precisely how we reflect
back on our thoughts and feelings to create higher levels of
thoughts-and-feelings and layers of consciousness. In so using our
thoughts-and-feelings thoughts-about-our-thoughts, feelings-about-feelings, we
create mind-body states-about-states or Meta-States. Primary States involve
primary emotions like fear, anger, joy, relaxed, tense, pleasure, pain, etc. and
thoughts directed outward. Meta-States involve a layering of higher level
concepts to involve structures like fear of fear, anger at fear, shame about
being embarrassed, joy of learning, esteem of self, etc. Meta-States describe
the higher frames-of-references that we set and use that create more stable
structures (beliefs, values, understandings, etc.)
NEURO-SEMANTICS®
While it sounds like a big word, it refers to a
simple fact. Namely that we create meanings in our minds (semantics) and we get
those meanings incorporated into our bodies (neurology). That why, when things
mean something to us¾
we feel it in our bodies. The meanings show up in what we call
"emotions." The meanings take the form of values, ideas, beliefs,
understandings, paradigms, mental models, frames, etc.
Neuro-Semantics provides a model of how
we humans make meaning as we evaluate experiences, events, words, etc. It's a
model of how we then live in the world of Meaning that we construct or inherit.
Neuro-Semantics describes the frames of reference we use as we move through life
and the frames of meaning that we construct. It creates the Matrix of Frames in
which we live and from which we operate.
Neuro-Semantics arose from the
Meta-States model which provides a way to think about the levels of states or
mind that we experience all the time. That's because we never just think. As
soon as we think or feel¾
we then experience thoughts and feelings about that first thought, then
other thoughts-and-feelings about that thought, and so on. Technically this is
called self-reflective consciousness. Practically, it's the Frames for the Games
that we play in life.
Prerequisites for Meta-NLP
Practitioner Training - Reading
User's
Manual for the Brain, Volume I
