Journey to Excellence

Core Syllabus

Our programme covers all of the core aspects of an INLPTA NLP Practitioner and much, much more.

The Basics - the fundamentals of NLP

• A simple model of communication that will enable you to easily understand how you communicate with yourself and with others
• The empowering assumptions that underlie N.L.P and which will change the way you interact with and experience the world around you
• Discover the links between your mind and your body so that you can take control of and engage with your experience in a way that works best for you
• The stages of learning and what it is that makes for easy learning for you
• Discover the logical levels of learning and change

Rapport - the Key to all successful and influential relationships

• How to build and maintain rapport with others, and even more significantly with yourself.
• Experiencing the impact of 'how you do what you do' and how that influences your communication with others
• Become aware of how use of your own voice can build and maintain rapport in relationships
• Learn how to elegantly disagree and speak your truth with others whilst maintaining rapport

Well formed Outcomes - essential to achieving your goals

• Clarify what it is that you want
• Generate practical well-formed goals or outcomes and make them undeniably achievable
• Learn to gather specific, high quality information from other people and how to use it to achieve your outcomes
• How to identify and eliminate any blocks which may have prevented you from achieving your goals in the past
• How to work with others, assisting them to get really clear on their real goals

Representational Systems - How we use and process information through our senses

• Discover how we experience the world around us through our five senses
• Learn how to increase the range of what it is that you see, hear and feel so that you know more about what's really happening around you
• Explore eye movements and discover their significance within communication

Sub-modalities - the way we internally encode information

• Learn how you store and order information about your experiences
• Discover how this can easily be changed to work more effectively for you
• Use sub-modalities to rapidly change unwanted feelings and behaviors
• Learn how to use the SWISH pattern to break unwanted habits

Language Patterns - using language with awareness and elegance

• Learn to identify the patterns of language that you and others use when communicating and experience how this enhances or detracts from the progress made while communicating
• Learn to use Meta-Model language patterns, to ask questions which will help to get you the information you need with speed and precision
• Learn to use metaphor easily and effortlessly
• Challenge and work through objections elegantly
• Know just the right question to ask to get to the root of a problem
• Use Language patterns to gain greater acceptance of your message when communicating
• Learn to negotiate with elegance and quickly gain agreement on opposing viewpoints
• Change your less useful strategies into more useful ones and Learn powerful conversational techniques to assist someone in clarifying their mind and emotions

Strategies - the unconscious processes which drives our behaviors

• Discover what internal strategies are, and their significance in relation to your everyday behavior
• Identify a number of your own significant strategies
• Discover how to identify other people strategies
• Learn how your strategies get activated utilize your effective strategies more often
• Change your less useful strategies into more useful ones use your effective ones more

Anchoring and States - the power and effect of associative conditioning

• Learn how we 'anchor' our experiences associatively
• Identify your everyday anchors - both personal and professional
• Use resource anchors to strengthen your personal resources and how to access them whenever you choose
• Work with anchors to remove negative and unhelpful feelings from past experiences
• Create powerful chains of resources to get yourself and others out of stuck states like procrastination or confusion
• Identify your base state and how this impacts your way of being in the world

Parts and Perspectives - the key to developing personal congruence

• Work with parts to resolve internal conflict and gain congruence and clarity
• Learn to develop creative solutions to resolve internal conflict
• Re-view and gain powerful insight into situations of inter-personal conflict
• Identify the real intentions of your behaviours and emotions

Time Lines - Your internal time machine

• Eliciting your time line
• Explore the direction and location of your time line and its effect
• Learn how you organize events in your life in relation to time
• Use your timeline to resource and discover about yourself
• Identify and release limiting self-beliefs and negative emotions

What happens during this 16-day training?

Our Unique Practitioner training is divided into modules of 3 or 4 days. The days of each module are scheduled over a long weekend. We also schedule dedicated project work within each module.

The training is conducted using lively variety of formats including whole group presentations by the trainer, 'how to' demonstrations, small group exercises, large group exercises, diagnostic sessions, practical skill-building work, and discussion. There will also be plenty of time to get your questions answered through the training.

To facilitate optimum learning and ensure quality supervised practice we have a team of qualified assistants who will provide individual support and guidance.

Between modules you will have optional skill-building assignments.

Official NLP Practitioner Certification

• Certification is optional on this programme. The final two days of the programme are dedicated to certification assessment and to do it is your choice. Your certification is a world-wide recognised NLP qualification.
• Our practitioner training meets the requirements of the International NLP Trainers Association.
• It also meets the requirements of the Association for NLP. Your certification will be accepted by ANLP and will entitle you to full membership.
• Certification clearly demonstrates to any prospective employer your skill as a communicator and your commitment to learning.
• In demonstrating a commitment to quality an external assessor will be present on the final two certification days.

When you consider taking this NLP Practitioner Certification it is important to be aware that there are no regulations either internationally or in Ireland which govern 'who' can offer a practitioner training. Almost anyone can deliver a training of any length and label it as 'NLP Practitioner'.

To overcome this the International NLP Trainers Association was been set up in order to govern quality, ethics and professionalism within the field of NLP. Our Certifications are designed to meet and deliver trainings within the standards set up by the INLPTA. (link: www.inlpta.com) your certification will be recognized by this organisation.

In the UK the Association for Neuro-linguistic Programming was set up to provide guidelines for such standards also. We are a member of the UK ANLP also and your certification will be acknowledged by them. This entitles you to membership of this organisation.

Within this framework some organisations choose to abide by these standards, others do not. We are very clear in our commitment to doing so as trainers and as an Institute.

You are free to choose who you train with, and the fact that your certification will be recognized by the strongest standards body in the world is just one reason to do so. There are a number of other significant reasons why it is worth taking this 16 day training over five months:

Why 16 days?

16 Reasons for taking this 16-day training

1. Taking Time to Learn
   By spreading your learning experience over 5modules and 16 days in all, this programme represents a five month learning experience! This is a powerful and important aspect of this programme. Each successive module allows you to build on what you have learned. In the space in between you will integrate the material learned putting it into practice in everyday situations with awareness. Our five month training offers you a depth and integration of learning which is simply not possible from shorter programmes.
2. Taking Time To Practice:
   NLP offers a powerful way of achieving change quickly and powerfully. You will learn quickly and be able to immediately put what you have learned into action reaping the benefits from day 1. At the same time it is important to be aware that in any field of learning it takes time to become proficient and skilled, and that practice is required. In learning any new behaviour, like driving a car for instance, real proficiency takes practice, and learning N.L.P is no different! Our programme is designed to enable you to have time to learn and time to practice.
3. Change that lasts:
   The value of an excellent training is in being able to be different and do things differently afterwards. With many trainings the impact and effect soon wears off! This is one area on which the NLP Training Institute focuses. Your learning happens on the programme and in the times in between providing you with time to acknowledge your own change, change your own patterns and acknowledge your progress.
4. More time to pay
   We provide you with an option to pay for your training over the duration of the programme. This means that you can use the easy payment plan to spread your investment in yourself over a reasonable period of time making it manageable for you.
5. Enjoyment and fun!:
   We know that your Journey to Excellence will be one of the most significant learning experiences of your life. We know that you will treasure and enjoy the experience of this programme, which is designed as your journey to excellence from start to finish.
6. Connections and Networking:
   This is not just an NLP practitioner programme! You have an opportunity to become part of a group of people whom you will really get to know in a real way and become an ongoing support for each other after the programme. This also serves as a model for creating those same kind of connections in other areas of your life. Taking time to experience this fully for yourself is valuable.
7. Accelerated learning:
   Participants are amazed at how much learning is packed into 18 days. NLP works from accelerated learning methods, and you will surprise yourself at how much you can easily and elegantly absorb over this time period. Some of us are used to traditional learning methods and have even been challenged with learning in this way, this programme offers you an opportunity to engage with learning in a fresh new way.
8. Know what you are doing
   NLP contains some simple, swift, change processes that you will learn quickly and easily. However learning these processes quickly does not in itself enable you to know when, and where to apply them, or what works and doesn't in various situations. Over five months you get to learn the progresses and your training enables you to identify when to use 'what and where' within your world and significantly 'when and where not'!
9. The Coaching Perspective
   NLP Institute trainers are experienced coaches. Many people who are trained coaches continue their journey to excellence by taking and NLP practitioner training. We also have present in the room a team of coaches who are on their next level of learning, and who are there to coach and assist you throughout your journey to excellence experience. For many this programme offers a powerful means of deepening coaching skill and making a quantum leap in the results achieved with clients.
10. Family benefits
    Many of our course participants take the training to further their own personal and professional excellence. What we have noticed is that most if not all course participants experience a powerfully positive difference within family relationships. Sometimes its about coaching children to learn more easily, sometimes its about closer bonds and connections with family, partner and significant others - either way taking this training can enhance your connection with those nearest and dearest.
11. Tracking your own Learning Experiences
    Between each module you will be able to put what you have learned into action. Most of the time you will do this without being aware of it. Because we invite you to track your own 'successes' you get the opportunity to come back and review, then build on those successes as the programme continues.
12. Creating and Maintaining Balance
    This programme is run over long weekends. This means for many of you that you are using some of your own time and some of your employers. The programme is designed to bring balance to both your personal and professional life. Learning when it occurs over this time period also re-establishes balance, you will have the time to make the changes you want at a pace that you want.
13. Time to Develop Excellence
    The amount of material and development within the field of NLP in the last 30years is enormous. To do justice to that takes time to learn and digest. For you also you will have learned way of being, doing that may or may not support you. You will ease into new ways of being and doing things over this short period of time, sometimes unlearning to learn, letting to root down new ways of being and doing things in your life. It takes time to develop excellence. We create that time for you.
14. Personal and Professional
    Individuals come onto this programme for many and varied reasons, personal , professional or both. Some people focus on the skills they learn on the programme, others wish to make some very important personal changes in their lives. The programme has been designed and structured so that you can easily focus on the applications of NLP in areas that are important to you.
15. Learn to learning easily:
    Many people we have trained have had past experiences around learning which surface during our practitioner programme. It takes time to ease into a new way of learning knowing that there is 'no failure - only feedback', trusting that learning in this way is ok. When a person has limiting self-beliefs around learning and we have heard many of these 'I'm too old to learn', 'I'm not intelligent' etc then learning in a different way takes a little time to digest as you re-establish your relationship with learning.
16. New Career pathways
    'Journey to Excellence - Practitioner' is often the start of a very rewarding and enriching professional development. The programme stands alone and at the same time offers a pathway into becoming an NLP coach, trainer or psychotherapist. Others who join the programme do it as a means of deepening their professional excellence in their present area of work.
    
    
    Also... A Powerful Training Experience
    Many of our course participants find that 'NLP: Journey to Excellence' is one of the most significant experiences of their lives, a landmark stage of their personal and professional development. When you choose your trainers, you want to choose the best - people you can easily learn from, feel safe with and can absolutely trust. We hope that you will choose to train with NLP Training Institute and we look forward to welcoming and working with you to achieve your goals and outcomes!