NLP Training and Life Coach Certification Course Overview            

Certification: NLP Practitioner, Master Practitioner, Motivational Coach, Life Coach, Weight Loss Master Coach, Social and Emotional Intelligence Coach
Duration: 16 Days, Saturday – Sunday (15 Days + 2nd Sunday off.)
Class times: 9 AM to 5 – 6.30 PM
The last day of class we end between 3 – 5 PM

Frequent breaks are given each day, and a 1 – 1.5 hour lunch.

Additional practice and evening sessions (optional:)
The training room is available during evening time for students to practice. Trainers will be available for a minimum of one evening per week to repeat course materials.*

Evening workshops (optional:)

We at Global NLP Training recognize that our students often have training in skills relevant to NLP, coaching or change work.  Our trainers will consider any offer a student may present to augment our regular curriculum in the form of an optional evening workshop.  These topics must be relevant to the purpose of NLP/Coaching development, limited to two hours in duration and will be considered on a case by case basis.  Global NLP Training may also conduct additional workshops depending on the course and location.

Challenged students:
 We at Global NLP Training are committed to producing the highest quality NLP practitioners and master practitioners in the field.  To this end, certification at any level is not guaranteed.  Global NLP Training and its affiliates will make every effort to ensure that each student has an opportunity to reach the standard set by Global NLP Training and The Society of NLP.  To this end Global NLP Training staff will inform students, privately, on a case by case basis of any deficiencies in competency and will make all reasonable efforts including limited evening follow up or post course telephonic communication and may be mandatory for certification.  We at Global NLP Training are committed to all of our students certifying by course end.
 

*This offer is only available to committed students whom were present when the techniques and skills were taught during day time.

 
Day by Day Course Overview

The following is an approximation of course content on a day by day basis.  Some adjustments may be made for class learning pace or special circumstances.  Please note that by course end, all required course material will be covered pursuant to Society of NLP guidelines and Global NLP Training quality standards.  
 

Day 1

• Class introductions
• Class Coaching
• What is NLP – Subjective experience and how its coded in the brain
• Experiencing NLP
• Introduction association / dissociation from negative emotions
• Introduction to re-coding the mind and changing thoughts
• Technique for increasing learning, memory, information retention
• NLP Model of communication: sensory experience, coding, emotions, representations and behavior
• Levels of learning – Understanding how the brain learns
• Components of experience – Emotion, body, mind
• History and origins of NLP – Psychology and linguistics

Day 2

• Class coaching
• Presuppositions of NLP and coaching – Basic rules, beliefs and understanding
• Sensory acuity – Discovery and enhancement of visual, auditory, kinesthetic preferences
• Congruence vs incongruence – Paying attention to internal signals
• Rapport – Developing powerful connections with yourself and others
• Rapport – Learning and developing tools to earn the trust of others
• Mirroring and matching – Non-verbal communication to build rapport
• Pacing and leading – Leading people in other new directions to produce better outcomes
• Psycho- geography – Meaning and psychology of spatial gesturing, deliberate pointing and descriptive gestures
• Utilizing psycho-geography in creating rapport
• Representational systems and predicates – Using language for development of rapport
• Representational systems and predicates – Language to persuade, inspire and increase understanding
• Chunking – Using high level and low level communication
• Business coaching overview

Day 3

• Class coaching
• Perceptual positions – “Triple description”, looking at situations from different perspectives
• Perceptual positions – Self, other and observer positions
• Utilizing perceptual positions in coaching
• New behavior generator – Creating new behaviors, changing negative to positive emotions
• Looking through the eyes of love – Creating self love and appreciation for self
• Anchoring – Learning to press other peoples and your own buttons
• Understanding stimulus response
• State elicitation – Creating and managing your emotional state and emotional states of others
• 4 Tuple – Understanding the structure of rich and full sensory experience
• Circle of excellence – Coaching technique to generate a feeling of excellence and being highly capable
• Circles of positive emotion – Coaching technique to generate any positive emotion
• Business coaching overview continued

 
Day 4

• Class coaching
• Integrating anchors – Turning a negative emotion about a specific situation into a positive emotion
• Changing personal history – Changing emotions of a past troublesome experience
• Metamodel – Information we delete, distort, generalize, the art of “precision questioning”
• Deep structure vs surface structure – Information we give/conscious vs don’t give/unconscious
• Metamodel – Uncover information that is not given
• Metamodel – Uncover unconscious problems
• Metamodel – Understand what the problem is really
• Metamodel – Understand when there is and isn’t a problem
• Metamodel – Turning something that is perceived as a problem, in to a non-problem or solution
• Metamodel – Using questioning to resolve problems, negative emotion, and being “stuck.”
• Well formed outcomes - Defining goals
• Well formed outcomes – Setting goals
• Well formed outcomes – Making unacceptable goals acceptable
• Well formed outcomes – Making unachievable goals achievable
• Well formed outcomes – Making the goal a reality
• Eye accessing – Reveal thought processes of others through specific eye movements
• Eye accessing - Questioning
• Business coaching overview continued

 
Day 5

• Class coaching
• TOTE – Eye Accessing to uncover faulty thinking strategies
• TOTE – Eye Accessing to uncover thinking strategies that work
• TOTE – Changing faulty strategies to strategies that work
• Strategies for learning, spelling, deciding, buying, selling and weight loss
• Strategies general structure and how to utilize
• Milton Model – Language patterns to inspire
• Milton Model – Language patterns to influence
• Milton Model – Language patterns to persuade
• Milton Model – Language patterns to purposely create confusion in the brain resulting in trans derivational search
• Milton Model – Language patterns to generate new possibilities, solutions, and ideas
• Milton Model – Language patterns to reduce brain frequency and induce a state of relaxation
• Business coaching overview continued

Day 6

• Class Coaching
• Reframing – turning the bad in to good
• Submodalities – Subjective experience and how it’s coded in the brain
• Submodalities – How the mind affects emotion
• Submodalities – Learning how to run your own mind and emotions
• Submodalities – Coaching others to run their own mind and emotions
• Mapping across – Changing coding of the brain to turn negative emotions in to positive
• Mapping across – Changing unresourceful states to resourceful states
• Fear vs phobia – Understanding fears and phobias
• Resolving fears – Overriding fear with neutral or positive emotion
• Fast phobia cure – Neutralizing emotions to resolve phobias
• Trauma relief procedure – Neutralizing emotions to relieve trauma
• Business coaching overview

Day 7

• Class coaching
• SWISH – Changing habits and automated responses
• SWISH – Swapping one mental construct for another
• SWISH – Resolving habits like: nail biting, smoking, addiction, etc.
• SWISH for business situations
• Elements of a complete piece of change work
• Business coaching overview
• Course summary
• Certification & wrap-up

Day 8

• Class introductions
• Class coaching
• NLP criteria introduction – Values based coaching, drivers for motivation and goals
• Coaching with values, beliefs and attitudes
• Values formation
• Eliciting values
• Using values to gain clarity, and direction
• Values and persuasion
• Values and weight loss
• NLP Modeling – Replicating excellence, skills, and strategies
• Group NLP modeling project
• Modeling project outcomes: Teaching excellence, skills, and strategies
• Weight loss & life coaching overview

Day 10 and 11 

• Advanced submodalities – Coding of the brain causing emotional shifts
• Detailed exploration of the coding of your brain
• Eliciting submodalities for weight loss coaching
• Shame pattern – Technique resolve deep rooted shame
• Grief pattern – Technique to resolve grief
• Grief pattern – Technique to prepare for pending loss of a loved one
• Changing beliefs pattern – Technique to change limiting beliefs
• Godiva Pattern Interrupt – Technique to deal with food compulsions
• Compulsion Blowout – Technique to deal with compulsive behavior
• Weight loss & life coaching overview

Day 12

• Class coaching
• NLP timeline coaching – Creating past, present and future
• The major techniques of timeline coaching
• Creating achievable goals on a timeline
• Eliciting NLP timelines- Understanding various timeline configurations and structures
• Root cause discovery – Discovering unconscious root causes in someone’s past
• Discovering Significant Emotional Events - Techniques to resolve root cause problems
• Technique for changing negative emotions
• Technique for changing limiting decisions
• Technique to disconnect and eliminate negative emotion while preserving positive learnings
• Changing the location of a timeline
• Weight loss & life coaching overview

Day 13

• Class coaching
• Steps in releasing symptoms
• Health & healing factors
• Running NLP patterns on a timeline
• NLP timeline coaching for weight loss
• Parts integration – technique to resolve inner conflicts
• Using parts in weight loss coaching
• Core change work – technique to achieve a core transformation
• Using core change work for weight loss coaching
• Weight loss & life coaching overview

Day 14

• Class coaching
• Personality types NLP Meta Programs + MBTI
• People reading skills – extraversion and introversion
• People reading skills – intuition and sensing
• People reading skills – thinking and feeling
• People reading skills – judging and perceiving
• Presenting information to different personality types
• Influencing and persuading different personality types
• Coaching different personality types
• Educating different personality types
• Personality type and stress
• Personality type and weight loss coaching
• Personalities on a sinking ship
• Personality assessment
• NLP metaprograms – Criteria
• NLP metaprograms – Pro-active vs. re-active behavior
• NLP metaprograms – Towards and away motivation
• NLP metaprograms – Motivation filter, internal and external reference
• NLP metaprograms – sameness vs. difference
• NLP metaprograms – Self vs. others
• NLP metaprograms – What convinces another person
• NLP metaprograms – Rules
• NLP metaprograms – Stress response
• NLP metaprograms – Options vs. procedure
• NLP metaprograms – Chunking, general vs. specific
• NLP metaprograms – Independence, proximity, cooperative behavior
• NLP metaprograms – Person and objects
• Using NLP metaprograms in weight loss coaching
• Weight loss & life coaching overview

Day 15

• Class coaching
• Emotional intelligence as a framework for NLP
• Emotional intelligence and NLP life coaching
• Understanding Emotional Intelligence – The emotional brain
• IQ versus EQ
• Working with fear, rage, passion and joy
• Emotional habits
• Personal and social competence
• Dealing with emotions
• Dealing with the ego
• Channeling emotions, moods and behaviors
• The fifteen core elements of Emotional Intelligence
• EQ and career success
• EQ and health
• EQ and relationships
• EQ and education
• EQ based coaching exercises and techniques
• NLP life coaching with EQ
• Weight loss coaching with EQ

Day 16

• Class coaching
• Legalities and ethics of using NLP
• Legalities and ethics of coaching
• Setting up a successful coaching business
• How to get clients
• NLP organizations
• Coaching and life coaching organizations
• Life coaching phase 1: First session, setting expectation, gather information, wheel of life,
• taking care of immediate problems, establishing coach - client relationship, dealing with
• practical arrangements, getting commitment, dealing with the immediate issue
• Life coaching phase 2: What is the problem, design intervention, deliver intervention
• Life coaching phase 3: Goals, beliefs, and values
• Life coaching phase 4: Resources
• Life coaching phase 5: Evaluating habits
• Life coaching phase 6: Tasks
• Life coaching phase 7: Test, future pace, ongoing support, how to create lasting change
• NLP and weight loss
• Weight loss coaching phases
• Weight loss and NLP interventions
• Weight loss strategies
• Weight loss – useful factors
• Course overview
• Certification and wrap-up