NLP Foundation and Practitioner


In this course you will gain an understanding of the fundamental attitudes, methodologies, and techniques of NLP. You will learn new communication and goal-setting skills, and strengthen your ability to manage and contribute to change. Over the past 30 years, NLP has been applied more and more in areas such as business, sales, therapy, counseling, business and personal coaching and leadership. NLP is the perfect set of core skills that underpin so many other professional disciplines.

You can choose to come to just the Foundation course to gain a first, practical understanding of NLP. Practitioner certification will be achieved on attending all three modules and on completion of a project.

Foundation 2 days or 6 evenings
Basics 3 days
Accreditation 3 days

Business Benefits

Communication, goal-setting, and creativity are some of the most critical skills in a successful business. Improving your abilities in these areas will enable you to be more effective and gain more personal satisfaction from a job well done. Even small improvements in these areas can have a significant impact on your efficiency and effectiveness. Many participants are surprised at how much this course helps them improve their performance.

Personal Benefits

NLP is about increasing personal choice. Participants are often delighted to discover that they have many more choices available to them in their lives. The skills gained during the course will enable you to develop stronger and more satisfying inter-personal relationships, increase creativity, and improve your ability to achieve goals through more effective goal-setting and time management.

Learning Styles

This course is designed for people who genuinely want to improve what they do. It provides a safe environment for people to open their minds to new approaches and new things, and discover what works for them and what doesn’t. Anyone who brings this attitude to the course will both learn and have fun.

You will begin to develop abilities in three core competencies that will enable you to achieve greater success in your job or personal life:

Develop the confidence to take action whenever you need to

Unlock you 'inner resources' to support you when the going gets tough

Build instant rapport based on trust

Ask better questions to gain an in-depth understanding of others' motivations

Understand a set of 'core beliefs' that will enable you to get the best from others

Develop ways of thinking about what you want so that your outcomes become more compelling and easier to achieve

Develop those 'core beliefs' that will give you more choice in any situation

Use timeline techniques that will enable you to plan and develop new courses of action, resolve old problems and generate creativity

The programme will cover the following topics:

  • Identify the states that are most conducive to learning
  • Leading and managing your own and other people's states
  • Setting goals so they are easier and more fun to achieve
  • Ask better questions to uncover real motivations, needs and desires
  • Develop rapport-building skills and determine with whom to build rapport
  • Learning about unconscious communication
  • Using time management techniques
  • Boosting creativity

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