NLP Practitioner with Coaching Skills

Course Overview

Attend this NLP Practitioner course and learn how to use the most powerful tools from NLP to help yourself and others get more from life. The course emphasis is on coaching, so if you are looking for a course where you learn how to help others breakthrough challenges and be more successful, this course is right for you.  Coaching exists in all areas of life, from parenting, business, education, health & fitness and financial management as well as professional coaching practices.

The 'NLP Practitioner with Coaching Skills' course is delivered over 2 consecutive modules. Module I, led by Bill Phillips and Hiran Ilangantileke is the four day Core Skills course in NLP designed to give participants working knowledge and practical experience of NLP core models. Module II is the NLP 7 day NLP Coaching certification course led by John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll. During this module you will build upon the core skills you developed in Module I and learn New Code NLP coaching models that, when applied, will help you and others raise levels of performance in their lives. The evaluation day takes place on the day immediately after the course where participants will participate in a series of practical exercises to demonstrate their skill and competency on what was covered during the course. 

Course objectives

For people to have a highly practical experience of learning how to be successful coaches using the latest core NLP patterns. After the course you will be able to use NLP to coach others (and yourself) to achieve more personal success in life.

At this course you will learn: Module I: Core Skills:

Outcomes and framing

• Easily achieve personal outcomes
• Intention and attention and focus with outcomes
• Setting the frame to direct attention in group and individual contexts

Rapport skills and pattern detection

• Calibration of verbal and non verbal behaviour
• Explicit mirroring to develop rapport
• Micro muscle mirroring for non verbal influence and deeper levels of rapport
• Cross over mirroring – subtle out of conscious body and tone mirroring for influence and leading
• Leading and interaction

Perceptual positions

• Recognising and utilising perception of self, other and observer
• How to step back and evaluate performance and discover new choices
• Creating empathy and learnings

Representational systems

• The verbal and non verbal components of visual, auditory and kinesthetic representational systems
• Overlapping systems to help others have more choice in how they perceive the world
• Reading non verbal accessing cues, including eye patterns, tonal and body language shifts

Classic Code NLP change formats

• The building blocks of human experience and how we code different behaviours
• Utilising submodalities for increased clarity and focus
• Mapping submodalities for behavioural choice
• Classic anchoring formats for collapsing unresourceful states and stabilising new resourceful states

Personal congruency and the unconscious mind

• Developing rapport with the conscious and unconscious mind
• Detecting, eliciting and utilising involuntary signals in self and others
• Introduction to New Code NLP philosophy and change models

Module II: NLP Coaching Skills;

In module II you will use all the skills you learned in module I to become proficient in the following:

The NLP Process applied to executive coaching

• Moving on from the pure left brain style of coaching
• Responding systematically in non-verbal responses without tailored interventions
• Utilising and manipulating natural anchors

The Language Styles of the Coach

• Provocative language styles to stimulate a non-verbal response
• Elicit specific information as an integral part of the coaching experience
• Precision Model and Verbal Package
• Metaphors to stimulate the unconscious to assist the client's creative solutions
• Use NLP language models for precise and influential communication
• Milton Model: Hypnotic style language for every day influence
• Meta Model: Syntactic questioning to ensure precise communication

How to Help the Client Set Direction

• Representational System manipulation
• The use of 'attention' to accelerate the client to take action
• The use of tasking to help the client set his/her own direction

New Code NLP

• The New Code NLP distinction
• New Code games to create change
• New Code state intervention processes for moving on from negative states
• Calibrating subtle almost undetectable unconscious signals
• Recognising and working with the incompatible split between conscious and unconscious movements

The Coaching Relationship

• Doing what it takes within the ethical boundaries of the relationship
• Being clear about the ethical boundaries
• The role of the Coach
• How to avoid client over-dependency

Framing, Process and Evidence in Coaching

• Setting the original frame and how to frame the ongoing processes
• How to ensure your clients KNOW they are responsible for their own success
• Gaining clarity with evidence of success
• Understanding outcomes

Certification;

During the evaluation day you will demonstrate competency with the material you learned during the course. The following certificates will be awarded on completion of successful evaluation:-

• NLP Practitioner with Coaching Skills
• New Code NLP Practitioner
• Certified NLP Coach

Who should attend?

Life coaches who want to build NLP into their practices
Business mangers who want to move from a directive form of management to coach their teams to be more successful
Teachers who recognise that coaching will help students develop more effectively than the old authoritative style of teaching
Parents who want to support their children to grow and develop as well rounded people
People who want to set up as coaches
Therapists who want to build NLP coaching into their practices
ANYONE – who is working with other people

This course is open to beginners – you need no NLP experience to attend.