NLP Master Practitioner

The Master Practitioner Trainers

Our NLP Master Practitioner programme is now underway for this year but the same amazing line up will be teaching our 2012 course.

We are delighted that world-renowned trainers, Stephen Gilligan and Shelle Rose Charvet will again add their expertise to our NLP Master Practitioner accreditation.

Dr Stephen Gilligan was a member of the original circle when John Grinder and Richard Bandler were developing NLP. He was mentored by, and first modelled the work of, Milton Erickson, now regarded as one of the central figures in NLP.
An internationally acclaimed therapist, workshop leader and author, Stephen's numerous books include the classic text on Ericksonian hypnotherapy, "Therapeutic Trances", "The Courage to Love" and "Walking in Two Worlds."

Shelle Rose Charvet is a master of communication. Described as 'Einstein meets Lucille Ball', her training style is a lot of fun but also has great depth. Her seminal book, "Words that Change Minds", is used as a text in university business programmes in the US and the UK as well as at Coach University. Shelle's Language and Behaviour (LAB) Profiling system is a psycho-linguistic tool for uncovering people's motivation, thought patterns and decision styles. As well as your Master Practitioner qualification, you'll take away a separate certification from Shelle in LAB Profiling, a significant extra benefit to your training.

In addition to these two international experts, your core NLP Master Practitioner trainer will be Robbie Steinhouse. Robbie studied with Robert Dilts at NLP University, and has also worked or studied with most of the other major NLP 'names'. Robbie is also an ICF Certified Coach, a successful entrepreneur and the author of three books, including "How to Coach with NLP".

Robbie is a unique voice in NLP: his blend of realism, humour, concern for the individual and passion for the subject have earned him a reputation as one of the country's top trainers.

Please note that you need to have completed an NLP Practitioner course before being able to go on to Master level. Click here to look at NLP School's Practitioner programme held in London.

Read in detail about the NLP Master Practitioner modules and their contents below...

• NLP Master Practitioner Module 1 is underpinned by the methodology of modelling. We also look at the latest findings in neurology and consider how they relate to NLP. A number of powerful change processes are taught. At the end of the module a modelling project is set to enable students to bring together the learning and assessment after the final module.

• NLP Master Practitioner Module 2 is with Shelle Rose Charvet - the world's expert in Meta Programmes, one of the core concepts for a master practitioner. Shelle is also a brilliant NLP presenter and a model for using NLP in an organisational context.

• NLP Master Practitioner Module 3 is conducted by Stephen Gilligan - the world's leading expert in Ericksonian hynothotherapy and a major influence on Robert Dilts' new approaches to NLP in the 21st century. Stephen is also a brilliant presenter and a model for using NLP in a therapeutic and personal development context.

• NLP Master Practitioner Module 4 starts with developmental psychology, especially the work of Spiral Dynamics and Ken Wilber. The core principle of this is that people evolve through well-defined stages and being able to apply the appropriate nlp technique at the appropriate stage can have a profound effect on people's lives. We study further identity-based techniques including Dilts' re-imprinting. Nested metaphors and hypnosis are taught to enable participants to understand and apply Shelle and Stephen's approaches in the previous modules. The programme ends with presentations of students' modelling projects.

In greater detail ...

NLP Master Practitioner Module 1: Presented by Robbie Steinhouse

• Modelling

Modelling is a core methodology in NLP. You will learn what it takes to master this generative process and then apply it to any area of interest to you - in business, in health and healing, in education, in coaching, in relationships...
You will also learn practical and sustainable techniques for 'installing' models into the minds of yourself or others, to ensure that modelling isn't just an observational exercise but a tool for lasting personal change

• Understanding the Latest Developments in Neurology

Recent advances in neurology provide a firm basis to confirm the models and tools of NLP.
Our NLP Master Practitioner training takes a detailed look at these advances, which have been driven by improvement in brain-scanning technology, and what they tell us about how specific brain regions affect human behaviour.
We consider this research along with NLP models of the unconscious mind, especially Stephen Gilligan's model of the somatic, cognitive and field minds, which maps well onto this new material and provides evidence that the NLP approach is rooted in genuine research.

• Transforming Identity

Using tools from NLP and Transactional Analysis, you will learn how different psychological 'parts' of an individual's character are formed and come together.
Using techniques derived from Connierae Andreas' 'Core Transformation', you will learn a powerful and sustainable way to deal with conflicts between these parts and, beyond that, to transform identity itself. These techniques are unique to our training.

• Criterial Equivalence

Often people are unaware of how they or others form judgements. Within relationships, for example, people often define whether or not they're receiving love according to very personal criteria. "I can tell by the way he looks at me," or, "I can tell from the tone of her voice." "If he/she really cared, then...." If these criteria are not shared by the other person, communication can break down.
You will acquire the skills to identify and change your own criteria and elicit those of others. The resulting improvement your communication skills can be life-changing.

• Brilliant Decision Making

You will learn techniques for making solid, lasting decisions based on a combination of NLP and the latest neurological discoveries. These techniques are unique to our NLP Master Practitioner training, and are the subject of one of Robbie Steinhouse's books, Brilliant Decision Making.

• Transactional Analysis - Dealing with Family Ghosts

You will go even deeper into the field of TA than in the first module. In this section, you will learn how your 'parent' and 'child' can also be further subdivided into their own parent, adult and child. Combining these concepts with NLP perceptual positions yields a pattern that is unique to our training.
This technique can provide a great sense of improved internal rapport, along with a deeper understanding of parents' fallibility and the effects of generations of family culture.
You will also learn techniques using timelines that have a similar healing effect on buried memories. These techniques are now used widely by cognitive therapists, especially in overcoming post-traumatic stress disorder and other life-inhibiting conditions.

• Handling Grief

"Grief should be deep but not never-ending", said the Roman philosopher Seneca. You will learn a process to enable people to 'let go' of the guilt and pain of loss, while still honouring the memory of who or what has been lost.
Using this process with clients who are unable to shift deep grief from events long ago can transform them. It enables them to return to a happy and productive life while still being able to honour their past: a real gift of healing. Learning to Forgive
It is said in NLP that holding onto lasting resentment is like having a fish-hook in you connected to the person you are angry with. You will learn a powerful technique to enable you or your clients to remove this hook in an 'ecological' way, one which will release enormous positive energy.

The NLP forgiveness process uses advanced submodality techniques. It also uses the modelling of effective forgiveness along with a positive intention around maintaining healthy boundaries. This process enables you or your clients to say a final 'goodbye' to residual anger.

NLP Master Practitioner Module 2: Presented by Shelle Rose Charvet
On the first three days of this module, you will be studying Shelle's unique Language and Behaviour (LAB) profiling course, based around NLP meta programmes. Shelle's profiling system is, we think, as broad and as powerful as more formal, academic (and expensive) ones like Myers Briggs, but can be used informally and 'on the hoof' in any social and business situation. It will help you understand your own motivation and that of everyone else you encounter, and ensure that you communicate with any individual in the manner most likely to affect and influence them.

These three days comprise a certification course in their own right: you will gain a separate qualification, as a LAB Profiler, from Shelle. This adds a significant extra benefit to our NLP Master Practitioner training.
The last day of the module focuses on how to put this knowledge into practice, in coaching sessions, so that you truly master this material and know how to use it with ease and confidence.

NLP Master Practitioner Module 3: Presented by Stephen Gilligan

Stephen is one of the most charismatic and insightful trainers in NLP.
In this intensive, powerful three-day module, you will get the chance to explore the key patterns of Ericksonian hypnosis, one of the founding principles of NLP and of modern hypnotherapy.

You will learn Stephen's 'Generative Self' model for creating the highest performance states possible in yourself and in others. The model identifies three minds, Somatic, Cognitive, and Field, and shows how each mind operates across three levels of consciousness, Primitive, Ego, and Generative.

You will see how 'stuck' or symptomatic states lock into Primitive and Ego levels, and how these states can be skilfully shifted to a Generative Level, thereby transforming problems into solutions and resources. This is a highly practical and creative way of both self-development and coaching and leading others.

Stephen was probably closer to Milton Erickson than any other figure in NLP, and has taken the great man's work further through his own insights. His course is not to be missed.

NLP Master Practitioner Module 4: Presented by Robbie Steinhouse

Evolving values

You will be studying some of the core models from Ken Wilber and Spiral Dynamics, and learning how these relate to personal and organisational evolution. You will also learn new NLP change processes based on this material which are unique to our programme.

These will enable you to evolve your entire mind-set to include possibilities you may never have previously considered. You will learn how to create extraordinary interventions and development pathways that will accelerate your personal development.

You will also learn how to use this material in the context of organisational development, building an understanding of how any human system can evolve, from families and social groups to large businesses and institutions.

Working with Advanced Submodalities

To truly master submodalities, we add in space and time to VAKOG and demonstrate that you can go to places that Practitioners don't reach! You will also explore traditional submodalities in much greater detail than you did on Practitioner training. Widening your options in this way helps to expand your repertoire, providing many alternative ways to effect change. Often having these additional tools enables the critical submodality for a client, or for yourself, to be identified and for powerful change to ensue.

Mastering Hypnosis

Following on from the master class with Stephen Gilligan, you will learn how to put clients into a full trance induction, as well as how to lead them through guided visualisations and meditation patterns.

As an NLP Master Practitioner, you will be able to use Ericksonian language elegantly in any NLP change process.
You will learn how to spot trance language in everyday communication. This is essential to avoid being manipulated by others. It is also useful to be able to calibrate others' 'hypnotisability,' to identify which individuals are particularly susceptible to trance and learn a few tricks for those who believe they are not!
This module also includes some practical techniques on how to use positive suggestions in communication.

We will also discuss the ethical issues - at NLP School, we believe very strongly that with the power of being an NLP Master Practitioner comes the equally powerful responsibility to use these tools wisely.

Nested Metaphors and Loops

Using metaphors was one of Milton Erickson's key methods of healing. The work of David Gordon and Richard Bandler combining these methods with chained anchors for advanced healing and communication are truly impressive. The best communicators tend to tell stories that seem to merge together, often ending a story by referring to an earlier part of the narrative. Shelle and Stephen are masters of this approach and you will learn how to design and apply these techniques in any context from coaching to persuasion.

Time-line Visualisations

Using the skills of hypnosis, enabling people to move along timelines while sitting in the comfort of their chair is a profound master skill. A number of techniques follow from these methods, including a more discrete form of timeline use that can be applied over the telephone or sitting in a place where walking along a timeline would seem odd.

A map for all territories?

You will learn Robert Dilts' remarkable SOAR Model, a model for condensing all NLP, and indeed all conceivable human patterns, into one three dimensional model.
If you want to plot out any NLP intervention, or model any human behaviour, this model truly shows Robert's genius in action.

Accessing previously inaccessible memories

You will learn the technique of re-imprinting, another of Robert Dilts' NLP patterns, influenced by his work with Timothy Leary on imprint events in biology. This is a process that can change people's deepest sense of well-being.

Memories, especially painful or traumatic ones, can be stored in '2nd position' - in other words, they are 'projected' and re-experienced as if someone else was 'you'. If this is the case, traditional memory-change techniques such as Change Personal History may not provide the shift that works. Using this amazing technique will enable you to help people make changes in such a situation. It is particularly powerful when tackling childhood events.

The programme concludes with students' presentations of their modelling projects. Some amazing and life changing processes have been invented on our training and NLP School trainers have personally learnt a huge amount from these projects.

Our NLP Master Practitioner course is aimed at making you a comprehensive master of NLP, ensuring that you have all the tools you need to design and live the life you want to lead, and to help others do the same.

Welcome to the psychic superhighway!

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