Part 1 - The NLP Practitioner Programme is designed to help yourself and your clients to develop a user manual for your brain. If you want to master the art of effective communication and building rapport; either to extend you own knowledge or to use the experience within a coaching environment, then the NLP Practitioner Programme is for you.
This is where is all starts! Session one is a welcome and Introduction along with setting out the programme and getting you all-ready! The following sessions will start to establish that the rapport with the client is crucial in any coaching relationship. A skilled NLP coach can achieve this in minutes, with knowledge of the range of verbal and non-verbal cues that can help to build trust. In 'Setting up the Client Relationship' you'll also learn the vital skill of getting a client to tell you their story without it taking hours!
Body language is perhaps the best-known of these non-verbal cues. The ability to interpret a clients body language can really boost the speed at which coach-client rapport is developed, and the efficiency with which clients can be helped to move forward towards their goals. A client's thoughts and feelings can 'leak' through body language, highlighting to the attentive coach barriers and beliefs that limit the client in moving forward. Once identified, the coach can set about helping the client to manage those barriers ñ the beliefs, thoughts and emotions that stop them from getting where they want to go. You will be introduced to incredibly useful quick-fix tools for managing the emotions that a client can trust as a resource whenever they need it.
Trained NLP coaches understand how the brains work. We all filter new thoughts and ideas through a mesh created of past beliefs and experiences, and this affects our behaviour in the present and our choices for the future. As coaching is such a future-focused activity, aiming to head towards and then achieve a desired outcome, NLP coaches use their knowledge of the workings of the mind to help eliminate obstacles created by past experiences. During this live training you will also think about the difference between the conscious and the unconscious mind.
Introducing new NLP tools and techniques
Successful coaching depends on successful goal-setting. A significant attribute of the perfect goal for your client is that it supports their life values. In this way goal setting can support and enhance everything that the client does.
It obviously follows that it is vital for you as a coach to understand the client's values. What is driving their decision making? How do the client's values affect their actions and behaviour? As a coach your own life values may be considerably different to those of your client, but it is easy to see that the perfect goal needs to match the client's view of the world rather than your own, as it is the client who needs to take the action.
A key strand of NLP is the need to use language at its most precise. If you are to effectively support clients, using language with precision will enable you to clarify goals, challenge your client to be utterly precise about their intentions to move forward, and reframe ideas and situations.
On this live training you will also be introduced to the mind of one of the greatest and most creative of people ñ Walt Disney. In terms of goals the aim here is to learn strategies for creative goal-setting. Creative goals are often inspiring ones, the goals that lead to maximum commitment and therefore success.
Introducing new NLP tools and techniques
Full of great exercises you will learn to uncover some of the barriers to performance that are stopping clients from moving forward to achieving their desired goal. Until you and your client are clear about the reality of their situation, how can you set about improving it?
For instance, many clients need coaching to help them improve relationships. The exercises we learn today will help them do just that - whether they are in challenging personal relationships, or being bullied at work, or in a situation of long-term conflict that they just cannot resolve. For a client with this kind of issue, the superb coaching you will be able to provide could be a wonderful solution to an overwhelming problem.
Many clients behave in ways that they themselves don't fully understand. Perhaps there are unconscious drivers to that behaviour. In uncovering these you can proceed with your client firstly to understanding and then changing behaviour. You will also be able to help your clients understand the behaviour of others, which can be vital in establishing better personal relationships.
A further vital learning session is in the area of internal conflict. How often do we find ourselves seeming to take one step forward only to take two steps back? It's a common problem, but it can be that we are caught in a trap of our own making. By examining our own internal conflicts we have the chance to settle them and move on with determination and confidence.
Introducing new NLP tools and techniques
If you are an existing student and wish to book your place on this accelerator training, please refer to your online learning platform. |
