Practitioner's Certificate in NLP in Education

This 16 module course leading to an international certificate will teach you the basic skills of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) as applied to education. The course consists of 130 hours input and practice. The course includes theory, loads of practice and application and the possibility of in-class research. It offers contact with colleagues in similar situations and for you to take what you learn and apply it to the classroom immediately.

Course Outline

Modules:

  1. Becoming aware of ourselves and the way we communicate
    What is NLP? The Presuppositions of NLP. Mind and body. Communication – verbal and non verbal. Rapport.
  2. How to engage the subconscious mind
    V.A.K. and representational systems. Preferred learning channels. Variety and difference in classes.
  3. Precision Language
    Language as the generator of actions and results. Surface structure and Deep structure. The metamodel of language. Filters. Precision language. Affirmations.
  4. Anchors
    How to call on resources when required. Anchors.
  5. Discovering inner resources
    Submodalities and how to work with them in relation to feelings, moods and physiology. Visualisations. How to transform undesirable states into resources. Stress relief techniques.
  6. Being aware of our students’ inner worlds and responding to their mental programmes
    Association and dissociation. Sorting styles or metaprogrammes.
  7. Perceptual Positions and Motivation
    1º,2º,3º, and 4º position. Goal setting and successful outcomes.
  8. Conflict resolution
    Techniques to detect and resolve symptoms, conflicts and obstacles which appear in people and organisations. Finding the Positive Intention. Win-win model.
  9. Strategies
    Forms we use to organise thought and behaviour in order to achieve an objective. Detecting individual strategies.
  10. Achieving continued growth
    Generative technique to go from an unsatisfactory present state to a desirable future state. Sorting Styles – the second layer
  11. Gaining deeper awareness and understanding
    The fine points of non-verbal pacing. The Wall. Making new meaning of a symptom, behaviour or conflict. Reframing of content and context.
  12. Verbal magic
    Metaphors. The ontology of language. Introduction to beliefs
  13. State Management
    Convincer Patterns. Stacking and Collapsing Anchors. Protection and boundaries.
  14. Integrating the changes:
    Contextualisation of course material. The classroom as a system and as part of a system. Peak experiences and flow. Sponsorship. Future pacing.
  15. and 16. Evaluation modules
    Lesson plan. Conflict resolution. Practical techniques.

Master Practitioner Certificate in Education
Course Outline

For those people who have completed or almost completed Practitioner training, the Master Practitioner certificate is the next level of training. This will allow you to broaden your knowledge of NLP techniques and you will learn even more ways of being resourceful in the classroom.