NLP Certification Standards

The following are standards for achievement

for

Practitioner Level NLP Certification:

[NOTE: Scroll down for NLP Master Prac Standards]

Typical Duration of Training - Minimum of 120 hours

Demonstrate ability: to utilize basic skills, techniques, patterns, and concepts of NLP

1. Behavioral integration of the basic Presuppositions of NLP

• The ability to change the process by which people experiencing reality is more important than changing the content in the experience of reality

• The meaning of your communication IS the response you get

• All distinctions about environment and behavior can usefully be represented through the senses; visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory. Everyone

• Everyone has all the resources necessary to make any change they want already within them.

• The Map Is Not the Territory. People are not their behaviors.

• The positive worth of the individual is held constant, while the value and appropriateness of the internal and/or external behavior is questioned.

• There is a positive intent and purpose motivating every behavior, and there is a context in which every behavior has value.

• Feedback vs. Failure - All results and behaviors are achievements, whether they are the results that were expected or not.

2. Association/Dissociation

3. Rapport Establishment & Maintenance

4. Nonverbal Pacing and Leading

5. Verbal & Non-Verbal Elicitation of Responses

6. Calibrating through Sensory Experience

7. Representational Systems (Sensory Predicates and Accessing Cues

8. Detect and Utilize Sensory Exchanges (Visual, Auditory, Auditory Analog, Kinesthetic)

9. Overlapping and Translating Representational Systems

10. Meta Model

11. Milton Model

12. Elicitation of Well-Formed Goals, Ecological Outcomes

13. Recognize and change Perceptual Positions

14. Eliciting, Installing, & Utilizing Anchors in all sensory systems

15. Ability to Shift Consciousness

16. Utilizing Submodalities including Timelines, Belief Change Pattern, Swish Patterns, etc.

17. Omni Directional Chunking

18. Reframing

19. Accessing and Building Resources

20. Content & Context Reframing

21. Creating & Utilizing Metaphors

22. Strategy Detection, Elicitation, Utilization, and Installation

23. Contrast Frames (Relevancy, As If, Backtrack)

24. Higher Level Patterns (Change Imprint Pattern, V-K Dissociation, Six Step Reframe, etc.)

25.Demonstrate Flexibility of Behavior and Attitude

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The following are standards for achievement for

Master Practitioner of NLP Certification:  

Duration of training: 120 hours 

• All NLP Practitioner-level skills, individually and in combinations
• Design individualized Push-Pull interventions
• Incorporate ecology into therapeutic interventions

• Shifting between content and context and between experience that labels for experience

Specific skills of the Master Practitioner

• Meta Programs 
• Criteria (Values)
• Identification and utilization
• Criteria hierarchy
• Elicitation of complex equivalence and adjustment of criteria
• Sleight of mouth patterns
• Installation and utilization of strategies
• Advanced Submodalities 
• Multi-level communication
• Negotiations
• Presentation skills
• Modeling
• Utilization and transformation of beliefs and presuppositions

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