The NLP Practitioner & Coach Certification
Get both certifications in one unique
training experience

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10-Day Intensive in Cottonwood & Sedona, Arizona
June 20-29, 2008
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Count the top 5 experiences of your entire life
and then get ready to add your NLP Practitioner Certification to that
list.
The NLP Coaching & Skills Training Institute
announces a very special NLP Practitioner and Coach Certification Summer
2006. NLP Trainer, Bill Thomason, will be your guide for this
unique journey. This special program is designed to give you high
quality NLP training inside a magical experience of one of the most
beautiful places on the planet. Expect to have your mind, body,
and spirit stretched to new dimensions.
Your Trainer
Bill Thomason
is your trainer for this special
program in the Red Rocks of Sedona. Bill is an NLP Success Coach,
Certified NLP Trainer, and he is founder of the NLP Coaching & Skills
Training Institute now in Scottsdale, Arizona. Bill has
studied with top NLP trainers including Wyatt
Woodsmall, Tad James, Richard Bandler, Michael Grinder, Mary Lou Sevey,
and he has worked with Rodger Bailey and best-selling author, Anthony
Robbins. Bill promoted Tony’s
The Fire-Walk
Experience seminars and represented Robbins
Research in the North Texas area in the mid-1980’s. In addition to
private NLP Coaching and NLP training programs to the public, Bill now
provides executive coaching, team-building and culture-change seminars
to Fortune 500 executives in the US and Canada.
About NLP
Neuro Linguistic
Programming has been called
“the science of
subjective experience.” The quality of your
life is directly impacted by the quality of your communication.
Relationships, career, finances, and personal happiness all depend on
your ability to communicate effectively within yourself and with others.
Now, you can learn to identify limiting behaviors, interrupt old habits
and patterns, and integrate new choices, and you can, you know, do it
quickly, easily, and permanently.
What to expect
You will learn from various guest instructors.
A Medicine Wheel Ceremony and site seeing tour is included in your
registration. Get the BOLD of Tony Robbins, the GENIUS of the
Founders of NLP, and the ANCIENT WISDOM resonating from the beautiful
Red Rocks of Sedona, Arizona. Past trainings have included Integrative
Body Work with Becca Tokarcyzk, founder of Integrative Studies of
Sedona; a talk on Native American Sexuality by Mukee Okan, 'toning'
healing sounds by Aerial, Native American sweat lodge ceremony, and
guest trainers including Sue Nennemann, Doug Osenbau, and Jayne Brown.
We even hiked up Cathedral Mountain, a major Sedona landmark.
The Magic of Sedona...
Magical, mystical Sedona, with
the beauty of her Red Rocks and majestic natural spires, is
regarded as a major world-wide vacation and spiritual destination. You will learn
cutting-edge skills for mastery of your modern life as also you connect
to her energy and experience her beauty in this wonderland of ancient
wisdom and timeless mystery.
Why Scottsdale?
Scottsdale, Arizona is a major metropolitan modern
city with access to an international airports minutes away and with an
Old West atmosphere that inspired filming of dozens of movies smack-dab
in the middle of the Sonoran desert, the home of Saguaro cactus with a
history going back thousands of years of Native habitation where modern
and ancient worlds converge to create a pleasant learning experience
among great shops, luxurious resorts, and unique cultural experiences.
Your Certification Experience
Count the top five peak
experiences of your entire life and your NLP Certification will become
one of them. You will be challenged. You will experience a caring
environment and you will learn to achieve more than you ever dreamed
possible. Your life will positively never be the same. With the skills
you learn, you can explore and integrate
new thoughts, new feelings, new choices, and you can acquire highly
successful new behaviors.
You will learn:
- To become the master of your states
- Specific skills to expand your ability to adapt to
any life situation
-
deep and lasting rapport with anyone
- To influence with integrity
- Distinctions between traditional
psychotherapies and NLP Coaching
- What you were never taught
about learning in school and learn to learn all over again
- (What would it do for you if you could)...expand
your ability to pay attention to the subtle messages that people (clients) are
communicating at all times, and communicate the way they need to
get information.
- Are you ready
for your whole life to change powerfully as you build lasting relationships with
other participants and learn the outcome formation
strategies of the world's most successful people?
NLP Certification Criteria
Criteria for NLP Practitioner Certification
includes a minimum of 100 hours of instruction, of which, not all has to be in the
classroom training. This NLP Practitioner program
emphasizes behavioral flexibility and group interaction as well your
integration of the body of knowledge that is the NLP Practitioner level of Neuro Linguistic Programming.
(Note: topics represented below in 2 day increments)
Days 1& 2
The First days set the critical foundations and will include
training in Basic Rapport Skills including:
- Excelerated Learning©
- Pacing and leading
- Matching and Mirroring
- Outcome Formation
- Goal Setting
- Presuppositions of NLP
Exercises & Patterns will include:
- Circle of Excellence
- Eliminate Resistance to Learning
Days 3&4
The Second couple of days lays another level of foundations and deepens the
Rapport Skills you have learned starting with:
- How We Learn
- More Excelerated Learning(c)
- The A-I-S-B Model/Four Quadrant Brain Theory
- The Importance of Asking Good Questions
- State Mastery
- Eye Accessing
- Submodalities
- Logical Levels
- Chunking
Exercises & Patterns will include:
- Swish & Squash Patterns
- Mapping Across Submodalities
- Logical Levels Pattern
Days 5&6
The Third two days of the seminar starts by reviewing Key Learnings and then
developing your skills further and includes specific work with:
- Anchoring
- Physiology
- Strategies
- Logical Levels
- Finding Positive Intent
- Beliefs & Values
- Reframing
- Calibration
- Precision/Meta Model
- Life Change Patterns Part 1
Exercises & Patterns will include:
- Anchor Collapse/Anchor Chain & Reverse
- 6-Step Reframe
- Parts Integration
- Strategy Elicitation (Buying/Spelling/Love
Strategy)
- Build Unlimited Ability
Days 7&8
In the Fourth two day period you will have enough skills in place to be
practicing higher level NLP Life-Change Patterns. You will
learn:
- Language Patterns of NLP and Sleight of Mouth
- Hypnosis
- Counseling Syntax
- Life Change Patterns of NLP Part 2
- Therapeutic Metaphor
- Introduction to Metaprograms
- Review and Deepen Skills already learned
Exercises & Patterns will include:
- [Optional] Change Personal History
- [Optional] Core Decisional Repatterning(c)
- Eliminate phobias
- Threshold Patterns
- Stuck to unstoppable
- Time Line
- Nested Loops and Multiply Embedded Metaphor
Days 9&10
By the Fifth and last 2 days you will have great proficiency with basic skills
and there are only a few more specific things to learn for NLP
Practitioner Certification - Level 1 before the NLP Testing on Sunday.
Skills sets include:
- NLP Negotiation Model
- Back tracking patterns
- Behavior Modeling
TESTING
There will be a written test as well as verbal behavioral testing to
demonstrate proficiency and integration of concepts. Certification
criteria is weighted heavily on attitude, flexibility of behavior, and
interaction with other students and with instructors. The test is
designed to help you integrate the body of knowledge of NLP and is the
least weighted criteria for certification.
Additional Credit - Level 2 Certification
You will receive Skills Integration Forms in your
NLP Practitioner Manual. After completing the 100 class room
and additional assignments, you will complete sessions with 20 people and fill out the Skills
Integration forms for each process you perform. You will receive
one hour credit for each form when the 20 are completed and turned in to
The NLP Skills Training Institute.
Follow Up Sessions: Five Weeknight Sessions
(optional)
A common criticism of other NLP Certification programs is that people
are excited at the end of the course, but there is no follow up and some
people fail to practice their skills. This Course is designed to keep you
practicing and working to further develop and deepen your skills.
You are invited to attend five (5)- four hour weeknight
seminars in Scottsdale, Arizona. You can receive 20 hours credit by attending these
follow up seminars.
To receive your NLP Practitioner Level 2
Certification you will also be responsible for completing and turning in
20 Skill Integration Forms from various Life Change Pattern sessions you
will conduct with other
people for a total of 140.
Click here for
information about the upcoming NLP Master Practitioner Certification.
Contact Bill Thomason, 602 321-7192 to register.
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