IN-Statement

Statement of IN against Accelerated NLP-Trainings and in Favor of Solid NLP-Trainings
 We stand for the original NLP standards
of at least 18 days and 130 hours of live training
 for each NLP-Qualification as NLP-Practitioner, NLP-Master and NLP-Trainer.

NLP grows steadily in its contents. New knowledge is constantly added and the understanding of professional communicative competence is furthered in NLP by modeling outstanding individuals on an ongoing basis.
As a worldwide association of experienced NLP-Institutes, in our internal exchanges we frequently realize how NLP-Trainers with many years of experience have developed exceptional unconscious competencies that often can only be made visible on a conscious level through dialogues within the professional NLP community.
The initial idea of NLP was to model outstanding communicative competencies and to further develop these skills in order to pass them on to other people and to thus contribute to the continuous growth of NLP.
Currently, the spectrum of invaluable NLP skills is more abundant than ever. This wonderful expansion of the contents of NLP, which is reflected in the development of our IN-Curricula (www.nlp-institutes.net/standards.htm), requires the professional discussion of experienced NLP-Trainers and the continuous and competent selection process of the most vital contents of NLP-Trainings.
In our view, every acceleration of NLP-Trainings thus seems counterproductive.
The more important question is how the ongoing additions of training contents can be conveyed skillfully within the existing timeframe. 

Internationally, there is currently the unfortunate development of extremely accelerated NLP-Trainings that threaten the quality and reputation of NLP. We stand for the original NLP standards of at least 18 days and 130 hours of live training for each NLP-Qualification as NLP-Practitioner, NLP-Master and NLP-Trainer.
Some of the original founders of NLP support the trend of extremly accelerated and shortened NLP-Trainings. Richard Bandler in particular has caused many problems by his severely accelerated NLP-Trainings and his collegial discourtesies.
In general, we are thankful to Richard Bandler for his genius, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit in the development of NLP. We have learned and benefited a great deal from him.
We feel this recognition and appreciation towards all those who have contributed to the discovery, development, and expansion of NLP.

Today, Richard Bandler stands for only a small fragment of the broad spectrum of NLP. We are not surprised that he can pass on “his” NLP gems in a shorter time period than the one that was originally set.
All trainers who feel obligated to do justice to the current variety of NLP could put additional days on top of the traditional 18 days for each NLP-Training program to good use in order to integrate the multitude of evolved contents.
Even the ethical orientation and the higher steps of the Logical Levels of the modeled individuals were not considered adequately in the older versions of previous NLP development stages. In the initial founding years of NLP, the modeling process was restricted primarily to the lowest behavioral levels. The integration of the ethical orientation and the higher levels of even the earlier models of NLP into the knowledge pool of NLP is not yet complete in a time in which the NLP community works at the integration of current developments in areas such as Graves Levels, Process Oriented Psychology, Integral Theory, Coaching, Constellation, and other outstanding areas of professional communicative competence. 

The IN rejects accelerated and shortened NLP-Trainings emphatically.
Personal growth and integration of the learning material require time – even in NLP.
In our ethical orientation: www.nlp-institutes.net/Ethics.htm
and our quality standards: www.nlp-institutes.net/standards.htm
we aim to develop and ensure the quality of NLP internationally.
The exchange of experienced NLP-Institutes, that we practice within IN, shows repeatedly how NLP has evolved, how it continues to evolve on a daily basis, and how crucial it is that an integration of new segments within the NLP-Trainings occurs. We honor these aspects in the ongoing improvement of our curricula.
Through this enormous expansion of knowledge and expertise in NLP
we would rather lengthen the trainings in the future
and further improve the current quality standards.