IN STANDARDS FOR THE CERTIFICATION: NLP-COMMUNICATION

Training duration

• Minimum of 40 hours of formal course including testing over a period of 5 or more days.

• 80% or more of the training are conducted by an NLP Master Trainer; 20% of the training can be conducted by another person under the supervision of an NLP Master Trainer. With more than 10 participants it becomes mandatory to involve an assistant who must be qualified at least at the NLP-Practitioner level.

Acquired abilities in NLP Communication and Criteria for Evaluation and Certification

• a student certified in "NLP communication" knows and has integrated the NLP-Axioms.

• he/she knows and has the ability to use the basic contents, skills, techniques, patterns, methods, and concepts of NLP in the field of self management, body language and goals/motivation. 

• the fundamental abilities of a student certified in "NLP communication" are rapport establishment, outcome clarity, perceptual clarity, flexibility, and the ability to follow a resource-oriented, ecological approach.

Required training content

• basic assumptions of NLP

• selfmanagement and NLP-Axioms

• philosophy and idea of man

• ethics and ecology

• body language

• calibration

• sense-specific feedback

• backtrack

• boundaries (proximity and distance)

• incongruity

• rapport

• establish

• maintain

• pacing & leading

• break

• improvement of perception

• rep systems

• accessing cues

• eye movements

• VAK language

• Perceptional Positions: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd position

• change of perspectives

• meta position

• goals

• phrasing according to the brains way of understanding

• from a problem or wish to a goal

• steps to a goal

• dissociated image of outcome and goal trance

• chunking

• logical levels

• submodalities

• association and dissociation

• charisma

• state management

• congruence and incongruence communication

• from current to desired state

• change states

• modelling states

• from resourcelessness to a state of power

• to activate, to build up, to enforce, to anchor resources 

• to develop supportive internal dialogue

• to deal with criticism

• systemic integration (ecology check)

• to develop new thinking patterns

• feedback

• feedback strategies

• perception and interpretation

• rules for giving feedback

• self-realization

• transfair strategies (future pace)

• source of power

• self-esteem

• self-confidence

• self-reflection

• self-awareness

• latest discoveries in brain research

• self-responsibility

• work-life-self-balance

Written assessment

The mandatory written testing assesses the integration of the required NLP-Practitioner training contents and ensures high quality learning. The test should reveal the comprehension and integration of the following contents: axioms/basic assumptions, Ethic of NLP, NLP ecology, self management, body language and goals/motivation.

Contents and form of the written assessment are chosen by the NLP Master Trainer.

Practical Assessment

Contents and form of the practical assessment are chosen by the NLP Master Trainer and are tailored to the relevant experiences of the participants. 

The practical assessment enables the participants to display their behavioral integration of the NLP-axioms and to congruently demonstrate selected NLP-techniques, especially problem identification, outcome identification, rapport, perception, flexibility, and sense-specific feedback.