IN-Standards for NLP-Trainer Certification

Prerequisites

NLP-Practitioner and NLP-Master certificates recognized by IN-NLP, as well as a minimum of 1 year of experience with NLP since the beginning of the Practitioner training.

Training duration

• minimum of 130 hours of formal course room training (excluding breaks longer than 30 minutes)

• minimum of 18 days of formal course room training

• at least 15 hours of individual or group supervision by an NLP Master Trainer. Contents of the supervision: a self-organized seminar or project

• the training is devised by at least two Master Trainers who conduct the seminar. Recommendation: The Master Trainers should come from different institutes. With more than 10 participants it becomes mandatory to involve an assistant who must be qualified as an NLP Trainer. A group consists of at least six participants.

Abilities of an NLP Trainer and Criteria for Evaluation and Certification

• demonstration of: rapport abilities, the ability to use and explain techniques and contents, and the capacity to distinguish and alternate between form and content

• professional self-management, emotional stability, stress resistance

• behavioral competency in overt and covert use of NLP methods

• behavioral integration of the basic assumptions of NLP in group settings

• ethical, systemic work with individuals and groups, the utilization of group processes and resources of participants, as well as competency in group facilitation and conflict management

• regulation of contents and processes on all logical levels

• knowledge of psychological and neurobiological concepts, psychotherapeutic methods, and popular models of communication, as well as their integration within the NLP model

Required training contents

• Multi Level Communication / to set and change frames / Prefraimings

• professional state- and selfmanagement, charisma (especially regarding management skills)

• leadership, complexity management, leading with values

• to initiate and to use unconcious learning processes

• meta-learning

• motivation and self-motivation

• verbal and nonverbal pacing and leading with groups and individuals on many levels and with different methods

• group dynamics / to initiate and to affect group processes / to create experiences with groups

• energy choreography (relaxation and games)

• creation of an atmosphere conductive to learning

• planning of a seminar (concept, desgin, exercise design, creation of teaching aids, prefraiming, leading, process instructions)

• preparation, organisation and evaluation of demonstration

• presentation design: 

• frames for beginnings and endings

• outcome formulation

• comparison between outcomes and results

• information presentation styles

• methodical planning of presentations including the consideration of different representational systems, meta-programs, learning strategies, chunking of information and experiences

• Grinder-format including 4Mat, Bandlerformat Nested Loops

• to constitute fascination

• states of power

• anchoring

• use of visual presentation techniques (FC, beamer, overhead, pinboards)

• Exercise design: 

• outcome definition of the exercise

• metaphoric process instructions and preframings

• overt and covert learning

• integration and utilization of already learned material

• responding to questions using Meta-Programms

• discernment between perception and interpretation in group processes

• skills in giving feedback on different levels to groups and individuals / 

• sense-specific feedback for groups and group processes

• testing competence (to control learning processes) 

• demonstration of competence in using the NLP-techniques

• ethics and ecology

• outcome oriented elaboration of one's own model of the world

• flexible adaptation to the abilities of the group, future pace of the learning results

• skills in conducting different types of interventions for individuals and groups

• utilization of disturbances, critique, rejection, and problematic behavior of group members

• skills in outcome oriented use of covert communications

• trainer profile

• coaching competence

• Graves-model

• marketing

• assessment of demand

• changements in complex systems

• methods for organisational development and knowledge management

• at least two presentations of more than 20 minutes each in front of a qualified group with at least six participants, including specific objectives and feedback provided by the group and the Master Trainers.

Note: The Trainer course aims to teach the fundamental NLP presentation and training skills. These are based on the contents of the Practitioner and Master courses, yet the contents themselves are neither part of the Trainer course curriculum nor of the final assessments.  

Written assessment

The mandatory written testing assesses the integration of the required training contests and ensures high quality learning. The test should reveal the comprehension and integration of the contents.

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

Behavioral Assessment

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

The behavioral assessment enables the participants to congruently display their behavioral integration of the NLP training skills.

Contents of the NLP Trainer Certificate 

The NLP Trainer certificate must include the following:

1. Statement that all IN-NLP guidelines have been met

2. The IN-NLP seal

3. The duration of the course with precise information regarding training days and hours

4. Date of the first and last day of the course

5. Signature of the Master Trainers

6. Title: NLP Trainer