Step Two — Professional Certification

NLP Practitioner

The internationally recognised professional certification. You’ll master the full core toolkit of NLP and learn to apply it with skill and confidence — in coaching, leadership, training, and your own life. This curriculum is aligned with the recognised NLP Practitioner core content standard.

Foundations

• Presuppositions of NLP
• The present-to-desired-state model
• Well-formedness conditions for outcomes
• State management

Rapport & Sensory Skills

• Rapport, pacing and leading
• Sensory acuity and calibration
• Representational systems — sensory predicates and accessing cues
• Association, dissociation and perceptual positions

Language Models

• The Meta Model — precision questioning
• The Milton Model — artfully vague language

Anchoring & Submodalities

• Anchoring — basic, stacking, collapsing, chaining
• Submodalities — analogue, digital, critical and driver
• The swish pattern
• Accessing and building resources

Strategies & Frames

• Strategies — the TOTE model, elicitation, calibration and utilisation
• Pattern interrupts
• NLP frames — outcome, backtrack, relevancy, as-if, open, discovery and agreement

Change Techniques & Integration

• Standard belief change
• Reframing — content and context, the six-step reframe, working with incongruity
• Visual squash and the new behaviour generator
• Chunking and sequencing
• Basic timeline work and logical levels

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Step Three — Mastery

NLP Master Practitioner

Where skill becomes mastery. The Master Practitioner deepens everything you learned at Practitioner level and adds the advanced patterns, language, and modelling skills that define true expertise. For coaches, trainers, and leaders who want NLP woven into everything they do.

What you’ll master

• Advanced language patterns and Sleight of Mouth
• Meta programs — the deeper filters that drive behaviour
• Values and criteria — elicitation and alignment
• Advanced submodality and belief-change work
• Advanced timeline techniques
• Modelling — the core skill of NLP mastery
• Advanced strategies and systemic, identity-level change

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