NLP Trainer

Entry requirements

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The candidate has an ICNLP accredited Master practitioner status – their master practitioner training has met the minimum ICNLP time requirements.

• The candidate will be evaluated by at least one ICNLP master trainer.
• The candidate have passed the written assessment/integration test of NLP knowledge.
• Their projects are valuable and useful as assessed by the master trainer.

Knowledge

• All knowledge up to and including the Master Practitioner level.
• An understanding of the intellectual history of NLP and the various disciplines that form a part of it.
• Candidates need a general knowledge of:
  • Gestalt Psychology
  • The Palo Alto School of Therapy
  • Transactional Analysis
  • Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
  • Behaviourism
  • Cognitivism
  • Family Therapy
  • Systems thinking (Senge, Checkland and Churchman)

Skills

• All practitioner and master practitioner skills and the ability to use them
  overtly or covertly in a training situation.
• The flexibility to shift between content and process and mark the differences.
• The ability to use nested loops to install strategies and evoke resource states.
• The ability to demonstrate simultaneously any pattern behaviourally as
  well as teach it linguistically.
• Exercise design
  - Overt and covert outcomes
• Training design
  - Frames
  - Outcomes
  - Chunking
  - Balance of giving information and discovery
  - Future pacing
• Tasking
• Intervention in groups, maintaining rapport, giving sensory specific feedback.
• Ability to conduct appropriate demonstrations
• 4MAT
• Ability to use spatial anchoring
• Effective use of metaphors
• The ability to deal with participants’ questions in a respectful and useful way and to discern
  the level and intent of the questions. To answer the ‘question behind the question’.
• The ability to manage and task a team of assistants

Action

• Candidates will give at least two 20 minute presentations to a group and receive feedback.
  The master trainer present will evaluate these presentations.
• Assessment of the ability to design trainings by the master trainers.
• Demonstrate NLP presuppositions in their behaviour.
• Present an individual project on an area of NLP
• Maintain a resourceful state while training.