Certified NLP Practitioner

Explore how NLP analyzes subjective experience and the subconscious process of representing reality, and trace its roots from Erickson and Satir to Grinder and Bandler.

Download the course manual to access explanations and commentary that accompany the video lectures. Read the manual to absorb material through multiple channels by seeing, hearing, and reading.

Explore the 14 presuppositions of NLP, framing reality as a map to be improved through feedback, modeling, and resourceful states, and apply them to hypnotherapy practice.

Explore the four tendencies of the subconscious mind and how thoughts create physical reactions. See how imagination surpasses knowledge and how expectations shape reality with awareness and visualization.

Discover representational systems and observe predicates to tailor your communication to visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and auditory-digital styles, building rapport through paced, client-centered conversations.

Explore the auditory digital representational system, where information is converted into language for analysis, planning, and organizing. Learn how self-talk, steps, and flow charts shape reasoning, sleep, and emotion.

Explore representational system applications in hypnotherapy and sales by identifying kinesthetic, auditory, and visual language to align communication, resolve presenting issues, and model the client's world.

Learn how representational systems in communication impact rapport by matching visual, auditory, and kinesthetic cues; discover how mismatches shape perceptions and purchasing decisions.

Rapport anchors therapeutic outcomes in hypnotherapy, starting with a self-rapport and an intake form to assess client fit; only proceed when genuine rapport exists, then build and extend it.

Learn how rapport builds subconscious connection by matching voice, breathing, gestures, and language, using sensory acuity and conscious mirroring to open clients to guidance.

Learn how pacing and leading rapport blends subconscious matching with conscious mismatching to pace then lead clients toward more empowering states, using gradual shifts and sensory acuity.

Explore visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory modalities and their 17 submodalities, with practical questions to map sensory details, build subconscious rapport, and shift phobic responses.

Explore submodality change in NLP by identifying and adjusting image size, location, color, and sound to shift emotions and enhance client rapport.

Learn to identify metaprograms and representational systems in clients, and tailor hypnotherapy communication to internal or external motivators, ensuring proper match and assessing outcomes.

Explore reframing by examining frames, content, and context to redefine issues, shift perception, and empower clients to see situations through a preferred frame.

Explore the meta model in NLP to gather information, clarify meaning, and challenge limiting beliefs with precise questions, revealing deletions and distortions in the client's map of reality.

Explore the metamodel's generalization, identifying universal claims and rigid modal operators. Recognize statements like 'always' or 'everyone' to raise awareness and challenge limits in a client's map.

Explore meta model deletions in information gathering, identifying omissions, comparisons, unspecified referential index, and unspecified verb usage to reveal subconscious patterns shaping a client’s presenting issue.

Explore how distortion shapes our map of reality, reveal ill-formed logic and presuppositions, and identify false causality and mind reading to empower clients in hypnotherapy.

Explore the interrelationship of the meta model and Milton model, contrasting deep and surface structure, and learn to dehypnotize unhelpful trances before guiding clients with indirect suggestions.

Explore the Milton model, Milton Erickson's hypnotic language patterns, and links to NLP and hypnotherapy. Learn three aspects—rapport, ambiguity, and direct versus indirect suggestion—and how they access the subconscious mind.

Explore Milton model and metamodel interaction to build rapport, pace conversations, use metaprogram questions, and gradually lead with robust feedback and nuanced language patterns.

Master Milton model language patterns in active practice, focusing on seven core techniques like truisms with tag suggestions, yes-sit, tag questions, double binds, time-linked suggestions, and cause-and-effect.

Milton model generalizations, including universal quantifiers and unspecified comparatives, to craft inductions and hypnotic scripts, using pacing, leading, compliments, and negative suggestions for effective communication.

Explore the Milton model's deletion technique, using unspecific language to let clients fill in the blanks, recover deletions, and craft therapeutic conclusions with artfully vague prompts.

Explore associated and disassociated submodalities to influence inner experiences, using first-person versus third-person perspectives to increase positive feelings and reduce negative memories.

Discover perceptual positions in NLP, moving from first position to second position. Explore third position impartiality, associated and dissociated perspectives, empathy, rapport, and therapists apply the exercise in hypnotherapy.

Explore metaphor modeling in NLP, using symbols and submodalities to uncover subconscious issues, elicit full metaphors, and reframe them for lighter feeling and new possibilities.

Explore layered emotions through metaphor modeling to uncover kinesthetic, visual, and auditory experiences; use metaphors like mud or lava to understand issues, cool fires, and foster breakthroughs in NLP sessions.

Learn the swish technique to reprogram automatic habits by pairing unwanted triggers with vivid, externalized images and a preferred behavior, switching visuals to engage the subconscious.

Select a role model for a desired ability, observe their behaviors, breathing, and aura, edit a disassociated movie, then replace it with yourself and future pace the new behavior.