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What is an NLP Practitioner?
An NLP Practitioner is someone skilled in the application and understanding of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) tools. Through their expertise, they guide others to harness these tools themselves in order to enhance aspects of their lives, such as their emotional wellbeing, creativity and productivity at work.
How to become a certified NLP Practitioner
To become a successful NLP Practitioner yourself, you should seek out the highest-quality training available.
No prior experience or knowledge is required to attend the NLP Practitioner Programme with Neuroscience and we pride ourselves in retaining a world-class team of programme leaders that are internationally recognised for their work in the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
The NLP Practitioner Programme with Neuroscience is certified by the ICF, which will in turn award credits for you to use towards your own individual ICF certification, should you choose that route.
What is NLP Practitioner training?
At the core of NLP Practitioner training is the completion of a proven programme where you learn from experienced experts in this field. Here you build the skills necessary to build a rapport with clients and impart the knowledge and techniques that will help them achieve success, as well as increase your own depth of knowledge.
The NLP Practitioner Programme with Neuroscience guides you to develop these essential skills that benefit you and those around you, with unique additional content that ties NLP to the rigours of neuroscience. This extra layer provides a deeper perspective that’s valuable to both existing practitioners and those new to the discipline.
What makes this NLP Practitioner course unique?
Our NLP Practitioner certification programme is unique in that it combines insights from the world of NLP with the amazing discoveries that neuroscience is continuing to reveal about our brains’ physical development and the various processes that occur within it. This presents powerful, compelling and practical content for both experienced practitioners looking to deepen their understanding and for those just starting their journey.
The NLP Practitioner Programme with Neuroscience is a 12-day NLP Practitioner course comprising six 2-day modules over 5 months. This structure allows you to take your learnings and use them in real world situations between each module. This applied learning approach helps you to assimilate the material and make huge strides as the programme progresses.
The programme is led by Ian McDermott, the practitioner and author who first brought NLP and Coaching together and then did the same for NLP and Neuroscience. Along with fellow course leader Professor Patricia Riddell, Ian has been at the forefront of applying pioneering work in the neurosciences to NLP – and bringing its practical benefits to people from all walks of life. Over the last 35 years, Ian has trained thousands of NLP Practitioners.
The power of NLP. The rigour of Neuroscience.
How does it work?
Two factors have allowed us to establish what we believe to be the optimal format for NLP training with. The first is our extensive experience in guiding people to become NLP Practitioners. The second is the way we have managed to integrate the latest research from the neurosciences on how the brain learns best.
Our NLP Practitioner Programme with Neuroscience is taught over 6 modules of 2 days across 5 months, imparting in-depth knowledge in a short window while allowing sufficient time in between to digest and integrate.
Experiential learning is at the heart of this programme. In addition, to ensure you get the most from your experience, we incorporate a variety of learning exercises into our training modules, including:
‘How To’ demonstrations
One-to-one and group skill building exercises
Real life integration: optional NLP Project
Q&A everyday with Ian McDermott
Tailored support materials
Your learning experience will be supported by a Resource Team who have graduated from this NLP programme.
The tools apply to all human activity. No prior training is required.
What do graduates say about our
NLP Practitioner Programme with Neuroscience?
“I have loved being on this programme and am so glad that I chose to pursue it . It has been a very rewarding journey so far and I'm looking forward to further understanding and practicing all that we have learned over the last few months. The people that took part in the programme including the resource team and Ian & Patricia are what has made this course exceptional and memorable. I can say without a doubt that has been the best 'training' course I've ever signed up for. NLP tools have already brought such a significant positive change in both my personal and professional life and I can't wait to see what else is in store for me.”
Ankita Bilolikar - Aston University Business School
“NLP has been a life changing experience providing an enabling paradigm through which to view and engage with the world and the confidence to exert influence where appropriate. Ian is congruent, humorous, an expert, respectful and a model of resourcefulness. Patricia has a high level of humanity combined with high level technical knowledge and is a quality communicator.”
Paul Segal - Business Advisor & Consultant
“I discovered me and how I was truly acting to the world. My perception of that world, my perception of others. Also my passion for science again. I have a thirst to learn about the brain and how we connect spiritually. I discovered to listen, to be quiet, to look and to feel. I now question the feelings I have more. I'm more relaxed, mindful, open and honesty. This has helped at work. I am a better Manager and feel I can communicate at all levels with authenticity. Also I discovered that my family and team wanted more of this. Once I showed them what I have done on this course everyone one wanted to know more.”
Paul Wells - Senior Manager, Lloyds Banking Group
“It sounds like a cliche but this training has changed my life. I came largely for professional reasons, and have experienced a personal exploration and development I would not have believed 5 months ago. What I have spent weeks, months or years working on in the past has changed beyond recognition. If I believed in miracles, this would be one. AndI do believe in miracles. Ian’s integrity, sensitivity and humanity are something remarkable”
Jane Aspden - University Lecturer
“I came to the programme slightly sceptical but I am now sold on the benefits of applying NLP to both personal and work life. The quality of the handbook is good, it supports the teaching and exercises and has many value added articles and exercises. I was concerned about the number of attendees but it soon became apparent that this was beneficial given the number of exercises and interactions. The openness, honesty and willingness to participate of the attendees all added to a hugely enjoyable and challenging experience.”
Neil Chalmers - Solution Delivery Manager
“Using the NLP techniques which I have learned has helped me more effectively manage my relationships both in and out of the workplace, resulting in more collaborative behaviour, and substantially better outcomes. I am also more resourceful and better able to control and manage my own state, which is particularly useful when dealing with highly charged situations such as a Workplace Mediation.”
Barbara Capstick, HR Consultant, Coach & Mediator
Your Learning Journey
The programme is broken up into six 2-day modules as follows:
Module 1
Creating a Learning Mindset
How you can open a world of new possibilities
Module 2
Understanding the Structure of Human Experience
How you can get to the heart of what makes people tick
Module 3
Being at our Most Resourceful
How you can be at your best and overcome challenges
Module 4
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
How you make meaning of the world – for better or worse
Module 5
Designing Compelling Futures
How you can feel more in control and stop the past running the present
Module 6
Finding Inner Freedom
How you can feel more at home in your own skin and rise to the role you find yourself in
What will I learn from NLP Practitioner Training?
Through our NLP Practitioner Programme with Neuroscience, you’ll gain a vast range of practical skills and benefits associated with well-being and effectiveness. These will include how to:
- Build and maintain rapport – the key to successful relationships.
- Gather specific, high quality information from people and how to use it to achieve your outcomes.
- Increase the range of what you are able to see, hear and feel so you know more about what’s going on.
- Use the power of metaphor effectively, as all great communicators do.
- Generate practical, well-formed outcomes and how to achieve them.
- Design interventions to move a person or organisation from a present state to a desired state.
- Create optimal conditions for successful individual and organisational change.
- Change unwanted behaviours.
- Get clear about what is important to you and others.
- Talk another person’s language.
- Overcome fears and obstacles that may be standing in your way.
- Create your own personal state of excellence.
- Communicate clearly and effectively.
- Make meetings work.
- Mediate and negotiate more successfully.
- Recognise and use powerful language patterns.
- Develop your behavioural flexibility and creativity.
- Set clear and achievable goals
- Be more at peace with yourself.
Who will teach me?
The NLP Practitioner Programme with Neuroscience is led by Ian McDermott and Professor Patricia Riddell, both leading figures within their specialism, bringing their unique insights together to combine the power of NLP understanding with the rigour of neuroscience.
Your learning experience will also be supported by a Resource Team who have successfully completed this programme before and can offer valuable guidance throughout.
Ian McDermott
Ian is the man who first brought NLP and Coaching, and then NLP and Neuroscience together. He is a thought leader in the application of NLP in numerous fields particularly leadership, innovation and collaboration. He is famous for doing extraordinary live demonstrations. Ian has trained a generation of NLP Practitioners who are working all over the world. His 15 books have been translated into 20 languages.
Professor Patricia Riddell
Patricia is a Professor of Applied Neuroscience and a chartered psychologist, chartered scientist and co-author of The Neuroscience of Leadership Coaching. She creates cutting edge training tools that integrate and expand on the most recent findings in neuroscience. NLP gives us the tested technology to put this research to work in our own lives. Neuroscience gives us the rigour and the research.
When and where does the
NLP Practitioner Course take place?
Our once-annual NLP Practitioner Programme with Neuroscience starts 13th September 2024.
This programme is entirely online using the Zoom platform. This means you can join us from wherever you are in the world and have no travel (jetlag!) and accommodation to be thinking of and paying out for. What might you do with that time and money you’re saving?
Online learning
Dates & Times 2025
Pre-Programme Orientation:
9th September 2024, 7-8.30pm (UK Time)
Module 1: 12th – 13th September 2025
Creating a Learning Mindset
How you can open a world of new possibilities.
Module 2: 10th – 11th October 2025
Understanding the Structure of Human Experience
How you can get to the heart of what makes people tick.
Module 3: 31st October – 1st November 2025
Being at our Most Resourceful
How you can be at your best and overcome challenges.
Module 4: 21st – 22nd November 2025
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
How you make meaning of the world – for better or worse.
Module 5: 12th – 13th December 2025
Designing Compelling Futures
How you can feel more in control and stop the past running the present.
Module 6: 9th – 10th January 2026
Finding Inner Freedom
How you can feel more at home in your own skin and rise to the role you find yourself in
All days will run from 12pm to 6pm UK time, with the exception of the pre-programme orientation call as detailed above.
Each 2 day module takes place on a Friday and Saturday.
Each day includes a 45 minute lunch break and 2 x 15 minute breaks.
This programme is accredited by the Association for NLP (ANLP).
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