The NLP Practitioner Programme Syllabus

The blend of techniques, experiences and insights in the Pegasus NLP Practitioner Programme is designed to

• Improve your understanding of yourself and of other people

• Enable you to improve you own ways of doing things mentally, emotionally and physically and assist others in doing the same.

The Programme, which leads to certification as a "Certified Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming", is made up of two parts:

Part 1. The one week or two-weekend NLP Core Skills and 

Part 2. The 14-day NLP Practitioner Part 2

What you will learn 

In the list below we have indicated in brackets the Part in which you encounter each of the skills in our Practitioner Programme syllabus. Where a skill is included in both Parts this indicates we go into it in more depth in Part 2. 

Language Model: the Meta Model

The Meta Model is one of the most powerful and far-reaching NLP methods. Skill in applying the Meta Model is what sets apart expert communicators from good communicators.

It enables you to recognise the deeper thinking patterns and beliefs behind a person’s statements, deflect attempts by others to negatively influence you, help people clarify their thinking, and add clarity, precision and impact to your own communication. Incidentally, this model is so valuable that we will spend some time exploring it on each of the training weeks. (Part 2)

Beliefs

If you have ever had to coach, manage or counsel people you will know negative beliefs are major obstacles to a person’s success. And they rarely respond to motivational statements or encouragement. In Practitioner Part 2 you will learn to conversationally apply the Meta Model to loosen the hold and the effect of these inner obstacles. (Part 2)

Language Model: the Milton Model

Understand and apply the language patterns of innovative hypnotists such as Milton Erickson. Use these to communicate with influence and persuasion and to recognise when others are using such patterns. (Part 2)

Reframing 

The current fascination with ‘spin doctors’ has developed partly out of their skill in putting a spin to, reframing, events. In reframing we influence how a person responds to a situation by influencing how they perceive it. Reframing is a powerful influencing skill with unlimited applications from helping people handle setbacks and fears to enhancing your ability to sell your ideas or products. (Part 2)

Outcomes

Use the Well-Formed Outcome method to develop objectives goals that are realistic, motivational, and achievable – for yourself or for others. (Mainly Part 2)

‘Vision for the Future’

Your ‘vision for the future’ includes your short-term and long-term goals and, importantly provides a sense of direction and purpose to your life. You will learn how to use this method to produce a comprehensive and carefully designed long-tern direction for your life, and how to assist others in doing the same. (Part 2)

Strategies 

The NLP strategies method developed out its roots as a modelling process. The strategies method provides a means for answering the 'how is it possible to be an expert or an idiot?' question through identifying the elements which account for a person’s successful or ineffectual mind-body ‘programmes’. (Part 2)

Metaphors

Increase your ability to communicate in an interesting and influential manner through designing and utilising simple-yet-powerful analogies and metaphors. (Part 2)

Chunking Patterns

Mismatching of ‘chunking patterns’ is a common reason for misunderstandings and disagreements in personal life and professional life. In Part 2 you will learn to communicate with greater flexibility and at different levels of abstraction – what is sometimes called ‘helicopter communicating’ – so that you can communicate more successfully with a greater range of people. (Part 2)

Influential Communicating

Learn to engage and involve people rather than talk at them, listen in a way that enables you to really hear what they are communicating, recognise non-verbal ‘information leakage’ and present your ideas in a way which is tailored to the preferences and thinking patterns of your listeners. (Mainly Part 2)

Personal Flexibility

In an era of ever-changing circumstances the ability to be creative and flexible not just in your communicating but in your thinking and in your attitude has become an essential characteristic. You will be exploring a range of ways of developing greater flexibility – including flexibility in how you think about and perceive yourself. (Mainly Part 2)

Plus... 

...revisit and extend the material from Part I – NLP Core Skills:

In NLP Core Skills you began exploring and developing skill in the following areas. In the NLP Practitioner Part 2 you revisit them and extend your skill.

Fine-tune your senses 

Enhance your ability to observe, listen, and sense more of what is going on around you and, in particular, to recognise and utilise the subtleties of non-verbal communication.

(A quite significant difference between those who have attended a 20-Day Practitioner Programme and those who have done an 'accelerated' training is in ability of the former people to discern and respond to (a) very subtle non-verbal behaviour and to (b) the subtle verbal messages that are discernible in how a person verbalises their communication).  (Parts I & 2)

Rapport Skills

Use a range of verbal and non-verbal ways of creating and utilising multi-level rapport to be able to quickly put people at ease and create the right atmosphere for communication. (Parts I & 2)

The Personality Map

Develop unconscious competence in applying the ‘Logical Levels’ and Systems Thinking to recognise how the different aspects of a person’s personality are operating in a particular situation. (Parts I & 2)

Perceptual Positions

Develop your ability to recognise different ways of perceiving any situation and adapting your communication approach accordingly. Parts I & 2)

Representational Systems

Improve how you use your own five senses to enhance your ability to think and to experience. Recognise and utilise how others use their representational systems so you can communicate in a manner which makes your message more understandable and more appealing. (Parts I & 2)

Submodalities

In NLP Core Skills we briefly explored this important sub-set of Representational systems. Skill in using submodalities is an important prerequisite for successfully using many of the most powerful NLP ‘techniques’ as well as being a important influencing tool. (Parts I & 2)

Anchors and Anchoring

Further develop your ability recognise and utilise these powerful stimulus-response patterns. Defuse un-helpful anchors and learn to establish enabling anchors. (Parts I & 2)

NLP Change Techniques

NLP is famous for the effectiveness of its many techniques and the steps for the more popular ones are detailed in numerous books. What is not usually explained is that to make them work really well you need to be skilled in utilising most of the Practitioner Skills! 

This is why, at Pegasus NLP, we explore the skills towards the end of the NLP Practitioner Part 2 training – when you have acquired the essential to make the techniques work best. 

The techniques we explore include: The Fast Phobia Cure, New Behaviour Generator, Swish Pattern, and Change Personal History. You learn to apply these in your own life and to assist others. (Mainly Part 2)

Plus….

Time Line Applications

Learn to discover how a person organises their awareness of time and use simple Time Line elements into your communication and, in particular, into your use of the NLP techniques. (Part 2)

Principle-based NLP

At Pegasus NLP we believe that NLP works best for all parties when it is applied with the core principles of NLP in mind - including respect for others and for their views and preferences – and is one of the criteria used in our certification process. (Parts I & 2)

Self Understanding & Self Esteem

Unlike psychology courses in which humans are studied objectively and dispassionately NLP explores subjective experience. Consequently, you may find that your liking, your compassion and your respect for yourself and for other people develops as the course progresses. This is a likely result of having a deeper understanding of we function, how our emotions and thoughts affect our behaviour and how, at any one moment, each of us is doing the best we can given the personal resources that we currently have available to us. (Mainly Part 2)

Personal Development

Taking part in any full-length, full-syllabus practitioner certification training will contribute towards your personal development and provide you with the tools to feel more in charge of yourself and your responses. In the Pegasus NLP Practitioner Programme you have the opportunity, if you wish, to take things further. As you take part in the various practise sessions, indoor and open air experiences, games, and team challenges you will have opportunities to think and to feel and to act outside your comfort zone - to stretch yourself, at little at a time, and to discover just how much more you are capable of achieving, experiencing, and being. (Part 2)

Teams & Systems

Systems thinking is the study of how systems operate - whether the system be a partnership, family, team, work department, organisation, society or sub-section of society. It can even be applied to how an individual human being functions. Understanding how systems work opens the door to a new way of understanding people – it explains why it is so difficult for individuals or groups to change, why the behaviour of others can appear bizarre at times, how best to influence and facilitate groups etc. We have taken the time to make this quite complex subject interesting, available and easy to understand. Most of the time you will learn it indirectly - through reviewing your experience of taking part in practical indoor and outdoor activities. (Part 2)

Practical, hands-on learning

In this programme you will be taking part in a highly effective personal and professional development experience. You will be learning in a practical, hands-on manner through short lectures, practical exercises and discussions and through applying what you learn in your own life between the training sessions. 

The changes you will achieve will come from applying what you learn, as you learn it and between your training sessions, and from being an active member of a highly motivated learning team.

Assessment for Practitioner Certification

Assessment for certification as a Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming is ongoing throughout the second part - NLP Practitioner Part 2 - and is completed on the final few days when an additional Certified Trainer of NLP will be present. We are Members of The Professional Guild of NLP and out trainings conform with all of their standards.

Because we recognise that NLP is a behavioural rather than an intellectual process our assessment for certification is based on how effectively you use and demonstrate NLP in your behaviour rather than on the amount of information you have absorbed. So you do not have to complete a 'required reading' programme or complete written assignments - and we do not have a written or oral examination at the end of the programme!

To take part in our NLP Practitioner Programme...

The Practitioner Certification training is in two Parts - NLP Core Skills and the NLP  Practitioner Part 2 Programme. 

To take part in this thorough NLP certification training first register for and participate in NLP Core Skills and then continue your training with Practitioner Part 2.