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NLP Coach Practitioner

Integrate and extend your coaching skills
Create an effective conversational approach
Gain a formal recognised INLPTA Coach Practitioner Certification

Solution Focussed Coaching

This 4 day course provides a thorough foundation in Coaching based on NLP skills, tools and techniques. The course will focus on aligning your current skills and adding new approaches not taught any other Sugar Course. It is for you if...

You value helping people reach solutions
You want to coach at conscious and unconscious levels
You appreciate the usefulness of a formal coaching qualification
You work with individuals and / or groups in formal or informal contexts
You want to achieve Full (15 Day) INLPTA NLP Practitioner certification
You have a genuine interest in learning more about NLP Coaching
You want to integrate storytelling with your approach
You appreciate working with flexibility and choice

“Really expanded my practitioner training”

“Helps to build strong foundations for the practical use of your skills”

“It’s inspired me in my career in coaching and learning & development”

Where can I use the skills I will learn?

The course is for people who coach or want to coach as part of their work e.g. as a manager, leader, trainer, consultant or health professional. The course is designed to help you release your creativity and talent. You may choose to apply your skills with:

Groups & Organisations
- inspiring, motivating and facilitating change and development to help people to connect and communicate with each other
Sports / Performance Coaching
- helping the good get great and the great be consistently great under the demands of a high pressure environment
Personal Development
- focusing on personal growth & development, social and relationship skills, assertiveness, stress management, communication challenges
Business Coaching
- guiding leaders through business problems to desired results, to clarify issues, challenge limiting beliefs, evaluate options, and decide on a course of action

What will the course enable me to do?

Conversationally coach at the water cooler or over a cup of coffee
Integrate metaphor and hypnosis with a coaching walk
Apply elegant questions to pace and lead ecological change
Help others connect with or change their beliefs and values
Create motivation for long term development
Coach high performance behaviours and skills

About the INLPTA Certified Training

An integrated approach to help people define and set outcomes, overcome limitations and achieve high performance goals

4 days of flexible training
Comprehensive NLP Coaching manual
New approaches and techniques
Definitions of coaching (what it is & isn’t)
How to create ethical agreements for coaching
Instruction and advice from an experienced NLP coach & therapist
Interactive and dynamic training
How to market yourself as a coach
Demonstrations and lots of practice
On course 1:1 support and coaching
Post-Course support

“Coaching is the art of conversationally creating a context for change to occur naturally...”

John Overdurf and Julie Silverthorn

“Coaching is an opportunity to have a conversation we otherwise wouldn’t be having”

Robert Holden

Coaching Certification - INLPTA Coach Practitioner

INLPTA Logo The course is designed to support and extend your skills and successful participants will be awarded the highly valued INLPTA Coach Practitioner and Sugar NLP Coach certificate. As with all our courses, the most powerful form of communication is behaviour and participants should use their skills ethically and with ecology in mind at all times.

Attending this training will allow you to feel confident to use your existing NLP skills to the full as a coach. It will also provide 32 hours of coach specific training to support your application for a organisation such as the Association for Coaching or the International Coach Federation.

What certificates are awarded?

That depends on what previous experience and training you have had. If you demonstrate the ability to coach effectively and ethically on the course and complete the integration paper then you can be awarded INLPTA certification.

If you are new to NLP Training	If you are a certified NLP Practitioner or above (any school)	If you are a certified NLP Practitioner or above from Sugar NLP†
Sugar Coach Certificate INLPTA Diploma in NLP	Sugar Coach Certificate INLPTA Coach Practitioner*	Sugar Coach Certificate INLPTA NLP Practitioner* INLPTA Coach Practitioner*

About INLPTA

We are an international world-wide active NLP-Trainer and NLP-Coach Association dedicated to quality, professionalism and ethics. Our focus is on the application of NLP in the business world and in personal development. * An INLPTA Practitioner Certificate will entitle you to Graduate Membership of INLPTA and membership of your National Association for NLP (the ANLP in the UK).

What is covered?

The course is designed to be reflexive to your needs and will give you new tools and techniques to use for yourself and make a difference to the way you work with others. Core sessions include:

DAY 1 - Contracting and Questions

Contracting with your client
2 levels of change, the 4 coaching interventions
SCORE model for conversational coaching
Beginning and ending a coaching session
Designing a well formed outcomes and goals
Questions to elicit strategies of excellence

DAY 2 - Working with Unconscious Metaphors

Creating natural world metaphors and stories
Coaching using your clients metaphors
How to coach while taking a walk with your client
Using presuppositions to influence
How to create the relaxation response
Visualisation techniques for high performance

DAY 3 - Values and Beliefs

Building motivation using a values ladder
Alignment of values in work and life
The structure of high performance beliefs
Conducting a belief audit with defined goals
Building self efficacy through the “Bandura dip”
Conversational and active belief change cycle

DAY 4 - The Process of Coaching Change

The TTM Behavioural Change Cycle
Dealing with procrastination
Setting goals for the future
Dancing SCORE
Working as a coach – how, where, how much?
Ethics and self supervision

“You acted like you had total respect for me and believed in me that I could do a good job. That more than anything helped me to grow and learn and was very valuable to me. So thank you for that! It has made me more aware what a strong emotion that can be for someone and is something that I try to do with others whom I work with.”

Playful Learning

Training with Sugar NLP and valley training is all about a passion and commitment to help you develop real excellence in coaching with your NLP skills and techniques.

We believe that practice is the key to making learning permanent

We will give you all the support and encouragement you need to get the most from the training because the changes that can happen may have far reaching benefits which you may not have even begun to imagine yet

Neal Anderson is an INLPTA NLP Trainer and Business Trainer and member of the Neuro Linguistic Psychotherapy Association. As a mentor, coach and therapist working with individuals and organisations he has been helping people grow and develop for over 15 years. Neal brings warmth and realism to coaching and training that really helps build skills for the long term for you and your clients.

“Thanks again and especially for helping me re-energise and find a better way of working for me.”

“Many thanks for the great NLP Coaching course in Kendal the other week; I thoroughly enjoyed it. Just the right amount of content and pace, and good to work with a smaller group of people for such a course – it felt (looked, smelt, sounded and tasted!?) much more personal and it has really helped things to fall into place for me. I tried out some of the simpler techniques during four 1:1 coaching sessions and they worked very well. The coaching was commented upon favourably by the clients. Just as importantly, I really enjoyed being the coach!”

Future Course Dates

21 - 24 June 2010

13-16 December 2010

Training Location

Central Kendal, Cumbria
The Lake District

Investment

Early Booking £416
Regular Price £595

Prerequisite

The courses is open to all - particularly those people with an interest in NLP Coaching.

Certification as an INLPTA Coach Practitioner requires previous NLP Practitioner certification (any school)
Certification as an INLPTA NLP Practitioner requires Sugar NLP Practitioner certification

How soon is it necessary to book?

Places are limited to ensure you receive the best training. We allow a maximum of 16 places on each course so it is advisable to book as soon as possible.