If you have achieved NLP Practitioner or Master Practitioner certification, you have the opportunity to attend our next Coach Practitioner programme starting in December 2008.

There are many coaching courses which offer some form of accreditation, but there are none that we are aware of which offer the unique combination of ...

This innovative and exciting workshop will enable you to ...

• Significantly increase your confidence and competence in dealing with deeper, values based coaching situations.
  
  
• Handle any type of coaching situation - from ad hoc 'coffee machine' coaching to longer, more formal sessions.
  
  
• Build high levels of rapport and trust with your coachee as well as a deeper understanding of their 'map of the world'.
  
  
• Further develop your 'second position' skills in order to gain insights into the coachee's internal state and therefore the most effective next step - even before they are aware of it themselves.
  
  
• Refine your linguistic and questioning skills in order to,
  
  
  • Be clear about your desired outcome for a question before you ask it.
    
    
  • Frame questions in such a way as to make it most likely you will achieve your outcome.
    
    
• And much more.

The course will be led by Ian Ross - INLPTA Master Trainer and Coach Trainer, and one of the most highly skilled and experienced personal and business coaches in the UK (if not in Europe!). It will be run on a masterclass basis with lots of practical exercises, and opportunities to practise and receive feedback.

In order to further increase your confidence and competence, you will be asked to complete a number of coaching projects between modules, and submit written case studies. These will also form part of the certification process.

In addition, we believe that one of the keys to being a truly effective coach at this level is access to regular supervision and mentoring after the certification process is completed. Therefore, we will also offer this by arrangement on an individual basis.

The course will be accredited through the International NLP Trainers Association (INLPTA), and certification will be dependent on achieving the following criteria:

• Behavioural competency in all Practitioner level skills and the ability to do several patterns simultaneously.

• The ability to apply the INLPTA NLP Practitioner models in a coaching setting.

• The ability to identify, utilise and demonstrate integration of the Coach Practitioner content, skills, frames, concepts, principles, processes, techniques and distinctions.

• The ability to do simple individualised coaching interventions based on Practitioner models.

• Demonstrated ability to operate from an ecological framework and philosophy, and to do ecological change work with others.

• Ability to create and design different constructive and productive settings for coaching sessions.

• Ability to detect patterns, habits and sequences in the coachee's behaviour, thinking and emotional states.

• Ability to select the appropriate change technology (technique/intervention/question) to facilitate the change.

• Ability to maintain resourceful states for intellectual, emotional, and physical choice.

• Ability to process one's own modeling of the world and to re-organise one's approach as appropriate to the context and outcome.

• Ability to act in different coaching roles appropriate to the person (coachee), process, situation and context.

• Embodiment of the Presuppositions of NLP.

• The ability to perform a solution oriented coaching session based on the INLPTA NLP Coach Practitioner contents and models.

• The ability to use language (questions, presuppositions, frames, reframes) and behaviour to facilitate the learning and change of the coachee.

• The ability to elicit ideas, solutions, steps towards the defined goals and outcomes from the coachee.

This 4-day modular programme builds on our NLP Business Practitioner or any INLPTA equivalent, to constitute certification at the level of NLP Coach Practitioner according to the criteria set by the International NLP Trainers Association (INLPTA).

Module 1: 3-4 December

Module 2: 15-16 January

Contact us now to book a place on this unique, leading-edge programme.

This programme will be run at the beautiful Bix Manor near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

The cost of the programme is £1250 (+vat) and this includes a light breakfast on arrival each day, 2-course lunch and refreshments throughout the day.