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Month: November 2019

What is an NLP Practitioner?

Posted on by CarlB

An NLP Practitioner is a highly resourceful and professional coach who uses the NLP technique to help others. The technique entails using the brain deliberately (in terms of procedures and interventions) to achieve the desired results. If you would like to train to become such a practitioner or you want to use their services, you’ll need to learn more about the scope of this profession.

How to qualify as an NLP Practitioner

The certification is internationally recognised hence allows individuals to practice as professionals anywhere in the world. These practitioners are popular because they are capable of assisting people in many areas of life. The field is similar to coaching and is self-regulated through a variety of recognised organisations, including INLPTA, ABNLP, NLPEA and ANLP.

These regulatory bodies provide ethics, standards and memberships for NLP professionals accredited through recognised training courses. Qualifications and certifications are only done by qualified NLP trainers who are granted the mandate by the professional bodies.

The practitioner qualification comprises of extensive study and completing the training course. The course typically lasts for 120 to 130 hours, and the trainer will assess the individuals to establish proficiency. Trainers often combine ongoing evaluation and a final test to ensure the individuals attain the required skill level.

The profile of an NLP Practitioner

Honestly, there is no specific profile. Practitioners come from different backgrounds from every part of the world; the uniqueness of NLP is that it comprises of a skill set that can be learned by anyone. It’s a series of processes and techniques used to produce excellence.

The main characteristic required in the professional is a positive attitude – a desire to learn and make the world better. If you’re observant, you’ll discover that all NLP Practitioners in the world display an attitude of curiosity.

After graduation, many practitioners open their businesses, whether as full-time or part-time therapists or coaches. Others use their new skills to enhance their existing workplaces in various industries, including business, sales, management, sports and education.

How NLP Practitioners can help you

NLP provides a new skill set that helps people to develop excellence in all areas of life. The therapy technique enhances physical, behavioural, communication and thought skills. This is very important for a well-balanced life; for example, you may be a top-level professional in the government, business or sports but you’re still struggling with addictions or are unable to face reality.

NLP practitioners are trained to deal with people at both ends of the spectrum. In most cases, the practitioners assist people from an area of life or business industry they are familiar with. For example, if you’re a healthcare professional, you’ll be an excellent practitioner when you work with people who have various health conditions, including anxiety, mild depression, stress, smoking cessation and phobia.

On a final note, NLP Practitioners are quite effective in helping people to enhance different areas of their lives. As a practitioner, you’ll be glad to know that the professional is rewarding, especially when the people you coach excel. The therapy entails maximising the brain’s potential while embracing modern neuroscience discoveries to achieve the desired objectives.

 
Interested in becoming an NLP Certified Practitioner? Book on today!

Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time!

Posted on by CarlB

A friend of mine shared the following story with me and it really hit a chord! I think it’s a story we could all take lessons from, so here we go…

A very elegant and petite lady in her 90’s always made sure she was up and dressed before 8.00 a.m. each morning. She took care to ensure that her hair was taken up neatly and carefully applied her make-up, even though she was partially blind. Her husband, whom she had been married to for 70 years had recently died, making it necessary for her to move into a nursing home.

On arrival at the home she had to wait several hours in the lobby before being told that her room was ready, and she smiled sweetly at this news. A member of nursing staff helped her into the lift with her walking frame and started to describe the tiny and cramped room that was to be her ‘new home’. She listened carefully before declaring “I love it” with the enthusiasm a child would display when opening a much longed for present. The member of staff replied:

“You haven’t seen the room yet…just wait.”

The elderly lady responded:

“That really doesn’t have anything to do with it. Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged, it’s how I arrange my mind and I have already decided that I love it. It’s a decision I make each morning when I wake up. I have a choice…I could spend all day in bed feeling sorry about the parts of my body that no longer work, or I can get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift and as long as my eyes still open I’ll focus on the new day and all the wonderful, happy memories I have stored away, just for this time in life.

Life is like a bank account…you withdraw what you put in. So, my advice would be to deposit as much happiness in your bank account of memories – I am still depositing”.

Here are some simple rules to be happy:

  • Free your mind from worries
  • You always have a choice
  • Be kind to those you meet on life’s journey
  • Enjoy the here and now
  • Take action
  • Follow your dreams

For anybody that feels they have reached a ‘fork in the road’ and wants to take action to make a positive difference in their lives, please come along to our NLP and Coaching convention on the 27th of March next year.

Cheers!

Wendy Lukacs

Coaching – Should I make suggestions?

Posted on by CarlB

When leaders or new coaches attend a Leadership or NLP Coaching programme, they frequently have an urge to suggest a solution to their coachee or team member.

The group I’m currently with in Manchester fed back on their first session that they wanted to help their coachee and could see what the coachee should do.

Now, firstly, whilst this may sometimes work, we all have a natural ‘push back’ reflex and may respond with, ‘Well, that wouldn’t work’ or, ‘I’ve tried that’. You can’t push string, but they can pull it!

Secondly, when making suggestions or offering solutions, they come from the coach’s model of the world not the coachees. In his best-selling book, Effective Coaching, Myles Downey says that when the coachee takes responsibility and works out a direction for themselves “that is where the magic occurs.”

And you can meet the Coach’s Coach in person at the NLP and Coaching Convention on March 27th next year.

Back to coaching then. Very often your coachee or team member will present you with a situation you have experienced yourself and the temptation is to empathise with them and tell them about your own experience. I have seen this happen many times along with the coachee’s reaction. Often, they feel that the focus has moved away from them and onto the coach or, at best, somewhere in between. What I recommend is acknowledging in your own thoughts that this is occurring and to just have your whole attention on your coachee.

Often the Coach’s head is so full of stuff or the next question they want to ask that they are not listening. It is important that your mind is totally clear. Your coachee needs space for reflection. A couple of years ago, I introduced the concept of Ma into coaching. Ma is the Japanese word for space or gap. It can occur in between branches of a tree or the pause at the end of a bow, which demonstrates respect. As far as ancient teaching is concerned, Ma is more than just a space or gap. For example, the walls, windows, ceilings and doors don’t make a house, it is the space within them that creates the house. Likewise, it is not the round curvature of glass but the space that it surrounds within that creates the wine glass.

The concept of Ma can apply to aspects of leadership and coaching too. When the Coach’s mind is ‘clear’ from other thoughts, this is when the ‘deep’ listening happens.

Remember your coachee has all the resources inside them, your job is to flick the light switch and let their electricity flow.

How can NLP Training help?

Posted on by CarlB

We don’t always think about how to organise our thinking. For many of us, we have a cluster of thoughts that we can struggle to make sense of. Think of it as a chest of drawers with all the contents spilled out onto the floor. That is the thought-process many people must endure.

But what if there was a way to alleviate those issues? What if we had some method to organise those drawers and go about our thought-process in a more organised manner? This is where NLP training comes into the picture.

What is NLP Training?

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programmingand is the study of how people organise their minds in terms of their thoughts, emotions and behaviour in order to produce the real-world outputs they do. Neuro refers to our own unique mental filtering system taking in all the sensations around us like our likes, sounds and people. This creates a mental map called First Access, made up of internal images, sounds and sensations.

This information is then assigned to our own personal understanding, which is called the Linguistic Map. Finally, our response based on the internal organising is delivered, this being the Programming part of the process. There are various benefits to making use of this organised mindset and we aim to run through a few of them to show you why NLP Training is the utmost necessity.

Public Speaking

We all share that phobia of standing before an audience and trying to make ourselves sound calm and collected, conscious of missing out words, stumbling over our speech and being silently judged by the crowd. NLP training can help you forget the fear by prompting a physiological change, thinking of what body patterns are unhelpful and disposing of them accordingly. It can also anchor a person to a state of mind where they were at their most calm and productive. Everyone will need to speak before an audience at some point in our lives. Make sure you’ve had NLP training when you do, or risk stumbling at a crucial moment.

Employee Performance

Some employees can be gripped with a fear of failing should they leave their comfort zone, which can hinder their professional growth. NLP training can make use of language coaching that will get to the root of what limits employees in their performance, and perhaps even uncover issues that the employee wasn’t aware of in the first place.

Change Unhealthy Habits

You may have addictive traits that you want to do away with such as smoking, drinking or biting nails, but are too locked into that addictive loop to break out of it. You may have a personality tick that is doing your personal relationships harm. NLP training can readjust those mindsets and help you take a kinder, albeit more assertive approach to your personal health. It will do away with the day-to-day anxiety plaguing your mind and holding you back, allowing you to excel.

NLP Training is a revolutionary tool that has helped plenty of people, from public speakers who have difficulties making their voices known, to employees held back from greatness, to people suffering from crippling issues such as low body image or depression.

The applications are endless. It is the medicine that can make a difference for anyone who needs to recognise their own value and see their self-worth.