INLPTA Certified Coach

APPLYING NLP AND the SCORE model
TO coach performance

This INLPTA certified training is designed for professionals who coach others or qualified NLP Practitioners who want to develop their skills, be more flexible and responsive.

Learn practical and dynamic approaches

Get NLP tools to change behaviours, values and beliefs

Ask questions that get directly to the real issue

The course is particularly suited to people who want to coach others in a business or performance context. It includes proven structures for coaching and practical techniques to apply with others. Advance your NLP Coaching with:

Performance Coaching, the SCORE and GROW models
Motivating Values, Building Beliefs, Self Efficacy, Changing Beliefs
Metaphorical Coaching, Coaching Walks, Visualisation and Relaxation
The Process of Change, Exploring & Setting Goals, Future Planning

Purpose of the Training

The course will focus on aligning your current skills and adding new approaches. It is for you if you coach others or use coaching as part of your work e.g. as a manager, leader, trainer, consultant or health professional. It is for you if:

You value helping people reach solutions
You want new ways to help others overcome problems
You want to coach at conscious and unconscious levels
You want a formal coaching qualification
You want better ways to help people change easily
You appreciate working with flexibility and choice
You have a genuine interest in NLP Coaching

Where can I use the skills I will learn?

The programme is designed to equip participants with the skills to effectively and ethically use a NLP approach to coaching with individuals and groups. Suitable for qualified NLP Practitioners and existing coaches wanting to learn how to get the best from traditional and new NLP techniques, you may choose to apply your skills with:

Business Coaching

Guiding leaders and managers to clarify issues, challenge limiting beliefs, evaluate options, and decide on a course of action

Performance / Sports Coaching

Helping the good get great and the great be consistent under the demands of a high pressure environment

Groups & Organisations

Inspiring, motivating and facilitating change and development to help people to connect and communicate

Personal Development

Focusing on self awareness, assertiveness, confidence, stress management and communication

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

Beginning and ending a coaching session
The 4 basic coaching interventions
SCORE and GROW models for conversational coaching
Listening with empathy and purpose
State is the biggest resource we have

DAY 2 - Coaching High Performance Beliefs

Building motivation using a values ladder
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 3 - Metaphorical Coaching & visualisation

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

DAY 4 - The Process of Coaching Change

The TTM Behavioural Change Cycle
Identifying the real goal behind procrastination
Exploring and setting goals for the future
Dancing SCORE
Working as a coach – ethics and 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.”

What will the course enable me to do?

Conversationally coach at the water cooler or over a cup of coffee
Integrate natural world metaphors 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

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

INLPTA Diploma in NLP Coaching

If you are a certified NLP Practitioner or above from any school

INLPTA Certified Coach Practitioner

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.

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.

Who delivers the training?

Neal Anderson is an INLPTA Registered NLP, Coaching and Business Communications Trainer, a UKCP Registered Neuro Linguistic Psychotherapist, a Qualified Teacher (QTLS) and an Accredited Practitioner of Outdoor Learning. With a background in engineering, management and development training he works as a facilitator, coach and therapist with individuals and organisations. Neal is passionate about helping people bring the best out of themselves and others.

“It was a fantastic course, enjoyed it so much, and just wishing to keep practising, it was so good to spend four days with a lovely bunch of like minded people”

“Thank you for such an inspiring and special course. It has had a tremendous effect on me and I am sure on the people I will be coaching in the future. Your ability to attract such inspiring people and keep them coming back says a lot about the person you are and the unique training you are providing”

“Thank you once again for a thoroughly stimulating course and I do feel proud to call myself a certified NLP coach as a result. I do think you have exceptionally good facilitation skills.”

“Benefits to me are having a flexible but clear framework for working as a coach - which I think will be useful to help direct my learning & practice as a coach. The certification is also important - it's a kind of quality mark and indicates some credibility.”

Next Steps

Places are limited to ensure you receive the best training and feedback. I allow a maximum of 12 places on each course so it is advisable to book as soon as possible in order to take advantage of the early booking discount.

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