So What’s In The NLP Master Practitioner Syllabus?
Let’s start with you becoming a Master of Language
Free yourself from techniques and make dramatic, radical changes at the most abstract (and thus more powerful) level. Think about that for a moment – you’ll be able to blow out problems with only your words! You’ll spend about four days rethinking your ideas about your language. This is Neuro Linguistics after all. If you thought you learned a lot about language on Practitioner, prepare to have your mind stretched wide open. We’ll cover:
· How to boost someone’s self concept and identity with eight simple questions.
· How to quickly dismantle what the client feels is real and reconstruct what’s not yet…
· Use Submodalities linguistically – make shifts in the person’s internal representations without having to use pen and paper, instead using only words
· Linguistic Time Line – why spend all that time eliciting time lines, teaching four positions and zooming around back and forth when you can get the same effect using five simple sentences? We call it “The Decision Destroyer”
· Become an astonishing linguistic change artist. Just suppose you could simply talk to people and they changed. Free yourself from techniques and discover why this is called MASTER practitioner. If you want to be the next Richard Bandler, this is how to do it!
· Hear problems suck themselves into the past and bring resources from the future into the present using temporal shifts
· Swish people from “Can’t” to “Must” using modal operator chains.
· Advanced Presuppositions – on NLP Practitioner you learned how to hear the Presuppositions in someone’s language, which hold up their map of reality. This time you’ll learn how to undercut them and watch their limitations fall to pieces, with just words. This is conversational magic!
Reframing made ridiculously easy…
As you know on NLP Practitioner you learned the art of reframing – how to get a client to take a fresh look at their assumptions just by asking a simple question. Remember that? However, you might have thought that it was very abstract and “fluffy”. What if there was a way to generate reframes quickly and easily, which meant you could get anyone to question their own model of the world? This is conversational magic.
Listen, Robert Dilts once noticed that Richard Bandler never lost an argument. He modelled that process, and he called it “Sleight of Mouth”. If you want to have someone modify their beliefs, this is a conversational way to do it. Maybe a client verbalises a limiting belief, and you don’t have time to do a submodality shift or a Time Line Therapy intervention. Or prepare a number of reframes in advance between appointments, and go in there armed for bear. Works especially well with Auditory Digital types because it ties them up in loops. And confusion leads to trance, and you know what that leads to, do you not?
You will have over twenty ways to get a person to question their own mindset. It’s not you that’s doing the dismantling, it’s them. This will certainly loosen the problem, and often blows it right out just there! Gets them to change their mind…
Values – the keys to motivation
The ultimate keys to knowing what you do and why you do it! You have an internal compass that determines to what degree you’re satisfied and fulfilled. They are the ultimate tool to understanding, and motivating, your behaviour and that of others’. Simple but profound.
Learn the Secret to being motivated all of the time! How do you know what decision to make, whether what you're doing is the right thing to do, what motivates a person and how to fully satisfy a client? If you don't uncover your core motivators, you’ll never truly understand yourself, or your colleagues and customers. When you do you will be able to elicit the best from any person you have dealings with, and understand them at a deeper level.
Does this sound useful? Learn what it is you’ve been trying to achieve all your life.
Many people have a direction/mission/life purpose – do you? Would you like to discover what it is? Ever felt like you’ve lost your direction – don’t really know what you’re doing? Values are the answer to finding it again.
You should be able to make decisions that are right for you, every time. How does that sound? Would it be useful to understand and select people who are like you?
Have you ever tried to get from A – B and you ended up at Z? What you wear, who you sleep with, how you raise your kids, what you do for a living, what you read is all determined by your values – so how do you know if you’re doing the right thing?
Ever achieved a goal and it was a complete anti-climax? Or what about loving relationships? You can’t meet another person’s needs – client, lover, boss, if you don’t know what they are… Managers need to be able to motivate their staff. The only way to have long term happiness is to live by your highest ideals.
Any internal conflict inside yourself comes from your values
Values are the road signs to feeling good. A value is an emotionally packed word like “Health” or “Freedom” or security”. They’re what we move towards or away from – our compulsions and our revulsions. Deep level emotional states you want to relish again, or avoid at all costs. What we’re willing to spend resources on (by that I mean money, energy, time). Largely unconscious = very abstract = very powerful. They drive your purpose as a human being, & they govern how you spend your time. I call them “The batteries for strategies”
Once you know what they are, you can then design engineer them to be the way you want them to be! Imagine not having to push yourself to go to the gym, or make yourself do something you don’t really want to do. Imagine if you just found yourself doing it, because it was in harmony with your new values. That can be done, in minutes! Life changing, rapid shifts that lead to all sorts of new behaviours and lifestyle choices.
Why are some people good at making decisions, while others struggle to do so easily? What if there was an easy way to make decisions for yourself that were always right for you? What if you already had this built in Compass which has steered all of your decisions in the past, & will always do so in the future? Wouldn't it make sense to use the software that came factory fitted, so to speak?
Most of your values have been programmed in at random from the environment, your parents, the media, society, & your heroes. To make it even more fascinating, your values about money will differ from your values about relationships, although some core values will show up time & again, as they are part of your identity. Do you understand how important it is that you discover your own values? And how vital it might be to uncover any hidden “away from” motivation that might be secretly sabotaging your towards efforts!
The problem is that these are unconscious - you don't know why you do such things, you just know you have to. Not only that, but some values are more blindingly important than others, & every time you make a decision what actually happens is that the hierarchy of values is filtering your choices, & ultimately your actions will be determined by them. If you find yourself regretting a decision, is it simply because you went against your internal compass. Any internal conflict inside yourself comes from your values - you may have a fantastic job, but if your life goes against your values, you will be unhappy & unfulfilled.
Alternatively, a person living on the breadline but living in accordance with their values will feel satisfied inside.
Most people are excited & surprised to see their core values on paper. However, becoming consciously aware of them you will learn to understand why you do what you do. Also once you know what they are, you can take steps to ensure that you experience these values on a daily basis, & when you do that life becomes more Technicolour as opposed to black & white.
Values are especially important in relationships because it is the satisfaction or violation of them that will sustain or crush the partnership. People give away their values all the time in their language, & once you’re trained to hear them, you will be more aware of them in everyday conversation. Chances are people are giving you strong clues about what motivates them in their everyday speech, if you’re trained to hear it.
Do you spend time with people who share your core values? Or do you find yourself in conflict with other people? Any argument with another person comes about when someone’s value is violated. Many people achieve all of their goals, have all the material things they always wanted & yet are miserable - because their values are still largely unsatisfied.
This is the ultimate in self-knowledge!
Remember: values are the fantastic compass to steer you to your ultimate destination: if you violate them you feel conflict, resistance & nagging doubt. When you live life in accordance with your values you feel rewarded & satisfied.
One thing’s for sure - this will also confirm to you consciously how many of your values being a Master Practitioner of NLP/HGE will satisfy. Seriously! You always want to elicit your client’s values, so you can satisfy them in the work you do with them. Doesn’t that seem obvious?
I’m also going to show you a fascinating model which when I first saw it, sitting where you are, it was like a bolt out of the blue. Have you ever done some work on an aspect of your life, and yet certain stuff still seems to hang around? Buzzing away like an angry bee in your brain? Like, you try and boost your relationships area, yet you still keep meeting the wrong type? Or you enhance your wealth area and yet your money situation is still crap a year later. Has that happened to you? Well part of that is to do with Astrology, and part of that is to do with your own “personal evolution” – by that I mean where you are in your personal development…
The very fact that you’re reading this is significant. Only certain people come to a letter like this. And certain people wouldn’t be seen dead in a letter like this. (Maybe that’s not the right choice of words but you know what I mean…) Have you ever wondered why that is? Ever noticed that you do some work on yourself – you raise your own standards, or make a resolution, or promise yourself that you’ll never do that thing again…. and yet it comes back to haunt you? Is it just me, or have you also experienced that?
Ever worked somewhere for a while and gradually suspected that you’ve outgrown it, or you just don’t get on with their co-workers anymore? Have you ever looked back at some of the stuff you’ve done in the past and wondered, “What the hell was I thinking?” If you’re a helping professional, who works with people’s “stuff”, wouldn’t it be useful to have an idea of what direction to move your client in? Sometimes you get a client and quite frankly, you’re not totally certain what to do with them. Here’s the answer…
It’s been said that “People’s lives are a direct reflection of the expectations of their peer group.”
What does this mean? Your peer group are the people you spend time with. You adapt to them, to keep their love and connection. You bend to fit them. You become like the people you associate with. You’ll have three choices:
1] Lead them and hopefully they’ll follow
2] Stay & let them pull you down, or keep you static
3] Leave the peer group
Tony Robbins said “if your expectations are higher than theirs, they’ll try to pull you down to theirs”. They don’t want to lose you. To grow and evolve, Tony suggests you team up with people who will stretch you. Love your family, choose your peer group.
Dr Claire Graves (who was a man by the way) was an American Sociologist in the fifties. He said that the things that are important to us move and “change, as we grow, and our notions of what we want and what we don’t want change too.” We move up a structure (like a ladder) stage by stage. There are no rules about how fast we go, or how far along it, but we are always moving… He studied societies all the way back to the birth of Christ. However, he never wrote a single book on this. Grave’s system didn’t have enough levels to explain some of the people that we meet in life, so Dr Tad James expanded upon it, bringing it up to date. Subsequently it has gained greater popularity and even had an overhaul when it became known as “Spiral Dynamics”.
Spiral Dynamics is simply a model for “mapping” how we as humans evolve and tells you where you’ve been, and where you’re going. Frustrated by the hundreds of conflicting theories about human behaviour,
Like many perfectionist geniuses, he never published his complete work. That is because he was always discovering new refinements and exploring new horizons such that he saw his work as never complete. Also like many geniuses, the publishing and application of his work was later accomplished by his students. Two such keen followers, Beck and Cowen (1996), coined the term Spiral Dynamics and applied its principles to social change. They were hired by the government of
That’s why this really is the most useful model I think in the entire Master Prac syllabus, and it will change the way you think about people forever. Very revealing.
Get more focussed and on target!
Have you ever felt internally conflicted, have you ever felt as if part of you wants to do one thing but part of you wants to do something else? Yeah? That can kind of internal conflict can keep you stuck, because you can be like torn between something, a devil and an angel, or a rock and a hard place. Part of you wants to do this but part of you stops you, or I really want to do this but I can’t, because this little voice in my head says such-and-such and is trying to keep me safe.
Frankly, we can show you a very, very quick way of resolving that once and for all, using a process called Parts’ Integration, which alone can be quite a life-changing experience for a lot of people. You get somebody who’s been torn between two polar opposites for many years of their life, and within 5 or 10 minutes you resolve it within them permanently. That can create a huge shift. Or maybe it’s you – you know, part of you believes what I’m saying and part of you doesn’t….?
Put an end to self sabotage – deal with the gremlin that tries to talk you out of changing. Increase your congruence so you’re going 100% towards what you want. You’ll even talk to the part of you that runs all of your other Parts! Talk about chunking up!
Reveal your Prime Concern
Imagine that when the 4 bodies of man (see Jonathan’s latest report “NLP & Beyond”) are squeezed into a person’s physical body, something gets left out. That something will be a hot button, a short word or phrase that acts like the filter of all filters. In NLP/HGE we call that your Prime Concern.
Mine used to be “it’s not fair”, and I would hear that and say it out loud with great gusto every time I didn’t get what I wanted. It also screamed at me every time I did get what I wanted too! Imagine that! In times of stress the first thing that I heard in my head or heard myself saying was “It’s not fair!” That was what I was to discover was my Prime Concern You might like to figure out what yours is. Because when you elicit it, two things happen:
1. First, you realise “On my god I always think that”
2. Second, you start to vibrate with the negative emotions that are packed into that phrase.
It’s like your ultimate raw nerve, and thus is needs to be “popped”. It’s like a constant drain on your life force energy. It’s what’s missing in your model of the world. It’s trapped energy. You’ll learn how to elicit it, and more importantly clear it! And all that trapped energy becomes available to you to use as you see fit.
Rip the weeds out at the roots, so they can never regrow
Most people’s lives are described beautifully in Finnegan’s Wake – “all moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday and shatterday” Here’s the sledgehammer technique for those stubborn negative feelings that haven’t shifted yet – the tool that Brandon Bays expanded upon and based her Journey process on. What if you’ve cleared a string of pearls horizontally, but there’s a vertical component to it?
What if the negative feelings run so deep or have been in there so long that they have roots, and all of your attempts to crack it have reduced it but not blown it out. That’s when you wheel out the incredible howitzer of the Drop Down Through.
Plus I’ll warn you now – it’s rough, but its’ stunningly transformational. It’s a case of “I’ve started so I’ll finish”, because once you elect to start this process, you can’t leave the client (or yourself for that matter) half done. It’s playing at 100% all the way with this one. And it’s worth it.
Use 31 Presentation Skills all at the same time
Obviously you already know that all learning, all behaviour and all change is unconscious, so if you train, teach, present or educate, and you want your students to change what they’re doing, or how they’re feeling, or exhibit some new behaviour, or to really soak it in, to really touch someone at a deep level, you need to talk to their unconscious minds… You’ll learn all about audiences, meeting, groups and state of the art communication.
Maybe you’ve had uncomfortable experiences in the past in front of groups, or where you thought “I know I can do better than that”. Perhaps you want to look more comfortable when presenting to groups? This training is ideal for anyone who’s ready to let go of the fear of speaking in public!
Want to know how to use your brain, language and physiology to get the results you want? Maybe you have to stand up and speak to groups right now – perhaps you’re someone who educates, trains or presents. Maybe there’s something coming up really soon where you’ll have to stand up and give a speech… This is useful even for weddings, promotions or impromptu speeches.
Fortunately I’m going to reveal a number of hush hush “trade secrets” so you can do it comfortably. To communicate effectively, according to Richard Bandler, you need to entertain your audience, and I’d agree. Specifically you need to do four things:
- KEEP THEIR ATTENTION
- BOND WITH THEM
- BE REMEMBERED
- AND MOST OF ALL…..BE YOURSELF IN FRONT OF AUDIENCE
My outcome is that you become totally comfortable, being yourself, in front of an audience of any size. Being yourself is really important. You won’t need a special “speaker personality”. You won’t have any armour on or a wall up. You don’t need a lucky stone in your bra, “Dutch courage” to get through it, or a special suit reserved for special occasions. You’re simply going to be open, honest, genuine and OK being exactly who you really are, in front of a group of other people.
How do you do that? Well, I’m going to share with you about 30 key skills including:
- Gaining rapport with any size of group – fast!
- How to achieve & stay – relaxed, focussed & centred
- Structuring your presentation around preferred learning styles to maximise audience retention and attention. An easy to remember format that fits everyone, and keeps you on track so you never lose your place, WITHOUT NOTES!
- Using specific gestures and postures to increase your impact & flexibility as a presenter
- Controlling your audiences’ state of mind moment to moment
- Using metaphors to speed both conscious & unconscious learning
- How to maintain & manage the energy in the room, and yours!
- The secrets to increase your personal charisma and magnetism
- How to handle criticism and heckling – you won’t get told “no” as often!
Best of all you’ll have over 30 ways to blow the doors off the place! So if you plan to run NLP/HGE seminars, sell your services into business or run your own trainings, here are the tools. And if you ask nicely, we’ll even let you in on some of the secret ploys used uniquely by Anthony Robbins, John Grinder and Richard Bandler…
Use Esoteric secrets from ancient Hawaii
Master Practitioners bridge the gap between the logical Practitioner levels learning to focus and shape the mind, and the shaman or magician who can make changes in their outer world by making changes in their inner world.
To get to grips with the esoteric roots of NLP/HGE, Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy we will initiate you into some fascinating and profound techniques that come from the ancient science of Hawaiian Huna, rumoured to be the master system of all other alternative or complementary therapies. Of course, you’ll never really know for sure, but what if it is – wouldn’t you want to have the inside scoop on the master system of
all systems?
You’ll learn how to use Hakalau (Peripheral Vision) as an intervention in three different processes:
Ø To instantly dissolve negative emotions any time you want
Ø To release your attachment to goals that you can’t live without, thus repelling them and pushing them further away
Ø To feel yourself actually let go of time, space, matter and energy and permanently expand your consciousness! At this level, nothing exists, not even you! Whoah! You have to feel it to believe it. Achieve in twenty minutes what Transcendental Meditation takes 20 years to attain.
You’ll also learn Hiolani – the sitting meditation of the Kahuna that teaches you to focus and allows you to access deep trance states instantly. Imagine yourself totally calm, completely relaxed, enjoying all the benefits of deep meditation.
In short all of these Huna tools help you to access the Spiritual areas that NLP usually omits entirely. Add that missing dimension to your study and your work with others using easy, simple processes modelled on Shamanic techniques that are thousands of years old.
Compress decades into days with Modelling
On this course you’ll be given a Modelling project – I’ll demonstrate a skill and you have to model me, and then reproduce the same result. And if you don’t get the entire recipe right, it hurts!
You’ll be emulating Bandler and Grinder and learn how to model someone of excellence and be able to duplicate what they do, without having to spend years making all the same mistakes. Every good quality NLP Master Practitioner course has a modelling project as part of it, but they are usually theoretical and on paper. This one is visual, auditory and kinesthetic, and immediately effective. I promise you’ll learn lots in a short space of time.
And forever more, whenever you see someone do something spectacular, rather than just think “Wow! Wish I could do that”, you’ll be able to emulate and duplicate that ability just by asking a few key questions. What else do you want to be able to do?
You get a month between modules
As if that’s not enough, you even get time to let your brain cool down. Mind you, there is a comprehensive written test paper and it even contains some tasks and ordeals to complete, just like the ones Milton Erickson used to assign his students. So that will keep you busy.
All the more reason to book your place and start your pre-study as soon as possible!
If you could change anything about yourself what would you change?
That’s a good question. We also teach you how to change habits. In NLP/HGE we call them Strategies: internal processes that drive complex behaviours. How different people make decisions, get motivated and perform any task. People have “recipes” for doing things. You always put the same shoe on first. You tend to leave your keys in the same place every time and if they’re not there you frazzle!
Or maybe you just want to get even better at eliciting people’s recipes for you to scramble, change, borrow or streamline. You’ll learn how to chunk all the information people give you and know exactly where to step in.
You’ll learn how to link a person’s problem strategy to their inbuilt solution strategy, and watch the client Swish themselves. Now that’s elegant change work.
Learn and use Advanced NLP/HGE Techniques
You will have the ultimate hypnosis script – a universally useful 6 step process in which you ask the unconscious mind to heal the physical body.
You’ll also be glad to know that you will learn the precise steps and factors that you need to cover when you are doing a physical healing intervention. Theoretically this is the most complicated and dramatic intervention you can take part in – we show you how to dot all the “i’s” and cross all the “t’s” so that the physical body actually changes.
And that’s just the start - as part of Master Practitioner you will be gifted an incredible tool – a compiled list of about forty of the most serious and common physical and mental complaints (diseases/illnesses/ailments) people can create, and the specific step-by-step intervention for each. Imaging how confident you’ll be knowing that no matter what you meet in your therapeutic work, you’ll have a game plan for it. This is the very latest improved technology and has recently been updated personally by Dr. Tad James and passed to Jonathan hot off the press in April 2005.
Of course there are the Advanced Patterns – using Submodalities to clear up allergies, blow out food compulsions and frazzle phobias. We’ll share with you the inside secrets that add “zing” to your interventions and really make them stick. Designer Swish Patterns that use the client’s driver Submodalities to really widen their horizons!
Know what to do when with the Personal Breakthrough Session
Picture yourself building a tailor-made intervention for each client – a condensed therapy session of between 1 and 8 hours that transforms a person and evolves them years in a matter of hours. Clear out all of the negative emotions, limiting beliefs and ineffective strategies in one go!
By the way, this is the “What to do and when?” part of NLP/HGE. We’ll take you through the step by step structure of a therapy session from initial contact to them giving you referrals because they’re so blown away by how much they’ve improved.
In essence you’ll have the exact questions to ask that make clients transparent and tell you where you need to intervene and with which approach. Presenting problems will jump off the page at you. And you’ll be able to charge upwards of £50 per hour for your therapy skills…
Jonathan will also provide you with his own unique models and aide memoirs that he has developed over 14 years in working with real people. These exclusive “cheat sheets” keep you right and help you look at and chunk what your clients tell you.
We’ll also show you how to pinpoint and smoke out Secondary Gain – where the person has more to gain from keeping the problem than in letting it go – and then how to get around that.
Predict, understand and match people’s behaviours
Are you familiar with Psychometric testing? Personality Profiling instruments – DISC, Myers Briggs, LSI, those kinds of tools? Imagine if there was a way to elicit the same information from someone at no cost, conversationally, in minutes, without any computers or scoring? Would that be useful?
You may have heard of The Myers Briggs study – Isobel Briggs Myers and Catherine Myers did extensive research into “how” people think. Later, Metaprograms were developed by Richard and Lesley Cameron Bandler. They are like a Computer’s Operating System, and allow you to predict, understand, match and change someone’s behaviour. Metaprograms are the keys to the way a person processes information. They're powerful internal patterns that help determine how he or she forms his internal representations and direct his or her behaviour.
For example, you have a Convincer Metaprogram, which is how you decide something is true and real, or not. If, at the end of a therapy session, or a sales interview, you “fill up” that client’s Convincer metaprogram, they will know for sure that they have changed, or they’ll be fully satisfied, or they’ll feel certain they got what they wanted. From now on you’re clients will always leave feeling fully satisfied that the problem’s been eradicated.
In a nutshell they provide the structure that governs what we pay attention to, how we make sense of our experiences, and the directions in which they take us. To communicate with a computer, you have to understand its software. To communicate effectively with a person you have to understand his or hers. Through understanding those mental patterns you can expect to get your message across, whether it's trying to get someone to buy a car or to “get” that you really love him/her. Myers Briggs says you’re born this way and they are fixed. In NLP/HGE we believe they were learned and they’re all changeable!
Imagine if you switched from Introvert (quiet, keeping yourself to yourself, small number of deep friendships) to extrovert (expressive, interacting with everyone, with friends everywhere!) That would be quite a shift!
We’ll also coach you in the language patterns that each type uses, so you’ll recognise it when you hear it, AND be able to talk to them the way they talk to themselves.
Squeeze a year’s worth of personal growth into one day
The final two training days of the course are reserved for your own work – you’ll spend one day as an NLP/HGE Master Practitioner in a therapy context, and you’ll take another student through a condensed Breakthrough session of up to eight solid hours. Be able to help anyone with anything. The only question you’ll have is “Which NLP/HGE tool should I use next?”
The next day, it’s your turn – you’re the client and you can use this opportunity to clear out all the negative emotions, limiting beliefs and ineffective strategies that you can think of. Squeeze a year’s worth of personal growth into one day.
As Dylan Thomas once said “You must work at the talent as a sculptor works at stone, chiselling, plotting, rounding, edging and making perfect.”
No wonder lots of people do NLP/HGE Master Practitioner JUST FOR THESE TWO DAYS ALONE! Think about it – consolidating your skills in an entire day where you’re in control, setting the scene, structuring a session and watching your client transform before your eyes.