ICNLP Certification Standards

All trainings are assessed on the three principles of Knowledge, Skill and Action

The assessment is continuous, it begins when the training begins, however there is an integration and assessment time at the end of the course, when participants are set specific tasks on which they are assessed. All trainings, Practitioner, Master Practitioner and Trainer must take at least fifteen days and contain at least 120 hours of teaching time (excluding lunch breaks). All ICNLP certifications trainings given by an ICNLP certified trainer adhere to the standards and Ethics of the ICNLP. In order to gain the certification, the candidate must satisfy the ICNLP trainers in the following areas:

Certified NLP Practitioner

Knowledge
To know the following distinctions:

• The presuppositions of NLP

• The present and desired state model

• The well formed criteria for outcomes

• The presuppositions of NLP

• Rapport

• Calibration

• Representational systems

• Predicates

• Accessing cues

• Ecology

• Neurological Levels

• Perceptual Positions

• Association and Dissociation

• Anchors

• Break state

• Submodalities

• Timelines

• Strategies

• Meta Model

• Milton Model

• Trance

• Conscious and Unconscious

• Chunking

• Reframing

• Framing

  • Contrast

  • Relevancy

  • Backtrack

  • Outcome

  • As if

Participants must also complete a written test as an integration of the knowledge

Skill
The ability to successfully carry out the following patterns:

• • Challenge Meta model patterns when appropriate.

• • Use Milton Model to elicit trance.

• • To use metaphor.

• • To backtrack.

• • Flexibility of thinking to chunk up or down depending on the situation.

• • To carry out a six step reframe.

• • To use both content and context reframing patterns.

• • To elicit submodalities.

• • To build and maintain rapport.

• • To recognise and use accessing cues.

• • To work with anchors:

  • Recognising and setting anchors in all representational systems.

  • Collapsing

  • Setting resource anchors

• • To calibrate accurately emotional states.

• • To future pace interventions you carry out.

• • Pacing and leading (verbal and non verbal)

• • Using sensory acuity to accurately calibrate self and others.

• • To use the New Behaviour Generator

• • To use the Visal/Kinesthetic Dissociation pattern on a fear or phobia

• • To elicit trance.

• • To carry out the Swish pattern.

The most important Practitioner skills are:

• To be able to build and maintain rapport

• To use an outcome orientation to govern your own actions and any external issues.

• To be able to manage your own emotional state.

• Using the NLP Presuppositions to guide your actions.

Action
Action means to demonstrate NLP in your behaviour and to be a model of NLP presuppositions. To show NLP in action, participants need to:

• Demonstrate the NLP presuppositions in your actions

• Respect other people’s model of the world.

• Demonstrate behavioural flexibility based on sensory acuity of your own state and other’s state.

Certified NLP Master Practitioner
The candidate needs be a practitioner of ICNLP accredited status – their previous training has met the minimum time requirements.

Knowledge

• All practitioner level knowledge

• Metaprograms

  • Proactive – reactive

  • Towards – away from

  • Internal – external

  • Options procedures

  • Match – mismatch

  • Specific – general

  • Convincer channel and convincer mode

• Values

  • Criterial equivalents

  • Working with values ecologically

• Sleight of mouth patterns

• Advanced language patterns based on presuppositions

• TOTE

• Strategies

• Negotiation and mediation

• Parts integration

• Modelling

• Reimprinting

• Beliefs

• New Code

• Personal editing

• Unconscious signals

Participants must also complete a written test as an integration of the knowledge.

Skill

• To recognise Metaprograms through language and behaviour and utilise appropriately.

• All practitioner level skills with elegance, either singly or in combination.

• To elicit values and recognise criterial equivalents.

• To make appropriate Meta model challenges.

• To work with strategies:

  • Design

  • Utilisation

  • Installation

  • Elicitation

• To use sleight of mouth patterns

• To use presuppositional language patterns

• To work with submodalities

  • Elicit conversationally

• use the contrastive analysis to make changes in the structure of experience.

• recognise and utilise submodality accessing cues

• To use multilevel communication at verbal and non-verbal levels to both conscious and unconscious.

• To elicit unconscious signals.

• To identify and change limiting beliefs

• To carry out the Reimprinting pattern

• To carry out an individual modelling project and behaviourally demonstrate the skill modelled.

• To design individual interventions.

• To carry out New Code interventions and to design a personal edit.

The most important master practitioner skills to demonstrate are:

• Designing individual interventions

• Conversational and elegance in NLP language patterns.

• To carry out ecological interventions.

• To make a clear distinction between form and content in their NLP work.

• To maintain their own resourceful state through anchoring, perceptual positions and physiological interventions.

• The ability to multi-track.

Each participant will also present an individual modelling project that will be assessed by the traine

Action
Participants need to:

• Demonstrate the NLP presuppositions in their behaviour

• Act with congruence

• Stay curious and open to learning

• Maintain a resourceful state

NLP Trainer
The candidate has an ICNLP accredited Master practitioner status – their master

practitioner training has met the minimum ICNLP time requirements. The candidate will be evaluated by at least two ICNLP master trainers. The candidate have passed the written assessment/integration test of NLP knowledge. Their projects are valuable and useful as assessed by the master trainers.

Knowledge
All knowledge up to and including the Master Practitioner level.

An understanding of the intellectual history of NLP and the various disciplines that form a part of it. Candidates need a general knowledge of:

• Gestalt Psychology

• The Palo Alto School of Therapy

• Transactional Analysis

• Ericksonian Hypnotherapy

• Behaviourism

• Cognitivism

• Family Therapy

• Systems thinking (Senge, Checkland and Churchman).

  
  

Skills
All practitioner and master practitioner skills and the ability to use them overtly or covertly in a training situation. The flexibility to shift between content and process and mark the differences. The ability to use nested loops to install strategies and evoke resource states. The ability to demonstrate simultaneously any pattern behaviourally as well as teach it linguistically.

• Exercise design

  • Overt and covert outcomes

• Training design

  • Frames

  • Outcomes

  • Chunking

  • Balance of giving information and discovery

  • Future pacing

• Tasking

  • Intervention in groups, maintaining rapport, giving sensory specific feedback.

  • Ability to conduct appropriate demonstrations

  • 4MAT

  • Ability to use spatial anchoring

  • Effective use of metaphors

  • The ability to deal with participants’ questions in a respectful and useful way and to discern the level and intent of the questions. To answer the ‘question behind the question’.

  • The ability to manage and task a team of assistants.
    

Action
Candidates will give at least two 20 minute presentations to a group and receive feedback. The master trainers present will evaluate these presentations:

• Assessment of the ability to design trainings by the master trainers.

• Demonstrate NLP presuppositions in their behaviour.

• Present an individual project on an area of NLP

• Maintain a resourceful state while training.