In my experience, if you are a certified coach you definitely will benefit from NLP training as well. Not only does it demystify so much but it will also give you access to ways to affect rapid transformational change in your clients. Really, it will be the difference between you having a two-dimensional coaching orientation and having a massive magical effect on your clients and them enjoying even more incredible results in their lives. There is nothing more effective and elegant at removing blocks than NLP.

NLP is the study of the structure of your subjective experience - understanding with ever-increasing efficacy how to navigate and optimize your internal structures to improve your results in life. 

It is also the study of human excellence and as such, it also includes a collection of processes - a body of work - modeled out over decades for rapid healing and transformation.

This is not just an NLP Training. You will get the skills of an NLP Practitioner, the understanding of an NLP Master Practitioner, but because I have been studying Integral Theory for over two decades - and been a follower of Ken Wilber's work for even longer - I fit NLP within the AQAL framework presented in Integral Theory - with a particular focus on the Self developmental line. So we talk about things like Spiral Dynamics, ego development which those such as Jean Gebser and stages of conciousness, Carol Gilligan and Lawrence Kohlberg and their work on stages of female moral development, and most importantly for our world, Clare W. Graves and his work that was later popularized in Spiral Dynamics.

And then how NLP fits within these frameworks and how we can use is to accelerate the evolution of consciousness through these stages to build a better, more conscious world.

In addition to the answers above, I have been a certified NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer since 1995 - twenty-five years now. And I have used it in service of over 500 clients 1 on 1 in the last 15 years - which is how long I have been in the coaching and transformational business full time.

So not only do I have excellent training, but I have over 25 years of experience of using it in the real world, and 15 professionally - so there is almost no client situation I could not help you with by drawing on that experience.

Also, I have plenty of other experience in other transformational approaches - from Landmark to vipassana meditation so you will get a deep and more well-rounded training with me - as well as the Integral Theory piece, which no one else is doing to my knowledge.

Attendance and competence:

You have to

• Attend 5 of the 7 weekends.
• Participate in at least one practice group per month with other students in the training
• And at the end of the training, you need to be able to take a mock client through an entire NLP session which means:

1. Establish rapport with the client
2. Outcome elicitation
3. Demonstrate the ability to invoke "problem state"
4. Appropriate selection of NLP process you have learned in the training to address problem state
5. Guiding the client through the process successfully leaving them in a new resourceful state
6. Future-pacing new behavior or response to help them integrate the change

Throughout, you will need to maintain rapport and demonstrate respect for the ecology of the human you are in service of.

No. This is an open book test. We want you to get it right. We don’t want you to memorize things by rote. There will be scripts I have honed over 25 years for some of the processes, so we want you to follow those until you get so masterful at them, they aren't needed anymore.

I myself in sessions with clients have pulled out a process that I’m unfamiliar with and read it from a book. I just let them know that’s what’s going to happen because it’s not a process I do very often.

There’s no shame in that. The shame would be being too insecure to say that and just be honest.

And that’s one of the many reasons we have a whole weekend dedicated to self-esteem and ego - which is something else you won't find in any other training.

Of course, you may attend on some weekends.

However, the price of the course is still the same - the weekends are not sold separately. Additionally, if you want to get certified there is an attendance requirement: you are only allowed to miss three weekends and still get certified. Even then, missing 3 would make it very difficult for you because the material is rich and dense.

However, the weekends will be recorded on video and audio for your use, so you can watch the video and catch up with your practice group.

The first answer is yes; you’ll have to practice outside of the training. But 2 hours each month outside the training isn't much.

The second answer to this question is outside of the certification requirements, how good do you want to become?

My mentors told me that the reason I was so good so quickly is that I practiced with any human who was willing. Somebody said that they were experiencing anything at limited them in there life? I asked them if they would like to change that. An emotion, a belief, an internal conflict, or a habit or addiction? I would ask them, “would you like to change that”?

And I would just tell him I was practicing and learning advanced mental technologies and would they be willing to come over to my house and I would practice with them and they might get some free transformation out of it.

The more you practice the better you will get. These are physical skills.

A lot of people think that communication skills and advanced skills like this are not physical skills but they are. That means they take practice. It takes repetition. The more you practice the better you will get.