What will we cover?

In Module 1

Module 1 is your first step on the way to your own personal Mastery. So what does Mastery mean for you?  And having attained Mastery, what will that get you?

During the first module you will explore many layers of Mastery:

• Establish your personal outcomes, testing them for well-formedness, and also creating shared outcomes for the whole group.
• Review and recap your experiences on your NLP journey so far, and re-discover the foundation skills that you have laid down.
• Re-familiarise yourself with NLP Practitioner skills, including specific processes and ways to apply them flexibly.
• Explore modelling, and discover what makes it so important to the development of NLP.
• Define your own modelling project, and to be clear about how it will help you to achieve your own personal goals and outcomes in life.
• Remind yourself of the way in which the brain and the body work, their inter-connectedness, and how to recognise communications from your unconscious mind.
• Use this communication to build deeper rapport with your unconscious, to enable profound internal change.
• Discover the significance of timelines, and temporal submodalities. Become skilful with a wide range of timeline interventions to achieve significant results for yourself and for others.

In module 2

This module is about discovering the inner structures by which we order and make sense of our experiences. We will explore:

• The stories that we tell ourselves, and the metaphors that we create (both linguistically, and spatially) to illustrate and make meaning of our own personal stories. We will learn how to reveal our own and other people’s metaphors using clean language and clean space.
• The logical levels by which all our experience is ordered and their inter-relationships. We will learn ways in which to detect the level(s) on which someone is operating, in order to select the most effective interventions to help them.
• Values – our unique criteria by which we make all our decisions and choices. We will learn how to discover values, sort them and change them when they are not serving us.
• The beliefs that we have established throughout our lives. We will review the many different ways of identifying beliefs, and changing them when they limit our choices.
• The progress that you have made on your own modelling project, and further resources to help you to progress it.

In module 3

Building on the previous module, where we explored the inner structures of our experience, as coded in our values and beliefs, this module is about discovering the internal/external interface as expressed through language. In particular, the way in which we describe our experience using language, and how in turn, our use of language shapes our experience.

We will explore:

• Quantum linguistics, enabling alternate states to co-exist.
• The verbal conjuring tricks that are sleight of mouth patterns
• Provocative therapy, and the use of humour in coaching
• The language and behaviour patterns that both shape and reveal our personality in everything that we do and say.
• The progress that you have made on your own modelling project, and further resources to help you to progress it.

In module 4

Pulling together everything that you have learnt and experienced, you will step into your new identity as a Master Practitioner.  You will demonstrate to yourself and others how you have evolved:

• By coaching a client through an intensive breakthrough session.
• By sharing your modelling project outcomes with others.
• By completing a written assessment.

We will also explore:

• What it means to be a Master Practitioner.
• Further methods of deepening trance and rapport.
• Gravesian world views, and McLelland's motivation model.
• Ethics and morality.

Finally, you will set your own personal well-formed outcomes for the future.

Assessment Criteria

Evaluation begins when you say "hello" and does not end. We are looking at your attitude, your content knowledge and your behavioural skills. The evaluation is in three parts:

• Continuous evaluation on a daily basis. Your skills will be evaluated and suggestions made for improvement when necessary. A considerable amount of your evaluation rests on how you treat yourself, your peers, the trainers and anyone else who you come into contact with over the course of the programme, and on how you give and receive feedback.
• Completion of a modelling project. The output will be both a written report of your model and a presentation of your modelling output in the final module. 
• Your content knowledge will also be evaluated by a written assessment in the final module.
• Your practical understanding and skills will be evaluated through a breakthrough session in the final module, in which you will intensively coach a genuine client through whichever issues your client presents.

Modelling

Live Practice

All of NLP is based on modelling excellence, and modelling is at the heart of our Master Practitioner programme. Over and above your own personal Modelling Project, you will experience many different modelling opportunities, both formal and informal, on each module. In fact, every person you interact with can present you with an opportunity to model excellence.  Some of the people that we have modelled formally include

• a talented glass artist
• a master falconer
• a 15-year old fund-raiser
• an international athlete
• a military dive instructor
• a church minister who is also a stand-up comedian.

On each module, you will be practising your skills on one another, so you will benefit from making a list of issues, self-doubts, challenges, etc. which you could bring to the coaching sessions.  

In addition, over the course of the programme you will have at least one "client" from outside the group, with real issues that you will be able to help with.

There will usually be one or two visitors joining us for various parts of the module, giving you the opportunity to explore many different maps of the world.