12 Responses

1. NLP response
   Which matters most to you to achieve the outcomes you are hoping for?

   James

2. NLP options
   Tony
   Probably more important is the trainer/provider you choose. Go for recommendation if you can and do ask if they run short taster sessions. Geography, style of the programme and cost will also be factors.
   Watch out for the detail in the contract (one well-known provider has a clause that requires you to pay them 10% of your future earnings from NLP!!!).
   If you don’t mind being in a large group the Ian McDermott’s ITS is worth considering. Or if you live near Bristol, John Seymour has a good name. Smaller providers are a mixed bunch but do offer more small group work.
   Best of luck
   Graham

3. The Providers
   The two providers I am considering are:

   Infinite Excellence and The Learning Path.

   Infinite Excellence provide a 7 day intensive workshop, which minimises the amount of time away from home.

4. which set of standards?
   Hi Tony
   what do you want the training/ standards to do for you? In a clinical environment there are diff requirements, if you want to take the next stage of being an accredited NLP coach then this will impact your decision.

   For me it is a set of tools which I use at diff times. Some techniques work better than others, some trainings focus on some methods more than others.

   As has been said look for:
   location
   cost
   reputation
   end goal requirements (long term)

   Big group or small group to me does not matter as long as you are clear on your agenda. One of my first NLP trainings was with a very large group (100s) but was most useful because:
   1) I had clear goals
   2) I identified people on the programme I wanted to associate with – and worked with them

   good luck – but remember it is ONLY a TOOL and not a religion!

   Mike
   http://www.rapidbi.com

5. NLP Accreditation
   I have personal experience of being a member of the American Board. This only issue that I have is that it is American in that people think because it’s over the pond it isn’t worth anything here.
   I did my Practitioner & Master Practitioner in NLP, Hypnosis & Time Line Therapy with Performance Partnership based in Chiswick, West London. They offer 7 day & 14 day, respectively, intense workshops.
   It really does depend what you are looking for.
   Another recommendation is PPI Business NLP who are members of the Society for NLP (SNLP) and they regularly run taster sessions in Milton Keynes & London.

6. recommendations
   If you want recommendations to compare I did my pract and master prac and TLT with Jeremy Lazarus
   http://www.thelazarus.com/
   and maybe worth adding to your list.

7. NLP Standards?
   NLP Standards?

   Would that not be an Oxymoron?

8. oxymoron
   yes Gary you are right it wouldn’t be

9. standards or ‘awarding body’
   I agree with GP there are no standards but there awards that are offered by many organisations that claim to have standards. I have yet to see consistancy within one organisation let alone several that provide what I would call a standard.

   it is all about a badge and do you belong to the right ‘club’.

   If they were true standards then ‘bodies’ would recognise other providers awards – they do not – it is a great mark of capitalism and profit making – no more.

   Mike

10. Oxymoron
    Seems it might be an oxymoron after all! Who’d have thought it?

11. NLP is now standard pseudoscience

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JrykgOXWqs

    Its used as an example of pseudoscience by professionals at university teaching the difference between pseudoscience and science

12. NLP
    I can highly recommend Pegasus NLP who do residential courses in the new forest.

    Probably the best coutrse I have ever been on in more ways than I ever imagined.

    NLP is such a powerful tool I think you are right to give lots of consideration to who you learn from.