NLP-Practitioner
NLP Practitioner Curriculum – EANLP
The NLP Practitioner training represents the first level of certification and provides a solid foundation in the core skills, key models, and essential methods of NLP across various areas of application.
The program includes a minimum of 135 hours of in-person training, delivered over at least 18 days, and concludes with both a written and a practical assessment. An additional 15 hours of optional supervision may also be offered to support integration and practice.
CURRICULUM
At the end of the Practitioner level, the acquired skills include:
- Significantly enhanced sensory acuity and attention
- Establishing and maintaining rapport, both verbal and non-verbal, using pacing and leading
- Full calibration across all components
- Identifying representational systems (RS) and using RS-based verbal and non-verbal techniques
- Identifying and changing submodalities
- Advanced goal setting and working with goals
- Shifting internal states and inducing personal congruence
- Recognising and implementing VAKOG anchors
- Identifying logical levels
- Applying language techniques: Meta Model and Milton Model
- Working with trance for personal use
- Using other linguistic techniques: re-framing, metaphor, representational system overlap and translation
- Association and dissociation
- Chunking
- Recognising and shifting between the 3+1 perceptual positions
- Identifying and modifying micro- and macro-strategies
- Working with the timeline
The Practitioner must demonstrate mastery of the theoretical knowledge and practical methods taught. With specific exceptions, the NLP methods and techniques learned at this level are intended for personal use only. This level does not authorise participants to offer NLP coaching or consultancy.
Participant Requirements
- Emotional stability
- Technical equipment for participating in online training
Trainer Qualification
- Certified EANLP Lead Trainer, DVNLP Lehrtrainer, IANLP Fellow Member Trainer, or equivalent
Duration
- Mandatory training duration: 135 or more hours, including assessment, divided over 18 or more training days.
- Optional supervision: 15 hours of individual or group supervision during or after the training program.
Implementation
- At least 80% of the training must be delivered by a certified lead NLP trainer.
- Up to 20% may be delivered by another person under the supervision of a certified lead NLP trainer (EANLP Master Trainer or equivalent).
- As a supplementary teaching method, up to one-third of the training may be conducted as synchronous online instruction.
- Synchronous online training requires full-time video and audio participation for all attendees. All participants must be able to see, hear, and interact with each other.
Group Size
- A training group must include at least six participants.
Assistance
- Assistance from someone with at least an EANLP NLP-Practitioner qualification (or equivalent) is recommended for every nine participants, and mandatory for every twelve.
- If synchronous online training is used in a hybrid format, the assistant must have sufficient digital skills to support technical organisation or resolve issues.
NLP Practitioner Competencies and Certification Criteria
- Understands and processually integrates NLP presuppositions
- Knows core content, skills, techniques, patterns, methods, and concepts of NLP and applies them effectively
- Demonstrates rapport-building, clear goal setting, perceptiveness, flexibility, and resource-oriented ecological action
- Has experienced the minimum content from three perceptual positions: as observer, as companion, and as participant
Minimum Content
- Establishing and maintaining rapport
- Pacing and leading
- Calibration
- Representational systems
- Distinguishing perception from interpretation
- Language Meta Model
- Milton Model
- Ability to detect and induce uptime and downtime states
- Creating spoken metaphors in various representational systems
- Defining well-formed outcomes
- Reframing: contrast frame, relevance frame, "as if" frame, backtracking
- Anchoring: VAKOG
- Sensory-based active and passive feedback
- Goal-directed focus of internal and external perception
- Dissociation, Association; Positions 1, 2, 3, Meta Position
- Submodalities
- (Neuro)logical levels
- Goal- and ecology-oriented resource management
- Contextual and meaning reframing
- Strategies: detection, elicitation, application, installation
- Timeline formats (e.g., Change History, Timeline)
Note: Various NLP techniques (e.g., Swish pattern, anchor collapsing, 6-Step Re-framing) are practical applications of the methods listed above and are not listed separately.
Written Assessment for NLP Practitioner
The written assessment tests the transfer of minimum content and ensures training quality. It should confirm that the following areas are understood and integrated:
- NLP axioms can be reproduced and explained in your own words
- Criteria for well-formed outcomes are known
- Parameters of rapport are understood
- Criteria for effective anchoring are known
- Representational systems can be explained
- Meta Model categories are known and corresponding questions can be formulated
- The Milton Model and its effects can be explained
- Time-related formats can be explained
- Strategy formats are known
- Submodalities can be identified and explained
- Logical levels can be described
- Perceptual positions, association, and dissociation can be described
- Selected formats can be named
- The terms “Ecology” and “Future Pace” are well understood
The design and structure of the written assessment are at the discretion of the certified lead NLP trainer. Participant assessment materials must be archived for three years. During this time, the Training and Quality Assurance Committee of the Association has the right to request full or partial review of the archive.
Practical Assessment for NLP Practitioner
The form and content of the practical assessment are defined by the certified lead NLP trainer and reflect the participants’ life and professional experience.
The practical exam allows graduates to demonstrate congruent behavioural integration of NLP axioms and techniques, especially in: problem elicitation, goal elicitation, rapport, perception, flexibility, and sensory-based feedback.
Contents of the NLP Practitioner Certificate
The EANLP NLP-Practitioner certificate must include the following:
- Statement of compliance with EANLP standards
- EANLP quality seal
- Duration of training in days and hours, including online and in-person segments
- Calendar dates of the first and last day of training
- Signature of the certified lead NLP trainer
- Title: NLP-Practitioner EANLP