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+ Course Length

A 20 day training spread over 5 months consisting of 5 modules each of 4 days.

+ Course Dates

Module 1: 23rd – 26th Oct 2008
Module 2: 27th – 30th Nov 2008
Module 3: 15th – 18th Jan 2009
Module 4: 19th – 22nd Feb 2009
Module 5: 26th – 29th March 2009

+ Venue, Price and Times

Venue: London, UK
Price: £2975 + VAT
Times: 10:00am - 5.00pm

+ Special Payment Plan

To make it as easy as possible for you to join us, we have an easy payment plan that will enable you to take the European Coaching Certification Programme for £380 plus VAT per month (after an initial deposit).

+ Eligibility

This training is open to certified NLP Master Practitioners. Any previous NLP experience will be considered. Please call the ITS Head Office for eligibility information.

+ Additional Information

If you are booking online please note that ITS requires one passport sized photograph of yourself for the training.

Please e-mail your photograph to info@itsnlp.com or post it to the following address:

All Items are VAT Inclusive Where Appropriate

Head Office
International Teaching Seminars
ITS House
Webster Court
Websters Way
Rayleigh
Essex
SS6 8JQ

+ Programme Changes

It maybe necessary for reasons beyond the control of International Teaching Seminars to change the venue, dates and/or trainers.

This course is recognised under:

European NLP Coaching Certification Programme

About The Course

The European NLP Coaching Certification Programme - a proven track record of success

The ITS NLP Coaching Certification Programme began in 2000 and has proved a tremendous success. Those who attend the training come from a wide range of backgrounds and choose it for many reasons. Some use it to build an international Coaching practice. Others join to expand and deepen their current NLP skills. But many, many people come because they simply want to learn a coaching approach which can be applied in their work and their life.

Those who have already become certified NLP Coaches report many benefits. These include:

• Really understanding what makes coaching unique and why it is so appealing
• A wealth of new tools and techniques that are specific to Coaching
• A sense of certainty about their abilities to successfully Coach others and where appropriate, build a coaching practice
• An entirely new NLP skill level
• Really knowing how to give feedback
• Dramatically improved results with existing clients
• For some, a new career, for others a new way of working
• A sense of congruence around their ability to combine their NLP knowledge-base with well-defined Coaching skills
• New interest and more responsiveness from potential clients and customers following their certification as an NLP Coach
• Having credibility in the coaching field
• Using coaching for their own deeper development

The ICF

The International Coach Federation is the leading professional association of personal and business coaches. It seeks to preserve the integrity of coaching around the world and its pioneering work has set standards for the profession. Already in the US increasing numbers of companies are stipulating that they will only hire ICF Coaches. The ITS NLP Coaching Certification Programme has been designed to meet the criteria laid down by the ICF.

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A significant part of the training involves being a Coach

You will not just learn about Coaching skills - you will ‘do’ them in real Coaching environments. You will get a phenomenal amount of targeted hands-on experience of actual Coaching.

People who have taken other coaching trainings repeatedly tell us how this makes our programme quite unique - and how empowering it is to know you really can deliver. In addition to coaching during the four-day modules you will also learn how to sustain a coaching relationship over time - from both perspectives. Throughout the programme you will have your own coach in-between the modules. You will also be a coach to a course participant in-between the modules. (This is so valuable that previous years’ course participants have chosen to continue the arrangement after the training is over).

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Beyond a 20-day training

The depth of this programme goes far beyond the training modules. Between the modules, you will build on the material you have learned with your own Coach. You will have the Coaching experience, you will have the added dimension of the client experience, you will have the feedback of your new colleagues - and then you will have the next module to use Ian and Jan’s expertise to answer questions and receive additional feedback and learning.

So the ITS NLP Coaching Certification Programme is not just a 20-day course – it is a continual learning experience over many months.

Uniting the principles of Advanced NLP with the power of Coaching, to offer a comprehensive Certification Programme for individuals whose work involves interacting with, influencing and assisting others, or who want to pursue a career as a professional NLP Coach.

For those who want to become a Coach it turns the dream into reality

This training is a journey. The journey is intense, fun, a stunning learning curve, a team effort and an unprecedented training experience. At the end you emerge as an NLP Coach. The dream has become real.

And you can go further whenever you choose. ITS trained coaches make up a significant proportion of the ICF accredited coach community in the UK and Europe.

• The programme enables people to meet all ICF requirements – and to pass the ICF exam
• They are accumulating significant hours of paid coaching work - one of the requirements of accreditation
• So coaches from this training are out there in the world coaching.

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For those with no plans to become a Coach – but who do want coaching skills

The importance of coaching skills for business professionals, individuals, parents – and pretty well all of us who interact with others! – is rapidly becoming clear. Many team leaders and managers, for instance, now find it part of their job description.

From the very first year of the Coaching training, it was clear that many who came had no plans to pursue a career as a coach. But they did want to be able to adopt a coaching approach. This training gives you the skills. Those who have taken the training stress its value especially in:

• One to one discussions and developing interview skills
• Giving feedback in appraisals and team meetings
• Managing upwards and clarifying career development
• Brainstorming, problem solving and conflict resolution
• Developing entrepreneurship
• Being able to coach themselves.

NLP Coaching - for coaches and non-coaches

Coaching provides a way of enabling you to get the best out of people - starting with yourself. Enabling people to realise their potential is a much talked about aspiration. The skills of coaching provide a way of doing this. It is non-intrusive, engages people and provides the impetus to follow through because they create solutions of their own making.

At its most profound this process enables you to access the Wisdom Within - that deeper knowing that we all have. The empowerment that comes with good NLP Coaching gives us the ability to create direction in our lives and it allows us to tackle some of those big life issues, as well as dealing more effectively with the pressing demands of the day.

A truly INTERNATIONAL Training

The ITS European NLP Coaching Certification Programme has attracted participants from many countries including: Australia, USA, United Arab Emirates, South Africa and Switzerland, as well as many members of the E.U. such as Netherlands, Germany, France and Denmark..

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Why Coaching?

The ability to assist others to gain clarity in their lives and access the resources they need to solve problems and fulfil their dreams, is both a sought after and highly rewarding skill. It is also an ability that can be learnt by mastering the art of NLP Coaching.

As the march of progress and technology continues, peoples’ lives are getting more complex and often more stressful. While 21st century life offers more opportunities – it also presents us with more choices. And navigating our way through these choices can be a challenge – that’s where we need some support. As an NLP Coach, you enable people to meet this challenge.

People are also seeing the results that colleagues and friends achieve from working with an excellent Coach. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that seeking out a trained individual with superb coaching skills and an outside perspective on our lives, can produce significant results. This new acceptance of the power of Coaching is why it is now one of the world’s fastest growing professions.

So why else has coaching become so popular?

• People are experiencing the financial benefits that follow from working with a good Coach. In particular, professionals who improve their lives as a result of coaching are far more effective at work and will generally command higher salaries or fees as a result. So an NLP Coach is a classic example of someone who adds incredible value to the lives of others. This, in turn enables the Coach to be well compensated for their skills.
• As people become busier, prioritising their lives becomes an increasing challenge. We have so many commitments, we don’t always successfully prioritise those commitments. If you have ten phone calls to make, fifteen emails to answer and the dry cleaning to pick up – it’s not surprising if other issues such as designing your life get put off – again and again. One of the reasons coaching has become so popular is that a coach holds us to our deadlines, our commitments and our promises. By working with a coach, we make a commitment to ourselves. By becoming an NLP Coach, you become equipped with the skills to help others fulfil their potential.
• In a world where it is gradually becoming more socially acceptable to express our feelings and talk about ‘problems’ we are all being asked to take on coaching roles. A manager is a coach – the days of management being about giving orders are long gone. A health professional can become a coach, as can teachers or parents…So we live in a climate where coaching is acceptable and sought after and those of us who learn the advanced skills of an NLP Coach are in increasingly high demand.
• Coaching offers people a way of dealing with important issues in their lives in a non-threatening way. In the past, therapy and counselling may have been regarded as the only solution when we encountered personal challenges. Now there is an increasing realisation that we have the resources we need within us – and we also need some outside assistance to help us access them and so facilitate our progress.
• Most people go through life realising only a part of their potential and sensing that there is so much more they are capable of. As a coach, you experience the satisfaction and fulfilment of assisting individuals in being more of who they can be.
• Coaching is a powerful partnership providing structure, accountability, feedback and support.
• Being a coach can be compared to being a personal trainer, keeping your clients focused on a vision of long-term excellence in their lives, and supporting them through the process of taking the steps to get there. This is an incredibly valuable resource for those you work with.

Executive Coaching and Life Coaching

Most of those who seek you out for coaching will be looking for Executive Coaching or Life Coaching. Some NLP Coaches focus on one of these areas. Some deal with both. The choice is yours.

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Executive Coaching

Your clients will normally be high achievers who can’t go any further unless they expand their skills. Often those who seek Executive Coaching are outstanding in one or more areas of life, but feel they are lacking elsewhere. Perhaps they are highly successful at work but they feel they need to ‘get a life’ once they leave the office. Or they may be performing well at work, but recent promotion has meant there is one area (such as people skills) where they need to improve their performance. Executive Coaching is also for people who have achieved results and simply want assistance to go further. Individuals and Companies who seek you out as an Executive Coach are looking for tailor made solutions.

An NLP Coach who is excellent at Executive Coaching is able to:

1. Achieve results for clients and where applicable, their team.
2. Assist managers with team building.
3. Help individuals gain clarity in their thinking.
4. Challenge and help individuals to change limiting beliefs.
5. Help managers to become a support rather than a threat, as well as assisting them in bringing out the talent and potential of their teams.

Life Coaching

This is about living your life in keeping with what’s important to you. It enables you first to take stock and get clear, second regain control and third achieve balance in your life. It addresses all manner of issues; Where am I now? Where am I going? What do I want? How do I resolve this particular issue? How do I sort out my confusing and stressful life? Which career path should I pursue?

An NLP Coach who is excellent at Life Coaching is able to:

1. Help clients stay on track with their own self-selected solutions and plans.
2. Develop deep rapport and trust with their clients.
3. Ask thought-provoking questions to help clients clarify their outcomes and what they need to do to achieve them.
4. Help others make steady progress towards goals by providing ongoing structure and accountability.
5. Know that the real skill in Life Coaching – as in all coaching - is not knowing the solutions but eliciting the solutions from the real expert – your client.

Personal / Professional Coaching – How it can work?

If you are interested in a career as a Coach, here is an outline of how the process normally works:

• Coaching often begins with an initial intake or foundation appointment of two or more hours.
• The coach and client set up a regular meeting or call schedule, totalling perhaps two hours per month.
• The client commits to a minimum of three months coaching.
• The cost can range from £150 - £500 per month depending on the coach. However, your rates are likely to increase over time due to increased skill and experience.

An in depth training – Your key to Credibility…..

There are many training courses for coaching available. Some are cheaper than the NLP Coaching Certification and many are shorter. In fact, some last just one weekend! However, there is only one truly comprehensive 20 day NLP Coaching programme.

If you were seeking out a coach and looking for just one individual to help you with a vital element of your life, would you work with someone who had done a few days training and maybe read a book or two?

By the time you complete this training, you will have completed many, many days training in NLP and Coaching. You will also have the opportunity to enhance your skills through specific Coaching calls in the periods between modules. This training will ensure that you have hands-on experience of real time coaching so that your skills are fine tuned – and you are able to use all your NLP training to deliver life-changing results.

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Build an International Coaching practice

Your trainers, Ian McDermott and Jan Elfline are recognised leaders in the field of international NLP Coaching. Both have built a global Coaching client base that attracts clients from many continents.

Training Content

Here is just some of what you will cover during your 20 Day NLP Coach Certification Programme:

All 11 ICF Core Coaching Competencies

Key Coaching Tools & Techniques including:

• The Designed Alliance
• Accountability
• The Voting Model
• Building trust
• Forward the Action
• Acknowledgement
• Articulating
• Intruding
• Planning
• Bottom Lining
• Managing the Intake
• Feedback structures
• Obtaining Permission
• Championing
• Creating structures
• Habituation
• Life Grids
• 5 Foci Intake Process
• Conversational Flags
• Challenging
• Dancing in the Moment
• Dealing with Interference
• Incremental Change Formats
• Holding Clients’ Agendas
• Voicing Intuitions
• Primary Focus
• Inventory Tools
• The Balance Wheel - personal and business formats
• Questioning Skills and Techniques

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Key macro topics include:

• Roots of Coaching
• NLP Presuppositions and Coaching
• Coaching definitions
• The Art of Feedback
• Coaching and Beliefs
• Preferences and Inclinations
• The Safety-Risk Continuum

And of course...

• Using coaching in the workplace
• Building a Coaching Practice
• ICF Application and recognition process

After the training - Exclusive Access to Continuous Coaching

Only ITS alumni can enjoy ongoing and exclusive free access to a network of approximately 100 fully trained coaches. The Continuous Coaching Learning Network has been refined over the years. It has proved an invaluable benefit and has its own group co-ordinator. Its purpose is to offer you the opportunity to further refine your skills with new coaches and clients at no cost to yourself while maintaining the highest standards.

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