Take your people-skills to the next level with the most rigorous and prestigious NLP qualification in the world.
Joining the ranks of this exclusive group of NLP-Lead experts, this certification sets you apart as a leader in any field.
Transform your thinking, communication, and coaching skills with NLP.
The Graduate Certificate in NLP is designed to help you improve your communication skills, develop greater self-awareness, and become more effective in managing and coaching others. By learning the principles of NLP, you will gain insights into the patterns of behaviour and language that lead to success.
Throughout the program, you will study NLP patterns that have been modelled on real-life examples of excellence in a variety of fields. These patterns can be applied to your personal life for self-improvement and to your professional life for greater success.
The material in this course covers all the significant developments in NLP from the major schools, both Classic Code NLP and the insights of the New Code NLP, resulting in a powerful, unparalleled skill set and qualification.
Unlike courses that teach pre-scripted applications, the Graduate Certificate in NLP will take you to the very heart of this unique discipline. You will experience rigorous, comprehensive training in NLP and be given the opportunity to develop your own NLP applications, learning from world-class NLP thought leaders.
You will be exposed to a diverse range of NLP models and techniques, covering classic and new code models for advanced coaching and communication skills, self-development, state management, identity development and more.
You’ll also learn about our unique attention training models as an alternative to mindfulness, which help sustain your personal and professional development while respecting others. We’ll also introduce you to our advanced AEGIS™ model, which empowers you with the internal capacity (agency) to actively extend your influence into any situation.
The Ultimate NLP Training Experience – Our 8-unit mixed-delivery Graduate Certificate program is designed to take you to the very heart of NLP.
This program is a rigorous, experiential training that empowers you to create lasting, sustainable change in your life. This is achieved by teaching you to work with real situations, problems and experiences.
Program elements include presentations, demonstrations, guided exercises and practise. Feedback and discussion sessions will help you achieve results through immersion in the NLP experience. Partner and group activities are designed to provide you with memorable learning and evidence of your NLP mastery through contact with other people.
Whether you’re looking to improve your communication skills, develop your coaching abilities, or cultivate greater self-awareness, the Graduate Certificate in NLP will equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to take your personal and professional life to the next level.
The first half of this program is a comprehensive and experiential course that focuses on the essential skills of successful individuals.
Based on the patterns of effective thinking, behaviour, and communication identified and modelled by the originators of NLP, John Grinder and Richard Bandler, this course teaches you how to reproduce these skills in your own life.
Through presentations, demonstrations, guided exercises, and practical application, you will gain the tools and techniques to create lasting change in your personal and professional life.
This section of the program is designed to immerse you in the NLP experience, with feedback and discussion sessions that allow you to refine your skills and master the techniques. Partner and group activities provide a memorable and interactive learning experience, while offering evidence of your progress and mastery of NLP.
Unit 1: Experience Neuro-Linguistic Programming Fundamentals
This is the first unit of the Graduate Certificate in NLP, designed to teach foundational skills for the entire course.
You will learn how to build rapport and track human communication, and develop an awareness of the relationship between communication and thinking. The unit will introduce the New Code approach to NLP and emphasise the importance of collaboration, consequences of choices, and respecting different beliefs and values.
You will learn to work with communication and thinking patterns and improve interpersonal skills through observation, listening, and different sensory descriptions. You will also learn to elicit useful states in yourself and others while keeping communication respectful. By the end of the unit, you will be able to incorporate directed questions to identify and map future outcomes.
You will also learn the powerful distinction between working with communication and thinking patterns, which differs from using descriptive content or stories in standard educational methods.
Learning outcomes:
AQF unit code: NAT10970001 Experience Neuro-Linguistic Programming Fundamentals
Prerequisite: none (subject to meeting program entry criteria)
Unit 2: Elicit information and generate solutions
Unit 2 of the course focuses on eliciting useful information and generating collaborative solutions.
You will learn to track patterns in verbal and non-verbal behaviour to separate attention from story and focus on patterns, gathering high-quality information using sensory-based descriptions and sub-modality distinctions. The ‘Emergent Discovery Process’ will help integrate these competencies.
During this unit, you will learn to change states by choice, bring resources into any context, and clarify inaccurate thinking through powerful language patterns.
You will also learn a New Code approach to change using submodalities, Chris Collingwood’s Six Step Reframe, Jules Collingwood’s state-enhancing ‘Stalking to Excellence’ exercise, and recoded NLP change processes that incorporate unconscious choice.
Learning Outcomes:
AQF unit code: NAT10970002 Elicit information and generate solutions
Prerequisite: NAT10970001 Experience Neuro-Linguistic Programming Fundamentals
Unit 3: Apply interventions for optimal self-management
Unit 3 of the course focuses on applying interventions for optimal self-management. The unit provides knowledge and skills to track and direct attention in a respectful and ecological manner to facilitate well-formed outcomes and exercise choice.
Through this unit, you will learn to communicate with your own and others’ unconscious minds to directly enhance observation, communication, choice, and change. The course covers creating congruent acceptance or rejection of opportunities, lasting attitudinal change, and identifying life goals, among others.
You will engage in practical demonstrations to understand the functions of conscious and unconscious processes. The unit also delves into time management by identifying different ways of experiencing and using time to create effective time management and more engaging experiences.
Learning Outcomes:
AQF unit code: NAT10970003 Apply interventions for optimal self-management
Prerequisite: NAT10970001 Experience Neuro-Linguistic Programming Fundamentals
Unit 4: Create metaphor and strategies to support change and development
This unit teaches how to use metaphors and thought patterns to create strategies for change and development. We learn to ‘classify’ complex issues, utilise unconscious resources for safe comparisons, and identify opportunities in life. You’ll learn how to optimise learning and decision-making by changing thought patterns, as well as create engaging stories with useful thinking patterns to embed in the unconscious mind. This includes creating short metaphors for business settings and full fantasy stories for informal occasions.
Learning Outcomes:
AQF unit code: NAT10970004 Create metaphor and strategies to support change and development
Prerequisite: NAT10970001 Experience Neuro-Linguistic Programming Fundamentals
Part 2 of our program delves deeper into the essence of NLP, giving you the tools to create your own models of human excellence. By modelling the behaviour, communication, and thinking patterns of the most successful people in your field, you will be empowered to acquire any skill you desire.
Acquiring excellence in any field requires more than just theory; it requires a practical, contextual & model that can be applied in the real world.
As the ONLY training provider in Australia to teach NLP model development skills, studying Part 2 with us is a crucial step in becoming an NLP expert AND discovering your true capabilities.
You will learn formal self-modelling by exploring, transforming and developing your self-concept. This element of the Graduate Certificate in NLP is for personal development and working with others.
You have an opportunity to explore experientially, model and then make explicit significant patterns, perceptual filters and values which are present in your maps of self, your self-concept. Participants then have the opportunity to work with each other to transform any limiting patterns.
Unit 5: Apply advanced processes of Neuro-Linguistic Programming to personal and organisational change
Unit 5 focuses on the application of advanced Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques to drive personal and organizational change.
Through deconstructing various NLP techniques and exploring their underlying processes, learners will gain the knowledge and skills to design their own NLP models and processes.
This unit covers a range of topics, including an advanced NLP format for identifying a person’s most important values, and how to use this information to generate new projects.
In this module, we take a different approach to utilising meta programs in NLP. Rather than accepting them as a valid part of NLP, we explore and challenge their usefulness and encourage learners to identify and create their own patterns based on the context of the situation. By doing so, learners can avoid relying on rigid content categorization and better recognize patterns
Learning Outcomes:
AQF unit code: NAT10970005 Apply advanced processes of Neuro-Linguistic Programming to personal and organisational change
Prerequisites:
Unit 6: Perform Neuro-Linguistic Programming modelling to capture expertise
This unit describes the knowledge and skills to observe and match a live model, observe a modelling session and learn how to incorporate specific tools for eliciting the unconscious elements of expertise in order to elicit and replicate the talent of an expert in the field of your choice.
In addition, you will learn topics such as learning and change processes using modelling, mirror neurons, life lines and safety conditions for modelling, outcomes and intentions for modelling, and conscious and unconscious learning. Performance evidence includes evaluating live modelling, creating strategies for change using the TOTE model, and demonstrating a range of modelling skills.
Learning Outcomes:
AQF unit code: NAT10970006 – Perform Neuro-Linguistic Programming modelling to capture expertise
Prerequisites:
Unit 7: Design advanced Neuro-Linguistic Programming patterns
In this unit, you’ll learn how to identify and track advanced patterns in people’s speech and behavior, and distinguish between process and content. By doing so, you’ll be able to respond to these patterns with directed interventions during conversations.
You’ll also gain practical skills in deconstructing change processes to identify and discover underlying patterns. These skills will help you construct and improvise effective interventions using patterns in combination.
Additionally, you’ll develop advanced language patterns to achieve desired outcomes and learn to utilise advanced presuppositions to effect change and generate emotions and by the end of this unit, you’ll be able to assist others in such ways as building self-concept.
By the end of this unit, you’ll be able to construct and implement interventions using NLP principles, enhance your ability to track and respond to patterns in speech and behavior, and improvise working interventions using patterns in combination.
Learning Outcomes:
AQF unit code: NAT10970007 – Design advanced Neuro-Linguistic Programming patterns
Prerequisites:
Unit 8: Optimise personal and professional effectiveness
This unit covers the skills and knowledge to aid in mapping, upgrading and streamlining personality through practical interventions. Learners will use a variety of skills and processes to effect change, discovering and analysing patterns in clusters of states to gain insights into your own and others personalities are organised.
The unit focuses on the development of advanced framing, observation and calibration skills, allowing for a more accurate assessment of a client’s emotional state and progress. Learners will also develop an understanding of the conscious and unconscious interface to work with their own thought processes and principles of integration, to create a more integrated sense of self.
Additionally, learners will develop skills to create maps of personal organisation, change maladaptive elements, design new maps of organisation and elicit the experience of new maps, helping clients internalise and apply new ways of thinking.
Learning Outcomes:
AQF unit code: NAT10970008 – Optimise personal and professional effectiveness
Prerequisites:
| Experience NLP Fundamentals | Graduate Certificate NLP: Self Paced Online | Graduate Certificate NLP: Self-Paced Online + Face-to-Face ‘Practice & Assessment’ | |
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| Who’s this for? | Students who are uncertain about the Graduate Certificate can learn the fundamentals first before making a decision to enrol in the full program. | This course is designed for self-paced learners who are willing to do extra practical work to reinforce learning. Throughout the course, students record and upload tasks for assessment. It is recommended that students have a study partner to regularly practice skills with. | This course is ideal for self-paced learners who aim to enhance their learning through attending regular ‘Practise & Assessment’ weekends with Chris Collingwood and team. These weekends offer opportunities for students to practice with peers and receive immediate feedback on the skills they wish to master. |
| Program Inclusions: | Unit 1: Experience NLP Fundamentals | Unit 1: Experience NLP Fundamentals Unit 2: Elicit Information and Elicit Solutions Unit 3: Apply interventions for Optimal Self Management Unit 4: Create Metaphor and Strategies to support change and development Unit 5: Advanced Processes of Neuro-Linguistic Programming for personal and organisational change Unit 6: Perform Neuro-Linguistic Programming Modelling to capture expertise Unit 7: Design Advanced Neuro-Linguistic Programming Patterns Unit 8: Optimise personal and professional effectiveness | Unit 1: Experience NLP Fundamentals Unit 2: Elicit Information and Elicit Solutions Unit 3: Apply interventions for Optimal Self Management Unit 4: Create Metaphor and Strategies to support change and development Unit 5: Advanced Processes of Neuro-Linguistic Programming for personal and organisational change Unit 6: Perform Neuro-Linguistic Programming Modelling to capture expertise Unit 7: Design Advanced Neuro-Linguistic Programming Patterns Unit 8: Optimise personal and professional effectiveness PLUS regular face-to-face ‘Practise & Assessment’ weekends (currently Sydney & Brisbane Only) |
| Training Delivery & Support: | Online, Self Paced only Access to online support via Slack | Blended delivery: – Online, Self Paced learning – Weekly tutorials delivered via Zoom – Book in up to 8 x one-to-one ‘mentoring’ sessions with Chris Collingwood (delivered via Zoom) throughout your enrolment | Blended delivery: – Online, Self Paced learning – Weekly tutorials delivered via Zoom – Face-to-face practice & assessment weekends throughout the year (Brisbane & Sydney only currently) – Book in up to 8 x one-to-one ‘mentoring’ sessions with Chris Collingwood (delivered via Zoom) throughout your enrolment |
| Price | AUD$975 | AUD $6,500 | AUD $7,500 |
| Bonus | – Access to the exclusive Alumni community | – Access to the exclusive Alumni community – Invitations to events for continued learning and networking | – Access to the exclusive Alumni community – Invitations to events for continued learning and networking – Eligibility for the NLP Mentoring Program upon completion of unit 2 |
| Certification acquired | Statement of attainment | Statement of attainment for each completed unit Graduate Certificate of Neuro-Linguistic Programming | Statement of attainment for each completed unit Graduate Certificate of Neuro-Linguistic Programming |
Our NLP Programs |
Most other NLP providers |
| Australian Government accredited and recognised training (10250NAT Graduate Certificate in Neuro-Linguistic Programming) | Non-accredited courses endorsed by one or more non-recognised bodies, almost always created by the training company |
| Inspiritive is a Registered training Organisation registered with the Australian Skills and Quality Authority, demanding rigorous standards of quality assurance for your peace of mind. | Private company endorsed by non-recognised body. Might be backed by great people. |
| Our Graduate Certificate in NLP is benchmarked against the rigorous standards of the AQF at the level above a bachelor’s degree. | Non-accredited, non-recognised certificates |
| INSPIRITIVE’s trainers are endorsed by Co-Creator of NLP, Dr John Grinder, and are all actively engaged in extensive ongoing research and professional development. Inspiritive trainers deliver NLP training as it was intended and as it will be most effectively transferred so you can use it. | There are some great coaches, speakers and trainers though most other NLP providers have taken short courses in which they have learnt some of the theory of NLP. |
| NLP is learned from first principles enabling graduates to formulate interventions conversationally in their own words and change what they are doing to suit individual clients | Scripted formats derived from examples of NLP patterns. Students limited to using exact scripted words. |
| The qualification can be completed fully Online or in a blended learning format. | Only some providers offer provide both options |
| All references to existing patterns and formats in the NLP syllabus properly attributed to their developers. | Often not referenced and when referenced incorrect attribution |
| We have a number of financing options available for this program including loans and payment plans. | Not all NLP providers have student loans available |
