The Graduate Certificate in Neuro-Linguistic Programming is the world’s first and only fully accredited post-graduate qualification in NLP.
Created with the endorsement of NLP co-founder, John Grinder, it is the most rigorous and prestigious NLP qualification in the world.
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 peripheral applications, the Graduate Certificate in NLP will take you to the very heart of this field. 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.
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 is a unique discipline that enables you to think, communicate and manage others highly effectively. The Graduate Certificate program enables suitably vetted and appropriately qualified entrants the opportunity to refine their communication skills for personal advancement and commercial benefits.
Used correctly, the discipline helps participants identify excellence and discern the patterns of behaviour and language underpinning the excellence. From this learning and understanding, models are created.
Indeed, every NLP pattern in the syllabus has been modelled on someone who has demonstrated excellence in his or her field.
Training will provide outcomes mainly on the following three levels:
The Graduate Certificate in NLP is for people whose success depends on the quality, precision and effectiveness of their thinking, communication and management.
Participants in our NLP training programs tend to fall into three broad groups.
These tend to be organisations and companies who wish to incorporate NLP training as a core part of their managerial training programmes.
They identify and select their most promising professionals and encourage them to sign up for the Graduate Certificate in NLP, valuing it alongside the likes of an MBA or similar business qualifications.
Such is the power, potential and stature of this Graduate Certificate.
Typically people working in mid to senior management who wish to optimise their career prospects.
The Graduate Certificate in NLP will help these people to perfect all-important communication and business skills in ways that noticeably improve their performance and effectiveness, taking them to the next level and beyond in their careers.
The Graduate Certificate in NLP will assist people to develop the skills and competencies they need to improve their performance which in turn impacts positively on their career path.
Typically people who wish to forge careers as NLP Coaches either seek a complete career change from their current work or are already working as coaches and wish to fine-tune their skills and competencies.
The Graduate Certificate in NLP enables these people to develop the skills they require to coach and train individuals and groups. The qualification allows them to enhance their skills and professional offerings to ensure they bring out the best in themselves and others.
As a coach the possibilities are endless. Our graduates work in all sorts of fields, with all sorts of individuals and groups.
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 |
The Grad Cert NLP program is taught in two formats. An online format and a blended learning format consisting of live practise and assessment, readings, online videos and webinars.
The complete course comprises a total of eight units over thirty two non-consecutive training days of training. Units are taught either as individual units or in clusters of two units per training period.
In addition to attending the live training days students are required to complete the set readings and written work. There is also a weekly live webinar that students from any of the Grad Cert NLP programs can attend and online videos.
The first four units are a comprehensive, skill-based course in the essential abilities of people who excel at what they do. John Grinder and Richard Bandler (the founders of NLP) identified and modelled these patterns of effective thinking, behaviour and communication. They learned to reproduce these skills in their own behaviour (modelling) and then described them explicitly so others could learn and apply these patterns. These skills form the basis of the first half of the course.
This course 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.
Course elements include presentations, demonstrations, guided exercises and practice. 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.
At the beginning of unit 1 each student will receive a copy of the NLP Field Guide: Part 1, by Jules and Chris Collingwood and at the beginning of unit 5 students will receive another comprehensive training manual.
NAT10970001 - Experience Neuro-Linguistic Programming Fundamentals
This is the first unit of the Graduate Certificate in NLP and as such it has been designed to set the frame and teach you the foundations for the duration of the whole course.
This unit describes the knowledge and skills to build rapport and track basic human relations and communication and develop an awareness of the relationship between communication and thinking through state management with self and others. Frames are set with reference to systemic and ecological use of NLP. The skills developed in this unit are a pre-requisite to all subsequent practice.
At this stage your instructors will frame the New Code approach to NLP, emphasising the following fundamental elements:
You will be introduced to the powerful distinction between working with communication and thinking patterns as opposed to standard educational methods of using descriptive content or stories.
From the first day, you will explore what it means to get on well with other people as well as discover a series of principles that will help you improve the way you currently do it. You will also discover how our communication is working from different points of view, and how to leverage your communication utilising perspective.
You will learn observation and listening skills from different perspectives and experience thinking and expressing ourselves using different sensory descriptions in order to build flexibility of behaviour into your communication repertoire.
From here, you will go on to discover how to elicit useful states in self and others while keeping in mind the intention of your communication and how to keep our activity respectful of others’ choices.
Lastly, by the end of this foundational unit you will learn how to incorporate directed questions that will help you identify and map any outcomes you or your client want in the future.
Prerequisite: none subject to entry criteria
NAT10970002 - Elicit information and generate solutions
This unit describes the knowledge and skills to track patterns in verbal and non-verbal behaviour to expose a new way of thinking, separating attention from story and keeping with pattern. This involves gathering high quality information from others, asking quality questions that lead to sensory based descriptions of human behaviour, gathering information about submodality distinctions that is subjective quality components of internal visualisation, audition and kinaesthesia. It is integrated using the Emergent Discovery Process to bring together the information gathering competencies.
During, unit two the focus of your learning will be on the following:
These include a New Code approach to change using submodalities, Chris Collingwood’s user friendly do it yourself approach to Grinder’s Six Step Reframe and Jules Collingwood’s state enhancing stalking exercise, along with recoded NLP change processes that now incorporate unconscious choice.
Prerequisite: NAT10970001 Experience Neuro-Linguistic Programming Fundamentals
NAT10970003 Apply interventions for optimal self-management
This unit describes the knowledge and skills to gather information to track and direct attention in self and others to make respectful and ecological interventions and so facilitate well-formed outcomes and exercise choice.
In this unit, you will learn to communicate in depth with your own and others’ unconscious minds to harness their resources directly to enhance all aspects of observation, communication, choice and change.
This includes everything from creating congruent acceptance or rejection of opportunities to producing lasting attitudinal change, to finding lost objects as well as to identifying life goals and arranging states of concentration for specific work in specific contexts.
You will engage the unconscious in practical demonstrations and identify the different functions of conscious and unconscious process. We identify our current appreciation of time, including elapsed time, the passage of time and time management and discover additional ways of experiencing and using time to create effective time management and experiences that are more engaging.
Prerequisite: NAT10970001 Experience Neuro-Linguistic Programming Fundamentals
NAT10970004 Create metaphor and strategies to support change and development
This unit describes the knowledge and skills to use, compare and contrast detailed elicitation and metaphors to reveal thought patterns and to create metaphor from the patterns that have been elicited”. We learn to use a content free classification system for organising content into classes and sub-classes. This facilitates thinking about any complex issue and enables us to identify related from non-related topics. We engage unconscious resources to make present to future comparisons safe for change with internal representations and submodalities and place the resulting benefits in our personal histories. The intent is to develop facility with the creative process so that we can identify and utilise opportunities in life. From the accreditation document: “This unit describes the knowledge and skills to develop strategies for practical interventions to assist in the experience of the learning and change processes in conjunction with well-formed outcome language patterns, ecology and respect for individuals models of the world.
In this unit you will learn to recognise, utilise and change sequences of representations to optimise learning, decision-making, self motivation, creativity and other aspects of the thinking and emotion generating process.
You will also learn to create and deliver metaphor so you can embed useful thinking patterns inside engaging stories. This includes short, suitable metaphors to fit business and concrete environments as well as full-blown fantasy stories for informal occasions and interventions.
Prerequisite: NAT10970001 Experience Neuro-Linguistic Programming Fundamentals
If you can create your own models of human excellence, you have the leverage to learn any skill you choose. This is the emphasis of the second half of this qualification. Acquisition of excellence in any endeavour lends itself to creating a model, not a theory. Being able to model equips you with the means to create your own NLP applications instead of depending solely on those developed by other people.
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.
Each student will receive a copy of the NLP Field Guide: Part 2, by Jules and Chris Collingwood
NAT10970005 Apply advanced processes of Neuro-Linguistic Programming to personal and organisational change
This unit describes the knowledge and skills you can use to develop and apply advanced change processes and information gathering techniques. you will, be invited to discover the NLP patterns underpinning these processes and to revisit the concept that NLP is a discipline and that its applications are products of the body of knowledge.
NAT10970006 - 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.
NAT10970007 - Design advanced Neuro-Linguistic Programming patterns
This unit describes the knowledge and skills to track advanced patterns in people’s speech and behaviour and to distinguish between process and content so they can respond to the patterns with directed interventions in conversation. It enables you to deconstruct change processes to identify and discover the underlying patterns in them. You will gain practical skills in constructing and improvising working interventions using patterns in combination.
NAT10970008 - Optimise personal and professional effectiveness
This unit describes the knowledge and skills to use, compare and contrast different emotional states and so provide them with a package of practical interventions to aid in mapping, upgrading and streamlining the personality. In this unit there will be opportunities to engage all the skills and processes offered in this program and to apply them in a variety of combinations to effect change.
