Your introduction to mastery. In this section we set the "frame" for your training, creating the mindset for mastery.

Throughout this course we are building on the foundations of knowledge that you gained on your NLP Practitioner course. We start with some subjects that you will be familiar with and steadily add layers of knowledge to build the depth of your understanding and your mastery.

• What is NLP? - What are the various definitions of Neuro Linguistic Programming? What does it really mean? How to describe it to others.
• Cause v Effect. Results v Reasons. How to get in the right frame of mind for getting positive results
• NLP Communication Model - Learn how our mind filtering generates our perceptions and behaviour.
• Perception is projection - How we project our perceptions on to others. How to improve relationships.
• Mind/Body Connection - How it works and how your habitual thinking can affect your health.
• The Grey Zone - How we live in our comfort zones, how it holds us back and how to break free.
• The Learning State - Techniques for improving learning, relaxation and focus.

Major Themes

• The Presuppositions of NLP - How to apply them and use them when working with others.
• Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind - How your subconscious influences your life, thoughts and behaviour.

Linguistics

Taking your Practitioner linguistic skills to the next level. A welcome recap of some of the Practitioner language patterns.

• NLP Linguistics - Master your communication skills, learn to motivate, mediate, coach using NLP linguistic techniques.
• Linguistic Presuppositions - How to identify them in others language and use them for change.
• Modal Operators - How the specific use of them can influence others and your own behaviour.
• Inductive and Deductive language - Structure your language to achieve your objectives using inductive and deductive language techniques.
• Hierarchy of Ideas - how to negotiate, solve problems, mediate using this popular NLP language technique/
• Milton Model - How to create trance, identify and solve problems, create change using the Milton Model.
• Triggers in NLP Patterns - How to identify the triggers for unwanted behaviour in order to bring about change.

Meta-Programs

These are a deeply unconscious filter and they shape our personality. Learn how NLP Meta-Programs and Myers Briggs personality types link together.

• Meta-Programs - Discover your own meta-programs. How to use them in coaching and working with others.
• Basic Meta-Programs - The four basic meta-programs.
• Complex Meta-Programs - The sub meta-programs from the basic four patterns above.

Values

Our values are the things that are important to us and Values are important to our NLP mastery, so we spend a good deal of time on this course discussing this topic. Learn how to recognise your own and other peoples thinking systems so that you can further your communication mastery

• Values and belief systems - These form the rules for our life and explain our behaviour, and success.
• Origin of Values - Where we inherit our values from. This explains a lot!
• Values Levels - A model that explains thinking systems throughout different societies in the world.
• Values Levels 1&2 - These are the basic thinking systems that are rarely found these days. You will have visited this level at some stage in your life.
• Values Levels 3&4  - Still very much in use. You might find people thinking at these levels in all areas of society. The church, the government, big corporates.
• Values Levels 5&6 - More complex thinking at these levels. Some sales people, management, environmentalists, meditators, mediators, coaches.
• Values Levels 7&8 - Very complex thinking - You will still be able to identify people that you know at this level. Maybe you?
• Values Elicitation - A great process for establishing a set of values. Learn, Identify, Change. Comprehensive demo, exercises.
• Values Alignment - A technique for getting your life the way that you want it.

Parts

Advancing your knowledge of Parts from the Practitioner course.

• What are parts? - How to identify when the parts integration process would work. Learn which behaviours to change with this technique.
• Where do parts come from - how we develop parts as a natural consequence of living.
• Parts Integration - Learn the NLP Parts Integration process. Create great change with others. Fully demonstrated. When to use it, how it fits in with the other NLP techniques.