NLP Practitioner Training & Certification

No.

BYOC is designed for people who are already working with humans or are seriously intending to. NLP was my first certification and introduction to coaching, and I’m so glad it was - and it’s still the main tool I use today, 18 years later.

You don't need years of coaching experience or an existing business. You do need to be genuinely interested in developing the skill to work with people well, and willing to practise.

If you're already an experienced coach, practitioner or helping professional, you'll have plenty of existing experience to apply the work to as you learn.

Brilliant. Bring it.

BYOC isn't asking you to throw away everything you already know and replace it with NLP.

You'll learn another way of listening, thinking about patterns and facilitating change, and develop a substantial toolkit you can integrate with your existing skills and scope of practice.

In fact, much of the richness of the training comes from learning to think across what you already know, rather than collecting another isolated methodology.

We have had psychiatrists, psychologists, somatic practitioners, space-holders, the founder of a wonderful coaching school, as well as personal trainers, naturopaths, business coaches, marketers, people working for government, entrepreneurs, CEO’s, parents with high needs children, bodyworkers, doulas, lawyers, and so many others come through the doors here and use it as a complementary skill to what they’re doing.

Many weren’t even sure how they’d use it when they started, and found they used it every day in their field.

This depends on what you've studied and what you're looking for.

If you already have NLP training but still find yourself wondering which process do I use?, relying heavily on scripts, or wanting more practice applying the tools to actual humans, there's likely plenty here for you.

Many of our students have taken NLP training in the past, and loved this one. One student called it a “corrective experience”.

BYOC isn't built around simply knowing the techniques.

It's built around learning to practise the craft, and use it daily.

There are 26 live two-hour practice sessions across the eight months, plus the on-demand training and your own practice.

You're encouraged to watch the relevant training before each live session, but I don't want you to think that falling behind on videos means falling out of the program.

Haven't watched the training? Come anyway.

Practising matters more than anything.

You'll also need additional time during Breakthrough Week, but this is not five full days online. You'll complete a series of focused sessions across the whole week with your partner for a few hours per day.

To give you a weekly ballpark, allow 5-6 hours. Some weeks it will be less. And most of that will be listening to, watching or reading the content, which many play via the app and listen while they walk, commute or do chores.

Life happens. You don't need perfect attendance to graduate.

All live sessions are recorded and sent to you afterwards. If you miss one, you're encouraged to connect with someone else in the group and make up the practice that week, or during one of our scheduled breaks from live calls.

What matters is that you do the work and practise the processes, not that I police your Zoom attendance.

Breakthrough Week is a required component of your certification. If you genuinely can't attend the scheduled week, we'll make alternative arrangements for you to complete the equivalent practical work.

So yes, you can miss a call.

You just can't skip the practice and still call yourself a practitioner.

Come to the live call anyway.

Seriously.

The trainings are there to prepare you, but I would much rather have you in the room asking questions, watching the demonstration and practising than hiding because you're three videos behind.

You have lifetime access to the training, so you can catch up. Don't let being behind stop you from participating, it’s way more motivating to learn via doing!

Good. Bring your curiosity.

NLP gets a bad rap for some good reasons.

Some of the claims historically associated with NLP go beyond what the evidence supports. Some of its language and techniques have also been appropriated into worlds like pickup artistry and manipulative persuasion — which has done the field no favours.

We'll talk about that.

We'll ask: What is this model actually saying? Where is it useful? What do we know? Where have claims gone beyond the evidence? Where are the limitations? What's lore, and what do we actually know in practice?

I want you to leave BYOC more discerning, not more dogmatic.

You don't need to believe everything you're taught.

In fact, I'd prefer you didn't.

BYOC is a combined NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner training, so you'll complete both levels within the eight-month program.

Once you've successfully completed the required training, assessments, Breakthrough Week and graduation requirements, you'll receive your NLP Practitioner + Master Practitioner Certification.

Your digital certificate is issued once all graduation requirements are complete and your program balance has been paid in full.

If you're using an extended payment plan and finish the training before your payments do, that's completely fine. You can continue your scheduled payments, or pay out the remaining balance early if you'd like your certificate sooner.

Lifetime.

You'll retain lifetime access to the training materials and future updates, as well as the BYOC alumni community for ongoing connection, mentoring and finding practice partners.

You'll also receive six months of post-course mentoring after the core eight-month training finishes.

Graduation, much like becoming a black belt, is just the beginning!