Certified NLP Practitioner for Health and Fitness Professionals

This course has been developed to provide health and fitness professionals with all of the skills of a traditional NLP practitioner course with the added advantage of examples of practical application within the leisure industry. This course will include all the core NLP patterns originally developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder as well as the latest New Code techniques developed by Grinder, Bostic, Carroll and others.

The course is delivered over 10 days using various formats (see dates and venues).

The best of both

Classic Code NLP was originally developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder and is much referenced in their early writings and workshops that they conducted together. It is this work, now referred to as Classic Code NLP that is what most people refer to when describing NLP. This programme will also include New Code NLP which is the latest development from NLP co-creator John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair and others. These new patterns and techniques are powerful, yet easy to use and are particularly applicable to the leisure industry.


Candidates will learn:

  • Epistemology, the NLP model for how human beings know what they know
  • Rapport building-achieving maximum responsiveness in people around you
  • Calibration-reading clients non-verbal behaviour
  • Representational systems - how we structure information in our head
Language models
  • Original Meta Model and current verbal package for precision
  • Hypnotic language patterning through Milton Model
  • Metaphors to stimulate the unconscious to assist the client’s creative solutions
  • The deployment of multiple verbal models for linguistic flexibility
  • Classic Code models and NLP processes for change
  • Anchoring formats for building and manoeuvring state
  • Sub modality interventions for changing the structure of mental representations such as beliefs, phobias, etc
  • The use of tasking to help the client set his/her own direction
  • TimeLine formats for collapsing past representations and metaphors
  • Working with the unconscious mind
  • Eliciting and working with an involuntary unconscious signal
  • N step reframing, the bridge pattern to create powerful change
  • Understanding and utilising intention to deal with inconsistencies in the client’s life
  • Parts integration to create alignment
New Code NLP, the latest developments in NLP
  • New Code change format
  • New Code belief change model
  • The structure of New Code games
  • The current games - Alphabet, Nasa, New Code ball game
  • State formats, walk with X and Y, state walking etc
  • Sanctuary - a process for dealing with behaviour that occurs faster than conscious awareness or so slowly that the client isn’t aware of the behaviour until they are fully inside it.
The Practitioner ethics
  • Doing what it takes within the ethical boundaries of the relationship
  • Framing and dealing with expectation in a client
  • Understanding the distinction between content and process
  • How to avoid client over-dependency
  • Gaining clarity with evidence of success
  • Ensuring increasing rapport between the client's conscious and unconscious mind

Structure

This is a comprehensive training course that is open to all, but has been developed specifically to add to the skills of people working in this sector. No previous experience of NLP is necessary. This programme is suitable for facility managers, front of house staff, fitness instructors, personal trainers and group exercise teachers.

Total guided learning hours

This course lasts ten days in total (please refer to the course dates below)
In House Courses

Currently this course is available in-house only, which we provide for your staff at your place of work. Please, contact us, to find out more.
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Dr. Paul Bedford

Dr Paul Bedford has been working in the leisure industry for the past 21 years. Much of that time was spent working for YMCA Fitness Industry Training as a senior lecturer. He first trained in NLP in 1996, completing his practitioner and master practitioner programmes and completed his trainer training with John Grinder (co founder of NLP) Carmen Bostic St Claire and Michael Carroll.

Paul has a master’s degree in Exercise and Health Behaviour (psychology) from City University a second masters in Social Science Research and completed his doctoral work at the London Sports Institute.

Paul currently divides his time between conducting research in the area of the customer experience and delivering training course that provide practical approaches to behaviour change in all areas of the leisure industry.

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Paul has spoken to nearly 24,000 health club members in 90 sites across the UK in the past 6 years, to gain an understanding of what members want from membership and how clubs can provide it.

He is known for his extensive work with operators developing systems and practices to improve the customer experience using NLP to teach and deliver these changes. Paul has coached staff teams from managing directors to fitness instructors and run a private coaching practice where he uses NLP to improve performance of his clients.

Paul has been invited to speak at numerous conferences here (Bodylife, Fit Pro, SIBEC, REP’s, ISRM, Multitrax). Paul has also spoken in United States (IDEA, IHRSA), Sweden, Norway, Italy, Holland, Germany, Turkey, Spain and Ireland on the topic of member experience and behaviour change.

In 2006 Paul was asked to be the key note speaker at the Register of Exercise Professionals (REP’s) national conferences, the organisation that represents fitness professionals. The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) use Paul’s skills and knowledge for their sell out, Wining the Retention Battle seminar series.

Why Train with us?
The courses that I have developed have been designed with fitness and leisure people in mind. I have had the opportunity to have been taught by many leading trainers of NLP over the past 13 years. When attending the training I was constantly trying to adopt and adapt what was being taught back into the industry I was working in. The techniques incorporated within these training course can be used in therapeutic situations but where they really come into their own is in the modelling and development of excellence and maximising individual potential. Finally I have decided to train people to use both the NLP Classic and New Code approaches and have incorporated example that are instantly recognisable to industry professionals as situations where these techniques can be applied.

I Look forward to meeting you on one of our courses.
Dr. Paul Bedford
 

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