The Newest NLP Practitioner Certification Program on the Planet:

The NLP Immersion Experience - Solid, Thorough, and Comprehensive NLP Skills in this two week program!

Are you still thinking about taking an NLP Training?

Over the years, everything in NLP has advanced ... except its delivery ... until now.

You've been to trainings ... They're where you practice a series of steps, in a procedure, as if you're never done it before. This may work fine for learning software or if you are a small child. But as an adult you have a wealth of experience, and most of this experience isn't procedures. You have insights, rules of thumb, exceptions to the rules, and so much more. What if all of that experience could used to accelerate your learning? What if you could start there?

Warning! Training can make you incompetent.

A funny thing about training is how it takes advantage of a natural human tendency. We want to learn, and when we see something we don't understand, we often think we don't understand any of it. Inadvertently, some trainers encourage this, and being the cooperative creatures we are, we go along and forget or don't make use of our considerable experience.

Some examples from NLP Trainings:

        Trainer - "Today, we're going to learn how to formulate Outcomes."

        Wait a minute. How did you decide to come to this program?

        How did you find the place? The answer is you already had Outcomes.

        Trainer - "Rapport is very important skill to know and practice."

        Most of the seminar participants nod their heads in rhythm - rapport - with the trainer's voice, unaware that they are already in rapport.

        Trainer - "I'm going to demonstrate how you can anchor yourself."

        Do you listen to music to change your mood? They're anchors.

        Do you imagine vacations to motivate yourself? They're anchors too.

        Much of what we do, eat and distract ourselves with are anchors.

        Outcomes, Rapport, Anchors and more. You already have the basics of NLP, you just didn't know it ... until now.

Immersion - Learning the way the brain/body learns

When you learn a real world skill - cooking, driving, managing and more  - you know there are procedures, but the essential skills aren't the procedures. For example, seasoning to taste, handling an icy skid, and managing a difficult person require a range of awareness and skill working together. These are gained through immersing ourselves in the activities, experiencing their myriad distinctions and transferring learning from one situation to another. In NLP, this is called "building a generalization."

The Immersion Program is specially designed to identify and validate your many life experiences and draw them into groups that you can use to build the NLP generalizations of rapport, outcome setting, anchoring, reframing and the other skills. Then you learn to extend these skills into new areas for you. The results are an integrated skill set built on your competence and confidence.

Week One - First Order Change

The first week of the NLP Comprehensive Practitioner Immersion Program develops the sensory and behavioral skills of NLP including rapport, acuity, self and other anchoring, the submodalities of meaning and change, natural outcomes and navigating language and experience.

Week Two - Second Order Change

The second week of the NLP Comprehensive Practitioner Immersion Program develops the higher level NLP skills of intention, criteria and context including inner and outer agreement framing and reframing, and generative and analogical change.

We didn't take any shortcuts in designing this program.  We took 25 years of giving NLP Skills to people just like you, and used that experience to build the most remarkable, comprehensive, and deepest NLP program to date.

What will this NLP course do for me?

1) You'll get the personal attention you need to maximize your experience and personal development.

2) In this two week program you’ll return home as a truly influential communicator, knowing you can better understand, and be understood by:

• boss or employee
• spouse or child
• ally or adversary

Whether in:

• negotiating

• educating
• sales
• sports
• health
• managing
• marketing
• leading.

3) And you’ll have more fun learning than you have since you were a kid!

What are the specific skills I'll get?

In this course you will develop advanced communication skills as second nature – in two weeks! You do this by recognizing your unique style and reinforcing and polishing it. This will give you more influence at home, at work and with yourself. It will make you better at supervision, sales, management, coaching and parenting.

Fundamentals

Rapport – You will learn how you can put others at ease in seconds, and to increase your comfort in the presence of others.
Sensory Acuity – By learning to read other people’s body language and tone of voice, you’ll develop a deeper and quicker understanding of what’s going on beneath the surface. It’s like listening with your eyes as well as your ears.
Anchoring – Allows you to create emphasis, below the awareness of others, by word, gesture or touch.

Modalities and Submodalities

In this section you will learn about the unconscious building blocks of our structure of reality. You will also learn how rearranging them can create profound inner change.

Precision Language

Meta Model – Teaches precise communication; so you can say exactly what you want, and get an understanding of what others are saying.
Outcomes – This procedure allows you to discover what’s really important to yourself and others in many situations. With this process you can do effective coaching and planning, mediate disputes, and negotiate goals.

Language of Influence

Milton Model – This language skill allows you to be persuasive without triggering resistance.

Negotiation

Reframing – Turning seeming conflict into collaboration – this skill will enable you to negotiate more effectively by trying on many different ways to view a situation. The more mentally flexible you are, the more effective you become.

Metaphors

are the keys to how people live their “stories” – we all have them, and we show how we see the world through our choices in appearance and the imagery in our language By becoming skilled in this area, we can enter other people's worlds. We become better leaders, teachers, and coaches.

The Final Chapter: Ecology

This skill allows you to know the boundaries of what you can do with another person in a specific situation. It teaches us how to respect the inner worlds that other people live in.
Integration – Ties all the skills together into a seamless package.

Remember what it was like when you were a child, immersed in exciting play, and then someone called that it was time to come in for the day?

You didn’t want to quit, did you? You didn’t want to leave your playmates and go inside. Remember pleading, “just five more minutes”?

How long since you had that feeling? When was the last time that you had so much fun learning and growing that you didn’t want to stop and call it a day?

You learned your critical life skills as an adventure, finding out what worked, and then becoming good at it. Our new program approach is getting rave reviews because people are learning and using extremely sophisticated skills as easily and naturally as if they were children.

The Immersion Experience is taught iteractively – like life. When you’re in our course you’re not sitting at a lecture and trying to stay awake after lunch – you’re living it.

The learning is full-time and you are fully involved. From the time you wake up till your head hits the pillow at night. Because of the way you learn, it feels like play.

You learn best by being completely immersed in new ways of thinking and doing things, and that's what you'll experience for two weeks this summer -- it's more fun than summer camp when you were a kid!

You'll be in a new environment -- no distractions -- and feeling the thrill of discoveries about yourself and the people in your life. You'll be anxious to get home to make use of what you've learned.

I want to share something personal with you. For me, creating and producing NLP programs is a labor of love. I’ve been doing it for over 15 years, and have seen thousands of people respond to different program experiences – but I’ve never seen anything like this.

How is the new Immersion Training Design different from the usual or traditional
NLP Practitioner trainings?

"Recently, I was asked this very question by an international business executive. While my answers were made in that context, they are also answers to your question.

Traditional NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner Courses train their participants to apply specific procedural techniques in one-to-one interactions. These trainings were originally and specifically designed as psychotherapist training programs. As these courses have attracted coaches, managers, sales people and professionals, there have been some modifications, but mostly for the increased size of the training groups. It continues to surprise me that many organizations still market these formats as if they were suitable for a business or professional context.

The fact is most business interactions do not lend themselves to applying multi-step techniques to clients or employees - even if these were legally permitted, which in many states and countries they are not. Moreover, NLP techniques are interventions designed to resolve specific difficulties in one-to-one, usually private, meetings. Meanwhile, most business interactions are much more wide-ranging, involving not only one-to-one interactions, but many people at the same time, and often in very public settings.

Traditional NLP techniques deal with the transformation of one person’s internal world, while most business activities are about changing a lot of peoples’ external world. Yes, internal changes often lead to external changes. (And yes, you will learn the traditional NLP techhiques.)  It is a premise of NLP. And how much more effective could you be if you could affect many peoples’ internal and external worlds simultaneously?

Finally, the traditional NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner courses, designed for psychotherapists, teach what psychotherapists need, not what business executives need. Yes, there are some overlaps, and so there are some good results. And as you are probably beginning to realize, those results could be so much better. So, as the Director of Programs for NLP Comprehensive, the oldest NLP training company, I redesigned the NLP courses to really meet needs of people – business executives, professionals and individuals – whose lives are lived outside of a counseling office.

In the 1970s when it started, the NLP training model was a 'pace' for the professional development environment of that time. Given all the advances in NLP over the last three decades, and they have been considerable, it surprises me that NLP is still largely taught in exactly the same way it was in those beginnings. The NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner Courses are designed primarily to entrain new behaviors.

This ignores the fact that the participants must already have effective behaviors around rapport and outcomes and the rest. How else did they find the course, or get to the training, much less pay for it?
My point is this: the NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner Courses presuppose participants don’t have these basic life skills. (“Today, we will teach how to gain rapport with people and set outcomes.”) Being cooperative creatures, participants tend to conveniently forget what they naturally know about these things - which is why the training process takes so long.

Everyone one knows how to get lunch. Not everyone knows how to get a life. The differences between relating in a moment, and creating a relationship, are considerable – and one can be built on the other.

So I designed the NLP Immersion Program so participants build on their everyday existing competencies. It cut the "training" time in half, while keeping all of the content, with even better retention and ease of use in the real world.

In short, it’s an upgrading of NLP from techniques to a natural awareness of the many possibilities available at every moment in life - and equipping you with new ways to get them." 

--Charles Faulkner, Director of Programs, NLP Comprehensive

When I visited the room where the Immersion Experience was being held, I saw students making distinctions after two days that would have pleased me if it had come from fully Certified Practitioners under the traditional method of program.

A woman in the class approached me during a break and said, “I feel like I will go through the rest of my life having more choices in more situations than I ever did before.”

This two week intensive program contains all the essential NLP models taught in the deep, thorough way that has led to NLP Comprehensive's reputation as the “Harvard of NLP”.

Our graduates are known world wide not only for the level of mastery they achieve, but also for their understanding of a very deep and rich field.

What are the personal benefits?

• You will enjoy far greater control and freedom over your own state of mind, responses, and interactions with others.
• You'll find it much easier to clarify your dreams for the future and identify barriers that may be holding you back.
• You will be able to change the unwanted habits and behaviors that are standing in your way.
• You will understand your partner's and children's needs and communication styles more fully.
• You will be able to build strong rapport with others.
• You will recognize how others are using language to influence you.
• You'll find it easier to achieve your personal and professional goals, because you'll gain greater access to your internal resources and far greater understanding of the needs, motivations and desires of the people in your life.

• NLP has led many people to new opportunities and advantages both in their existing profession and by opening doors to new possibilities.
• The basics learned in our NLP program are like the difference between trying to write a novel with a quill pen and using a word processor.
• Graduates became, in their own words, vastly more effective consultants, coaches, managers – and parents.
• Listen to our free cd “Interviews with Graduates” to hear their stories in their own words, or click the articles button in our website to read for yourself.

Who Uses It?

• Businesses use NLP to increase sales, to create world-class customer service -- and to implement organizational change effectively.
• Educators can read the verbal and nonverbal language of every child to identify how each one learns best. As classrooms become increasingly diverse, NLP skills are becoming more essential.
• Counselors can help clients become more functional in a shorter time frame Today's limited insurance coverage makes it crucial to achieve maximum results in minimum time.
• Medical and Dental Professionals can relieve patients' fears and anxieties about procedures. That means better client retention.

Lawyers, Negotiators and Mediators
Private & Public Sector Leaders & Professionals
Managers, Human Resource & Service Industry
Parents
Public Speakers & Writers
Politicians & Diplomats
Law Enforcement
Sales Professionals
Secular & Religious Counselors
Therapist & Life Coaches

The Learning Environment

You’ll rapidly gain confidence in your abilities in our highly experiential program style. Through skillful presentations, live demonstrations and supervised exercises, you’ll see, hear, and feel your growing effectiveness.

The majority of your time is spent “learning by doing” in a highly supportive environment. Group size is designed to give you personal attention from the staff. You will be supported by a Coaching Team of Certified NLP Master Practitioners, available to lend support and answer questions and help you fully integrate your learning.

You will also receive a comprehensive Program Reference Manual to guide you through the course and to help you refresh your memory afterwards.

Between sessions, supervised study groups are available (at no extra charge) to help you integrate the material into your daily life.

The Program Team

Personal Attention from Top NLP Developers - the people who wrote the book on NLP.  We limit the size of our Practitioner program to assure you of getting the personal attention to your learning and development that you deserve.

The Program Team is comprised of three groups of people who work closely together to ensure the success of your program. They are the Trainers, the Program Coordinators and the Program Coaches.

The Trainer leads the group through presentations, demonstrations, discussions and exercises. They bring decades of expertise to share with you.

The Coordinator provides leadership for the Coaching Team and ensures a smooth transition between trainers. The Coordinator pays attention to the many details of the learning environment. He/she works closely with the Coaches to help meet your program outcomes -- and with each Trainer, making refinements to the program in response to the group’s pace and special interests.

The Program Coaches are experienced Master Practitioners of NLP who work with you to help you meet your program goals.

SUMMER PROGRAM LOCATION & LODGING
Beaver Village Condominiums, Winter Park, Colorado.  3 hours West of Denver, Colorado at 9000 feet elevation in the spectacular Colorado Rocky Mountains!

Join Us for our Summer Immersion Program conducted in a single two week session:

Sunday, July 27 through Saturday, August 9, 2008

Winter Park, Colorado

SUMMER TUITION:  $3,950 - Register with your $300 deposit. Make the Summer Immersion happen for you!

Or the 2009 Winter Immersion Program conducted over two one week sessions:

Week One: February 1 -7

Week Two: April 19 -25

Denver, Colorado

WINTER TUITION

Special Note: Remember, you may save as much as $1,000 over next year's prices just by registering now for the training of your choice!

And, there is an "early bird" savings of $300 available off the tuition cost of $3,950 if you are one of the first 20 people to register with your $300 deposit by October 30, 2008.

Space for this training is limited, so to save your place now (it's easier to cancel if things don't work out than to get in if the training is filled):

1) Email Sharon or call her now to get the rest of your questions answered and have her save a space for you! Phone: 1-800-233-1657 or 303-987-2224 or Message us through t he chat box above!

2) Or just Click Here to make your reservation online!

Limited Time or Budget? Take Part 1 for just $1950 - space permitting.

GUARANTEE

P.S. Is there a guarantee? There sure is.

Here it is: Attend the entire first two days.  If you're not completely blown away, quietly tell one of the registration staff, turn in your manual and name tag and you will receive an instant, full and cheerful refund, no questions asked and no hard feelings!

Even More:  For programs in other areas or at other times, just send Sharon a message through the "chat" box on the right - or call us at 303-987-2224 or 800-233-1657!

THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

Thinking of the Living Encyclopedia Distance Learning program too?

Sharon is frequently asked to help people choose between our “Living Encyclopedia of NLP”, the Classic NLP Practitioner Distance Learning program, and our new Immersion NLP Practitioner program. One you can enjoy at any time in the comfort of your home. The other you get to enjoy in the spectacular Colorado Rockies.

Well, we thought, why not make it as easy as possible for you to do both - and save $1,953 at the same time?

Whether you previously purchased the “Living Encyclopedia of NLP” or are considering purchasing it now, with this special offer you can have the best of both!

Come and join us this summer for your Certification in the gorgeous Colorado Rocky Mountains. We'd like to make it easy for you to have all the breakthrough experiences that happen in a live class. So you'll be joining the full two week Summer Immersion NLP Practitioner Certification Program with a group that will be fired up and moving fast! You're going to get a special degree of attention from a concentrated staff-to-student ratio as we work with you throughout this intense and exciting two weeks!

You will enjoy integrating your studies with the real life training experience in a new format that fits your new NLP skills into the real world. You'll learn how to make NLP a natural part of your everyday life.

Cost:
The Full Tuition for the Summer Immersion NLP Practitioner Certification is $3,950.00; Order your “Living Encyclopedia of NLP” today for $2,297.  Then register for the Summer Immersion NLP Practitioner Program at the reduced rate of $1,997.00. This is a Savings to you of $1,953!

To take advantage of this offer, you need to contact Sharon ASAP to reserve your spot. We need the advance notice to make sure we have space for all who want to attend. 

Call Sharon toll free in the US at 800-233-1657 - Outside the US: 01-303-987-2224 - or message us through the "chat" box above!