No invasive and unwelcomed up-sells. Some providers can spend up to a day and a half of a 7 or 8-day training offering up-sells to either further training or products at the back of the room. Our view is that you pay to be trained, not sold to. It is your time, NOT ours.
You get a full 8 days training. Some other providers schedule 8 days but if you look closely, the 2 Mondays are only half days, therefore, it is actually 7 days training.
Qualifications of the trainers – some have very few qualifications or experience. Look at our Faculty. It is absolutely the most expert faculty in the field. You have a full range of support and expertise behind our courses.
Security. This is an unregulated field. You may be surprised and even dismayed that right now, you could market yourself as an NLP trainer without consequence. As a result, the field is prone to constant incursions from poorly trained and inexperienced people passing themselves off as experts. These people do a lot of damage because people are entrusting their mental state and their futures to these trainers who have at best, a cursory understanding of NLP. This means you can be poorly advised. We take our responsibilities as trainers seriously. We wanted to be the best we could be so you can be the best you can be. We trained extensively with the best in the world. We waited until we had worked with over 1000 clients before we even dared to teach others.
And in the field, experience is crucial. You cannot be effective without it. NLP is not something you can read about and then teach effectively. Every coaching client teaches you something. When we are teaching we bring up to 20 years (15+ full time) experience to the table.
We have your best intentions at heart. If you watch our graduates on video you will see the recurring statement that we clearly care about our students. We want you to get it and use it and that means we have to give you everything we can in the time we have.
Part of the difference is our training with the Milton H Erickson Foundation Phoenix Arizona, the Birthplace of NLP. If you don’t know about it, you should. NLP was largely modelled on the work of Milton Erickson, the father of modern hypnosis. I was trained by his direct students. I am just 2 steps away from Erickson and you will be just 3 steps away from Erickson. When a model goes through many hands it gets diluted and distorted. This has happened to NLP. With us you will get a pure form of NLP, arguably closer to the original creation than any other version in Australia.
If you need the support of the trainer before or after class, you’ve got it. If you need a quick chat 5 years after training with us because something is niggling you, you’ve got it. If you want to resit the course, you’ve got it. And if you want email reminders of course content and suggestions on how to use it, you’ve got it for two full years after the course.
We are not the cheapest, however, we see ourselves as the best value for money in the field. When you add in the enormous amount of extra materials you get, you cannot compare us with any other provider. Full audio and video of the courses are just the beginning in many cases.
Do you struggle to effectively negotiate better deals or better pay rates? Do you have trouble establishing boundaries, or have trouble dealing with difficult people? Do you get frustrated by your own negative thinking? Maybe you procrastinate, or worry, or catastrophize, or overeat, or choose the wrong partners? Do you have challenging behaviours that sometimes don’t serve you or who you want to be?
Do you self-sabotage or wrestle with an overly critical, busy, or excessively worrisome voice? Are you stressed and looking for relief from your own concerns? Do you struggle to maintain your effort, or fail to follow through on things? Do you hesitate when opportunities arise and see them as challenges? Do you hate failing or even just getting it wrong, so much so that you tend to avoid action?
Do you avoid confrontation? Struggle to set boundaries, or think that you don’t love yourself enough? Do you find you don’t have enough confidence in communication, sometimes struggling to gauge how your message is landing? is it more hit and miss than purposeful, skilled communication?
If you answered YES any of these, or the issue has held you back and cost you more than our tuition fees over the years in lost opportunities or compensatory behaviours like alcohol, drugs or cigarettes or even retail therapy, then our NLP Practitioner could easily be the best investment you will ever make in your life. Nothing will change unless you do something about it. This is your best chance to create a more compelling future!
Yes you can. The body of knowledge is in our view and essential underpinning for a coach, but just doing the intial 8 day Practitioner won’t give you structure or the complete skillset to coach at any significant level. There are plenty of schools claiming that you can, but in reality, the chances of you doing a short training and suddenly being effective enough to command $100s per hour as a coach as slim at best.
The reality is that skills take time to develop. The Diploma of NLP and Coaching which is 20 days in total,across several months will definitely allow your skills to develop. We have full-time coaches who have come out of this training, and we ourselves employ people who have come through this pathway.