Emotional Intelligence is now acknowledged to be vital in every aspect of life - for successful relationships, for achieving your full potential, and for career stardom. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) - the 'owner's manual for the brain' - provides the 'how-to' technology you need to increase emotional intelligence.

Why take this NLP Practitioner Certification?

This is the first NLP Practitioner training in the UK deliberately designed around developing emotional intelligence. Firmly grounded in the latest scientific discoveries about the brain and the emotions, this training will open unlimited possibilities for you and show you the right way to get there.

At a deeper level, this course provides a safe, empowering environment for you to make personal breakthroughs in how you relate to yourself and the world. It's very important to us to set up an empowering, inclusive group dynamic so you feel good as you learn. In contrast to some practitioner courses, this will be a small group training (max. 16) to ensure you get all the individual attention you need.

• high quality
• full 20 days
• affordable

What will you learn on our Practitioner Certification?

The modelling of human excellence by the NLP community over the last 25 years has been distilled into patterns and techniques for enhancing these six 'competencies' of emotional intelligence:

Self-Awareness	knowing yourself and what your emotions are telling you
Self-Regulation	being able to manage and control your own emotional state
Motivation	using your deepest preferences to move you towards your goals
Empathy	recognising and reading emotions in others
Social Skills	relationships, persuasion, dealing with 'difficult' people, negotiation, teamwork, coaching
Learning and Transformation	learning from your emotions at the unconscious level, allowing you to make life-changing shifts rapidly and gracefully

Our practitioner certificates are accepted by the UK Association for NLP, the only independent professional body for NLP in the UK, and we cover their recommended syllabus for practitioner training. This means that you will learn the classic patterns and techniques of NLP:

• The presuppositions of NLP
• How to establish rapport with anyone quickly and easily
• Pacing and leading: how to influence with integrity
• Sensory acuity
• Modelling excellence: the heart of NLP
• Establish a link between your conscious and unconscious minds
• Representational systems: making your communication more powerful
• Know how to ask exactly the right questions - the Meta-Model
• Master the language of influence - the Milton Model
• How to create empowering states in yourself and others
• Well-formed outcomes: how to set goals and make them happen
• How to create and use powerful metaphors
• Anchoring techniques: how to access and build resources
• How to "run your own brain" and control how you feel
• Perceptual positions: prerequisites for wisdom
• The neuro-logical levels model for understanding change in people or organisations
• Submodalities: discovering and changing how your brain codes your experiences
• Reframing: how to redefine 'problems' as opportunities and resources
• Strategies: eliciting existing strategies and installing new ones
• Applications: using NLP in business, negotiation, education and training, sales, therapy, marketing, relationships...
• And more...

plus

• Ericksonian hypnosis and self-hypnosis
• Timelines
• Developing a link with your deepest inner self
• Coaching with NLP

How you can learn so much so quickly?

We use accelerated learning techniques to make NLP as accessible as it should be, so you have fun learning. You will receive a comprehensive practitioner manual to support your learning.

Our aim is that our practitioners achieve a level of mastery of NLP which is normally only seen at master practitioner level. Are you ready?

Who should take this course?

Maybe you're looking for a new direction in your life? Perhaps you're in business and want to use state-of-the-art communication and influencing skills to give yourself an edge? Maybe you feel drawn to the magical therapeutic skills that NLP can give you? There are no formal qualifications needed for entry - just you, your unlimited potential, and your enthusiasm to learn.

In a few short weeks you could be an NLP Practitioner, facing the new Millennium with new confidence in yourself and your abilities to fulfil your true potential. What couldn't you achieve?

The Trainer:

Andy Smith is a certified trainer of NLP and organises the Richmond NLP Group. He has several years experience of working one-to-one withclients. In the corporate sector he has worked with clients such as Sony, BMW, Mintel and Royal SunAlliance.

Andy has appeared on Radio 5 Live's The Jab and has been interviewed by the Guardian, the London Evening Standard and Zest and Marie-Claire magazines. He has written for The Journal of Primary Care Mental Health, NLP World, Rapport, Stress News, the National Council for Hypnotherapy Journal, Aromatherapy and Natural Health, and The Therapist, as well as the Rough Guide to Rock.

Feel free to contact Andy on 0161 228 7768 or andy@practicaleq.com if you have any questions about this or other courses.

What can our Practitioner Certification do for you?

What couldn't you achieve in your chosen field if you had heightened awareness, the ability to access your own inner resources whenever you need them, a better understanding of how people and organisations work, if you knew how to model the excellence of inspiring people you meet...

Continuing support

Our aim is to continue to support our graduates in developing their excellence. After all, the more successful you are, the better our reputation will be! Therefore, we offer the following options for postgraduate support:

• formal supervision of therapy, training or modelling projects
• free email newsletters
• free telephone and e-mail support

In both our main training locations, Richmond and Manchester, there are thriving NLP groups so you can continue to develop and practise your skills.

What graduates of our previous practitioner courses said:

"This course was the best decision I have made in my adult life. I have been on a journey of self discovery and the journey reached new heights while I was on the NLP course. Never before have I learned so much useful and life-altering information. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us."

Denise Mortimer, fitness trainer

"Andy is a very supportive trainer, gained rapport really quickly. Congruent about what he taught and willling to respond to the group. I had the sense that everthing was safe... I am already using what I have learned. I now have a reputation at work for having 'POWERS'."

Patrick Evans, Senior lecturer in Mental Health Nursing

"Exceeded my expectations in every way"

Karen Brown, General Manager

"Congratulations again on running a splendid course. We all learned so much, both from you and from one another. The feeling of warmth and rapport in the group was strong and genuine."

Resli Costabell, Coach and Trainer

"If you have an interest in people and/or management do this course to increase your skills - it'll open your eyes and ears to what you've been missing all these years. Probably a better course (more important) than the coaching course than the coaching course I went on."

William Barron, Business and Life Coach

"Andy is a first-rate trainer with a very clear and varied presentation style; a great deal of practical work/exercises is included and supported by an excellent manual. "The course far exceeded my hopes for it, and like all of my fellow participants, I benefited greatly from it, both in terms of lots of relevant learning for use in coaching, and also in terms of my own personal development."

Bob Kessler, Personal and Professional Coach

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Graduates of our first NLP practitioner course looking very pleased with themselves and each other - as well they might 

Accessible and affordable

We are very concerned that if you really want to do our practitioner course, you shouldn't be blocked by financial constraints. So we've made it possible for you to pay for the Practitioner Course by means of a £200 deposit and post-dated cheques. Does that make it easier?

Venues: Our Richmond courses run at The Old Deer Park, Richmond, Surrey. Ten minutes walk from Richmond rail/tube station, this venue also has on-site free parking. It has an abundance of natural light and looks out over green fields and the Kew Gardens pagoda.

Our Manchester courses run at the Didsbury campus of Manchester Metropolitan University. Again, it features leafy surroundings and free on-site parking.

What it costs (apart from your commitment of time and attention): only £1300. Certification is an additional £100. Book with £200 deposit by six weeks before the course starts to receive a £200 discount. Multiple bookings receive a further £100 discount!

We also welcome NLP practitioners who trained elsewhere - if you hold an ANLP-recognised or McKenna Breen NLP practitioner qualification you can take the course for half price - £650 (certification is an additional £100).

How to book: because the course is a significant commitment of time and money, you need to be sure it's the right course for you. Please read the terms and conditions and call Andy Smith on 0161 228 7768 for a chat before you book.

Once you've decided, print off the terms and conditions and booking form and send them with your cheque (payable to 'Transformation Training Ltd') to:

Andy Smith, Apt. 13, 50 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6HR, UK