NLP Diploma and Practitioner Courses with M. J. Rose Training Ltd
Hi – my name is Mick Rose and I’m a trainer of NLP licensed by the International NLP Trainers Association (INLPTA). I completed my Practitioner training in 2002, my Master Practitioner in 2006 and my INLPTA trainers course in February 2010, although I have been co-training NLP to Practitioner level since 2008. I have also been coaching, using NLP techniques, since 2006. My career background began in retail management, initially as a trainee with Woolworths before moving to store management with a large midlands brewery chain. In my mid-twenties I changed tack and joined West Midlands Police, where I stayed for just over 25 years, performing a wide variety of roles in lots of different places. I had the pleasure of meeting and working with Mike Green on a number of occasions and I’m delighted to be able to collaborate with him again now.
I “found” NLP in 1999, when I was a training manager in the police. I read some books and was vaguely interested and in the following year I had my first experience of its power. I was booked to take a flight in the new force helicopter on July 11th 2000, the day after my son’s 21st birthday. Still liverish from the previous night’s celebrations, my fear of heights grew as I approached the airfield. Among the group I met was a young officer, Ian, who noticed my concern. We chatted for half an hour and I felt better – I wouldn’t say I enjoyed every minute of the flight, although I do know the blind panic had gone. Ian later explained that he was a trainer of NLP and I invited him to work with my management team, specifically to improve our communication skills. Since then I have been constantly impressed by how quickly a skilled NLP coach can help a client to achieve positive change. Other professionals may decry a perceived lack of academic rigour around NLP (which can actually trace its roots back to Aristotle) yet my interest lies in achieving sustainable results. I want to equip people with the ability to change their own lives and the lives of others, by simple, straightforward means, with a focus of will, a purity of intent, a heightened awareness and a quality of character that we can all learn.
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NLP Diploma Course
The Diploma course is usually 5 days long and can be tailored to the needs of particular organisations or groups of students. The basic INLPTA requirements include:
- The history and pillars of NLP
- The presuppositions of NLP
- The NLP communication model
- How to establish rapport
- How to heighten sensory awareness
- How to design and achieve objectives
- How others interpret the world, receiving and transmitting information
- How to use powerful and influential language
- How to prepare yourself for future events
- How time has influenced the current you and how to change it when you wish
There is a short pre-read, the 5 days are usually split into 2 modules, although they can be consecutive and there is a knowledge check at the end prior to certification. At the conclusion, the student will have learned to question old behaviours and habits, to understand how and why others see the world differently, to devise new opportunities for future behaviour and learning, to be more sensorily aware than ever before, to be more at ease in the company of others and to be more influential and successful in their lives. Not surprisingly, this training is often called “life-changing”. Holders of the Diploma can proceed to a reduced duration Practitioner course if they wish.
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NLP Practitioner Course
The Practitioner course involves all of the above content and outcomes and is usually of 12 days duration, unless the student has already attained an INLPTA Diploma. There is an extensive pre-read, several interim and a final knowledge check and the programme is usually split into 3 blocks of 4 days. In addition to the Diploma programme, the Course will cover:
- Detailed language patterns and the use of metaphor
- The understanding of how habits are formed and changed
- State elicitation and management
- Modelling others and the design of strategies to achieve successful outcomes
- A full range of techniques to deal with past and future events – including Spatial and Physical Anchoring, Time-Line, Phobia Cures, Belief Change and Reframing
- How to manage difficult relationships
- An introduction to hypnosis and hypnotic language
At the conclusion, the student will have learned all of the Diploma outcomes and also how specifically to change unwanted beliefs and behaviours, how to better prepare themselves for forthcoming challenges, how to create a desired state at will, how to relax, how to form better relationships, even with people they used to find difficult and how to use these techniques with other people.
You will see that the Diploma course very much awakens the student to the possibilities of NLP, while the Practitioner programme is much more concerned with the mechanics – the “how” you do what you do to make a difference. As such the Practitioner course is extremely practical throughout, with lots of interactive exercises and the learning is constant – and great fun too.
I look forward to meeting you at one of our training events in the near future.




