A brief look at what people can expect from training in NLP and Hypnosis, what the different associations represent, and why they need to trust trainers instead of credentials.

1. The Truth about NLP
and Hypnosis
NLP Canada Training Inc.

2. The Magic

3. People hope they can get what they want
• more quickly
• with little or no effort
• with little or no stress

4. If I can imagine it, I
can have it.
And as you listen to my voice, I’d
like you to think about something
you want as though you have it
now. And you can just make that
picture bigger and brighter and
more attractive. . .

5. If I can focus, I can
have it.
NLP or hypnosis really might help
you clear your mind and focus on
just the one thing that you need
to see so that you can take the
next step towards having that
thing that you want. . .

6. Unlimited influence
What if you already have all the
skills, strengths and capabilities
you will need to enter into
someone else’s experience so
precisely that you can replicate
that person’s results. . . or
change them.

7. There is no magic
• All achievement takes effort
• NLP & hypnosis offer:
• Practices for noticing that all brains are capable of creating vivid ideas
• Practices for controlling intention and attention
• Practices for noticing more about the experience of other people
• With practice, you can learn to imagine better, to focus better, and to
influence better

8. The Training

9. Training in NLP
Training to manipulate
• associated with development
of original NLP (early days -
Bandler and Grinder; later days
- Bandler and many others)
• It is manipulation in that the
practitioner decides what to
change and how to direct and
apply elements of change for
someone else
• Develop awareness of different
elements of state and
performance and change each
element separately and
consciously

10. Training in NLP
Training to facilitate
• Practices first developed by
John Grinder and Judith
DeLozier.
• Notice what people really want
and leverage their ability to get
what they want
• Mediate between various
elements of conscious and
unconscious processes
• Presuppose that people have
what they need to get what
they want
• Focus on what is right, not
what is wrong

11. Training in Hypnosis
Direct suggestion to induce
deep trance
• Client slips into state of
passive acceptance and
adopts suggestions for
changing state and
behaviours
• Hypnotist installs
programming and client
carries it out
• Success is signaled when
client produces deep trance
phenomena

12. Training in Hypnosis
• Ericksonian or conversational
hypnosis creates a state in
which client is open to indirect
suggestion
• Client may or may not be aware
of being in trance
• Hypnotist establishes deep
rapport to encourage client to
go into trance and may go into
trance with client
• Clients are offered suggestions
to access useful patterns within
their experience and apply
those patterns in new ways

13. Training for Strength, Flexibility and Resilience
• Full range of abilities and options is better than part of a range
• Getting what we want may require focus on goal or focus on process
• Different outcomes require different behaviours
• Influence requires ability to adapt to variety of situations, relationships and
personalities
• The best training allows the greatest range of options and abilities

14. Credentials

15. There is no regulation
• All groups, associations, and bodies are advocacy groups, not
governing bodies
• The practice of hypnosis is regulated by law in many places; the
practice of therapy is also regulated; there is no regulation of NLP
• All groups represent a particular point of view or advocate a specific
branch of training
• Membership requires paying fees to a particular trainer or
organization; there is no test or set of standards that could be
challenged
• Companies & individuals advertise their connection to a major figure
until they establish their own credibility and authority

16. Richard Bandler

17. www.richardbandler.com

18. Richard Bandler’s Association

19. John Grinder

20. www.johngrinder.com

21. John Grinder’s Association

22. Other big names

23. Michael Hall

24. Tad James

25. Robert Dilts

26. www.tonyrobbins.com

27. Some other famous names
• Inspiritive
• Sue Knight
• Jamie Smart (SALAD)
• Derren Brown
• Joseph O’Connor
• Steve Andreas

28. Trainers who have established credibility for their
own practices do not declare an affiliation to one or
the other of the founders.

29. Associations not linked to trainers

30. We are institutional members of the Canadian Association of NLP.

31. The Canadian Association of NLP
• voluntary advocacy group
• most members are NLP practitioners who use NLP but do not offer
practitioner certifications
• small membership base and very small, volunteer Board
• slow process for updating standards and no authority for governance
• is one of the few associations in the world that includes representatives of
both John Grinder and Richard Bandler strains of NLP

32. What about NLP Canada Training Inc?

33. Our mentor, Derek Balmer, trained with both
Richard Bandler and John Grinder. His practitioner
certificate, signed by both, hangs in our office.

34. Know us by our work. We post lots of it online. For free.

35. These web pages include links to other websites, videos, books and
articles. There are 20, including www.squidoo.com/nlp4skeptics

36. There are about 35 one-page articles by Linda Ferguson available at
www.ezinearticles.com.

37. We post free slideshows (including this one) at www.slideshare.net.

38. Get to know the people we have trained. www.relaxedandready.ca

39. Mike Mandel offers certification in Ericksonian Hypnosis.

40. Judge us by our ideas, our work & our friends.

41. The practice of NLP
and Hypnosis

42. Enhanced Performance with NLP & Hypnosis
• Most people integrate the practice of NLP and the principles of Ericksonian
hypnosis into their regular work
• They pay better attention and have a stronger ability to choose their focus,
even under pressure
• They know what outcomes they want and they take the steps necessary to
make them happen
• They build rapport and empathy with people for the purposes of learning and
influence
• They elicit useful states in themselves, others, and teams

43. Professional Practices using NLP or Hypnosis
• life, athletic or business coaches
• therapists
• producers of audio or video materials
• writers
• trainers who apply NLP or hypnosis to specific fields or goals
• motivational speakers

44. Offering Practitioner Certifications
• Very few of the people who train in NLP or hypnosis become trainers of NLP
or hypnosis
• Many trainers do not have training certifications. There is no governing body
and no firm evidence that graduates of training certifications are better
trainers
• Anyone (even someone who has never taken NLP) can claim to offer NLP
certifications
• The best trainers often have experience training outside the field of NLP and
hypnosis

45. The results

46. Better focus
• Practitioners use the
techniques of NLP and
hypnosis to allow themselves
and others to choose to focus
• When practitioners are able to
deliberately focus their
attention in a single direction,
they find what they need to get
results
• Practitioners recover focus
after encountering disruptions
or obstacles

47. Better Influence
• Studying NLP and Hypnosis
gives practitioners new
awareness & new skills for
connecting
• Practitioners enjoy making
deep connections with the
experience of others
• Practitioners manage their own
states and so are better able to
manage their influence

48. Better Performance
• It’s easier to get what you want
when you get better at knowing
what you want
• Performance develops from
new capabilities for choosing or
altering one’s own state
• Results are generated more
quickly and more easily when
practitioners form deep, useful,
resilient connections
• Practitioners learn and transfer
knowledge more efficiently

49. Think Better, Feel Better, Do Better
• It’s not magic: it takes a willingness to engage, to attempt and to practice
• It is reliable: if you develop the skills, you’ll get the results
• Practitioner think more clearly and habitually engage more of their brain in
thinking
• Practitioners have the opportunity to “do” emotions: to make choices that
lead to a state that satisfies them
• Practitioners get results that they like