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Certified NLP Practitioner for Health and Fitness Professionals

This course has been developed to provide health and fitness professionals with all of the skills of a traditional NLP practitioner course with examples of practical application within the leisure industry. This course will include all the core NLP patterns originally developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, as well as the latest New Code techniques developed by Grinder, Bostic, Carroll and others.  
 
Pre-requisites/Who for?  
No previous experience of NLP is necessary. This programme is suitable for facility managers, front of house staff, fitness instructors, personal trainers and group exercise teachers.  
 
Outline of the content:  
• Epistemology, the NLP model for how human beings know what they know  
• Rapport building-achieving maximum responsiveness in people around you  
• Calibration-reading clients non-verbal behaviour  
• Representational systems - how we structure information in our head  
 
Language models  
• Original Meta Model and current verbal package for precision  
• Hypnotic language patterning through Milton Model  
• Metaphors to stimulate the unconscious to assist the client’s creative solutions  
• The deployment of multiple verbal models for linguistic flexibility  
• Classic Code models and NLP processes for change  
• Anchoring formats for building and manoeuvring state  
• Sub modality interventions for changing the structure of mental representations such as beliefs, phobias, etc  
• The use of tasking to help the client set his/her own direction  
• TimeLine formats for collapsing past representations and metaphors  
• Working with the unconscious mind  
• Eliciting and working with an involuntary unconscious signal  
• N step reframing, the bridge pattern to create powerful change  
• Understanding and utilising intention to deal with inconsistencies in the client’s life  
• Parts integration to create alignment  
 
New Code NLP, the latest developments in NLP  
• New Code change format  
• New Code belief change model  
• The structure of New Code games  
• The current games - Alphabet, Nasa, New Code ball game  
• State formats, walk with X and Y, state walking etc  
• Sanctuary - a process for dealing with behaviour that occurs faster than conscious awareness or so slowly that the client isn’t aware of the behaviour until they are fully inside it.  
Practitioner ethics  
• Doing what it takes within the ethical boundaries of the relationship  
• Framing and dealing with expectation in a client  
• Understanding the distinction between content and process  
• How to avoid client over-dependency  
• Gaining clarity with evidence of success  
• increasing rapport between the client's conscious and unconscious mind  
 
Course tutor: Dr Paul Bedford.  
Dr Paul Bedford is a much sought after speaker and consultant on the topics of behaviour change, client retention and the customer experience. He has worked with a number of professional organisations and operators including IDEA, REPs, Fit Pro, ISRM, YMCA and the Fitness Industry Association.  
 
Paul holds a master’s degree in Exercise and Health Behaviour (psychology) from City University a second masters in Social Science Research and completed his doctoral work at the London Sports Institute.  
 
He began his NLP training back in 1996 and has more recently completed his trainer training, with John Grinder (the co founder of NLP), Carmen Bostic St Claire and Michael Carroll.  
 
Paul has spoken to nearly 24,000 health club members in 90 sites across the UK in the past 6 years, to gain an understanding of what members want from membership and how clubs can provide it.  
 
 
Why Train Paul?  
“The courses that I have developed have been designed with fitness and leisure professionals, in mind  
 
Over the last 13 years, I have had the opportunity to have been taught by many leading trainers of NLP. Throughout my training period, I was constantly trying to apply and adapt what I was learning into my own practice.  
 
The techniques incorporated within this training course can be used in therapeutic situations, but really come into their own when working to develop excellence and maximise individual potential. The programme teaches both the NLP Classic and New Code approaches and have incorporated examples that are instantly recognisable to industry professionals as situations where these techniques can be applied”  
 
I look forward to meeting you on one of our courses.  
 
Dr. Paul Bedford  
 
If you are interested in a NLP Course please email us at enquiries@fitnesswales.co.uk

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