THE LAST MASTER PRACTITIONER COURSE

To know, understand, and practice NLP involves two parts—NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner. Now most people have the first impression that master practitioner inevitably is more advanced than practitioner. It is not. The content of the master prac. course is certainly based on the basic NLP Communication Model that you learn in Prac., but other than that, the content is no more complicated. What is in the master practitioner course is there solely because it was developed later.

If you want to become a practitioner of the NLP meta-discipline, you need all of the pieces that are represented in both the prac. and the master prac. Courses. They are all necessary for a full understanding of the NLP Communication Model and for understanding how to model experiences of expertise. Back in the late 1990s, Bob Bodenhamer and I spent a couple years putting all of that material together into two volumes. You can now find all of it in the two- volumes of User’s Manual of the Brain. Volume I is the textbook for NLP Practitioner and Volume II is the textbook for NLP Master Practitioner training.

What will you find in those volumes that cover the Prac. and Master Prac. courses? You will find the five meta-domains of NLP. After all, that’s what NLP is—a meta-discipline. As a discipline about the structure of human experience, with the NLP models, you can map out the way the variables (state, linguistics, beliefs, values, understandings, capabilities, etc.) come together to create an experience.

Practitioner course begins with the Meta-Model of Language. This model is about how language works and it enables you to become a good critical thinker. First you come to recognize key linguistic distinctions so that you can quickly identify key critical categories for how we use language to map things. Identifying these distinctions then gives you a set of powerful questions for recovering a fuller description. Now you can be more precise in communicating and mental mapping. Reversing this model is the Milton Model, a model about how hypnotic language works, that is, how it enables us to induce desired resourceful states.

Practitioner also introduces you to the Representational Model for how “thinking” and then experiencing occurs and is coded. Within this model is the Strategy Model by which we can identify the representational steps of any experience in order to model it and/or design a model for some experience of excellence. Within this model are also what has been called sub- modalities— which are actually the cinematic features of the representational systems, a meta- domain and a meta-model in itself.

Then in Master Practitioner we focus first on another meta-model, the Meta-States Model. This model addresses the special kind of consciousness of human beings—our self-reflexive consciousness. It is this meta-domain that explains “logical levels” and explore the area of beliefs and values. Robert Dilts examined this area early in NLP and began mapping it out which resulted in his Neuro-Logical Levels. John Grinder and Judith DeLozier also explored it and used “logical levels” to begin mapping out the details of the genius state (Turtles All the Way Down). From the Meta-States, the Matrix Model arose in 2002 as a systems model that enables one to think and work systemically with individuals or organizations.

The next meta-model of NLP is the domain of the Meta-Programs Model. This model is about human perceptual filters—the mental and perceptual filters that we use in processing information. It model arose originally when Leslie Cameron-Bandler was running “classic NLP patterns” and finding instances where they did not work. Something was interfering. What was interfering turned out to be various meta-programs. Very quickly a dozen were made explicit and then over time, another 4 dozen. Later, we discovered that most meta-programs are created by the meta-stating process.

The last time I trained the Master Practitioner course as such was 2004, that was in Australia. Since then, from time to time, I trained individual units of these or specific parts that we applied to leadership, coaching, productivity, self-actualization, etc. But I have now agreed to do it one last time. Why? Because I want to get it all video-taped and recorded. I want to do that mostly for the Neuro-Semantic Trainers who train Master Practitioner today and those who will be doing so in the future.

This last Master Practitioner course will be conducted in Manila Philippines in August 13– 25, 2018 and sponsored by Breakthrough Consulting. Aldem and Vanessa Salvana and other Trainers in the Philippines will be offering the first three days of the Master Prac., The Meta- States Model (APG). I will lead the other 12 days. For information about this, here is contact information:

Breakthrough Coaching and Consulting Inc (Brkthru) Phone: (63 2) 9545250 Mobile: +639088147047 Viber: +639088147047 SKYPE: virnavillarosa FB: brkthrucoaching Website: www.brkthrucoaching.com [email protected]