[Neurons] 7 Day Practiioner Certification or NOT?

[Colin Cox]

From: Colin Cox (NZ)

            NS Master Trainer

            Meta Coach (ACMC)

Member of the Neuro Semantic Leadership Team

 

 

Is it possible to deliver an NS-NLP Practitioner Certification in 7 Days?

 

Michael recently mentioned an article written by Chris Collingswood of
Inspiritive.com in which Chris addresses what he considers to be the Myths
of a 7 day certification in NLP. I will not address in my email, what Chris
has written specifically. Instead I want to provide my view of what is
possibly happening, to those who hold fast to the paradigm that trainings
"must" be a specific duration for it to be deemed a credible training and
anything different, is less credible.

 

The question I pose above is a question that many NLP Organisations will
likely need to address (if not already) and one that will challenge them to
their very core. The length of time required to deliver a certification in
either NLP or Neuro Semantic NLP has likely been linked to a specific
measurement criteria they use, to define themselves as a "quality" training
group.

 

Once you have announced that this is how long it takes to learn, then
surprisingly - that's how long it takes you to learn it! This should be of
no surprise to those of us trained in NLP or NS. Beliefs have a wonderful
way of determining our experience and defining our reality. How hard it must
be for Trainers who are stuck in the paradigm that it takes exactly this
long ( 7, 14, 20, 24 or 45 plus days) to be a certified Practitioner, Master
Practitioner, Trainer or Master Trainer.  

 

Personally, I was trained in the 20 day model of NLP certification. On 1st
hearing that others did "the same" NLP training I did in 7 days and paid
less for it than I did.  I laughed and mocked the quality of both the
content and the skill level of the participants that had attended this
lesser training (without ever knowing it experientially).  Naturally I did
so, to console myself, that what I had attended was correct and what they
had learnt was not.  I also found creative and demeaning ways to express
this to those I met (How many of you, who hold to a specific set of days to
learn NLP, will actually admit that this is what you do,  to those shorter
certificating NLP Trainers and Organisations?)

 

As I wrote earlier, In this brief email I am not going to address the many,
so called "myths" of those offering shorter version certification programs.
What I am saying here, is that it becomes increasingly more difficult to
believe that others can provide a service (7 day NS-NLP certification) while
maintaining both the quality and integrity of a program, when you have the
belief that this is not possible to do so. I consistently challenge the
concept of time, efficiency and effectiveness when delivering trainings. In
doing so I remain considerate of the possibility that more is possible in
less time while maintaining or improving the quality of the skill acquired
in the training by the participant. I also realize that there is likely to
be a point where efficiency & effectiveness will begin to negate each other
and result in the loss of quality & competency.

 

Irrespective of the time it takes to learn something it will require the
learner to apply that knowledge on a consistent basis over time, to become
proficient at it and hopefully achieve a level of mastery. Whether you
deliver a 5,7 or 20 day training is neither here nor there. What will
ultimately determine the success of the program is the quality of the
student that emerges from these trainings.

 

When I ran my 1st NS-NLP Practitioner training in January 2003 one of the
participants (who was a Trainer) said to me and the group, how he had
completed a 20 day NLP Practitioner certification and was skeptical whether
it was possible to teach it in only 7 days. At the conclusion of his 7 day
training with me, he said to the group, that he now realized that it was
possible to do so and saw people on the training achieve a level of
competence that superseded what he had experience in a 20 day training. 

 

Results will always be the benchmark of a trainings success and not the
length of time we say is required to learn it.

 

The link to Chris Collingswood's article is attached below - there is much
more that could be said to address what he has written, perhaps others of
you would like to do so? (or not!) J

 

http://ia-nlp.org/pdfdocs/ianlp-e-Accelerated-Learning.pdf 

 

Kind regards to you all...

 


col0908

     Colin Cox

 

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