NLP Marin Course Descriptions

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• Our Format—Designed for Flexibility
• Free Introductory Workshops
• Practitioner Certification—The Core Competencies of NLP
• NLP 1: Foundations of Communication and Change
• NLP 2: Advanced Communication and Change
• NLP Master Practitioner Certification Training
• Holographic NLP: Continuing the Journey of Mastery
• Emotional Inheritance: Revealing the Family Conscience
• Work and Business Constellations

We've designed our program to make it easy for you to take advantage of the power and "magic" of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. We realize you have a lot of choices available to you. That's why we offer Free Introductory Workshops—so you can sample before you commit. That's why we offer a "first weekend" no-questions-asked guarantee. And, that's why we've shortened our first-level course to provide just enough for a thorough coverage of the basics. By the end, you'll know whether more extensive training in NLP will serve you.

You decide. Our program is designed for flexibility and steady progression. You have options on how to get started and you decide what steps you'll take next—and when.

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These three-hour workshops provide a "hands-on" experience of NLP. They provide insight into how NLP could be useful in your unique life circumstances. They provide the opportunity to meet our trainers and some of our students and have an experience of our training environment. They are useful and valuable whether or not you take further classes.

This is an actual workshop, not just a marketing presentation. We would, of course, be pleased to have you come train with us. However, to start, we invite you to come just to experience the Free Workshop. Come expecting to learn a lot and to have a good time. There is no obligation.
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The Core Competencies of NLP is a combination of two classes (NLP 1 and NLP 2) which constitute the basic training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming leading to certification as an NLP Practitioner. We offer this training in two segments to provide more opportunities to begin each year and to give greater flexibility as to when (and how far) each student goes on. Both NLP 1 and NLP 2 are offered twice each year.

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Nine Days (Three 3-Day Weekends)
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each day
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In NLP 1 you will learn the full basic skill set of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Supervised practice supports integrating these powerful tools into your behavior so that they are automatically and naturally available to enhance communication and connection with others and to make life choices previously not available to you. The perceptual and behavioral skills and tools that you learn have been proven to work wherever people are relating and working together with a common objective. They are being effectively used in:
• Management, leadership, and training
• Therapy, counseling, and coaching
• Education and parenting
• Personal relationships
• And for personal change and growth

Major Themes of NLP 1

•	Learning how we humans create and maintain our patterns of behavior and experience and how you can change in ways that you want.
•	Methods to change internal perceptions and associations (your internal map of reality) to enhance life success.
•	Learning to use language more precisely for effective connection and communication.
•	Learning to consciously use your body and your voice, as well as your words, to enhance connection, communication, and understanding.
•	Learning how to identify outcomes and goals that are motivating and achievable.
•	Methods to eliminate internal blocks and create resourceful states in any situation.

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We are always happy to answer your individual questions. For further information or to discuss how NLP might assist you in your unique circumstances, please call:
(415) 499-0639

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Fifteen Days (Five 3-Day Weekends)
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each day
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This course builds on NLP 1 (which is a prerequisite). The primary objectives of NLP 2 are to expand your skills repertoire through the addition of the remaining models and frames of the Core Competencies of NLP and to develop your confidence and competence in using all that you have learned.

Certification as an NLP Practitioner is available at the end of this class.

Major Themes of NLP 2

•	Developing greater precision in the use of the spoken word to enhance communication and understanding.
•	Developing elegance in outcome specification.
•	Learning how to access hidden, internal barriers that limit success and sabotage efforts.
•	Learning how to get access to the source of internal conflict and how to resolve it.
•	Developing the ability to create or change meaning by reframing to establish a new, more useful perspective.
•	Learning to develop new internal and external behaviors for greater competence, more effective decision making, and sustained motivation.
•	Learning how to use vagueness in the spoken word to enhance communication and understanding.
•	Learning the value of and developing skill in the use of story and metaphor to enhance communication and understanding.
•	Introduction to the structure of beliefs and how to change them.
•	Skills integration and testing for Practitioner Certification.

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Twenty-four Days (Eight 3-Day Weekends)
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each day
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Our Master Practitioner Certification Training is offered once each year beginning in the fall. It provides the opportunity for the student to develop mastery in the use of NLP through expanded understanding, not only of the NLP model, but also of significant contexts within which the NLP model is taught at NLP Marin. These contexts include:

•	Childhood development psychology
•	Family systems dynamics
•	The physical function of the brain and nervous system
•	Recognition that humankind exists within the frame of a larger whole
•	Implications of operating from a Newtonian versus a Quantum world view

The objectives of the Masters course are to expand understanding of human behavior and how to influence or change it with integrity, to promote continuing movement toward excellence and ease with core-level material, and to provide a powerful increase in the student's ability to use NLP as a foundation for elegant communication and change in all aspects of life.

Certification as an NLP Master Practitioner is available at the end of this class.

Major Themes of Masters

•	Meta-Programs: Belief structures that stabilize identity and motivation. These deep patterns of perception and belief determine how we make sense of the world, how we respond to change, how we motivate ourselves, make decisions, and organize our experience of learning.
•	Childhood Developmental Stages: How human organisms damage themselves in an effort to maintain their wellness, and what to do about it.
•	Baseline Survival Patterning: Dealing with years-later-stuckness that originated in early success in surviving.
•	The Structure of Beliefs: How we humans create and maintain beliefs and why they do or don't change.
•	Reimprinting: The basic NLP model for changing beliefs.
•	The Structure of Identity: Working with beliefs we have formed to create and sustain our personal identity.
•	Systemic Identity and Systemic Identity Change: Resolving personal issues that originate in the systems of which we are a part.
•	Timelines and Timeline Interventions: Changing experience through reorienting internal resources and meaning in time.
•	Integration and testing for certification as a Master NLP Practitioner.

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Twelve Days (Four 3-Day Weekends)
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each day
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A common lament of NLP students is: "But how do I know what to ask next? How do I know what to do next?" The answer to both questions lies in developing the student's ability to feel or sense the "whole field" that is the client's experience of life.

Holographic NLP, a post-Masters course, is about learning to work with the whole by dealing with the parts. It's about sensing the structure of the client's whole life (the "whole field") through having contact with any piece of it. It's about how to drop down deeper without making things more complicated.

Holographic NLP is about learning to so deeply respect the client's Present Experience that it ceases to be an obstacle and becomes the compelling pathway to the fulfillment of the Desired Experience.

Major Themes of Holographic NLP
• Family Systems Dynamics
• Advanced Physiology
• Virtual Systems
• Identity Coherence and Interference
• Hemispheric Modeling

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A Two-Day Weekend Workshop
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each day
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The Emotional Inheritance workshop is designed to serve individuals and couples desiring to resolve their own life issues as well as therapists seeking to discover new ways of working with clients.

Each of us carries with us the sum of the generations that came before us—like an emotional inheritance that spans generations. Unresolved energy or emotions from previous generations can create profound, persistent problems or conditions for members of succeeding generations as they attempt to solve or re-solve the flow of love and energy through the family. The same love that creates entanglements in family systems heals when it becomes conscious.

This workshop is based on the highly original observations and therapeutic genius of German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger. Using the patterning of family constellations he evolved, participants will be assisted to explore and re-solve the emotional and energetic entanglements affecting their lives.

As the weekend unfolds, participants will begin to experience life difficulties from an entirely new, more resourceful perspective. As each person sets up his or her own family constellation or serves as a participant in another's constellation, issues (of sickness, relationship, or personal or professional dissatisfaction or struggle) that were once thought to be "just the way life is" will begin to melt away.

Although offered by NLP Marin, no prior experience with Neuro-Linguistic Programming is required. When we learned of the Hellinger family constellation work in the late 1990's, we found that it very nicely complemented and added to the NLP model. NLP works directly with the internal life experience and belief representations that can keep us stuck. Hellinger's model works with the energetic entanglements originating in the family system that can also keep us stuck. Both models begin with respecting what has been as an essential first step to change and moving on to fuller expression of our essential, unique selves.

We are always happy to answer your individual questions. For further information or to discuss how constellations might assist you in your unique circumstances, please call:
(415) 499-0639
For registration and other important information, [click here].

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Saturday Evening Workshop
7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
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Many of you have experienced the power of Family Constellations. Organizational Constellations apply the same principles in the context of businesses. They are used widely in Europe to reveal and often re-solve entangled dynamics in our work place and/or in the businesses we are creating.  Work and Business Constellations will offer you a new perspective in the ways your personal experience, behavior and decisions are tied in with the systemic group dynamic of your business and/or workplace.

Based on the systemic constellations work of German therapist, Bert Hellinger, we observe the deep impact the relationships at the workplace and the history of organizations have on what works and where people and organizations get stuck. They offer re-solutions that clearly show you new choices and possibilities to move forward. 

We also bring our personal family dynamics into the workplace and see them reflected in our careers. During this evening we will, whenever helpful, use constellations to clarify how our professional and personal spheres overlap and what internal shifts will bring new energy and expansiveness into our professional lives. 

By working gently, honestly and directly with facts, rather than beliefs or our story, we can discover how our attitudes and stances contribute to the difficult situations we find ourselves in and how we can contribute to creating a shift in the prevailing dynamics.

The Constellations will be facilitated by Carl Buchheit, and Volker Frank (www.VolkerFrank.com).

We are always happy to answer your individual questions. For further information or to discuss how constellations might assist you in your unique circumstances, please call:
(415) 499-0639
For registration and other important information click here.

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