Core Competencies (Core) / Intensive Training Core (ITC)

Core Competencies (Core)
Intensive Training Core (ITC)
"With regard to the past, let's operate and relate with ourselves and each other as if we had no choice. With regard to the future, let's operate and relate with ourselves and each other as if we have nothing but choice." - Carl Buchheit
"When a student really gets that they can re-create their experience, they are on their way to mastery. This is a moment of true freedom." - Carla Camou
The Core Competencies of Transformational NLP constitutes our basic, first-level training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming leading to primary certification as an NLP Practitioner. This course is taught by our lead trainers Carl Buchheit and Carla Camou.
Whether you take the six month Core format or the three month intensive ITC format, you will learn the full, basic communication and change skill sets of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. You will also learn the powerful NLP change techniques and patterns that will make it easy to make the kinds of choice—and achieve the kinds of life-changing results—that haven’t been available before.
These amazing perceptual and behavioral skills and tools have been proven, for more than 30 years, to be the "difference that makes the difference" between run-of-the-mill capability and truly magnificent art and skill working with others (and with yourself).
Who is This For?
- Individuals who are ready for a change in life. Many of our students join us in the intention to explore and accomplish highly personal change work. Over many years of training experience, we have found that the best way to grow as an individual is not only to have the change patterns and techniques applied to you, but also to stretch yourself and assist others in changing. Many of our students come into our courses with the conscious intention to learn to change and better manage others, only to realize—months or years later—that what they learned and did absolutely transformed their own lives as well. At the other end of the spectrum, many students come to us with the voiced intention of working only on themselves and gradually discover that the experience of being in the “practitioner chair,” in which they make themselves available to help someone else, is the most valuable and powerful component of creating growth and change in themselves.
- Coaches, therapists, counselors, and change-workers: You learn to elegantly, rapidly clarify both the immediate and deep outcomes of your clients and patients. In this skill set, therapists discover a reliably miraculous method for gaining in-the-moment, respectful access to the deep unconscious content of the client’s experience. Moreover, this skill set allows the practitioner to immediately work with this unconscious material, to quickly revise stuck and dysfunctional patterning, should this be desirable in the client/practitioner process. (NLP Marin is possibly the only teaching center—NLP or otherwise—that has the expertise and experience to successfully transfer this know-how to our students. Mastery of this material is essentially unavailable elsewhere.) Practitioners of all kinds learn to work with clients to develop truly compelling motivation toward fulfillment of long-desired dreams and outcomes. Coaches gain increased skills to assist their clients in articulating meaningful new realities and creating congruent shifts toward ultimate outcome-based goals.
- Working professionals, managers, and leaders: You learn skills to build and sustain rapport with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Managers improve their ability to hire and fire, to coach, to motivate, and to give feedback to their teams. Trainers and meeting facilitators are better able to take charge and hold the attention of the group, regardless of whether group energy is supposed to be sourced from the leadership or from the team. Leaders (of all kinds) learn to understand, accept and respect the internal maps that others are working from. The complaint “I just can’t understand how they can be like that!” usually disappears from the team space.
- Entrepreneurs looking to increase their effectiveness in the context of building their business, inspiring and enrolling like-minded people to work together, and being a model for the vision they hold for the world.
- People wanting better personal relationships: All of our students learn everything in this course at least three different ways. You will learn to use these tools, perceptions and paths toward new action 1) with yourself, 2) with others, and 3) by offering support to everyone who participates with you during the learning adventure. You will learn to experience and revise both your own map of reality and that of many others. This broad, private-but-intimate experience enables everyone to gain new insights into themselves and to grow into wider and richer wisdom about life and about what makes human beings the way they are. Your new relationship with yourself will give you an increased ability to create safety and intimacy with others.
- Existing NLP Marin students or graduates who would like to audit the course, to add even more depth and dimension to the learnings they have already attained from prior years.
Key Benefits
- Positive personal change. Gain exceptional clarity about what you want to create and have unfold in your future. Then learn how to shift old, ineffectual patterns that keep you “stuck” in unchanging experience.
- Satisfyingly more effective change work with others. Learn more tools to uncover, understand and unlock old patterns of behavior that have become outdated. Learn new techniques to change or shift those patterns. Begin to see and develop the ability to understand the structure of beliefs and how to change them.
- Increased life success. Applying your new tools and skills in your own, original ways will enable you to communicate more effectively and establish a unique presence in your life. Also, the practice you get each weekend and at your weekly study groups enables you to become exceptionally clear about what you want to create and what you would like to experience in all your day-to-day interactions.
- Elegant language skills. You’ll learn a way to use language to precipitate conscious change. You’ll also use storytelling and metaphor to enhance communication with the unconscious mind.
What You Will Learn
- Rapport skills. Learn to distinguish between levels of rapport, “the difference that makes the difference” when you need deeper access to a person’s unconscious mind. Develop the ability to build rapport with absolutely anyone, anywhere, any time. Your conscious learning from Core Competencies of Transformational NLP will integrate all the way into the wonderfully handy domain of “unconscious competence” when it becomes a part of you are.
- Discovering and clarifying desired outcomes. Develop even more skill at guiding people to identify what they want, personally and professionally. Learn the art of asking questions that cause “stuck” present-tense situations and patterns to spontaneously open toward movement and positive change.
- Reframing. Learn how to create change through the spoken word. Gradually develop more and more skill in utilizing the art of “specific vagueness” to enhance communication and understanding.
- Learn “meta-model” basics. These are precise question patterns derived from the work of Virginia Satir and Fritz Perls that work magically to unlock and unstick an unproductive experience.
- Gain instant, respectful access to people’s unconscious barriers. You also will learn the trademark question of Marin-style NLP: “What stops you?” A very simple question which, when asked correctly, gives us access to volumes of entirely unconscious experience in just a few seconds. This is a life-changing event for everyone who learns it.
- Uncover and understand pattern ecology. We take a holistic approach to human experience. We delve deeply into personal ecology and learn many ways to uncover and understand the very important reasons patterns have existed in someone’s life up to this point. Artful change always takes these important reasons into account so we can create change without having negative, unintended consequences as a result of positive change.
- Discover the structure of human experience. Human experience is created neurologically using the pathways of our five senses. We dig into the structure of human experience to uncover each other’s “strategies”–the hugely unconscious patterning that determines the success or failure, the easefulness or painfulness, of all of our experience, motivation, decision-making and learning. You will learn explicit procedures to discover and rewrite all of your old, “dysfunctional” or un-motivation-producing programming, installing instead more productive and useful patterning.
- Learn story-telling, metaphors and hypnotic language. Learn how to use story and metaphor to create change and increase influential memorability. You develop your skill in using hypnotic language patterning to enhance impact and understanding while learning to conduct multiple, simultaneous conversations with many different levels of the unconscious mind.
- Test for NLP Practitioner Certificate. Included in the price is an opportunity to test for your Practitioner’s Certificate. Not only is this an opportunity to be certified but it’s also an incredible learning and integration experience for anyone who participates.
- Be part of a happy, supportive community. Our students are focused on personal and professional change and come from all walks of life. You’ll study with CEO’s, health practitioners, coaches, psychologists, parents and everything in between. NLP Marin is for anyone and everyone. Our community is a testament to the effective, flexible nature of the work. Also, by working with your classmates over an extended period of time, you discover an exquisite experience of friendship and camaraderie as you learn and grow together.
Two Options for Taking This Course
Core Competencies (Core)
Taught by lead trainer and training director, Carl Buchheit. The course spreads out the "Core" material into six weekends (one 4-day weekend and five 3-day weekends) over six months.
Class runs from 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM Pacific time, USA on Fridays & Saturdays, and 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Pacific time, USA. Class includes 90-minute lunch break and other breaks throughout.
This option gives participants maximum time for learning and integration.
Intensive Training Core (ITC)
Taught by lead trainer, Carla Camou. This course condenses the "Core" material into two 5-day weekends and one 3-day weekend over three months.
Class runs from 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM Pacific time, USA Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, and 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Pacific time, USA on Sundays. Class includes a 75 minute lunch break, a 45 minute dinner break, and other breaks throughout.
This option is designed for those with a more fast-paced style of learning and integration.
Logistics
NLP Marin classes are completely experiential. Our class time is usually about 25% lecture and other highly interactive presentations, about 25% live demonstration of the material being covered, and at least 50% “live-in-person” practice with fellow students.
Our training weekends are designed to transfer information and to allow that information to transform itself into elegant and powerful behavioral know-how. Each weekend emphasizes lots and lots of practice with other students to ensure your understanding.
We believe our students experience such a high level of proficiency because they get so much opportunity to practice their skills, and to be with and learn from each other in a safe and caring way.
- Our 6-month course (Core) is 19 days of training (six weekends: one 4-day weekend and five 3-day weekends).
Our 3-month version of this course (ITC) is 13 days of training (three weekends: two 5-day weekends and one 3-day weekend). If you have to miss a day or weekend, you will be given access to the videos of your class, so you can see what you missed in class and then integrate the material in your study group. - Weekly study groups and supervising Teaching Assistants (TA). NLP Marin is unique in that we also provide multiple study group sessions every week, conducted by our Training Assistants. Practice, practice, practice leads to an exceptional level of integration and implementation. The weekly study group sessions are designed to accommodate both in-person at many locations around the San Francisco Bay Area (when public health orders permit) and virtual study sessions. The online study groups are facilitated using Zoom Video Communications.
- Food & Drink: When we meet in-person, students are expected to bring their own lunch or go out to a local restaurant. Tea and hot and cold water are provided. The class will break each training day for lunch (and dinner for ITC).
Our Teaching Assistants (TAs) are selected from among NLP Marin graduates who have achieved a high level of integration. We have a ratio of about 3-5 students to 1 TA, or better, so that there is almost always an assistant observing an exercise who can give skilled feedback.
What if you must miss a weekend? Not a problem. This is a common occurrence. If you miss a weekend, log in to the course portal to access recorded videos of our training so you can catch-up in your own time. If you are to miss a training weekend or two, the most important thing to do is attend weekly supervised study groups as that is how you really learn and integrate the material.
What Our Students Have to Say
ENROLLMENT APPLICATION
2024 Core Dates:
March 21 - 24, Thursday - Sunday*April 19 - 21, Friday - Sunday
May 17 - 19, Friday - Sunday
June 14 - 16, Friday - Sunday
July 12 - 14, Friday - Sunday
*August 9 - 11, Friday - Sunday
*Hybrid - in person & Zoom simultaneously.
Offered once per year only
Times for Core:
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Pacific time, USACalculate in your time zone
2024 ITC Dates:
*June 19 - 23, Wednesday - Sunday*July 17 - 21, Wednesday - Sunday
*August 9 - 11, Friday - Sunday
*Hybrid - in person & Zoom simultaneously.
Offered once per year only
Times for ITC:
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Pacific time, USAWeekends 1 & 2
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Pacific time, USA
Weekend 3
Calculate in your time zone
Tuition:
$5,495
Includes weekly supervised study groups for integrating learningRecommended Text:
Transformational NLP:A New Psychology
by Carl Buchheit, Ph.D. and
Ellie Schamber, Ph.D.
Location:
Online via Zoom-OR-
Hybrid
(Online via Zoom &
live at the Novato Oaks Inn)
215 Alameda del Prado
Novato, CA 94949
Let's make sure we are a great fit!
Core Competencies of Transformational NLP and Intensive Training Core are different kind of classes than ones you might have taken previously. These are not classes where you read a textbook and pass a test. It is a highly participatory class that is as much about personal growth as it is about acquiring professional skills. So, it is important that our curriculum, approach to learning, training methodology, and community are a great fit for you - and vice versa.
Our Enrollment Application serves as a mutual interview process. We know the word “application” might be intimidating. However, chances are, your interest and curiosity that has brought you to this point means we are likely going to be a great fit. Filling out the Enrollment Application will be a clarifying, affirming process, even if you don’t embark on our certification track. And, filling it out in no way requires you to attend Core or ITC.
So, please take about 15-20 minutes now and add your responses to the following questions, so we can get a deeper sense of who you are, what you want, and how our certification training programs might serve you. Your responses are sent to us securely and are kept 100% confidential. We appreciate this view into who you are!
What happens next?
Book a 30 Minute Enrollment Conversation with our Director of Enrollment, Jaimie Nguyen, who has taken every class NLP Marin offers herself.
Together, you’ll go over your application in depth, including what you are wanting from our certification track, how our courses will meet and surpass what you’re wanting, and answer any questions you may have.
We look forward to meeting you.
If you have questions you'd like to ask before submitting your application, please select either a 15 minute or 30 minute conversation with Jaimie. She'll be happy to talk to you.