Sport NLP Practitioner Certification

HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE THE SPORT NLP PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION?

Become a NLP sports practitioner by attending a 7 day intensive course.

This course is designed for dedicated sports coaches or anyone who is committed to improvement in sporting achievement. The practitio ner course will put you above the rest, and the knowledge you take away with you will ensure that you make fast and very effective change in yourself and others that you work with. You will have the ability and confidence to assist people in making changes that will give the

m confidence and belief to succeed, and perform at their best when it really matters. The course starts before you attend, with a home study pack that includes a manual, 12 cds and 2 DVDs. This will give you the knowledge and the practitioner skills in NLP, so you can use them for specifics tasks within sport, taught at the live training.

The course includes.

1. How our mind filters information; understand how we all see the world differently, and more importantly how to understand others.
2. Goal setting is essential; on the course you will learn how to create your goals so you will achieve them consistently.
3. The skills of sensory acuity will allow you to understand and recognise if your student is making positive change before they even tell you. The time that is saved by understanding if your words have made a difference just by looking at your student, is one that every coach needs.
4. Having rapport is something some people seem to have naturally, but it is a skill that can be learnt to a very high level. Spending time with a new student can be problematic. When it looks like they are going to be difficult, these incredible skills will save yo u time and will remove barriers. Learning rapport skills is essential for the coach who wants to take sport to the highest level.
5. The pictures, sounds and feelings that let us know how we feel about something are called submodalities. These can be used to alter a person’s ideas of an event or a venue. For example if a sportsman / sportswoman dislikes a particular venue, event or opposition, by changing the submodalities enables them to actually look forward to competing. Once these skills are learnt change happens fast and easily.
6. Bad habits such as eating the wrong foods after training or getting to training late because you were involved in a less productive activity, can be changed with a fast visual technique called swish. Sometimes you find that you automatically watch TV, listen to music, or just sit and relax, and you have to become motivated to start training. Using swish, instead of naturally going to these types of relaxing activities you will instead get ready or prepare for training. There will be no need to think about it, you will just do it automatically.

   

7. Every coach at some point will say to a student “you just have to believe in yourself”. How many times do those words alone actually work? Probably not many. Belief change happens

   like all other learning’s at an unconscious level, so even if you tell them to believe a hundred times it may not make any difference. Belief change work is what you will spend a lot of time on during the practitioner course, and the results when working with your students will be amazing. Remember if you believe you can or believe you can’t your absolutely right.

8. How incredible would it be to have a switch so that you could just touch a person and they instantly became confident? Or teach them techniques so they could have a physical gesture that whenever they used it would create feelings and emotions of energy, happiness or courage, or even all of them at the same time. Think how much of an advantage would this be. The NLP practitioner course will make certain that these skills are learnt to a very high level. Just for a moment think of all the emotions that would make a huge difference if you could access them just before or during an event.
9. The words we use and the way we say them can be uplifting or demoralising. Being able to choose the right words at the right time will put students in the perfect frame of mind at all times. This can be the difference that separates a good coach from an exceptional one. Using the right language, you naturally move a conversation from a dispute to agreement. When performances are not going well, language patterns are ways to pull people out of a problem and into agreement and solutions.
10. The art of storytelling is one that is rarely appreciated. Having the ability to tell a tale that inspires should not be underestimated. Stories can assist the listener in overcoming problems without them even knowing what you are doing is an art, and one that you will learn on the course.
11. Every single task we undertake has a strategy. These can be empowering or can hold a person back from fulfilling their potential. Just think for a moment about a task you do every day, for example brushing your teeth. The next time you do it, brush the top ones first then the bottom, if this is the way you normally brush then change it around. It’s a simple thing but it will feel strange. You have built a strategy for this task so that it has become an unconscious action. By understanding strategies and knowing when they are not serving you well, you will being equipped to make changes and open up infinite possibilities.
12. How many times in sport do you hear people say “a part of me wanted to be there but a part of me didn’t” or “that just wasn’t me out there”. These seem like perfectly innocent phrases, but they do actually mean something. The words we use when we are not consciously thinking are words that the unconscious mind is processing. The key is to understand the signs and know what to do. Very often our unconscious minds become fragmented. The ability to integrate these parts so the unconscious works as a whole unit is one of the most important skills you will learn as a practitioner.

This is a brief look at some of the topics covered on the NLP sports practitioner course. During the training you are in an environment where practising the skills is both fun and fulfilling. Life changing habits are formed and coaching will take on a completely new meaning. Coaching any sports person is demanding and worthwhile and with the phenomenal skills of NLP your success rate will soar to new heights. 

Guy Chester Centre

The training facilities at the Guy Chester Centre are of a very high standard.

The Centre is set in ten acres of grounds and gardens in a pleasant north London suburb and can host day conferences for up to 50+ people with smaller rooms for different groups.

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