NLP Teacher Practitioner Training Course
by
Stephen Bishop NLP and Sue Bayliss of SULIS Consulting
This course develops a range of relevant NLP skills, focussing specifically on those skills most relevant to teachers in their work.
These skills, once learnt, can have a permanent, good and powerful effect on the user and those they work with. The skills will also become even more effective over time as use and positive feedback enable wider integration into many parts of the user’s working and wider life.
Put simply, you get to do what you used to do better,
and you get to be able to do those things you thought only other people could do.
NLP is a highly effective tool to help anyone whose aim is to help people to be at their best. Clearly, classroom teaching benefits, but this course has the primary focus of how NLP makes dramatic changes to how teachers themselves can be enabled to work with greater strength, stronger motivation, and positive resilience.
NLP is of particular use for:
- those in management, or an interest in management
- those interested in promoting well-being, in themselves and others.
Time
The training is delivered over 24 hours, in the form of 12 twilight sessions.
These will be delivered by Sue Bayliss and Stephen Bishop, in a mix of joint and individual sessions.
Materials
NLP training is primarily experiential.
We will, however, be issuing a range of bespoke support material, and we will also be referring to the “Course text”: NLP for Teachers by Churches and Terry
We will not be ‘teaching from the text’, as such. We will cover a small number of ‘bonus areas’ not in the text that we feel are vital to the purpose of the course, and for the curious, the text covers a small number of areas which are interesting in wider terms, but not central to our purpose.
The Course
The series of sessions is carefully designed to build the right skills in the right order. NLP skill works like a ‘web’, and all the parts interact. Full attendance is important.
Course Outline
1 – Great States… Getting in a State!
- Positive State
- VAK Anchoring of a range of states for future use
- Contagious states – controlling the states we bring out of ourselves and others
Management benefits – the ability to be in the best state to motivate and manage others, and beginning a knowledge of state management, so that your awareness of the most important ingredient in your workforce is becoming part of your manager’s toolkit
Wellbeing Benefits – the ability to be in the best state to motivate yourself and manage the actions of others, especially enabling control of how events can ‘make you feel’. Learn some classic methods for getting in and out of states of mind in a way that begins to feel good.
2 – Nice meeting you… Rapport!
- Sensory Acuity – noticing exactly what people are saying before they say it
- Body language communication
- Pace and lead states and build strong rapport
Management benefits – know the answer before they tell you – and spot when they mean it!
Learn the persuaders that are sometimes stronger than words. Learn how to build a team relationship.
Wellbeing Benefits – Know how to come across in ways that give you most confidence and a sense of good relationships. Develop a range of options for when you want to say no, or help others to see you point of view, or maybe even persuade them to doing it your way.
3 – Well-Formed Outcomes – Smarter than SMART targets!
Targets with the right stuff behind them
- Opening up Options
- Introduction to the 3 key Meta-Model ideas
- Some NLP Presuppositions Introduced
Management benefits – set targets for yourself where the motivation is with it and barriers are anticipated. Learn to easily remove false barriers in yourself and others
Pinpoint the formerly vague and unquantified: “It’s all gone wrong”…I bet it hasn’t…
Wellbeing Benefits – As above!
4 – Milton Model / Chunk up and Down / NLP Presuppositions Continued
Management benefits – The NLP Presuppositions are a kind of “10 commandments” for NLP, and they very often provide tools for difficult choices, a better understanding of how humans tend to function, and have a versatile range of uses. The ability to “Chunk up and Down” involves a relatively simple shift in point of view from big picture to small picture, but functions powerfully to access the deepest motivation in an individual, or to access the approachable, small, easy, doable details from a previously larger-seeming situation.
Wellbeing Benefits – As above!
5 – Perceptual Positions
- I… You … They … Expert
- Anxiety Profiles –
- Angles to manage and / or more easily take on new changes
Management benefits – People operate in a range of ‘positions’ in relationship to others. A command of the options, and the ability to avoid getting stuck in any one, promotes great influence and resilience. Ghandi and Montgomery famously used “2nd position” to consider their enemies’ viewpoints, and thus achieve an understanding that left them in command, in spite of the odds!
Wellbeing Benefits – As above! A lack of wellbeing can easily stem from being habitually stuck in one ‘position’ of thinking – the shift is liberating and empowering.
6 – Milton Model 2
- the hidden persuaders
- spotting hypnosis
- de-hypnotising unhelpful trances
- Satir categories – balancing one’s biases
Management benefits – Hypnosis is everywhere in our society, management included. Be aware of where those feelings of importance come from, and make sure that there is a wholesome push to a genuine goal. Be aware of how unhelpful influences can be deliberately or accidentally created, and how they can be neutralized.
Wellbeing Benefits – It is vital for the strong and healthy person to be in charge of what they feel to be important. This is too often hijacked by others: family, media, management – wither accidentally or on purpose we can be ‘hypnotised’ into unhealthy mindsets about what we ‘should’ do that we don’t agree with, but still feel driven by! Learn that Hypnosis is less like the stereotype and more a way of being in charge of how you want to be.
7 – Metaphors – “the unacknowledged legislators of the world”
- State Anchors on the floor – Geographical Achors – Satir revised
- Re-Framing
Management benefits – The art of the ideal metaphor is natural in some great leaders, and can be learnt by others – and can steer the ship of success into the harbour of open doors!
Learn the short and long term effects choosing the right metaphors for you, your work and your workplace.
Wellbeing Benefits – The metaphors that we carry as ideas have possibly the greatest influence on what we feel, expect and act on. Learn the art, and gain pleasure and perspectives from ‘playing’ with what had seemed a fixed or unquestioned model of how the world works.
8 – Collected Behaviour Management tricks for class and staff, with an NLP angle
- borrowed from Bill Rogers – Act As If, etc
- peripheral praise
- positive mental suggestion revisited
- embedded commands – making sure they are the intended commands!
Management benefits – This session is based on classroom management, in order to show the combination and cohesion possible with NLP ideas. Of course, managing a group of young people and managing a group of old(er) people, in NLP, has many parallels!
Wellbeing Benefits – Let’s face it, we all need some class management tricks up our sleeve. It’s easier to be on top of our game when the foundations are made a little better.
9 – The Science of Positive Motivation
- Huppert / Goleman / Frederickson
- Cue / Pavlov
- Male and Female??
- Rituals of state, metaphor and expectation
Management benefits – A rapid guided tour of the latest science supporting NLP. It is interesting to know what is scientific FACT when it comes to the often loosely understood areas of the emotions, motivation, behaviour, wellbeing, etc… You will have a small but highly informative working knowledge of how the important bits ‘tick’. This is of benefit in all our dealings with ourselves and others.
Wellbeing Benefits – As above!
10 – Moving the reluctant…
- staff or students!
- Mentoring – tricks of the trade
- Meetings
- That accidental chat – a chance to plant a seed
Management benefits – NLP has heavy use in the ‘Mentor/Coach/Counsellor’ areas, and all managers will at times, possibly frequently, need to know best to talk to those in negative states, and have the skill to encourage more positive states, for the benefit of all concerned. Some “mentoring” can be done in momentary, casual, everyday interchanges, with a very high pay off for a small, but well-chosen word or action.
Wellbeing Benefits – In NLP training, there is never an ‘us and them’ divide – we are all human beings, and it is expected that whatever we can use to help each other we can also use to help ourselves! Many, if not most, ‘mentors’ seek to help others in order to help themselves – and why not? Learn to integrate NLP with some classic mentoring tips to promote positive change as needed.
11 – Bringing it all together, in lessons and elsewhere
- signposting, subtle and blunt
- unconscious competence – let it flow, and help it flow in others
- learn to ride the bike, now enjoy the speed
- Building Beliefs / our own belief-identity-higher-purpose guiding forces
Consolidation exercises, ideally drawing on trainee examples of their growing use of NLP in the workplace, to revise and ensure ongoing development of the NLP range of skills – it is to become simply part of the way you do things. Typically, NLP is a ‘one-way-trip’ – people feel what they have learnt is not so much a skill, but PART of how they think, function and interact, and there is a keenness to practise and know more.
12 – Final Assessment Session
In previous years all concerned have enjoyed the excellent diversity and quality of what the trainees have discovered. A full range of possible topics is welcome, so you can specialize or explain what you are already doing in the line of your work, from a new NLP angle. Those who think they “can’t do” presentations are especially welcome, to discover how good they can be…