Good morning! I am currently searching for an NLP practitioner course and figured out that most of them are offered for either several days in form of a crash course or for a year – once a month (Saturday and Sunday) … which approach, if I may call it this way, would be a better one in your opinion?

Thanks a lot in advance! I do appreciate your answers.

We did a nine month course in S.F. with Tim & Kris Hallbom which I highly recommend. Honestly, there is way too much information to take in and I know that had i taken a cram course I would have missed so much material. Even a nine month course seemed to go by pretty fast.

Larissa, my personal experience was that a 7 day course with comprehensive pre-study materials was what I needed to get results with paying clients. For what purpose are you considering doing a NLP Practitioner Course?

There's a huge array of nlp courses out there. this may not answer your question directly but one thing i'd say is make sure that whatever course you choose it gives you what you really want. the first nlp course i went on had loads of therapeutic stuff on it. this distracted me from what deep down i really wanted and i spent time learning something that really wasn't useful to me and worse still i was pretty ineffective at using it.

there are a certain amount of people offering nlp trainings who might only have a few months experience. they might have passed through the practitioner, master prac, trainer training hoops very quickly. personally i'd be a bit wary of that. i'd be much more inclined to train with someone who has some really good experience and a track record.

nlp courses can be quite intensive - by that i mean that even if they last for a module of 2 days they can be quite tiring for those such as yourself taking part in them. if you have a job during the week that is intensive in itself and you opt for a weekend modular course one thing you might think about is how you well you'll manage this/juggle it with your work.... well, it was a consideration for me....(and i did do it).

i think its really quite tricky choosing an nlp course when starting out. so many people who've been on a course will recommend who they trained with cos they had an amazing time. it would be interesting to find out how proficient they are after such a course after the euphoria has died down.

there are lots of threads on nlp connections about the topic you're asking about and they are worth checking out. (search the archive).

what i've written here symbolises my own experience which could be very different from someone elses. i am not a genius at using nlp - i've just been on a few different courses so could relate to my experience. hope this helps.

good luck,
simon

In my opinion it is important to get to know the trainer prior to starting the course or at least to “know” them from recommendations of other NLP “experts”, books they have written or videos available on the internet. I have a few books on the law of attraction and should say the best one for beginners is obviously Law of Attraction by Michael Losier. I read one by Esther and Jerry Hicks and do not like it as much as the first one. I mean after just reading the second book I would most probably not be hooked on this idea, the same about the book written by Diane Ahlquist – the complete idiot’s guide to the law of attraction. Some of you will probably disagree with me, but Michael Losier describes the stuff in a very simple way, yet I felt like following his ideas reading the pages and the more I read the more I knew- this is the thing I would love to practise myself.

Ok, back to NLP .. I have contacted some providers here in Germany and stumbled .. as the courses offered are little confusing, there are not many and one hardly finds anything about the trainers - just their profiles on their sites. I wish I could get in contact with some ex-participants to discuss the options, sadly the only thing I found were forum posts by the trainers on their own sites. nlpconnections.com is a lot better structured and the advise I have received here is precious. I do appreciate all of your answers.
Providers offering their course for a period of a year require advance payment and since I know nothing about them I am not sure the companies are reliable. So, I hope my post is not too confusing for you … thanks for reading!


Have a great day!

Do a search on the archive. This question has been asked and answered many times before and you'll see lots of opinions of all sorts. That may help.

Cheers

LaraW wrote:

Good morning! I am currently searching for an NLP practitioner course and figured out that most of them are offered for either several days in form of a crash course or for a year – once a month (Saturday and Sunday) … which approach, if I may call it this way, would be a better one in your opinion?

Thanks a lot in advance! I do appreciate your answers.

Hi,

From a neuroscience viewpoint there is a lot of research that suggests that your brain can encode,retain and recall more information if the information is distributed over a period of time (modular) as opposed to crammed in over a shorter period. I know this works for me having sampled both formats.
Hope it`s of use

Terry