NLP Coach Building Blocks
If you are serious about developing your Coaching Skills to create excellence for yourself and your clients – the Coach Building Blocks is designed to do just that. If you are already working with coaching or therapy clients – or simply want to expand and refine your tools – this course will help you reach the next level.
This portion of your training is an online based, self-directed learning program designed to be completed within 6-8 months. You can begin your Building Blocks as soon as you have completed your Level 1: NLP Practitioner training with The Worldwide Institutes of NLP.
In total, there are 8 blocks plus final assessments. The aim of the program is to help you incorporate and improve your NLP skills into a dynamic NLP Coaching and Therapy Practice. You can learn more about the blocks below.
“The feedback I received during this program showed me where I needed to improve to be the best for my clients. I’d completed other coach training before that wasn’t half as useful as this!” – Robert Trinity
About the Program
Each block requires 5-10 hours to complete and will help you to further develop and refine your Coaching Skills through the use of reading, assignments, recording coaching sessions, benchmarking your own sessions and submitting recordings to be benchmarked by an NLP Trainer.
Upon successful completion of the program and assessments, you will have the option to be listed on the NLP Worldwide website as an Associate Coach. With further training and demonstrated client experience, you can be upgraded to Senior Coach.
To help you know more about what the program entails, below is an outline of each block plus the assessment requirements. Each is marked with a symbol to help you know extra elements involved:
External Website Learning
Extra Reading Material
Video Submission Required
Block 1 – Coaching Foundations
In this block you will further develop your NLP skills of rapport, sensory acuity, representational systems, meta model and hone in on your listening skills. You will be watching a variety of video demonstrations and providing to our learning team a video of yourself demonstrating your Coaching Micro Skills.
Block Assessments
- 15-20 minute video eliciting a WFO
- Transcript with self-critique
- 500 word self assessment paper
Block 2 – Advanced Questions
In this block you will learn and review in depth the Meta Model and Meta Questions used to probe and uncover information that has been deleted, distorted and generalised. Advanced Questions are possibly the strongest coaching tool you have. You will further develop your questioning skills while enhancing your knowledge and practical application.
Block Assessments
- 3 short videos demonstrating your use of advanced questioning
- Transcription with alternate questions
- Meta Questions paper with alternate questions
Block 3 – Ethics, Mental Health & Beyond
In this important block you are gaining insight into aspects of ethics in a coaching profession plus adding tools for understanding various mental health topics including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, bi polar and more. This block also contains 8 electives, of which you will choose two from different topics such as Positive Psychology, Business Coaching, Neuroscience, Relationship Coaching, Wellness Coaching, Wholeness Coaching, Coaching Children and Expanding Your Coaching Skills .
Block Assessments
- Completion of Ethics module
- Completion of Mental Health module
- Completion of two electives
Block 4 – Benchmarking
In this block you will be introduced to our overall benchmarking and assessment tool for your coaching. We will be looking in depth at the competencies an exceptional coach utilises and teach you how to benchmark yourself and others to reach and maintain these levels of coaching excellence. You will watch videos of client sessions and benchmark those sessions, which we will in turn give you feedback about what you are sensory acute to.
Pre-Requisite: Coaching Foundations
Block Assessments
- Complete Benchmarking Assignments
Block 5 – Coaching Essentials
In this block you will revisit the NLP formula, structures for working with clients, working with frames and the NLP Processes. You will watch video demonstrations of client intakes, pre-framing in sessions and use of NLP techniques with clients and you will submit a video of yourself working with a client.
Block Assessments
- 30-40 minute video of client summary form
- Benchmark of your session
- 10 minute transcription with self-assessment
Block 6 – NLP Processes & Techniques
In this block you will refresh your knowledge of your NLP Processes and techniques to ensure your competency of choosing the appropriate tool for your client is sharp. You will be working wtih case studies and your own client from previous sessions.
Pre-Requisite: NLP Master Practitioner & Coaching Foundations
Block Assessments
- 30-40 minute video of client summary form
- Benchmark of your session
- 10 minute transcription with self-assessment
Block 7 – Session KPI
In this block you will revise the session tool of a KPI while watching videos and completing a subsequent session with a previous client.
Pre-Requisite: NLP Master Practitioner & Coaching Foundations
Block Assessments
- Submit videos of eliciting a KPI
- 30-40 minute subsequent session with a previous client
- Benchmark of your session
Block 8 – Putting it Together
In this block you complete and submit two coaching sessions to be benchmarked and recieve feedback before heading to your Final Assessments.
Pre-Requisite: NLP Master Practitioner & Coaching Foundations
Block Assessments
- Submit an Initial and a Subsequent coaching session with the same client
- Benchmark of your sessions
Final Assessments
This is the culmination of the entire program to date. Upon successful completion, you will be awareded with the title of NLP Professional Coach (or Therapist) – and you will have the option to be listed on the NLP Worldwide website as an Associate Coach.
Pre-requisite: NLP Master Practitioner & Coaching Foundations
Appendixes 1 & 2 – Finding You as a Coach & The Business of Coaching
In these appendixes you will start to identify your coaching state and presence, as well as begin your business plan. You will watch interviews with a few coaches, identify your own beliefs, values and identity as a coach. You will read a provided text book and learn strategies for setting up a practice, attracting clients and working as a coach or therapist. By the end of your program you will submit your finalised business plan.
“I love learning! I keep up with my ongoing learning so I know that I’m continuing to develop my skills and be the best I can be for my clients (and myself)!!” – Amy Clark
After you have completed the core syllabus of the NLP Coach Certification program you can continue on with our Ongoing Learning options. We pride ourselves on developing Coaches from their initial learning well into the future and a successful practice.
Ongoing Learning
To keep your listing as an Associate Coach on the NLP Worldwide website, you are required annually to complete 20 hours of oingoing learning and 10 hours of supervision/mentoring with Dr. Heidi Heron or Laureli Blyth.
To upgrade to a Senior Coach, once you have reached 100 documented coaching hours plus 20 hours of ongoing learning, you may apply. Annually, you are required to complete 40 hours of ongoing learning and 10 hours of supervision/mentoring with Dr. Heidi Heron or Laureli Blyth.
To assist you with your ongoing learning options, we offer the following:
Expanding Your Coaching Knowledge
In this block you will investigate and research additional Coaching skills through extra reading and discussion questions. You will read one of three specified books and submit your answers to discussion questions about your chosen text. The books you can choose from include: Coach to Awakener by Robert Dilts, Meta Coaching Volume 2 by L. Michael Hall, or Theory & Practice of NLP Coaching by Bruce Grimley. (books not included in the course tuition).
Pre-requisite: Level 2
Block Assessments
- Choose Supplementary book to read
- Submit short answer questions
- 30-40 min video of 1st session with Benchmarking
Expanding Your NLP Knowledge
In this block you will investigate and research additional NLP skills through extra reading and discussion questions. You will read one of three specified books and submit your answers to discussion questions about your chosen text. The books you can choose from include: Beliefs: Pathways to Health and Well-Being by Tim Hallbom & Suzi Smith, Core Transformations by Connirae Andreas, or Transforming Your Self: Becoming Who You Want to Be by Steve Andreas. (books not included in the course tuition)
Pre-requisite: Level 2
Block Assessments
- Choose Supplementary book to read
- Submit short answer questions
- Short video leading client through new technique
Meta Programs & LAB Profile
In this block you will learn to easily identify and use the Meta Programs of your clients to better understand, communicate, motivate and work with them. As part of this block you will learn more about Meta Programs by studying the work of our colleague Shelle Rose-Charvet, and will complete your LAB Profile® Practitioner Certification.
Cost: $400
Block Assessments
- Identify Meta Programs from supplied videos
- Submit video or audio explaining various processes with specified meta programs
- Complete the Online LAB Profile Training
- 30-45 minute video of subsequent session with benchmarking
Clean Language
In this block you will learn more about this add-in Coaching tool with our colleagues James Lawley & Penny Tompkins. You will have access to the Online Introduction to Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling Training to complete this module.
Cost: $400.00
Block Assessments
- Submit Online Clean Language Certificate
- 10-15 min video of Clean Language Coaching
- Short paper of the use of Clean Language in Coaching
Conversational Change Work
In this block you will investigate the advanced conversational tools of Clean Language, Meta Questions, Milton Language, Sleight of Mouth and Conversational Processes. You will watch a variety of demonstration videos and submit a video of a client session.
Pre-requisite: Level 2
Block Assessments
- 30-45 min video of subsequent session with benchmarking
- Short paper on the use of Conversational Coaching