Course Descriptions for Part 1

VBN 962 Evaluate the communication and thinking process

Prerequisite: none subject to entry criteria

This is the foundational unit for the whole program. We frame the New Code approach to NLP, with collaboration between conscious and unconscious processes, awareness of possible consequences of our choices and the need to respect that everyone has different beliefs and values. We introduce the distinction between working with communication and thinking patterns, which is what we do in the New Code, compared with standard educational methods of using descriptive content, or stories. From the first day we explore what it means to get on well with other people and discover how our communication is working from different points of view. We learn observation and listening skills from different perspectives and experience thinking and expressing ourselves using different sensory descriptions. From here we discover how to elicit useful states in self and others and how to keep our activity respectful of others' choices. Then we incorporate directed questions to identify and map outcomes we want in the future.

From the accreditation document: "This unit describes the knowledge and skills to build rapport and track basic human relations and communication and develop an awareness of the relationship between communication and thinking through state management with self and others.  Frames are set with reference to systemic and ecological use of NLP.  The skills developed in this unit are a pre-requisite to all subsequent practice".

VBN 963 Gather and process information on verbal and non-verbal behaviour

In this unit we study the language patterns people use in daily life. We learn what questions to ask when we need to clarify inaccurate thinking, specify over-generalised ideas and elicit more detail from overly vague statements. We can use this to gather high quality information and direct the personal change processes that follow. These include a New Code approach to change using submodalities, Chris Collingwood's user friendly do it yourself approach to Grinder’s Six Step Reframe and Jules Collingwood's state enhancing stalking exercise, along with recoded NLP change processes that now incorporate unconscious choice. We shall learn to change state by choice, bring resources (states, knowledge, beliefs, ideas) into any context and thereby change our behaviour. We can test our work using changes in submodalities as proof that change has occurred. We shall discover how knowing our intent for having or doing something opens up choices for getting there and learn ways to do it by ourselves and with others.

From the accreditation document: "This unit describes the knowledge and skills to track patterns in verbal and non-verbal behaviour to expose a new way of thinking, separating attention from story and keeping with pattern.  This involves gathering high quality information from others, asking quality questions that lead to sensory based descriptions of human behaviour, gathering information about submodality distinctions that is subjective quality components of internal visualisation, audition and kinaesthesia.  It is integrated using the Dilts SCORE model to bring together the information gathering competencies".

Prerequisite: VBN 962

VBN 964 Direct attention to make interventions

In this unit we learn to communicate in depth with our own and others’ unconscious minds to harness their resources directly to enhance all aspects of observation, communication, choice and change. This includes everything from creating congruent acceptance or rejection of opportunities to producing lasting attitudinal change, to finding lost objects, to identifying life goals, to arranging states of concentration for specific work in specific contexts. We engage the unconscious in practical demonstrations and identify the different functions of conscious and unconscious process. We identify our current appreciation of time, including elapsed time, the passage of time and time management and discover additional ways of experiencing and using time to create effective time management and more engaging experiences.

From the accreditation document: "This unit describes the knowledge and skills to gather information to track and direct attention in self and others to make respectful and ecological interventions and so facilitate well-formed outcomes and exercise choice".

Prerequisite VBN 962, VBN963

VBN 965 Develop strategies to undertake the learning and change process

In this unit we learn to use a content free classification system for organizing content into classes and sub-classes. This facilitates thinking about any complex issue and enables us to identify related from non-related topics. We engage unconscious resources to make present to future comparisons safe for change with internal representations and submodalities  and place the resulting benefits in our personal histories. The intent is to develop facility with the creative process so that we can identify and utilize opportunities in life. This is the final unit of Part 1 of the Graduate Certificate in NLP and ends with revision and integration of the previous four units.

From the accreditation document: "This unit describes the knowledge and skills to develop strategies for practical interventions to assist in the experience of the learning and change processes in conjunction with well-formed outcome language patterns, ecology and respect for individuals models of the world".

Prerequisite VBN 962, VBN 963, VBN 964

VBN 966 Create metaphor using thought sequences

In this unit we learn to recognize, utilize and change sequences of representations to optimize learning, decision making, self motivation, creativity and other aspects of the thinking and emotion generating process. We also learn to create and deliver metaphor so we can embed useful thinking patterns inside engaging stories. This includes short, suitable metaphors to fit business and concrete environments as well as full-blown fantasy stories for informal occasions and interventions.

From the accreditation document: "This unit describes the knowledge and skills to use, compare and contrast detailed elicitation and metaphors to reveal thought patterns and to create metaphor from the patterns that have been elicited".

Prerequisite VBN 962, VBN 963, VBN 964, VBN 965

Course Descriptions for Part 2.

Prerequisite 962, VBN 963, VBN 964, VBN 965, VBN 966 or 21095VIC Course in Practitioner of NLP

VBN 967 Apply advanced processes of NLP

This unit describes the knowledge and skills to develop and apply advanced change processes and information gathering techniques. Participants are invited to discover the NLP patterns underpinning these processes and to revisit the concept that NLP is a discipline and that its applications are products of the body of knowledge.

VBN 968 Map and streamline personality

This unit describes the knowledge and skills touse, compare and contrast different emotional states and so provide them with a package of practical interventions to aid in mapping, upgrading and streamlining the personality.

VBN 969 Apply advanced patterns in verbal and non-verbal behaviour

This unit describes the knowledge and skills to track advanced patterns in people's speech and behaviour and to distinguish between process and content so they can respond to the patterns with directed interventions in conversation.   It enables participants to deconstruct change processes to identify and discover the underlying patterns in them. Participants will gain practical skills in constructing and improvising working interventions using patterns in combination.

VBN 971 Perform NLP modelling

This unit describes the knowledge and skills to observe and match a live model, observe a modelling session and learn how to incorporate specific tools for eliciting the unconscious elements of expertise in order to elicit and replicate the talent of an expert in the field of their choice.

Pathways

Participants must complete this course in a specified pathway. The order and sequence of the course is structured to reflect the need to build upon knowledge and skills. It is imperative that participants experience the patterns of NLP before acquiring conscious understanding and labelling for them.  Therefore all participants must commence the course with the unit, VBN 962 Evaluate the communication and thinking process.  VBN 962 Evaluate the communication and thinking process is the basis of NLP and is the prerequisite for all units.  Units VBN 963, VBN 964, VBN 965 and VBN 966 each provide an incremental skill development in NLP processes so that each unit becomes a prerequisite for the other.  These five units provide the complete competencies for the NLP Practitioner and form the basis for the knowledge and skills which are developed in the subsequent units. These units will be offered as a package.

For Part 2 of the Graduate Certificate in NLP the following four units, VBN967, VBN968, VBN969, VBN971 may be completed in any order subject to completion of Part 1 and will normally be offered as a package.