As you know, soon after I started my Grad Cert with you, I was offered a permanent role in our organisation (at that point, I had been temporary for almost 8 years).

During the time I spent doing my Grad Cert, I received a number of promotions.  The first was the change to a permanent role, and then a move to a new business area at work.  I then was seconded into a team to prepare for our upcoming council merger.  When the merger occurred, I was then appointed to a role in the transition team.  After a few months, I was then appointed to lead a team of coaches.  Everything I learned during my Grad Cert assisted me in these promotions and helped my career.  I went from being a reserved and hesitant speaker, to a confident public speaker and a respected leader, known for my coaching style.  Within 6 months of being coached directly by me, I have had 3 staff achieve higher roles with both increased responsibility and an increase in pay.

I completed my last subject a year ago and have been re-reading my course work, purchased and read a lot of recommended readings, and integrated all of the pieces of work.  I still have a lot to learn but am finding that I am naturally adopting resourceful patterns that I find in others, and also see others adopting my patterns.  I am also finding that many people are coming to me for support and I am able to coach them and help them find their path.  These are people outside of my team, but I see the benefit to the organisation and I love to see people gain confidence and stand tall.

I have just signed a new contract with work.  I am now earning exactly double the amount I was making 12 months ago.  The timing is definitely not coincidental.  The impact of the Grad Cert has led to some major changes in the way i think about myself and my abilities, and challenged some long held limiting beliefs.  This has all come about because of the change in myself, as well as being opened up to being able to really tuning into other people and building strong rapport and understanding.

None of this would be possible if I had not completed my Grad Cert.  I would happily recommend this course to anyone who would like to develop themselves, their leadership skills, or help others to develop.  The course delivery was perfect for my circumstance, as I was able to spread out my leave to cover the days at college.  I enjoyed the 5 days each subject as it really gives an opportunity to get immersed in the coursework as well as practice the exercises.

I had previously completed a 5 day course in NLP, which gave me a keen interest to learn more.  I did not feel at all confident that I had learned enough in the short course to consider myself a practitioner.  I had left the course with a book of scripted examples to follow strictly, but no other tools to use if the script didn’t work.  I enjoyed the course but I did not think I had learned anywhere near enough about this subject.  When I started researching other courses, I found the Inspiritive Grad Cert.  I was immediately attracted to a course that had been through the rigour of the government’s training framework.  As someone with a Business Degree in HR, I understood the value of outcomes based learning and ensuring that participants fully understood the coursework rather than just attend for a certain number of days.

Jules and Chris are great at what they do.  They are so knowledgeable and keen to share that knowledge.  They are both very patient coaches and invested time in every one of their students.

Thank you Jules and Chris – I have learned so much from you and will continue to grow and learn, expanding on the skills you have shared and continually working to improve myself.

“I have had the opportunity to engage Jules through her company INSPIRITIVE Pty Ltd (Australia) as a Professional Trainer and executive coach in NLP Training and NLP Applications.

I regard Jules – and indeed INSPIRITIVE, Pty Ltd – as leaders in the field of NLP Training (in particular the New Code of NLP) and recommend Jules without reservation”.

“Jules is an enigma. Potentially the most elegant and powerful NLP trainer in Australia and with more charm than a box full of cats. If you have any chance of training with Jules or being coached then it is an opportunity that you will never forget”.

“Expert tutoring provided in NLP – their Post Graduate Course in NLP is the hallmark certification in its field”.

“Chris has demonstrated to me again and again, in teaching, consulting work and in one-on-one coaching, that his grasp and application of NLP may only be surpassed by the orginators of the field themselves. I get measurable, deep, profound and ongoing results from each time I work with him”.

“Pound for pound the training offered by Chris & INSPIRITIVE punches above its weight in terms of outcomes and immediate return on investment. I recommend this to any organisation or professional seeking a compelling point of difference”.

“Chris (Collingwood) provides excellent training in a very powerful subject. The context of the information provided is applicable to all my client and subject interactions. I recommend Chris completely”.

“Chris (Collingwood) is a highly talented trainer who is passionate about his clients achieving the outcomes they want. He combines a wealth of experience with extremely high skill levels – resulting in profound changes for those individuals, and organisations, seeking them. Chris has been instrumental in assisting me develop the consulting, training and coaching skills I consistently draw on in my work”.

“The Graduate Certificate in NLP is for me a culmination of my experience with quality NLP education and training. I first “discovered” NLP about 10 years ago and it has since had an immense impact on my life and that of people around me. After my initial certification as a master practitioner, so after 40 days of ongoing training over a then 12 month period I moved to another country for 5 years and found myself consciously applying my NLP skills throughout all aspects of my life and facilitating change in others on a regular basis and achieving excellent results and feedback. Very often I would get asked where to train and “how to recognise a good training or trainer”, where my answer until recently was simply to test the training and trainer and rely on your “intuition” after some time of reflection and several different descriptions to let you know which training was the right one for you. Of course this still is a very valid way of deciding upon anything, provided you have an outcome, as in this case to find quality and ecologically sound trainers and training, but now I can refer to the government certified qualification of the Graduate Certificate in NLP. For me it represents a quality training with ample time for ecologically sound (aware of the costs and consequences) in-depth integration of NLP skills, which inevitably result in a higher skill level and ability to apply NLP patterns at will and effortlessly in any situation. Having also experienced other trainers of 7-14 day master practitioner trainers, and having had many unconscious alarms go off on those occasions relating to congruency and ethical soundness, I can honestly say that in the case of NLP “less is NOT more”. 

On a professional level I use NLP on an ongoing basis and facilitate change and improvements for my clients on a daily basis. I am able to quickly and efficiently create solutions and lasting benefits for my clients, which include the largest film and television production houses in the Australasian region. I mainly work as a visual effects technical director and senior animator and thus deal a lot with teams, problem solutions, communication and process design and improvements. I am also experiencing a huge benefit in my training work which involves skill based visual effects training for professionals and lecturing a core subject in the masters program at the University of Sydney Faculty of Architecture.

In a personal context NLP has certainly had the most profound effect on my life. My wife and I both received the NLP Master-practitioner qualification in NLP 10 years ago and since then have found drastic improvements in all our relationships. Our children have of course unconsciously modelled our patterns and are extremely flexible at applying these, much to their benefit of course, as its completely unconscious to them. A benefit for life, no doubt. Just recently my daughter was elected class principle by her class.

When I grew up and went through University I believed that dealing with people and personal change was difficult if not impossible. After completing the Graduate Certificate in NLP and the precursing courses help by Inspiritive, I no longer shy away from interaction, I seek it. There is nothing more fascinating than the human condition, especially when change is so simple and elegant, and most important of all congruent and ecologically sound for all involved. What is even more important is that the newly acquired skills have long since become unconscious competencies. The Graduate Certificate in NLP will change your life in more positive ways than just getting a certificate of completion of any other course. You will acquire truly lasting and improving life skills”.

“I see NLP as one of the core, extremely powerful tools I use in any business transformation process as it enables my colleagues and I to truly understand behaviour, thinking and communicating, at all levels, organisation wide, within teams and individuals”.