a. practitioner

PRACTITIONER LEVEL STANDARDS
A. Demonstration of ability to identify the following basic skills, techniques, patterns, and concepts of NLP, and to utlilize them competently with self and with others.

1. Behavioral integration of the basic presuppositions of NLP;

2. Rapport, establishment and maintenance of;

3. Pacing and leading (verbally and non-verbally);

4. Calibration (sensory experience);

5. Representational Systems (predicates and accessing cues);

6. Meta Model;

7. Milton Model;

8. Elicitation of well-formed, ecological outcomes and structures of Present State;

9. Overlap and Translation;

10. Metaphor creation;

11. Frames; Contrast, Relevancy, AS IF, Backtrack;

12. Anchoring (V,A,K);

13. Anchoring techniques (Contextualized to the field of application)

14. Ability to shift consciousness to external or internal as required by the moment’s task;

15. Dissociation and Association;

16. Chunking;

17. Submodalities;

18.  Verbal and non-verbal elicitation of responses;

19.  Accessing and building of resources;

20.  Reframing;

21.  Strategies:  Detection, elicitation, utilization and installation;

22.  Demonstration of behavioral flexibility;

B. Duration of Training:  Minimum of 120 hours

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