The NLP Sports Practitioner Certification course involves a mixture of home study and 8 days of seminars spread over 3 weekends.

The first 6 days form the NLP Practitioner course. Here you will learn the applications of NLP in a wide range of contexts and learn the principles and methodologies for developing excellence in performance. On successful completion you will receive certification as an NLP Practitioner.

The final weekend will show you how NLP can be used to provide powerful, effective and enduring methods for gaining peak performance in sport. On successful completion you will receive certification as an NLP Sports Practitioner.

The Practitioner course will cover the following areas:

• Introduction to NLP
  Discover how the mind processes information
  The guiding principles of NLP
  

• Goal-Setting
  Learn how to set a positive outcome.
  Discover how to form goals to make them consistently achieveable.
  Dealing with limiting beliefs, behaviours, thoughts and emotions to enable you to achieve your goals.

• Building Relationships
  Learn how to read people.
  Become skilled at establishing rapport to gain immediate trust and influence with everybody you communicate with..
  Learn how to give effective feedback.
  

• Thinking Styles
  Discover how we create our unique models of the world.
  Learn how to establish a person''s thinking style and how to use it to enhance performance.
  Learn how we structure our experience and how we can change the structure for a more positive outcome.
  

• Language
  Learn how to communicate effectively to get the best out of people..
  Find out how to question a person's limiting beliefs to effect a positive change.
  Learn how language impacts on performance and how to use positive language effectively.
  Discover how to use 'hypnotic' language patterns to establish rapport and to break down resistance.

• Controlling Emotions
  Learn how to tap into positive emotions.
  Discover how to eradicate fears.
  Learn how to let go of negative emotions.
  

• Strategies
  Learn how to discover your habitual strategies and how to install new ones.
  

• Reframing
  Learn how to create a positive outlook in your sport.

• Parts Integration
  Discover how to resolve inner conflict.

• Hypnosis
  An introduction in the use of hypnosis for dealing with limiting beliefs, unwanted behaviours and for enhancing performance.

The Sports Practitioner course will cover the following:

• Working with sports performers
  Find out how to work with sports performers of all levels

• NLP applications to sport
  How your knowledge of NLP can be applied in the sports arena.

• The language of sports success
  How to use language effectively to get the results you want.

• Mental Rehearsal 
  How to use mental rehearsal effectively to improve performance
  

• Belief and sports performance
  The role of belief in sport and how to raise your belief ceiling

• Emotional control and sport
  Anchoring for sport
  Attaining optimal arousal for sports peformance

• Submodalities for sport
  The submodalities of the Zone
  Increasing power with submodalites

• The Mind-Body connection
  Using your physiology for better performance
  How changing the way you think impacts on your physical ability.