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NLP for Professional Counsellors |
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A Program To Enhance Counselling Skills Using NLP General Outline
NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming is about modeling; studying, understanding and transferring the skills of top performers in any field (Joseph OʼConnor & John Seymour, Training With NLP, Thorsons 1994). By using NLP, you will be able to enhance a regular counselling session into a positive, focussed, and strategic counselling experience. NLP is an advanced tool used by many successful professionals in a whole range of activities. The simplicity of the tool plus its effectiveness makes it a much sought after edge of todayʼs professionals who deal with people on a daily basis. This program would benefit members of the counselling faculty by enhancing their counselling sessions to that of a professional coach using Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
Program Objectives By the end of the program, participants will be able to: - Understand and incorporate the basic presuppositions of NLP into the area of counselling and coaching.
- Building rapport by combining the elements of psychology and physiology.
- Coach and counsel using effective techniques of positive persuasion.
- Learn to subtly upgrade the quality of counselling without major modifications to their present counselling methodology.
- Anchor positive learning points in the mind of their clients.
- Assist in their clientʼs ʻrecoveryʼ via better focus in energy and strategy.
Description of Activities | Sections | Description | | Basic Understanding of NLP | Participants will be given a practical approach to understanding NLP and its presuppositions. They will also be thought how to Calibrate their Senses and VAKOG. | | Building Rapport | Participants will learn the most powerful tools in NLP which is building rapport using the techniques of Matching & Mirroring, Eye Accessing and Face Reading. | | Preparing The Mind | Participants will learn to use the techniques of State Elicitation, Pace & Lead, and Anchoring to effectively prepare their clientsʼ minds to accept counselling. | | Powerful Language Patterns | Participants will learn to use the language patterns of Meta model and the hypnotic language of Milton Model in Conversational Hypnosis. | | Developing Client's Timelines | Participants will learn how to do a Timeline to help their clients anticipate future challenges and to prepare for it. | | My Actionable Plan | Participants will put their learning into structured plans of action. | |