CERTIFICATION STANDARDS
We strive to provide the highest quality standards, bridging training and success with well-formed structure of knowledge and resources. The following are the minimum standards required for certification with the INEA Certification Board.
Certifications apply to in-person, live virtual, on-demand, and hybrid trainings.
Please note, the INEA does not support fully self-paced online trainings of any kind. While Coach, Hypnotherapist, and NLP Practitioner trainings may be conducted via pre-recorded modules, observation of the techniques must be reviewed live with the student to ensure feedback is both understood and applied.
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NLP Practitioner (NLP, Hypnosis, Life/Success Coach, TIME Techniques™)
A. Duration of Training
Minimum of 120 hours of training in the basics of NLP, hypnosis, and/or TIME Techniques taught by a Certified Trainer/Master Trainer, or a certified Master Practitioner under the supervision of a Trainer/Master Trainer. Required exercises (see list) must be under the direct supervision of a certified Trainer/Master Trainer or Master Practitioner under the supervision of a Trainer/Master Trainer. The three trainings can run concurrently. No more than 10 hours may be on topics outside the certification requirements. This includes, but is not limited to, business training, alternative or supportive modalities, etc.
B. Method of Training
Training may be held live in-person, virtual live online, hybrid live/virtual, or through online pre-recorded video training. All training methods must verify class hours of attendance and all required exercises must be observed. If virtual, students must make up any hours not in attendance, including sessions where student has their camera off. Exercises may be performed live in-person, live online, or through recorded exercises with a partner. If submitting recorded exercises, feedback must be delivered through video chat to ensure the student receives and understands the feedback given. If significant feedback is given, the exercise must be repeated while observed live/virtual by a certified Trainer/Master Trainer or Master Practitioner under the supervision of a Trainer/Master Trainer. It is highly recommended that students attending pre-recorded modules be partnered with another student so that they may participate as both the practitioner and the client so they may experience each of the techniques as part of their practitioner skill development.
C. Demonstration of ability
Practitioner has the ability to identify the following basic skills, techniques, patterns and concepts of NLP and to utilize them competently with self and with others:
1. Behavioral integration of the basic presuppositions of NLP, including:
a. Outcome orientation with respect for others’ models of the world and the ecology of the system.
b. Distinction between map and territory.
c. There is only feedback (cybernetic)-no failure.
d. Meaning of your communication is the response you get.
e. Adaptive intent of all behavior.
f. Everyone has the necessary resources to succeed.
g. Resistance is a signal of insufficient pacing.
h. Law of requisite variety.
2. Rapport, establishment and maintenance of.
3. Pacing and Leading (verbal and non verbal).
4. Calibration (sensory based 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 and delivery
11. Frames; contrast, relevancy, As If, Backtrack.
12. Anchoring (VAK).
13. Anchoring Techniques (contextualized to the field of application)
a. Collapse Anchors
b. Chain Anchors
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. Parts Integration
22. Strategies; detection, elicitation, utilization, & installation.
23. Demonstration of behavioral flexibility.
24. Hypnosis
a. Hypnosis Induction
b. Deepening Techniques
c. Direct Suggestion
25. TIME Techniques
a. Elicitation of the timeline
b. Discovery of root cause
c. Eliminating negative emotions
d. Eliminating limiting decisions
e. Changing direction of the timeline
f. Putting a single SMART goal into the future
NLP Master Practitioner (NLP, Hypnosis, Life/Success Coach, TIME Techniques™)
A. Prerequisite:
Successfully passed NLP Practitioner in accordance with Practitioner standards (see above)
B. Duration of Training
Minimum of 120 hours of advanced training taught by a Certified Trainer/Master Trainer with exercises under the direct supervision of a certified Trainer/Master Trainer or a Master Practitioner under the supervision of a Trainer/Master Trainer. A minimum of 80 hours of direct trainer supervision. The four trainings can run concurrently. No more than 10 hours may be on topics outside the certification requirements. This includes, but is not limited to, business training, alternative or supportive modalities, etc.
C. Method of Training
Training may be held live in-person, virtual live online, hybrid live/virtual, or through online pre-recorded video training. All training methods must verify class hours of attendance and all required exercises must be observed by the trainer or by a designated master pracitioner / trainer. If virtual, students must make up any hours not in attendance, including sessions where student has their camera off. Students missing class time may not participate in exercises for missed content until that content is made up. Students may act as observers if present for exercises they are not yet allowed to participate in. Exercises may be performed live in-person or live online with direct supervision as stated above in Section B. Students attending pre-recorded modules must be partnered with another student/s so that they may participate as both the practitioner and the client for each exercise so they may experience each of the techniques as part of their practitioner skill development.
D. Demonstration of ability
Master Practitioner has the ability to identify the following basic skills, techniques, patterns, and concepts of NLP and to utilize these competently with self and with others:
1. All practitioner level skills, singly and in combination.
2. Design individualized interventions (generative and remedial).
3. Ecological change work.
4. Shifting easily back and forth between content and form, and experience and label.
5. Specific Master Practitioner Skills/Techniques:
a. Quantum Linguistics or equivalent
b. Meta Programs (elicitation and utilization)
i. Basic
ii. Complex
c. Criteria (Values):
i. identification and utilization.
ii. criteria ladder.
iii. elicitation of complex equivalence and adjustment of criteria.
iv. Values adjustment and installation
d. Clare Graves Values Levels and Spiral Dynamics
e. Installation and utilization of strategies.
f. Advanced use of submodalities.
g. Advanced use of Anchors
h. Advanced Parts Integration
i. Deliberate multi-level communication.
j. Negotiations.
k. Advanced communication skills
l. Modeling with output
m. Utilization and transformation of beliefs and advanced use of presuppositions.
n. Logical Levels of Therapy
o. Sleight of Mouth patterns
p. Compulsion Blowout
q. Allergy Model
r. Godiva Chocolate Pattern
s. Designer Swish Patterns
t. Family Therapy model
u. Advanced Strategies
i. TOTE Model
ii. Design
iii. Installation
v. Presentation skills.
w. Utilization and transformation of beliefs and presuppositions
x. Modeling
6. Hypnosis
a. Advanced ideomotor response, such as pendulum
7. TIME Techniques
a. Detailed Personal History
b. Personal Breakthrough Session format
c. Emotional Chains
d. Timeline regression
NLP TRAINER (NLP, Hypnosis, Life/Success Coach, TIME Techniques™)
A. Prerequisites
Successfully passed NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner in accordance with Practioner and Master Practitioner standards (see above)
B. Duration of Training
Minimum of 120 hours of advanced training taught by a certified Master Trainer
C. Method of Training
Training may be held live in-person, virtual live online, or hybrid live/virtual. Online pre-recorded video training is not acceptable at the NLP Trainer level. All training methods must verify class hours of attendance and all required exercises must be observed. If virtual, students must make up any hours not in attendance, including sessions where student has their camera off. Exercises may be performed live in-person or live online by a certified Master Trainer or Trainer under the supervision of a Master Trainer.
D. Demonstration of ability
Trainer has satisfactorily demonstrated behavioral competency of the following:
1. Complete behavioral competence in all Practitioner and Master Practitioner level skills, ability to do any and all
practitioner and master practitioner techniques simultaneously both overtly and covertly
2. Demonstrate facility to shift between content and form (IE: between experience and labeling)
3. Ability to demonstrate the behavior of what one is teaching and to teach what one is doing — and to label it
linguistically (IE: Model Self)
4. Demonstration of Presentation and Teaching skills:
a. Pacing and leading
b. Respect for audience (i.e. at least keeping separate your and others model of the world, and responding
to these congruently; considering and responding ecologically to others; conscious and unconscious
processes.
c. Ability to answer questions, (including discerning the level and intent of questions and generating level-
appropriate responses)
d. Design of presentation: At the least, setting opening and closing frames, setting outcomes, chunking and
sequencing of information and experience, balancing information–giving and occasions for discovery,
facilitating generalization of in formation and skills across context and time
e. Design of exercises: At the least, providing for both overt and covert learning in each exercise, including
previously learned material for cumulative learning, specifying outcomes of exercises, providing a task for
all involved persons insuring behavioral learning, including a future pace
f. Explanation of exercises including the ability to explain an exercise behaviorally without the use of notes
or printed aids
g. Use of deep and shallow metaphor
h. Utilization of multi-level feedback: ongoing re-evaluation and incorporation of overt and covert
information from individuals and group
i. Graceful intervention in groups: at the least maintaining rapport and giving specific sensory grounded
feedback, via questions that directionalize appropriate search to facilitate people's discovery for
themselves, demonstration, or if necessary, overtly telling them what to do
j. "Tasking": creating of a task that presupposes that a person behave in a different way that expands his/her
model of the world
k. Ability to do demonstrations
5. Demonstration of a personal style, and artistry (indicating that the new trainer is integrating skills into his/her
own behavior).
6. Demonstration of an understanding of the process of NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner training.
7. Hypnosis - Ability to demonstrate and teach all certification requirements for:
a. Hypnotherapist
b. Practitioner of Hypnotherapy
c. Master Practitioner of Hypnotherapy
8. TIME Techniques
a. Ability to demonstrate and teach all certification requirements for:
i. Practitioner of TIME Techniques
ii. Master Practitioner of TIME Techniques
