Founded in 1986, The Center of NLP is dedicated to the holistic transformation of the whole Gestalt of ones being through the powerful knowledge of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Led by Brigitta Hoeferle, esteemed global speaker, NLP Grandmaster, and expert in communication and human behavior, the center offers a wide range of services and specializes in Level 2 Coach Training, designed to enhance personal and professional growth. Our mission is to listen first, teach proven strategies to improve communication skills and leadership, and empower our students to achieve their defined goals with clarity and confidence.

Our Commitment to Excellence

At The Center of NLP, we value our attendees by maintaining small, focused classes led by internationally credible teachers, professors, and trainers who practice what they teach. Our in-person programs are held in a modern, light-filled, and easily accessible facility in the heart of Atlanta. Our virtual courses are equally interactive and empowering, ensuring a seamless learning experience regardless of location.

Holistic and Integrative Approach

Our approach at The Center of NLP is both holistic and integrative. We combine the latest research in NLP with practical applications to create a learning experience that is enriching and enjoyable. Our experienced trainers and coaches provide continuous support and guidance, ensuring that each participant can achieve their desired outcomes.

Why Choose Us?

• Expertise: With decades of experience and a profound understanding of NLP, we offer unparalleled expertise in the field.
• Supportive Environment: We foster a nurturing environment where individuals feel safe to explore and grow.
• Proven Results: Our programs are designed to deliver tangible results, helping individuals and organizations achieve their goals.

https://centerofnlp.com/nlpcoachingcert

Learn a powerful behavior change methodology for coaches and add it to the core NLP Practitioner Course for your best results! Incorporate these life changing principles into your coaching practice and help your clients achieve long lasting and empowering change by becoming a Professional Certified Coach. An invaluable skill for coaches, mentors, and consultants as well as for people planning on becoming experts in these fields.

Learn powerful tools and strategies for lasting outcomes and add it to the core NLP Practice for your and your client’s best results! Incorporate these life changing principles into your coaching practice and help your clients achieve long lasting and empowering change. An invaluable skill for coaches, mentors, and consultants as well as for people planning on becoming experts in these fields. Approved by the Society of NLP, taught by ICF Master Certified Coach and Grandmaster of NLP.

You’ll Learn These NLP Coaching Skills for Powerful Change:

Practicing Ethically

➤ Understanding and consistently applying coaching ethics and standards of coaching.

Integrity and honesty are the core foundation to build the coaching relationship on. Sensitivity to the client’s identity, environment, experiences, values and beliefs is demonstrated by adapting and using appropriate language that is respectful to your client.

Deliverables:

• ICF Code of Ethics and upholds the Core Values
• Confidentiality with client information per stakeholder agreements and pertinent laws
• Distinctions between coaching, consulting, psychotherapy and other support professions
• Referral or end the coaching relationship

Embodying the Coaching Mindset

➤ Developing and maintaining a mindset that is open, curious, flexible and client-centered.

Clients are responsible for their own choices, the coach is in charge to create the safe space for reflection, awareness and opportunities for greater insight.

Deliverables:

• Ongoing learning and development as a coach
• Remaining aware of and open to the influence of context and culture on self and others
• Using awareness of self and one’s intuition to benefit clients
• Developing and maintaining the ability to regulate one’s emotions
• Preparing Mentally and emotionally for sessions
• Being most resourceful and seeking help from outside sources when necessary

Demonstrating Behavioral Flexibility

➤ Reframing Meaning and Behavioral Flexibility

Being stuck is caused by the meaning we make of any given situation. When one can change the way one attributes meaning to its life experiences, one can free themselves. Reframing the position and bridging the gap.

Deliverables:

• Consciously create meaning / give new meaning
• Redefine any situation to make it useful and productive
• Develop world-class mental flexibility and insight
• Develop strategies to achieve supportive emotional states
• Tools to change “impossible” behaviors
• Resources to be more resourceful with the V8 Communication™️
  Model

Establishing and Maintaining Agreements

➤ Partnering with the client to create clear agreements

Creating clear agreements about the coaching relationship, process, plans and goals are key and foundational. Establishing agreements for the overall coaching engagement as well as those for each coaching session.

Deliverables:

• Process of Coaching
• What is Coaching and What is it not
• What is appropriate and what is not within the coaching relationship, what is and is not being offered, and the responsibilities of the client
• Guidelines and specific parameters of the coaching relationship (logistics, fees, scheduling, duration, termination, confidentiality and inclusion of others)
• Coaching plan and goals
• Determining client-coach compatibility
• Accomplishments within the session
• Defining what the client believes they need to address or resolve to achieve what they want to accomplish in the session
• Defining or reconfirming measures of success for what the client wants to accomplish in the coaching engagement or individual session
• Managing the time and focus of the session
• Continuing coaching in the direction of the client’s desired outcome unless the client indicates otherwise
• Partnering with the client to end the coaching relationship in a way that honors the experience

Overcoming Obstacles

➤ Overcoming Obstacles to Achieve Goals

A coach training without a focus on goal-setting isn’t a coach training at all! Learn how to help your client harness all their resources, anticipate obstacles, and look at their goals through a holistic lens to realize and achieve their desired outcomes.

Deliverables:

• Develop a formula to well-formed outcomes
• Make goals achievable
• Identify and overcome blocking obstacles
• Get specifically what you want from your life!
  

Fostering Cognizant Decisions

➤ Mastering Decisions and Motivation Strategies

Focus on the inner work, so the outer does.
“Wanting” something is not a strategy, one must have an effective process to get there. Making solid decisions and motivating oneself under any circumstance is a matter of strategy. Learn inner strategies – the mental building blocks and formulas – to produce any result on the inside before creating it in the outer world.

Deliverables:

• Create Choice - Make solid decisions
• Motivate yourself and others easily
• Create strategies for success
• Understand key drivers of human behavior

Cultivating Trust and Safety

➤ Creating a safe and supportive environment

Partnering with the client to create a safe and supportive environment that allows the client to share freely and maintaining a relationship of mutual respect and trust. This happens when the client’s identity, environment, experiences, values and beliefs are understood within its context.

Deliverables:

• Demonstrating respect for the client’s identity, perceptions, style and language and adapts one’s coaching to the client
• Acknowledging and respecting the client’s unique talents, insights and work in the coaching process
• Showing support, empathy and concern for the client
• Acknowledging and supporting the client’s expression of feelings, perceptions, concerns, beliefs and suggestions
• Demonstrating openness and transparency as a way to display vulnerability and build trust with the client

Maintaining Presence

• ➤Being fully conscious and present with the client
  
  Employing a style that is open, flexible, grounded and confident supports a focused, observant, empathetic and responsive to the client, demonstrating curiosity during the coaching process.

Deliverables:

• Managing one’s emotions to stay present with the client
• Demonstrating confidence in working with strong client emotions during the coaching process
• Comfortable working in a space of not knowing
• Creating and allowing space for silence, pause or reflection

Listening Actively

• ➤ Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
  
  Knowing how to build rapport with your client is key. Gaining rapport and the trust of your client isn’t limited to only verbal skills. There’s a whole level of subconscious common ground you need to have. Focusing on what the client is saying and is not saying to fully comprehend what is being communicated in the context of the client systems and to support the client's self-expression.

Deliverables:

• Considering the client’s context, identity, environment, experiences, values and beliefs to enhance the comprehension of what the client’s communication
• Reflecting or summarizing what is communicated to ensure clarity and understanding
• Recognizing and inquiring when there is more to is communicated
• Noticing, acknowledging and exploring emotions, energy shifts, verbal and non-verbal cues and other behaviors
• Integrating the client’s words, tone of voice and body language to determine the full meaning of what is being communicated
• Noticing trends and patterns in the client’s behaviors and emotions across sessions to discern themes and patterns.
• Creating rapport with integrity

Comprehending Fully

• ➤ Relating & Comprehending

Most people try to “understand” others by listening to their words, but there is so much more! Uncommon insights are induced by observing non-verbal communication on a deeper level for insights and direction.

Deliverables:

• Creating rapport and trust, based on the verbal and nonverbal cues from clients
• Tools and Strategies to
• Discover new and important growth opportunities for clients
• “Read” others and know how to help without getting lost

Evoking Awareness

• ➤ Mastering Tools, Techniques & Strategies
  
  Facilitating insights and learnings by using tools and techniques such as powerful questioning, silence, metaphor or analogy. A single, powerful question can change the direction of a coaching session and place a client firmly on the path to success. Discovering what’s behind the words for self-discovery to new possibilities.

Deliverables:

• Considering client experience when deciding what might be most useful
• Challenging the client as a way to evoke awareness or insight
• Asking quality questions about the client, such as their way of thinking, values, needs, wants and beliefs, etc.
• Asking questions that help the client explore beyond current thinking
• Inviting the client to share more about their experience in the moment
• Noticing what is working to enhance progress
• Adjusting the coaching approach in response to the client’s needs
• Helping the client identify factors that influence current and future patterns of behavior, thinking or emotion
• Inviting the client to generate ideas about how they can move forward and what they are willing or able to do
• Supporting the client in reframing perspectives
• Sharing observations, insights and feelings, without attachment, that have the potential to create new learning for the client when appropriate
• Relating to complex situations
• Uncovering obstacles to the client’s goals
• Guiding the client to gaining critical insight when nothing is obvious

Facilitating Growth

• ➤ Implementation and Transformation
  
  The client's insightful learnings will transform into action and implementation, by the doing of the client, promoting client autonomy in the coaching process.

Deliverables:

• Working to integrate new awarenesses, insights or learnings into their worldview and behaviors
• Partnering to design goals, actions and accountability measures that integrate and expand new learning
• Acknowledging and supporting the client’s autonomy in the design of goals, actions and methods of accountability
• Supporting in identifying potential results or learning from identified action steps
• Moving away from the problem to move forward toward the solution, including resources, support and potential barriers
• Partnering with the client to summarize learning and insight within or between sessions
• Celebrating progress and successes
• Appropriate close of the session

Breaking Through

➤ Interpreting Hidden Structure of the Mind

There is an undiscovered world of structure within each person’s mind. This inner construct is so important that it should be taught in primary school, not only in coaching training. Inner dynamics aren’t taught in the mainstream, so when you see the hidden design behind one’s inner life, you’ll be prepared to help people like you’ve never done before.

Deliverables:

• Discovering the hidden structure of thoughts and feelings
• Eliminating the impact of non-supportive thoughts and feelings
• Breaking through and breaking free of self-imposed limitations
• Developing confidence and personal power
• Gaining greater influence in the most respectful way
• Effectively motivate, encourage, and inspire
• Helping access internal resources
• Gracefully guide through problems and decisions

Moving Away to Move Towards

➤ Understanding the Past to Program the Future

The past and the future are organized in our minds. For most people, time is structured unconsciously, so they don’t know how to intentionally learn from the past and stay motivated toward a bright future. Successful people know how to capture the best of past experiences, focus on the future, and see the big picture as well. How you think about life determines the results you get.

Deliverables:

• Changing perception of past and future to support goals
• Feeling of more excitement, curiosity, and self-confidence
• Letting go of the past and program the future for greater success
• See the big picture to create positive expectations
• Harmonize the past and future to create learning and motivation