Course details

The programme is taught directly by NLP co-creator, John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll who collectively have worked in the NLP field for 98 years. This makes the Grinder/Bostic/Carroll partnership the most experienced, dynamic and knowledgeable training team in the NLP world.


As far as we are aware this is the ONLY Trainers Training taking place in 2020, so you can make 2020 your year of achievement, by becoming a certified NLP Trainer ready to train others in NLP, which is much needed in the world at this current time.


The course has a unique structure where Michael will teach his sessions live in Gallipoli, and John and Carmen will teach their sessions via live stream to the group in Gallipoli.


The course design is the same as when Michael, John and Carmen work together in person, so you will enjoy a Grinder, Bostic, Carroll production as close as possible to the traditional courses that they teach together.


The NLP Academy Trainers Training is an international experience with attendees from all over the world. The course is taught in English with a simultaneous translation to Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.


The NLP Trainers Training is part of the NLP live in Europe series, taking place in Gallipoli in Southern Italy.


Upon graduating Trainers Training, you will be eligible to join the International Trainers Academy of NLP (ITA), the prestigious certifying organisation where as a member you can issue John Grinder signed NLP certificates to your students.


Module I – Advanced Presentation and Public Speaking Skills

06 - 11 October 2020


This first module is about learning how to design and deliver presentations for optimal audience engagement. Public speaking and presentation skills are an essential part of Trainer’s skill set to offer content charismatically creating a context where it’s easy to learn the material.


An excellent public speaker and presenter is fearless on stage, they own the space, they know how to maximise the use of their tonality to enhance their message, they use their body language to engage the audience, they are gifted story tellers, and they structure their material in a sequence so it is naturally absorbed by the audience making it easy for people to remember the material. You will learn all of this and more during the six day module on the Advanced Presentation and Public Speaking Skills course.



  • The optimal Trainer State for engaging any audience with confidence
  • How to to have absolute certainty on stage and break any fears connected with public speaking
  • Developing a high level of self-awareness as a presenter so you are tuned into all feedback
  • Triple description as a mechanism for self feedback for continual self improvement as a presenter


  • How to develop rapid group rapport with large and small audiences for you as a presenter to have total attention of the group
  • Identifying informal group leaders and utilising the natural influence they have with other members of the group
  • Pacing and leading the conscious and unconscious mind of audience members building individual and group responsiveness
  • How to answer difficult questions with rapport enhancing your credibility
  • How to quickly read an audience so you can maximise the effect of your message
  • Understanding how groups, sub-groups and individuals relate to each other to accentuate group rapport and create a harmonious learning environment


  • How to build dynamic and engaging sessions to maximise the interest in your presentation
  • Creating sessions that harness the conscious and unconscious mind of learners creating a lasting ‘whole mind’ learning experience
  • Framing presentations to set the scene for conscious expectations
  • Delivering tailored sessions for unconscious learning and long term behavioural change
  • Orchestrating sessions designed for different learning styles so all audience members feel included


  • How to transform interruptions into effective teaching points minimising the effect of the interruption and keeping your presentation on track
  • Recognising and answering the question behind the question, satisfying the deeper learning requirements of the questioner
  • Elegantly handling hecklers/troublemakers and get them on your side giving you a greater and more natural authority with the overall group
  • Using misdirection as means of distracting the conscious mind and taking the learners into unexpected and positive territories going beyond expectations
  • Designing charismatic presentations using multiple descriptions and connecting with the audience at a sensory level creating enhanced recollection.


  • Utilising different postures for different steps in the presentation sequence making it easy for the learner to experience the distinct types of content in your presentation
  • The distinctive tonalities anchored to visual, auditory and kinaesthetic language to create heightened charisma in your style and versatile learning experience in the group
  • Tonal anchors to connect the unconscious minds of group members to the desired states inherent in your presentation
  • The hidden structure of charisma and the ultimate verbal rapport tool


  • Deductive style training sessions when you want the attendees to walk away with explicit learnings, usually expressed linguistically
  • Inductive style learning when you want the participant to experience the learnings experientially, usually expressed in behaviour
  • The Grinder 8 Step format for presenting and training, a format that mirrors natural experiencelearning contexts, making it easier for participants to assimilate the content
  • Formatting the unconscious mind for learning, creating a framework for long term recall and integration


  • The use of metaphor to set up teaching points for what is to come
  • Isomorphic metaphor, precise metaphor construction, to create direct mappings
  • Multi embedded metaphor, embedding different states in metaphor for layering learnings
  • Nested and open loops in metaphor, how to nest stories within stories to create audience intrigue and unconscious engagement
  • Spatial anchoring with metaphor to chain states, link stories and build an internal map of the content that is to be delivered

Module II – The Art and Science of Teaching NLP

13 - 18 October 2020


Module II is centered on teaching Neuro Linguistic Programming at various levels and to different sectors. As an NLP Trainer you are likely to offer a range of courses as part of your business, for example introductory courses, NLP Practitioner courses, business courses and specialist application courses. In this module, you will learn about training style and design, how to sequence material and structure content to maximise learning.


NLP Training is both an art and science, the artistry comes in the flair and flexibility a trainer exhibits in their metaphors, creative sessions and elegance in conducting demonstrations. The science is in the formatting of each session and precision in presenting factual content to set up exercise delivery. The art/science combination establishes a context for sophisticated transfer of content.


This module will give you the complete NLP Trainer package to enable you to deliver in depth sessions covering the full range of learning styles in the class, with the material being assimilated unconsciously and understood consciously.



  • Designing and delivering an NLP presentation to an audience
  • Conducting an NLP demonstration and teach the audience through your demonstration
  • Presenting under a series of challenging contexts the evaluator chooses
  • Completing an extensive closed book written exam on core NLP patterning


  • The structural style developed by John Grinder to teach NLP when it was created – the Grinder 8 Step format for training
  • Discovery style working inductively for the students to build their own learning map
  • The art of chunking and sequencing making it easy for learners to learn
  • Looping in training to connect the different content elements
  • Structuring NLP Practitioner content for maximum integration and long term application of the material
  • The logical levels of training design


  • Enhanced metaphor interaction, nesting loops, embedding commands, interactive metaphor, anchoring teaching points
  • Explicit verbal package and old style meta model for precision questioning
  • Physiological Meta Model (non verbal Meta Model), anchoring language patterns to elicit specific verbal responses
  • Using the learner's current story interactively to embed the training content
  • Intention frame, outcome frame, as if frame to establish a learning direction
  • Explicate hidden intentions through paraphrase, mis-paraphrase and misdirection


  • Using the space for anchoring states and teaching points
  • Chaining states to create a movement to an outcome in the audience
  • Sliding tonal anchors to enhance the quality of static or chained states
  • Anchoring states and responses through gesture


  • Positioning the demo as the key element in the training session
  • Demo subject selection, how to pick the best person for the pattern being taught, the types of people not to pick
  • Recognising the difference in compliance and suggestibility, and why not to use overly compliant or suggestible subjects
  • Creating powerful post demo contexts of discovery to elicit learnings from the audience
  • Splitting your attention to calibrate the audience and demo subject
  • Conducting demos with multiple demonstration subjects so the class can observe the responses in different people


  • Dovetailing the exercise to match the teaching points inherent in the demonstration
  • How to design exercises to create natural circuits in the learner for the skill being taught, building unconscious competence
  • Chunking exercises for maximum effect
  • Feedback and clean up after the exercise
  • Utilising all aspects of feedback, especially feedback where the students were challenged


  • Content and process, a primary ethical distinction in NLP
  • The importance of keeping with the original NLP practice of process orientated models in NLP training
  • How to convert ‘content’ orientated patterns to ‘process’ patterns to stay with NLP practice
  • How to develop your own ‘process’ patterns and models

Module III – Evaluation

20 - 23 October 2020


In this phase you will demonstrate your competency to the evaluation team with various activities to ensure you are ready to be an NLP Trainer. The evaluation process is rigorous; you will use all the skills you learnt in Module I and II throughout the evaluation as well as your NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner skills.


  • You will design and deliver a 35 minute NLP presentation
  • You will conduct an NLP demonstration
  • You will tasked to present under challenging circumstances
  • You will also complete a closed book test on Classic NLP patterning

The NLP Trainers Training and rigid evaluation is designed to create the best NLP Trainers in the world.



Your Training Options


By booking on either the Live Training or Live Stream option, You will receive a FREE repeat option to attend the Live Training in 2021 when John, Carmen and Michael will be training Live together again (Covid permitting)


Live Training in Italy

  • Join training daily in Italy with course Colleagues
  • Take part in exercises guided by live mentors
  • NLP Trainer Certification on passing the course allowing to run courses and Certifying NLP Practitioner through the ITANLP under the Grinder, Bostic, Carroll banner
  • Work with people from all over Europe

Live Stream Training

  • Join daily live interactive sessions via Zoom
  • Take part Breakout Room exercises guided by mentors
  • NLP Trainer Diploma on passing the course allowing to run Classic Code NLP Diplomas through the ITANLP under the Grinder, Bostic, Carroll banner
  • Work with people from all over the world

Course Investment


Full Investment
£6500.00 + IVA

Early Booking Investment
£3250.00 + IVA (£3997.50)

Saving you £3250.00

Until 05 October 2020 only


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Training Venue


Hotel Victoria Palace Gallipoli

Address : Via Petrarca, sn 73014 Gallipoli (Lecce) Italy


Telephone : +39 0833 293040

Email : info@hotelvictoriagallipoli.it


Contact The NLP Academy

Telephone : +44 (0) 208 686 9952

Email : info@nlpacademy.co.uk