Extract NLPTRB Constitution
NLPTRB Criteria for Certification as an NLP Trainer

NLPTRB Principles of Assessment as an NLP Trainer (source : Dr.John Grinder)

Purpose of NLPTRB

To act as the leading accreditation organisation for NLP trainers nationally and internationally.
To determine the appropriate criteria for assessing trainer accreditation for NLP trainers and to encourage appropriate recognition of NLP trainers accreditation both nationally and internationally.
To enhance the reputation of NLP trainers accreditation.
To provide leadership, direction and advocacy in NLP trainerships.
To determine appropriate levels of assessment and assessment criteria for accreditation of NLP trainers.
To attract, co-ordinate and encourage the further development of NLP trainers both nationally and internationally.

Membership Eligibility, Application and Admission

Any natural person or corporation (incorporated or otherwise) committed to the objects of the Company may be a member of the Company, provided :-
1. Application for membership is made on the prescribed Application Form and the determined fee has been paid ;
2. The person or corporation agrees in writing to provide a guarantee of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) to defray such liabilities and expenses of the Company upon its winding up or dissolution.
3. The Application for Membership has been accepted by the Board and such acceptance may be determined by the Board using any criteria as the Board alone may determine ; and
4. The name of the member has been entered in the Register of Members.
The Board may decline any application for membership and is not bound to give reasons why the application was not accepted.
The first members of the Company shall be the subscribers to this Constitution and they shall not be required to apply for membership.
The Board may bestow associate membership upon persons or corporations committed to the objects of the Company as defined in the Constitution subject to payment of any fee prescribed by the Board and provided that associate membership shall not allow for any right of audience, address or voting at any meeting of the Company's members nor election to the Board.

Criteria for Certification as an NLP Trainer

Primary training

Attendance as a participant at an approved NLP Practitioner training.
Attendance as a participant at an approved NLP Master Practitioner training.
A passing grade at assessment at an NLPTRB Trainers Training (q.v.)

Further exposure

Attendance in some capacity (student, assistant, guest) at a second approved Practitioner training.
Attendance in some capacity (student, assistant, guest) at a second approved Master Practitioner training.
Personal coaching and/or individual tasks set by the monitoring trainers.

Principles of Assessment as an NLP Trainer

Source: With permission from John Grinder, March 2002, an extract from "Whispering In The Wind"
by Carmen Bostic St Clair and John Grinder - © Copyright 2001 Carmen Bostic St Clair and John Grinder
2001 Scotts Valley, CA: J & C Enterprises
ISBN 0-9717223-0-7

Link to "Whispering In The Wind" website www.nlpwhisperinginthewind.com

All practitioners of NLP engaged in delivering NLP training approach this formidable learning task with certain principles clearly in mind :

1. the basis of effective training is the creation by the trainer of a series of contexts in which through experience the student may arrive at his own direct tacit knowledge of the patterning. In other words, the measure of effective training is whether the student can do it, never whether he can talk about it.

2. that all training materials be carefully scrutinized to ensure that only formal (never content) patterning is being presented as NLP patterning. Would be trainers unable to make this distinction are disqualified until they achieve such competency.

3. that the ideal design of training inherently involves discovery processes by which the student achieves unconscious (tacit) competency prior to achieving explicit verbal competency. A pattern discovered belongs to the discoverer; a pattern presented belongs to the presenter.

4. that the single most important variable in the training context is the congruity of the trainer. Without an appropriate model (the trainer) offering demonstrations of the patterning, the training is unlikely in the extreme to achieve the desired results.

Extract NLPTRB ConstitutionNLPTRB Criteria for Certification as an NLP Trainer