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We often carry silent scripts in our minds: limits we did not choose, but continue to obey. Learn how to recognise those patterns, communicate with more precision, and create useful change.

NLP Practitioner

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Practical NLP courses

Unlock your brain’s secret language and discover a new way to move forward.

NLP gives you a structured way to notice the patterns inside thoughts, emotions, language and behaviour. Used well, it helps you make more useful decisions, improve communication, and work with change in a grounded, practical way.

John’s training combines clear models, live practice, feedback and real examples so NLP becomes something you can use in conversations, coaching sessions, training rooms and everyday life.

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NLP training that fits the stage you are at.

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NLP Practitioner

Learn the core principles of NLP, including language, rapport, reframing, anchors, goal setting, submodalities and practical change techniques.

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NLP Master Practitioner

Go deeper into modelling human excellence, advanced communication, non-verbal cues, strategies and richer patterns of change.

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NLP Train the Trainer

Develop the confidence and structure to teach, present and facilitate NLP with clarity, presence and practical authority.

What’s covered

Learn how people think, communicate, decide and change.

The Practitioner course covers advanced principles and techniques in personal change and development, with enough structure to make the ideas usable beyond the training room.

Language and communication

Understand how language reveals patterns in thinking, feeling and behaviour.

Representational systems

Notice how people process information and adapt your communication accordingly.

Reframing

Work with stories and experiences to create more useful perspectives and choices.

Anchoring

Explore mental and physical triggers that help people access different states.

Submodalities

Learn how small shifts in internal imagery can alter emotional response.

Modelling and strategy

Study successful behaviours so useful patterns can be understood, adapted and repeated.

Your trainer

Practical, direct, and focused on skills you can actually use.

The best NLP trainers are the ones you can connect with and learn from. John’s approach is clear, supportive and tailored to the people in the room, with a focus on practice, confidence and genuine understanding.

“An excellent course, very well presented. John is confident, competent and very approachable.”
Nick Haynes, Designer

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You can start your training straight away. Choose Practitioner, Master Practitioner, or book both together. You receive immediate access to video recordings and manuals, with live virtual training to sharpen your skills.

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NLP ARTICLES

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Excellent, so last week we were talking about a very simple way to build rapport with somebody is to put your phone away. When you’re talking to somebody, do not look at your phone no matter how much you have the urge to look at it. Don’t, it’s a no no. You’re sending…

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NLP Newsletter Powerful Rapport

Powerful Rapport This week, we’re going to explore a powerful technique to build rapport with somebody. And if you want to succeed in life, you want to achieve your goals, one of the key skills to master is the ability to connect with other people. And I’m going to…

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NLP Newsletter Your future self is disciplined

Your Future Self is disciplined we’ve been looking at certain ways that we sabotage ourselves achieving goals. We looked at the overwhelming goals as goals get too big and too scary and we end up doing nothing. We looked at perfectionism. We looked at starting…

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NLP Newsletter Perfectionism

Self Sabotage, Perfectionism plus Goal Setting Over the last couple of newsletters, we’ve been looking at this theme which is essentially “How do we sabotage ourselves when setting goals?” And even achieving our goals. So, the first week we looked at the excitement of…

NLP is the key to achieving goals what could be holding you back

NLP Newsletter Being Perfect

NLP Being Perfect   So, building on that theme where last week we looked at goal excitement. And what I meant by that is that we set a goal, we get excited about setting it so, we up the ante. We make it bigger and bigger and bigger until it gets so big, we…

When goals become big we do nothing to achieve them

NLP Newsletter – Excitement of Goal Setting

Can your goals lead to inaction? Hello, my name is John Cassidy-Rice. I am the founder of the Professional NLP Practitioner. How have you been this week? I’ve been letting out my inner geek. I have been to Comic Con in London, well a few days ago now. And it’s been…

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