The Institute of NLP - Twenty Ten
A Brief History
The Inst NLP was established in 1995 in response to interest in developing small, affordable and relevant NLP Training Courses. In many ways the Institiute sought to distance itself from the politics that was driving many of the NLP training organisations and aligned itself with a developing international code of practice and set of training standards. At the time there the 'intensive course' was becoming very popular and NLP Training Seminars started to feel like evangelistic prayer meetings.
The initial Inst NLP course was developed by Alan Jones and was delivered throughout the UK by a small team of accredited trainers. To be honest the focus of the Institute was on training and development and not on administration and so there were some challenges about the centralised administration - initially from offices in London.
In 2004 Alan was invited to become Lead Trainer and some of the original team decided to pursue training and NLP work outside of the UK where the personal financial returns seemed to greater. As a result the underpinning ethos of the Institutes NLP course became educational and personal developmental rather than business and solely psychotherapeutic.
With the completion of the last cohort of NLP Practitioner training in 2009 the decision was taken to re-think and re-align the focus and administration of the Inst. NLP. During 2009 work had been undertaken to ensure that the NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner Courses could be validated in NVQ/VRQ terms. A strategic partnership with PDC (an Institite of Leadership and Management NVQ accreditation centre) means that we can now offer both NLP Practitioner certification and NVQ Level 3 and 5 certification in Coaching and Mentoring.
This move has proven to be be both beneficial and timely.
The drive to regulate therapeutic practices means that all NLP Practitioners will need to consider the banners under which they practice.
The suggestion that all psychological/psychotherapeutic practitioners will require a degree level training in psychology is a further issue that needs to be addressed.
The need to move towards more evidence and science based practice
