Certification and Affiliation

What is NLP Certification?

Which trainings are certified?

Which accreditation should I look for?

These questions are often asked by people wanting to study NLP.  The following page attempts to answer some of these questions for you.

In the world of NLP training, there is no official government or legal affiliation or certification standard, no ‘official’ course content, duration of training or levels of competency (this applies within the UK and outside).  NLP is an un-regulated field and currently there are no ‘official’ guidelines in terms of regulation, certification, standardisation or affiliation.

There are a number of groups, organisations, associations, boards and bodies that have set up their own standard by creating certification / affiliation schemes in order to reflect how they believe NLP should be taught and practiced. These organisations often differ in their opinion. Each organisation has a different judgment and none are mandatory to join or achieve training through. Many training providers choose not to affiliate themselves with any certification or affiliation bodies.

Certification and Affiliation has, for over 20 years, been debated within the field as to how it should be organised and structured, thus there are many varying models. Confusion often arises from a potential delegate when trying to decide on which NLP training provider to learn with or which training provider has the ‘right’ certification / affiliation scheme and is ‘recognised by’ which group. The simple answer is that there is currently no ‘right’ answer.  It’s all down to personal choice.

WHY INSPIRE 360 CERTIFY THEIR TRAININGS THROUGH THE ABNLP

We choose this body for a number of personal and professional reasons:

  • It is the most recognised worldwide certification
  • The ABNLP is run by Dr Tad James creator of Time Line Therapy®
  • Requires High Training Standards / Expect A Professional Organisation
  • Sister organisation ABH (American Board Hypnotherapy)
  • Part pre-study and part training allowing participants enough time and flexibility to attend

INSPIRE 360 LTD ARE ALSO RECOGISED FOR THEIR TRAINING, COACHING AND THERAPY.  THEY ARE MEMBERS OF: