John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll formed The International Trainers Academy as a way to ensure that NLP Trainers have the highest standard of training, before offering NLP courses to the public. By selecting an ITA trainer you have the assurance that your trainer has been trained and awarded certification as a trainer personally by NLP co-creator John Grinder, new code co-developer, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll.
Mission:
The mission of the ITA is to continually improve the quality of NLP Training on offer to the NLP public by ensuring our member Trainers have themselves received the highest quality NLP Trainers Training and testing, and that member trainers are committed to continually develop and enhance their own NLP skills.
John Grinder, is keen to ensure his intentions when co-creating the field are maintained and the integrity of NLP is preserved for future NLP generations to be build upon. This is what John has to say about his personal motives in forming the ITANLP.
John Grinder says:
“I as the co-creator of NLP and the New Code and Carmen
as the co-developer of the New code have carefully selected Michael Carroll our
partner to establish and operate the International Trainers Academy of NLP.
The present existing organizations and associations purporting to represent quality standards in NLP are from my point of view seriously lacking in precisely that avowed purpose – namely, the setting and maintenance of quality requirements in the training and transfer of the patterning of NLP to students seeking mastery in the field.”
Click here to read John Grinder's critique based on his research into the work of the NLP trainers. John has high standards and his critique is robust.
The ITA is the business of developing people; the future is in the hands of the trainers.
We are seeking:
- Trainers who are congruent with their message, and are competent in NLP intellectually and behaviorally
- Trainers who teach from a modeling perspective, and be competent at the different stages of the modeling process. Modelling is the core methodology of NLP.
- Trainers who test robustly for behavioral competencies in NLP patterning and recognize that behavioral competencies are of a higher importance than verbal adroitness in speaking about the patterns.
- Trainers who make explicit the distinctions between process and content models. To teach NLP from a process perspective
- Trainers who ensure certification at the different levels is a valuable experience for the candidate. There has been a tendency in the field to offer blanket certification schemes with no real testing. This is akin to buying a certificate. The ITANLP is about offering valuable learning experiences.
The above sounds simple enough, to us at the ITA, but believe it or not most of the Trainers out there (non ITA) are not offering the even the minimum competencies expected from an ITA Trainer
John Grinder adds:
"In view of the deteriorating quality of the training on offer publicly, I am motivated to offer a mark of guaranteed quality for trainers who satisfy the concrete criteria implied in the above bullets. The ITA is a vehicle for offering to the public a trainer whose quality performance is certified by me as the co-creator of both classic Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and the New Code NLP along with Carmen Bostic St, Clair, co-developer of the New Code and Michael Carroll, our most competent and carefully selected colleague in this movement to quality differentiation in the field. The mark is the seal of the ITANLP. If you are thinking of taking an NLP training I urge you to look for seal "
We
will be loading a list of ITA Trainers and a calendar of events led by an ITA Trainer
in the near future. We have NLP trainers in Europe, America, Asia and Australia. Each
ITA trainer has been through an extensive NLP Trainers Training and testing process
with John Grinder, Michael Carroll and Carmen Bostic St Clair.
Look for the ITANLP seal, when selecting your NLP Training.
