NLP – The Route to Self-Coaching
Effective and targeted personal development with NLP tools and mental techniques

NLP gives you several simple, effective techniques for structuring your own thought processes, so that you can work with your own personal development and goals – and pave the way for personal change and growth.

Participants
This course is for individuals who wish to gain insight into and tools for affecting their own development and who wish to use their full potential. No matter what you think, you are much more than that. Only you can discover your potential, find out how you can realise it and create your own success!

Benefit
You can take charge yourself. You can coach yourself and change your automatic processes to better suit how you view yourself or how you wish to be today. With self-coaching, you put yourself in the driver’s seat. You are aware, you are responsible, and you choose yourself what you want to happen. By using an assortment of simple, effective NLP techniques and working methods, it is easy to reach your goals and desires in life.

You will learn to:

• Adapt your personality to who you really are
• Take a short cut and gain unlimited access to your resources
• Use your potential and your abilities optimally
• Give yourself inner peace and greater impact
• Work with and build strengthened self-esteem
• Listen to the reasoning behind objections and ask better questions
• Think positively and be more creative
• Look at yourself, your role, your importance and your authority in a positive way
• Coach and motivate yourself (and others!)
• Reach your goals and achieve success in your life

Your company will gain an employee who:

• Is aware of how our own attitudes and thoughts influence what our everyday lives bring
• Is equipped to demonstrate greater personal responsibility for him or herself and things as a whole
• Is better equipped to deal with plots and scheming, bullying, and internal politics
• Can enter into discussions in a constructive way and thereby strengthen collaboration in reaching common goals
• Takes his or her starting point in “positive intentions” in any collaboration Is more self-contained due to a greater awareness of his or her own values and attitudes
• Knows that an individual carries the responsibility for their own success and future
• Has broadened his or her self-perception and perspective on the world as a whole

Course content
This course will teach you how your brain works and how it automatically processes all your sensory perceptions. You will become aware of why your own reactions to your surroundings can happen almost automatically and “entirely without influence”. You will learn to see which emotional and thought models are behind your own habits, reactions and action patterns as well as those of others.
Emotional and thought models consist of your values, attitudes, assumptions, expectations and convictions. They work as a sort of autopilot for the way you perceive reality and how it is coded and stored in your brain. Quite often, the autopilot also determines how you relate to others on a daily basis. The question is: are you happy with the results of the work of your autopilot?

You will work on:

• Creating a user manual for your own mind
• Uncovering your personality and your resources
• Playing more of a role and accommodating more at the same time
• Using your potential and creating your own future
• Leading and motivating yourself

Situations that you have tried but would like to avoid in the future:

• That certain people completely drain you of energy and that you don’t put your foot down.
• That some people trigger you so that you overreact and regret it later on.
• That you put off tasks indefinitely and are irritated that you never get started.
• That you don’t intervene or put your foot down in order to avoid conflict and then regret that you stood idly by.
• That certain people can irritate you, merely by being present or acting in a certain way.
• That you overstep your own boundaries and take on too much in order to be recognised.
• That your message is not getting through and you feel overlooked or ignored.

Our thoughts decide the way we perceive ourselves and others. The question is: what are your thoughts, and are your thoughts beneficial for you, your career and your success in life? Or do you tend to think the same thoughts again and again – sort of like mental recycling?

Are you autonomous? A good coach can help you think in new ways so that you become aware of how you can develop and get much more out of your potential. Perhaps you would like to be autonomous?

Learning method
The course supports the participants in getting to know themselves. By means of facilitator presentations, plenary discussions and various exercises, you will be challenged to become familiar with various layers of your personality. At the same time, you will get tools for developing in the direction that you envisioned or wanted. The course contains lots of material, from a preparatory assignment, comprehensive manual and exercise book to colleague training over the telephone. Your entire view of the world will be challenged, but in a gentle, considerate and humorous way. Everyone will leave the course with an “expanded” mind.

Course duration
The course takes place over two modules.

Module one is three days long
This module teaches you how to use your brain when you think and how you can influence what goes on in your brain and your thoughts. Towards the end of Part 1, each participant devises their own realistic training plan. Each participant is assigned a coach, who is him or herself the client of another coach. Each coach-client relationship then agrees on a minimum of three 30-minute coaching sessions via telephone. These coaching sessions must take place between Parts 1 and 2. The dialogues could be about how the client realises his or her training plan. You will take home a CD so that you can be coached through various mental NLP techniques from the course. Your course binder can also be used between Parts 1 and 2, as it contains many pages of text for easy reading and an exercise book from which you can get inspiration for integrating the things you have learned from Part 1.

Module two is two days long
On this module, we get to the core of your thought processes and look at how your values motivate your decisions and control your actions, and how your attitude becomes your life’s script for better or worse. The participants coach each other when they each explore their own map of the emotion and thought model. You will then be coached on how to create new maps for yourself. We recommend that the coach-client relationship continues after Part 2, as this will ensure that the benefit from the course will continue to grow.

“Coach yourself – because you never know how far a change will go” (Mathilde Feldstedt, coach & NLP facilitator).

Self-coaching
Self-coaching with NLP is indeed about how to coach yourself and how you can challenge your own trains of thought, be more creative, collaborate better with yourself and others, and create the career that you
want. NLP delivers a good framework for understanding how the “computer between your ears” works and how it can be upgraded.

Self-coaching – how?
You will learn how to optimise your communication with yourself. This has a significant effect on how you feel about yourself and how you get along with others around you. We like to believe that our collaboration with others would be better if they would only recognise their faults and change. However, this is rarely the case in reality. It is usually much more effective to change the way you relate to the world. Our own thoughts are very determining and decisive for how we perceive the world and which resources we have at our disposal. And your thoughts are a result of how you coach yourself.

Self-coaching with NLP will make you more aware of yourself. When you coach yourself, you lead and follow your own thought processes. Thereby, you optimise your collaboration with yourself and will be more self-contained. The quality of your thought processes determines whether you are well balanced or stressed and in conflict with yourself and others. Self-coaching means that you continuously revise your thought and action strategies and ensure that these are updated and relevant here and now and work effectively in your everyday life.

Additional consultancy
For additional consultancy and personal sparring, please contact product manager Merete Bernhardtsen by calling +45 4517 6119 or send an email.

Facilitators
Mathilde Feldstedt is a GP and a certified NLP facilitator. She is a facilitator who literally practises what she facilitates. Her own experience forms the basis of a healthy, natural ability to empathise, which she uses in her role as an engaged facilitator and coach. Mathilde demonstrates true commitment and empathy when she shows you how you can direct your focus towards your personal development and how you can get started.

Ninette Louw is a trained NLP facilitator and is a very competent and dynamic facilitator. She demonstrates incredible commitment and really manages to engage all the participants in a group. She has great insight and will give you a number of directions as to how to move on after the course.

The price includes
Before the course

• Invitation to a free two-hour meeting on “Good Learning”
• Preparatory form

During the course

• 3+2 days of facilitation
• 3 nights of accommodation
• All meals
• Max. 16 participants
• 1-2 facilitators, depending on the number of participants
• Course binder with compendium and notebook for your notes
• CD with instructions on how to practise
• Individual action plan
• Training in coaching sessions