ISNS STANDARDS

1. Able to know and behaviorally integrate the NLP presuppositions.
2. Able to quickly get rapport with a person and to maintain that rapport by pacing them verbally and non_verbally, and to then lead.
3. Able to calibrate another person's inner states by using exquisite sensory acuity experience. Such calibration such include the ability to note a person's use of predicates in their language and eye accessing cues as they speak.
4. Able to create well_formed outcomes for self and elicit one from another.
5. Able to help a person overlap to other representational systems and to translate out of their system into other systems.
6. Able to identify and use the Meta_Model in communicating and information gathering. To be able to ask challenging Meta_Model questions for any presenting surface statement. This presupposes recognizing the linguistic distinctions of the Meta-Model.
7. Able to identify and use the Milton_Model so as to take a person into an altered state and allow them to experience the resources that are a part of that state. Able to generate the language patterns as well as the behavioral flexibility of voice to facilitate trance states.
8. Able to identify the frame of a person, to expand the frame, de_frame, reframe and to use alternative frames for doing change work: the "As If" frame, the First, Second and Third Position frames, the Relevancy frame, a contrast frame, etc.
9. Able to anchor in V.A.K. systems and then to be able to fire off an anchor and have the person to re-experience the state anchored.
10. Able to shift one's own state of consciousness from external (uptime) to internal (downtime) according to the task's need.
11. Able to step into a state and fully associate in that state and then to step out and experience more of a witnessing or observing state (to experience so-called "dissociation")
12. Able to "chunk up" and to "chunk down" in handling various sizes of information, to move up and down the scale of specificity and abstraction.
13. Able to detect, elicit, and shift the cinematic features of a person’s movie representations (the so-called "sub-modalities") when working with various patterns.
14. Able to elicit responses both verbally and non_verbally, and to amplify the state or response that's elicited.
15. Able to access, build, and amplify resources (resourceful states) in self and others.
16. Able to show a wide range of verbal and non_verbal flexibility with the basic models (Meta-Model, Sub-Modality model, Meta-States model, Time-Line model).
17. Able to select when and where to use the basic NLP patterns; able also to explain reason behind one’s choice.
18. Able to step back and ask questions about ecology in order to check on the ecology of an intervention or response.
19. Able to think through (critical thinking skills) ethical questions using the Meta-Model questions and the basic premises of Neuro-Semantics and NLP.

1. A good working knowledge of the 4 meta-domains of NLP:

   The Meta-Model of Language
   The Meta-Programs
   The Meta-States model
   The Cinematic Features of our mental movies ("sub-modalities")
    

2. A good working knowledge and skill with the Matrix Model. To follow the "energy" of a client as he or she respond and to track using the Matrix.
3. Integrate practitioner level skills to effectively identify and utilize a person's model of the world for change and empowerment. Able to effectively pace, gain rapport, and enter into another’s reality.
4. Pace at conceptual or meta-levels as well using meta-programs, meta-frames, etc. Ability to detect and use meta-programs.
5. Elicit a strategy and work with the basic strategies of learning, understanding, decision_making, and motivation.
6. Think in terms of patterns and able to run patterns. Design individualized interventions both remedially and generatively to enable that person to be more resourceful.
7. Check for ecology in the new designs and constructions of strategies and patterns.
8. Move into meta_positions to move above content to form or process, able to transverse the different "logical levels."
9. Identify a person’s value frames in a conversation and to then use them in communicating.
10. Elicit the structure of magic (cause-effect, complex equivalence, and identity statements) and then conversationally reframe them using the Mind-Lines model (the old "Sleight of Mouth" patterns).
11. Identify, map over, and work effectively with a client’s mental movies using the so-called "sub-modalities" distinctions.
12. Elicit states, recognize, and engage in trance states for relaxation, healing, and learning; use hypnotic and multi_level communications in such.
13. Effectively use the basic frames of agreement, as if, relevance, ecology, etc. when communicating.
14. Work with modeling and profiling experience identifying supporting beliefs, meta_programs, meta-states, movie representations, strategies, etc.
15. Identify, utilize, and facilitate the transformation of limiting beliefs and presuppositions.
16. Think systemically about the 4 meta-domains, recognize and understand feedback and feed-forward loops in the communication process.
17. Begin to develop the attitude or spirit of NLP: curiosity, playfulness, non-judgment, resilience, willingness to learn, to be corrected, etc.
18. Effectively question in interviewing and communicating, able to use the meta-questions for exploring the Matrix and the meta-model questions for precision and clarity.
19. Able to demonstrate the ability to select an NLP or NS pattern in relationship to a person and to explain reasoning using Meta-Programs, the Matrix Model, and/or Meta-States.
20. Fully able to step back from onself, run "ecology questions" and quality control checks, and access or maintain resourceful states for handling challenges and conflicts.

1. Basic NLP communication model

   Representation systems
   Meta-representation system of language
   Levels of referencing and representing
   States: Mind-Body, Neuro-Linguistic, Neuro-Semantics
   Calibrating states
   Rapport building
   Anchoring in all systems
   Recognize and detect "sub-modalities" (Prac.)
   Elegant use of the editorial features of our movies (Master Prac.)
    

2. Meta-Model

   The 12 linguistic distinctions (Prac.) and the 21 distinctions (Master Prac.)
   The corresponding questions for each distinction.
    

3. Milton Model

The linguistic distinctions that create trance
The tonal distinctions that make for a hypnotic voice
 

4. Basic NLP Patterns (Prac.)
    

   Swish Circle / Sphere of Excellence Movie Rewind Collapsing Anchors Eliciting States Chaining states Time-Lining Re-imprinting

   Well-Formed Outcome Know about 6-step reframing Belief Change Threshold Visual Squash Content Reframing Decision Destroyer Change History

The 77 patterns in SourceBook of Magic (for Master Prac.)

5. Meta-Programs

20 basic MP (Prac.) and 60 MP (Master prac.)
Ability to detect and use meta-programs in communicating

6. Meta-States

   The meta-stating process (5 or 7 A’s)
   Distinctions of states: primary, meta, and gestalt
   Basic Meta-State patterns, the 12 MS patterns (Master Prac)
    

7. NLP Presuppositions

   Know 15 of the Presuppositions by heart (Prac.), know all (Master Prac.)
   Know and explain the presuppositions in depth (Master Prac.)
    

8. Strategies

Recognize, detect, and begin to unpack (Prac.)
Elegance in one’s use of the Strategy Model (Master Prac.) by being able to
Elicit, change, and install Strategies
Modeling Project in group