The difference is lived experience

Simon Gledhill is not a life coach who discovered NLP. He is an international management consultant, former client director and management accountant who has worked across most business sectors, spending decades studying what actually drives human performance.

That combination of commercial rigour, international experience and NLP mastery is rare. When Simon works with you, you get someone who understands profit, people and psychology in equal measure.

This course will introduce and guide you through a range of techniques from the basic levels of NLP to the advanced. During this immersive experience, you will uncover how Neuro-Linguistic Programming works beneath the surface, transforming how you think, feel and act in real time. The ideal starting point for anyone curious about NLP.

“Welcome to NLP Demystified. This course will introduce and guide you through a range of techniques from the basic levels of NLP to the advanced. Whether you are new to personal development or simply curious, this is your ideal first step.”

Drawing on the work of Don Beck, Richard Cowan and Dr Clare Graves. Discover how to communicate, interact, develop and maintain relationships with people who think completely differently from yourself.

“Whatever you set out to achieve, if it is humanly possible, it is achievable. The question to ask is: how come others can, and yet something holds me back? Your values, stored in the subconscious mind, operate automatically — and may be unconsciously sabotaging your goals.”

Based on our flagship Trainers Training, this course takes you thousands of steps beyond conventional public speaking courses. Guaranteed to bring a totally new dynamic to your speeches and presentations.

“People generally form 90% of their lasting impression of us in the first 90 seconds of meeting us. Great speakers and presenters are not born — they are made.”

Coaching is one of the most sought-after skill sets globally. Having completed NLP Practitioner, this 3-day course adds practical, real-world coaching experience — being coached and coaching others — for your current role or a part-time or full-time coaching career.

“If you are looking to increase your coaching ability within your current role or are considering coaching as a part-time or full-time career, this is the essential step before your first real client session.”

A 3-day hands-on course covering the history, fundamentals and techniques of Milton Erickson and Krazner, combined with progressive relaxation inductions and personalised script writing. A powerful addition to any coaching toolkit.

“This isn't theory. This is step-by-step, hands-on hypnosis training with maximum practice time, guided by one of our top instructors through lecture, discussion, and supervised application.”

Two immersive days of guided, practical learning — most of your time is spent actually doing the work:

A 7-day live in-person certification training that awards 4 internationally recognised certificates: NLP Practitioner, Time Line Therapy®, Coaching and Hypnotherapy. The complete foundation for lasting personal and professional transformation.

“NLP has been described as the difference that makes the difference — the user manual to the human mind. The Practitioner course is the complete foundation upon which personal mastery, professional excellence, and the genuine ability to transform others is built.”

A 14-day advanced certification delivered across three powerful phases — live in-person, virtual coaching, and a final live intensive culminating in the iconic Board Breaking Breakthrough session and Certification Ceremony.

“For coaches or those wanting to dramatically improve their coaching and communication skills, Master Practitioner is the level of training that will take you to a completely different calibre.”

Level 3 in your NLP journey. Upon completion you will be recognised as having the skills, knowledge and competencies required to successfully teach and certify Practitioners and Master Practitioners in NLP.

“The skills you will learn, practise and demonstrate will give you the confidence and mastery to develop and deliver world-class interventions, workshops, speeches and seminars in any arena.”

The highest level of recognition in the field of NLP. As a Master Trainer you are certified to train and certify others to train NLP. This is a mentorship programme tailored to your experience and existing competencies.

“Work with masters in the field who are dedicated to ensuring your development and success — supporting you at all times and ensuring optimum transfer of skills and knowledge.”

Online Trainings

Every Connect2 course is available both live and online, giving you the flexibility to learn in the format that works best for your life. You will also gain access to free live and online events, complimentary coaching sessions and a global community of like-minded people already creating change in their lives.

Most people respond to old programmes, beliefs formed long before they had the tools to question them. The result is often relationships that feel stuck, careers that plateau, and potential that never gets fully realised.

The NLP Practitioner Certification gives you the tools to change all of that, permanently. NLP is the study of how successful people think, communicate and behave. It is a proven, practical methodology that allows you to model excellence, reprogramme unhelpful patterns, and install the mindset and behaviours of someone who consistently achieves results.

From the boardroom to the coaching room, from personal breakthroughs to professional mastery, the applications are unlimited. You will leave fully supported, knowing you can not just set but achieve whatever you set out to do.

Ready to break through limitations and step into your highest potential? This is the place to begin.

Gain five internationally recognised certifications and a complete fast-change methodology to transform client results.

Master the psychology of influence, negotiation and peak performance to accelerate your career and results.

Add powerful, evidence-based techniques to your existing practice, including Time Line Therapy® and Hypnosis.

Unlock tools to accelerate learning, build rapport instantly and create environments where people thrive.

Communicate with authority, resolve conflict with skill, and build successful, motivated teams.

• ·The history, origins and evolution of NLP
• ·The NLP Communication Model
• ·The Presuppositions of NLP
• ·Representational systems, how people think
• ·Sensory acuity, reading unconscious signals
• ·The Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind
• ·The mind-body connection
• ·States and state management

• ·The science and art of rapport
• ·Matching, mirroring, pacing and leading
• ·Calibration, reading unconscious cues with precision
• ·Representational systems in language
• ·Eye patterns, how people access and process information
• ·Building rapport on the phone, in writing and digitally

• ·The Meta-Model, precision questioning
• ·The Milton Model, the language of influence
• ·Linguistic presuppositions
• ·Metaphor, using story and narrative to create change
• ·Reframing, shifting the meaning of any experience
• ·The Hierarchy of Ideas, chunking for agreement and negotiation

• ·Anchoring, creating, using and collapsing emotional anchors
• ·Submodalities, changing the structure of inner experience
• ·The Swish Pattern, replacing unwanted habits rapidly
• ·Parts Integration, resolving internal conflict
• ·Six Step Reframe, generating new behaviours
• ·The Fast Phobia Model, eliminating phobias quickly
• ·Strategies, eliciting and installing patterns of excellence
• ·The NLP Model of Coaching

• ·Limiting beliefs, identifying, challenging and reprogramming
• ·Perceptual positions, gaining new perspectives and deep empathy
• ·Well-Formed Outcomes, goals that are compelling and achievable
• ·Goal-setting with purpose, outcomes that inspire action

• ·Introduction to Time Line Therapy®, origins and applications
• ·Eliciting the Time Line
• ·Gestalt formation, how past events shape the present
• ·Releasing negative emotions, anger, sadness, fear, hurt, guilt
• ·Releasing limiting decisions and beliefs from the past
• ·Root cause discovery, tracing patterns to their origin
• ·Future pacing, installing new beliefs and outcomes
• ·Creating a compelling future using the Time Line

• ·The NLP model of coaching
• ·Coaching with ecology, change that serves the whole person
• ·Applying the Meta-Model and Milton Model in coaching
• ·Outcome-based coaching with Well-Formed Outcomes
• ·Structuring a coaching programme using NLP
• ·Ethics and professional practice in NLP Coaching
• ·The 5-Step Sales Process for building a coaching practice

• ·History, principles and science of Hypnosis
• ·Truths and misconceptions about hypnosis
• ·Inducing hypnotic states, language, process and safety
• ·Ericksonian hypnosis and Milton Model inductions
• ·Suggestions, deepening techniques and post-hypnotic suggestions
• ·Applying Hypnosis with NLP and Time Line Therapy®
• ·Ethics and professional standards in Hypnosis practice

Attend one of our global training locations, South Africa (Cape Town & Johannesburg), United Kingdom (Saddleworth & Warrington), United States (Florida) and Puerto Rico. Full details and dates are on our Training Calendar.

Participate in a fully interactive live virtual training, not pre-recorded. You interact with your Trainer and cohort in real time, with the same depth of learning as in-person delivery.

Small groups are maintained across all programmes to ensure every participant receives individual attention, personal feedback, and a genuine transformation, not just attendance at a large seminar.

You are ready to stand at the front of the room and deliver world-class NLP training. This is where that begins — with the credentials, the skills and the confidence.

Add NLP Trainer certification to your professional portfolio and bring the world's most powerful change methodology into your organisation's training programmes.

Move beyond one-to-one coaching into group training, workshops and certified NLP programmes. Raise your impact, your income and your reach.

Most NLP Trainers Training programmes focus on presentation skills. This is important, though it is only a part of this programme. The real purpose of a Trainers Training is transformation: of the trainer themselves, and then of every person they go on to teach.

At Connect2, we believe the best trainers are not necessarily those who know the most. They are those who have lived and integrated NLP — who can teach, connect and create transformation that goes way beyond the delegates in the room.

This programme is about becoming THAT trainer.

• ·Permanently eliminating stage fright, performance anxiety and limiting beliefs about speaking
• ·Entering and maintaining the Trainer State — optimal physiology, focus and emotional state
• ·The physiology of charisma and personal magnetism
• ·Voice development: tonality, pace, volume, silence and the unconscious power of how you sound
• ·Anchoring powerful states and accessing them instantly in any training environment
• ·The beliefs and identity of an exceptional trainer — installing the self-concept of a Master Trainer

• ·Building instant deep rapport with audiences of any size
• ·Calibration at the room level — reading and responding to group states
• ·Using pacing and leading with groups — bringing an audience with you through any material
• ·Managing group energy: when to change pace, shift state or introduce a break
• ·Hypnotic language for groups: Milton Model patterns, metaphor and embedded commands in training
• ·Accelerated learning principles — how the unconscious mind learns and how to use this
• ·Handling questions, challenges and unexpected moments with confidence and grace

• ·Structuring any presentation using the 4-MAT system: Why, What, How, What If
• ·The art of the opening — capturing attention, building credibility and creating a learning state in 60 seconds
• ·Storytelling and metaphor in training — creating change through narrative at conscious and unconscious levels
• ·Using physical space, gesture and movement to amplify communication and anchor learning
• ·Keynote and motivational speaking techniques — inspiring, energising and moving an audience
• ·Covert and overt demonstrations of NLP live in front of a group
• ·Managing nervous delegates, resistant participants and challenging group dynamics

• ·How the unconscious mind learns NLP — structuring training to install skills, not just knowledge
• ·Designing exercises with multiple embedded outcomes
• ·The NLP training cycle: introduce, demonstrate, practise, debrief, integrate
• ·Creating variation and progression across a multi-day programme
• ·Using triads, dyads and group activities to maximise practice time
• ·Designing review and consolidation activities that embed learning at the unconscious level
• ·Adapting the Connect2 NLP curriculum for different audiences, timeframes and contexts

• ·The standards required by IFNLP and ABNLP for certifying Practitioners and Master Practitioners
• ·Designing and conducting practical student assessments — fair, rigorous and developmentally useful
• ·Written and practical assessment methods: what to look for and how to give feedback
• ·Managing the assessment process in a live training environment
• ·Issuing certificates: administrative and professional requirements of an accredited provider
• ·Handling borderline cases with compassion and professionalism
• ·Your responsibilities as a certified NLP Trainer to the IFNLP, ABNLP and TLA

• ·How to launch your own accredited NLP training business immediately on graduation
• ·Running successful open-enrolment NLP Practitioner programmes
• ·Winning and delivering corporate NLP training contracts
• ·Positioning, personal branding and marketing for NLP trainers
• ·Pricing your NLP training programmes for profitability
• ·Building a training team: co-trainers, assistant trainers and support staff
• ·Online and hybrid training delivery for certified NLP programmes
• ·Operating under the Connect2 banner or building your own independent NLP training brand

• ·NLP Modelling applied to the craft of training — how the best trainers produce the results they do
• ·Observing and extracting the structure of exceptional delivery from Master Trainers
• ·Installing patterns of excellence through modelling, not just instruction
• ·The distinction between training and teaching, facilitation and certification
• ·Developing your own unique training style — congruent, distinctive and irresistibly effective
• ·Board break and high-impact experiential exercises — purpose, design and safe facilitation
• ·Creating a safe, expansive and transformational learning environment

Delivered fully live and interactive online — not pre-recorded. You train from your own location with full access to personal feedback and 1:1 trainer time throughout.

Strictly limited to a maximum of 6 candidates per group. This ensures every candidate receives focused individual development, personal feedback and genuine 1:1 time with the trainer.

Full review of all Practitioner and Master Practitioner materials required before commencement. Assessment includes live presentations, technique demonstrations and a closed-book written test.

There is a shift that happens between Practitioner and Master Practitioner that is difficult to describe until you experience it. At Practitioner level, you get the understanding and all the foundational tools to create change. At Master Practitioner you build on the basics with more understanding, more concepts and more techniques — all to facilitate deeper and more transformational change for self, others and teams.

Think of it like learning to drive. At first, every action takes conscious effort — the mirrors, the pedals, the timing. Over time, it becomes fluid, natural, effortless. That is what Master Practitioner training adds. It moves everything you learned at Practitioner level from conscious competence into unconscious mastery, and then takes you significantly further.

The result is a level of influence, precision and change-making ability that sets you apart in every room you walk into.

You have the foundation. Now integrate at the deepest level and add the advanced tools to create faster and more enduring transformation.

Expand your toolkit with advanced language patterns, Personal Breakthrough Sessions and master-level coaching frameworks that deliver consistently.

Develop the communication precision, emotional intelligence and influence that defines the most impactful leaders — those who can change the energy of a room.

Add master-level Hypnosis, advanced Time Line Therapy® and deep identity-level change work to your practice — including the full Personal Breakthrough protocol.

Many come because they know they are still running old patterns. The Personal Breakthrough session alone is often the most profound experience of their life.

The Master Practitioner is the required gateway to Trainers Training. This is where you develop the depth, modelling skills and personal congruence all great trainers possess.

• ·Sleight of Mouth — 14 conversational reframes for shifting any belief
• ·Conversational belief change — transformation through dialogue alone
• ·Advanced Meta-Model III — directionalised questioning for precision change
• ·Time release suggestions — change that continues after the conversation ends
• ·Prime Concerns — identifying what someone seeks at a deeply unconscious level
• ·Advanced Milton Model patterns — indirect language with unconscious precision
• ·Linguistic presuppositions at advanced level — embedding change invisibly

• ·Full Values elicitation — discovering what truly matters at the deepest level
• ·Hierarchy of Values — the priority structure that determines decisions and actions
• ·Identifying & changing Values conflicts — the root cause of procrastination
• ·Changing Values — ethically and permanently shifting what drives a person
• ·Values Level Thinking (Spiral Dynamics)
• ·Parts Integration at Values level — resolving deep internal conflict
• ·Using Values in coaching, leadership, sales and team development

• ·The major Meta Programmes: Towards/Away, Internal/External, Options/Procedures and more
• ·Eliciting Meta Programmes through language and behaviour — reading people quickly and accurately
• ·Changing Meta Programmes — how to shift persistent personality patterns
• ·How Meta Programmes interact with Values to create complex behavioural patterns
• ·Using Meta Programmes in coaching, leadership, sales and hiring
• ·Recognising your own Meta Programmes and how they shape your style

• ·Neurological drivers and the deep structure of subjective experience
• ·Using submodalities linguistically — creating change through description alone
• ·Designer SWISH patterns — tailoring rapid change to the individual's coding system
• ·Advanced Strategies: eliciting, utilising and installing excellence strategies
• ·The Logical Levels of Therapy process for conversational strategy change
• ·Destroying unhelpful strategies — breaking deeply embedded patterns

• ·What Modelling is and why it is the original, foundational skill of NLP
• ·Observing and eliciting the unconscious competencies of high performers
• ·Moving from observation to transferable model — creating something teachable
• ·Installing models of excellence in yourself and in others
• ·Group Modelling — creating a training programme from a modelling project
• ★The Connect2 Modelling Project: your own real-world guided assignment

• ·Taking a detailed personal and emotional history for master-level breakthrough work
• ·Advanced negative emotion release — working with complex, multi-layered patterns
• ·Releasing deep limiting decisions and identity-level beliefs
• ·The Create Your Future Process® — designing and installing a compelling future
• ·Applying Time Line Therapy® with physical symptoms and psychosomatic patterns
• ·Ethics and professional practice at Master Practitioner level

• ·The full continuum of trance inductions: direct-authoritarian, indirect-permissive and client-centred
• ·Techniques of acknowledged masters: Erickson, Estabrooks and Elman
• ·Inducing all classic hypnotic phenomena with precision and safety
• ·The hypnotic general healing paradigm
• ·Deepeners, amnesia techniques and post-hypnotic suggestion
• ·Combining Hypnosis with NLP and Time Line Therapy® for integrated deep-change
• ·Ethics, contraindications and professional standards for Master Hypnosis

• ·The Personal Breakthrough Session — a complete, intensive coaching and change process
• ·Planning and structuring a full Breakthrough — from history-taking to future design
• ·Delivering a Breakthrough — with a real client under trainer supervision
• ★Receiving a Breakthrough — your own deep personal transformation
• ·Designing and pricing breakthrough sessions as a professional service
• ·Building and positioning a Master-level NLP coaching or therapy practice
• ·Ethics, professional standards and safeguarding in advanced change work

Attend at one of our global locations — South Africa (Cape Town), United Kingdom (Saddleworth), Puerto Rico and more. See our Training Calendar for upcoming Master Practitioner dates.

Between live phases, you attend 10 weekly online sessions of 2 hours each — fully interactive and live. The same depth of learning, accessible from anywhere in the world.

Maximum 10 delegates — ensuring personal attention, focused practice and 1:1 time with the trainer. Ongoing practical assessment throughout, with a written open-book test between modules.