Diploma in Systemic Counselling & Consultancy

Our special emphasis is upon the research and development of the NLP model. NLP was designed to offer specific skills and techniques that could be easily learned and integrated within the person’s chosen profession. Although there are a number of ‘operational presuppositions’ that guide the use of NLP, it was not designed as a complete approach to therapy and there was no integrated methodology and set of principles. In the late 1980’s John McWhirter created Developmental Behavioural Modelling.

NLP and DBM^® are not therapy models and do not have a concept of psyche. Therefore the name was selected that best reflected the systemic approach that aimed to actively assist the client. Systemic Counselling and Consultancy also covers the areas traditionally covered by counselling, psychotherapy and consultancy.

The course offers the most advanced training available. Our first diploma training began in 1993 and was completed in October 1995. It has added totally new material to NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner levels. For this year we are offering: two trainings in the U.K. and one outside the U.K. in Spain.

Trainers

John McWhirter, the developer, with other Trainers

Some Key Features

• Two year in depth training
• Educational - remodelling rather than a ‘fixing’ therapy model.
• Holistic - Mind-Body-Environment-History
• Integrated -
• Technology, Methodology, Epistemology
• What works, How it works, Why it works
• Existential - we exist and create meaning
• Constructivist - our understandings are systematically constructed
• Developmental - the model is used to develop the model
• Ecological - not imposing techniques but meeting the client in their model

Benefit from:

• an in-depth study of self and the ecology of counsellor including clients’ interactions
• recent models including Fictions-False-Facts-Fallacies-Faults, a Living Being Model
• practice of using modelling tools and models and a behavioural understanding of the subjective modelling process
• advanced language patterns and models
• and conversational use of language for effective conversational change
• modelling projects, case studies and supervision
• modelling

  - a variety of specific issues and problems and explore how to change them, including depression, resentment, anger

  - a variety of traditional and recent psychotherapies

  - important aspects of the medical model

  - existing ethical codes for a variety of psychotherapies

Prerequisites

Year 1 of the diploma course requires NLP Practitioner, Year 2 requires NLP Master Practitioner and completion of Year 1.