Neuro · Linguistic · Programming.
A study of how the nervous system processes experience through the senses, how language encodes what we see and feel and tell ourselves, and how the programs we run can be observed, understood, and deliberately changed. This is the architecture beneath behavior — and the door to consistent change.
NLP was born in the 1970s at the University of California, Santa Cruz, when Richard Bandler and John Grinder began modeling three therapists whose work seemed to produce results others could not reliably reproduce: Virginia Satir in family systems, Milton H. Erickson in hypnosis, and Fritz Perls in Gestalt therapy. What they found — and encoded — became the first patterns of what is now called Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
The work this school carries is the Integrative form of NLP — developed and formalized through Tad James and Matt James of Empowerment, Inc., who have trained practitioners and trainers for four decades. The curriculum here adapts that certification material for the Numen Lumen context: the same foundational patterns, taught with the integrative frame of correspondence the school stands on.
In other words: this is NLP as a complete system, taught by a certified Trainer — not a collection of tactics borrowed from books.
Four ideas run underneath everything NLP does. They shape the patterns, the language, and the work.
The world is not the map we hold of it. Two people in the same room have different rooms. To change experience, begin where experience is made.
Empowerment begins at the side of cause. To live on the effect side is to be moved by what happens. To live at cause is to be the one who moves.
What happens in one reaches the others. Posture shapes state. State shapes language. Language shapes what becomes possible next.
The work is always the practitioner's to do. No one is changed from outside the self. The facilitator offers conditions; the change happens inside.
Fourteen assumptions sit beneath NLP practice. The trainers carry a mnemonic to keep them close — RESPECT UR-WORLD. Four of them, taken alone, will begin to shift the way you read a room.
The map is not the territory.
The words we use are not the events they name. Every description leaves the world out.
Resistance is a sign of lack of rapport.
There are no resistant clients — only inflexible communicators. The door is always there when rapport is present.
There is no failure — only feedback.
What did not work is information. What we thought was a wall becomes a next move.
People have all the resources they need.
There are no unresourceful people — only unresourceful states. The practitioner's work is to find the state.
Ten more are met in the room. Each one a lever for a particular kind of stuck.
The minimum viable structure for consistent result. Memorable, portable, and hard-won in the room.
A practitioner training teaches the patterns in the order they are built. What is listed here is the shape of the weeks — not the whole of them.
A live certification training in the integrative form of NLP — the complete practitioner curriculum, taught by a certified Trainer in the Empowerment, Inc. lineage.
A live, in-person certification intensive.
Offered at $4,400.
Includes the complete practitioner curriculum, certification upon completion, and a second weekend of MER (Mental & Emotional Release) training. Dates and location announced to the waitlist first.
The Integrative NLP Practitioner Training is a certification training offered through Numen Lumen. Curriculum adapted from the Integrative NLP Practitioner Certification® material © Matthew B. James and Empowerment, Inc. It is not clinical supervision, therapy, medical care, or a licensed clinical service.
Four themes, fourteen presuppositions, and a set of patterns that have shaped therapy and leadership for half a century — available to those who would train in them.
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