Starting September 2026
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“I learnt so much more than I could ever have imagined.”
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This is the ultimate training for people who are really serious about becoming great practitioners and leaders in this field. It trains you in all the skills you will need to begin effectively working with clients with Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Coaching and Clinical Hypnotherapy, and supports you in gaining the confidence and experience to work effectively with a wide range of clients.
You’ll train directly with Dr. Phil Parker, a world-renowned Certified Master Trainer in NLP, a high-performance coach, clinical hypnotherapist, author and winner of the ‘ANLP Inspiration Award’ in 2021 and ‘NLP in Healthcare’ Award in 2022.
This unique combination of in-depth skills, clinical training and excellence in tuition ensures our Diploma is one of the most comprehensive and practical courses of its kind in the world.
Is this course for you?
This course is ideal if you wish to develop a career as an NLP Practitioner, Coach and Clinical Hypnotherapist or if you want to apply NLP skills and Coaching within your workplace.
If you wish to train as a Lightning Process Practitioner, then you must take this course first. No other courses are accepted.
If you have any individual questions about whether this is the right course for you then please book a discovery call below…
Already trained in some NLP or Coaching? Discover how this course will develop those skills further.
Course Structure
This 18 day course is split into 6 modules.
The first, the NLP Life Skills module, is two days live online with Phil. There is the option to join this module separately as a taster, or as part of the Diploma as a whole.
This is followed by 4 live online modules personally taught by Phil. These are taught through a mix of interactive lectures, demonstrations and practice in small groups/pairs.
To make the course fit with busy working life, some additional content, which was previously taught as a full day, is now taught in 4 evening sessions (90 minutes each) spread between October and February.
The course concludes with a 4 day clinical module, run in small groups live online over Zoom, which provides you with an opportunity to use your new skills to help real clients under the supervision of an experienced practitioner and gain expert feedback to further develop your skills.
Ahead of graduating, you will need to complete written and practical exams. The written exams, two case studies and a book/film review, can be done in your own time and submitted to be marked by an examiner. For the practical exam, an examiner will observe you undertaking a complete client session and demonstrating your clinical competence – this can be arranged directly with your examiner at a time to suit you.
What you’ll learn…
- Introducing NLP and Coaching
- Discovering how your brain can change and how you can rewire it for success
- Building great relationships and rapport
- Creating great states
- Learning how to make positive feelings more powerful and negative ones less intense
- Recalling great feelings and memories in an instant – NLP anchoring technique
- Exploring the amazing power of the mind
- Recognising why NLP is valuable
- Seeing the world through NLP eyes
- Understanding the power of using your words wisely and avoiding the language of being stuck – Important NLP language patterns
- Setting Supercharged Coaching goals with NLP
- Becoming your best – Key NLP technique of the Circle of Excellence
- Developing as a coach to yourself and others – Coaching qualities
- Designing a coaching agreement
- What are the qualities of a great coach?
- Finding out where your life is at
- Tool 1. The coaching wheel
- Asking the right questions in an initial assessment
- Tool 2. Using neurological levels as a map for change
- Tool 3. The meta mirror technique
- Language that motivates and causes change – Presuppositions
- Becoming your best everywhere – NLP movie technique
- What’s stopping you and where?
- What is professional behaviour in coaching?
- The power of beliefs
- Powerful coaching
- Tasking
- Promises and agreements
- Dealing with disappointment
- Dealing with struggle
- What motivates you?
- When to stop coaching?
- Finding your mission
- How the brain works
- Exploring representational systems and eye movements
- How small changes can have massive effects – Submodalities
- Changing motivation and breaking habits – the key NLP technique Swish
- Making massive change by just listening to words differently – the NLP Meta-Model
- Dealing with food cravings
- Learning to deeply relax
- Effective learning and spelling tools – the NLP Spelling Strategy
- Making things easy – the Piece of Cake technique
- Stop being stressed – Submodality Shift Exercise
- Getting into great feelings
- Curing phobias
- Skills assessment
- Hypnosis and NLP are linked to some extent
- Understanding how they relate to each other – an important part of any NLP training
- Introducing Clinical Hypnotherapy and realising how much it is a part of every conversation
- Vital skills for dealing with conflict and self-sabotage – ‘Parts’
- Unpacking strategies demostration
- Taking a skill and unpacking it
- Mind-body connection
- Connirae Andreas’ Healing Pattern
- Tropical Pool Meditation
- Metaphors as a force for change
- Recognising how much you now know
- Exploring and changing Timelines
- Introduction to the power of beliefs and placebo research
- ‘Changing a belief’ process – NLP mapping across technique
- Stop smoking and weight loss approaches
- Installing new patterns – NLP chaining anchors technique
- Your future with NLP and Coaching
- Integration meditation
- Discovering your sabotaging phrases – the Heroes Journey
- Skills assessment
These four days are packed with opportunities to practice the clinical skills you have learnt over the past five modules:
- Small groups of between 4-6 students
- Working with external clients (up to 8 one hour client sessions per group)
- Feedback and enhancement of client session
- Practical exercises to develop clinical skills
- Question and answer sessions with an experienced tutor
Course Dates and Times
NLP Life Skills (2 days):
Saturday 12th-Sunday 13th September 2026, 10am-6pm
Life Coach Module (3 days):
Friday 2nd-Sunday 4th October 2026, 10am-6pm
NLP Modules (3 days each):
Friday 6th-Sunday 8th November 2026, 10am-6pm
Friday 4th-Sunday 6th December 2026, 10am-6pm
Friday 22nd-Sunday 24th January 2027, 10am-6pm
Evening Sessions:
Thursday 29th October 2026, 5pm-6:30pm
Thursday 26th November 2026, 5pm-6:30pm
Thursday 10th December 2026, 5pm-6:30pm
Thursday 4th February 2027, 5pm-6:30pm
The final module, the Clinical Module, will be run over 4 full days. The modules will be run on different dates and times in February/March 2027.
Key benefits of taking this course
Course Fees
The cost of this extensive and clinical 18 day course is £4995 (£4162.50 +VAT). This can be paid upfront or instalments. An additional examination fee of £120 is payable to the examiner at the end of the course.
Qualification
On completing the course and passing your exams you will be awarded your Clinical Diploma in NLP, Coaching & Hypnotherapy and you can set up a clinical practice working with clients.
Any Questions
If you have any questions or would like to discuss the course with us then please get in touch (office@philparker.org).
Booking Your Place
If you would like to pay upfront by credit or debit card then you can do so using the button below. If you would like to pay in instalments or upfront by bank transfer then please contact us to arrange this.
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