Trainer evaluation · 42 red flags

Correct NLP Checklist

Every 'yes' lowers the probability that this is a Correct NLP trainer. The share of answers that match what a genuine, competent trainer would give becomes the probability that this trainer teaches NLP correctly.

This test includes 42 lessons and 0 videos.

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Training is more like a group therapy than a training

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Training does include Transactional Analysis

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Trainer pretends that NLP is scientific

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Trainer does not coach people one-on-one

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Trainer calls himself or herself a "NLP Master trainer" and not a "Licensed NLP Master Trainer"

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Training does include Satir's roles or categories

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Training doesn't include hypnosis where hypnosis can legally be taught

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Trainer lacks a license to train people as NLP Practitioner or NLP Master Practitioner

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Training does not include the TOTE-model

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Trainer explains metaprograms as if they were personality traits

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Trainer teaches that body and mind are a single cybernetic unit

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Trainer teaches you that anything goes because "the map is not the territory"

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Training does not include modal operators of necessity or impossibility

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Trainer talks about "NLP therapy"

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Trainer presents NLP as a form of psychology

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Trainer tells you to: "trust the process"

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Training includes subjects that run counter to core elements of NLP like the Enneagram, Spiral Dynamics or MBTI

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Trainer asks you to believe in NLP

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Training does include six step reframing

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Trainer explains metaprograms as if they are analogue rather than digital

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Trainer claims that NLP works for everyone or solves anything or both

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Trainer does not have a public website where you can hire him or her as a coach

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Training does not include complex equivalence

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There is a written exam at the end of the training

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Trainer wants you to sign a contract that you can not sue him or her

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Trainer talks about "the field"

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Trainer trains people to become a "NLP trainer"

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You feel bad to go to the training

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You feel bad during the training

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Trainer teaches that perception is projection

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Training does include Dilts' Logical Levels

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Training does not include presuppositions

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Trainer explains metaprogram as if they are fixed

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Trainer suggests that once you start to believe in NLP, NLP will work better

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Trainer does not do his or her coaching on a no cure, no pay principle

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You need to write a modelling report in order to get certified

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After clarifying something, the trainer refuses to bet on it

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Training does include systemic work, systems constellations or family constellations

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You do not get a refund if you cancel the training

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Trainer teaches to be the cause rather than the effect, or stand at the side of causation

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Trainer teaches you to respect the world model of everyone

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Trainer talks about "trance work" without doing actual hypnosis

Reliability meter
1%
Probability this trainer teaches NLP correctly
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