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.

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Trainer talks about "the field"

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Trainer explains metaprograms as if they were personality traits

3

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

4

Training does not include complex equivalence

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Trainer pretends that NLP is scientific

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

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Trainer tells you to: "trust the process"

9

Trainer trains people to become a "NLP trainer"

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Trainer explains metaprograms as if they are analogue rather than digital

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After clarifying something, the trainer refuses to bet on it

12

Training does not include the TOTE-model

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Trainer asks you to believe in NLP

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You feel bad during the training

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You feel bad to go to the training

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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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Training does not include presuppositions

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You do not get a refund if you cancel the training

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Trainer talks about "NLP therapy"

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

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Trainer presents NLP as a form of psychology

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

24

Training does not include modal operators of necessity or impossibility

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

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Training does include Transactional Analysis

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Trainer talks about "trance work" without doing actual hypnosis

29

Trainer teaches that perception is projection

30

Training does include systemic work, systems constellations or family constellations

31

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

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

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

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Training does include six step reframing

35

There is a written exam at the end of the training

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Trainer does not coach people one-on-one

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Trainer explains metaprogram as if they are fixed

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Trainer teaches that body and mind are a single cybernetic unit

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Training is more like a group therapy than a training

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

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Trainer teaches you to respect the world model of everyone

42

Training does include Dilts' Logical Levels

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Probability this trainer teaches NLP correctly
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Values range from a minimum of 1% to a maximum of 99% — we never claim absolute certainty, so there is always a margin of doubt.

Each answer that matches what a genuine trainer would give raises the score. Fewer red flags → higher reliability.

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