NLP Master Practitioner Certification
Test
List and discuss 10 presuppositions of NLP. - answer1. Respect for the other persons
model of the world.2. Behavior & Change are to be evaluated in terms of context and
ecology.3. Resistance in a client is a sign of a lack of rapport.4. People are not their
behaviors.5. Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have
available.6. The Map is not the territory.7. You are in charge of your mind & therefore
your results.8. People have all the resources they need to succeed and achieve their
desired outcomes.9. There is only feedback.10. The Meaning of communication is the
response you get.
What is ecology and how do you know when you have it? - answer Thinking in terms of
what happens after you make a desired change. How does it affect a person’s home,
their family, their finances, their health, etc.? Is the change in line with their value
system? Is it what they really want?
What is the difference between content and process? - answerNLP is a process model.
Content is the story, opinion, gossip, or interpretation that colors much communication.
Process is the means of handling ideas and matters in the world.
List ten Meta Programs, the question to elicit them, and how you use them in at least
two contexts (either business, education, or therapy) for each Meta Program. - answer1.
External Behavior - Introvert/Extrovert
When its the time to recharge your batteries, do you prefer to be alone or with people?
Business - Recruitment to suit the role.
Therapy - To help couples understand how they re-energize most effectively.
2. Internal Process - Intuitor/Sensor
If you were going to study a certain subject, would you be more interested solely in the
facts and their application for the now, or would you be interested in the ideas and
relationships between the facts and their application for the future?
Business - In recruiting to ensure that you get the right personality for the role, help
future retention levels.
Therapy - To enable people to communicate more effectively, at the same chunk level.
3. Internal State - Thinker/Feeler
When you make a decision do you rely more on impersonal reason & logic or more on
personal values?
Business - To align board members to company values.
Therapy - To help people to deal with resistance to past events and move on.
4. Adaptive Response - Judge/Perceiver
, If we were going to do a project together, would you prefer that it were outlined,
planned, and orderly or would you prefer that we were able to be more flexible in the
project?
Business - To enable you to manage someone more effectively.
Therapy - To aid couples in understanding others actions.
5. Toward/Away From
What do you want in a job?
Business - To set effective bonus/disciplinary schemes in managing people.
Therapy - to enable better goal setting.
6. Reason (or modal operator) filter - Possibility/Necessity
Why did you choose your present job?
Business - Again helps to enable a manager to manage to a persons strengths and to
build rapport.
Therapy - To relieve stress.
7. Frame of reference filter
How do you know when you have done a good job? Do you know inside, or does
someone have to tell you
List at least 5 Sleight of Mouth Patterns and give examples of how to use them with the
statement of X causes Y. - answerStatement: "You're late again, which means you don't
love me."
1. Meta - Frame: "Where did you learn that being on time equates to love?"
2. Apply to self: "An accusation like that makes it sound like you don't love me."
3. Counter example: "Have you ever loved someone, but still been late?"
4. Intent: "I'm glad that you care enough about me to be concerned about that."
5. Consequence: "You're just trying to get me to always fit within your timetable."
What is Value or Criteria? - answerValues are high level generalizations that describe
that which is important to you. Sometimes called criteria. NLP Values can be thought of
as the buttons that either attract or repel us in life. They determine if we are going
towards or away from a result. Values are 1. those things which are important to us. 2.
how we judge what we have done. 3. nominalizations. 4. serve as an evaluation filter
and governs all human behaviors.
What is a Values Hierarchy or Criteria Ladder? - answerAn initial eliciting and ranking of
values, followed by regular re-evaluation for establishing clarity of motivation.
How do you change a value? - answerTake the most important (your #1 value) and
notice how you represent it. What is the picture that you have?
Notice, is it:
Associated or Dissociated?
Black and White or Color?
Focused or Defocused?
Near or Far?
Bigger than life, smaller or regular size?
A movie or Still?
Test
List and discuss 10 presuppositions of NLP. - answer1. Respect for the other persons
model of the world.2. Behavior & Change are to be evaluated in terms of context and
ecology.3. Resistance in a client is a sign of a lack of rapport.4. People are not their
behaviors.5. Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have
available.6. The Map is not the territory.7. You are in charge of your mind & therefore
your results.8. People have all the resources they need to succeed and achieve their
desired outcomes.9. There is only feedback.10. The Meaning of communication is the
response you get.
What is ecology and how do you know when you have it? - answer Thinking in terms of
what happens after you make a desired change. How does it affect a person’s home,
their family, their finances, their health, etc.? Is the change in line with their value
system? Is it what they really want?
What is the difference between content and process? - answerNLP is a process model.
Content is the story, opinion, gossip, or interpretation that colors much communication.
Process is the means of handling ideas and matters in the world.
List ten Meta Programs, the question to elicit them, and how you use them in at least
two contexts (either business, education, or therapy) for each Meta Program. - answer1.
External Behavior - Introvert/Extrovert
When its the time to recharge your batteries, do you prefer to be alone or with people?
Business - Recruitment to suit the role.
Therapy - To help couples understand how they re-energize most effectively.
2. Internal Process - Intuitor/Sensor
If you were going to study a certain subject, would you be more interested solely in the
facts and their application for the now, or would you be interested in the ideas and
relationships between the facts and their application for the future?
Business - In recruiting to ensure that you get the right personality for the role, help
future retention levels.
Therapy - To enable people to communicate more effectively, at the same chunk level.
3. Internal State - Thinker/Feeler
When you make a decision do you rely more on impersonal reason & logic or more on
personal values?
Business - To align board members to company values.
Therapy - To help people to deal with resistance to past events and move on.
4. Adaptive Response - Judge/Perceiver
, If we were going to do a project together, would you prefer that it were outlined,
planned, and orderly or would you prefer that we were able to be more flexible in the
project?
Business - To enable you to manage someone more effectively.
Therapy - To aid couples in understanding others actions.
5. Toward/Away From
What do you want in a job?
Business - To set effective bonus/disciplinary schemes in managing people.
Therapy - to enable better goal setting.
6. Reason (or modal operator) filter - Possibility/Necessity
Why did you choose your present job?
Business - Again helps to enable a manager to manage to a persons strengths and to
build rapport.
Therapy - To relieve stress.
7. Frame of reference filter
How do you know when you have done a good job? Do you know inside, or does
someone have to tell you
List at least 5 Sleight of Mouth Patterns and give examples of how to use them with the
statement of X causes Y. - answerStatement: "You're late again, which means you don't
love me."
1. Meta - Frame: "Where did you learn that being on time equates to love?"
2. Apply to self: "An accusation like that makes it sound like you don't love me."
3. Counter example: "Have you ever loved someone, but still been late?"
4. Intent: "I'm glad that you care enough about me to be concerned about that."
5. Consequence: "You're just trying to get me to always fit within your timetable."
What is Value or Criteria? - answerValues are high level generalizations that describe
that which is important to you. Sometimes called criteria. NLP Values can be thought of
as the buttons that either attract or repel us in life. They determine if we are going
towards or away from a result. Values are 1. those things which are important to us. 2.
how we judge what we have done. 3. nominalizations. 4. serve as an evaluation filter
and governs all human behaviors.
What is a Values Hierarchy or Criteria Ladder? - answerAn initial eliciting and ranking of
values, followed by regular re-evaluation for establishing clarity of motivation.
How do you change a value? - answerTake the most important (your #1 value) and
notice how you represent it. What is the picture that you have?
Notice, is it:
Associated or Dissociated?
Black and White or Color?
Focused or Defocused?
Near or Far?
Bigger than life, smaller or regular size?
A movie or Still?
