The ability to master the basic skills, techniques, patterns and concepts of NLP™:

1. Behavioral competency in all Practitioner level skills and the demonstration to do several of these simultaneously.
2. The ability to design behavioral flexibility and attitudes that produce specific results with self and others.
3. Minimum ability to identify and utilize the Master Practitioner skills, techniques, and patterns linguistically:

   Changing Beliefs

   Eliciting & Utilizing Meta-Programs

   Criteria:

   Identification of and Utilization of Criteria
   Adjusting Criteria

   Sleight of Mouth Patterns

   Deliberate multilevel communication

   Stacking Realities
   Timeline Patterns
   Stacking Presuppositions
   Temporal/Spatial Predicates

   Negotiating

   Propulsion Systems

   Installing Strategies

   Threshold Pattern

   Breaking Generalizations & Building New Ones

   Rapid Inductions, Deep Trance Phenomena

   Deep Trance Identification

4. Demonstrated ability to do change work with self and others.

©1997 Richard Bandler