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What if a conversation could change more than you think?
Often, we consciously know what we want to change, yet we find ourselves repeating the same reactions, habits, and patterns. HNLP explores how those patterns are created and maintained underneath the surface of our awareness.
This training teaches practical conversational skills for helping something different become possible, shifting the focus from 'why' things are the way they are to 'how' you can facilitate meaningful change.
What You’ll Learn
Understand what drives behaviour
Learn to recognise patterns underneath what people consciously say they want.
Have conversations that create change
Learn how questions, language and attention can help someone experience a problem differently and discover new possibilities.
Help shift emotional states
Learn practical ways of working conversationally with stuckness, overwhelm, self-doubt and unwanted emotional responses.
Recognise and interrupt patterns
Understand how patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour are maintained and how new responses can become possible.
Communicate exceptionally well
Develop skills in listening, observation, rapport, language, reframing and noticing what isn’t being said.
Use it in your own life
Apply the learning to your own communication, relationships, choices and patterns as you train.
Who is this for?
You don’t need to be a counsellor, therapist, or coach to find this training meaningful. It is designed for those who want to understand the mechanics of communication and the depth of human behavior.
Are fascinated by human behaviour
Want to become exceptional communicators
Want practical skills for supporting other people
Work with people, teams or groups
Are interested in coaching or change work
Want powerful tools they can also use in their own lives
YOU LEARN THIS BY DOING IT.
This is experiential training where you learn through demonstrations, discussion, exercises and practice rather than days of lectures. We focus on applying the skills in real-time so that the art and science of conversational change becomes a natural part of how you work and communicate.
What’s under the bonnet?
Humanistic Neuro-Linguistic Psychology
Conversational Change Processes
State Elicitation & Anchoring
Perceptual Positions
Neurological Priming
Creative Reframing Frameworks
Advanced Language Patterns
Embodied Cognition Processes
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Meet Sarah
Sarah Clarke is an experienced NLP Trainer, coach and therapist who trained with internationally recognised NLP/HNLP trainer John Overdurf. Her teaching style is practical, conversational, curious and focused on being able to actually use what you learn. She brings a grounded, sophisticated perspective to human behaviour, ensuring that the training feels warm and experiential rather than purely theoretical.
Your HNLP Practitioner Qualification
Successful completion of the training leads to an internationally accredited HNLP Practitioner qualification. You’ll leave with a structured set of practical skills for supporting change with friends, family and others in your life.
For those who want to develop further and work professionally with paying clients, HNLP Master Practitioner training is the next step and is planned for 2027.
Dates
Coming in 2026
Duration
10 Days Experiential Learning
Location
Nelson, New Zealand
Investment
Details available on enquiry
Class Size
Small, focused group