Bulletin 2023.2 - Introducing Online Curricula
In this issue:
- Introducing Online Curricula
Staying true to our high standards in online training as well. - Transparent Graduation Certificates
The curricula list the 8 essential elements. - Ethics in Marketing
Fellow Member Trainers of the IANLP promise what they deliver.
Introducing Online Curricula
As a result of a collaborating in-depth exchange between the FMTs of the IANLP, the option of online training has been integrated into the existing curricula.
Here are some of our presuppositions
- Online training has come to stay.
- Today, a great deal of coaching and communication takes place online.
- Thus, many of our students will apply the tools of the NLP in online settings.
- Online and on-site modality have different strengths and weaknesses. They are not fundamentally better or worse.
- Trust is put into students (market). We recognize that students themselves have enough experience to choose the training that best suits them based on their own needs.
- When online and in-room curricula require the same quantitative requirements, this keeps them easy to understand for both students and FMTs as well. Blended learning can take place seamlessly and easily.
- IANLP curricula have always been (and remain) minimum requirements. Every FMT is very welcome to exceed these regulations in order to achieve the output quality s/he is aiming for.
- Freedom of choice to our FMTs. We recognize that FMTs themselves know their market and its needs best, and will therefore (within the framework of the IANLP curricula) develop and deliver high quality training within the scope of their own competence.
Changes to the Curricula
To enable the option of online training, the following items of the curricula have been adapted and/or newly integrated.
A glossary has been added to clarify the terminology used in the curricula. (Download pdf-file to read glossary)
"All training time provided in the curricula must be either on-site training or synchronous online training, or a mix of both (blended learning)." has been added.
Special Requirements for Online Training
Based on the professional experience of the last few years, a set of conditions has been defined to support high-quality online education. These conditions describe, among other things, the maximum daily training time, infrastructure requirements, mentoring of students, and more.
Transparent Graduation Certificates
The following has been updated:
1a) 'NLP Practitioner IANLP' or 'NLP Practitioner (on-site) IANLP'
if 100% of curricular training has been attended in on-site training modality.
1b) 'NLP Practitioner (blended) IANLP'
if curricular training has been attended in a mix of on-site and online training modality.
1b) 'NLP Practitioner (online) IANLP'
if curricular training has been attended in online training modality.
...a distinct reference to the particular training modality.
Examples for Statement of Duration
1a) The total learning time of 160 hours included 18 days with a total of 130 hours of on-site in-the-room classroom training.
1b) The total learning time of 160 hours included 10 days/60 hours of synchronous online training and 8 days/70 hours of on-site classroom training.
1b) The total learning time of 160 hours included 18 days/130 hours of synchronous online training.
Ethics in Marketing
In order for both students and recruiters to have a sound basis for decision-making, all advertisement and also the certificates of attendance for training, must be worded unambiguously. (see above)
The IANLP Code of Ethical Conduct outlines in several places, a commitment to clear and transparent solicitation and communication with the public and potential students.
Especially that is
"When providing services, Members IANLP shall present the nature and purpose of their approach in language that can be understood and evaluated by other people. They will openly and freely represent the nature of outcomes and techniques used in providing such services."
"Members IANLP shall make only such statements and claims in representing their services that are true and accurate to the best of their knowledge and belief. No statement or claim shall be made that gives false information about their services or about the services of competitors."
"Members IANLP shall ensure that all programs are clearly and accurately described as organizational structure (e.g. cost, location, calendar dates of training, total duration of training in days and hours)"
Thank you to all of you
who have collaborated with time, shared competence and creativity in designing the online curricula definitions.
Anneke Durlinger (Netherlands, annekedurlinger.com); Boris Meltser (Israel, borismeltser.com); Manuel Pereira (Switzerland, nlp.ch); Marcelo Alberto Diaz (Argentina, escuelaplatense.com); Richard Bolstad (New Zealand, transformations.org.nz); Semsudin Zaimovic (Bosnia nlp.ba); Svarup Disegni (Italy, primaltantra.com);