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An NLP Practitioner certification means as much, or as little, as the training organization authorizing it. It is definitely a 'buyer beware' situation, as anyone can proclaim themselves a Grand Panjandrum of NLP Training.
Originally, it meant at least 100 hours of experiential, hands on learning taught by at least 3 different NLP trainers. The curriculum includes the basic models of NLP including Sensory Acuity, Rapport, Anchoring, Perceptual Positions, the Meta Model, Well Formed Outcomes, Milton Model(Ericksonian language), Representational Systems, Submodalities, Reframing and Ecology or Systems Thinking. For more, see http://www.nlpcomprehensive.com/articles/nlp/GoodTraining.htm
Neither Grinder or Bandler intended to establish a training bandwagon that other people would use to offer NLP trainings. But happen it did, and the various bodies it gave rise to each determined their own criteria for what NLP training was to consist of. This assumed that those trainers 1) had a broad experience of what Grinder and Bandler were doing in their enterprise and 2) understood it well enough to be able to train others in its application. One such body, the UK's Association of NLP, declared that NLP co-creator Richard Bandler was not entitled to teach a Practitioner course lasting 7 days. This overlooks any number of things, such as the considerable advances that Bandler had made subsequent to the origination of NLP, enabling him to streamline his approach and eliminate those elements which he considered to be redundant.
So, we are now presented with a situation in which many trainers offer training in a field developed by Bandler and Grinder, offering content that its originators have moved on from. And while Bandler and Grinder have both subsequently evolved their work at different levels, many of the trainers following in their footsteps have failed to do anything of the sort. The question for the would-be practitioner then, is whether to be certified according to criteria that neither Bandler nor Grinder would now consider relevant, and hope to learn something of use, or explore the latest advances that Bandler and Grinder have separately developed, and be told by the greater NLP community that what they are doing is not 'NLP in its true sense'.
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