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Fifteen days. One continuous experience. One NLP Master Trainer.
The NLP Full Immersion is a 15-day live NLP certification program combining the NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner back to back, taught by an NLP Master Trainer at private venues across six international locations. It is the most complete NLP training we offer and the most immersive NLP training available anywhere.
There is a version of NLP training that fits around your life. A weekend here, an evening course there, an online program you work through at your own pace. And then there is this.
Fifteen days of live, in-person NLP training with an international group, at a private venue in Bali, Amsterdam, Portugal, or Mexico. No commuting in. No commuting out. No plugging in for a session and then returning to ordinary life. Fifteen days where NLP is not something you are studying. It is the environment you are living in.
This is the Full Immersion. It is the most complete NLP certification program we offer, and for the students who choose it, consistently the most transformative thing they have ever done for themselves. They describe a life before the Full Immersion and a life after it. That language is not unusual. It is the norm.
The first week is the NLP Practitioner. The second week is the NLP Master Practitioner. They are taught sequentially, with the same group, by the same trainer, in the same space. The foundation built in week one is what makes the depth of week two possible. The people you meet on day one are the people you do the deepest work with on day fifteen. There is a day off between the two weeks, a chance to integrate, rest, and arrive at week two ready.
Most NLP schools treat the Master Practitioner as a more advanced version of the same content. Some run Practitioner and Master Practitioner simultaneously with the same group of students. The integration here is between NLP and emotional intelligence, a framework that leadership, human resources, and organizational development already understand and value. Graduates who trained elsewhere consistently arrive expecting something familiar and find something categorically different. What they say afterward tends to sound like the same thing: there is a life before training with Nicole, and a life after.
Neurologically, this is how real learning happens. Not in fragments, not revisited weeks later, but continuously, in an environment where everything reinforces everything else. Learning a skill immersively in the place where it is practiced is categorically different from studying it in two-hour sessions spread over months. The brain encodes differently. The change sticks differently.
For many people, the Full Immersion is not just a training decision. It is a bucket list decision. Sixteen days in Bali, Portugal, or Mexico, fully immersed in one of the most powerful personal and professional development experiences available anywhere. The setting is not incidental. A private villa in Ubud, a converted farmhouse in the Algarve, a terrace overlooking the Caribbean. These are not conference rooms. They are places that invite you to show up differently.
The people you meet in those sixteen days do not stay acquaintances. They become long-term friends, business partners, and collaborators. People who understand you in a way that takes most relationships years to build. That is not an accident. It is what happens when you go through something real with a group of people in a beautiful place for more than two weeks straight.
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When people compare NLP programs, two things rarely make it onto the list. They are the ones that matter most.
There are four levels of certification in NLP: Practitioner, Master Practitioner, Trainer, and Master Trainer. Most NLP courses, including most Master Practitioner courses, are taught by practitioners or master practitioners. Some are taught by trainers. The NLP Master Trainer designation is the highest in the field. It is held by very few people worldwide and represents not just mastery of NLP but mastery of how NLP is transmitted to another human being. That is a different skill entirely, and it changes everything about what is possible in the room.
Every session of the Full Immersion, across both weeks, is led personally by Nicole Schneider, NLP Master Trainer and founder of Global NLP Training. Not a team of facilitators. Not a certified trainer running someone else's curriculum. Nicole has been delivering live NLP training since 2006 and has trained over 2,500 graduates from 125+ countries.
Students who trained elsewhere consistently say the same thing when they arrive: they did not know NLP could go this deep. They did not know a trainer could work like this.
Nicole Schneider · NLP Master Trainer · Founder, Global NLP Training
The Full Immersion group is one of the most remarkable things about the program. Fifteen days with the same people, going through something real together. By the end of day one, people who arrived as strangers are not strangers anymore. By the end of day fifteen, they have done things together that most people never do in a professional or personal setting.
The group that builds the Practitioner foundation in week one is the same group that goes deep in the Master Practitioner in week two. That continuity is structural. It is why the second week can go where it goes. The safety, the trust, and the depth of relationship that develops in week one is the container that makes the advanced work of week two possible.
For students joining only for week two, the beginning of the Master Practitioner week is dedicated to integrating new arrivals into the group. The Full Immersion students know how to do that by then. Everyone arrives at the deep work together.
Most people who register fall into one of a few groups, and they all share one thing: they want to do this properly, from the start, without compromise.
Some are starting from zero and have decided that if they are going to learn NLP, they are going to learn it the right way. Not a taste of it. The full picture, the full skill set, the full transformation. Now, not spread over a year.
Some are professionals who want a career change or a serious upgrade. Coaches who want to become significantly better coaches. Leaders who want a completely different relationship with how they communicate and influence. Therapists, educators, HR professionals, and consultants who want NLP integrated into their practice at the highest level. People who want to become NLP professionals, motivational speakers, or trainers and want the most rigorous foundation available.
Some trained with another school and want to retrain properly. The Full Immersion is the most complete and cost-effective way to do that: Practitioner and Master Practitioner back to back, under full IBNIC accreditation, with an NLP Master Trainer, in a setting that bears no resemblance to where they trained before.
And some simply know themselves. They know that doing something halfway is not how they operate. They know that if they are going to invest in their development, they are going to do it in a way that actually changes them. The Full Immersion is built for exactly that person.
This is not a light commitment. It asks fifteen days of full presence. It goes into territory that most training programs do not touch. The people who describe it as one of the most extraordinary things they have ever done for themselves are the people who arrived ready to let it be.
NLP Certification Program: A Note on Scheduling
Fifteen days is a significant commitment and life does not always cooperate. Our program runs approximately 15 hours per week above the minimum certification hours, which means that if something comes up, there is often a workable solution.
A full day-by-day syllabus is available on request. What's above is the scope. The syllabus is the detail.
The complete curriculum for week one is covered in full on the NLP Practitioner page, including everything you learn, what is included, and the certifications you receive. The complete curriculum for week two is covered on the NLP Master Practitioner page. What follows here is what changes when you do both back to back, and why that matters.
Week one is the NLP Practitioner. You are learning the foundation: how the brain processes language and experience, how behavior is structured, how people form the patterns they form, and how to work with all of it. Every concept is experienced before it is analyzed. Every technique is practiced with a real partner on something real. By the end of the week, you have a complete, working NLP Practitioner skill set and a group of people you have been through something real with.
The day off is yours. Most people stay close to the venue. All of them arrive at week two differently than they would have if week two had started six months later.
Week two is the NLP Master Practitioner. The work goes to a different level entirely: values, identity, the stories that run someone’s life without their permission. Timeline work. Parts work. Core change work. Intervention design. NLP modelling. The Emotional Intelligence Day. Because the group already knows each other and the Practitioner skill set is already in the body, the Master Practitioner can go places it simply cannot go when students arrive cold. The depth is not incidental. It is structural.
What you leave knowing how to do spans both levels: working with negative emotions, regret, anxiety, and deeply ingrained identity-level patterns; designing your own NLP interventions; modelling any expert and teaching their excellence to others; reading people with precision using NLP and a personality assessment; developing emotional intelligence deliberately in yourself and in the people you work with; and combining all of it with whatever else you do.
For destination trainings, Bali, Portugal, and Mexico, students can book rooms at the training venue at a discounted rate versus booking externally. Waking up at the venue, having lunch with the same people you are training with, and spending the evenings in that same environment adds a dimension to the learning that cannot be replicated when everyone disperses at the end of the day. The immersion is not just in the training room. It is in the whole experience.
In Bali, lunch is included every training day.
Amsterdam is our European hub. The training takes place in a private venue in one of the city’s most sought-after neighborhoods. Students stay in hotels nearby. The quality of the training is identical to every other location. What is different is that Amsterdam students go home in the evenings, which is exactly what some people want and not what others are looking for.
Every session across both weeks runs in a private, non-institutional setting. Not a conference center. Not a hotel ballroom. A space chosen because this kind of work requires a certain quality of environment to do properly.
Amsterdam students go home in the evenings. The quality of the training is identical to every destination location. What is different is the setting — and for some people, that is exactly what they are looking for.
The Full Immersion covers all six levels of the pyramid. Week one works at the foundation: environment, behavior, and skills. Week two works at the levels above: values, identity, and source. Fifteen days is what it takes to do both properly, with the same group, in the same space, without interruption.
The programs are sequential by design. Not because the Practitioner is a bureaucratic prerequisite, but because what you learn at the behavioral and skills level is what makes the deeper work of the Master Practitioner legible.
When NLP was created, more than ninety percent of psychological research focused on mental illness and negative emotion. Yet even then, NLP was already doing something the research had not caught up to: it was changing people.
What modern science has given us is the explanation for why, and a deeper understanding of why immersive learning works the way it does. Fifteen continuous days in a single learning environment is not just more convenient than fragmented study. It is neurologically different. The brain encodes skills differently when they are practiced continuously, in context, with the same people, without the interruption of ordinary life pulling the pattern back to its default. This is not a marketing claim. It is how the brain works.
Most trainers mention science as a side note. Some dismiss it altogether. We do the opposite. We teach it. Not as theory, but as the foundation that makes the tools make sense.
If traditional psychology is about pulling weeds until the garden is bare, positive psychology is about building the garden.Before 1998, around 96% of research focused on negative emotion and mental illness. Positive psychology asked different questions: who do you want to become, what makes life worth living, how do you build resilience, meaning, and connection, how do you cultivate optimism and increase positive emotion?The problem is that positive psychology is long on insight and short on tools. It can tell you that resilience is cultivable. It cannot sit across from someone in burnout and give you a precise method for rebuilding it. NLP can. We bring both.The Full Immersion takes this further. In week one you understand and experience the positive psychology framework. In week two you learn to design interventions that actually cultivate resilience, optimism, and meaning in the people you work with. Not as concepts to discuss but as states to build.
At the Full Immersion level, EQ is not about self-awareness. You develop that in week one. This is about precision application across both weeks: reading the emotional intelligence profile of the people around your clients, not just your clients themselves. Understanding how a leadership team functions under stress. Recognizing the EQ patterns driving conflict in a family system. Using NLP with the specificity of the 15 markers to develop emotional intelligence deliberately in anyone you work with. Every participant completes a personality assessment during week two. The results become a working map, not a one-time insight.
This is directly applicable in business coaching, HR, and organizational development, anywhere that understanding how people function under pressure translates into better outcomes.
When NLP was created, the fMRI did not exist and neuroscience was still a teenager with big potential. Today we have decades of brain science that helps explain why NLP works: how the amygdala responds to perceived threat, how the prefrontal cortex governs decision-making under pressure, how the nervous system learns to stay activated long after the original trigger is gone, how neuroplasticity means the brain can update patterns it has been running for decades, how trauma gets installed not as a memory but as a body response, and how the brain learns by doing rather than by hearing.
Fifteen continuous days in a single learning environment is not just more convenient than fragmented study. It is neurologically different. The brain encodes skills differently when they are practiced continuously, in context, without the interruption of ordinary life pulling the pattern back to its default.
In week two, neuroscience becomes the operating manual for the tools you are using. NLP timeline work is a method for updating how the brain stores emotional memory. Parts work addresses what happens in the nervous system when it is holding two contradictory responses simultaneously. We are trauma-informed. That means understanding how overwhelming experiences get installed in the nervous system as body responses, how triggers work at a neurological level, and how to work with that carefully and effectively in mentally healthy people navigating real human complexity.
Guided visualization, when designed well, is one of the most powerful tools for change available. We teach how to create guided experiences with real structure: the kind that primes the brain for success, reduces the charge on negative emotions, builds emotional resilience, and creates lasting shifts.
Most people treat visualization as a relaxing mindfulness exercise. We treat it as something you can design with purpose, precision, and impact. That distinction matters enormously when you are working with someone who is stuck, overwhelmed, or trying to move past something that will not let go.
By the end of the Full Immersion, you leave with the ability to design these experiences yourself, for your clients, your workshops, and your specific niche. Combined with the intervention design work in week two, this means you can create guided processes that are genuinely yours, built on a foundation of neuroscience and NLP precision. This is not meditation as stress relief. It is visualization as a deliberate tool for neurological change.wo. Self-esteem, chronic negative self-talk, deeply wired habits from childhood, attachment patterns. These are not habits in the conventional sense. They are identity. And identity is where the second week works.
Guided visualization, when designed well, is one of the most powerful tools for change available. We teach how to create guided experiences with real structure: the kind that primes the brain for success, reduces the charge on negative emotions, builds emotional resilience, and creates lasting shifts.
Most people treat visualization as a relaxing mindfulness exercise. We treat it as something you can design with purpose, precision, and impact. That distinction matters enormously when you are working with someone who is stuck, overwhelmed, or trying to move past something that will not let go.
The first six days of the Full Immersion qualify as part of the NLP Practitioner ICF Continuing Coach Education program. Global NLP Training is an ICF-approved provider for 40 CCE hours: 23 Core Competency and 17 Resource Development. Completing the full 40 hours requires an additional online component.
If you hold an ACC, PCC, or MCC credential, or are working toward ICF certification, these hours count directly toward your renewal or initial application.
The Master Practitioner week does not carry CCE hours. The ICF CCE component applies to the Practitioner week only.
Full details on the online component, pricing, and how to access it are on the ICF CCE page →
The Full Immersion is priced at a discount versus registering for the Practitioner and Master Practitioner separately. Full Immersion pricing starts from €2,250 and up, less than the cost of a single standalone program at many comparable schools. It is the most cost-effective way to complete both certifications, and if you are traveling to a destination training, it saves a second trip entirely.
Paying in full at registration includes the complete 70-hour online NLP Practitioner program and preparation product at no extra cost.
Current rates and dates for all locations are on the registration page.
For Bali, Portugal, and Mexico, on-site rooms are available at the training venue at a discounted rate compared to external options. Check-in is the day before training from 4pm. Check-out is the day after by 11am. Availability is limited. Contact us to check and book.
Amsterdam is our European hub. There is no on-site accommodation at the Amsterdam venue. We are happy to recommend hotels nearby.
Available to students who paid in full at registration
For professional guidance on applying NLP with clients, colleagues, and the people in your life. This is professional consultation, not personal therapy.
For building your coaching practice, NLP consulting work, or training business
You leave with five certifications. All issued under IBNIC and permanently verifiable at ibnic.org/verify. No annual renewal fees. No expiry date.
IBNIC credentials to a standard that travels. Not just within the NLP world, but into coaching practices, corporate environments, training organizations, therapy rooms, and educational institutions.
Membership is not open to every school. Curriculum, trainer qualifications, student feedback, and ongoing quality audits determine admission. An IBNIC credential means the training behind it has been held to those standards and continues to be.
Your IBNIC credential carries no annual renewal fees and remains valid permanently — unlike many NLP certification bodies that require ongoing membership payments to maintain your certified status. Verify any credential at ibnic.org/verify →
The professional certification in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Recognized internationally across coaching, therapy, education, leadership, and organizational development.
A standalone coaching certification awarded alongside the NLP Practitioner. A second professional credential in its own right.
The advanced professional certification in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. The next level after the Practitioner, working at values, identity, and purpose.
A standalone coaching certification focused on values-level and identity-level coaching methodology. A fourth professional credential in its own right.
A fifth IBNIC-accredited credential reflecting the EQ integration built into the Master Practitioner week. Directly applicable in coaching, leadership, HR, and organizational development.
All five credentials are permanently verifiable at ibnic.org/verify.
The Full Immersion runs at six locations. The program, the trainer, and the standard are identical at every one. For destination trainings, on-site accommodation is available at the training venue. What changes is the setting.
If you are deciding between the Full Immersion and doing the programs separately, the answer usually comes down to one question: do you want to do this once, completely, or across two separate trips? Both paths lead to the same certifications. The Full Immersion does it in one stretch, at a lower total cost, with the group continuity that makes the Master Practitioner go deeper.
The NLP Full Immersion is a 15-day live NLP certification program combining the NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner back to back, with one day off between the two weeks. It is taught by an NLP Master Trainer with an international group at a private venue. Students leave with five IBNIC-accredited certifications covering the complete NLP curriculum from foundational to advanced level.
None. The Full Immersion begins with the NLP Practitioner, which has no prerequisites. Students arrive from every professional background and every level of prior exposure to NLP.
Yes. Many students who trained with another school join the Full Immersion specifically to retrain. It is the most complete and cost-effective way to do that: Practitioner and Master Practitioner back to back, under full IBNIC accreditation, with an NLP Master Trainer. Under our promotional rate, the Full Immersion can cost less than a standalone Practitioner or Master Practitioner at standard rate.
Fifteen training days plus one day off, running over 16 calendar days. Contact hours across both weeks total 130 to 140 hours.
You receive five IBNIC-accredited certifications: NLP Practitioner, Mindset & Personal Leadership Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, Mindset & Life Strategy Coach, and Social & Emotional Intelligence Coach. All five are internationally recognized and permanently verifiable at ibnic.org/verify.
The first six days qualify as part of the NLP Practitioner ICF CCE program, approved for 40 hours of Continuing Coach Education. An additional online component is required to complete the full 40 hours. The Master Practitioner week does not carry CCE hours. Full details are on the ICF CCE page.
No. The Full Immersion is priced at a discount versus booking both programs separately. Under our promotional rate it can be lower than the cost of a single standalone program. Promotional rates require full payment at booking. Current rates are on the registration page.
For Bali, Portugal, and Mexico, on-site rooms are available at the training venue at a discounted rate. Availability is limited. Contact us to check and book. Amsterdam does not have on-site accommodation. We are happy to recommend nearby hotels.
Every session across both weeks is led by Nicole Schneider, NLP Master Trainer and founder of Global NLP Training. The NLP Master Trainer designation is the highest level in the field, held by very few people worldwide. It represents mastery not just of NLP but of how NLP is transmitted to another human being. Nicole has been delivering live NLP training since 2006 and has trained over 2,500 graduates from 125+ countries.
Three reasons. First, continuity: the group that builds the Practitioner foundation in week one is the same group that goes deep in the Master Practitioner in week two. That continuity changes the quality of the work. Second, neuroscience: immersive learning in a single continuous environment encodes skills and change differently than learning interrupted by weeks or months of ordinary life. Third, practicality: one trip instead of two, lower total cost, and the complete certification in one focused period.
The programs and certifications are identical. What differs is the experience. Doing both back to back means the same group for both weeks, no gap in learning, and the momentum of continuous immersion. For most students, nine out of ten who complete the Practitioner go on to do the Master Practitioner. Most do it with us. The Full Immersion is simply the most complete and efficient way to do that.