NLP Master Practitioner Course – 2024 Release

These six meta-competencies will enable people to respond to the demands of the VUCA world. In 2023, SkillsFuture Singapore launched their report "Skills Demand for the Future Economy"⁷. Among the points emphasised is the need to learn highly transferable skills, i.e., advanced skills that enable people to apply what they learn and know in different contexts, such as different industries, job functions, working with different people, and at different job levels. It's important to recognise that these 6 meta-competencies contain highly transferable skills which can be utilised in many domains and levels of work.

Taking one example from the "VUCA Demands", in Volatile situations having the meta-competencies of "Emotional Management," "Higher Cognitive Capabilities," and "Active Learning & Adaptability" would enable people to respond effectively. We can connect the same relevance for all the other VUCA situations.

In a rapidly changing and chaotic (external) world, we asked ourselves at Mind Transformations, "What kind of nervous system (internal world) is required to thrive in VUCA?" In answering this question, our research has drawn vital information from work competencies researchers and experts in the field of VUCA. This useful information, however, needs to be translated into a language that our nervous system can assimilate and execute. 

This is where NLP plays a strategically relevant and impactful role in managing VUCA. NLP, in its essence, has a deep understanding of how the human nervous system produces ineffective and effective behaviours. 

Traditionally, the notion of "knowing" is pegged to something that resides in the head (brain). Latest findings in neuroscience confirms that there are at least three brains¹² in our nervous system: cephalic, cardiac, and enteric brains—each with its unique way of knowing and responding to situations. If we consider intelligence as a form of knowing how to sense and respond to situations, then we can say that there are at least three forms of intelligence: mental, emotional, and physical intelligence.

The concept of multiple intelligence¹³ (Gardner H., 1987) has been advocated and utilised by Mind Transformations since 2014. Among the many practical insights that MT has gained from integrating multiple intelligence into NLP is that intelligence is not just in the head (IQ); instead, a more powerful performance is possible when we integrate our emotional (EQ), physical (PQ) and spiritual intelligence (SQ). SQ is defined as our ability to expand our connection to larger systems (our life, society, planet, and cosmos) to find and mobilise our gifts, contributions, and purpose in life. 

The six meta-competencies are scoped and articulated at an abstract level, far detached from our behaviour and too complex for our nervous system to execute. As mentioned earlier, unless we can connect and translate them using a language our nervous system can assimilate and execute, they remain head knowledge that cannot produce desired behaviours. 

That "needed language" is NLP. In Mind Transformations' case, Multi-Intelligence NLP¹⁴. We make the meta-competencies learnable by translating them into the language of multiple intelligence, and into "Neuro-Actionables," i.e., a language that our nervous system can understand and execute desired behaviours – at the right time and place.

Using a cognitive, affective and somatic approach, Mind Transformations has developed a set of identifiable, learnable, and trackable Meta-Skills (aka Future-Fit Skills):

At the Master Practitioner level, learners expand on the 10 Future-Fit skills at the Practitioner level. These Meta-Skills contain several micro-skills, and we will elaborate more on them during the course. To be clear, the NLP courses in Mind Transformations are not designed to fulfil the six meta-competencies fully but to empower learners to improve significant aspects during the course.

The Multi-Intelligence NLP Master Practitioner Course (2024) is designed to help participants master the above Meta-Skills, which in turn enables the participant to hone key aspects of Higher Cognitive Capabilities, Active Learning & Adaptability, Effective Communication, Emotional Management & Interpersonal Management, and Self-Leadership. Even though Digital Learning & Application is not addressed in this course, expanding the Meta-Skills of Higher Cognitive Capabilities, Active Learning & Adaptability, and Self-Leadership would support the learner in improving this meta-competency.

By lifting their map of the world out of the water, the course empowers learners to see the ocean they swim in—to understand the waves and undercurrent that pushes and pulls their daily thoughts and actions. Understanding these invisible forces comes in the form of understanding our external world (VUCA factors) and our internal world—i.e., the assumptions and beliefs that dictate how we see problems and solutions. Though we have packed the course with practical frameworks and applications, much of the programme focuses on identifying and transforming the "boxes" we are in.

As more people move quickly from the early to the later stages of the fourth industrial revolution (with AI taking centre stage), many governments are urging their workforce to upskill and reskill themselves. However, many focus on learning new knowledge and skills; without changing their "old box of beliefs and values," they are limited in their capacity to utilise what they have learnt. We have seen people who have attended:

It is easy to say we need to change our mindset, but unless a framework, process and support structure is put in place, it's difficult for people to "see their own box", let alone try to get out of it. 

In the 2024 release of the Multi-Intelligence NLP Master Practitioner Course, we will take bold, structured, but malleable steps with you into the eye of the VUCA hurricane. The programme aims to empower you with VUCA-Fit frameworks and processes: