A whole new way to learn

13 June 2026

By Linda Ferguson

Summer 2026 NLP Practitioner Certification live on Zoom, redesigned to optimize learning and application

For almost as long as I have been running NLP Canada Training, people have accused me of making unnecessary changes. “It’s good enough,” they say. What they mean is, stop transforming the course and focus on growing the business.

They’re not entirely wrong. But I can’t do it that way. If I am going to teach people how to make change happen, I have to be willing to make changes in the way I teach. I want every course to meet people where they are now (not where they were twenty years ago). And I want every course to be better than the last one.

What’s in it for you? If you take the course, you get an experience aligned with the best research on how we learn. You’ll get repetition with difference of the core skills. You’ll also get a more motivating sense of the purpose for learning. Every day is now structured around solving a common problem or moving toward a value or goal.

After an introduction to the core skills, you will progress through managing your emotions, your connections with others, your limited resources, and your stress. Then you’ll consider how to make the most of negotiation and collaboration; influence, and continuing self-directed learning and development.

Every day has a clear why that drives the application of the core skills. Every day features core skills practiced until you have both the confidence and the competence to use them outside the training room.

We don’t waste time with jargon or nostalgia for the way it was when we learned NLP. We make the most of every hour you are online with us so that you can make the most of what you learn.

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