Trainers: John Grinder, Carmen Bostic, Michael Carroll
Course Details
Welcome to this leading-edge coaching course, from John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair, and Michael Carroll featuring the latest work from John Grinder.
The course provides coaches with specialist dynamic coaching formats integrating Original New Code NLP with Emergent New Code NLP to work with clients to bring lasting change to their lives.
This module builds on the Classic Code NLP formats taught by Michael in Part One (5 – 9 May) or experienced at previous NLP courses for those taking this module on a stand-alone basis.
The basis of this course is NLP applied for coaching excellence and its foundation is John, Carmen, and Michael’s extensive experience in coaching and changework, and their esteemed reputation for bringing extraordinary results to their clients’ lives.
The Emergent New Code NLP patterning from John is a series of models developed from his most recent one-to-one coaching work with clients. These patterns are the most up-to-date work from John Grinder and will provide the attendees with a series of finely tuned tools for coaching with elegance and bringing extraordinary levels of change in their own lives and the lives of others.
The lead venue for the Training is in Lagos, Portugal, with satellite venues in Switzerland & India, where the exercises will be facilitated by a selected Grinder, Bostic, and Carroll Trainer. The satellite venue option is ideal for people who would like to study locally and receive the full certification. Additionally, there is an online option for those who would prefer to study at home, please note the certification is different for those studying at home.
There are two parts to the programme, Part One is Emergent New Code NLP Training delivered by John, Carmen, and Michael on 11 – 18 May 2026, leading to certification as New Code NLP Practitioner for Coaching Excellence.
Part Two occurs in the 12 weeks after the course, where the coach takes part in an online coaching assessment observed by an NLP Academy evaluator leading to certification as an International NLP Coach.
To attend, you will already be certified as an NLP Practitioner (or equivalent) or have attended the NLP Academy Core Skills course. Most attendees have a goal to embark on a coaching career or will already be working in the helping professions and want to incorporate New Code NLP and the dynamic coaching framework that John, Carmen, and Michael have developed into their practices.
This is the ONLY course in the world that John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair teach and is an excellent opportunity for anyone with a passion for personal and professional development to learn NLP from the most experienced and knowable NLP training team on the planet, Dr. John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll, who collectively have 114 years of training and coaching experience and their knowledge expertise is unrivalled in the field of NLP and Coaching.
Additionally, we have satellite venues in Switzerland and India for people who prefer to study at a venue closer to home. In the satellite classes, the exercises are supervised by a satellite trainer who has been selected by John, Carmen, and Michael for their skills and expertise to provide the highest quality of experience and certification to the satellite attendees.
All courses have one FREE REPEAT OPTION.
Part One: Emergent New Code NLP for Coaching Excellence
11 – 18 May 2026
2:00 pm – 8:00 pm (Portuguese Time)
with John Grinder, Carmen Bostic, and Michael Carroll
New Code NLP underpins this course incorporating models which provide rapid and lasting change in clients. In this Module, you will be immersing yourself in some of the most effective change processes for personal evolution available.
NLP was the original coaching model providing Change Agents with tools for directing clients’ attention to more resourceful choices for them. NLP rapidly grew as a system for enabling anyone to have more choices in life. Coaching is about creating choices in contexts where they were once lacking. In this course, you will learn tools to help yourself and your clients experience more choices in life.
New Code NLP emerged in NLP in the post-Grinder / Bandler years, developed by Grinder and Bostic to provide a radical framework for a more efficient form of NLP. New Code NLP utilises optimised states in the change process and formats to ensure personal congruency in clients to leverage deep and lasting change in accordance with their target.
A unique element to the International Coaching Certification is the specialist coaching models you will learn from John, Carmen, and Michael, who have developed these processes from their extensive experience in their own coaching practices. The Specialist Coaching Models integrate Classic and New Code NLP patterning and will give you a structure for coaching your clients that is different from anything out there in the coaching world.
New Code NLP is constantly developing and you are assured of the latest coaching models. In recent years, John Grinder has developed new coaching models, known as Emergent New Code NLP, which he will be sharing in this course.
The in-course evaluation day takes place on the 18th May 2026, where participants will participate in a series of practical exercises to demonstrate their skill and competency on what was covered during the course.
Certificate awarded for the in-course evaluation:
- New Code NLP Practitioner for Coaching Excellence
Learning points
- The Original New Code NLP Change Format – the way to set up the change format for state transference to be an automatic process
- Emergent New Code NLP, John Grinder’s most recent work
- New deep coaching processes, developed by John Grinder in 2022 and 2023 from his most up to date client sessions, now known as Emergent New Code NLP
- State erasers – formats for wiping clean historic states which carry fear, anxiety and stress
- State optimisers – a key element of New Code NLP for high performance to be natural
- Working with the unconscious mind – setting up a robust communication system between conscious and unconscious parts of the mind to ecologically harness previously offline resources
- Working with extreme unwanted states, which come so quickly a person loses control or build incrementally the client is not aware of the negative shift until they are immersed and stuck in an unwanted state
- The Three Stage Coaching Protocol to work at the levels of problem construction, leveraging resources, and setting up an exciting future
- Non-linear coaching – utilising non-verbal communication, provocation, misdirection, tasking, active metaphors and other specialist communication
- Working with internal incongruencies which previously have prevented change
- How to align the inner voice, unconscious resistance with intentions and outcomes creating an inner resource team to build consistency in life.
The New Code NLP skills offered on this course can be applied across different professional capacities for improved performance. Business people, educators, retailers, community workers and change agents all will gain invaluable skills from this course as will anyone whose life activities involve engaging people for higher levels of accomplishment.Part Two: International NLP Coaching Certification
International NLP Coaching Certification, is an additional option for those learners who seek accreditation as an International NLP Coach through the NLP Academy. This evaluation takes place 4- 12 weeks after the course. The coach arranges a live client session in his/her own place of work and conducts the coaching session following the coaching assessment criteria. The session will be between 45 minutes and one hour and observed by an NLP Academy evaluator. After the session the coach will receive video feedback in his or her performance and if the evaluation is successful will be awarded certification as an International NLP Coach.
When the coach passes this evaluation, they will be awarded certification as an:
- International NLP Coach
Coaching is one of the most exciting and rewarding applications of NLP. It is also one of the most prosperous with NLP trained coaches creating an abundant lifestyle for themselves, whilst stimulating change, creativity and choice for clients. This course is for those who have started their NLP journey and are now seeking to upgrade their skills to commence a coaching based career, or want to incorporate coaching into their current profession. This International Certification has all the components to propel you into something very exciting.
Your training options
Live Training
Part One and Two - Live in Portugal or a Satellite Class
- Join training daily with course colleagues
- Take part in exercises guided by live mentors
- Work with people from all over the world
Live Stream Training
Part One and Two - Live in Portugal or a Satellite Class
- Join daily live interactive sessions via Zoom
- Take part in breakout room exercises guided by mentors
- Work with people from all over the world
New Code NLP Investment
Part One
Full Investment
£4,000.00 + IVA (£4,920)
Early Booking Offer
Outside of European Union
£1800.00
Inside of European Union
£1800.00 + 23% IVA (£2214.00)
Saving you £2200.00
Until 21 July 2025
Part One & Two*
Full Investment
£4,500.00 + IVA (£5,535.00)
Early Booking Offer
Outside of European Union
£2300.00
Inside of European Union
£2300.00 + 23% IVA (£2829.00)
* Includes an additional £500.00 for Part Two
Saving you £2200.00
Until 21 July 2025
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John Grinder
John Grinder, is the co-creator of Classic NLP and New Code NLP and has authored 16 books on NLP related subjects. John brought his expertise from his PhD in linguistics specialising in syntax theory to co–create NLP in the early 1970s.
Not one to stand still, John, in collaboration with Carmen Bostic St Clair updated his work on Classic NLP to create New Code NLP and in doing so radically extended the reach and efficiency of NLP change work. Both as an academic and innovator, John leads the field of NLP with passion and creativity equal to when he co-invented NLP 50 years ago.
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Carmen Bostic St. Clair
Carmen Bostic St Clair, has been a driving force in modernising NLP and together with John Grinder is the co-creator of New Code NLP. Prior to acquiring her doctorate in Jurisprudence, Carmen was an educator who won a national award for her ingenuity in creating inductive learning contexts for students to learn naturally.
When she met John Grinder, Carmen was the CEO of a holding company with 27 subsidiaries and brought her extensive experience to the Corporate Consultancy business Quantum Leap, which she co founded with John Grinder. As an NLP leader, with 34 years of commitment to excellence, Carmen has taken NLP to new areas of application, particularly in the sectors of business and coaching.
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Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll is the Founder and Course Director of The NLP Academy, established in 1996. As a co–developer of New Code NLP, Michael formalised the training structures of New Code patterning for courses at different levels within the International Trainers and Coaching Academy of NLP (ITCA) which was set up by Michael, John and Carmen to benchmark high standards in the NLP field.
Prior to his NLP career, Michael owned a hugely successful Financial Services Consultancy, where he developed a fascination with psychological business methods. This led to his early studies of NLP and gaining a BSc in Psychology. Today, with 25 years of training and coaching experience, Michael is one of the leading educators in the field who continues to push the boundaries for innovation and high standards.
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Vila Galé Lagos
Address: Rua Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Meia Praia
8600-295 Lagos, Portugal
Telephone: +351 282 771 400
Email: portugal.reservas@vilagale.com
Website: https://www.vilagale.com