Diploma in High-Performance Business Coaching (ADCT)& NLP Practitioner
Our 20-day, triple-accredited programme. This is our most comprehensive live training programme, combining the full NLP Practitioner syllabus with an advanced Coaching Diploma (ADCT) in one live, interactive online course.
What's Included in Your Training
Explore the tabs below for a complete breakdown of this 20-day live online programme, including the full 10-module syllabus, triple accreditation, and all bonuses.
Our Award-Winning Accredited NLP Practitioner & Coaching Diploma is the ideal training course for anyone looking to gain internationally recognised and accredited qualifications. This 20-day intensive course is delivered live online via our interactive virtual classroom, supported by high-quality pre-study recordings and follow-up tutor support.
Delivered in 10 bite-size modules (Sat/Sun) over eight or nine months, you get the perfect balance of in-depth training and time to reflect and practise. This experiential, content-rich course gives you the confidence to begin your coaching career, armed with the full NLP Practitioner toolbox. No prior learning knowledge or experience is required as this comprehensive training provides a clear step by step skill and knowledge developmental pathway.
Reasons to enrol in this Coaching Diploma and NLP Practitioner training include:
What Will You Learn?
- Association for Coaching competency framework including standards, practices, and ethics
- Coach specific tools and skills, including many transforming NLP techniques
- How to develop the coach-client contract
- How to run a successful coaching business
- Setting achievable goals and outcomes
- How to create measurable action plans
- Developing Well-Formed Outcomes
- Marketing your coaching business
- How to deliver effective feedback
A Range of Coaching Models & Approaches
- The GROW Model
- The OSKAR Model
- The APROCESS Model
- The WHAT™ Coaching Method
- The Meta Model
- Appreciative Inquiry as a Coaching Model
- Logical Levels of Change & The Generative Coaching Cycle
- The ACHIEVE® Coaching Model
- and more
A full NLP Practitioner Tool Kit
- See Syllabus for Details
What Will You Explore?
- Ethical guidelines and professional standards
- Establishing Rapport, Maintaining Rapport
- Focused listening skills
- Powerful questioning
- The Communication Model
- Developing sensory awareness
- Meta Model of language
- NLP Change Models
- The Milton Model
- Anchoring
- Working with clients expectations
- Understanding the Dynamics of Organisational Coaching
- Group and Team Coaching
Additional Online Personal Study Material and Live Interactive Group Tutor Support & Supervision Sessions.
Here’s the upcoming schedule for the next enrolment:
| Syllabus | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Meet & Greet | This pre-course meet-and-greet is an opportunity for all registered students to come together before the official start of the programme. During this relaxed online session, will meet your tutors and fellow participants, get familiar with the Zoom learning environment, ask any questions you may have about the course and prepare for your first day of training. The session will be held in the evening, a few days before the course begins. | Feb 12th (7:00 pm) |
| One | Welcome and programme introduction and overview, Rapport, Sensory Acuity, Calibration, Eye-Accessing Cues, Exploring Representational Systems, Predicates Preferences, Submodalities. | Feb 14th, 2026 |
| Two | The Science of Goal Setting, The Power of Well-Formed Outcomes, and how they relate to the coaching process. Simple Anchoring. | Feb 15th, 2026 |
| Three | Developing a Personal Philosophy For Success, Exploring the Presuppositions of NLP, Anchors & Circle of Excellence. Developing Listening Skills, Outcomes Part Two. New Behaviour Generator. | Feb 28th, 2026 |
| Four | The Structure of Coaching, Session Contracting, Exploring Coaching Competencies, The WHAT™ Coaching Method, The GROW Coaching Model, The OSCAR Coaching Model. | Mar 1st, 2026 |
| Five | The Role of Supervision in Coaching and NLP Practice, Safeguarding Within Your Coaching Practice, Ethics and Professional Practice, Dealing With Ethical Dilemmas. Developing a Personal Coaching Philosophy. | Mar 14th, 2026 |
| Six | Exploring Advanced Coaching Models, The APROCESS Coaching Model, The OSKAR Coaching Model, How not to coach etc. | Mar 15th, 2026 |
| Seven | The Meta Model, Part One – Understanding a Client’s Language. The Meta Model is based on the original research by the founders of NLP when they modelled Virginia Satir – clinical social worker and psychotherapist, uniquely successful in her approach to family therapy work. The Meta Model helps us to recover the lost information that occurs between Deep Structure and Surface Structure via distortions, generalisations, and deletions in the speaker’s language (Chomsky – Transformational and Generative Grammar) helping to expand the limits to a person’s model of the world. | Mar 28th, 2026 |
| Eight | The Meta Model, Part Two | Mar 29th, 2026 |
| Nine | The Milton Model, the language of influence. Based on the original research of the founders of NLP when they modelled Milton Erickson, the famous psychiatrist and psychologist specialising in medical hypnosis and family therapy. | Apr 18th, 2026 |
| Ten | NLP Change Processes. Part One – The NLP Tool Kit of enabling powerful change in clients’ personal and professional lives, The Swish Model, Collapse Anchors, plus more. | Apr 19th, 2026 |
| Eleven | NLP Change Processes. Part Two – The NLP Tool Kit of enabling powerful change in clients’ personal and professional lives. Perceptual Positions, Visual Squash, Dealing with Difficult People, 6-Step Reframe. | May 16th, 2026 |
| Twelve | Exploring Client Beliefs. Looking at NLP Belief Change processes that will enable you to work with clients to identify limiting beliefs and to build and install powerful more useful and enabling belief systems. | May 17th, 2026 |
| Thirteen | Modelling Strategies – NLP is all about modelling – figuring out what the structure of experience and performance really is. When we understand how we are doing something, it’s easy to make appropriate changes. | Jun 6th, 2026 |
| Fourteen | Working with Anxious Clients – A large proportion of clients who contact a life Coach or NLP Practitioner want to overcome the symptoms of anxiety. During this session, we explore the structure of anxiety and then look at various NLP and coaching interventions in order to better understand how to work effectively with anxious clients. | Jun 7th, 2026 |
| Fifteen | Logical Levels of Change & The Generative Coaching Cycle – A Framework For Personal & Professional Change & Development. | Jun 20th, 2026 |
| Sixteen | First Aid Mental Health For Coaches & NLP Practitioners (Level 2 Award…)* | Jun 21st, 2026 |
| Seventeen | Coaching In The Workplace – Understanding the Dynamics of Organisational Coaching, The ACHIEVE® Coaching Model, Appreciative Inquiry as a Coaching Model. | Jul 4th, 2026 |
| Eighteen | Mastering Group and Team Coaching: Foundations and Practice. | Jul 5th, 2026 |
| Nineteen | Integration Part One. Practical NLP Practitioner skills assessment | Jul 18th, 2026 |
| Twenty | Integration Part Two – Practical Coaching skills assessment, Developing your Coaching & NLP Practice, Professional Memberships, CPD etc. | Jul 19th, 2026 |
This unique intensive training programme is accredited by 3 professional bodies:
The Association for Coaching (AC)
The Association For NLP (ANLP)
The International Association For NLP (IANLP)
This professional qualification is approximately equal to a Level 5 Ofqual regulated qualification.
Assessment ADCT: Requires 40 hours of coaching, a written case study, an essay and practical demonstration.
Assessment NLP Practitioner: Reflective log, Knowladge Integration Paper and practical demonstration.
Assessment Level 2 Award in First Aid For Mental Health: Short Questionnaire.
All live workshop sessions are recorded and video links shared. A minimum attendance of 80 percent of the live training workshops is required.
UKCPD were recently awarded AC Accelerated Accredited Coach Training Provider Status. This gives all our graduates the opportunity to fast-track into full AC Accredited Coach status and receive a Complimentary Accredited Coach Member Level Membership with the AC for one year.
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Physical Student Study Pack: A comprehensive Training Manual, UKCPD Note Book, Pen, and Pin posted to you.
Bonus Qualification: Includes the full Level 2 Award in First Aid For Mental Health.
Bonus Business Course: Includes the “How To Start an Online Coaching Business” 6-module video training course.
Bonus Book: A free copy of “The NLP Professional” by Karen Falconer (UK only).
1 Year Free FULL Membership: A full year’s Professional Membership of the Association For NLP (ANLP).
1 Year Free Student Membership: A full year’s Student Membership of the Association for Coaching (AC).
Insurance Discount: All graduates are offered a special discount code for professional indemnity insurance.
CoachFinder Listing: Get a free listing on our brand new Professional Coach and Practitioner Listing website.
College Membership & Digital Credential.
Student Study Pack
We understand this programme is a considerable investment in your development. To support your study, once registered, we will dispatch your Student Study Pack which includes:
Comprehensive Training Manual
The UKCPD Note Book (100 pages)
A UKCPD Pen
UKCPD Pin
Course Schedule with dates, assessment overviews, and support information
Pre-Study & Support
Once you are registered, you will be given access to the online pre-study material to review, reflect, and get ready for the live training. We will also send you the full Practitioner Training Manual in the post.
In addition to the scheduled training, we will be holding regular evening tutor support sessions. These are a fantastic opportunity to ask additional questions, practice what you have been learning, and develop your knowledge and confidence.
Choose Your Plan
We offer two simple ways to pay.
Both options include VAT and our 0% interest-free guarantee.
Pay in Full
Make a single, one-time payment to get fully enrolled instantly.
£2,995.00 One-Time Fee
20-Day Live Online Training
Triple-Accredited (AC, ANLP, IANLP)
3-in-1 Qualification
Level 5 Equivalent Qualification
Physical Study Pack Sent by Post
INCLUDES Level 2 First Aid for Mental Health
INCLUDES “How to Start a Business” Course
INCLUDES “The NLP Professional” Book
1 Year Free ANLP Professional Membership
1 Year Free AC Student Membership
Free CoachFinder Directory Listing
All Live Sessions Recorded for review
Interest-Free Plan
Spread the cost over 12 months with our flexible, 0% interest plan.
12 x monthly payments of £249.58
Total Investment: £2,995.00
20-Day Live Online Training
Triple-Accredited (AC, ANLP, IANLP)
3-in-1 Qualification
Level 5 Equivalent Qualification
Physical Study Pack Sent by Post
INCLUDES Level 2 First Aid for Mental Health
INCLUDES “How to Start a Business” Course
INCLUDES “The NLP Professional” Book
1 Year Free ANLP Professional Membership
1 Year Free AC Student Membership
Free CoachFinder Directory Listing
All Live Sessions Recorded for review
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are a few of our commonly asked questions about this course. If you have questions not covered here, use the form below to book a discovery call with our team.
What is this combined NLP and Coaching Diploma?
This dual-qualification integrates full NLP Practitioner certification with a business-focused coaching diploma (ADCT), providing both behavioural-change tools and practical performance-coaching strategies for organisations. This is one of our most senior qualifications in Coaching and NLP.
How does NLP integrate into the diploma?
NLP Practitioner training enhances your coaching by giving you tools for behavioural modelling, advanced communication, emotional-state management, motivation, influence and personal transformation.
Who is it suitable for?
Coaches, consultants, leaders, HR professionals and individuals who want to combine NLP with coaching in high-performance business settings.
What skills will I develop?
Skills include sub-modalities, anchors, timeline work, modelling, business-coaching frameworks, performance diagnostics, leadership communication and tools for driving behavioural change in individuals and teams. Includes a wide range of coaching models including GROW, OSKAR, The WHAT™ Coaching Method, Logical Levels and workplace-focused performance coaching including the ACHIEVE Coaching Model and Appreciative Inquiry as a Coaching method.
Is it accredited?
Yes — by both the Association For Coaching (AC) and the Association for NLP (ANLP) giving graduates an accredited NLP Practitioner training and an accredited professional business coaching diploma.
How is it assessed?
Through NLP demonstrations, coaching logs, reflective practice, business coaching assignments and portfolio submissions.
What career pathways follow?
Executive coaching, leadership development, organisational consulting, business-performance coaching or progression to NLP Master Practitioner.