NLP

What NLP actually is

In plain terms, NLP is a way of working on the habits of the mind.

Each of us carries a map of the world. It is built out of our experience, out of things we were told, and out of decisions made in childhood. We navigate by that map, and we usually forget that it is a map and not the world.

When something keeps going wrong, the problem is rarely in your intention or your effort. It is usually in a part of the map that has gone out of date. The work of NLP is to find that part and redraw it.

What it is not

It is not treatment. Depression and other clinical conditions belong with doctors and clinical psychologists, and I refer people to them.

It is not magic either. A life does not change in one session. What changes is that you leave with a tool you did not have before, and you have to work it yourself.

And it is not a motivational talk. Nobody chants anything. Most of the time is spent asking questions and listening quietly.


What it is used for

  • Your voice going before you speak, even when you know the material
  • A habit that comes back every time, whatever you decide
  • One memory returning again and again and taking the day with it
  • Deciding slowly, because of what happens if the decision is wrong
  • The same argument at home or at work, repeated in different words
  • The work getting done while you feel you are in the wrong place

How sessions run

One to one session

Duration: 90 minutes, usually four to six sessionsOutcome: Work on one specific issue, with a practical exercise after each session

The first session is only conversation. You describe where the problem shows up and when it started. The work begins in the second. Every session ends with an exercise you can repeat at home. Sessions can be in person or online.

Group workshop

Duration: One or two days, eight to twenty participantsOutcome: Four core NLP tools, practised in the room, plus written notes to take away

A workshop is not a lecture. Most of the day is spent practising in pairs. Every tool is demonstrated first, then run by the participants themselves, and the day closes on how each person will use it where they actually are.

Corporate training

Duration: Shaped to the organisation, usually two daysOutcome: Work on communication, disagreement and feedback inside a team

Before the training, a few people are interviewed separately so the real issue surfaces, since it is rarely the one written on the brief. The material is then built around that issue.


Credentials

Ismail Haji with his NLP certificates

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Waqas Centre of Wellness

Accredited by NLP Association of Excellence (NLPEA), United Kingdom

  • Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming

    13 May 2026Certificate ID NLP0111

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  • Certified Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming

    13 May 2026Certificate ID NLP0115

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  • NLP Life Mastery Program, Advanced Level

    21 November 2025Certificate ID A0057

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  • NLP Life Mastery Program, Practitioner Level

    21 November 2025Certificate ID A0066

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Psychological Health and Mental Care


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