EANLPt EAP
GRANDPARENTING GUIDELINES 
as
established in Crete 11/99
Seven
criteria: 
1) Self
experience 
2) Degrees 
3)
Professional practice 
4) NLP
training 
5)
Additional trainings 
6)
Supervision 
7)
Recommandations
1) SELF
EXPERIENCE
A) What is
"self experience" ?    
    
        
        
            | 
             Classical
            therapy  
            NLPt  
            Psychoanalysis
             
            etc. 
              | 
            
             Systemic  
            Peers group  
            Intervision  
            Reflexion in
            required modalities (by EANLPt or Government) 
              | 
        
    
B) Is
self-experience necessary? 
YES ( unanimity)
C) How many? 
150 hours in
total 
of which :
50 hours in individual setting (one to one) 
                             100 hours additional group or
individual
D) How to
prove? 
a) certificates and/or attestations by recognised psychotherapist that
means : psychotherapists recognised by states or EAP or professional
organisations
b) if not
possible it is necessary to be made credible by:
references 
testimony 
or similar
2) DEGREES
in expressed as 
PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
1) At least
3 year’s diploma in humanities, human sciences 
or
2) working
practice according to national regulations ( approved) 
or
3) (As
execption to the rule) Specific qualified very professional life experience,
which provides an equivalent to university education bothin term of personal
maturity and knowledge.
3)
PROFESSIONAL THERAPEUTIC EXPERIENCE WITH CLIENTS
A) If no
other previous psychotherapeutic practice : 
5 years of
practice after NLP training completed
B) For
people with any previous psychotherapeutic practice 
5 years including 3 years
of NLPt practicein each case, the 5 years should have an equivalent of 2000
hours-practice and 75 clients 
4) NLP
TRAINING
NLP TRAINING
of 70 days 
• including
Practitionner and Master practitioner
• oriented
in the direction of Therapy (in some countries ths may have been called
counselling)
5)
ADDITIONAL TRAININGS
Length of
time : 
• at least
50 days or 400 hours
Content :
 •
therapeutic methodology
•
self-experience
•
supervision
6)
SUPERVISION 
=
supervision of therapeutic process
a) including
•
methodology
• cases
• management
b) length of
time: 100 hours 
The last
topic that will be discussed next time is: should a NLP psychotherapist be also
a NLP trainer? 
7)
RECOMMANDATION
The
recommandation should be done by a local (in country) representative of EANLPt
based on the personal knwledge of the person and preferably backed by local
committee. 
 
FORMAL
PROCESS OF GRANDPARENTING 
Recommandation
for person who apply for ECP via NLPt
 
