What is ANLP?

What does ANLP stand for?

ANLP stands for Association of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. On this website the short name is ANLP India, and the legal-style name used throughout is Association of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, India.

It is not ANLP-UK, not ANLP International, and not the National Association of NLP, India, which is a separate organisation. It is not a training marketplace. A short account of the field itself is on What is NLP?.

What is the role of ANLP India?

ANLP India is a professional community of NLP practitioners, trainers and educators. It exists to hold a shared identity around professional development and the practice of NLP in India — so that NLP education could sit inside a recognisable association, rather than only as isolated workshops.

ANLP India is an independent Indian professional community. Practitioners and trainers continue to work as members. This website is the public home of that association: its people, its history, and its professional record. The institutional page for the same body of work is About ANLP India.

How did ANLP India develop?

ANLP India began as an India chapter of ANLP UK. Dr. David J. Lincoln began operating under the ANLP India banner in 2007. In 2008, Sushil Mehrotra joined as co-founder. ANLP India subsequently became an independent Indian professional community. The development of practitioner and trainer programmes followed.

Over the years, ANLP India has trained more than 7,500 participants across its Practitioner, Master Practitioner and Trainer programmes.

The dated record is on the history of ANLP India. The four trainer-members who form the core committee are introduced under Founding Members.

How does ANLP relate to NLP education?

ANLP India was associated with practitioner development, master practitioner training, trainer development and related applications of NLP — including coaching, communication and behavioural work. Learning those skills, and holding a certificate that names a level of that learning, are related but not the same thing. How that relationship works is on How certification works. Brochures and related reading sit in the resource library. The field of NLP is explained on What is NLP?. What it means to learn NLP from an ANLP perspective is on Learn NLP.

Professional standards and certification

ANLP India was associated with certification at Practitioner, Master Practitioner, Trainer and Master Trainer levels. Members continue to hold those credentials. This website does not take applications for new certificates.

What those levels mean is set out on NLP certification pathways. India’s first trainer training associated with ANLP India was held in Goa in 2010. Current NLP training programmes are offered through WisdomTree Solutions.

Membership and community

The public record of people who completed their training programme with ANLP India is the graduate register. Each row records a name, the qualification held, and a masked email. It is a register of graduates, not a directory for new applications.

Photographs and a clip from programmes are kept in the gallery, including Trainer Training in Goa in 2014 and Master Practitioner gatherings in Delhi.

To understand ANLP India's place within the development and professional practice of NLP in India, see ANLP in India.

For a description of ANLP India as the public institution — purpose, founding members, and where the association stands — continue to About ANLP India.