Board Question: ABNLP / Time line Therapy® Association

[Susanne Rauer]

Hello all,

I have a couple of board related questions, which I am working on for a couple of months now. Your help would be greatly appreciated:
1. Does anyone know what the official process is to get a new training course approved by the above boards?
2. Can somebody please send me in the right direction, or let me know who are the decision makers I can contact (not board admin)?
3. For example, who are the board members of the ABNLP and Time line Therapy® Association?

What I have tried so far:
• I couldn’t find anything on the internet for the Time line Therapy® Association
• The ABNLP internet page doesn’t say anything about course certification processes. It also doesn’t say anything about the board members of the board.
• I have been in contact with the board employee for months, and even though she is super kind and very friendly, I haven’t gotten anywhere with my question.
• TJC management understands my request, but couldn’t answer the question either; makes sense as it is a board question

In a nutshell, everyone I spoke to was very friendly, but I haven’t gotten the result I need.
Your help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Susanne

[Laura Petrie]

Hello Susanne !!
Good to see you!!

I have messaged Candace Valdez the head of the American Boards or you can feel free to email her directly: candace@abh-abnlp.com

[Susanne Rauer]

Hi Laura,

thanks for your reply. I have been in contact with Candace for 3 months now.
I need to speak with someone who can answer questions which are out of the norm; more the management of the boards. Who would that be?

Thanks 🙂

[Laura Petrie]

I spoke with Candace, she’s the Vice President of the Boards 🙂
No one higher up and more qualified than her!

I’m clear about the questions that you were asking would you like me to answer them here? Or privately?

[Susanne Rauer]

Thanks Laura, I just spoke with Candace. Happy to discuss this here for the benefits of the community.

My question was if the board could issue a ‘Creating Your Future(R) Techniques Coach’ certificate instead of the ‘Time Line Therapy(R) Practitioner’ certification (for the same training material as taught to us during the practitioner training).
(Please note: This has nothing to do with the Creating Your Future(R) 2 day seminar / workshop Tad & Adriana do.)

My understanding from the Time Line Therapy(R) Trainers training was: Tad & Adriana acknowledged very early that the word ‘therapy’ was perceived negatively at one point of time and was replaced by the word ‘coaching’. Therefore, they taught us to exchange the word Time Line Therapy(R) with Creating Your Future(R) Techniques. All I am really asking for is to have my students to have the possibility to be board certified as a ‘Creating Your Future(R) Techniques Coach’ instead of the existing ‘Time Line Therapy Practitioner’ certification:

1. NLP Practitioner
2. Creating your Future(R) Techniques Coach (instead ‘Time Line Therapy(R) Practitioner)
2. NLP Coach

There is no risk to the quality of the material, as it is exactly the same.
It may be one more checkbox on the form, but that’s it.

I would have hoped that there would be a bit more flexibility, a bit more support for such a reasonable ask.
But my understanding is now, that there is no way these 2 boards will change anything, and they will stick to the existing certifications only.
It was suggested to me, to open up my own board, but this has no relevance to the ask, as I truly want to honour the trademark, of course.

Any creative ideas would be very welcome. Thanks.

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