The International NLP Trainers Association (INLPTA) was formed in late 1993 by Wyatt Woodsmall (NLP Master Trainer, USA), Marvin Oka (NLP Master Trainer, Australia), and Bert Feustel (NLP Master Trainer, Germany), in response to a growing need amongst NLP trainers around the world for the establishment of a unified accreditation body based on a consistency of quality in the accreditation standards, professional conduct and ethical applications of the NLP technology.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, USA, INLPTA is an international cooperative association of aligned NLP Trainers and Master Trainers who have agreed to abide by and uphold INLPTA’s standards of quality, professionalism and ethics in their NLP accreditation trainings and the conduct of their NLP business. NLP Trainers have been accredited through INLPTA from an international network of countries including England, Canada,USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Holland France, Italy, China, Brazil, and South Africa.

The enthusiastic and positive response to the formation of INLPTA from the NLP training community in general has come from the increasing awareness that: 1. NLP can play a significant role in contributing to the evolution of individuals, groups, communities, societies, nations, the world and humankind. 2. While the technology of NLP itself is neutral, it can be used in evolutionary or de-evolutionary ways. Therefore, NLP must be taught and learned within contextual frameworks of ecology and meta ethics. 3. For NLP to optimally evolve itself as a field, the NLP training community must be self monitoring and united in the way it maintains its frameworks of ecloogy and meta ethic.

It is the aim of INLPTA to serve as the catalyst for this self monitoring process. INLPTA is not a policing body, but rather it is a cooperative. INLPTA is an affiliation of aligned NLP training professionals who believe that NLP has much to offer humanity and that as a profession and field of study it must transcend the boundaries of individual personalities, egos, and the power politics which prevent NLP’s evolution