India
ANLP India and the professional practice of NLP in India
NLP has been taught in India for decades, through institutes, independent trainers and professional associations. ANLP India emerged within this landscape as a professional community focused on practitioner development, trainer development and the continuity of NLP practice in India.
NLP in India, and one association among others
Neuro-Linguistic Programming is taught in many countries. In India, it has been taught through institutes, independent trainers and professional associations. ANLP India emerged within this landscape as an independent Indian professional association, with its own history and institutional identity. It should not be confused with the UK association at anlp.org, or with similarly named NLP organisations in India or internationally. A short account of the field is on What is NLP?; a short account of the association is on What is ANLP?.
From a chapter to an Indian professional community
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, Mr. Sushil Mehrotra joined as co-founder and organised regular programmes across the country. During the same reorganisation, ANLP India became an independent professional community in India, separate from ANLP UK.
That independence is part of how NLP professional education in India sat inside an Indian association identity, rather than only as isolated workshops or as a chapter of a body elsewhere. The year-by-year record remains on the history page.
Trainer and practitioner development
The association was associated with practitioner development, master practitioner training, trainer development and related applications of NLP — including coaching, communication and behavioural work. In 2010, trainer training in Goa marked a further step: trainers who could teach NLP in India. Mr. Ralph Watson co-delivered the first ANLP India Trainer Certification; Mr. Umesh Soman became a trainer-member. The four trainer-members who form the core committee are introduced under Founding Members.
Over the years, ANLP India has trained more than 7,500 participants across its Practitioner, Master Practitioner, Trainer, NLP Diploma and other programmes. The published graduate register is a later public slice of that community, not a claim that every graduate is listed there.
A national geography, not a single classroom
Programmes associated with ANLP India are known to have taken place in Delhi, Mumbai, Goa, Chandigarh, Hyderabad and Bangalore. The gallery holds photographs and a clip from that work, including Trainer Training in Goa and Master Practitioner gatherings in Delhi. Continuity, on this site, means that practitioners and trainers continue to work as members of a living professional community.
Certification pathways associated with that community are explained under certification, beginning with what an NLP Practitioner is. What it means to learn NLP from an ANLP perspective is on Learn NLP.