The Irish Institute of NLP
Providing first-class, top quality NLP training in Ireland
WHO WE ARE
The Irish Institute of NLP
The Irish Institute of NLP is an organisation set up with the mission of providing first-class, top quality NLP training in Ireland, as recognised by the Society of NLP and the co-founder of the field of Dr. Richard Bandler. We are internally acclaimed for teaching NLP as it was meant to be taught – and giving people the tools they need to manifest lasting change in their personal and professional life.
The Institute was established in 2001 by Owen Fitzpatrick and Brian Colbert. It is officially Ireland’s first, and most successful NLP institute – recognised by the Society of NLP (the oldest and largest training NLP organisation in the world). First and foremost, Brian and Owen both love what they do, and are extremely passionate about changing people’s lives for the better. Furthermore, both are the only Master trainers of NLP in Ireland – displaying a sophistication and elegance in delivering their NLP training that has proved the cornerstone of their success.
Brian and Owen are in high-demand worldwide, delivering training across 4 continents and publishing numerous best-selling books. The Institute has received international attention in both the public eye and in the corporate training, regularly appearing in the Irish media and providing tailoring training to some of the largest multinational companies in the world.
If you are interested in receiving insightful and effective NLP training in Ireland, there is simply no better organisation to refer to than the Irish Institute of NLP.
THE ONLY LICENSED NLP CERTIFICATION BODY
Society of NLP
The Society of NLP is the largest and oldest NLP training body in the world. It was founded in 1979. It is recognised as the only licensed NLP certification body by NLP co-founder Dr. Richard Bandler.
ROOTS
NLP in Ireland
NLP is an attitude and methodology, which provides a basis for powerful, creative interventions in behavioral change. It originated in the 1970’s, when Richard Bandler and John Grinder discovered the patterns of the most successful communicators and human change experts. From this foundation, a source of knowledge known as Neuro Linguistic Programming was developed. This methodology would revolutionize the way therapists do therapy, corporate individuals do business, teachers do teaching and people do learning.
Over the past 40 years, people all over the world have trained in NLP from many different groups, with many different ambitions and goals. There has been little standardization in the quality of NLP training.
Today, the Irish Institute of NLP offers you a training in NLP as how it was meant to be taught: pure and undiluted, delivered by skillful exponents who have co-trained with and regularly worked with Dr Richard Bandler. Our Institute is the only organization in Ireland which is recognized by the Society of NLP, the internationally governing body of the field. The Irish Institute of NLP is the authority on Neuro Linguistic Programming in Ireland, providing training of the very finest quality at home and abroad for well over a decade. NLP is a quickly expanding field, an expansion which holds the IINLP at its very heart.
CHOOSING RIGHT
Why train with the Irish Institute of NLP?
Set up in the year 2001, no other NLP training organization in Ireland can boast such pedigree. The Irish Institute of NLP is the first and longest existing internationally licensed NLP institute in Ireland to be both recognised by the Society of NLP and recommended by the co-founder of the field Dr. Richard Bandler.

We are the ONLY Irish trainers ever to have shared the stage and CO-TRAINED with Dr. Richard Bandler and the President of the Society of NLP, John LaValle.
We use NLP to teach NLP. We train through humour, multi-layered stories that embed learning, unconscious installation, conscious understanding and experiential practice! This makes our content easy to understand and easy to implement!
We have the ONLY two Licensed MASTER TRAINERS of NLP in Ireland. We often work as a DOUBLE TEAM and our different perspectives and complimentary styles have been consistently praised. Our double inductions, deep sense of rapport with each other and obvious friendship has proven extremely popular with our participants.
We are CONTINUOUSLY UPGRADING our own personal trainings and setting personal challenges to ensure that we deliver from experience – which basically means we walk our talk! Our main trainers, Owen and Brian have personally spent thousands of hours learning NLP, including over a thousand hours directly from Dr Richard Bandler.
To date we have trained with the top NLP trainers in the world including John Grinder (co-founder of the field), Robert Dilts, Tony Robbins, Paul McKenna, Michael Breen, Judy Delozier, Christina Hall, Eric Robbie & many more.
We have been invited to train all across the world, delivering training across Europe, North America and Asia – from the UK to the US, from Mexico to Thailand! Furthermore, we have had people travelling from all across the world to attend our courses – from South America to South Africa, from Saudi Arabia to Australia!


We offer the ONLY Licensed NLP Business Practitioner in Ireland and one of a few worldwide.
We offer the ONLY Licensed Master Practitioner NLP programme in Ireland.
All our trainers have extensive experience in using NLP in a ONE-TO-ONE and training setting. In fact, our trainers are multi-skilled, many having additional qualifications in Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy, Psychology and Life Coaching and draw from this wealth of expertise to provide you with the results you crave!
Our primary trainers’ unique in-depth experience combine the benefits of ACADEMIA from the world of Psychology to the practical EXPERIENCE of Industrial Relations and Personal Management to deliver powerful and insightful trainings yet to be matched anywhere.
We offer a wide range of courses in NLP both in house and off site, both tailored and standardised and have many BLUE CHIP clients from Fortune 500 companies on our books.
We are the BEST VALUE NLP trainings you’ll find, saving you massive expenditure and the unnecessary hassle of going abroad!
We ensure in-depth personal attention and demonstrate that NLP is not just a bunch of techniques, but instead an attitude and a set of skills that can only be passed from one to another from the trainers grounding in personal experience.
We have found that we tend to attract a FANTASTIC group of people at all our courses. Maybe, it is that in creating an informal, fun and enjoyable atmosphere, our participants find it easy to be themselves and develop new close friends and contacts that they stay in touch with after the course.

“For some 30 years now, I’ve trained every major trainer in the field of NLP. I’ve trained people to be Practitioner and Master Practitioners but there are not that many trainers that I regard to be qualified to teach people things that will not only change people but that will change them in just the right direction. That’s why I’d like to recommend Owen Fitzpatrick and Brian Colbert, because I believe that is the kind of training they provide. If you get a chance to do one of their trainings…. TAKE IT.”
Dr. Richard Bandler
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MAKING PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL IMPACT
What to expect
01 | QUALITY
First and foremost, you can expect to receive training of the utmost quality – teaching you the skills and techniques that will be the difference for you personally and professionally.
02 | GREAT TIME
You can expect to enjoy yourself, have lots of fun, be entertained and laugh a lot! In short, to have a great time.
03 | POSITIVE CHANGE
You can expect to learn how to manifest genuine positive change in your life as you learn how effective NLP can be.
04 | POWER OF NLP
You can expect to lead a more happy and fulfilled life after discovering the power of NLP
05 | STRETCHED MIND
You can expect to have your mind stretched to new limits and find yourself unconsciously mastering skills without you even knowing how, as you learn how thinking and communication works.
06 | VALUE FOR MONEY
You can expect to receive incredible value for money, as our trainers consistently go the extra mile to give you what you need from our training.
07 | PERSONAL POWER
You can expect to find yourself with ‘gifts’ of personal power, which last and will allow you continuously go in the right direction in life and helping others do the same.
08 | LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE
You can expect to meet like-minded people and develop new close friends and contacts.
09 | NEW OPPORTUNITIES
You can expect to have your eyes opened to a whole collection of tools and techniques, encouraging you to delve deeper into your study of NLP.