Rapid Change Matters

Alexia's career started over 25yrs ago in Acute Mental Health. She progressed from the wards to training in Psychology and Education. During her Teaching career, I specialised in working with adults from Marginalised groups. (The vulnerably housed, Rough Sleepers, Asylum Seekers and those fleeing Domestic Violence.)

For the last 15 years, she has worked exclusively, in private practice as a Therapist, utilising, Hypnosis, NLP, Shamanism. Jungian and Existential theories, underpin her approach.

Shamanism captured her attention as a 19yrs old, during a trip to West Africa.  She had her first spiritual extraction and power retrieval by a local Medicine man aka the Marabou man. This encounter led to further journeys to learn from Indigenous Tribes, in particular tribes from the Upper Amazon Jungle and the Andean mountains.

Blending Shamanic tools and approaches, into her Therapy work was a real ‘game changer’ and she continues to be astounded by the profound changes people experience, by re-integrating spirituality into their lives.

Now she is currently training to be a professional Idiot, which is the art of Sacred Clowning, alongside writing a book about her former life.

Trevor is the founder of Cognitive Hypnotherapy and the Training Director of The Quest Institute. He is a practising Hypnotherapist with a clinic in Harley Street. He was the editor of the Hypnotherapy Journal of the National Council for Hypnotherapy for nine years, and was  their Director of Ethics and Supervision for a further five  until he stepped down in 2011.

Trevor has gained a reputation as one of the leading experts in the theory and practice of hypnotic language, and his integration of modern scientific discoveries into the practical aspects of therapy has made him one of the key figures in the modern therapy field. His books have gained him a worldwide audience, and students travel from all over the world to train with him.

Since his interview with Rapid Change Matters (which kicked off the Rapid Change Conversation) he has written and released a fascinating new book called 'GROW: Personal development for parents' so it's great to welcome him back to the series to talk about all things change work and parenting!

Mark has over 10,000 hours facilitation experience, is a third generation teacher. He has has worked in over 25 countries and with clients as diverse as L’Oréal, Unilever, Ikea, Virgin Atlantic, The Army of Sierra Leone, The Met Police, Occupy, The House of Lords, with ex IRA members, LGBTQ Moscow, Oxfam, Save The Children and Occupy. He founded the online course Purpose Black Belt, as well as Embodied Yoga Principles and The Embodied Facilitator Course. He’s an aikido black belt and is particularly known for “embodied” methods and also hosts a Youtube Channel with over 11 million hits.

James Tsakalos is an internationally acclaimed NLP Trainer and innovator who has been busy exploring, teaching, and pushing the boundaries of NLP for nearly twenty years.

One of the few genuine innovators in the field of NLP today, James is particularly well known for his work as the modeler and developer of 'Spiral Somatics':  a ground breaking method of reading the subtle physiological indicators of fundamental values, attitudes and core beliefs.

An accomplished specialist in the art of modeling expertise, and notorious both for his uncompromisingly rigorous standards and for going far beyond the limits of what is typically taught on most NLP courses, James is regarded by several well-known NLP experts around the world as one of the best NLP trainers on the planet – a “trainer’s trainer” in the NLP game.

Although based in Australia, James is regularly asked to teach in the UK, US, Asia and continental Europe. Closer to home, he teaches NLP and its applications in both life and business in his home city of Melbourne, and continues to mentor some of Australia’s best NLP trainers.

In Gary's own words:

I am the founder of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), I was born April 13, 1940 and have been intensely interested in personal improvement via psychology since my age13. That was when I recognized that the quality of my thoughts was mirrored in the quality of my life. Since then I have been self taught in this field, seeking only those procedures that, in my opinion, produced results.

I consider EFT, the core of which I learned from Dr. Roger Callahan, to be an important tool to achieving the highest levels of healing.

I also have high regard for Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) in which I am a Certified Master Practitioner. Please know that I am neither a psychologist nor a licensed therapist. Rather, I am a Stanford engineering graduate and an ordained minister and, although I don't pound the table for any particular religion, I do come at this procedure from a decidedly spiritual perspective.

Alex MacLellan is an Integral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT) practitioner and anxiety coach. Having struggled with social anxiety for much of his formative life he managed to overcome this issue after seeing an IEMT practitioner.

In 2010 he began working as a coach for people with social anxiety, training them in the practical techniques he used and benefitted from. Finally, he decided to train in the form of change work that helped him so much, IEMT.

Currently, he runs Practical Anxiety Solutions and is dedicated to bringing lasting change in a short amount of time to his clients by first addressing their anxieties and negative beliefs with IEMT before equipping them with information and techniques to safeguard themselves for the future and change their habits for the better.

He also is on a mission to debunk many bad practices, beliefs and scams present in the self-development industry.

Judy Rees is known worldwide as a practical implementer of an inquiry methodology called Clean Language, and is the co-author of the bestselling book on the topic, "Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds".

She's used Clean Language with individuals, groups and organisations all over the world to help them to change quickly - and in a way that ensures that the changes fit perfectly, so that they stay changed. She also teaches practical Clean Language skills, online and in in-person workshops. Recently she co-hosted Clean Language For Hypnotists with James Tripp.

A former journalist and media executive, Judy is based in London, UK.

Christine Black is the lead consultant at the Wellbeing Portal. As a qualified health professional, experienced to Operations Director in a major healthcare company as well as Cognitive Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner, she is experienced in making personal and professional change happen – and doing it quickly.

She also spent a significant period as a regular monthly guest speaker on BBC Radio’s ‘Ask The Expert’ and also runs her own wellbeing centre called The Changing Room.

Christine says “I am passionate about helping people achieve their personal and professional goals. It’s a serious business but I like to have fun at work which is part and parcel of how I deliver my workshops.”

Christine works alongside associates throughout the UK to deliver the results that keeps us all in flow.

Matt Kendall is an accidental therapist. After setting up his own businesses he met a hypnotherapist at a networking event who he later went on to have sessions with.

The hypnotherapist saw something in Matt and convinced him to go and train himself.

Matt went and trained with a variety of people and organisations and then specialised in helping people with social anxiety.

After moving to London in 2009 he came across a technique called IEMT. He was fascinated by this new approach to working with clients and helped to get results where previous positive outcomes were seemingly impossible.

Matt is now a certified trainer of IEMT and lectures on the subject on a regular basis. He holds training courses several times per year and works with private clients.

Tim Box is a remedial hypnotist who has successfully run a flourishing full time hypnosis practice in the South East of England for the last seven years. He is an international speaker, practitioner trainer and bestselling author.

After escaping the family plumbing business in 2009 he was originally trained in hypnosis at the world renowned Hypnoarts Academy by Jonathan Chase.Tim went on in 2014 to become one of only a handful of people in the world to be awarded a fellowship of the academy, as well as eventually becoming one of their senior trainers.

Tim now runs his own classes, teaching both direct and remedial hypnosis techniques. He also mentors other hypnotherapists and regularly gives talks and demonstrations about hypnosis and the power of the mind.

In 2015 Tim created his CONTROL system based on his experiences with clients and the learnings from hundreds of 1 to 1 hypnosis sessions. CONTROL is a method for personal development and change and teaches people how to get direct communication with their own mind to make positive improvements in patterns of thought and behaviour...