Rapid Change Matters

Melissa Tiers is the founder of The Center For Integrative Hypnosis with a private hypnosis practice in New York City. She teaches classes in Integrative Hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Psychology and mental health coaching. Melissa is an instructor for the NGH and The International Association of Councelors and Therapists and an adjunct faculty member of The New York Open Center and Tri-State College of Acupuncture.

Melissa is a three time recipient of the International Medical and Dental Association’s prestigious Pen and Quill Award for her books “Integrative Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Course in Change” and “Keeping the Brain in Mind: Practical Neuroscience for Coaches, Therapists and Hypnosis Practitioners” co- written with Shawn Carson And "Integrative Hypnosis with kids and teens: Playing for change" co-written with Kelley Woods. Melissa was also awarded the NGH’s President’s Award, for excellence in the field and the Speaker and Author of the year from the Zurich Hypnose Kongress.

I'm Gary 'Smiler' Turner and I'm a Hypnotherapist, Personal Trainer for Fight Sports, and Performance Expert. My work is helping people be the people they want to be. With a background as being a 13x World Champion across three different sports I 'walk the walk' as well as 'talk the talk', demonstrating professional and personal congruence with my work.

I constantly study and develop applications to apply that knowledge. An experienced speaker to a variety of audiences I am well placed to deliver skills to attendees of my presentations. I work with individual clients, sports teams, both military and civilian services personnel, and businesses delivering corporate change. I'm particularly honoured to regularly work with The British Army, and elite sportspersons, including Olympians and World Champions.

James Tripp is an internationally recognised and respected Personal Adaptedness coach, developmental hypnotist and teacher of self-mastery, hypnosis and influential communication. Coming from a diverse background including philosophy, music, martial arts, movement culture and NLP, James is also the developer of the critically acclaimed Hypnosis Without Trance approach to hypnosis. Beyond working with private clients, James has run workshops internationally and his London and UK workshops typically draw students from around the world. He has also consulted in the fields of sales, education and business leadership. He is currently ‘on the road’ - traveling the world for one year with his family (wife and our two daughters), on a mission to explore and experiment with living in different countries and to grow developmentally both individually and as a family - but will be back in the UK to present at the Hypnosis Convention.

Phil has been providing training, one-to-one interventions in the UK and Europe. For almost three decades he was also a Senior Mental Health Practitioner Approved under The Mental Health Act 1983 and has extensive training and a wealth of experience in the fields of Adult Psychiatry/Clinical Risk Assessment.

Phil moved over two decades ago to working for himself in Psychotherapy, Clinical Hypnosis, Brief-Strategic Therapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Emotional Freedom Technique, Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Life Coaching in Corporate Business settings. Phil worked originally and extensively with Frank Farrelly Father of Provocative Therapy which is the serious use of humour in assisting people with their problems and issues. Phil has now updated and developed this work to assist and help people and has his own unique methodologies, using the very serious use of humour too bring about change. His workshops are filled with laughter and fun.

Richard Bolstad trains NLP Practitioners and trainers in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australasia. He has written over 12 books on NLP, and his books are translated into 10 languages. His book “Transforming Communication” has been a core text in several New Zealand university programs. He has been a personal trainer for some top New Zealand business and sports people, including leading New Zealand triathlete Steve Gurney, who says “A BIG thanks to you Richard for the NLP work we did. I’m astounded at how quickly you arrive at a solution. It totally turns my thinking around 180 degrees to a resolved and determined attitude. A much more positive state. Race day was incredibly enjoyable and it was just a breeze. Powerful stuff.”

Steve Andreas, co-developer of NLP and author of “NLP: The New Technology of Achievement” says “Richard Bolstad is one of the finest NLP trainers I know. Besides being personable, engaging, and high energy, he is very skilled, with a rare breadth and depth of knowledge.” Joseph O’Connor, author of “Successful Selling With NLP”, and “Practical NLP For Managers”, says “Richard’s work will leave you with a deeper knowledge of NLP, whether you are already familiar with the field or not.”

"Having worked in the training and communications field for more than 20 years I have experienced a great number of trainers and speakers, but very few great speakers and trainers. Richard Bolstad is one of those great presenters. His absolute credibility is the result of a depth and breadth of knowledge gained internationally and nationally...

Felix is a chartered psychologist, clinical hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. He has demonstrated rapid-change therapy using clinical hypnosis with a 100% success rate with hyper-phobics on BBC3’s “The Panic Room”, as well using more conventional psychological approaches as on the TV show “Freaky Eaters”.

Felix believes in leading by example so in the course of his TV work he has variously walked over burning coals, jumped out of a plane, broken through a 2 inch wooden board with the palm of his hand, and held all manner of tarantulas, snakes and giant hissing cockroaches to illustrate how we can all learn to manage our anxiety.

Asides from these more dramatic displays of therapy for fears and phobias, Felix has been interviewed on radio and on dozens of articles on the most common psychological conditions affecting modern society: chronic anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, relationship conflicts and the feeling that something is missing is life. He remains passionate about promoting the benefits of modern integrative therapy in all these areas and has written a book on how the relationship between the conscious and unconscious mind determines our emotional and mental health...

Mark is an experienced therapist and a gifted trainer and speaker who regularly writes on psychology with a difference. UncommonHelp is his self help guide website. Mark is the co-founder of Hypnosis Downloads, the leading provider of hypnosis downloads, with over 800 self help audio sessions on every kind of psychological issue. Each session is scrupulously researched, carefully crafted, and professionally recorded. A constant stream of testimonials bears witness to the consistently high quality of his work.

At the Hypnosis Download blog Mark writes about the underpinnings of individual sessions, while his monthly newsletter Inspired Minds offers psychological insights to 150,000 subscribers. Mark is also co-founder and Creative Director of Uncommon Knowledge and helped establish a highly regarded diploma course in evidence-based hypnotherapy and psychotherapy. He has trained thousands of therapists.

A keen promoter of the benefits of online training, Mark has worked to put all Uncommon Knowledge therapy training programs online. He is constantly developing new courses. He has produced several hypnosis DVDs and CDs and taster videos. Mark writes a therapy techniques blog with his thoughts on psychology training (and everything else)...

In this episode I interview Jaap Hollander, Psychologist, Author, NLP Trainer, Provocative Trainer and MindSonar founder.

I was drawn to Jaap after reading his book, "Provocative Coaching: Making Things Better By Making Them Worse" and amongst other things we chat about...

- What is ‘Provocative Coaching’ and are there any NO GO areas?

- Giving people the ‘meta-message’ that they are strong and can handle things.

- The ‘resistance response’ vs. the ‘acceptance response’

- Why ‘driving phobics’ should practice driving around the corpses!

- Why a client feeling ‘confused’ might be a good thing.

MORE ABOUT JAAP:

Jaap studied with the founder of provocative therapy, Frank Farrelly, for more than 25 years. He developed a system (called the ‘Farrelly Factors’) for teaching provocative coaching. In the Netherlands he teaches a one year training course in provocative coaching together with Jeffrey Wijnberg.

Jaap is co-owner of the Institute for Eclectic Psychology, IEP, together with his wife and colleague Anneke Meijer. The IEP is Holland’s oldest NLP institute (12.000+ people trained). Robert Dilts has been teaching for the IEP for 35 years.

He authored eleven books, amongst them ‘Essentials of NLP’ (Dutch, with Lucas Derks), ‘Provocative Coaching’ (English) and ‘Trance and Magic’ (Dutch, about modelling trance rituals in Brazil). He was on the Dutch Quote top 500 business advisors list for as long as it existed. He is a member of the NLP Leadership Summit.

He co-created the ‘Nano Tech Power Deck’ together with Jennifer DeGand, Graham Dawes, Anneke Meijer and Aude Limet. The Nano Tech Deck is a card game that claims to be ‘NLP in a box’. It can be used to do NLP with yourself. For a rad game it can have surprisingly profound effects. Try it.

He founded ‘MindSonar’, an online system measuring meta programs and Graves drives (Spiral Dynamics distinctions). MindSonar is being used world wide by team builders, coaches and organisational developers.. It is the first contextual test, meaning that is measures how someone thinks in a given situation and that it presupposes people think differently in different situations.

Jaap teaches mostly in the Netherlands, but on occasion in other countries too, like Poland, the USA, Mexico, Colombia and Russia.

Stever Robbins is the CEO of IdeasUnleashed.co, which develops programs to help people live extraordinary lives by developing the beliefs, mindsets, decision-making, and business skills needed to take control of their own destinies.

He hosts one of the world’s most popular business podcasts, 'The Get-it-Done Guy.' His entire career as a businessperson and executive coach has revolved around helping people and organizations change, learn, and grow.

Stever is a Licensed NLP Master Trainer Elite, with the Society of NLP. He has designed curricula for Harvard Business School and Babson College, and has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, and on CNN-fn, ABC News Now, and FOX News. He is a graduate of HBS and MIT.

Sarah, The Fit Mind Trainer, is a passionate Hypnotherapist & Psychotherapist who specialises in developing online services that deliver rapid results.

She has successfully worked with hundreds of clients across the world since ditching her corporate Marketing career back in 2006 to establish her full-time UK Hypnotherapy practise.

Drawing on personal experiences she has overcome many challenging obstacles to become a recognised expert in the field of hypnosis and therapy and is regularly featured in international and national press, including the Daily Mail.

Her fascination for the mind-body response grew whilst living in South America. Access to wide varieties of fresh, nutrient-rich foods, the Latin lust for life, pleasure in exercise and the simple things, initially inspired Sarah to develop her signature FITMIND training program.

This powerful program provides women with answers to the real reasons why they’re struggling to feel fulfilled, aren’t losing weight or achieving their body goals...