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Jamie Smart – NLP & Language, Happiness & Spirituality Specialist
Jamie is a highly skilled and experienced SNLP-accredited NLP trainer and founder of Salad. He has been taught by Richard Bandler, John Grinder, Chris Hall & most of the other 'big names' in the field.

Jamie excels at passing on his skills with an exceptional blend of humour, compassion and wisdom. His weekly NLP tips are read by over 40,000 people around the world, & the NLP Coaching Cards™, Ericksonian Hypnosis Cards™ and other training products he has created are used by thousands of people to develop their NLP & hypnosis skills.
www.saladltd.co.uk

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Christina Hall – NLP Language & Training Specialist
Christina began her own NLP training in 1977, with co-originators Bandler and Grinder, and her collaboration with Richard Bandler produced many of the best-known developments, including Submodalities, The Swish Pattern, The Compulsion Blowout Technique and many others. Bandler made her a Meta-Master Trainer of NLP to acknowledge her extraordinary ability, artistry and contribution to the field.

Christina is a licensed psychotherapist, a Certified Hypnotherapist, and holds a Doctorate in Psychology and Neuro-Semantic Linguistics. She is 'the language master’, and quite literally “the trainer's trainer”.
www.chris-nlp-hall.com


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Steve Andreas – NLP & Hypnosis Specialist
Steve Andreas, with his wife and partner Connirae, has been learning, teaching, and developing patterns in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) since 1977.Steve and Connirae are the co-editors and/or authors of a number of NLP books and over fifty articles. They have also produced over fifty videotaped and audiotaped demonstrations of NLP patterns for personal change.
www.steveandreas.com

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Nick Kemp – Provocative Change Works, Provocative Therapy, NLP Training Specialist
Since the late 1970s Nick Kemp has been involved in personal development and accelerated learning trainings
as well as running training seminars for the business sector. He runs Tranceforming NLP with Tina Taylor which
is one of the most successful NLP training businesses in the UK. His Human Alchemy products and trainings (including "The Art of Good Fortune") can be found at www.nickkemptraining.com

In 2004 Nick met Frank Farrelly and began an intensive immersion into learning Provocative Therapy to become one of the few Farrelly approved Provocative Therapy Trainers. As well as offering PT training, Nick set up his own "Provocative Change Works" seminars which reflect some of the strategies and approaches he used in producing the acclaimed "Provocative Change Works for Phobias" DVD set and draws inspiration from the works of Richard Bandler, Milton Erickson and Frank Farrelly among others. He also used this approach during his extensive BBC Radio appearances, successfully curing a wide range of phobias live on the air.
www.nickkemp.com


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Jonathan Altfeld – NLP & Modelling Specialist
Jonathan is the founder of the Mastery InSight Institute, based in Tampa, FL. which has been in business for over 10 years.

Jonathan aims to help you improve your life experience & communication results dramatically. To provide you with powerful info, excellent techniques, & actionable strategies for improving your relationships & succeeding more in business. He'll give you a serious edge, in achieving your goals.

The Mastery InSight Institute provides high-quality training to improve communication skills, clarify goals & optimize strategies. In most cases, their workshops & CD/DVD recordings are highly useful for most anyone regardless of background. Thanks to our accelerated-learning -based methodology (FAST™), you can anticipate learning more at one of their events than at many others of similar duration.
www.altfeld.com


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L. Michael Hall Ph.D – NLP & Modelling Specialist
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. is an entrepreneur who lives in the Rocky Mountains of western Colorado where he had a private therapy practice for many years, operated an NLP Training Center, and from where he began trainings in Meta-States and Neuro-Semantics.

Regarding NLP, he studied originally with Richard Bandler in the late 1980s and became a Master Practitioner and Trainer. His notes of the Bandler’s trainings eventually became the books The Spirit of NLP (1996) and Becoming More Ferocious as a Presenter. He worked with Bandler on the Society of NLP and edited two books, Time For a Change and Applied Neuro-Dynamics.

Dr. Hall’s doctorate is in Cognitive-Behavioral Psychology is from Union Institute University in Cincinnati Ohio. His doctoral dissertation explored the languaging of four psychotherapies (NLP, RET, Reality Therapy, Logotherapy) using the formulations of General Semantics. He addressed the Interdisciplinary International Conference (1995) presenting an integration of NLP and General Semantics.  His Masters degree was in Clinical Counseling and Psychology from Regis University in Denver Colorado and his Bachelors of Science was in Management of Human Resources.  Prior to those degrees he took a Masters in Biblical Literature and Language.

As an author, Dr. Hall is known as a prolific writer with 30 some books to his name, more than 100 published articles and is recognized as a leading NLP Trainer and developer of many models, most notably the revolutionary Meta-States model and more recently the Matrix model. In 1996, Michael co-founded with Dr. Bob Bodenhamer Neuro-Semantics® as a field of study and as an International Society.
www.neurosemantics.com

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Jeremy Lazarus – NLP & Sport Specialist
Jeremy is an Executive and High Performance Coach, and an NLP Master Trainer with over fifteen years experience
in business and finance. His clients include blue chip companies, professional services firms, entrepreneurs and sportsmen/women. He has appeared as a guest coach on TV and radio.

Jeremy is interested in the use of NLP to drive the beliefs and behaviours that are essential to success in business and sport. He is the author of Ahead of the Game: How to Use Your Mind to Win in Sport (Ecademy Press, 2006).
www.thelazarus.com

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Judy Rees - Clean Language & Business Specialist
Author, trainer and consultant Judy Rees is passionate about effective communication, especially in business and online. In particular, she is fascinated by the most neglected, yet possibly most important, aspect of communication: listening. She and her company X-ray Listening (www.xraylistening.com) are based in Brentford, Middlesex, UK.

Judy is an expert in the questioning and listening technique Clean Language, and the co-author (with Wendy Sullivan) of the category bestseller Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds.

A former journalist and media executive, she has been working with Clean Language in 2005, and has trained people from all over the world to use the technique. She has developed a number of business applications and taught these to people in fields ranging from factory floor to boardroom, education to engineering, sales to complementary medicine. Reported results have included greater clarity (reducing misunderstandings and waste), improved rapport (leading to stronger working relationships) and deep insights into what customers and others really want (increasing satisfaction and boosting sales).
www.xraylistening.com

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Charles Faulkner - NLP Comprehensive
A prolific innovator, Charles has pioneered methods for accelerated language learning, as well as medical and financial decision-making. He is particularly well-known for his work with futures traders and his research on the role of "metaphor" in communication and behavior. Charles is the author of Metaphors of Identity, Submodalities: An Inside View of Your Mind, Worlds Within a Word, The Essence of Intuition, The Mythic Wheel of Life, Creating Irresistible Influence with NLP, co-author of NLP In Action, and chief architect and co-author of NLP:The New Technology of Achievement and Success Mastery with NLP.
www.nlpco.com

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Doug O'Brien - NLP Master Trainer
Doug O’Brien is a Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP, and a Certified Hypnotherapist. In 1988, while assisting at NLP and NAC training seminars with Anthony Robbins, Doug achieved the designation of Master Trainer. He now conducts numerous seminars of his own around the globe (specializing in the “Sleight of Mouth” patterns of Robert Dilts, NLP Certification Courses, and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy) and helped found Columbia-Presbyterian’s Department of Complementary Medicine.
www.ericksonian.com

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Peta Heskell – NLP & Relationships Specialist
Peta Heskell aka the Flirt Coach specialises in helping people get to know themselves and others and attract exquisite relationships.  She is a popular TV expert and has had 4 books on Flirting, Relationship and Attraction published by Harper Collins.  She runs confidence building NLP Pulling Power ‘playshops’ and has been a relationship/confidence coach for 15 years. She is a Licensed NLP Trainer, MythoSelf Facilitator™ and Strategic Attraction™ Coach. Peta's latest project is the film LoveTalk.
http://lovetalkmovie.com and www.attractionacademy.com

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Michael Watson – NLP & Hypnosis Specialist
Master hypnotist Michael Watson is known for his light-hearted, insightful and provocative style. He combines the wisdom of traditional teachings and the innovation of contemporary applications to present a comprehensive understanding of hypnosis, NLP and other transformational modalities.

Michael is a Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP and
hypnosis and is a member of the American Board of Hypnotherapy, the Hypnosis Education Association, and the International Association of Counselors and Therapists. He practices in Orlando, Florida.
www.phoenix-services.org


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Simon Hazeldine – NLP & Influence Specialist
Simon is a recognised expert in the fields of The Psychology of Performance, The Psychology of Influence and Selling and Negotiation. He works internationally as a speaker, trainer, coach and facilitator, and his programmes in the areas of performance, leadership, sales, negotiation and influential communication are used in 28 countries.

Simon is a Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP, and a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management. He has been responsible for numerous client accounts each worth in excess of £20 million in sales, & is author of the books Bareknuckle Selling and Bareknuckle Negotiation.
www.simonhazeldine.com


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Andrew Austin – NLP & Therapy Specialist
Formerly a registered nurse working in clinical neurology and neurosurgery, Andrew began his nursing career in Accident and Emergency. Working in A&E he quickly developed a strong reputation for working with the many psychiatric and mental health related emergencies that were frequently presented to the department. It was during this period in 1994 that he began training in hypnosis and therapy at the Royal Masonic Hospital in London and his interest in psychotherapy and neurolinguistics grew.

As a neurolinguist, Andrew T. Austin runs The West Sussex Hypnosis and NLP Study Group and is the author of, The Rainbow Machine - Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal published by Real People Press and introduced by Steve Andreas.

It is via his frequent writings, workshops and lectures that Andrew T. Austin is rapidly becoming known the leading NLP orientated therapist emphasising the neurological side of personal change and therapy.  His seminars and workshops are sought out by NLP practitioners, trainers and psychotherapists seeking to deepen their knowledge and skills base of the neurological underpinnings of their work.
www.23nlpeople.com

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Norman Vaughton – NLP & Therapy Specialist
Norman Vaughton spent ten years in education in the UK and was then a Headmaster and subsequently an Education Inspector in Papua New Guinea.  He then retrained in Psychology, Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy and studied in the UK, the United States and on the Continent.  He was soon invited to teach with two Training Colleges and eventually became the senior lecturer with the Academy of Curative Hypnotherapy. He has conducted full training courses in Manchester, Bristol, London, Nottingham and Newcastle on Tyne.  He has also taught on a regular basis in Russia and also in the Ukraine and in the United States of America.  He is widely known throughout the Russian speaking world through DVDs of his seminars in Moscow.

Norman is a charismatic and exciting teacher who has a gift of making clear complex concepts. His demonstrations of techniques and interventions are impressive.  It is his aim to empower participants at any of his workshops to be able to utilise the skills they have learned in their own practices with immediate effect.

Ernest Rossi (author of Psychobiology of Mind-body Healing: New Concepts of Therapeutic Hypnosis) was one of Milton Erickson’s most famous students, & was one of the people who significantly developed Erickson’s work after his death. In 1998, he wrote to Norman Vaughton, “passing the torch” to him & asking him to continue developing Erickson’s work, saying “Please Norman! Take all this from me”

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James Lavers – NLP Business & Marketing Growth Specialist
To his top paying clients he's known as the 'Jay Abraham' of NLP. James Lavers is the Leading Business Builder for the NLP
& Coaching Industries. In the last 7 years his advice has helped generate an additional $160milllion in revenues for his clients. Master Trainers of NLP and Start-up Trainers, Therapists and Coaches alike have turned to his marketing expertise to increase their results and help create the enterprise of their dreams.

As an accomplished Hypnotist and NLPer himself; James has created several effective marketing models and distinctions, including The Spike Method - The Presuppositions of Successful Marketing - Neuro-Positioning & Lavers' Logical Levels of Business Success.
www.jameslavers.com

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Christian Mickelsen - Business Success Specialist
Christian E. Mickelsen is a leading authority on business success. The founder of Small Biz U, an online business training program with business owner students all around the world and CoachesWithClients. Christian is the author many titles including "How to quickly get started in professional coaching: the hidden truth about what it really takes!" Christian has taught over 100 different classes on business development and is a sought after speaker by many business organizations. Christian lives in San Diego, CA and enjoys a "magical life" with the love of his life, Chelsa!
www.CoachesWithClients.com

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James Tripp - Hypnosis Specialist
James Tripp is a Consultant Hypnotist, Personal Change Specialist, Performance Coach and developer of the acclaimed Hypnosis Without Trance approach to Hypnosis. James has a whole host of qualifications including NLP Trainer (SNLP), Hypnotherapy, Osteopathy & Natural Therapeutics, and has worked alongside many of our established myNLPresources contributors such as Andrew Austin, Nick Kemp and Norman Vaughton. Aside from his professional work, James is also a musician (guitar, bass guitar, vocals, programming) and music composer, and accomplished martial artist (Systema, Taijiquan, Baguazhang), and a semi-professional magician, mentalist and ’street hypnotist’. James is married, has 2 daughters and lives in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, U.K.
www.hypnosiswithouttrance.com and www.jamestripp.co.uk

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Scott Sandland, C.Ht. – Hypnosis Specialist
Scott Sandland, C.Ht. is a highly sought out practitioner for medical and dental applications of hypnosis. He has risen to a level of expertise that has attracted the attention of hospitals, private practice doctors and drug and alcohol rehab centers.

Scott has worked with many clinicians in the fields of pain control and addictions. His success has lead to a position on the board of directors for the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association and a chapter presidency for the International Association of Counselors and Therapists. With his commitment to continued education for himself and his peers, Scott is a Mentor for members of the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association.

He is a dynamic speaker with extensive skills in hypnosis and NLP. The addiction work is a specialty that utilizes his power to affect change in people rapidly and permanently. Scott is also the founder of the hypnosis social networking site Hypnothoughts.
www.gohypnotherapy.com and www.hypnothoughts.com

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Keith Livingston – Hypnosis Specialist
Keith Livingston has been studying hypnosis since he was a boy. He is a Master Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapist with specialties in pain control, weight control, smoking cessation, and painless childbirth. Over 17,000 people read his NLP and hypnosis blog at
http://www.hypnosis101.com/wordpress/



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Jevon Dängeli
Jevon is a Certified Trainer of NLP, HNLP (Humanistic Neuro-Linguistic Psychology) and Hypnotherapy as well as a Certified Coach. He is also the developer of The Authentic Self Empowerment™ Method.

His background is seated in his extensive experience as a Personal Fitness Trainer and Judo Coach with a keen interest in health and wellness. Later he became increasingly curious about how our internal beliefs, values and states influence our outer perspective of reality and create our experiences. Thus his desire to achieve a life of authenticity and wellness became an exploration of more holistic approaches which he also integrates into his Training and Coaching style.

Jevon continues to explore and study various personal and professional development methodologies, scientific and metaphysical healing modalities, as well as spiritual systems around the world as he has done over the past twelve years. He especially enjoys keeping up to speed and on par with the latest developments in the NLP, Hypnotherapy and Coaching fields.
http://www.neuro-linguistics.net

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Chantal Burns
Chantal Burns is a hugely experienced corporate trainer and success coach.

After 15 years working in media, sales and business development, she set up Star Consultancy and has been designing and delivering seminars and training events for nearly 10 years. Chantal works with many of the world’s leading media and communications companies. She’s recognised for increasing influence and inspiring change.

Chantal is an NLP Trainer and licensed to administer and feedback on a wide variety of psychological tools, using these with both individuals and teams. She’s been teaching NLP for several years and is a leader in the field of applied NLP for business success. We’re excited to have Chantal training with us on Salad's NLP Practitoner program and we know you will love learning with her.
www.starconsultancy.com

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Andrew Duffy – NLP Application Skills and Cultural Change Specialist
Since 2002 Andrew has been trained and Trainer in many aspects of NLP and hypnosis applications for a wide variety of businesses and individuals.  Andrew is a Certified Trainer of NLP and Registered Hypnotherapist. He has trained at every opportunity with many of the developers of the field of NLP and it's creators, he also places high value in rediscovering books, listening to cd's and watching video whenever possible to continue developing his skills.  These days Andrew is engaged as a Cultural Change Agent and Trainer in organizations and presents the Lincoln NLP Practice Group each month. He still works with private clients as well as being an author and innovator in the field of NLP. 

Each year Andrew designs and delivers a few seminars for small numbers of people who have a desire to really develop themselves and/or the field of NLP. These Experiences have shown many different people new ways to achieve more for themselves and those around them and also gives them the opportunity to become certified Practitioners and Master Practitioners of NLP.  He has been described as "An exceptionally talented and skilled NLP Trainer" and is the creator of the NLP skills polishing program and the Belts and Braces techniques. 

His commitment to developing people and himself is driving a quest to expose as many people as possible to the powerful techniques of NLP. He has worked with ‘cool brands’ such as Toni and Guy on implementing changes in business development and within the sales industry on ethical influence and effective communication.
www.lincolnnlp.co.uk

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Nigel Hetherington - NLP & Hypnosis Specialist
Nigel Hetherington is the founder of Communicating Excellence an NLP and Hypnotherapist training provider. Nigel also practices as a Hypnotherapist and Performance Coach.

Nigel has been practising NLP since 2001 and Hypnosis since 2000 and completed his NLP Trainer Training with Dr. John Grinder the co-creator of NLP. Nigel is also a certified by NLP co-creator Dr Richard Bandler as a Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR) practitioner. Nigel has completed the ‘Language In Action’ training with Christina Hall - NLP Meta Master Trainer, Integral Eye Movement Therapy with Andrew Austin and most recently another NLP Trainer Trainer qualification with The Society of NLP and Christina Hall.

Nigel is a member of the General Hypnotherapy Register, the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council, the NLP Register, a member of the Professional Guild of NLP and The Society of NLP.
www.communicatingexcellence.com 

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Carl Harvey - NLP & Personal Development Specialist
Carl Harvey is a self-professed "self help junkie" who has spent the past 3 years trying out every personal development technique I've come across - from The Sedona Method to The Silva Method (and several other "Methods" inbetween!) to Visualization and NLP and much more.

Carl's read hundreds of books, been on dozens of courses, invested thousands of dollars and is fortunate enough to have met (and know) some of the biggest thinkers in the self change game.

Carl is a qualified Master Practitioner of NLP and Time Line Therapy (and will soon be a qualified Trainer of NLP and a life coach too)
http://www.personal-development-planet.com

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John Carey – NLP & Education Specialist
John has a senior leadership role within Durham Local Authority's Children and Young People's Services' Education Development Service, and runs his own personal, professional and organisational development consultancy, Still Point Solutions. John is a Society of NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, and is the founder of the British Institute of NLP.

As a teacher, consultant, adviser and coach of over 30 years' experience, John has facilitated the development of many individuals and organizations. He has a real passion for this work and is highly motivated to help all adults working in our schools become the very best they can so that they in turn can ensure the children in their care become the very best they can.
www.stillpointsolutions.co.uk


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Christopher Davies – NLP & Education Specialist
Christopher taught in primary schools for 13 years before taking a year out to do the inspirational Advanced Certificate in Speech and Drama at The Central School of Speech and Drama in London.  He then joined the Leicestershire Drama Advisory Service where he ran courses for teachers, worked in special schools and set up youth theatres for students with learning difficulties.  He has tutored on Leicester University's MA drama course, run INSET across the Midlands and the Isle of Man and led INSET training for The National Theatre.  

Since 1994 he has been a freelance education consultant running trainings in behaviour management and motivation for senior managers, teachers and support staff.  He is the artistic director of Bamboozle Theatre Company which specialises in working with students who have emotional, behavioural and learning difficulties.

Christopher's love of language and the power it has to influence students led him to become a master practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming).  He has trained with some of the best trainers around including Richard Bandler, Paul McKenna, Jamie Smart and Shelley Rose Charvet.  He is particularly interested in showing education professionals how they can quickly and profoundly change the behaviour of students, and how the strategies that NLP uses enables us to connect with students more quickly, more effectively and more deeply.
www.bamboozletheatre.co.uk

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