LIST OF PRESENTATIONS

SEMINARS PRESENTED

Friday, June 19

Early Afternoon Sessions: 1:45 - 3:15 PM

Hypnosis for Surgery

Non-Pharmacological Analgesia . . . learn techniques of this remarkable tool, reducing the need for drugs (and their possible complications) to eliminate pain while increasing patient comfort during minimally invasive surgical procedures. Training video and case presentation are included. Appropriate for all medical personnel, surgical procedures and those interested in mind-body communication.

Eleanor D. Laser, Ph.D is a clinical psychotherapist specializing in medical hypnosis and hypnotherapy. She further employs NLP, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Adlerian psychology. A pioneer in the field of non-pharmacological analgesia, she trains and presents for universities, hospitals and medical schools.

Explorations of the Mind:Mind/Body Interface

Imagine a structure in which form follows thought...so integrated that any sensory input is instantly transformed into matter. This magnificent structure is your body. In this presentation we will demonstrate some very effective methods for integrating NLP with somatic techniques. This combination enhances change in relationship to state dependent memories and nervous system response patterns.

Shanti and Richard Dureé are internationally known educators, authors, counselors and Specialized Kinesiologists. Richard worked for many years with Olympic and world class professional athletes, and serves on the IASH board. Shanti trained in Gestalt Movement Therapy, massage therapy, Ortho-bionomy, Reiki, yoga, Polarity Therapy, NLP and women's studies. Together, they teach numerous kinesiological programs and other workshops. They maintain private practice in Sweden, Germany, California and Oregon.

Afternoon Sessions: 1:45 - 5:00 PM

Health Magic at Meta Levels

Since meaning always operates in a context - the meanings that get programmed into the body which then generate ill-health and dis-ease occur within some meta-level structure. Participants will first learn about the flexible logical levels that work in Meta-States, the power of frames that create various contexts, and a couple of meta-stating patterns for transforming toxic frames into frames for vitality and well-being.

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. is an international NLP trainer, author of numerous books in NLP (Spirit of NLP, Ferocious Presenter, Meta-States, Dragon Slaying, Figuring Out People, Time-Lining, NLP: Going Meta Into Logical Levels, How To Do What When, etc.), and is currently traveling full-time doing Meta-state Training and Certification.

Getting Started with an NLP/Health Research Project

This session introduces the basic steps in designing and conducting a health-related research project in the field of NLP. Developing research ideas, assembling a research team, identifying common research mistakes are covered with a hands-on opportunity to get started with a research project. (Bring an idea!)

Dana Meyers, MHE is director of a wellness center and management consulting firm. She has over 10 years experience in qualitative research, grant writing and team building. She is a master practitioner and health certified NLP practitioner, is interim coordinator for IASH and Editor of The Health Attractor Journal.

Beliefs and Sports Performance

Move to reclaim your physical power and abundant energy in this performance coaching workshop for mind-body balance. Whether a weekend warrior, a seasoned athlete, or simply serious about health and fitness, this lively, experiential and practical workshop teaches NLP skills to consistently maximize your potential.

David H. Paul, MD is a pioneer in the integration of mind-body medicine, nutrition, and exercise with traditional Western medicine. His specialty is using NLP processes for optimal health and long term well-being. He is Board Certified in Sports Medicine, an NLP Master Practitioner and is Health Certified.

Late Afternoon Sessions: 3:30 - 5:00 PM

NLP and the Highly Sensitive Person

Understanding the newly discovered Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) trait, prevalent in 15-20% of the population, will allow NLP Practitioners to identify and improve the physical and mental health of their HSP clients. Included: how to identify HSP's, difficulties HSPs typically experience, and some appropriate NLP tools and interventions.

Rob Ryder is a Master Practitioner and has been involved with NLP for 14 years. Equipped with an engineering degree and an MBA from U. C. Berkeley, his business career has been in engineering, sales and management. Rob is also a Certified Massage Therapist, glider pilot, and inventor. Currently, he is a Program Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Turning the Cancer Corner

In January of 1997, Sharon Norton was diagnosed with bone cancer. She enlisted the help of Clinton and Edna Clay. The three presenters will describe their individual roles in this process. Sharon as "explorer"; Clinton as "therapist/guide"; Edna as "meta person/friend." The interweaving of these three dimensions will be shared.

Sharon Norton, LCSW is a master practitioner in NLP is in private practice in Birmingham, AL. Clinton Clay, LCSW is an NLP trainer in private practice in Huntsville, AL. Edna Clay is a NLP trainer, teaches classes on health, stress, and communication. All three are graduates of HCT training and have been intervisors for HCT.

PARTY!! 7:30 - 10:00 PM

MerKaBa, Urban Tribal Trance Rock for the Soul. MerKaBa brings the ancient trance oriented sound of the Didgeridoo into a unique blend of Shamanic World Rock.

Saturday, June 20

Morning Sessions, 10:00 - 11:45 AM

The Awakening of Ben: A Young Boy and His Family's Recovery from a Traumatic Brain/Body Injury

Pacing/leading breathing of a patient on life support, speaking to a loved one while in reality speaking to the patient, calibrating REM patterns, stimulating unused modalities, accelerating re-use of bodily functions, accelerating waking and recovery of lost senses, speech, visual field loss, walking, cognitive processing ability, and much more.

Lara J. Coulson is a Master Practitioner of NLP. She spent 4 years at Penn State studying psychophysiology, and for the last 10 years has extensively researched the mind/body connection and it's relationship to positive health outcomes. Jesus said "with the faith of a mustard seed you could move mountains." She does.

Your Shin Bone's Connected to Your Ankle Bone

Dancing your health and healing using five different energies that represent the big picture, your steps or strategies, beliefs about yourself and the world around you, the "what if's," new ideas/paradigms, and you at your core, your uniqueness. Musical metaphors enhance this experience.

Lillian Irene Berg is a master and certified health practitioner of NLP, personal coach, nutritionist, yoga alchemy™ and ecstatic dance teacher and master Reiki practitioner at Mind-Body-Spirit Archaeology, personal coaching with a difference.

Freedom Express!

People experience addictions in many ways. The item craved is in control, has the power...not the person. Co-dependent or inter-dependent relationships exhibit many similarities to addictions. Enmeshed relationships call for strong solutions. A combination of strategies to put the control back in the client's lap for relief, peace and freedom.

Judith B. Lavine is affiliated with "Open the Door to Your Mind," a firm that offers, counseling, hypnosis services, NLP trainings and consulting, and a variety of metaphysical, energy and shamanic healings.

Intervention Paths for Serious Illness

Some ideas, models and general processes for helping people to help themselves to regain health in the face of serious diseases such as cancer. Any disease, especially a serious one, is a multi-level cause signal. In this workshop, we'll explore a general approach with some special hints for serious illness.

Ulrich Hoening is working as a trainer, health and business consultant in Münich, Germany. He was HCT certified in London with Ian McDermott. Fifteen years ago he began his exploration of health issues as a naturopathic physician.

The Heart of the Challenge

Challenge Course techniques, along with NLP Master Practitioner and Gestalt concepts, to offer participants experiential activities which will allow them to learn how to trust themselves and to accept support from others, thereby encouraging personal health and well-being. Dress should be comfortable-jeans or slacks.

Penny Manard is an NLP Master Practitioner and a certified Challenge Course Facilitator (6 years). She offers her programs near New Orleans. She most enjoys working with corporate management teams, adults and teens (in various recovery programs), and students. She has developed a successful application of NLP and Gestalt theory to Challenge Course activity and loves to generate enthusiasm and creativity into learning.

NLP Hermeneutics of Mind in Weight Loss Process

Being overweight is a health hazard. We present one author's process of losing 100 lbs. and maintaining the desired weight for 7 years. We look at the structure of internal experience, strategies for loss of weight and for maintaining at the desired weight. We look at outcome frames, at re-framing and at maintaining boundaries.

Rita Weinberg, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at National-Louis University, Wheeling, Illinois. She is an NLP trainer and has given many presentations at NLP meetings. Her current research deals with the use of metaphors contextually and with using NLP technology in schools.

Carol Cortilet, M.S. in Writing and M.Ad.Ed. Adult Education, is a doctoral student in Educational Psychology and an instructor in writing at National-Louis University.

Afternoon Sessions 1:45 - 5:00 PM

Metaphoric Model for Self-Healing

This workshop teaches the Parts Delegation Model for self-generative healing plus a monitoring system which maximizes the possibility that what you ask a part of the mind to do, it will do. It includes seven areas of application. It allows you to do meaningful work at the deepest levels of the unconscious safely, with a minimal of hypnosis and NLP skills.

Robert W. Fletcher is an educator who, after 28 years of working with the deaf and blind special needs students, left public education to apply his skills as an NLP consultant and hypnotherapist. He has been doing private consulting for the past 13 years. Happily married for 37 years, he has 8 children and 15 grandchildren.

A Compelling Self-Image through IDEA Model™

Having a road map certainly helps get from one location to another. Similarly, having a well-formed image of a "compelling healthy self" allows us to have a road map to health. Explore how Internal Dominant Eye Accessing (IDEA Model™) can assist in combining information from both hemispheres of the brain in forming a compelling self-image of the healthy you.

Al Sargent is an international NLP trainer and golf professional. He is the developer of the IDEA Model™, author at the leading edge of communication technology, and co-owner of Success Design International.

Marilyn Sargent has a passion for teaching NLP and trains internationally as well as maintaining a consulting practice in Los Angeles. She is director of training with Success Design International, with a warm and organized training style. Al and Marilyn balance their energies to keep their trainings lively and exciting while providing a safe environment.

An Introduction to Tapas Accupressure Treatment

An introduction to the Tapas Accupressure Treatment (TAT) which is based on use of specific meridians and is combined with imaging to obtain desired outcomes. It is in some ways more versatile than Thought Field Therapy and easier to learn. Participants will be able to use it by the end of the workshop.

Charles D. Stewart, Ph.D., B.S. Psychology, M.B.A. Industrial Relations, Ph.D. Group Dynamics. Extensive training in Transactional Analysis, NLP, and more recently, energy fields. President of C.D. Stewart Assoc., Inc. a consulting firm working primarily in interpersonal skills for managers and organizations.

Help Heal through the Dream of the Part in Pain

Tianna combines her DECIPHER© dreamwork, NLP and Huna to help heal emotional/ physical pain. Hawaiian Shamanism, or Huna, teaches that each part of the body has its own dream. The dream of your part in distress is elicited; interpreted; then changed using resource symbols. This new dream is reinstalled into the body.

Tianna Galgano is a dream researcher, NLP Master, Certified Huna Healer, widely traveled teacher, and a writer of numerous articles for Anchor Point. Tianna combines dreamwork, NLP and Hawaiian Shamanism for healing. She is the originator of DREAM DECIPHER©, a quick, simple and reliable method of dream and symbol interpretation.

Corporate Shaman

In today's chaos, corporations need guidance to find their way to the future. Learn how to: 1) adapt NLP techniques to work with larger systems-teams, organizations, and corporations; 2) use the Incan Medicine Wheel to diagnose the healing journey; and 3) integrate the Four-Fold Way.

Jay Arthur is a master practitioner, trainer, and certified health practitioner, and the co-author of the NLP Personal Profile and Guidebook. He is also an apprentice shaman in the Incan tradition. Jay describes himself as a "corporate shaman," working in large organizations to heal both the company and its employees, and to accelerate their evolution.

Medical Panel: Bridging the Gap

An international medical panel, exploring and sharing experiences and strategies to ensure "health care" continues to evolve, optimizing healing options and results through "complementary" cooperation, respect and support. Doctors from Germany, Scotland, England, U.S.A., South America participate.

Diane Cunningham, MS, RNC, FHCE of the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics moderates this exciting event.

Special Evening Session 7:30 - 9:00 PM

A Dialogue Between Healers

Two incredible healers conversing, sharing and responding. Their initial meeting was during a "Modeling a Healer" project in 1994. Robert was the modeler, Judie the model. Evident to all who participated, it was only the beginning of the gleaning of valuable and evolutionary healing capacities. Here, they connect again, and provide participants a rare opportunity to interact, question, and delight in the wisdom and inspiration of 'healers in community'.

Judie B. McReynolds is a natural clairvoyant, psychic and energy healer, touching the lives of thousands with remarkable healing results for more than 20 years. Her sparkle, humor and down-to-earth demeanor (not bad for a reputed 'time and space traveler') makes for a fun-filled, stimulating and enlightening conversation event!

Robert Dilts is famed as a leading innovator and depth-expanding force in the field of NLP, is also recognized as a healer. He, along with Suzi Smith and Tim Hallbom, has a dream...the building of a World Health Community, positively influencing health possibilities for individuals, communities and beyond, that continues to evolve through NLP mastery and applications in the arena of health.

Sunday, June 21

Morning Sessions 9:15 AM - 12:30 PM

The Slingshot Technique

A new tool for managing depression, low self-esteem or procrastination. The Slingshot Technique persuasively reframes the behavior/capabilities of being depressed, having low self-esteem or procrastinating as more work and more difficult than being happy, having a responsible opinion of yourself or being productive. This leads to releasing those behaviors/capabilities in favor of the more life-affirming ones.

Mary Vanderwart, Ph.D. and Kevin Creedon, C.F.P. are the founders of the Dynamic Wellness Center of New York. Mary is a psychologist specializing in health and addictions. Kevin is a Feldenkrais Practitioner and NLPer who works with people with serious health issues and performance issues.

The Well Formed Story

Will show you how to learn, teach and do NLP metaphorically and support your new-found creative adventure by giving you the following resources: Creativity Exercises to enhance your writing skills and use of metaphorical language. A Guided Process to integrate your "inner critic" and your "inner artist." Ideas & Inspiration - what to see, do and hear to create your own stories. A new NLP Model for the Well Formed Story.

Mary Shannon Campbell is a certified hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner with a private practice in San Francisco. Her articles have been published in Anchor Point, The Practical Journal of NLP and she is the author of the book, The Well Formed Story, How to Use NLP Processes in a Fictional Format. She was a featured presenter at the Mountain States NLP annual conference in Sun Valley, Idaho in October, 1997.

"Scanning" - Expanding Your Sensory Connection to Facilitate Healing

Judie has the incredible capacity to 'read' the physical and energetic bodies like an MRI...to see, hear and feel significant communications beyond 'normal' sensory awareness. She shares her gift, utilizing discoveries from the "Modeling a Healer" project and additional activities. Participants will experience opportunities to explore and develop their abilities to safely 'open and receive', enabling them to more skillfully facilitate healing processes.

Judie B. McReynolds...see conference keynote description.

Closing Ceremony 1:45 - 3:15 PM

Healing Ourselves, Healing the World

Robert Dilts, Tim Hallbom and Suzi Smith

A Healer's Oddesy
Healers of the World Slide Show

3:30 - 5:00 PM

Come along on a tour of the world from the perspective of one young man on a personal pilgrimage in search of healers. Living day to day with the people he visited, Jim Martin found himself on a journey of discovery in many of the most spectacularly beautiful and spiritually powerful places on the planet. He was blessed with the rare opportunity to follow the seasons, festivals, teachings and tips from fellow travelers.

Jim Martin, Lic. Ac. In 1973, Jim put on his backpack, wished his friends and family well and set out to hitch-hike around the world. He returned in 1980 with several broken bones, a very battered backpack and a wealth of stories from adventures in over forty countries in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Jim has since added adventures in New Zealand, Hawaii and the American Southwest, including experiences with a Lakota Sioux medicine family.