20th Forum Summer Campus 2007 in Abano Terme - Trainer Team

Tom Best, (U.S.)

Tom has 20 years of training experience in the field of NLP. His style is unique and entertaining. He was a member of the former "National Association of NLP", has been studying with the main developers of NLP since 1981 and was listed in "Who’s Who in America" in 2002 and 2003. Tom’s background includes cultural anthropology and he is currently modelling effective healers from indigenous cultures and teaching those patterns to others. He is also the founder and principal of Blue Heron Productions, an NLP training organization in Arizona. Tom will be training in the NLP Trainer training. He will also take over parts of the NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner sessions.

Internet: http://home.satx.rr.com/bestresources
Contact: bestresources@satx.rr.com

Stephen Gilligan, PhD (U.S.)

Stephen Gilligan was among the group of students that gathered around the founders of NLP during its formation at U.C. Santa Cruz in the 1970s. He left this group already in the mid 70s and became a student of Milton Erickson and Gregory Bateson. After receiving his doctorate in psychology from Stanford University, Stephen became one of the premier teachers and practitioners of Ericksonian hypnotherapy. His classic "Therapeutic Trances" is THE standard work. His second bestseller "The Courage to Love" introduces to self-relations psychotherapy.

Internet: www.stephengilligan.com
Contact: selfrelate@aol.com

Insa Sparrer

Insa Sparrer has been working as a freelance psychotherapist since 1989. In 1994 she founded the "SySt - Institut für systemische Ausbildung" (Academy for Systemic Training) together with Matthias Varga von Kibéd. At the heart of her work is the combination of contrary therapeutic techniques in theory and practice, such as systemic-phenomenological approaches. She also developed the solution-oriented "Systemic Structure Constellations".

Internet: www.syst-strukturaufstellungen.de
Contact: info@syst.info

Prof. Dr. Matthias Varga von Kibéd

Matthias Varga von Kibéd has been teaching philosophy, logics, philosophy of science and systemic basic set theory at the universities of Munich, Wien, Graz, Konstanz, Goettingen, Tuebingen, Ljubliana, Maribor and many more. His teaching of systemic counselling and therapy is in great demand europewide and he has been teaching it in several consulting training and psychotherapeutic institutes. Together with Insa Sparrer he has developed the "Systemic Structure Constellations".

Internet: www.syst-strukturaufstellungen.de
Contact: info@syst.info

Lucas Derks (Netherlands)

Since 1992 the social psychologist and NLP Trainer has been working on the question: "How do people think about people?": His Social Panorama Model is being taught in various countries on the Master and the Practitioner level. The model combines almost everything that NLP does in the relationship work. Lucas Derks has worked as an NLP trainer in the Netherlands since 1984 and is the author of many books and articles on NLP.
This year, Lucas Derks will offer his "Social Panorama" as a certified training.

Internet: www.sociaalpanorama.nl
Contact: sociaalpanorama@hetnet.nl

Bernd Isert

Bernd Isert graduated in technical and biomedical cybernetics. He has been an NLP trainer since and is Certified Health Provider (kinesiology), alternative practitioner in psychotherapy as well as training coach (ECA and DVNLP). He is the director of METAFORUM international - Academy for Integrative Communication in Berlin, co-founder of NLP-IN and ICI as well as honorary member of the DVNLP. He invented the concept for the summer camp and the Worldcamp that also takes place every year.

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Thies Stahl

Thies Stahl has an M.A. in psychology and is trained in conversational psycho-, shape-, family- and hypnotherapy, in NLP and systemic structure constellations (SySt). He is a member in the founding boards of DVNLP and the DG-NLPt and honorary member of the DVNLP. In 1980 he translated the first NLP book by the NLP founders Bandler and Grinder and he wrote several articles and books on NLP. He offers trainings in NLP, coaching, mediation and basic as well as advanced courses in systemic structural constellation work.

Internet: www.thiesstahl.de
Contact: ts@thiesstahl.de

Gunther Schmidt, MD

MD, Master of Economy, psychotherapist. Head of the Milton Erickson Institute Heidelberg. Co-founder and training therapist of the "Internationale Gesellschaft für Systemische Beratung und Therapie", co-founder and training therapist of the "Helm-Stierlin-Instituts für systemische Beratung, Forschung und Therapie", trainer and (from 1984 to 2003) 2nd president of the "Milton Erickson Foundation for Hypnosis". Co-founder and certified member (senior coach and trainer) of the "Deutscher Bundesverband Coaching" (DBVC).
Executive responsibility as head of the department for systemic-hypnotherapeutic psychosomatics at the specialized hospital "Fachklinik am Hardberg" in Siedelsbrunn and co-founder and head of "SysTelos-Klinik für optimales Gesundheitscoaching" (especially for executives).
Gunther Schmidt has been working in the fields of coaching, consulting and the development of teams and organizations for many years. He has international experience in both consulting companies and the further training of organization development experts. He offers courses in hypno-systemic consulting of organization, coaching and personality development. Gunther Schmidt is the author of various publications (literature, video and audio tapes).

Internet: www.meihei.de
Contact: office@meihei.de

Dorothea Ziesenhenne-Harr

Dorothea Ziesenhenne-Harr is a theologian, certified NLP trainer and neuro-systemic coach. At the heart of her work are NLP trainings in communication, group and individual coaching as well as accompanying processes of grief solution. With her work she wants to guide people in their personal development and offer them a room to get into contact with their own spiritual forces and to exploit them for their own purposes.

Contact: dozies@web.de

Anhard von Lachner

Anhard von Lachner studied electrical engineering, specializing in aviation electronics. Since 1984 he has been working with the development of consciousness and personality. Emotions and beliefs are central in his work with self-awareness groups and in individual therapy. Since 1991 he has been working as NLP psychotherapist, specializing in timelime therapy / re-imprinting. Today he is also a coach for personality development and a management trainer.

Internet: www.nlp-hannover.de
Contact: AvLachner@aol.com

Tom Andreas

Tom Andreas studied philosophy, German language and literature, ethnology and sociology. He has been trained in various methods of humanistic psychology (i.e. shape therapy, various body therapies) and systemic approaches (i.e. SySt). Today he is a DVNLP trainer and coach in his own institute in Cologne (founded in 1995). At the heart of his work are NLP trainings on all levels, business coaching (managing to board level), guiding of change and development processes in organizations (media, business, public and local authorities).

Internet: www.tomandreas.de
Contact: info@tomandreas.de

Ralf Giesen

Ralf Giesen lived in North and Middle America for several years and has been working as a communication trainer in his own institute in Berlin since 1996. He is a DVNLP trainer, systemic coach and wellness trainer (A.C.E., San Diego, USA). As a freelance coach and communication trainer he supports bigger companies and individuals and offers his own NLP trainings. His latest project is called "Trimessi" and is a mixture of seminar, game and online forum.

Internet: www.rgiesen.de
Contact: info@rgiesen.de

Sabine Klenke

Besides her classical trainer training (as a sales and communication trainer) Sabine Klenke is NLP trainer and training coach of the DVNLP. Among many other things, she has also been trained in shape therapy and supervision (HIGW), hypnotherapy (ISNLP), systemic process management (ComTeam) and participated in a solution-oriented short-term therapy training with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg and a 4-year-long training in systemic structure constellations with Matthias Vaga von Kibéd and Insa Sparrer.

Internet: www.silcc.de
Contact: office@silcc.de

Jutta Groth

Jutta Groth has been working as a freelancer in mediation, training, supervision and coaching since 1994. She is an NLP trainer and -therapist, psychiatric alternative practitioner, pedagogue and anti-violence trainer. She, for instance, conceives and carries out anti-violence trainings for men. She is a co-founder and director of the Berlin "Neustart-Instituts für Mediation und kreative Lösungen".

Jutta Groth will be training in the Mediation training.

Internet: www.neustart-mediation.de
Contact: juttagroth@t-online.de

Martina Schmidt-Tanger

Martina Schmidt-Tanger has an M.A. in psychology and is a DVNLP trainer, management consultant and coach. Trainings in group dynamics, relaxation through self-hypnosis, systemic family therapy and other methods of humanistic psychology. After several years of work in the business field, i.e. public relations and personnel communication for the BzgA (German Federal Center for Health Education) as well as organizational development and leadership training as a psychologist at Deutsche Lufthansa AG, she has since been working as a freelance trainer and management consultant and guides big German and international companies in the conception and realization of projects in personnel management, guiding of change processes and coachings. Furthermore, she teaches at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
Martina Schmidt-Tanger will lead the special program "Pro-vocative Coaching" in the framework of the "Systemic Coaching" training and together with Thies Stahl she will offer the program "Team- and Conflict Coaching".

Internet: www.nlp-professional.de
Contact: info@NLP-Professional.de

Arline Davis, USA

Arline is NLP Master trainer, consultant and coach. She has been living and working in Brazil for 17 years. Her interest in systemic thinking and acting developed during her studies in Biology. She has been trained in NLP by Robert Dilts, Judy Delozier, Richard Bandler, Tim Hallbom, Suzi Smith, Stephen Gilligan and other trainers. Arline is an internationally certified coach. She has been directing the "Nucleus for Thought and Action" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for ten years and is currently president of the R.E.D.E. - Network for Education, Gift and Expression. Training: "Rio Abierto System of Harmonic Development", Emotional Relearning through Art Therapy, Somatic Education and Non-Violent Education. At the World Campus Arline will be the contact trainer for the NLP Practitioner group.

Internet: http://www.pnlnucleo.com.br
Contact: arlinedavis@pnlnucleo.com.br

Brian Van der Horst

Brian Van der Horst has been coaching since 1978, an NLP trainer since 1984, when he began to live in Paris, and founded the NLP institute Repère, and founding a school of coaching around the idea of “Integral Coaching” in 1996. Recently, he has been designing and producing programs with John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St. Clair, and Timothy Gallwey; and was Chief Facilitator for Europe with Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute. Specializing in NLP applications for business and intercultural communication, he has coached privately and in various leadership development programs at Hewlett-Packard, The European Investment Bank, Siemens, Lufthansa, and BMW/Rover, among others.