Your Trainer - Marcus Katz

Marcus on the Great
Pretender (ITV1) as a Body Language Expert
I
was introduced to NLP twenty years ago, and became
fascinated by the range of applications of this communications
model. Although it was taught to me originally in the realm of
Sales and Presentations, over the years I came to apply it in
not only my work as a consultant in Europe, USA and Asia-Pacific,
to assist presentations and make convincing arguments to Boards
in the public and private sectors, but also to individual change-work.
It also assisted my research as part of my MBA
dissertation at the University of Central Lancashire. After completing
my formal NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner training
with Richard Bandler (co-founder of NLP) and
Paul McKenna, which I chose to take over three
years in order to consolidate learning in-between the sessions,
I came to see how NLP had grown out of hypnosis and linguistic
patterns, so began another course of work in Clinical
Hypnotherapy.
I took a Diploma in the subject, and shortly
afterwards started training other therapists and counsellors in
NLP. It struck me that very few NLP trainers had really worked
as Hypnotherapists in a clinical therapy framework, and very few
Hypnotherapists had trained to a high level in NLP, so I set to
present courses offering the very best of both worlds, using my
commercial background to produce professional materials and advise
on related business issues such as marketing, internet search
engine optimisation, and so on!
As I began developing my courses, students began
to ask what other courses I was running, and this encouraged me
to work full-time in Hypnotherapy and NLP training. In the meantime,
I was achieving results with private clients
so that without any advertising, word-of-mouth recommendations
were increasing my clients from one a month to three a day, some
days! I was also travelling world-wide as part of my IT consultancy
and project work, so I was still standing between two worlds,
applying NLP to Corporate work, and bringing corporate and global
experience to my NLP Training!
Having
completed my Licensed NLP Trainer Training with
Bandler, McKenna and LaValle, I wanted to ensure my range was
wider than most, so took the highest quality of training in Neo-Ericksonian
Hypnotherapy, Sleight of Mouth, Clean Language and Metaphor
work, including training with John Grinder, co-founder
of NLP, Stephen Gilligan, who worked with Milton H. Erickson,
a highly regarded Hypnotherapist, and Doug O'Brien, an acknowledged
master and author of works on Sleight of Mouth (rapid belief-change
patterns). I then arranged to complete my full-time project consultancy
work and take on NLP Training and Hypnotherapy training as a full-time
path.
More recently I have been studying the early
history of Hypnotherapy and NLP in both the UK and Europe towards
a PhD thesis at Exeter University, and taking further training
in Clean Language patterns, which builds on much
of my earlier work with metaphors and their use in clear communication
and direct change-work. I have recently completed a second Masters
Degree in Western Esoteric Philosophy at Exeter University, which
has provided research material for many unique applications in
personal change-work. Unlike most Hypnotherapists and Trainers,
I am under the formal supervision of a registered
clinical psychologist of twenty years experience in the field,
working in the area of trauma victims, to ensure the highest standards
are maintained. This is essential for any therapist or change-worker,
and is definately a component in any likely government regulation
in the area of alternative therapies.

It is my intention to remove much of the
flim-flam and salesmanship that surrounds this field with clear
demonstration and training of the essential principles and deep
structure of NLP and Hypnosis.
If you have any questions at all, please contact
me on 017687 72713 or by e-mail
enquiries@nlpmagick.com and I'll be happy to answer them.
"I hope this conveys some of my background
and approach to your training. For those who like to know more
about their trainer in a domestic sense, I am married to an author
of short stories, who is also an NLP Practitioner (!) have a 19-year
old son studying Dance at York University, and a black cat named
Beth. Training seems to have been a late discovery of vocation,
and I love exploration and travel in worlds Inner and Outer. My
favourite places in the world are the Floatation Tank at the Koan
Centre in Amsterdam, the W Hotel in Chicago, the Lake District,
the Egyptian Section of the British Museum in London, and Akihabara
(Electric City) in Tokyo!"
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