The NZ Trauma Recovery Trust is a dedicated and committed team of NLP Master Practitioners and Trainers who will be traveling to Samoa in February 2010 to carry out NLP Trauma Training and NLP Trauma Therapy for those either directly or indirectly affected by the September tsunami.
Our aim is twofold. One is to train the specialists in the medical and mental health professions in areas of disaster in the NLP Trauma Process. This will then be backed up by providing in-field support for the people we have just trained.
Our other aim is to carry out one on one therapeutic work for anyone suffering from trauma and or grief where it is necessary and appropriate.
Our Mission
Is to help people heal themselves from trauma so in turn they can begin rebuilding their lives and communities, and get back their quality of life.
Our Purpose
Provision of psychological disaster and trauma recovery services using Neuro Linguistic Programming methodologies, including one-on-one therapy with victims of events of trauma or disaster, group training and in-field support for trainees in the use of Neuro Linguistic Programming.
Our Values
Integrity and Professionalism with everything we do
Respect for those we work with and for
Selflessness
Passion for what we do
Growth of others and ourselves
Care of ourselves and our clients
Flexibility to deal with all situations and cultures
Cultural sensitivity and respect
Meet the Team
Each member of the Trauma Recovery Team has undertaken formal NLP Training to ensure they are at the required level to be a part of the team. The minimum requirement to be a part of the team is to be certified to NLP Master Practitioner level.
All of the team have either their own NLP based private practices or NLP based training businesses here in New Zealand. We have all trained under various NLP Trainers and Master Trainers in New Zealand and internationally, and combined bring many years worth of real-life NLP application and knowledge to the project.
Dr. Richard Bolstad, Transformations Consulting and Training
Elena Kostyugova, Success in Mind
Charlotte Hinksman, Charlotte Hinksman & Associates
Karen Ross, Fresh Ways Forward
Lisa Gibson, Turningpoint
Rachel Papaconstantinou, Body n Harmony
Des Shinnick, Vivachi NLP – Centre of Health
Mal Winnie, Stand-Out
Asenati Toilolo-Meijn
Dr Richard Bolstad
Transformations Consulting and Training
www.transformations.net.nz
Trained Nurse (RCpN)
Certified Trainer NLP
Diploma – Teaching
Diploma – Herbalist
D. Clinical Hypnotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist
NZAP, NZANLP, INLPA
Richard Bolstad is the principal trainer for Transformations. He is one of New Zealand’s leading Trainers of NLP. He has personally trained more than half the NLP Practitioners in his native New Zealand, and teaches NLP each year on 4 continents. Richard is an Instructor and certified Trainer of Instructors with Dr Thomas Gordon’s Teacher Effectiveness Training and Effectiveness Training general course. He has been a trained member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists since 1989. He has a Doctorate in Clinical Hypnotherapy (his doctoral study was based on his work dealing with psychological trauma in Bosnia-Herzegovina), and he is a Comprehensive Registered Nurse (general and psychiatric) and a New Zealand trained teacher. He is a certified instructor with two international schools of Chinese exercise and is trained in numerous other therapeutic modalities including Medical Herbalism.
He has written eight books and they, as well as his over 120 internationally published articles on NLP, are variously published in 12 languages. His book Transforming Communication is a required text in several New Zealand and Japanese degree programmes, and has been used as the basis for training top management at New Zealand Inland Revenue, and managers at Bank of New Zealand, New Zealand Immigration Service, medical practitioners at Auckland Medical School, Church Ministers at Auckland Theological College, nurses in several New Zealand degree programmes, retail managers from the New Zealand Retailers Association, as well as management and staff at numerous other business and educational institutions and government agencies.
Richard is a father and grandfather, and lives in New Zealand with his partner and co-trainer Julia Kurusheva. Richard is a personal coach who works with top business and sports people in New Zealand and overseas. His articles on the NLP Trauma Cure process have been published in the Journal of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors and numerous other professional journals around the world.
Elena Kostyugova
Success in Mind
www.successinmind.co.nz
M.Sc. Economics
Certified NLP Master Practitioner
Certified Instructor of Transforming Communications
Ericksonian Hypnotherapist
Time Line Practitioner
Life Coach
Member of NZANLP
Elena has a caring heart and a passion for working with people. She came from Russian Siberia 7 years ago and has been running her own businesses for the last 5 years. Elena is the founder of Success in Mind. She works with individuals, couples and business teams on a regular basis providing personal coaching and life-changing workshops. Elena’s aim is to empower people to overcome fears and emotional blocks that stop them from achieving their full potential in personal life and in business. “I found that NLP gave me a way of getting the best out of my life and I want to share that knowledge with others. My clients are often surprised how fast change can happen; I smile because my client’s success is my success.”
Charlotte Hinksman
Charlotte Hinksman & Associates
www.charlottehinksman.com
BA (hons) Psychology
Certified NLP Master Practitioner incl. Time Line TherapyTM, Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
Chartered Health Practitioner in NZ
Certified NLP Instructor of Transforming Communication
Member NZANLP, NZPS, BPS
Charlotte has a strong background in psychology including an honours degree in straight psychology and years of clinical experience in neuro-psychology, sexual health and organisational psychology. Originally from the UK she completed her training in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) in New Zealand, which completely transformed the way she perceived human change and potential forever. This immediately led to the development of her successful private practice in central Wellington where she currently works independently as a neuro-linguistic practitioner.
Charlotte sees private clients for one on one therapy and coaching; couples and individual work of all ages including children and teenagers, public workshops and seminars, professional training; in-house business training and training other NLP professionals, and business consultancy.
Karen Ross
Fresh Ways Forward and aVara Consulting Ltd
www.freshwaysforward.co.nz www.avaraconsulting.co.nz
BMS hons – Human Resource Mgt
Certified NLP Master Practitioner incl. Time Line Therapy™ & Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Level 1
Chartered Health Practitioner; Member
NZANLP; CIPD (UK)
An experienced coach and trainer, Karen runs a private practice in Auckland, specialising in transformational coaching and therapy. Her background involves a consulting and training career spanning more than a dozen countries; she worked in continental Europe for five years, primarily for KPMG International. She has coached and trained people from numerous countries across Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Japan and even the Caribbean.
Karen’s mission is to help people transform their lives and discover their inner, boundless potential for success, happiness and prosperity. She believes NLP techniques are invaluable tools for transformation. “By its very nature, NLP enables us to experience an increased sense of wholeness, choice and freedom to live fully. I feel excited and privileged in every situation I have the opportunity to work with a group or individual to experience this for themselves.”
Lisa Gibson
Turningpoint
B.A Honours in English Literature
Post-grad Dip in Secondary Teaching
Certified NLP Master Practitioner
Educational Therapist
Member of NZANLP
Lisa is a registered teacher of English and English as a second language (ESOL) with over 20 years experience working internationally teaching both children and adults of all ages. Since becoming a Master Practitioner in NLP she has established Turningpoint a coaching/therapy service aimed at providing practical solutions to help children and families overcome emotional challenges and learning difficulties. She enjoys other people immensely and working with them in a holistic and integrative way. As a mother of two children she is passionate about the positive benefits of NLP in overcoming all kinds of problems including grief and trauma. Lisa also has a special connection to Samoa as she was born in Apia and her father V.S Mackenzie was a “Matai” there for many years before he died eight years ago. Her passion and purpose in life is to bring about positive change and inspire others to live the life they truly deserve.
Rachel Papaconstantinou
Body n Harmony
Certified NLP Master Practitioner & Trainer
Advanced Time Line Therapy & Eriksonian Hypnotherapy
Diploma in Therapeutic Massage
Hawaiian Huna Counselling
Rachel is a mother of two teenage boys and an experienced Body/Mind Therapist. She has been self employed for 20 years working in the healing field with people of all ages. Her background includes teaching in schools helping children with emotional challenges and learning difficulties as well as volunteer work with woman’s refuge and other community centres. She has assisted on numerous NLP Trainings and has used NLP strategies and processes to help people from school age up with consistent and successful results. She currently runs a private practice in Auckland helping people transform and move beyond pain, trauma and limitations.
Des Shinnick
Vivachi NLP – Centre of Health
Certified NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer
Timeline Therapy Practitioner
Resolve Advanced NLP
Professional Member NZANLP
Des has an extensive background in business, sales, management, overcoming personal challenges and coaching. Des runs a private NLP practice in Auckland helping people overcome personal challenges that for many are overwhelming. His practice also includes the specialist area of working with children for these same challenges. He works with people experiencing difficulties such as depression, anxiety, stress, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, trauma, phobia’s, grief, eating disorders and more.
Des has recently been running a series of workshops for Mental Health workers around NLP, Wellbeing and NLP Tools for Working with Clients.
Mal Winnie
Stand-Out Ltd
www.stand-out.co.nz
BSR – Management
Internationally Certified NLP Instructor and Practitioner
Internationally Certified Life Coach
Certified Facilitator Myers Briggs Personality Profiling
Stand-Out Elite Head Trainer
International Facilitator of Life in Balance Seminars
Mal runs his own business in Auckland, NZ which specializes in Corporate Management Training and Coaching as well as Individual Transformational Work through One on One Coaching. Mal’s background has been primarily in Training and Education for the last 15 years having worked in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and Europe. As a trainer, facilitator and coach and has a rare talent in working with and understanding the complexities of people and how to move them forward constructively in life and business. He has personally worked with thousands of people in training or in a one on one coaching / therapeutic capacity and has had many wonderful successes.
Mal became highly passionate in the field of NLP in the 1990’s and has studied it in depth. Mal has a fantastic understanding of both the content and real life application of NLP in both a therapeutic and business context. His passion is to bring NLP to as many people as he can worldwide and enable them to experience the enormous, life changing benefits it can bring.
Asenati Toilolo-Meijn
Certified NLP Instructor of Transforming Communications
Certified NLP Master Practitioner
MSW(Applied)
BA Philosophy
Registered MNZASW
Asenati has worked in a number of caring professions for the past 20 years and after becoming a Transforming Communication Instructor has utilized invaluable NLP communication skills to facilitate positive outcomes for children in need of care and protection within their families in her current role at a Wellington Statutory Child Protection Agency.
The devastating tsunami that affected the Samoan people recently is one of a multitude of environmental disasters occurring in many countries across the world. Asenati became aware of the environmental crisis facing our planet and a positive solution a few years ago. As a result of this she has actively transported her NLP communication skills to help raise awareness and spread the compassionate vegan message as a solution to our environmental crisis with the general public through various educational mediums, including Vegan cooking classes, environmental film viewings, sharing information via DVDs/pamphlets, food and information stalls at festivals in the North Island, and hosting a Samoan environmental Program on Supreme Master Television (SMTV).
Asenati was born in Samoa and migrated to New Zealand with her family at the age of 9. She is married with a chatty 7 year old son and a lovely old cat.
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