Richard Bolstad

Richard Bolstad was born in New Zealand in 1955. He is a Fellow Member Trainer of NLP (IANLP), a Master Trainer (ICI, IN), Time Line Therapy™ Trainer, A Certified Chi Kung Instructor with the Universal Tao and Chi Lel™. He has a California state recognised Doctorate of Clinical Hypnotherapy and is a trained Teacher (DipTchTert), and a Registered Nurse (RCpN). Richard runs the training organisation 'Transformations International Consulting & Training Ltd', within which he trains with his life partner Julia Kurusheva in New Zealand and internationally. He is widely recognised in the NLP community for his promotion of research-based NLP and is a contributing author in the new books The Clinical Effectiveness of Neurolinguistic Programming: A Critical Appraisal (Advances in Mental Health Research), and Innovations in NLP: Innovations for Challenging Times (where his RESOLVE model for NLP coaching is explained). Richard is the author of many NLP books, published in 8 languages, including Transforming Communication and RESOLVE: A New Model of Therapy. His Transforming Communication course is taught in Europe, Asia, North America, and Australasia, and is available in more than 12 languages. He is also an expert on the application of NLP to major disaster events and has run training for Trauma Response in Samoa, New Zealand, Japan, Russia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina,