His NLP Practitioner’s Certification comes from L.E.A.D.’s Consultants in Reynoldsburg, OH, Dr. Gene Rooney, Trainer. Dr. Bodenhamer’s NLP Master Certification and Master Time Line TherapyTM Practitioner Certification came from Tad James, PhD of Advanced Neuro-Dynamics of Honolulu, HI. Additional training has been received from NLP conferences. Dr. Bodenhamer has approximately 1500 hours of formal NLP training. He teaches NLP in the Corporate/Community Education program at Gaston College. Dr. Bodenhamer received his certification as a Trainer of NLP from Tad James, PhD, Advance Neuro Dynamics, Honolulu, Hawaii and Wyatt Woodsmall, PhD of Advanced Behavioral Modeling, Inc., Arlington, VA.
As an International Master NLP Trainer, he offers both certified training for Practitioners and Master Practitioners of NLP. He serves as a training and therapy consultant for corporations and he has a private NLP Therapy practice. Dr. Bodenhamer has served four Southern Baptist churches as pastor. He is presently serving as pastor of a mission church called Christ Fellowship Community Church. His time in the pastorate spans 34 years. All of his pastorates have been in North Carolina.
He co-founded the Institute of Neuro-Semantics with L. Michael Hall, PhD.
He has co-authored eight books with Michael Hall:
Patterns For Renewing The Mind: Christian Communicating & Counseling Using NLP (1996) with Michael Hall
Figuring Out People: Design Engineering With Meta-Programs (1997) with Michael Hall.
Time Lining: Advance Time-Line Principles (1998) with Michael Hall
Mind-Lines: Conversational Reframing, 4th Edition (1998, 2002) with Michael Hall
The Structure of Excellence: Unmasking The Meta-Levels of “Submodalities” (1999) with Michael Hall
The User’s Manual for the Brain: The Complete Manual for Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner Certification. Volume I (1999) with Michael Hall
Hypnotic Language: Its Structure and Use (2000) with John Burton
The Structure of Personality: Modeling “Personality” (2001) With Michael Hall, Richard Bolstad and Margot Hamblett
Games for Mastering Fear (2001) with Michael Hall
The User’s Manual for the Brain: Mastering Systemic NLP Volume II (2003) with Michael Hall
The Institute of Neuro-Semantics is approved by The National Board For Certified Counselors to offer continuing education activity for National Certified Counselors. We adhere to NBCC education guidelines – provider #5724.
Further information is available from the following webites:
www.masteringstuttering.com
www.neurosemantics.com
www.runyourownbrain.com
www.meta-coaching.org
www.equilibrio.com.au
Acknowledgments
L. Michael Hall, PhD
A very special thanks goes to Michael Hall for much of the material that I have used in this book. Many of the patterns have been adapted from his work in Meta-States® and Neuro-Semantics®.
Peter Young
This work would not be in published format were it not for the editing ability of Peter Young. I firstmet Peter when he assistedme with The User’s Manual for the Brain, Volume 1. From that work I learned about his ability to organize and present information. Peter has a tremendous ability to get to the essence of the subject matter, and to explain ideas clearly. I am extremely indebted to him and his expertise.
Linda C. Bodenhamer
This book, as with all my joint works with Michael Hall and John Burton, would have been impossible had it not been for the loving support from my wife, Linda Bodenhamer. She has labored many years to provide us with our financial needs freeing me to devote time to develop such works as this one. For the 39 years of constant love, support and encouragement, I owe her a special debt of gratitude.
Linda Rounds
Without question, this project would never have been initiated were it not for the encouragement of Linda Rounds, one ofmy first clients who had a blocking and stuttering problem. Her knowledge of the stuttering community and her willingness to share it with me and to encourage me in this pursuit launched me on the path of dedicating much effort to this work.
PWS
In addition to Linda Rounds, there are many other People Who Stuttered. Tim Mackesey, David Lock, John Harrison and others have encouraged me to continue my work and research in this field in order to bring healing and fluency to many who have no other hope.
To those who attend the Mastering Blocking & Stuttering Workshops I owe a special debt of gratitude; having many PWS in a learning environment provides the trainer with immense opportunities for valuable feedback. I must also thank the many people on the [email protected] email list from whom I have learned a great deal and whose comments and suggestions I have been able to incorporate into my practice.
To all these and the countless thousands who daily fight a battle of trying to communicate, that few people other than those who share disfluency can understand, I dedicate this work. About Peter Young, the Editor of this book
Peter Young is a writer, editor, trainer, and an NLP Practitioner. Since 1993 he has been producing NLP training notes, editing and ghostwriting books, and writing articles on NLP which have been published in Rapport (in the UK) and in Anchor Point (in the US).
He previously worked with Bob Bodenhamer in revising the first volume of The User’s Manual for the Brain.
He has written three books of his own:
Understanding NLP: Metaphors and Patterns of Change, Carmarthen, Crown House Publishing. (2001)
Change Manager, London, Hodder Headline. Part of the Q-Learning Be your best … and beyond series. (2003)
Understanding NLP: Principles and Practice, Carmarthen, Crown House Publishing (2004)
He is currently working on Understanding NLP: Language and Change. His website is: www.understandingnlp.com
Bibliography
American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic Criteria, from DSM-IV, 1994, American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC.
Atkinson, Marilyn, 1997, The Grammar of God, Unpublished Manuscript, Vancouver, BC.
Bodenhamer, Bob G. and Hall, L. Michael, 1999, The User’s Manual for the Brain: The Complete Manual for Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner Certification, Volume I, Crown
