HMS THERAPY - Key Persons


Alfred Korzybski

Alfred Korzybski was a polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics. God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. Alfred Korzybski The Structural Differential and the Process of Abstracting. Alfred Korzybski developed this diagram in the 1920's as a means to visualize the process he called abstracting. Originally a three-dimensional, free-standing model (imagine a colander, or strainer, in place of the ragged parabola at the top), this printed version appeared in his source book for general semantics, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems. Abstracting, in the context of Korzybski's model, refers to physiological-neurological activities, or processes, that occur on non-verbal levels. These abstracting processes begin when our nervous systems are stimulated by something we see, hear, taste, touch, or smell.

Bob Bodenhamer

Dr. Bodenhamer's under-graduate degree (BA) is from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC (1972). His major at Appalachian State University was Philosophy and Religion with a minor in Psychology. He received the Master of Divinity (1976) and the Doctor of Ministry Degree (1978) from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. The Master of Divinity Degree included training in Pastoral Care with both classroom and clinical work. Dr. Bodenhamer received one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education from Wake Medical Center in Raleigh, N. C. while working on his doctorate. He co-founded the Institute of Neuro-Semantics with L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. Along with Dr. Hall he has co-authored nine books:

Carl Jung

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychologist and one of the 3 fathers of psychology, along with Freud and Adler. He said what we perceive is who we are. What we perceive outside ourselves is who we are. That means we can't perceive anything out side of ourselves that is not us. You may say, yes, I can agree he is my projection, or he is, but that person certainly is not. What Carl Jung said, "We tend take our most unconscious material and project it on people and events around us. That which is unconscious must of need be projected on people and events that are around us." This is a very important concept to understand.

David Shephard

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BSc (Hons), Master Trainer of NLP, Hypnosis & Timeline Therapy ® David is one of the world's leading figures in personal development and a specialist in Hypnotherapy, NLP & TimeLine Therapy. Since 1993, David has worked with thousands of people to help them achieve more of what they want. He has done all of this whilst also teaching thousands of therapists in NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and Hypnosis through his London-based company, The Performance Partnership Whilst thousands of people are qualified as Trainers of NLP, only a handful globally have ever attained the title of ‘Master Trainer'. David is President of one of the biggest boards of NLP in the world the (ABH-ANLP) & sits on the advisory committee of the UK's biggest association (ANLP). David has been featured and profiled in the likes of:

Fritz Perls

Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Perls coined the term 'Gestalt therapy' to identify the form of psychotherapy that he developed with his wife, Laura Perls, in the 1940s and 1950s. Perls became associated with the Esalen Institute in 1964, and he lived there until 1969. His approach to psychotherapy is related to, but not identical to, Gestalt psychology, and it is different from Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy. The core of the Gestalt Therapy process is enhanced awareness of sensation, perception, bodily feelings, emotion, and behavior, in the present moment. Relationship is emphasized, along with contact between the self, its environment, and the other.

John Grinder

John Grinder is an American linguist, author, management consultant, trainer and speaker. Grinder is credited with co-creating Neuro-linguistic programming, with Richard Bandler. He is co-director of Quantum Leap Inc., a management consulting firm founded by his partner Carmen Bostic St. Clair in 1987 (Grinder joined in 1989). Grinder and Bostic St. Clair also run workshops and seminars on NLP internationally.

Martin Webster

Martin Webster (2010) was former British Army Infantry Soldier who was diagnosed with PTSD in 2007 and was trained by Mick Stott in 2010. Martin branched away from Spectrum Therapy and discovered HMS Heart & Mind Synchronicity Therapy applying the drop down through technique (Bodenhammer & Hall). HMS Therapy recognises that all human emotions are stored within the heart and to follow the natural Flow of Emotions to the center of all human intelligence (Aristotle) This is the key to total emotional recovery. HMS Therapy works on the principle that the fastest route to deep unconscious change is through Heart Psychology. Looking in your own mind for an emotional problem is like looking in the boot of your car when the engine has failed. To change your emotions within your heart from Anger to Love will simply change your life forever.

Michael Hall

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. learned NLP in the mid-1980s and took his original training with Richard Bandler, afterwards writing several books for him and about him. His discovery of the Meta-States Model (1994) led to co-founding Neuro-Semantics (1996) as a community taking NLP to a higher professional level. Dr. Hall began modeling excellence in 1991 and has now completed 17 modeling projects from Resilience (1994), Wealth Creation (1996), Women in Leadership (1997), Coaching (2001), Self-Actualization (2003), etc.

Mick Stott

Mick Stott (2006) was a former British Army Officer who was trained by Tad James & David Shepherd. Mick branched away from Timeline Therapy and created Spectrum Therapy TM through working for many years with Soldiers suffering with PTSD. Spectrum Therapy differs by covering six negative emotions and negative core belief's in one session. The breakthrough with Spectrum Therapy was that it associates colours with emotions and can re frame negative emotions by simply changing the associated colours at subconscious level. Spectrum Therapy was studied by Lancashire University UCLAN in 2012.

Milton H. Erickson

Milton H. Erickson. Milton Hyland Erickson was an American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and noted for his approach to the unconscious mind as creative and solution-generating. "Pa tients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves."

Richard Bandler

Richard Bandler is an American author and trainer in the field of self-help. He is best known as the co-creator (with John Grinder) of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), a methodology to understand and change human behavior-patterns. He also developed other systems named Design Human Engineering (DHE) and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR).

Robert Dilts

Robert Brian Dilts ( March 21, 1955 ) is a developer , writer , trainer and coach in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and has been doing this since its inception and first development in 1975 , when John Grinder and Richard Bandler spent a few years with NLP. Dilts provided contributions to the NLP, including the Encyclopedia or Systemic NLP . He is responsible for the input of various spiritual ideas into the NLP and is the author of a number of books, including Sleight of mouth on a set of language patterns for changing beliefs, Change your beliefs , Beliefs: Pathways to Health and Well-Being with Tim Halibom and Suzi Smith and many others. He is also the main writer of NLP, Volume 1 , with Richard Bandler & John Grinder.

Tad James

Originally from Washington DC, Tad James earned his master's degree in Mass Communication from Syracuse University and began his professional career working at a radio station, eventually becoming a business consultant. He received a PhD from the American Institute of Hypnotherapy in 1991. He began to study Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and ultimately developed a discipline of this therapy known as Time Line Therapy (TLT). This therapy has been used throughout the world, including in war-torn areas, to help alleviate symptoms of post traumatic stress in people living in those regions. James founded the Tad James Company in 1982, and in 1988, he published his first book, Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality. Time Li ne Therapy™ (TLT) is a powerful therapeutic process that has evolved from hypnosis and NLP, developed by Tad James, PhD in the 1980s. It was developed by applying a therapeutic process to the concept that we store our memories in a linear manner in an internal memory storage system.