Bill Thomason is an NLP Life Success Coach and Certified NLP Trainer with Breakthrough skills that can help you make the changes necessary to achieve your goals, improve your relationships, and change your life.
Personal and Business
In addition, Bill has assembled a group of world-class change agents to facilitate your personal and business success. Bill enjoys his work as an executive coach and providing culture change, leadership, negotiations, selling, advanced communication and listening skills seminars to Fortune 500 executives and others. Bill and his NLP Skills Training associates are available for public seminars and appearances.
My Work
What differentiates my work from other coaches and trainers is what I bring from my personal history and business background. When I was exposed to Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP, I already had an orientation to being holistically oriented. I started my career in the health food business. I had learned that the holistic approach is most often the best. Why apply only one tool or methodology to a complicated issue when you can address it from a number of directions at once?
Flexibility
One thing I liked about NLP is that there were so many tools that can be applied to an issue and it's focus on what works as a way of measuring success. Flexibility of behavior is a highly valued characteristic of NLPers (people who use NLP techniques and skills).
My NLP History
Here's a little history: In 1985 a girlfriend invited me to a seminar. I said, "Sure." As an afterthought, I asked, "What is the seminar about?" She said, "We are going to 'walk on fire.'" I'm pretty sure my mouth dropped open. And I don't know if voiced the immediate thought that came to my mind. The question, "WHY?" formed on my lips. I don't know if any actual words came out.
I also studied with and promoted the best-selling author, Anthony Robbins, and was certified in NLP in 1987. My partner, Quinta Oran (deceased), and I represented Robbins Research in North Texas area and developed a healthy NLP practice that we ran from our home. After some time, we returned to college at West Texas State University to finish some college work and then moved to Sedona, Arizona in 1991. I lived in Sedona for about 14 years and I now live in the Phoenix, Arizona area with the love of my life, Valorie Hill, and I practice NLP from my office in N. Scottsdale, Arizona 85255. In addition, I travel and work with Fortune 500 executives as an executive coach and trainer.
NLP and Breakthrough Technology
Over the last 12 years, part of my business has included corporate training with top Fortune 500 executives. I co-led seminars with trainers from the 'Breakthrough' technology tradition. I believe I have taken the very best parts of the more head-on, agressive 'breakthrough' style of creating change (best known from EST, Landmark Education, Inc., and Life Spring seminar groups) with the more permissive NLP approach of creating change from inside rapport with my clients.
Get Perspective
A top business executive can benefit from having someone to strategize with about the real pressures he or she struggles with on a day by day basis. Personality-wise, that coach has to be be able to offer a unique perspective from outside the situation and yet be invested and close enough to stand shoulder to shoulder as a trusted member of the team.
Tools for Accessing Your Own Resources
There are lots of coaches from a number orientations these days and the training they receive usually derives from a single principle that is actually a long-standing NLP presupposition that says; 'people already have all the resources necessary to accomplish any outcome they congruently desire.' The focus of a coach is not to add input or give advice, but to ask questions in a way that allows the individual to find his or her own resources including strategies and states of excellence. Where NLP Coach training differs from other programs is that NLP techniques offer specific tools for creating profound change that most (maybe 90% or more) of the coaches out there simply do not have in their toolbox. NLP Coaching is simply more effective.
Integration of Related Technologies
Over the years, I have studied with Tad James (Time Line Therapy(tm), Huna Training, Magical Presentations, and more), Wyatt Woodsmall (Advanced Behavior Modeling, Principled Negotiations), Richard Bandler (Hypnosis, Selling), Michael Grinder (Group Dynamics), Rodger Bailey (Metaprograms), Ian Jackson (Ericksonian Hypnosis) and, of course, I studied with everyone else I could get in front of. I did NLP Practitioner Certification with Anthony Robbins and a follow up course with Robert Bayless. I did NLP Trainer Certification with Quinta Oran who studied with Mary Hail-Haniff in Florida who was a student of Roye Frazer out of New York. I learned Redecision Therapy from Harvey G. Davisson, Ph.D. in Dallas, Texas. I took Landmark Education's, Forum seminar and eventually the entire Curriculum for Living, and learned Breakthrough technology from Landmark, Lifespring, and Youth at Risk instructors I have worked with regularly in the executive coaching and culture change seminar work I do with Fortune 500 companies.
Call Bill Thomason at 602 321-7192 to schedule an NLP Coaching Session, an NLP Business Program, or for information about upcoming workshops and certification programs.
Locally Serving: NLP Arizona; NLP Phoenix, NLP Scottsdale, NLP Sedona, NLP Tempe, NLP Carefree, NLP Cave Creek, NLP Chandler, NLP Tucson, NLP Paradise Valley, NLP Mesa, NLP Prescott, NLP Flagstaff, NLP Southwest, NLP USA. Bill Thomason is available for coaching and training worldwide and has worked extensively throughout the US and Canada.
