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.

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, Ph.D. 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 taught NLP for ten years in the Corporate/Community Education program at Gaston College. Dr. Bodenhamer received his certification as a Trainer of NLP from Tad James, Ph.D., Advance Neuro Dynamics, Honolulu, Hawaii and Wyatt Woodsmall, Ph.D. 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 consultant 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 33 years. All of his pastorates have been in North Carolina. He lives in Gastonia North Carolina with his wife Linda.

He co-founded the Institute of Neuro-Semantics with L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. He has co-authored:

• Figuring Out People: Design Engineering With Meta-Programs
  
• Time Lining: Advance Time-Line Principles
  
• Patterns For Renewing The Mind: Christian Communicating & Counseling Using NLP
  
• Mind-Lines: Conversational Reframing
  
• The Structure of Excellence: Unmasking The Meta-Levels of "Submodalities"
• The User's Manual for the Brain: The Complete Manual for Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner Certification, Volume I
  
• The User's Manual for the Brain: The Complete Manual for Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner Certification, Volume II
  
• The Structure of Personality: Modeling "Personality" Using NLP and Neuro-Semantics with Richard Bolstad and Margot Hamblett
  
• Frame Games for Mastering Fear
  
• He co-authored the book Hypnotic Language Its Structure and Use with John Burton, Ed.D.
  
• And, he authored the recently released book Mastering Blocking & Stuttering, A Cognitive Approach to Achieving Fluency

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Scott Erskine first studied psychology at the University of New South Wales whilst completing a marketing degree in 1994. It was at this time that Scott started to become fascinated with what drives and motivates people. Whilst involved in marketing and sales over the next 12 years, he worked alongside wealth creation guru Peter Spann, leading the highest performing sales team in the company’s history. During this time Scott began to further his studies in Behavioural Science both here and overseas.

Rick Collingwood is one of the world's leading professional clinical therapeutic hypnotists. He is an internationally renowned hypnosis trainer, author, counsellor, public speaker, sales motivator, corporate speaker, and the founder of Mind Motivations ^TM & The Australian Academy of Hypnosis^TM. Rick is also on the committee of The Council of Clinical Hypnotherapists. Australia’s most progressive and prestigious national hypnosis association.

Since 1995 Rick has personally assisted countless thousands of people, using his own unique therapeutic hypnosis techniques. His client list includes Sales Motivators, Commercial Airline Pilots, Psychologists, Medical Professionals, Business People, Home makers and Children. People from all walks of life, facing challenges such as stress disorders, nicotine and drug dependency, gambling, addiction, pain management, depression, panic disorder, insomnia, motivation, chronic fatigue syndrome, and many other various behavioral challenges. He has also conducted group hypnosis sessions with attendances of up to almost 900 people.

Rick has accredited training in hypnosis, counselling, and mental health issues. His extensive knowledge of all aspects of all styles of hypnosis, combined with his many years of practical experience, continually demonstrates that the effectiveness of his hypnosis and sub-conscious counselling skills are unequalled by many other hypnosis methods and hybrids.

He has appeared as an invited guest in many major newspapers, on national and international radio and television, including twice on Channel 9s "A Current Affair", Channel 7s "Today Tonight", Channel 10’s 9AM with David & Kim, Optus Vision, Bris 31, and the ABC. Rick has also featured internationally on Good Morning America. KTLA and the NBC News and numerous US radio shows, including among others The Adam Carolla show and Valentine 98.3fm. The Joey Reynolds Radio Show WOR New York, The Mancow Radio Show Chicago, Bulldog Radio Show IRIE Ocean City Maryland, KDKE Radio Phoenix Arizona, Sirius Playboy Radio LA, Barbra Alexander Good Health Radio, Moneydots Radio.com, Radio WMT600 Cedar Rapids Ohio.

Rick is acknowledged as one of the world’s most skilled professional hypnotists and hypnosis trainers. He is the principle of The Australian Academy of Hypnosis and has trained more than 700 therapists in the correct and effective use of his unique therapeutic hypnosis styles.

In 2006 Rick’s Lose Weight Now CD became the only hypnosis CD ever in the world to win a Gold Aria Award and in August 2008 it went platinum as did his incredibly successful Quit Smoking Now CD, whilst the Mind-Body Healing, Stress Management, Happiness & Self Esteem, and Beat Insomnia CDs500,000 all went gold. A truly remarkable feat that makes Rick one of the top hypnotists in the world today. Between January 2002 and October 2008 "The Life Improvement Series" has sold almost copies all over the world.

In 2005, in conjunction with a Pharmacist colleague, Mr. Nathan Elliott, Rick conducted Australia's first monitored clinical study to evaluate improvements in the quality of life, using hypnosis as an adjunct to conventional medical treatments. The participants of the trial were nine, medical doctor referred and monitored, volunteers suffering various types of cancers at various stages of progression. Both the Clinical and the experiential results were very positive and ethics approval is being sought to conduct a much larger study (all study participants were signed into the trail and monitored independently by their Medical Doctors).