Board of Trustees
Members: Judith Delozier, Connirae Andreas and Steve Andreas serve on this Board. Their years of conscientious dedication to the development of NLP bring an oversight function that will insure the congruity and integrity of the Project. They constitute the final approval step in the development of every annual budget.
Biographies on each member are presented below:
Judith DeLozier:
Judith DeLozier is the co-director of training and research at NLP University with Robert Dilts. Judith has been mainly responsible for bringing NLP to the area of transcultural competence and cross cultural skills. She has made fundamental contributions to the development of numerous NLP models and processes.
She has been a trainer, co-developer, and designer of training programs in the field of neurolinguistic programming since 1975. She was a member of Grinder and Bandler’s original group of students and she has made fundamental contributions to the development of numerous NLP models and processes. She has coauthored several seminal books on NLP. She is co-author of The Encyclopedia of Systemic NLP and Neurolinguistic Programming and NLP New Coding with Robert Dilts (2000).
She was co-author of Neurolinguistic Programming Volume One (1980) with Robert Dilts, John Grinder, and Richard Bandler. She was first author, with John Grinder, of Turtles All the Way Down: Prerequisites to Personal Genius (1987). She has been involved in the creation of fundamental techniques in NLP. She was also a student of Milton Erickson. She has contributed substantially to the creation of NLP new coding which stimulated a movement towards more systemic and relational approach to NLP. She has been primarily responsible for bringing NLP to the area of transcultural competence, pioneering the application of NLP to the development of cross cultural skills.
Judith holds a master’s degree in Religious Studies and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Religious Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has taught NLP all over the world including Europe, Asia, Indonesia, Australia, Mexico, Central America, Canada, and the United States. She is the co-developer of numerous projects applying systematic NLP ranging from modeling to leadership to health care and cross cultural competence.
Steve Andreas:
Steve Andreas is one of the most active developers of NLP. He has been learning, training, and researching NLP since his introduction to it in 1977, and has been developing new NLP patterns since the early 1980s. He was the co-founder with his wife Connirae of NLP Comprehensive in Boulder Colorado in 1979, one of the first NLP institutes. Recently he authored the two-volume set Six Blind Elephants: Understanding Ourselves and Each Other (2006), again demonstrating that he continues to be one of the foremost thinkers advancing the development of the field. He also wrote Transforming Yourself: Becoming Who You Want To Be (2002) and Virginia Satir: The Patterns of her Magic (1991). He co-authored (with Connirae) Heart of the Mind (1989), Change Your Mind (1987), and the NLP 24 Day Practitioner Certification Training Manuel (1986). In addition to his books, Steve has published numerous articles on various NLP-related topics in various publications including the Psychotherapy Networker, (formerly the Family Therapy Networker) and the Milton H. Erickson Foundation Newsletter. Many free articles can be found on his website: http://www.steveandreas.com/
With his wife Connirae, Steve was an early student and sponsor of NLP co-founders Richard Bandler and John Grinder. Together they edited four classic NLP books by Bandler and Grinder. He is also the founder, owner, and editor of Real People Press, a small publishing company devoted to new developments in psychology and personal change. Current authors (in addition to several books by the Andreas) include Leslie Cameron-Bandler, David Gordon, Michael Lebeau, Michael Colgrass, Andrew Austin, Eloise Ristad, and Wilson Van Dusen. Past authors have included Fritz Perls, Carl Rogers, Eugene Gendlin, John Shlien, and Barry Stevens. Steve received a BS in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1957, and an MA in psychology from Brandeis University in 1961.
Steve continues to write and innovate in the field. He has been a supporter of the NLP Research and Recognition Project since its inception in 2006. His letter to the NLP community from early 2007 can be found on this web site (under the “Library” tab). When asked recently about the importance of the NLP Research & Recognition project he said,
“Most of us working in the field have lots of “clinical experience” that demonstrates that NLP works wonderfully. But that is not convincing to academia, and shouldn’t be (despite the fact that many other therapies that are recognized by academia have no better evidence). I hope and expect that the R&R project will produce the kind of rigorous experimental evidence that will gain NLP the wider recognition and acceptance that is necessary for others to learn about it and benefit from it.”
Connirae Andreas:
Connirae Andreas in an international NLP trainer and has made a lasting contribution to the field of NLP through her books, CDs, DVDs, and manuals. She is one of the “first generation” of NLP trainers. Ms. Andreas became known for her heartful training style as well as her development of new methods that bring personal growth to a new level. Books she has authored or edited, some in partnership with husband Steve Andreas, have been translated into 18 languages. Connirae is one of the first small group to be certified as NLP trainers by the field’s founders (1981). She and her husband are responsible for bringing NLP into greater visibility through creating and publishing books by founders Bandler and Grinder. They edited and published Frogs into Princes, Transformations, and Reframing the first NLP books to become widely read. She was also co-author of several books with Steve Andreas including Heart of Mind (1989) and Change Your Mind (1987). The book Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within (1994), written with Tamara Andreas, is her best known book. Connirae Andreas is the co-founder with her husband Steve of NLP Comprehensive and she is the developer of a set of NLP techniques known as “Core Transformation.”
Connirae and Steve Andreas sponsored the first NLP practitioner certification training worldwide (Denver, Colorado, September 1979). Connirae together with her husband wrote the original NLP comprehensive trainer manual, the first systematic model for NLP training. This manual has become an international model for training excellence. She has also worked extensively mentoring the next generation of NLP trainers, first building a team of trainers through NLP Comprehensive, and then coaching Core Transformation trainers.
In addition to her work as editor, author, and trainer in the field of NLP, Connirae’s contributions include important research and development in all areas of NLP. She also has developed “aligning perceptual positions”, another impactful method that can result in dramatically improving relationships. Other landmark contributions from Connirae included the use of NLP in parenting, work on language patterns, work on grief and forgiveness processes, and on changing Meta programs (which can be described as the personality structure of each of us). Connirae received her master’s in clinical psychology from Colorado University in 1979 and her Ph.D. in psychotherapy from NCU in 1989.
Connirae’s support for the NLP Research and Recognition Project comes out of her experiences observing the difference NLP makes in people’s lives. The first time she used the process being studied [in the trauma protocol] with a Vietnam Vet, it took 45 minutes to complete. Initially he was so afraid to try it out that he turned white and started sweating when he even thought of doing the process. In an interview afterwards, he shared how it had changed his life—he had a kind of inner calm, he no longer woke up in a sweat from terrifying nightmares, and was no longer worried that he might seriously harm his wife because of the way he used to startle instantly into defensive reactions. He also noticed he now felt a sense of connection with Asians, rather than an automatic fear. Connirae says “Those changes happened not because of me personally, but because of an NLP process that was capable of successfully healing trauma. I would like to see more Vets having access to this level of healing. Rigorous research and testing is a step in this direction.”