Who is Richard Bolstad?
– Steve Gurney, top New Zealand athlete“A BIG thanks to you for the NLP work we did before the Coast to Coast, Richard. It made ALL the difference, and I’m astounded at how quickly you arrived at a solution. It totally turned my thinking around 180 degrees to a resolved and determined attitude. A much more positive state. Race day was incredibly enjoyable and it was just a breeze. I smile now as I think about it and have very colourful and enjoyable visions. Powerful stuff.”
Who is Richard Bolstad?
Richard Bolstad is an Internationally Certified Trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). He teaches in Asia, Europe, America and Australasia each year. He is an Instructor and a certified Trainer of Instructors with Dr Thomas Gordon’s Teacher Effectiveness Training and Effectiveness Training general course. He has been a trained member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists since 1989. He has a Doctorate in Clinical Hypnotherapy, and is a Comprehensive Registered Nurse (general and psychiatric: RCpN) and a New Zealand trained teacher (Dip Tchg). He is a certified instructor with two international schools of Chinese Chi Kung (The Universal Tao and Chi Lel) and is trained in numerous other therapeutic modalities including Medical Herbalism.He has written eight books, and they, as well as his over 120 internationally published articles on NLP are variously published in 12 languages. His book Transforming Communication is a required text in several New Zealand and Japanese degree programmes, and has been used as the basis for training top management at New Zealand Inland Revenue, and managers at Bank of New Zealand, New Zealand Immigration Service, medical practitioners at Auckland Medical School, Church ministers at Auckland Theological College, nurses in several New Zealand degree programmes, retail managers from the New Zealand Retailers Association, as well as management and staff at numerous other business and educational institutions and government agencies. His book RESOLVE, translated into several languages, is the basis of a University paper at the University of Pyatigorsk in Russia (where psychologists are trained for work in the Chechnyan war zone). He has also run world service projects such as training Psychiatrists in Sarajevo to deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in survivors of the Bosnian and Kosovo conflicts. Richard is a father and grandfather, and lives in New Zealand with his partner and co-trainer Julia Kurusheva. Richard is a personal coach who works with top business and sports people in New Zealand and overseas.
- Steve Andreas, NLP trainer, author, and co-developer"Richard Bolstad is one of the finest NLP trainers I know. Besides being personable, engaging, and high energy, he is very skilled, with a rare breadth and depth of knowledge that is detailed and ecological. He is very open to and welcoming of feedback, which I think is one reason why he is so capable. The book RESOLVE: A New Model of Therapy is an excellent introduction to his work."
- Phillippa Elliott, Past President, New Zealand Association for Training and Development"Having worked in the training and communications field for more than 20 years I have experienced a great number of trainers and speakers, but very few great speakers and trainers. Richard Bolstad is one of those great presenters. His absolute credibility is the result of a depth and breadth of knowledge gained internationally and nationally. Richard has an outstanding reputation in his specialist field of communication and NLP. Richard's workshops are practical, immediately applicable and fun to experience for the participants in the workshops. The skills taught will bring benefit to both work and personal lives. If there is one speaker you and your people get to this year make sure it's Richard."