Connirae Andreas's Biography(Books)(Photos)

Connirae Andreas, Ph.D. is the mother of
three, and has been a leader and innovator in

into 14 languages, and she is featured on a
series of DVDs and CDs for personal

the field of NLP for three decades. She is
well known for her groundbreaking work

development, on topics including

developing Core Transformation, and her
contributions to the field in areas including

- Healing Meditations
- Successful Parenting

Advanced Language Patterns, Timelines, Grief
Resolution, and Shame.

- Resolving Grief
- Advanced Language Patterns

Connirae Andreas in an international NLP

- Aligning Perceptual Positions
- Parental Timeline Reimprinting

trainer and has made a lasting contribution
to the field of NLP through her books, CDs,

- Core Transformation

DVDs, and manuals. She is one of the
“first generation” of NLP trainers. Ms.

Connirae and Steve Andreas sponsored the
first NLP practitioner certification training

Andreas became known for her heartful
training style as well as her development of

worldwide (Denver, Colorado, September 1979).
Connirae together with her husband wrote the

new methods that bring personal growth to a
new level. Books she has authored or edited,

original NLP comprehensive trainer manual,
the first systematic model for NLP training.

some in partnership with husband Steve
Andreas, have been translated into 18

This manual has become an international model
for training excellence. She has also worked

languages. Connirae is one of the first
small group to be certified as NLP trainers

extensively mentoring the next generation of
NLP trainers, first building a team of

by the field’s founders (1981). she and
her husband are responsible for bringing NLP

trainers through NLP Comprehensive, and then
coaching Core Transformation trainers.

into greater visibility through creating and
publishing books by founders Bandler and

In addition to her work as editor, author,

Grinder. They edited and published Frogs
into Princes, Transformations, and Reframing

and trainer in the field of NLP, Connirae’s
contributions include important research and

the first NLP books to become widely read.
She was also co-author of several books with

development in all areas of NLP. She also
has developed “aligning perceptual

positions”, another impactful method that
can result in dramatically improving

Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring
Within (1994), written with Tamara Andreas,

relationships. Other landmark contributions
from Connirae included the use of NLP in

is her best known book. Connirae Andreas is
the co-founder with her husband Steve of NLP

parenting, work on language patterns, work on
grief and forgiveness processes, and on

Comprehensive and she is the developer of a
set of NLP techniques known as “Core

changing Meta programs (which can be
described as the personality structure of

each of us). Connirae received her
master’s in clinical psychology from

Her work in developing Core Transformation
has been endorsed by respected individuals in

Colorado University in 1979 and her Ph.D. in
psychotherapy from NCU in 1989.

related fields, including Joseph
Chilton-Pearce, John Bradshaw, Jack Canfield,

Connirae’s support for the NLP Research and

Dan Millman, Michele Weiner-Davis, and Hugh
Prather. Connirae Andreas is currently

Recognition Project comes out of her
experiences observing the difference NLP

devoting most of her time to supporting a
growing network of Core Transformation

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

this profound NLP technique, which very
simply and easily becomes a doorway to a felt

afraid to try it out that he turned white and
started sweating when he even thought of

experience many describe as our spiritual
core. This inner core offers the deep

doing the process. In an interview
afterwards, he shared how it had changed his

healing that very naturally resolves many of
life's problems and challenges.

life—he had a kind of inner calm, he no
longer woke up in a sweat from terrifying

Connirae Andreas has co-authored or edited

nightmares, and was no longer worried that he
might seriously harm his wife because of the

nine books and manuals of international
acclaim, including "Core Transformation"

way he used to startle instantly into
defensive reactions. He also noticed he now

(with Tamara Andreas), and "Heart of the
Mind" (with husband Steve Andreas).

felt a sense of connection with Asians,
rather than an automatic fear. Connirae says

Co-founder of NLP Comprehensive, Connirae is

“Those changes happened not because of me
personally, but because of an NLP process

experienced at training design and
supervision, and has worked extensively with

that was capable of successfully healing
trauma. I would like to see more Vets having

the outstanding NLP Comprehensive Training
Team. Her warm, personally respectful

access to this level of healing. Rigorous
research and testing is a step in this

training style is steeped in artistry and
depth of skill.

direction.”

Books she has authored have been translated