Rex Sikes's Biography(Books)(Photos)

Rex Steven Sikes IDEA Seminars Trainer and
Founder

While I had enjoyed some success in the film
and television industry (and learned from the

Motivational Mind Reader", a Master Trainer
of nlp & dhe, a professional speaker,

helping people, and I'd missed that while
focused on the whole Hollywood scene. I

business consultant, writer and expert in
accelerated learning and brain based learning

missed working with people - my teenage years
of ministering to people through the church,

and film maker. He appeared before millions
in acting in films and on television and

running a coffee house and helping people
with their lives - so I began to get training

radio in interviews and commentary. His
topics include reading minds, intuition,

in the various therapeutic disciplines of
that time.

making an impression, creating rapport, body
language, and commentary on famous trials and

"I wanted to help others make life truly

celebrities. On national TV, he has helped a
man propose to his girlfriend, demonstrated

grand rather than just fix a problem"

his ability to read and influence minds, and
on a special NBC talk show he assisted a

Around about 1979, while vacationing in the
midwest, I ran into one of my former college

"warring" couple resolve their conflicts and
renew their love. He has worked with

buddies, a gentleman with whom I had spent a
great deal of time arguing philosophy with.

attorneys in a major trial in the U.S. and
can often be heard on TV and radio doling out

He told me about a book he had read; and he
was so excited, I ran out and got myself a

his expert advice on subjects ranging from
business persuasion to love relationships.

copy. It was 'Frogs into Princes.' The book
immediately had me intrigued - it had me

His knowledge, skill, background, and most
importantly his commitment to teaching you

spell bound!

make him an experience you will talk about
for a lifetime.

'Frogs into Princes' was the first NLP book
ever written and is a record of marvelous

Rex began doing public appearances by the age

changework with others. The notion that we
could actually use our senses with more

of three, becoming a professional mind reader
by eight years old. At fifteen, he joined a

precision blew me away! I read the book and
decided that NLP is what I wanted to do. I

church and began doing ministry work taking
him to foreign countries. He headed for

immediately sought out others who could help
me with that quest. I got my hands on

Hollywood at eighteen where he worked as an
actor and stand up comedian. While in

anything and everything having to do with
NLP. I began studying, learning, and using

California, Rex also studied under eastern
religious masters like Rajneesh, Muktananda,

NLP and applied it to my work with people.
Eventually, I began holding workshops in

Krishnamirti, Satchadynanda and Zen masters.

personal growth and development using and
teaching NLP to others.

When Rex discovered NLP in the mid seventies,
he was astounded with the practical real

At the very same time, I was investigating

world applications. After reading "Frogs into
Princes", he was convinced that he was going

healers, psychics and a variety of mental and
spiritual disciplines. I spent time with

to make it his lifelong career.

great thinkers like Krishnamirti, Ram Dass,
Tim Leary, Joseph Chilton Pearce, John Lily,

When he is not training with IDEA Seminars,
Rex makes personal appearances and does

Rajneesh, Muktananda, Satychadananda and many
others. I started a meditation and personal

customized business consulting, executive
coaching and expert modeling. Some of his

development center around 1983 applying
principles I had been learning to self

clients include attorneys, CEO's, sales
managers, personnel managers, small business

discovery, meditation and living
ecstatically. I continued to integrate all of

owners, training personnel, investors,
teachers and educational administrators.

these with my new found love for NLP.

How Rex got involved in NLP, in his own

By 1986, I decided I wanted to devote myself
full time to training NLP. I wanted to help

words...

others make life truly grand rather than fix
a problem. I changed my entire focus and

"I began my public professional life at the
age of three or four when my parents

began offering more public programs all the
while continuing to develop and learn as much

encouraged me in dance and acrobatics. By the
age of 8, I had developed a fascination with

as I could about how humans make personal
transformation. I began studying accelerated

Houdini and with mental and psychic
develpment and began giving public

learning methods and integrating them into my
seminars and workshops. I traveled around a

performances. I also developed an interest in
hypnosis (later doing stage hypnosis).

lot doing public NLP programs as well as
working with other NLP trainers in their

"I liked helping people, and I'd missed that

training programs.

while focused on the whole Hollywood scene."

I have developed a training method combining
all of my knowledge of brain based learning

Hypnosis is an interest and exploration I
continue to this day. At 15 years, I got

methods and accelerated learning and it has
been a fabulous success! When I watch my

involved with youth ministry and evangelism
and began a 6 year study of famous preachers,

students grow and develop it's the greatest
feeling in the world.

getting to know many leaders and having the
opportunity to model their approaches. At 18,

I have been blessed that I have spent my life

in Hollywood, California I made a living
doing mind reading presentations and stand up

around great people in the arts, sciences,
business, and religions - I have learned from

comedy while pursuing a career in the film
industry. I have spent most of my life before

all of them and modeled them. They are indeed
a part of me. When people tell me that I'm a

the public - performing, speaking and
teaching.

great trainer, I tell them it's because I've
stood on the shoulders of giants."