How AI-Based Technology Drives Coaching/Changework & Modeling Great Minds, with Jonathan Altfeld

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Meet Our Guest

In 1996 & 1997, Jonathan Altfeld was looking for something to augment his AI interviewing skills, to help him more effectively unpack experts’ intelligent strategies. He found that in NLP.

What he also found was that he was an absolute natural at NLP; NLP rapidly became another calling. Then he attended weekend trainings from a handful of trainers, to get a broad overview and experience with a range of different trainers.

Jonathan counts this as one of the most important contributors to the strength of his NLP foundation. He chose Rex Steven Sikes for his 14-day Practitioner certification training, and is immensely glad he did so. Rex offered an amazingly strong and balanced skills-driven foundation. Rex is following his major passion today, making independent films!

Jonathan chose Richard Bandler & John La Valle for both his Master Practitioner & Trainer certifications. These were formative learning experiences and were the right step for Jonathan to take his skills further. Nothing equates to learning from one of the field’s co-founders. Or both, if you can (i.e., Richard Bandler co-created NLP with John Grinder).

Jonathan continued to train both for and with multiple other trainers and exemplars over the years since 1997, including NLP exemplar Frank Farrelly, creator of Provocative Therapy.

Jonathan has been an invited trainer for Andy Szekely in Romania, Michael Kold in Denmark, Jeff Goodwin in Scotland, Michael Beale & Nigel Heath and Andy Smith and others in the UK, Roger Deaner in Melbourne, and has had his evening events sponsored or promoted by MANY others, including Inspiritive in Sydney, Blue Skye Transformation in Brisbane, and the list goes on.

He has also contributed multiple offerings of immense and innovative value to the NLP world, not the least of which is his “Knowledge Engineering” method of modeling beliefs and belief systems (now part of the Belief Craft training with Doug O’Brien).

Multiple other training organizations around the world have invited Jonathan in to teach the analytical modeling portion of their Master Practitioner courses – including Andy Smith in Manchester UK, and Roger Deaner of LeaderVision in Melbourne Australia.

Melbourne-based trainer James Tsakalos has been including a light version of KE in his Master Practitioner trainings for several years now.

While Jonathan does train occasional Practitioner & Master Practitioner courses, his primary interests are to offer short, targeted courses on specific applications/uses of NLP. I.e., “How to get best results applying NLP to Public Speaking, or Humor, or Nonverbal Communication, or Sales, etc.”

He leaves long theory-driven courses to other trainers, and focuses on reaching actual, measurable, powerful results.

Episode Synopsis

Our special guest, Jonathan Altfeld, is an NLP Trainer and has been training NLP students globally since 1997, he’s authored a range of innovative home-study materials.

Some that Tony bought and learned; Creating The Automatic Yes, Finding Your Irresistible Voice, The Metaphor Machine.

Tony learned so much from him. His style and content have become a favorite among those who like to delve deeply into unique applications of NLP, including areas such as voice quality development, humor, body language, public speaking, sales, interviews, and other business uses.

He also maintains a thriving coaching practice, regularly doing zoom-based coaching with clients all over the world, and is beginning to offer online/zoom classes now as well as opportunities to observe him modeling exemplars, real-time.

His hobbies include doing impersonations, graphology, and contact juggling.

There were two people who were prime influences on Tony to become a coach; Doug O’Brien – and this guy, Jonathan Altfeld.

Some Questions We Answer For You

What attracted you to NLP for self-help purposes? What are some of the positive benefits self-helpers gain from learning NLP?
What’s unique about you or your approaches to either helping people or helping people to help themselves?
What are some of NLP’s failings, or where does NLP actually not help us?
What are some of the factors that affect the building of better habits?
What are some of the factors that can make someone more or less successful in creating changes that stick?
What have you been working on lately that can assist people interested in self-help?
Are there opportunities for people to learn more about you and what you do, what you have on offer?