Caitlin graduated in Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies and did four years post graduate research in ‘Strategies for Lexical access’ including fieldwork in Ghana. She began modelling teaching and learning while at SOAS, volunteering intermediary classes to translate information presented at lectures into different learning styles for the students.
She went on to set up literacy clubs in King’s Cross, where children could come to learn to spell. From 1996 – 1999 Caitlin was an Education tutor with the Dalston Youth Project, a Home Office run experiment to offer accelerated learning to at-risk students, alongside mentoring, to keep them in school. She ran these sessions as NLP modelling workshops and achieved excellent results with the students. The project won a Crime Prevention and Community Safety award for Great Britain. In 1999 she was offered the opportunity to develop her work in a business context and she created the ground breaking metaphors@work process. These techniques are available on the Creative Management section of the Open University MBA program and on a 10 week modular course on Practical Thinking. She has co-designed and she co-delivers a Masters Level module in Coaching and Mentoring at Liverpool John Moores University.
She has since developed her modelling skills from small scale group development to whole scale organisational culture change programmes. She designs and delivers tailor made learning and development programs for addressing diversity, conflict, leadership, managing mergers and creating ‘learning organizations’.
Caitlin practices in a variety of contexts. Clients include: Jeyes Group, Liverpool John Moores University, Pharmacia, Hull City Council, South Yorkshire Police Service, Bexley Care Trust, New Information Paradigms, Work Directions UK, Crime Concern, BT, Police National Search Centre, Celerent Consultancy, Carbon Partners, Ealing LEA, and Working Links. She has trained a number of in-house trainers to carry on and develop the work without creating dependency on her expertise. She has systematically tested and developed her ideas in challenging arenas and her robust products have become sought after learning aids.
Nancy specialises in creating learning systems that can operate independently of outside support. She co-designed the Skills4Success programme for unemployed adults and the Transition programme for teenagers. She put into practice years of research in evaluating Clean Language, by devising a facilitation technique which is also ‘Clean’ and allows participants to develop their own solutions, with each other’s support. Nancy believes that peer coaching is the most cost effective intervention where resources are tight and external consultants/coaches are in short supply. Self generated solutions are more likely to fit the problem and be sustainable for the people they are intended to help.
Nancy has applied the modelling approach to working with adults who are dyslexic and has developed a unique programme for people who want to improve symptoms such as difficulties in literacy and numeracy, poor short term memory, difficulties in prioritising and organising and processing information. Nancy is also qualified to assess and diagnose Dyslexia and Specific Learning Disabilities.
Previous to becoming a partner in Training Attention Ltd, Nancy was Head of Learning and Development for several organisations, an Operations Manager for a social care recruitment company and an adolescent mental health support worker. This varied background creates a broad base of understanding the public and private sector as well as senior management experience.
Nancy strives to bring this exciting work into a more academic framework and to this aim, ensures that Training Attention consistently evaluates projects over time. Nancy passionately believes that as a matter of integrity we should consider the long term outcomes of our work, ensuring that people are indeed benefiting as we would hope and making sure that we are not wasting time and money. Long term evaluations of our larger projects are available by contacting Nancy.
Nancy completed her Master’s Degree in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London and is a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society. She is a Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Symbolic Modelling. She holds a Certificate of Competence at Level A and B intermediate for psychometric testing.
Jenny is an enthusiastic and focused coach with a particular interest in engaging and challenging executives, entrepreneurs and Senior Leaders in Education, to further their potential.
Jenny has over 20 years experience in co-creating and delivering Coaching Skills Programmes , including those for people with dyslexia. She has created Training Programmes for a wide variety of organisations in education, community and business, taught at secondary level in Public and Private Sector and mentored students through links with Industry and Young Entreprise programmes.
As a creative and supportive Coach and Team Facilitator, Cheryl Winter works with the non intrusive but deeply insightful principles of Clean Language and Emergent Knowledge. By elevating her client’s self awareness Cheryl demystifies how they operate and adds strength to the quality of decisions that they make about how their behaviour effects their own future and that of others. Individuals and teams change their thinking to a different level in order to enhance the pace and effectiveness that they are working at. This work is always centrally driven by the client, and almost without exception, provides the client with profound realisations and discoveries that come more slowly with less cutting edge coaching.
Cheryl’s clients come to her for group facilitation, organisational alignment, personal coaching, career development, career management and supporting teams in effective communication and leadership coaching. She works closely with LJMU as a support to the PGCE in Coaching and Mentoring in Education and works in the North West as a Magical Spelling Tutor.
Following an enjoyable and successful career training for the Financial Services she set up her own Consultancy in 2000 to work as an independent consultant. For more than 15 years she has thrived on developing leaders, managers and teams in education, the private sector and retail.
After 20 years as a successful entrepreneur, leading and growing a national environmental health business, Shaun took the decision to change his career path and pursue his interest in personal and spiritual development.
He sold his company and moved to India, spent months in silence meditating and emerged with a new way of being in the world. He trained for 4 years in Integrative Psychotherapy at the Sherwood Institute, Birmingham University, he spent 3 years travelling and studying with David Grove, and studied for 2 years on the NLP psychotherapy course with James Lawley and the Northern School of NLP. A Master Practitioner of NLP he offers group facilitation and 1-1 sessions in executive coaching, personal development and symbolic modelling.
Marian is a skilled facilitator and trainer, she has developed and delivered training programmes which have benefited thousands of people across the world. She has personally delivered trainings in England, Northern Ireland, the USA, Spain and Russia.
She also works with individuals and groups to enable them to achieve their goals. She is an NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer who specialises in applications based on Clean Language, which involves paying exquisite attention to people and the language they use to express their ideas.
She also facilitates very large group discussions, using the “World Cafe” model.
Lynne Cooper is an experienced facilitator, specialising in coaching executives, developing leaders and building teams in both private and public sectors to create improved performance. She is one of just a handful of pioneers of the application of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling in organisations, using this leading edge change technology to enhance understanding, transform thinking, change behaviours, and sustain the resulting improved results.
Lynne’s background includes some 18 years’ commercial experience in management roles within private sector organisations. She has spent the last ten years in coaching and facilitation, working for, and now running, Amicas. She has extensive experience in creating change through her key areas of expertise: Executive Coaching, leadership development, team alignment, coaching training and coach supervision.
Lynne is the co-creator of the FIVE-MINUTE Coach, a powerful Clean Language coaching model for use across management levels, integrating coaching into day-to-day communications to facilitate generative change. She is also the author of Business NLP for Dummies, Wiley, 2008.
Lynne is an Accredited Coach, NLP Master Practitioner and a certified Clean Language Facilitator. She is a business graduate (University of Sheffield), holds post-graduate diplomas in Management Studies and Marketing, and is working towards a Diploma in Coaching Supervision.
From deserted Yugoslav beaches to Brazilian shanty towns; dilapidated Andalucian monasteries to the 21st century architecture of multinational companies, Jordan has provided innovative one-on-one Coaching interventions to his clients, and has introduced concepts and exercises from NLP, DBM* and Clean Language to help support learning processes. (*Neuro-linguistic Programming and Developmental Behavioural Modelling)
At a young age, Jordan has been committed to receiving some of the best professional training and support the world has to offer. Having gained a Masters in Personal Coaching with NLP and DBM in Spain, he is now an accredited Clean Language facilitator, and is hard at work translating Symbolic Modelling and Emergent Knowledge techniques with the help of his clients into Spanish and Portuguese. With a diverse background in interpreting, English teaching and customer relationships management, one highlight in his short career involved facilitating a disparate and impassioned group of youngsters to establish a team identity and register as a political party; one that continues to gain momentum throughout Spain. Jordan firmly believes in the potential of Coaching and Modelling for personal and professional development, and also believes that up until now we have only scratched the surface as to what this work can achieve; that society at large can improve through the dissemination of these skills. For late 2011, he is planning a project bringing these skills to disadvantaged youths, managers of NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs in Southern Brazil.
At Training Attention, Jordan has the role of Apprentice, assisting the directors in the optimal running of certain courses, and reaching the high standard necessary to deliver tailor-made Dyslexia Coaching as well as facilitating some of the company’s group modelling workshops. He’s deeply impressed by Training Attention’s internal use of their own exercises and models: the value of not just talking the talk but walking the walk; and whilst training with a company he regards as one of the world’s most innovative in its field, Jordan is not only committed to becoming a highly effective and elegant Coach and Trainer in his native Great Britain, but also in three different languages worldwide.
Natasha graduated with a 1st Class Degree in Psychology from University Essex. Natasha has a keen interest in working with learning disabilities including Autism and Hidden Disability such as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and AD(H)D.
She has been developing her coaching skills through providing 1:1 coaching for Training Attention clients and is also taking her ILM Level 3 Certificate in Professional Workplace Coaching. Natasha provides telephone information advice and counselling for people suffering acute anxiety attacks, through ‘No Panic’, a national helpline. Natasha works with both adults and children.
Chris is an experienced coach and coach mentor who brings skill and experience to his work at Training Attention. He has worked with Neuro Linguistic Programming and Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling. Chris firmly believes in the positive power of coaching and gets real pleasure from supporting individuals and groups to create lasting positive change in their life.
His clients come for coaching in any and all life areas, such as work performance, managing dyslexia, confidence, organisation, health, time management and training as a Life Coach. Chris has over 10 years experience in retail management, training and staff mentoring. He also has expertise in e-learning, such as webinars and coaching via video link.