Testimonials

My NLP™ training with Barb Stepp has allowed me to make clearer distinctions, ask better questions and greatly improved my ability to be in rapport with others. Of all the personal development options available, NLP™ presents the most outstanding opportunity to expand our view of the world while vastly improving our ability to communicate.

I attended Barb Stepp’s Excellence Quest training for NLP Practitioner/ Master Practitioner/ Hypnosis and my expectations were not met. They were absolutely blown away! I came to the training wanting to learn to apply NLP to myself, to my sales career, and to develop skills to enable me to eventually become a success coach. For a long time I felt that I was not reaching my potential in my career, financially, and overall was just not happy enough. I had seen a NLP coach a few years back, with mixed results, and was afraid that it didn’t work on me. Wow, was I wrong.

Barb's training is truly special for many reasons. NLP is an attitude, she has LOTS of it, and she installs it. Barb definitely runs the walk, and is living proof of the effectiveness of NLP. She is well respected in the Society of NLP, and therefore much more up to date and effective than some of the other trainers out there. Barb is not afraid to challenge her students because she cares enough to be 100% sure we are all learning and growing.

Practitioner begins with basic concepts and moves comfortably through the methodologies. There are lots of exercises, so everyone gets hands-on practice, and learns through the experience of the other students. There is a lot of content, and she shares and unpacks everything she does in Master Practitioner, which covers advanced techniques, and state-of-the-art NLP like sleight of mouth, metaphors, installation. Barb teaches through installation, which gives you the attitude and the emotional states necessary to perform the techniques. I can’t stress how important and effective installation is, but for those who have tried to learn NLP from books and have difficulty, that’s why.

The training is fun, and it was a pleasure to work with Barb, the interns, and the other students, many of which have become personal friends. I highly recommend Excellence Quest if you want to learn NLP and Ericksonian Hypnosis, if you want to communicate better, or if you just want to live life to the fullest. I sure am. If you would like more detailed information, or have any questions, please call or e-mail me.

Barbara Stepp is a master teacher and coach with a gentle, caring, and yet straight forward style. My training with Barb has brought greater certainty and higher level results for me and my clients. I consider my work with Barb and Excellence Quest as an investment that has extremely high R.O.I. (return on investment)! For more specific feedback, call me.

I took your Certified NLP™ Practitioner and Ericksonian Hypnosis Course. Since finishing your course my practice has tripled in size and my effectiveness has increased immeasurably!! I believe the key for me was Language Patterns. That technology helped me to synthesize and utilize the thousands of hours of previous seminars as well as allowing me to connect with my patients in a dramatically more effective manner. My patients and I will be forever grateful for your selfless sharing of your expertise. I eagerly look forward to our continued association.

Barbara Stepp and the Excellence Quest Institute has been an inspiration to me. The knowledge and skills I have gained through her coaching and training have been of great benefit to my clinical practice as well as stress management and improving relationships in my personal life.

I own my own business and at age 48 decided to do something different. I took the Excellence Quest training to start a possible new vocation, but instead underwent a profound change that at first I didn't notice nor expect. This change took place as I was learning the technology without my conscious design. It was like visiting a friend in a hospital and receiving my own healings by just coming in. This is the single most powerful thing I have experienced. It's almost impossible to describe in just words.

The content of the NLP™ Practitioner course was wonderful. Barb made everything easy and lots of fun. A nicer woman I have not met, other than my Mom. Barb is very thorough and goes out of her way to help you. This training has been one of the best experiences of my life. I feel like a different person--a better person who is in control of everything that happens to me.

Barbara's presentation skills are outstanding! When Barbara walks into a room she supercharges it with her incredible energy. She is wonderfully caring and conscientious.

The benefits for me personally are improved business skills, meetings, communication, personal relationships, stretching, curiosity. Doing the exercises was the most effective tool. Barb is very knowledgeable and well-prepared. She paced he sessions well. I recommend this training.

Barb Stepp is an absolutely awesome trainer. I am so thoroughly amazed at how she gives her students so much information that we learn so thoroughly and instinctively. She truly makes you feel like you're receiving a personal training. She gave me the skills in the specific areas that I want to apply it, and then opened up my eyes to all the possibilities. In this NLP™ and Hypnosis training, the course covered much more than I expected. Time was maximized by frequent exercises. I had read many NLP™ books, but lacked the ability to make the changes in myself and others. After Barb's training, I am confident in my skills and that I know how and when to use them. Not only do I highly recommend her training, but I am trying to get all my family to attend.

I recommend Barb's training and coaching whole-heartedly. You owe it to yourself to be the person you really want to be and this course will take you exactly where you want to be. Barb is the best! We experienced the beliefs, attitudes, techniques and methodology of NLP, which make it a part of you. The content was so comprehensive that I feel like Barb installed an encyclopedia inside of me. I go much more than I could ever have expected. Barb Stepp is an expert trainer and the proof is in her results. She manages to be professional, generous, caring, hilarious and loving all at the same time. She takes personal stake in your learning an does everything she can to help you. The interns were awesome and made the class even more special.

I've taken a lot of classes and attended a lot of trainings in my life, and many, many times, I've been bored to tears exactly the way Barbara Stepp doesn't. Barbara doesn't just train NLP™ and Hypnosis, her training is one huge NLP™ and Hypnosis session as she applies her vast array of skills. Hours melt into days, and days grow into weekends of fun and discovery and deep learning, and weekends turn into an adventure. And that's just Practitioner!

What can I say about Barb? Truly a 21st century woman on the leading edge of human evolution. The more I attend her trainings, the more I learn every time. She is always up on the latest technologies.

When Barbara teaches a class, she doesn't merely present the material and the exercises; the class becomes a living demonstration of the techniques learned within it. As she uses the skills to teach the skills, participants learn in outrageous and exciting ways, as well as through deeper levels of communication. A word, a look, a gesture, each individual atom of communication is geared to transfer the maximum amount of information to those who choose the great pleasure of experiencing these class times. Barbara makes excellent use of audiovisual aids drawn from the popular media as well as video recordings of such other masters as Richard Bandler and Milton Erickson.

I have found that the exercises and demonstrations in the teachings are good for learning the skills as well as taking the opportunity to apply the skills to myself. Practitioner and Master Practitioner were the strong beginning of a lifetime of excitement and change.

Along with NLP™, Barbara teaches conversational hypnosis using the Milton (Erickson) Model. Her own skills with language patterns are extensive and her uses of them subtle. She teaches and demonstrates several methods of hypnotic induction both in its own right and as an adjunct to NLP™ practice.

From time to time, depending on the circumstances, Barbara invites experts in related fields to make presentations to the class. This is in keeping with her holistic view of life.

If you don't take the opportunity to fully experience a training with Barbara Stepp, you'll never know what you were missing.

Working with Barbara Stepp has been a life-changing experience for me. Throughout my corporate career my performance evaluations and salary increases have reflected poor listening skills. With Barbara's coaching and the skills, I have learned how to quickly gain rapport with people by understanding their view of the world through the power of questions.

As an engineer, I am interested in what works easily and dependably and is fun. The training at Excellence Quest Institute gave me Barb's nurturing, comfortable, "no fail", only feedback/outcomes environment and the latest NLP™ technology. Through NLP™, I constantly have the ability to take many other perspectives on given situations. NLP™ gives me a method for looking at my behavior, setting and attaining goals, adapting my behavior for whatever human interaction I am having.

I was pleased with the course content. A good mix of presentation, exercises, discussion, fun, laughter, video clips. I was surprised by the amount of language work in the course. After all the reading and studying I had done of NLP™, I knew I wanted to learn more techniques and be able to practice them in class. I was grateful we spent lots of time on the language. And we got to do many exercises, too! I recommend this training almost daily to someone: friends, business acquaintances, enemies, people I meet on the street with voices in their head so loud I put in ear plugs, aspiring writers, in fact, anybody with a brain.

What can I say about a scuba/sky-diving grandmother loaded with Reiki, NLP™, and Bandlerisms? She molded the class and content to suit the needs of the students and the dynamics of our interactions. She adapted on-the-fly while keeping the goals in mind. She obviously moves into a student's reality easily, meets them there, and then adds to their life choices subtly and politely. I admire her stamina, observational skills, and the integrity she installed in us when it comes to using NLP™ techniques. Barb Stepp trains her students thoroughly in all facts of current NLP™ methods and techniques, while exemplifying the NLP™ attitude of adventure, curiosity, and belly-wrenching humor. Go deep with Barb and feel gravity slide off your head into worlds of sound and dance your way through life.

With great information on NLP™ to share from the most detailed understanding of structures of thoughts to, more global, how human behavior accomplishes many achievements, Barb Stepp's Excellence Quest covers the whole rainbow of NLP™ concepts. The content and delivery generates learning, then curiosity followed by more learning. Having experienced other NLP™ training, my opinion is that Barb's course content is unmatched in teaching not only the "why" but the "how" NLP™ works. You will walk away with material well stored in your mind ready and available to use in your daily interactions. I personally have walked away with the skill to "think" in NLP™ technology without consciously trying to apply the skills I received. My thought process has been altered to a higher level of awareness of communication-listening-observation skills.

There was excellent timing of guest trainers for reinforcement. Very helpful interns, fun to work with, and added a great deal to our learning which reflects on Barb's skill for picking just the right people.
Barb's training is an adventure.

Barbara directs you through the changing and learning process in such an enjoyable, effective and natural way that I automatically started applying the knowledge in my personal and professional life with amazing results. Her stress management skills and techniques are outstanding! I believe that companies who train their people in these communication technologies will be at the head of all creative change in the next century.

Barbara is a master of her material. She is a patient, kind, genuine teacher and coach, and makes the concepts so simple. She made each person in the room comfortable and helped myself and each person with what we wanted. The training filled in the spaces that were empty with hypnosis. The training was comprehensive. Now I can read the books I tried to read many times before. I got way more than I expected. Excellence Quest also has a wonderful selection of books and tapes. I absolutely recommend this training!

Barb began installing and teaching concepts the moment we stepped into the class and made sure they were installed easily. Barb is one of the most charismatic people I've ever met. She is a phenomenal trainer and demonstrates her caring attitude in every interaction she has. I credit Barb with being instrumental and showing me skills I have that have absolutely transformed my life. I thank her with all my heart for showing me the possibilities and outcomes I am now aware of. I will recommend this training to others in a heartbeat! My entire staff (No Limits Soccer) will be attending.

Thank you again, for offering the extra dimension of Ericksonian hypnosis in combination with NLP™ metaphors and techniques. It is the most wonderful feeling to experience the effectiveness of these unique language patterns in working with clients. I no longer have any apprehension about being able to induce hypnosis or lodge results producing suggestions with challenging clients.

The first week-end I was lost, confused, feeling "inadequate", but when I began to write my language patterns I realized that my subconscious had absorbed it and it was part of me. Barb is masterful, skillful, fun, engaging--REAL! She made it seem so easy and graceful and natural. I will definitely recommend this training. It was one of the most rewarding, exciting things I've done in a long time.

Barbara Stepp's stress management program was practical, effective, and fun. The techniques she presented produced genuine insights and immediate results. Participants walked away better equipped and more motivated to handle their day-to-day pressures.

Barb knows more about human behavior than anyone I have known. She uses her knowledge and skill to teach her students to the best of their ability to learn. I received personality changes towards who I want to be during the course. The amazing thing is that it was happening even before I learned how it works.

Barbara's knowledge and expertise is second to none. Her teaching ability is natural and exceptional. I highly recommend Barbara, with her high degree of professionalism & integrity.