Wilfred Proudfoot has spent much of his life communicating - first as a Technical Training Instructor in the RAF where he taught hundreds of conscripts (pressed men) stuff they weren't really bothered about. He took it as a challenge to interest them and keep them entertained - an achievement he still remembers with pride.
	He spent eight years and many speeches on his local council then was returned to the House of Commons where he was for two separate parliaments totalling eight years. He has spoken at thousands of meetings all over the country, again always guided by his desire to help and interest people. Indeed his wife, who had to sit through a hundred public meetings at one General Election Campaign said "It was no chore as he was always interesting to listen to!
He approaches hypnosis with total commitment, and a light touch understanding that he is teaching adults, whom he respects as being individual and unique.
He always feels teaching to a volunteer audience is a wonderful piece of luck, where he is paid for doing things he enjoys best, Hypnotising and Communication.
He believes everyone has the ability to grow and that it is a choice they have - he wants always to continue to learn - and learns from every class he conducts.
His enthusiasm and commitment is an inspiration to his students.
Starting in 1977 he spent many months in America acquiring his Hypnosis and Therapeutic skills at the Hypnotism Training Institute of Los Angeles with Gil Boyne.
With the originator of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) John Grinder at Monterey and Santa Cruz, with Robert Dilts both in London and Santa Cruz and with Steve and Connirae Andreas at NLP Comprehensive in Boulder, Colorado. He has taken Trainer Training in NLP both with Steve and Connira Andreas (1986) and with Robert Dilts and Todd Epstein (1989)
He has lectured at many places, including Pepperdine College and presented papers in 1993 to the Mid West Convention of Hypnotists at Chicago and the National Guild of Hypnotists in 1990, 91 and 92. Also in Delhi, India, Singapore and Hong Kong.
He has been to Virginia Satir's "months long" during 1985, 86 and 87 at Crested Butte, high in the Rockies of Colorado.
Virginia Satir and Milton H Erikson were the prime sources of NLP.
Since 1985 he has attended the Erickson Conferences on Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (five in all).
He has taught in Madrid University, also in Barcelona, Bilboa and even in a monastery in Segovia.
In August 1999 he was asked to present at the NGH National Guild of Hypnotists in Nassau, New Hampshire which was attended by over 1,200 people. He conducted a "parts party" and gave a lecture on Virginia Satirs' major contribution towards NLP.
Above all, Wilf Proudfoot is a "People Helper" with a true holistic approach, who pursues new learning around the world.