Beyond NLP training from the Andreas family — home of Core Transformation and The Wholeness Work

Andreas NLP was founded by Connirae Andreas, Ph.D. and the late Steve Andreas, two of the most influential teachers in the fifty-year history of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Their work is carried forward today by Tamara Andreas (co-developer of the Core Transformation training curriculum and lead trainer) and Mark Andreas (current Core Transformation co-trainer). The school remains family-led.

Andreas NLP is the home of two advanced methods: Core Transformation, a ten-step process for guiding unwanted feelings, behaviour or thoughts into Core States like peace, oneness and presence; and The Wholeness Work, a structured path for dissolving the boundaries of the separate self. Both methods are uncovering, not adding — the resources you need are already within you, and the methods help you reach them.

Not exactly. Andreas NLP is the school and the family; Core Transformation is one of the two flagship methods Andreas NLP teaches. Core Transformation has its own dedicated home at coretransformation.org for professional training, certification, and published research. Andreas NLP is the consumer-awareness front door for the wider family of methods.

Yes. Three peer-reviewed studies support Core Transformation, including one randomized controlled trial. The 2019 RCT (Braganza et al., Journal of Counseling and Development, n=129) found significant improvements across all measured domains; among the 44 participants whose scores suggested they could have qualified for a psychological diagnosis, 61 percent no longer did four weeks after a single session, with a large effect (d = 1.63) on the GHQ-12 symptom measure. A 2026 coach-training study (Gray et al., the American Psychological Association's Spirituality in Clinical Practice, n=219) found that two 90-minute sessions delivered by 25 coaches-in-training produced effect sizes similar to those reported for 8–40 1-hour sessions of well-established treatments, suggesting the manualized process can be taught to other practitioners. Full citations: coretransformation.org/about/research/.

Meditation is often open and undirected — you sit with whatever arises, and depth tends to come with years of practice. The Wholeness Work takes a more structured approach, including its own guided Meditation Format: precise, step-by-step questions that experienced meditators say bring them to a deep state more quickly, and that people who've struggled with traditional meditation often find is the first practice that actually works for them. The two aren't in competition — The Wholeness Work is designed to complement whatever meditation or spiritual practice you already have, not replace it.

If you have completed an NLP Practitioner or Master Practitioner certification and you are wondering what is next, Andreas NLP is the answer many practitioners are looking for. Core Transformation and The Wholeness Work go beyond what classical NLP teaches — Core Transformation working at the level of being itself, and The Wholeness Work going further still, into the structures beneath even that — methods built and tested by the people who helped define the field.