Named in honor of the brilliant psychologist and psychiatrist Milton H. Erickson, known for his strong belief in the resourcefulness of people, we at Erickson uphold his legacy by incorporating his principles into the core of our teachings.

From the moment we connect with prospective students to the successful realization of ambitions we are there to support you in navigating your own unique journey through the myriad of coaching certifications and specializations.

Erickson provides you with the comprehensive package, whether you are interested in learning to be a great coach and successful entrepreneur or are interested in implementing coach training into your organization- we’ve got you covered.

His description of how to catalyze nature healing in others, combined with the observations of his students and of those who researched him, constitute a gold mine of key insights into the human mind, psychotherapy and healing, that will be explored for decades by therapists and researchers alike.

His basic presuppositions that all behavior has a positive unconscious intent and must be respected caused a fundamental paradigm shift in modern psychotherapy and forms the basis of Solution Focused counseling.

Taking advantage, of an outside point of view, the unlikely team of a linguist, Dr. John Grinder, and a mathematician-turned Gestalt-therapist, Richard Bandler came up with a wealth of insights into Erickson’s successes and went on to study other therapeutic wizards, such as Virginia Satir. Studies concerning which techniques work, and how people change and heal, inevitably led to a clear, higher-level understanding of how to catalyze healing.  This led to the development of neuro-linguistic programming, which a reviewer in Psychology Today considered to be ‘the most powerful vehicle for change in existence’.

To date, aspects of the Erickson legacy, Accelerated Learning Strategies and NLP have been integrated into some of the most advanced models in the human potential movement and psychotherapy arenas. This integration has inspired some of the richest insights available in the world today into the nature of the conscious and unconscious minds, hypnosis, psychotherapy and healing.

The Solution Focused approach presents a very elegant pathway towards choice and change.  With methods that include NLP tools, “Whiteboard Coaching” and four-quadrant thinking you learn the advanced skill sets that move you into the arena of excellence as a coach. No matter where you are in life, there is always a desire for professional flexibility and creativity; for closer relationships or for a deeper, richer more meaningful life. Solution Focused coaching technology guides people towards a clearer apprehension of their own unique path and creates a framework for them to get there.

In chaotic times, education must include the skills of leadership and vision. It must include practical methods for bringing our visions and values into reality on our daily approaches to problem resolution. It must include training in the abilities to utilize events that look like failures, as power boosters towards reinventing excellence. It must include a deep understanding of the courage and vulnerability required to lead a distinguishing life. These are the aims of Erickson college.

Erickson college is founded on a number of empowering models of consciousness which express the intrinsically  whole and self-healing qualities of a human being. Solution-focused coaching training provides a vision and methodology based on these models. This offers students and clients a direct path to shift communication and creativity paradigms quickly. Pulling individuals toward their creative frontiers. These models combined with our deep belief in the human growth potential to represent a specific and detailed map of human behavior and relationship, and consequently offer extremely effective pathways for personal, organizational and community expansions.

Every program at Erickson college implicitly embeds transformation and accelerated learning within the course content. We challenge our students towards dynamic self improvement and contribution in the world as ownership is gained over this knowledge. Through this challenge, leadership ability is the fundamental result.

Marilyn Atkinson. Ph.D.

President and Senior Trainer

“ The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level at which we created them.” – Albert Eistein