Michael Colgrass
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

NLP Trainer, Author, Composer.

Michael Colgrass is a graduate of the University of Illinois, a Tanglewood scholar, twice Guggenheim Fellow, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He won an Emmy for the PBS documentary Soundings: The Music of Michael Colgrass, which features his unique teaching methods.

In 1985 he became a certified trainer in NLP and is a frequent guest trainer for the Dynamic Learning Center at NLPU in Santa Cruz, California. He studied in mime, acting, dance and directing in New York, commedia dell' arte in Milan and avant garde theater with Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Theater Laboratory in Wroclaw, Poland.

He combines his NLP and theater training techniques with 45 years of professional performing experience in his "Excellence In Performance" workshops. He has trained more than 25,000 people in Europe, Britain, South America, South Africa, Indonesia and throughout the United States and Canada.

NLP co-founder John Grinder modeled Colgrass' strategies for creativity which is described in:
Dilts, Robert & Epstein, Todd. (1991). Tools For Dreamers. Cupertino, CA: Meta Publications. pp95-110.

Colgrass originated "Deep Listening," a technique for leading audiences to heightened concentration. Description and scripts are included in the book:
Bretto, Charlotte & DeLozier, Judith & Grinder, John & Topel, Sylvia. (1991). Leaves Before the Wind. Santa Cruz, CA: Grinder, DeLozier & Associates. pp125-136.
Also see http://www.michaelcolgrass.com/10.html

Contact Information:

Michael Colgrass Homepage.
colgrass@sympatico.ca

Books:

• Colgrass, Michael. (2000). My Lessons with Kumi: How I Learned to Perform With Confidence in Life and Work. Moah, Utah: Real People Press.
• Articles in the NewYork Times, The Christian Science Monitor and Music Magazine.

Updated November 10, 2000