Transformational change-work · Boulder, Colorado
I help high-potential people realize their dreams through deep, lasting change-work, founders and executives, and the families raising the next ones. Backed by, and beyond NLP; grounded in seventeen years and more than a thousand people.
For years I guided young people through real wilderness. Now I guide people through the inner terrain.
Most of what holds a person back isn't a missing insight, you already understand it; it just keeps happening anyway. I work where the pattern actually lives, so it changes at the root and stays changed. The point isn't to fix what's wrong with you. It's to free what you're capable of.
Mark Andreas
Who I work with
Pole one
Already successful, and still evolving. You didn't come to patch a problem, you came to keep growing as a human being, and your work is part of that. This is where most of my long-term, premium 1:1 work lives.
Explore 1:1 work →Pole two
From years leading wilderness-therapy expeditions with troubled youth, and the book that grew out of it. Steady, compassionate work for young people finding their feet, and the parents walking beside them.
Start a conversation →How I work
We run on two systems: what we consciously know, and the automatic experience underneath. When they fall out of alignment, willpower and insight don't move it. I work directly where the pattern actually lives, so change is effortless, and it lasts.
Most people say some version of the same thing afterwards: I didn't have to force anything. It just changed.
I don't run a fixed protocol. I read how a person shows up, how the issue itself reveals, and meet them exactly there. The process fits the person, never the person to the process.
The work
I grew up inside this work. For me transformation isn't a belief, it's something I've watched happen, up close, since I was a child. I don't lead with a method; I lead with you, and reach for whichever of these fits.
Developed by Connirae Andreas, my mother
A gentle, deep process that follows an unwanted feeling or behaviour down through its positive purposes to a Core State, wholeness, peace, being. My most-used work; I co-designed the Core Transformation Coach Certification with my aunt, Tamara Andreas. Read about Core Transformation →
◆ The work I reach for most. Read about Core Transformation →
Developed by Connirae Andreas
A subtle process that works with the sense of self, "the I", to dissolve reactive patterns at a depth most approaches never reach. Read about the Wholeness Work →
Developed by Steve Andreas, my father
For the beliefs you hold about who you are. Many people seek this work out by name, and find me. Read about Self-Concept work →
Developed by Andrew T. Austin, I train Level 1 & 2
Works with the spatial and movement metaphors hidden in how we speak, "stuck," "weighed down," "boxed in", and moves them, so the pattern shifts. A distinctive lane that's mine to teach. Train in Metaphors of Movement →
◆ A practice I especially love. Train in Metaphors of Movement →
The ground the rest grew from. Steve & Connirae Andreas were among its developers.
Most of the work above grew out of NLP, and I trained in the classics directly, through the people who shaped them. When a clean, well-aimed NLP technique is what serves you, I reach for it, and it often works fast. Many people come looking for NLP by name. This is where that search lands. Read about NLP coaching →
◆ The foundation beneath the methods. Read about NLP coaching →
Work with me
The main path
An intensive, ongoing 1:1 track for deep personal change. We work where the pattern actually lives, so it shifts at the root and holds. A guide beside you through the week, voice or text, whenever something comes up.
A considered commitment. We talk it through on the call.
Enquire about 1:1 workBegin with the free 80-minute intro, then a discovery call. No cost, no pressure.
One focused session for a specific, contained issue. A good way to try the work, or to address one clear thing without committing to the full track.
Work with me 1:1 to polish and sharpen your skills. Mentoring and supervision for practitioners who want to deepen their craft in these methods.
Enquire about mentoring →I train and certify several of the methods I use. Metaphors of Movement L1 & L2, and the Core Transformation Coach Certification.
Train with me →Keynotes and warm, substantive conversation on deep change and conflict.
Invite me →Start free
It isn't a webinar with a pitch at the end. It's an experiential training: I guide you through how automatic inner patterns can be transformed at their source, without willpower, forcing or self-fixing, so change becomes natural and lasting.
A real, guided experience, free, and explicitly not a sales pitch.
About Mark
I learned this work the way few people can: at home. My parents, Steve and Connirae Andreas, were pioneers of the NLP field, and I grew up watching real transformation happen at the kitchen table. It was never a theory to me.
I came to it the long way around, too. A degree in Peace & Global Studies from Earlham College, training in conflict mediation, and years leading three-week wilderness-therapy backpacking expeditions for troubled teens at the Monarch Center, round-the-clock work that taught me how people actually change.
Since 2009 I've practiced full-time: more than a thousand clients, over fifteen hundred practitioners trained, the Core Transformation Coach Certification co-designed with my aunt Tamara Andreas, and two books. I work from Boulder, Colorado, and with clients across continents by Zoom.
And I'm a father of two young boys in Boulder, raising my own kids alongside this work.
One of a handful of trainers worldwide
We describe our inner life in space: "stuck," "weighed down," "boxed in," "at a crossroads." Metaphors of Movement, developed by Andrew T. Austin, takes those literally and works with them, so the pattern can move, often visibly.
I am one of only a handful of people in the world certified to train Metaphors of Movement, at Level 1 and Level 2. I carry it alongside my family's methods, a combination no one else holds, and it's some of the work I most love to teach.
The author
Sixty-one true stories of compassionate, creative ways out of conflict.
Endorsed by William Ury and Dan Millman.
Finding connection and cooperation with troubled teens, from the wilderness-therapy years.
The roots of the parents & teens work.
In their words
"One of the best investments I've ever made."
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Let's see if it's a fit
Tell me a little about what you'd like to change, or where you're trying to go. I read every enquiry myself and reply personally, no cost, no pressure, just an honest sense of whether this work fits.
Good to know
High-potential people in active stages of growth: founders, entrepreneurs and executives on one side, and parents, teens and families on the other. Most of my long-term work is premium 1:1.
It grew out of NLP, and I trained in the classics directly, through the people who shaped them. I work backed by NLP and beyond it, with deeper methods like Core Transformation and the Wholeness Work. When a clean NLP technique is what serves you, I use it. More on NLP coaching →
Both. Most clients work with me over Zoom from anywhere in the world. In-person sessions are available in Boulder, Colorado.
Premium 1:1 work is a considered commitment we talk through on a call. Single sessions are also available. You'll get a clear, honest picture of fit and cost before anything starts. // VERIFY pricing wording with Mark
Some of the methods I use have published research. Core Transformation has three published studies, including two randomized controlled trials, which is rare in this field.
You can begin free: the 80-minute Core Transformation intro, then a discovery call to see if we're a fit. Start a conversation →