Thanks too to Hilary Cochrane, my coaching supervisor, who was my expert adviser on this project and helped me develop the contracting material in this book, and to my long-time friend and coach Ann Baldwin: the best way to learn to coach is to receive coaching from the best. This also applies to my other coaches, Tony Felix and Lois Evans, who have helped me in so many positive ways. I have been lucky enough to both study and work with the best in NLP and coaching, and would like to thank them for all I have learnt from them. Thank you Robert Dilts (again!), Judith Delozier, Stephen Gilligan, Shelle Rose Charvet, Ian McDermott, Jan Elfin, Deborah Bacon Dilts, Suzi Smith, Richard Bandler, John Grinder, Stephen Covey, Kimberley Hare, Anthony Robbins, Joseph O'Connor, Katie Hogg, Alison Underwood, Tad James, Aina Egeberg, Edward Hines, Sheena Reid, Antoine Bebe, Donald MacNaughton and Charles Faulkner. author's acknowledgements