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Mr. Larry Westenberg, is the President of Expanding Enterprises, Inc.  He designed training for a number of years for Fortune 50 companies, and is an experienced trainer and training consultant with a Master's Degree (MSEd) in Training Design/Instructional Technology. Additionally, he has a Master's Degree (MSW) in Social Work, and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).  He has worked in counseling for over 20 years.  His counseling experience includes six years assessing and treating the criminally insane, as well as three years assisting with involuntary admissions in frequent coordination with government/legal agencies.  He also maintains a private NLP-based counseling practice in Illinois. 

Mr. Westenberg is a certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and has taught and assisted with teaching NLP certification programs at several different NLP Institutes in the United States since 1991.  He is an Authorized Instructor of The First and The Second Degrees of The Radiance Technique®, (Authorized by Radiance Stress Management International, Inc.) and has studied and researched extensively on stress and stress management techniques. 

Mr. Westenberg has studied human influence technologies since his childhood, including such varied sources as educational technology, accelerated learning, hypnosis, military brainwashing, subliminal communication and cognitive therapy. Additionally, he is a certified massage therapist who combines a number of different energy-based and physically-based methods in his private practice work. 

His trainings are always flavored with his humorous presentation style, and he has a knack for clarifying complicated presentation topics. Larry is dedicated to sharing positive influence methods with parents, social workers, therapists and teachers to help offset the often negative cultural influences of television and music.  His book, "The Structure of Beliefs and Prejudice" is a new book discussing how to use a variety of cognitive therapy and NLP techniques to shift beliefs, and includes new distinctions in language patterns and their impact on beliefs.  The book also discusses how prejudice is formed, and how to influence it with language patterns.  

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