Trainers
Giuseppe Platania, Ph.D. in the early 1980s founded and directed in Turin the Deltastudio company, active in Negotiation, Personnel Research and Selection, carrying out Training activities in more than seventy Italian Companies.
He has collaborated, as a freelance with national Consulting Companies, included George S. May International, Atefos S.pA, and Ateconsul, of which he was a co-founder, partner and head of consultants, working with major Italian companies.
In 1994, he founded in Turin and Pistoia the "Scuola Internazionale di Comunicazione e Immagine", committed to teaching NLP, Negotiation and innovative Communication techniques.
Since 1995, he has studied Communication, Ericksonian Hypnosis and Brief-Therapy in the United States, meeting the Masters of these evolutionary disciplines such as Jeffrey Zeig, Micheal Yapko, Francine Shapiro (E.M.D.R.), Albert Ellis, Robert Dilts and Stephen Gilligan.
Giuseppe Platania grew professionally through the Milton H. Erickson Foundation Seminars in Phoenix, U.S.A., since 1996. Before that, he participated in Neuro-Linguistic Programming insights and updates for NLP Trainers held by Robert Dilts and Stephen Gilligan, whom he met again in San Francisco and Phoenix, at the Ericksonian Seminars in 1996-1999.
Since the 1996 he has been Neuro-Linguistic Programming Trainer certified by the American Board of NLP (ABNLP, Id: 0403) collaborating with Deltastudio company in the dissemination of the most advanced communication techniques and business consultancy, certifying hundreds of students in Italy.
In 1997, during the Ericksonian seminars in Phoenix, he participated in the training of an extraordinary man and developer of 'Strategic Family Therapy': Jay Haley.
He met Albert Ellis in San Francisco, attending his Cognitive Behavioral Therapy presentations.
He also met Francine Shapiro creator of E.M.D.R . (Eyes Movements Desensitisation and Reprocessing) by attending her trainings in Phoenix.
In the same year he attended the trainings of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and Hypnotherapy (Co. USA), achieving Professional Member Certification (Id: 2026).
In 1997 he founded and directed the first Italian Milton H. Erickson Institute, based in Turin and approved by the Erickson Foundation. He was interviewed by Betty Alice Erickson (Milton H. Erickson's daughter) as the first Director of an Italian Milton Erickson Institute and the interview was published in the Foundation's Newsletter.
In 1998, he originated and developed the Laser-Assisted Ideodynamics® technique, decisive in the treatment of recurring negative memories, healing emotional traumas and in the treatment of negative habits.
In 1999, he attended Courses by the "Father of Psychobiology" and true Psychotherapy genius Ernest Lawrence Rossi in San Francisco (U.S.A.). In the same year he was invited by Robert Dilts to participate in Santa Cruz (USA) at the meeting with NLP Trainers from all over the world to develop, in view of the new millennium, the topic: "Integration, not request for consent".
In 2001, due to extended commitments abroad and with the newly founded Accademia di Evoluzione Psicofisica he stepped down as Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of Turin.
He was from 1999 to 2014 a Member of the prestigious "The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis” (Id: 17376) founded in the 1950s by Milton H. Erickson.
He began to study and explore Coaching methodologies from 2007 and has been personally involved in the diffusion of Coaching in Italy since 2012.
In the 2014 and 2019 he was a Member of the A.I.C.P (Associazione Italiana Coach Professionisti, Id: 269) and Association for Coaching (Id: GEP0314M).
Since 2019, he has been CEO and Partner of CoachingShapes, a Coach Training Provider accredited by the Association for Coaching (Id: 75503614).
He is also currently a Member of the American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (ABNLP), with the Certified Level of Trainer (Id N31082T) and Director of CoachingShapes which is an ABNLP Approved Institute for the teaching of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
He is the author of numerous Books and Articles on Coaching, Negotiation, Communication, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and holds training courses in Italy and abroad.
During his work he has trained Coaching Students and Psychologists motivated to work professionally as Coach in different fields of application and interested in learning his innovative “Ideodynamic Approach".
His Coaching technique is based on the search for a perfect integration with the Coachee, supported by creativity, positive energy, optimism and full respect for any constructive worldview or point of view. He is currently Master Coach, Mentor and Negotiation Trainer at CoachingShapes where he is a Founding Member and Partner.
_____________________________
Since 1978 he has been a Shotokan Karate Black Belt graduated in the Turin famous "Accademia Dojo Miura". He learned in Italy the basics from Master Masaru Miura, currently 9th Dan. At the end of the 1990s, he met in the United States the Sensei Tutsomu Ohoshima, one of the few great Masters trained directly by the Founder of Shotokan Karate: Funakoshi Gichin. He is a III Dan Karate Instructor at CSEN (Albo Istruttori Karate matr. 111863) and holds single-topic seminars only for Black Belts, often based on the technical and mental deepening of the principles of Karate and Kintou-Do.
In 2000 he obtained his Flying Licence PPL (Private Pilot Licence N° IT FCL 8405 ) with a qualification for complex aircraft (VP-RU Qualification) and has practised Aerobatic Flying with a General Avia F22-C aircraft (I-IAID).
In his rare free moments, he loves sailing, horse riding and practising Qi-Gong.
Dott. Rossella Ciriello graduated in Clinical Psychology, with honours in Turin (Italy), in 2001.
She pursued her research in the field of Psychology in parallel with the work in her own practice and personnel selection/training consultancy at Adecco Italy.
She was a Member of the Professional Register of Psychologists of Piedmont (Italy), from 2004 to 2019 then she left to devote herself completely to the new interests born from attending Ericksonian Courses, and other Helping Relationship methodologies, more relevant and especially with faster results than ordinary Psychotherapy.
She first dedicated herself to Neuro-Linguistic Programming, obtaining an international Master Practitioner, Certified by ABNLP (Id: N32833), and then entirely to Coaching by attending Giuseppe Platania's Courses and Robert Dilts' Lectures/Seminars.
She has been actively interested in Coaching since 2014, after a Robert Dilts' Seminar in Merano (Italy).
At the same time, she practised Laser-Assisted Ideodynamics® and Brief-Therapy under the supervision of the Master Trainer Giuseppe Platania.
She is currently a Trainer of professional Life Coaches with a focus on the development of Generative Coaching.
Since 2016, he has been actively interested in Negotiation and has attended international Trainings on this topic. She is a talented Negotiator and Negotiation Trainer within CoachingShapes, combining the psychological disciplines, of which she is very expert, with innovative 'Rapport Techniques' that foster a dialogue set on the values and interests of all parties involved in a Negotiation. She is currently an Associate Member of 'The Negotiation Society' and is a passionate promoter and Trainer of the ethics of 'Win-Win' Negotiation.
Since 2018, she has studied Supervision and Mentoring under the guidance of Master Coach Giuseppe Platania and then starting a collaboration with his Coaching Organisation.
Since 2019 she has been CEO and Partner of CoachingShapes and personally follows Coaching developments in Northern Italy.
She is Coach Member OMAC (Organizational Membership of Association for Coaching).
She has a remarkable ability to lead classes of Students towards the goal of deep learning about Coaching in all its forms and is also a Coach who is attentive and sensitive to the social changes and new needs that have arisen after the 2020-2022 pandemic.
Her Supervision skill and technique, which she has practiced since 2020, offers Coaches an open and never directive discussion: on the contrary, she firmly believes in the freedom to use ‘powerful questions’ that elicit interesting and creative answers through which Students can identify confirmations or find new solutions.
She also teaches Neuro-Linguistic Programming to entrepreneurs and professionals eager to improve and make their business skills more effective.
______________________________________
In her little spare time, she is passionate about Sailing as a way of balancing her energy by "breathing air and sea”. She also loves horse riding and practising Qi-Gong she learnt in 2019 from Masters Shi Heng Hy and Shi Heng Zuan Laoshi at the ShaolinTemple Europe, in Otterberg (D).
We are Coach Training Provider accredited by the Association for Coaching (AC)
The Association for Coaching offers us, as Coach Training Provider, the opportunity to “gift" our Students with an Introductory Associate Membership for those who are training as Professional Coaches or an Introductory Membership as a Leader Coach for those who are managers and leaders applying a Coaching approach within their organisations.