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Marilyn Atkinson
Born	Marilyn W. Millard (1943-02-18) February 18, 1943 Vancouver, British Columbia
Occupation	Master Trainer
Years active	1970-present
Organization	Erickson Coaching International
Known for	The Art and Science of Coaching, Solution Focused Coaching

Marilyn W. Atkinson (born February 18, 1943) is the founder and President of Erickson Coaching International. She is a speaker, coach, Master coach trainer, Master NLP trainer, writer, and the creator of The Art & Science of Coaching.

Education and career

In November 1965, Atkinson completed her BA in sociology with High Honors from the University of Saskatchewan at Regina, and was awarded the University Prize Award. Three years later, Atkinson completed her master's degree in Clinical Psychology at the same university. Her thesis topic was “Ethics of Generosity and Borrowing Lending Behavior: An Exploration Into Motivation”.

In 1980, Atkinson opened NLP Institutes of Canada.

In 1992, Atkinson changed the company name to NLP B.C. and continued developing courses, training materials, and training. She had a staff of seven people.

Atkinson's work emphasizes cross-cultural directions and focuses on a revitalized self-development coaching approach. Through her work in developing coaches and coach trainers throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, over 45 000 coaches have been trained in the last 35 years. Her programs have been used to instigate brand new policies in the field of education, social work, and drug and alcohol treatment. She has led various types of corporate and leadership training programs in as many as 60 cities around the world, and her work with 4 Quadrant Thinking has added a vital specialization in the field of accelerated learning technologies.

Conflicting opinions exist around the methods of language learning that Atkinson teaches, and at times her definition of coaching has been received with skepticism.

In 1990's, amazed by Powell Janulus, who entered the Guinness Book of World Records for fluency in 42 languages, she started modelling him and the book "Velocity Instant Fluency" came out as a result.

World Game Conference

In October 2012 Atkinson launched the First International World Game Conference, hosted in London, England.

Publications

• Atkinson M. Expanding Out to Home: All of Us Alling All of It All of the Time, Anchorpoint Magazine 1998: 31.
• Atkinson M. Discovering Balance: the Stateline Exercise. Anchor Point Magazine 2001; 15 (7): 28–32.
• Co-authored with Rae T. Chois the trilogy, The Art and Science of Coaching.
• Atkinson, Marilyn; Chois, Rae T. (2007). The Art and Science of Coaching: The Inner Dynamics of Transformational Conversations. Vancouver: Exalon Publishing. pp. 209 ISBN 978-0-9783704-4-2.
• Atkinson, Marilyn; Chois, Rae T. (2007). The Art and Science of Coaching: The Step-by-Step System to Transformational Conversations. Vancouver: Exalon Publishing. pp. 250 ISBN 978-0-9783704-5-9.
• Atkinson, Marilyn; Chois, Rae T. (2011). The Art and Science of Coaching: Process and Flow. Vancouver: Exalon Publishing. pp. 304 ISBN 978-0-9783704-6-6.
• Atkinson, Marilyn. (2013). Creating Transformational Metaphors. Vancouver: Exalon Publishing. pp. 161 ISBN 978-0-9783704-3-5.
• Atkinson, Marilyn. (2015).Do You Want To Play The World Game? ISBN 978-09783704-7-3
• Atkinson, Marilyn; Paul Gossen (2015).Velocity Instant Fluency ISBN 978-0978375515
• Atkinson, Marilyn; Stefanyi, Peter. '4Q Dynamic Intelligence' (2018). Exalon Publishing, LTD, ISBN 9780978370480.