I first heard about Dave Dobson through Doug O Brien from New York who had attended many of Dave’s Funshops over a number of years and studied his work in depth. I was amazed that someone with such skills was so relatively unknown in the world of NLP and Hypnosis. It reminded me a great deal about when I met Frank Farrelly and similarly he had poor marketing but at least he had his own website for his therapeutic approach! Dobson had a longstanding history of seeing private clients which in my view helps to account for his excellent insights into producing a highly effective approach that is quite different to NLP and standard hypnosis. Apart from a few CDs sets and one DVD set, there is very little information on Dobson online which is a real shame.

Dave ran a private practice in Clinical Hypnotherapy, and psychotherapy for over 45 years in Los Angeles and the west coast. He also had a background in business that includes being owner and manager of a executive search firm, a division manager and director of sales for an international plastics company. He developed what he calls "Other Than Conscious Communication™ which is an outgrowth of his model of psychology that he calls "No Fault Psychology™." He moved to the San Juan Islands in 1977, and is well known for running what he called “Funshops” many of which were recorded and released on CD sets. The first of a numbers of sets I purchased many years ago was the Funshop 2003 training which was a fascinating and extensive series of CDs of this live training course. Dave’s style is very laid back and deeply hypnotic, so I couldn’t listen while driving! There were rumours that Dave had written a book and I know at least one person who had seen the cover for it, but as far as I know it’s never been published. He died a few years back and his passing is a great loss to all those interested in his work.