NAFPS Selections: Psychology of Vision Spinoff Business in Central Europe pt. 2

[Above: POV, the gateway drug to New Age marketing]

[From the New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans forum, by "Ingeborg," February 16, 2015]:

Austria

The fairly low number of PoV/STL trainers in Austria reflects the legal situation given in this country which makes alternative healers illegal; licences as altmed healers cannot be obtained. So vendors there will be restricted to persons claiming to do management counseling, life counseling etc, but these treatments are not covered by health insurances and have to be paid by patients.

Elisabeth Pointner, Vienna/Austria

No further info available, no website. Pointner seems to have done STL courses.

Johanna Schmauszer, Salzburg/Austria

Schmauszer's website promotes an STL course taught in 2012 and since then has not been updated. She also offers individual coaching. No education or qualifications mentioned, apart from vague claims of faith healing and other Newage methods.

http://bewusst-sein.biz/impressum.html

Gabriele Hanser, Lienz/Austria

http://www.gabrielehanser.com/%C3%BCber-mich/

Hanser did various Newage trainings, e.g. Reiki, Access Consciousness, Qigong. She also did an STL course in 2004-5. Hanser does not mention any previous professional training, and she is rather cautious on her website about her present activities.

Günter Kerschbaummayr, Vienna/Austria

Kerschbaummayr did a course of studies in International Business Studies in Vienna which he finished in 1995. He claims a postgraduate course in „Communication & NLP“ at Corvinus University in Budapest/Hungary which he finished with an M.Sc. in 2003. Since this university is a renowned institution, one may wonder about the NLP course, and Kerschbaummayr also claims he became an NLP  Master Practitioner in Vienna/Austria 2000-2002. In 2014, he did an STL course and claims several trainings in Matrix Energy Work. He further claims various other trainings, e.g. with Susanne Ernst (PoV trainer and CEO of POV DACH GmbH) and Chuck Spezzano, as well as trainings in a „shamanic setting (Don Agustin, Hiah Park, Shipibo from Peru, Oona & Azuni“. According to his CV, he has a teaching assignment at Vienna Polytechnic for Business Management (see: http://web.archive.org/web/20141009144818/http://www.kerschbaummayr.com/hp/uebermich.php?subaction=showfull&id=1282383485&archive=&start_from=&ucat=27&   ). [Substitute link]