As Director of the R. P. Baker Foundation and an Associate of Big Picture Associates, Robert Baker is actively engaged in hypnotherapy, trauma training, dispute resolution, private and corporate mediation, as well as personal and professional coaching.

He consults and lectures extensively on applications of hypnosis to a variety of medical and emotional problems. He has also developed an extensive training program on individual psychological response to traumatic situations such as; witnessing or being involved in a crime, or severe accident; losing a loved one to a sudden death, or victims of natural disasters such as tornadoes or floods. This training is especially useful for first responders, police, firefighters, emergency room personnel, emergency/disaster counselors, and schoolteachers.

Robert has more than 33 years experience as a trainer, coach, hypnotherapist and mediator. As a certified Bioenergetic Therapist, he co-founded the Minnesota Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, and served as their Administrative Director and Associate Trainer for 10 years.

As a certified Dispute Resolution Professional, he works with dispute and conflict management for business and educational institutions, as well as mediating divorce and child custody cases.

Robert has been a member of the Mediation Project for Ramsey County since 1995. He has been featured on radio, television and in print.

Areas of Expertise:

• Personal, Professional, and Leadership Coaching
• Mediation/ Dispute Resolution for Business, Divorce, and Child Custody
• Hypnotherapy for a wide variety of issues including medical management, trauma resolution, and speeding up of the change process.
• Group Facilitating, Team Building and Conflict Resolution
• Couples Counseling, Couples Coaching
• Partnership Coaching for business partners

Conference Presentations:

• Minnesota Association for the Education of Young Children
• Minnesota Recreation and Park Association Annual Conference
• Spirituality Conference, Northeast Community School
• Singles Conference, Minneapolis Community College
• Various Men's Conferences
• AAML Family Law Conference
• Fifth International Bioenergetic Conference, Taormina, Sicily (1980) Paper presented, The Visual Analysis of Body Structure
• Sixth International Bioenergetic Conference, San Diego, California (1982) Paper presented, The Use of Self in Psychotherapy

Lectures/Demonstrations:

• Minnesota Emergency Medical Services Association
• School of Medicine, Mayo Auditorium, University of Minnesota
• Oncology Department, Abbott Northwestern Hospital
• College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota
• Prudential Life Insurance Company
• Wellness Program, College of St. Catherine,
  St. Paul, MN
• Minnesota Association for the Education of Young Children
• St. Mary's Hospital, Duluth
• Hennepin County Investigators Advisory Council
• North Central Spring Conference, Association for Humanistic Psychology
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Association of Minnesota
• United Way of the Saint Paul Area
• Interstitial Cystitis Association

Faculty:

• Family Studies Program, United Theological Seminary
• Volunteers Trainer, Hennepin County Municipal Court System
• Associate Trainer, Minnesota Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis
• Continuing Education, Minneapolis Community and Technical College
  

C.E.U. Classes Taught:

• Trauma Training, State bound memory, learning, and behavior
• Creating Your Heart's Desire, The Use of Visualization for Change
• Humor and the Power of Healing, Nursing Continuing Education, MCTC
• Smoking Cessation Classes in over 15 Community Education Sites - Metro
• A New Lease on Life, Stress Reduction
• Rethinking Stress, Hypnotic Techniques for Change

Class Venues:

• Metropolitan Medical Center
• City of Minneapolis
• Hennepin County
• State of Minnesota
• Honeywell
• VA Hospital
• Medtronic
• ITT Shadow
• Betty Crocker Learning Center
• Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
• And many others

Consultant To:

• The Bridge For Runaway Youth - Family Therapy instructor
• Media Management - consultant & dispute resolution
• Eden Prairie Police Department - forensic hypnosis

Committees Served On:

• Supreme Court Task Force on Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Subcommittee on Standards of Admission for ADR Neutrals, proposed Rule 313.