Glenn Charles Andrew Alexander

Glenn Charles Andrew Alexander (Parker) was born on May 9th, 1962. Best known as the stage show hypnotist responsible for bringing modern hypnosis to China, he is also an author, television and radio personality, clinical hypnotherapist, and corporate trainer. As a clinical hypnotherapist and corporate trainer, he works with clients on issues such as stress management, memory improvement, smoking cessation, study skill improvement, goal setting, and overcoming phobias.

Early Life & Career
The eldest child of Patrick Charles Parker and Susan Elizabeth Parker (Alexander), Alexander was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He grew up in British Columbia and Alberta, graduating high school from Esquimalt Senior Secondary School on Vancouver Island.

In his youth, Alexander held numerous jobs in food service management and hospitality, and also worked as a radio personality, an actor, and a singer. In his capacity as a performer he toured North America and Europe with a repertory theater company. Following these work experiences, he returned to Canada, where he attended the University of British Columbia, studying English and psychology.

Professional Life & Hypnosis Career
After graduation, Alexander learned from and travelled with an entertainer/hypnotist. He lived and toured in Ontario and Eastern Canada, before returning to Calgary, where Alexander became a Certified Master Trainer of Hypnosis and a Certified Master Trainer of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programing).

Under the stage name Dr. Chaos, Alexander began touring Canada and the United States, where he founded the world’s first dual hypnosis team. In October of 2003, he and his team went to Asia for one-year of touring with his comedy hypnosis show. However, he quickly identified that hypnosis, as understood in the West, did not exist in China and considered possibilities of introducing hypnosis and hypnotherapy to China.

In 2006, Alexander was invited by Tsinghua University in Beijing to be their Training Expert and Supervisor of Clinical Hypnosis and NLP.

Books
While living in Beijing, Alexander accepted an invitation from the Foreign Languages Press to author a Beijing city guidebook. He co-authored an English language guidebook called Streetwise Guide Beijing. It was originally published in 2007, and a special Olympics edition was printed in 2008.

Subsequently, Alexander accepted an invitation from the People’s Publishing House (人民出版社), China’s oldest publishing house, and has authored two Chinese-language books. The first of his Chinese-language publications, Decoding Deception (不要对我说谎), uses elements of hypnosis and psychology to give readers a greater understanding of and an ability to recognize lies. Alexander’s second Chinese-language publication, Exam Mastery – A Total Approach (考前冲刺－知识向左，心理向右), uses psychology and hypnosis alongside standard pedagogical precepts to help students identify their learner type and how to use their predispositions for acquiring knowledge to create a comprehensive study plan. This book is specifically geared for high school students, preparing to write the GaoKao examination.

Media Appearances
Alexander has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and online articles, as well as a number of television shows. He appeared on A Date With Lu Yu and SZTV's The Generation Show (年代秀). Trends Health magazine, Psychology Today, City Weekend, and That’s Beijing have published articles in print and online about Alexander and his comedy hypnosis shows. He has also been written about in China Daily and China Youth Daily, amongst other news sources.

Personal Life
When Alexander’s parents divorced in 1980, he took his mother’s maiden name. His mother passed away in 2009, and Alexander’s father currently resides in Victoria with his second wife.

In 2008 Alexander married a Beijing native - a first marriage for both of them. Alexander currently resides most of the year in Beijing, while also spending time in Canada and at his second home in Munich, Germany, where his spouse is employed as cabin crew for Lufthansa Airlines.