Syllabus: Hypnotherapy (HYP200)

Hypnotherapy (HYP200)

Hypnotherapy training for less directive / more permissive uncovering strategies

This is a program for healthy people seeking to improve some aspect of their lives.
 

“Hypnosis is a therapy of the people, for the people, by the people.“ (Mark Gilboyne, aka Gil Boyne, 1987) 

”It is an education-communication process by which the conscious and subconscious hold congruent message.s” (Anne Spencer, 1988) 

This is the second of a four part Human Development series for hypnotherapy training.  . This section is intended to continue developing your awareness of effective direct suggestion and expand into a permissive inquiry regarding the body / mind connection. It involves enhanced learning skills, decision making processes, uncovering techniques, future pacing / accelerated change. The goal is overcoming obstacles to self improvement, personal growth and development. 

The four programs are: Basic Hypnosis (HYP100), Hypnotherapy (HYP200), Advanced Hypnotherapy (HYP301 medical / healing applications and HYP302 spiritual / multicultural applications) and Hypnoanalysis (HYP400). 

Certification with the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Assocation (IMDHA) has a 220 hour requirement, 150 of which are live in person or online.  

These are all interactive, psycho-educational programs requiring a signed release for recording, and the involvement of all participants for optimal learning experiences. 

Come prepared to participate. 

HYP200: HYPNOTHERAPY

Session #1: Chapters

201 – What is Hypnotherapy?  202 – First Session.

Session #2: Chapters

203 –Subsequent Sessions. 209 – The Process of Change. 212 – Parts Therapy. 

Session #3: Chapters

205 – Ideomotor Response. 206 - Suggestion. 207 - Mental Imagery. 208 – Regression and Hypermnesia. 214 - Time Distortion. 215 - Amnesia

Session #4: Chapters

210 - Forgiveness and Release. 211 - Sustained Results. 213 - Dealing with Sporadic Results or Lack of Positive Results.

Session #5: Chapters 

204 – Rapid Inductions. 216 - Forensic Applications

Session #6

217 – Opening a Practice. 218 – Recommended Reading. 219 – Vocabulary. Q&A. Open Book Exam

Required Reading: 

Geers Dahl, M. (1994). Hypnotherapy (HYP200) Training Manual and Syllabus 

Brandon, N. (1983). If You Could Hear What I Cannot Say. Bantam Books. 

Hadley, Josie and Carol Staudacher. (1987). Hypnosis for Change: A Practical Manual of Proven Hypnotic Techniques. 

Hunter, R. (2010). The Art of Hypnotherapy. Crown House Publishing. 

Suggested Reading (chapter 218): 

Tebbetts, C. (1987). Miracles on Demand.  

Recommended sources for books: 

amazon.com bookfinder.com  bookstores  ebay.com  interlibrary loan   

Course Requirements for Hypnotherapy (HYP200) (live attendance) 

Attend the online 6 Day training on Airmeet: 

Saturdays 9:30– 7:30p 

- Practice the techniques demonstrated.

- Do the homework assignments. 

- Participate in class discussions, and give feedback regarding your experiences with the practice sessions (both giving and receiving). 

- Give an informal oral presentation on how you intend to apply Hypnotherapy in your profession or life, on the last day. 

Optional: Take the exam to accumulate hours toward certification with the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association (IMDHA). 

The first part of each day will include a brief summary from each participant about what each person hopes to achieve with this class, and feedback about what one is learning. 

Each day you will practice being a hypnotist and a hypnosis volunteer. 

After an exercise is demonstrated, practice with cohorts and volunteers. This material is best learned by practicing. Plan to practice with as many different people as you can find willing to engage in this natural psychoeducational process of learning, growth, and development, so that you can observe different responses. 

After each practice session, we will reconvene as a group to share our experiences, questions, and insights. Plan to be done no later than 7:00 p.m. on Saturdays.

Every Thursday morning 10:30 to 11:30a there is a Jam Session by invitation for practice and hours of live contact that can be applied to certification hours. The Jams are available for open practice of any techniques you didn’t complete or understand during the class, questions and answers for any material that is unclear for you, for another group experience, and individual practice demonstrations. 

CAVEAT! Do not put yourself out to be a healer, the gift of healing is a gift from the Divine. You are jumper cable to help another person reconnect with his or her own inner wisdom, the innate gifts of the Divine are available to all who seek within. 

Educational Program of Hypnotherapy 

This is a program for healthy people seeking to improve some aspect of their lives. 

Objectives: The instructors will facilitate hypnotherapy students in learning, specifically: 

- Hypnotherapy techniques aka uncovering, re-education, congruent conscious / subconscious communication strategies. 

- Increasing awareness of subconscious ability to decide, grow, and change. 

- Stimulating the applications of Hypnotherapy as a stand alone learning model, and as an adjunct for other methods and processes of growth and development. 

- Speed Inductions. 

- Root Sentences

- Parts Therapy

- Regression Therapy

- How abreaction relieves stuck emotional baggage. 

- How “resistance” is a flag saying, “Look here.” 

- How to ethically engage in hypnotherapy / hypnosis services. 

Hypnotherapy (HYP200) Session 1, Saturday 9:30- 7:30pm 

Chapters 201 and 202

Intake and journaling robin:              2.5 hours 

Five starting assignments for journaling.

#1 - What has changed since we spoke / saw each other last?

#2 - Did you practice hypnosis?

2.a - Did you practice self hypnosis? 

2.b - Did you practice hypnosis with other people? (each person submitted as a case report accumulates an hour toward certification) 

2.c - What has surprised or delighted you about your growing hypnosis skills and knowledge, and what has disappointed you? 

2.d - What do you want more of, and what do you want less of? 

2.e - Is there anything else you would like to write, say, tell, ask, or suggest? 

#3 - Circle of intention / awareness

3.a - Use of the circle of awareness (foveal and peripheral awareness and I nfluences) 

3.b - What are you here for today? (write that in the center of your circle) 

3.c - Keyword (to summarizing all the thoughts, ideas and feelings of your goal[s] for today) 

3.d - How motivated are you to achieve that? (0 = not at all, 100 = 100%) 

3.e - What could distract you from achieving that goal? (write that around the edges off your circle). 

3.f - Read the center statement at least 3 times to yourself, anchoring your keyword 

#4 Miracle question and / or Future Pacing 

Now add these 2 ideas to your objective to build expectations(s) and develop resource measurements for success to be celebrated: 

4.a -  Miracle question: 

4.a.1 - If a miracle were to occur and all those things were to be resolved over 

night, what would be the first thing you would notice in the morning?

4.a.2 - How is your life different? 

4.a.3 - How would you know your life has changed, or that all those things are resolved and your life has changed for the better?

4.a.4 - Who would notice and what would they say

4.b. Future Pacing: 

4.b.1 - Now close your beautiful eyes. Go to five minutes beyond the successful outcome of all this stuff and notice what you see hear, feel, smell and taste. 

4.b.2 - What is the first thing you notice, is it something you see, hear, feel, smell or taste? 

4.b.3 - What is the second thing you notice, is it something you see, hear, feel, smell or taste?

4.b.4 - What is the third thing you notice, is it something you see, hear, feel, smell or taste? 

4.b.5 - Notice how you feel about all that. If it is what you want, you will have the urge to smack or lick your lips. 

4.b.6 - If that is what you really want, allow yourself to float up above that person, five minutes beyond the successful outcome of all that stuff, looking upon that person, if it is what you really want, you will have the urge to lick or smack your lips, again.  

4.b.7 - Then slide back into that body five minutes beyond the successful outcome of all that stuff, turn and look back to the person sitting here doing this exercise, and set the hook, allow the line to pull taut between then and now, now and then, allowing everything to align itself in such a way as that you achieve this or something better. 

4.b.8 - Then slide along that line back to the moment, allowing everything to align itself to achieve that all the way into this time and body, now and then, then and now aligned to allow all that to occur, and then open your eyes and take ten minutes to write your experience(s).

#5 – Exploring your desire to share what you are experiencing with our class

5.a - Would you care to tell us about that experience, or would you rather not share? 

5.b - If you do share, do you share all of it, or do you withhold some things? 

5.c - Notice how you feel about sharing and withholding. 

5.d - Write about your options to share and withhold.

Would you like to share anything?

10:30 / ten minute break / 10:40

10:40 – 11:10 

Round Robin: Would you like to share your keyword with the group?

Would you like to share your goal for today (question #3)  to get help with its structure?

Alone I can do so little, together we can do so much – Hellen Keller

Is there anything you would like to say, tell, ask or suggest at this time? 

Induction: Make Yourself Comfortable, and go into trance now. You know how to do this. 

Close your eyes. Relax your eyes to the point where they just won’t work. When you are satisfied they just won’t work, no matter how hard you try, just say, “I’m satisfied,” out loud, and let the relaxation of the little muscles of your eyes go all the way down to your feet, relaxing you still deeper into that droopy, drowsy, feeling of relaxed well being, deeper with every breath. 

Sending that feeling of relaxation throughout your entire body. Every muscle, cell, tissue, and fiber of your being relaxing deeply, and you allow yourself to feel perfect in every way, physically, mentally, emotional and spiritually. 

Say your keyword to yourself, or out loud, three times.

Allowing every part of you to align with your innermost mission, the real reason you are here today. And when you are ready to go deeper, whatever that means to you, deeper into the TRUST . . . TRUST YOURSELF there's a quiet , place within, the inner wisdom, that place of quiet, deep inside. Go deeply into that place of excellent, you're doing fine, well being, the quiet place within. 

Now imagine that you are on the top of a building. It is a beautiful building, strong, well built, a tall building. You are on the roof and in a moment you are going down. Elevator, escalator, stairs, sliding down a pole, floating through the ceilings and floors, going down, however you do it is fine, in a moment just let yourself go down, down, down. Not yet, in a moment go down, down, down. In a moment, go down, fourth floor, third floor, second floor, first floor, ground floor, and then there is the basement. Maybe even a subbasement. Go all the way down in a moment.

It is time. It is time to remember. It is time to remember how resourceful you are. Go into that treasure known by your name. Your treasured name comes with resources. You are resource rich. You see, hear, feel, smell and taste.  You think, touch, observe, notice, perceive, ponder, dream, plan, collect, discard, select, decide and most importantly you choose. Choose now to look through your body. As you look through your body, notice any place that needs to relax still more. Go to that place, or those places, and tell them, “Thank you for bringing your tension to my attention. I am a good shepard. I am going to breathe in relaxation and breathe out tension. There is a beautiful box outside of the body that we are going to breathe out all tension and we are going to breathe in relaxation. Want that to happen, watch it happen, allow it to happen. You can resist this is if you choose, that is not what you are here for, allow your unconscious mind and all the resources to achieve this relaxation, and when you are satisfied that you are relaxing fully, and deeper with every breath, just nod your head, so that I know you are ready.

Alright now go down, and say where you are out loud as you get going, Roof, 4th floor, and so one, say it out loud so that you can hear yourself, and applaud your progress going down, down, down, into the resourceful wisdom that is always there, always eager to help you, always willing to guide you in your thoughts, feelings, visions, dreams, and actions. 

When you get to the ground floor, take a good deep breath, and go to the basement. Then another good deep breath, and relax into the subbasement, and the beautiful hall that leads to that door. You know that door. You built that door. It may have a special frame, or handle, or knob. It is built of material that pleases you, and you recognize this place. It is a place where you are safe and loving, safe and loved, relaxed and wise, it is a place filled with beauty, and trust. Trust Yourself. 

Notice the door, the sacred entry into your deepest awareness, a door that is beautiful, designed by you. As you touch the door, it opens. It opens only to your hand, As you enter this space, you enter into a place and space and awareness becoming more aware. 

You are becoming, becoming, become aware, such great resources you carry with you wherever you are, wherever you go. There are those things you see, and hear, and feel, and smell and taste, touch and think and dream and perceive and observe and decide and choose. You are becoming. You are becoming curious, more and more curious. You are becoming more aware, and now become aware of, “What are you really here for today? 

Allow yourself to be and become, you are amazed. This room, deep within, is a room designed to meet your pleasures and preferences: the flooring, the woodwork, the stone or tile, the colors, the art, the furniture, and surprisingly, the subbasement has full length windows opening onto your favorite views of the world, perhaps it is nature, maybe mountains, or fields, or farmland, or desert, or beach, or ocean, or a stream, or woodland, or a city you love, or admire, whatever pleases you most and creates a sense of contentment and comfort, pleasure and delight. Wander into this place within, where the treasure known by your name is keeping a book on the shelf in which it writes the Story of You in the Book of Me. 

You become aware, You are becoming more aware, the Book of You is on the shelf, it is a book that you are writing every day, The Book of ME. Yes, the Book of Me that you are writing daily; heart beat, eye blink, thoughts, feelings, ideas, decisions, choices, You choose. That book is open or opening any time you want or need to read it.  You can read it. You are the author. Perhaps you are curious. You are becoming. You are learning. You are becoming curious, more and more curious. You are becoming more aware, and now become aware of the Book of Me, curious about what you are writing about your life, your goals, your dreams, what you are really here to do. The book opens the pages flutter, fluttering in a breeze, a wind, what seems to be a wind, a wind, 

perhaps the winds of time / pause / 

or perhaps a breath, the breath / pause / 

Notice the book open, your purpose for today.  the book opens to the page that is your purpose for today.  

Is that the same thing or things that you originally wrote down in your circle of awareness when you arrived today? Or is it different? If it is different, in what way?

/ pause / Now open your beautiful eyes and go deeper into your wisdom. .

You kind of surprised yourself, didn’t you? / pause / 

You can open your eyes and go deeper into your wisdom, and you can take this resource rich state with you where every you go when you leave here today, tomorrow, and all the days that follow for as long as you choose. 

Think of your keyword. Think it three times, say it to yourself, or even say it  out loud and notice how you feel. and go more deeply into this place, this space, whatever that means to you.  As you enter now more deeply into this space, you become more aware, and you are curious.

your breath. Breathe, breath, always moving, moving, easily changing, calming gently easily in the right place at the right time to do and be all that you are here to do and be today. Perhaps the book pauses at questions, questions, learning, teaching, learning, questioning, so curious:

“What am I here to learn from my father?” 

Root Sentence: I am here to learn . . . finish that sentence / pause / 

“What am I here to teach my father?” 

Root Sentence: I am here to teach . . . finish  that sentence / pause / 

“What am I here to learn from my mother?” 

Root Sentence: I am here to learn . . . finish that sentence / pause / 

“What am I here to teach my mother?” 

Root Sentence: I am here to teach . . . finish that sentence / pause / 

“If all those things were learned and taught, and I felt complete within myself, how would I know it and describe it to and for myself?” 

Root Sentence: I would know it because, or I would know it by . . . finish that sentence / pause / 

“What else is written in the book you write, the Book of Me, that you are curious about today?” 

   Root Sentence: I am curious about . . . /pause / and finish that sentence 

/ pause/ Now open your beautiful eyes  / observe for eye opening / 

You kind of surprised yourself, didn’t you? / pause / 

(optional homework:  Write down what you just experienced, explore using each root sentence and giving it ten different endings)

Now decide what you want to share with us, tell us about that. Decide how much of that you want to tell us, if anything. Become aware of how you feel about being able to share and withhold information. Notice how you feel as you choose. You choose. 

You choose. 

Decide if you want to tell us about that. Decide how much of that you want to 

tell us, if anything. Become aware of how you feel about being able to share and withhold information. Notice how you feel as You choose. You choose. You choose.

12:45 – 1:00 

Round robin for attendees’ self report of experiences, perceptions, and insights. 

1:00 / 1 hour for – lunch /  2:00 

2:00 – 3:00

After lunch Group Session with keywords

Round Robin – Would you like to share something?

3:00 – 3:30 

Chapter 201: What is Hypnotherapy  1.0 hours 

3:30 / ten minute break / 3:40 

3:40 – 4:40 - finish Chapter 201

4:40 – 5:10 

Study Habits and Test Taking .25 Hours

Chapter 202: First Session .25 Hours

Create a bounded and unbounded place (a client centered focus of intent) within which something greater can emerge, arrive, explore, and realize potentials. Bounded means that the experience is safe for all involved parties, unbounded means that it is customary and expected that something greater than the two (or many) present will make its presence known in transformative and beneficial ways.

5:10 / ten minute break / 5:20

5:20 –7:00p

Root Sentences, how to use them.

Pick something you want to explore personally. Something meaningful to you that you haven’t written down for your circle of intent this morning.

I will know I have achieved ______ when I ________: Finish this sentence 10x

Being ____________ means: ___________: 10x

I am grateful for: _________________: 4x

I can make today better by / when : __________________ 4x

My life is amazing because: ______________________ 4x

I am remarkable because: _______________________ 4x

My mission is life is ___________________ 1x

My purpose in life is ____________________1x

I want to be of service by ______________________1x

I envision myself making an impact on the world by ________________1x

What I want from life is ________________________1x

3 months from now I _________________________ 1x

6 months from now I ________________________1x

9 months from now I ________________________1x

1 year from now I ___________________________ 1x

2 years from now I ___________________________1x

5 years from now I ___________________________1x

10 years from now I _________________________ 1x

20 years from now I _________________________ 1x

What life wants from me is _______________________ 1x

What life and I want from each other is ________________1x

My purpose for today, at this moment is _________________1x

Am I aligned with my mission? _____ yes ______ no

If yes, I know I am aligned with my mission because ___________ 1x

If no, What I need to do and be in order to align with my mission is ________ 1x

Unpacking values

To unpack values, ask, “What is important about that?”

Intake - A Short Information Gathering Interaction

What are you here for? 

How motivated are you to achieve this on a scale of 0 to 100, with zero being not at all motivated, and 100 being 100% motivated? 

 How would you like me to help you? 

 What do you hope to achieve? 

(notice the repetition three times, in slighted different ways, asking for clarity of intent from the person seeking hypnotherapy). 

If a miracle were to happen and all this stuff were resolved, how would your life be different? 

(what are the assumptions of these direct suggestions disguised as questions? Seemingly miraculous things happen. Stuff gets resolved. Life is different from what it was before.) 

 Have you ever been hypnotized before? 

If yes, “Tell me about it.” 

If no: hypnosis education, trance induction, suggestibility testing, emergence, post talk, book a follow up session for the following week. 

This is a slow and easy method of psycho education allowing a person to experience slowly building trance familiarity. The goal is subjective recognition of trance, and the skill of generalizing the capacities of this natural state into at least the area a person expresses as his or her desired outcome. Hypnosis training and hypnotherapy skill cultivation results in a life long capacity for deliberately useful tools transforming self awareness, goal setting, overcoming obstacles, and celebrating success. For the slow moving client who is new to hypnosis and hypnotherapy, it may be helpful to book no more than hour for an initial session. 

We are creating expectations of change, cultivating a deepening rapport, using a slow approach, building a relationship, seeing a client over time. 

The go slow approach appears to be of best fit with the ~60% who need more than one session, and are responsive to suggestions. Uncovering doesn’t happen until the follow up session in this proposed slow pace of therapeutic changes in human growth and development. Send the person home with instructions to practice self hypnosis, ideally with a recorded induction, deepening, and emergence to practice their self hypnosis and develop mastery in identify the natural state as a useful tool of change. 

It is helpful to identify the ~10% of the people who do not want to change right now. They can also benefit from a lengthier self hypnosis training, if they are willing to explore their capacities. The question become whether they are non-responsive to suggestions at this time because the suggestions are not perceived to be ideal or useful at this time. 

Prochaska and DiClemente’s five stages of change: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. 

Precontemplation = I don’t have a problem

Contemplation = Maybe I have a problem

Preparation = I have a problem and I want to do something about it

Action = I am working on my problem / issue

Maintenance = I have resolved my problem / issue and acting in ways that support my health

Relapse may start the cycle again.

The go slow therapeutic approach fails to meet the needs of the ~30% of the people who come seeking hypnosis and get what they need in one session. One of the remarkable aspects of hypnotherapy is the speed with which some people transform their lives. They don’t have to be coaxed along, if the hypnotherapist doesn’t move fast enough, the client may steamroll the hypnotist to hurry up, pick up the pace. 

Pacing with another person builds a deepening rapport. When I am rushing through decision making, a person will generally give me a back up signal. Respect a person’s desire to have time, time to marinate, percolate, ruminate, ponder. Its more than ok, it is good to let a person reflect where him or herself is positioning self in the process of change.  

There are some clients who need more than an hour session. 

Sandor Ferenczi (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandor-Ferenczi) was a cohort of Sigmund Freud. He did not support the therapist as a blank slate, he supported an interactive model of therapy in which the therapist is real, authentic and might stay with a client as long as the client needs. If you choose to focus on high end, low volume clients who want more than an hour, charge accordingly. Ferenczi also supported intimate relationships with clients including sexual encounters.  In modern therapeutic models, and for this purposes of this hypnotherapy ccertification course, sexual interactions with clients are inappropriate, and unethical.  

review of a pattern of quick intervention, client is moving fast, first 30%. For the Client who is moving quickly, the pattern of a first session may look like this:

Pretalk, (if the person is hypnosis familiar, suggestibility testing is optional, and still allows assessment of responsiveness) 

Identify issue 

Assess level of motivation 

Trance induction 

Deepening to Somnambulism  

Root Sentences 

Parts Therapy 

Regression: 

Kinesthetic/Somatic wisdom - Kinesthetic bridge 

Auditory/Linguistic wisdom - Linguistic bridge Visual wisdom - Visual bridge 

Hickman’s Pinpoint Method 

Decisions/Learning, Stuck/Developmental opportunity 

Review, Re-education, Redecision 

Future Pacing 

Assess level of motivation 

Emergence 

Post talk 

Homework (optional) 

REMEMBER! The hypnotist is a vehicle for reconnecting the client with innate capacities. The wonderment, the seemingly magical or miraculous human responses, such as the findings reported “Miracles on Demand” (Charles Tebbetts), are gained through accessing and harnessing the resources within the client. The hypnotist is the skilled apprentice to the client. The client always knows more about him / herself than you do. The hypnotist is an apprentice / assistant with enough knowledge to recognize when a tool is beneficial to the person at work in therapy. Develop a tool box of skills and apply them appropriately to what is unfolding with an eye on the desired outcome(s), opportunistically when a client throws a “hook” your way. 

Pace yourself to meet your client’s desired speed of change. 

Session 2 – Saturday 9:30am to 7:30pm 

Chapters 203, 209, 212

Student facilitated: Round Robin         1.0 hour 

Check your mood at the door -10 to +10 with zero being neutral 

-10 being this sucks, horrible, +10 being euphoric, and zero being neutral. 

 What has changed since I saw you last?

What are you here for? (Pick a topic of relevance to you).   Select a Keyword.  How motivated are you to achieve your goal for today? (0-100%)   Did you complete your topic for last week, or are you still focused on achieve the same goal as you set out to achieve alst session?

Put yourself into trance now. 

Miracle question: Open your eyes and write that down (five minutes) 

Future pacing: Open your eyes and write that down (five minutes) 

10:00 – 10:30 

Round Robin: Would you like to share your keyword?  How much would you like to share of the rest? Are you withholding anything?

10:30 / ten minute break / 10:40

10:40 – 12:10 

Chapter 203: Subsequent Sessions .5 hour

What has changed since we saw each other last?

Chapter 209: The Process of Change 1.0 Hour

12:10 / ten minute break / 12:20

Chapter 212: Parts Therapy (Tebbetts Method)  .5 Hour

1:00p / lunch break / 2:00

2:00 – 3:00 Post lunch group induction and Round Robin 

3:00 – 3:30 Practice 

Root Sentences / elicitation of values / Parts Therapy

3:30 / Break / 3:40 

3:40 – 5:10 Continue practice

Roots Sentences / elicitation of Values / Parts therapy

5:10 / ten minute break / 5:20p

5:20 – 7:00

Bring volunteer for practice, or group of volunteers, direct suggestion group to finish the day

Session 3 – Saturday 9:30am to 7:30pm 

Chapters 205, 206, 207, 208, 214, 215

Circle of awareness  group induction    1.5 hours 

Student facilitated: - Round Robin        1.0 hour 

 Check your mood at the door -10 to +10 with zero being neutral 

-10 being this sucks, horrible, +10 being euphoric, and zero being neutral. 

 What has changed since I saw you last? 

What are you here for? Keyword, How motivated are you to achieve your goal for today? (0-100) 

Put yourself into trance now. 

 Miracle question: Open your eyes and write that down (5 – 10 minutes) 

 Future pacing: Open your eyes and write that down (5 – 10 minutes) 

Would you like to share your keyword?

Would you like to share more and are you withholding anything?

(Capture exact words, listen for words with emotional load, they are keys opening the memory banks, and the hooks for identifying what intervention you may find helpful at this moment) 

Student led Group induction, rapid induction, deepening, Keywords 

 Write down your experiences. (5 -10 minutes) 

Instructor: 

Think about whether you would like to share any of what you wrote down. 

If you choose to share, notice how you feel about that. 

If you choose to withhold, notice how you feel about that. 

If you choose to partially share and partially withhold, notice how you feel about that.

Write down your experiences (five minutes) 

Student Round Robin 

Would you like to share anything, and are you withholding anything?

10:30 / break / 10:40

10:40 – 11:10 

Instructor: Does it feel more complete to write a response to an experience as a message to yourself (connecting with self through journaling), or does it feel more complete reporting to the class orally (connecting with other through sharing), or are both the report to self and the report to others equally complete / satisfactory in your perceptions? 

Do you feel equally heard and understood writing for yourself and sharing with the group? 

Did you withhold anything? If you withheld anything meaningful or relevant to the topic, are you willing to say why you withheld? 

10:40 – 11:40  

Chapter 205: Ideomotor Response        1.0 hour 

11:40 – 12:10

Journaling Root Sentences: 10 minutes

Communication to me means . . . 

      I feel heard and understood when . . . 

      I know I am listening and comprehending when . . .  

Round Robin:  20 minutes

12:10 / ten minute break / 12:20

12:20 – 1:00

 Incremental Regression  

1:00 / lunch break / 2:00p

2:00 – 3:00 post lunch induction

3:00 – 4:10

Chapter 208: Regression and Hypermnesia    1.0 hour 

3:30 / ten minute break / 3:40

4:10 – 5:10

Chapter 214: Time Distortions        .5 hour

Chapter 215: Amnesia   .5 hour 

5:10 / ten minute break / 5:20

5:20 – 5:50

 Chapter 206: Suggestion          .25 hour 

Chapter 207: Mental Imagery          .25 hour 

5:50 – 7:00p 

 Instructor: Demonstration subject      1.0 

 50 min session, 20 min of debrief with students
 

Session 4 – Saturday 9:30am to 7:30pm 

Chapters 210, 211, 213

Student facilitated: - Round Robin        1.0 hour 

 Check your mood at the door -10 to +10 with zero being neutral 

-10 being this sucks, horrible, +10 being euphoric, and zero being neutral. 

 What has changed since I saw you last? 

What are you here for? Keyword, How motivated are you to achieve your goal for today? (0-100) 

Put yourself into trance now. 

 Miracle question: Open your eyes and write that down (5 – 10 minutes) 

 Future pacing: Open your eyes and write that down (5 – 10 minutes) 

Would you like to share your keyword? 

Would you like to share more and are you withholding anything?

Capture exact words, listen for words with emotional load, they are keys opening the memory banks, and the hooks for identifying what intervention you may find helpful at this moment) 

Student led Group induction, rapid induction, deepening, Keywords 

10:30 / ten minute break / 10:40

10:40 – 12:10 

Chapter 210: Forgiveness and Release      1.0 hour 

Chapter 211: Sustained Results          .5 hour 

12:10 / ten minute break / 12:20

12:20 – 1:10

Chapter 213: Dealing with Sporadic Results      .5 hour or Lack of Postive Results 

Empower the client. 

Unless he or she has the awareness, he or she can’t own it. 

1:10 / lunch break / 2:10

2:10 – 3:10 – post lunch induction

3:10 – 3:40 – post talk 

3:40 / ten minute break / 3:50

3:50 – 5:20

Demonstrations from students, bring volunteers, or work with student cohorts

Round robin, methods used, what did you see? 

5:20 / ten minute break / 5:40

5:40 – 7:00

Demonstrations from students, bring volunteers, or work with student cohorts

Round robin, methods used, what did you see? 

Session 5 – Saturday 9:00am to 7pm 

Chapters 204, 216

Student facilitated: 

Round Robin for Intent using Keyword session and post talk  1.5 hour 

 Check your mood at the door -10 to +10 with zero being neutral 

-10 being this sucks, horrible, +10 being euphoric, and zero being neutral. 

 What has changed since I saw you last? 

What are you here for? Keyword, How motivated are you to achieve your goal for today? (0-100) 

Put yourself into trance now. 

 Miracle question: Open your eyes and write that down (five minutes) 

 Future pacing: Open your eyes and write that down (five minutes) 

Would you like to share your keyword? 

student led group induction 

10:30 / break / 10:40

10:40 – 12:10 

Chapter 204: Rapid Inductions        1.0 hour  

Chapter 216: Forensic Applications  .5 hour

12:10 – 1:10

Instructor - Demonstration Subject    1.0 hour 

45 minute session, 15 min. debrief, what did you see? 

1:10 / lunch break / 2:10

2:10 – 3:10 – post lunch induction

3:10 – 3:40 – post talk

3:40 / ten minute break / 3:50

3:50 – 5:20

student practice with volunteers and other students  

5:20 / ten minute break / 5:40

5:40 – 7:00p

student practice with volunteers and other students   

Session 6 – Saturday, 9:30am to 7:30 pm 

Chapters 216, 217, 218

Circle of awareness  group induction    1.5 hours 

Student facilitated: - Round Robin        1.0 hour 

 Check your mood at the door -10 to +10 with zero being neutral 

-10 being this sucks, horrible, +10 being euphoric, and zero being neutral. 

 What has changed since I saw you last? 

What are you here for? Keyword, How motivated are you to achieve your goal for today? (0-100) 

Put yourself into trance now. 

Miracle question: Open your eyes and write that down (5 – 10 minutes) 

Future pacing: Open your eyes and write that down (5 – 10 minutes) 

Would you like to share your keyword? Would you like to share more and are you withholding anything?

(Capture exact words, listen for words with emotional load, they are keys opening the memory banks, and the hooks for identifying what intervention you may find helpful at this moment) 

Group induction, rapid induction, deepening, Keywords  

11:00 / break /– 11:10am 

Chapter 218: Recommended Reading      .5 

Chapter 219: Vocabulary          .5 

 Chapter 217: Opening a Practice        .5 

Round Robin: 

What do you intend to do with your growing hypnotherapy skills? 

What is your area of interest? 

Who are your target clients? 

Will you do only one on one, or will you provide group hypnosis, or both? 

/ lunch break / 1:00 – 2:00p 

Question and Answers? 

For those seeking certification, Final Exam, written knowledge and grading    3 Hours Bestowing of certification of completion and Class pictures

Certification with the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association (IMDHA) requires 220 hours of training. The hours you accumulate are related to your zoom recording of attendance, and full participation on your part in this psychoeducational process. 

Start developing a name for yourself by writing a proposed article for the Unlimited Human Magazine – 2 hours of credit toward certification for each proposed article.  

Whether the Hypnosis Alliance accepts your article for publication or not, you will gain writing experience on the topic of hypnosis, and will earn two hours toward your certification hours.