Hypnosis Practitioner Training & Certification
Course Syllabus
Monday
- Introductions
- What is Hypnosis
- History
- Brain Wave States
Different types of Hypnosis
- Direct Suggestion
- Transpersonal
- Eriksonian
- Applications
- Myths
Group Induction – Stress Reduction
- Debrief
- The Stages of hypnosis session
- Intake
- Pretalk
- Full Body Induction
- Deepenings
- Suggestions
- Post Hypnotic Suggestion
- Emerge
- Debrief – Post Hypnotics
- Practice Hypnosis Session – Direct Suggestion – Self-Esteem
- Video – Hypnosis Documentary
- Practice Hypnosis session – Direct Suggestion – Confidence Using & Learning Hypnosis
Tuesday
- NLP as the study of subjective experience
- NLP Presuppositions
- Voice and tone to lead trance states
- Deepening, softening, pacing & pattern
- Embedded commands
- Introduction to Hypnotic Language Patterns
- The important role the imagination plays in hypnosis and trance induction
- Using memories and the creative imagination to induce trance
The 2 Doors Method
- For Smoking
- Weight
- Alcohol
- Procrastination
Advanced induction technique #1 – Group Induction – Overcome Procrastination
Practice Hypnosis Session of choice (Weight, Smoking, or Procrastination)
Mental Rehearsal & The Movie Theater Technique
State Elicitation & Anchoring
- To develop a new skill, response or behaviour
- To overcome shyness
- To accomplish a goal
- To desensitize past negative experiences
- To build future expectation
Practice Hypnosis Session – Dealing with THAT Person
Wednesday
- Meet & Greet
- Psychology Primer
- Definitions of Anxiety & Depression
- Canadian law
- Mood Disorders v. Personality Disorders
Cognitive Distortions
1. Filtering
2. Polarized Thinking (or “Black and White” Thinking)
3. Overgeneralization
4. Jumping to Conclusions
5. Catastrophizing
6. Personalization
7. Control Fallacies
8. Fallacy of Fairness
9. Blaming
10. Shoulds
11. Emotional Reasoning
12. Fallacy of Change
13. Global Labeling
14. Always Being Right
15. Heaven’s Reward Fallacy
Resistance & Secondary Gains
The Focus technique
Group Induction – For Developing Focus & Concentration
Past Time Line Practice Hypnosis Session – Past Time Line
Future Pacing
Thursday
- Focus on Smoking
- Focus on Weight Reduction
- Anchoring Technique
- Group Induction – Exercise Motivation
- The ideomotor response
- Fear Removal
- Submodalities
- Group Practice – Rewind Technique for Lifting Fears
- Stage Hypnosis – Video
- Self Hypnosis
Friday
- Building your Hypnosis Business
- Laws in Ontario & Canada
- Ethics & Code of Conduct
- Insurance
- Record keeping & documentation
- Marketing & Advertising
- Group Exercise – Creating a Success Template
- Group Induction – Success Motivation
- Introduction to Parts Theory
- Fear of Success/Fear of Failure
- Self-Sabotage
- Practice Hypnosis Session – Stop Self-Sabotage (Parts Theory)
- Goal Setting and Goal Getting