Principles of Hypnosis 101

Total clock hours: 40

Diploma: Hypnotist

Objective:  This program gives participants a broad based understanding of hypnosis and the role of the hypnotist in producing hypnotic states of mind. In this program participants will learn to induce a hypnotic trance, to deepen trance states, to give direct suggestions, and to terminate trance states.

Program content:

• Introduction to Hypnosis
• History of Hypnosis
• Nature of Hypnosis and Levels of Consciousness
• Developing Client Rapport and Trust
• Suggestibility Testing
• Pre-induction Interview and Client Intake
• Induction Techniques
• Deepening the Hypnotic State
• Formulating Suggestions for Successful Therapeutic Change
• Develop and Utilize Visual Imagery for Repatterning The Subsconcious Mind
• Explore the Use of Post-Hypnotic Suggestions
• Learn the Benefits of Post-Hypnotic Re-induction
• Terminating the Hypnotic State
• Learn How to Teach Self-hypnosis To Clients
• Demonstration
• Conduct an Entire Hypnotherapy Session by the end of this program. Participants will learn to formulate suggestions for script writing and cassette tape/CD production
• Demonstration and Supervised Practice

A state of the art manual is provided with each program. These manuals give valuable step-by-step hypnosis processes that can be immediately applied. Participants will receive word-for-word scripts and processes to guide them in the development of therapeutic skills.