Advanced Hypnosis

This course is also available as part of our 2008 NLP Development Program.

If your skill with hypnosis has reached a plateau and you would like to advance much further, then read on. Our Advanced Hypnosis seminar is specifically designed to accelerate your development. Learn conversational hypnosis, hypnotic presenting and advanced structures for suggestion at this 3 day advanced seminar.

The practical skills of Hypnosis have been obscured by many myths. If you’re already trained as an NLP Practitioner or Hypnotherapist, you have already put aside such folklore in favour of effectiveness.

What about the other myths though? I’m referring to the insider myths. Every field has its traditions and popular practices - the culture and customs. In business, these are marked out with the phrase “that’s how things are done around here.”

They are otherwise invisible. Initially they form useful guidelines. After a while, they can actively constrict further learning.

The most common constriction is the variety of situations in which hypnosis is deemed useful.

If you’ve done a conventional NLP practitioner course or a hypnotherapy qualification, you’ll be aware of ways to bring someone into a ‘formal’ trance.

What about ‘informal’ trances though? Plenty of these occur in daily life and similar trance states can also be easily reached through indirect suggestion methods and put to practical use.

For example, you might even realise that it’s possible to use hypnosis in presentations, meetings or ordinary conversation, though it’s likely that you only have a theoretical notion of how that may be done. I’ve heard plenty of people trying to deliver a proposal or presentation using hypnotic language and remarkably few can do it well. In most cases, the result is stilted or totally bizarre. Or as one of my (non-hypnotist) friends put it: “what’s the matter with that guy?”

If you want to properly learn Hypnotic Presenting, it’s one of the features of this course.

How many different inductions do you regularly use? Most hypnotherapists use only one – the ‘progressive relaxation’ induction. They use it because it works just fine overall. However, it’s also time-consuming and thoroughly inappropriate for some clients’ needs. You can learn to do far better than that with much less effort.

And if you think that rapid inductions are just ‘showy’ ways of creating trance, suitable only for ‘stage hypnosis’ or presentations explicitly about hypnosis, you have an opportunity here to supercharge your ability. You will gain experience with of several categories of rapid trance induction and their practical uses on this course.

And what is an ‘induction’ exactly? You're probably aware of several 'formal' methods. However, everyday life requires a lot more flexibility than that. A broader and more useful definition would be 'pathways to trance'. I've redefined the concept of inductions even further to produce a set of guiding principles. The result is tremendous flexibility in communication. I will teach those principles for the first time on the Advanced Hypnosis course.

If you’re familiar with the Milton Model / Ericksonian language, you probably think that the ‘embedded command’ is the simplest and most powerful form of indirect suggestion. It’s easy to gather this impression from the reams of advertising material available online that have supposedly hidden commands heavily marked out. However, it’s really quite obvious and a bit irritating, in my opinion. It’s possible to do much better than that in delivering a persuasive message, especially with Ericksonian language. I can show you how in theory and in practice.

The course will contain:

Hypnotic presentation skills
Powerful indirect suggestions (no, I’m not just talking about embedded commands, but something much more subtle and effective)
Strategies for creating rapid trance
Conversational hypnosis
Subtle metaphor
Tonal fractionation
Flexible Induction principles
Patterns in non-verbal suggestion

and more.

It will cost you £595 for a place on our Advanced Hypnosis seminar. If the value of the above knowledge and experience is apparent to you, you'll know this is more than reasonable. Only those of NLP Practitioner level or greater will be admitted as this is an advanced training.

If you're an NLP Practitioner or qualified hypnotist/Hypnotherapist and want this knowledge and experience, go here to book.

Need more to decide? Take a little time. Ask around. Talk to people that have trained with me. Form your own opinions. Also bear in mind that places are limited, as participants in my 2008 NLP Development Program get a guaranteed place on this course.