Course Timetable
| From | 09:00 | 10:30 | 11:00 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 15:00 | 15:30 |
| To | 10:30 | 11:00 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 15:00 | 15:30 | 17:00 |
| Monday | ProgRel | Break | Practice | Lunch | Rapid Inductions | Break | Practice |
| Tuesday | Deepening & Testing | Break | Practice | Lunch | Rapport | Break | Practice |
| Wednesday | Managing Therapy | Break | Practice | Lunch | Intervention & Eduction | Break | Practice |
| Thursday | Academic Support | Break | Revision | Lunch | Exam (Written) | Break | Exam (Practical) |
| Friday | Other Lives | Break | Practice | Lunch | Questions and Answers | Break | MClinHyp Qualification |
I want to start with something everyone is familiar with - A Progressive Relaxation. A good hypnotist can use anything to induce hypnosis, including Progrels, but if you're going to do it you might as well do one that's been road tested and worked with over 500 medical professionals; the Mindsci 'Anatomically Correct Progressive Relaxation'. We'll be looking at voicing, timing, delivery, and how to turn pages so no one ever knows you're reading a script!
After the break there's a practice session to make sure you can do it, brilliantly.
The only three rapid induction you'll ever need, plus stuff you can make up on the spot, plus Elman (which isn't rapid or necessary but every clinical hypnotist needs to know it anyway).
After the break there's a practice session to make sure you can do it, brilliantly.
Is your patient hypnotized? You sure? How do you know?
You test. And this is how you test, and this is what to do if and when the test fails. By the time you've done this you know whether you have direct communication with your patient's subconscious mind, or you're just having a chat at the bus stop. And if you are at the bus stop, you know how to get away and back to doing some real hypnotism.
After the break there's a practice session to make sure you can do it, brilliantly.
That's the wrong word because it has too many associations but I honestly don't know what else to call it. Which is a pity as I think it's probably the key to what a clinical hypnotist does once the state of hypnosis has been achieved.
If the box had been big enough I'd have called it "Listen with your heart." I know it isn't about your ears or that pump in your chest but it's the best way I know to describe it. You have to feel your patient even when they aren't saying anything and, more importantly, even when they are. It's about having intuition and trusting your judgement. I'll just call it 'Rapport' but if you listen with your heart you'll know what I mean.
After the break there's a practice session to make sure you can do it, brilliantly.
As far as I know no one else teaches this. So, you have a new patient. How are you going to move them from 'desperate' to 'cured and happy' in the most efficient manner? OK, you're a great hypnotist (if you've aced the course thus far) but what framework are you going to use, now, as the basis of your therapeutic intervention?
After the break there's a practice session to make sure you can do it, brilliantly.
After the break there's a practice session to make sure you can do it, brilliantly.
Even as a practitioner you may think of hypnosis as slightly wacky and bordering on the verges of voodoo and ummagumma, but there's actually a lot of proper academic research into the efficacy of hypnosis and, in this session, you'll get copies of it with all the most important bits highlighted! Do you have a copy of Chokalingen which establishes hypnosis as the second most effective method of making someone stop smoking? Do you have a copy of the Montgomery meta-analysis of hypnosis as an adjunctive therapy in surgery which says '89% of the patients in the hypnotherapy groups had better outcomes than patients in the control groups? Do you have the table from Biological Psychology that establishes a strong case for hypno pain relief?
No? Well you'll get them here and discover a whole new sense of self-respect.
After the break there's a revision session to make sure you pass your exam, brilliantly.
Yep, you're going to be examined and you might fail. At the end of this course you're either up to being a clinical hypnotist or you're not. If you aren't I'm not going to flatter your ego at the expense of potential future patients. MClinHyp isn't some other piece of paper to add to a collection. Anyone who qualifies as MClinHyp has my backing as the only clinical hypnotist with NHS dog-tags. So there's a 90 minute written exam and you need 67% to pass.
More examination. You have to be able to do it. Three opportunities with three randomly selected students. Rapid induction, test, eduction. No acting. You need to know you can do it. If you can, great. If you can't you need to know that too.
techniques for past and future life tourism, just so you know it can be done and how to do it. A little bit of recreation and experimentation on the last morning.
After the break there's a practice session to make sure you can do it, brilliantly.
Tidying up any loose ends.
The award of Mindsci Clinical Hypnotist qualifications.
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or email bt@mindsci-clinic.com