Post Graduate Higher Diploma: Perceptive Hypnosis©

Advanced Techniques: Perceptive Hypnosis © – a ‘no-fail’ process

The reason for this style of hypnotherapy and hence this course

Perceptive Hypnosis has been developed from RAPID-Mind Hypnotherapy© and WILL-STOP Hypnotherapy©. All things need to evolve and become more efficient, especially to deal with those clients that don’t want to close their eyes or be hypnotises in the traditional way. As I learned new skills or happened upon them when working with clients I slowly but surely incorporated them into the systems and eventually a new ‘species’ of hypnotherapy is born. The whole process is based on hypnosis, NLP, Ericksonian patterns, Symbolic Modelling, Clean Space, Clean Language, Hyperempiria and many other psychological concepts or principles. The system can be used totally content free – you actually don’t need to know the problem you are dealing with!!

Understanding, intuition and being perceptive

I believe there are three broad groups of hypnotists, (five if you include those in show business and those that are rubbish as they did a mail order course).

• Those having a reasonable success rate – they have a general understanding of hypnosis and its phenomena but stick to the ‘recipe’ they were taught. They are not adventurous in their work; they don’t listen to that inner voice saying that they could do better.
• These people are highly skilled in their branch of hypnotherapy and probably get slightly better results than those in (1).
• Those with a profound understanding the fundamentals of hypnosis and the willingness to expand their knowledge, be intuitive and perceptive to what their clients need. These hypnotists have the greatest success rates.

Perceptive hypnosis is for all three of the above groups and you too!

The first thing is your own perceptions of you; your innate abilities, your knowledge and skills and your potential. You will have to let go of the old beliefs and bring in the new. Trying to explain these shifts to a qualified hypnotherapist is sometimes quite difficult; a good analogy is trying to explain to an average driver what it is like to have the skills of a Formula 1 driver. I am not saying that we can all be top racing drivers but we all have the potential to drive a great deal better.

For some reason many hypnotherapists make the hypnotic process hard work, some have told me it can be boring. What must their clients think? What are they doing? Hypnosis is easy when you understand it, change your mind-set and use the methods developed in Perceptive Hypnosis. Hypnosis is natural and should be interactive with the client being fully engaged in the change process on their terms of reference – not following a script or bland ‘suggestions’ from the therapist or weeks analyzing a problem until the client gets so fed up they ‘move on’ just to get some ‘peace and quiet’.

You need to have the right tools for the job that has to be done, hypnosis is an essential tool but so are your voice, body language, confidence and enthusiasm. But how much psychology does a hypnotherapist really need to know? After all psychological problems are just ‘mind programmes with a virus’, almost mechanical in the way they act at set triggers with predictable symptoms. This is what I have been told by some people taught by certain schools. “The problems are simple it is people who make them complicated because they don’t always do what they are supposed to” to quote another student. On the face of it, it sounds appalling that this is what is being taught by some hypnotherapy schools.

So do you need a degree in psychology to be a good hypnotherapist – some will shout “Yes” at the top of their voices, I will quietly say “No”. As a hypnotherapist you need to understand the basics of how the brain works but more importantly a fantastic knowledge the right psychological tools to use for a problem.  And how to use them fluently, with flexibility to instantly motivate and drive your clients towards rapid success.

The course will focus on giving you solid, powerful and useable tools that you can incorporate into your next client’s session using their own preferences and characteristics as a basis for their therapy, (based on Milton Erickson’s ‘utilisation technique’). You will be able to say that it works as soon as you decide to use the system.

What you will learn on the Perceptive Hypnosis course

Here are some of the tools and techniques you will learn:

• Develop skills to hypnotise someone just with your tone of voice and body language – yes body language. You will learn how to hypnotise someone confidently with their eyes open. Get away from ‘eyes closed and relax’; enter the world where hypnosis and ‘normal’ conversation are one and the same. This creates a deep internal rapport and unconscious change within the client. You will be able to induce hypnosis in your clients without the standard ‘signals’ of trance.
• Learn how to ‘trick’ and overcome conscious resistance easily, become a hypnotic language maestro by using particular phrases that elicit hypnotic responses. Develop the skills to speak directly to someone’s unconscious mind without sounding weird and start to invalidate their problem in the space of what appears to be just a conversation. Realise how easy it is to summon positive emotions conversationally and incredibly powerful ways to intensify the responses you elicit. Be able to use hyperempiria exceptionally effectively.
• Work without a script, do full sessions ‘off-the-cuff’, every client is different so is what you say and do. Scripts are dead! Understand why there is no need for the ‘special place’, the ‘safe haven’.
• Understand the ‘truth’ about how people make their decisions and what changes in people when they accept therapeutic resolutions. What is the difference between changework and therapy?
• Recognise the value of therapeutic metaphors. You will develop skills so that you can easily create your own stories to influence the changes your clients make. Understand how they can be hypnotic and how they are able to instil embedded commands into everyday conversations. Develop the arts of ‘seeding’ change and ‘persistence’ which makes it far easier for the client to accept and deal with difficult problems.
• Recognise what a pattern interrupt truly is and how to use one to disrupt a clients’ negative thoughts.
• Create a mindset in yourself that hypnotherapeutic work so much easier than you previously thought. Develop the belief that you are always going to be successful, confidence and enthusiasm are ‘infectious’; if you believe it so will your clients.
• Talking to your clients about their problems is almost useless unless you know how to use this time effectively and ask the questions that elicits the real truth. Learn how to use specific questions to actually change the thought patterns during this time.
• Understand the real therapeutic use and purpose of hypnotic phenomena such as arm catalepsy, being unable to let go of a pencil, arm levitation and the ‘lying thumb’.
• Learn techniques to induce rapid and deep trance states when required.

There is a huge amount to learn in this course. It is, in my opinion, one of the most advanced courses available in the UK.

These four days may be the most effective that you have ever invested in. If you have doubt about your ability as a hypnotherapist, have a significant number of ‘drop-outs’ or just want to be the best you can be, this course could be the answer you have been searching for.

You must have completed the RAPID-Mind Hypnotherapy course before attending this one.

2012

June 9-12
 
December 1-4

Your Investment
£695 
  
Instalment Plan
Deposit £195. Followed 2 monthly instalments of £200. Total payable £695

All payments must be complete before the course starts.