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Courses for Practicing Hypnotherapists
Practitioner Diploma – London 2012
Master Practitioner Diploma – Thailand 2012
Free One Year Online Course
COURSE LOCATION
Chiang Mai – Thailand
COURSE DATES
Saturday 1 – Sunday 9 December 2012
For convenience the 9 day course runs from Saturday through to the following Sunday minimizing the need to take time off work or sacrifice holiday time. Your flights and hotel accommodation are not included in the course price. We suggest that you personally book your accommodation and flight together as a package holiday with a travel agent as this is usually cheaper.
TRAINER: STEPHEN BROOKS
Stephen Brooks has over thirty years experience as a hypnotherapy trainer and has designed hypnosis courses for over 20 hospitals and universities. He is recognized as a world authority on hypnosis and a pioneer in the field.
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PRACTICAL SKILL BASED SYLLABUS
Master Practitioner Diploma in The Advanced Covert Psychotherapeutic Strategies and Creative Interventions of Brooksonian Hypnotherapy
The Interactional Approach: An explanation of how Erickson’s work has influenced the field of family therapy and brief strategic therapy.
The Intrapersonal Approach: An explanation of how Erickson’s work has influenced the field of indirect hypnotherapy.
Specific Information Gathering: How to ask questions about someone’s history and identify patterns of behaviour.
Understanding the Other Persons Metaphors: Learn to understand the hidden messages in other people’s communication and organic metaphors.
Submodalities in Trance: Utilizing this NLP technique in hypnosis.
Achieving Positive Outcomes: Learning questions that clearly identify positive outcome in therapy
Anchoring Positive Resources and Negatives States and a Therapeutic: How to trigger a positive or negative response in the other person, help them feel resourceful and cancel out negative feelings.
Values Criteria and Beliefs: How to utilize a persons underlying needs as a vehicle for therapeutic change.
Identifying Verifiable Goals: How to create specific identifiable outcomes so that the client can measure their success.
Abreaction and Trauma: How to handle spontaneous abreactions.
Past Life Regression: How to offer therapy based on a past life model of therapy.
Age Regression Techniques Ericksonian age regression techniques.
Time Line Therapy: How to use a visualized timeline as a vehicle for age regression and progression.
The Relationship Between Cause and Symptom: How to decide where to focus therapy to get the best possible results.
Therapy is based on either Change or Improvement: How to decide what to focus upon in therapy to get the best possible results.
Challenging Negative Nominalisations: Learn how to recognise and challenge non-specific language.
Organic Metaphors and Symptom Based Metaphors: Recognizing unconscious non-verbal commentaries that the the patient makes when discussing their problem.
Casting Doubt on Subjective Interpretations: Learn how to cast doubt and reframe irrational beliefs.
Prescribing and Delivering Tasks: Learn how to make your suggested tasks compelling whilst dealing with any objections.
Getting Video Descriptions: Learn how to identify sensory specific behavioural information about the frequency and duration of symptoms and problems.
Well Formed Questions: How does a therapist know what to ask when beginning therapy? This Unit teaches you how to structure your questions very carefully into well formed questions that uncover attitude and beliefs.
How to Use Indirect Therapeutic Nominalizations: This Unit will teach you how to create and apply non-specific therapeutic language that meets needs at an unconscious level.
How to Use the Multiple Screen Technique: This Unit will teach you how to apply this forerunner of Time Line TherapyTM where Erickson would get people to travel backwards and forwards in time in hallucinated movie screens.
How to Construct Therapeutic Metaphors: This Unit will teach you how to construct and deliver therapeutic metaphors to bring about profound change in people. Subjects include: Metaphorical Communication, Structure of metaphors, Stories, Analogies, Jokes, Puns, and Folk Language.
Pseudo-orientation in Time: Learn this classic rehearsal/ratification technique to help people create their own resolutions.
Milton Erickson’s Spatial Dissociation Technique: Help your patients gain new insights into the choices available to them by teaching them dissociation, double and triple dissociation.
Milton Erickson’s Method of Symptom Substitution and Resolution: Learn how to prescribe replacement symptoms, move existing symptoms and finally resolve symptoms whilst identifying and satisfying secondary gains.
Six Step Reframing: Learn how to negotiate with parts in hypnosis whilst meeting the needs of secondary gains.
Scrambling Symptoms: Learn how to identify the steps in a symptom, scramble and re-programme the person with a new sequence so that the symptom ceases to exist.
Pain control and Anesthesia: Learn how and when you can induce numbers to reduce pain.
Milton Erickson’s Procedure for Initiating Automatic Writing and Drawing: Learn how to communicate directly with your patient’s unconscious mind utilising the ideo-motor response of automatic writing and drawing.
The Multiple Mirror technique: Learn this powerful therapeutic age regression induction.
Age Regression Techniques: Learn to make a person gradually regress to childhood.
Deep Trance VK Dissociation Phobia Treatment: Learn to treat almost any phobia easily and quickly with this one session phobia treatment in hypnosis.
Responding to Polarity Responses: Learn how to ask for one thing to get another.
Eye Accessing and Representational Systems: Recognise how people think by watching their eye movements, tell-tale gestures, posture and minimal cues.
Identifying and Utilising Sub-modalities: Learn to alter the memory of trauma by changing the colour, brightness, perspective of your internal representation and so neutralise feelings.
The Stop Smoking Strategy: Learn Stephen Brooks’ famous one session stop smoking treatment.
Cellular Healing Therapy: Learn how to work with terminal illness at the cellular level and access powerful healing resources.
Recognising Subjective Interpretations: Learn how to recognise the excuses and interpretations that people make to sabotage their success.
Ambiguous Task Assignments: Learn how to offer open ended tasks as living metaphors and as a means of accessing inner resources.
Resource Accessing: Learn how to access resources required for problem solving using a transderivational search.
The Visual Squash: Learn how to use this collapsing anchors technique to apply resources to problems.
The Swish Technique: Learn how to erase negative feelings about the past with this classic imagery technique
How to Create Positive and Negative Hallucinations in Hypnosis: This Unit will teach you how to alter someone’s visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and gustatory awareness so that they believe something or someone exists when in reality it doesn’t. It will also teach you how to alter someone’s visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and gustatory awareness so that they believe something or someone does not exist when in reality it does. Areas covered include: Visual Hallucinations, Auditory Hallucinations, and Kinasethic Hallucinations.
Anchoring in Psychotherapy: An analysis of the how anchoring works and when to apply it.
Inducing Ideo-motor Finger Signals During Hypnosis: Learn to communicate directly with your patient’s unconscious mind in hypnosis without the involvement of the patient’s conscious mind.
Milton Erickson’s and Linn Cooper’s Clinical Application of Time Distortion in Hypnosis: Learn how to distort your patient’s perception of time as an adjunct to pain control, accelerated learning, memory recall and integration of unconscious processes.
Learn Approaches to Inducing Post Hypnotic Amnesia: This Unit will teach you how to indirectly induce amnesia for all or part of your communication with people. Including: Constructive Amnesia (when people forget information that is unimportant) and Destructive Amnesia (when people forget information that is important).
Resource Accessing in Hypnosis: This unit will help you understand what the patient needs in order fro treatment to be successful. You will then learn how to apply those resources therapeutically using hypnosis.
Master Practitioner Diploma In The Advanced Covert Psychotherapeutic Strategies and Creative Interventions of Brooksonian Hypnotherapy
1 – 9 December 2012 – Chiang Mai Thailand
Accredited hypnosis training courses for trainee hypnotherapists, established hypnotherapists and health professionals
Trainer: Stephen Brooks
If you are a beginner our courses will give you a complete in-depth knowledge and experience of hypnosis and hypnotherapy, from the basics to advanced level, so you are able to work professionally and ethically as a fully qualified hypnotherapist. If you already have experience with hypnosis our courses will take you to a much higher level of ability. We will teach you things you would never learn from other courses and you will be more effective than you thought possible. We have over 30 years experience in teaching cutting edge Brooksonian and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy techniques and principles internationally.
About the Course:
Milton H Erickson’s contribution to psychotherapy is considerable. He was highly innovative and was responsible for introducing therapeutic metaphor, pattern intervention, tasking and other strategic approaches into psychotherapy in addition to indirect suggestion and implication as therapeutic tools. Anyone using hypnosis these days knows of Milton Erickson’s contribution to the field and as the world’s leading authority and innovator in psychotherapy and hypnotherapy his approach is indispensable. His therapeutic techniques have become the foundation for many different therapies such as Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Brief Family Therapy, Strategic Therapy and of course Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. British Hypnosis Research has specialized in teaching Erickson’s approach exclusively since 1984 and we have so far taught courses in over 20 hospitals and universities in the UK and internationally in France, Canada, Singapore, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, India, USA, Thailand, Ireland, and Japan. Stephen Brooks has long been acknowledge for taking Erickson’s work to an even higher level and integrating it with 21st century techniques in a caring and compassionate way. This course represents the best of everything that Erickson was, combined with the best of everything that Stephen Brooks is, and is taught in an innovative and dynamic way that adds so much more to what is now possible with hypnotherapy.
Stephen Brooks
Stephen Brooks is your personal trainer on this course and he is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading innovators in hypnotherapy and an expert on Erickson’s work. Stephen Brooks has worked as an Ericksonian Therapist since the 1970′s and as an Ericksonian trainer since 1984 when he first started teaching Ericksonian hypnosis courses at St George’s Hospital in London. He has developed his approach to such a high level that it is now known as Brooksonian Hypnotherapy, and this distinguishes it from the many dated Ericksonian training courses that these days proliferate the internet. Brooks will cover a considerable amount of information on this course – so please check out the extensive syllabus down the left side of the page. He is well known for being able to teach advanced skills in an easy-to-learn way and at a pace that is suitable for everyone. His aim is that you graduate with a high level of comptencey and skill superior to most graduates of psychotherapy training courses. His accomplishments over the years bear witness to this fact. As he is solely responsible for teaching most of the “big names” in hypnotherapy today.
On completion you will receive “The Master Practitioner Diploma In The Advanced Covert Psychotherapeutic Strategies and Creative Interventions of Brooksonian Hypnotherapy” issued by British Hypnosis Research. If you also choose to take our “Practitioner Diploma In The Advanced Indirect Conversational Hypnotic Induction Techniques of Brooksonian Hypnosis”, which many of our students take as a pre-requisite to this course, you will then have the required experience and qualifications to practice as a fully qualified Brooksonian Hypnotherapist. You will also be able to apply to the UK General Hypnotherapy Standard Council for accreditation. Their accreditation is also valid in other countries.
We offer an intensive practical training for serious students of hypnosis, trainee and practicing therapists and professionals from the caring professions, so we do ask for your serious commitment to developing your skills if you intend registering on our courses. The courses teach basic and advanced hypnosis skills that you can apply immediately. No previous experience with hypnosis is required, although experienced practicing hypnotherapists usually make up about 30% of our students on this course.
Who should attend
This is a psychotherapy course, and is open to anyone wishing to study Stephen Brooks’ approach to psychotherapy. It will be of special interest to nurses, doctors, psychologists, social workers, NLP practitioners, trainee and qualified hypnotherapists, CBT practitioners, and health professionals of all disciplines. Prior knowledge of hypnosis is not essential. There is no pre-requisite training required if you wish to study this course as a stand alone psychotherapy course, but if you intend to practice as a hypnotherapist you must also enroll on our “Practitioner Diploma In The Advanced Indirect Conversational Hypnotic Induction Techniques of Brooksonian Hypnosis”. These techniques are based on Milton Erickson’s original induction techniques now updated and modified for the 21st century. Our students come from a variety of backgrounds – NLP, psychology, counseling, medicine, nursing, therapy and hypnosis or are seriously interested in the subject.
Course Structure
The course is taught in modules and each module contains a lesson followed by a demonstration and an exercise. Each lesson is based on a technique, strategy or skill. Although students should also study the theory behind Erickson’s work this course is primarily a practical “hands on” training where students get to practice Brooksonian Hypnotherapy for themselves. You are encouraged to study the theory independently and we have set up a support system for students to do this and have set up a free online training support course for students to discuss each of these lessons. The free online training support course is also open to people not attending this course as we believe it is an opportunity for them also to participate in discussions about the benefits of Brooksonian Hypnotherapy.
Student Assessment
Many courses only offer a certificate of attendance for their courses. This course offers a fully accredited Diploma qualification and you will be assessed throughout the course on your ability to demonstrate the skills and techniques you are being taught. This is essential if you wish to practice as a fully qualified hypnotherapist.
Course Availability
We run this Master Practitioner course only once a year. It is based in Thailand as most of the students who attend travel from all over the world. Many of our students combine the course with a holiday and the dates have been chosen to guarantee the best possible weather. We invite you to read the comprehensive course syllabus (on the left) and also learn what previous course graduates have to say about their experience of training with us.
Course Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Course Dates: Saturday 1 to Sunday 9 December 2012. 9.30am – 5.00pm each day.
Course Fee: A £300.00 deposit secures your place on this course and the balance (£2300.00) is due one month before the course starts. Accommodation fees and flights are not included. It will probably be cheaper for you to book your flight and accommodation together as part of an all-in package holiday from a travel agent.
To enroll, please click the “Yes I Want To Enroll Now” link and we will then confirm your enrollment:
Student Testimonials
“I would like to say a sincere thank you for the nine day experience made possible by yourself. The material, delivery and of course your handling of the group made it an event I will remember and cherish for the rest of my life. You said several times over the nine days that “this is what I want to do – teach” and it showed. When someone is doing what they do best, the passion seeps through, and it did. I am thoroughly enjoying using my new found skills in helping others – the results so far have been quite astounding. The nine days became more about the people who shared with me parts of themselves that I will treasure forever – thank you for trusting me. Your words will stay with me. A very cleverly written syllabus, extremely hard work, filled with hidden gems and performed by a true artist.” Joan Hart a Integrative Counsellor and Hypnotherapist in Liverpool, England
“This Practitioner Course brings to life the course material as Stephen takes time to explain and demonstrate his methods and tools. More importantly Stephen provides a solid basis for students to apply what they learn in a thoughtful way, by freely sharing his philosophy and experiences of life and therapy. I can honestly say that I loved every single moment and I have come away with so many gifts to treasure from Stephen and my fellow students and I know I will be sharing these with others throughout the rest of my life journey. Oh boy – I’m so busy assimilating everything.” Petri Rikkinen, a Psychotherapist specializing in Art and Family Therapy in Finland.
“It’s a great honor to have worked under the supervision of Stephen and I have met the most wonderful set of people throughout the nine days, some of you will remain in my heart for years to come… Now that the course is over, the momentum will need to be maintained so we shall keep furthering ourselves not only for our own personal development, but to have as many tools in our toolbox to empower others in achieving a life they love.” Julie N’Guyen, who works for a financial media company in London England.
“The Practitioner Course was an enlightening and thoroughly enjoyable experience for me. The full commitment and skills of Stephen Brooks to get the course material across was a perfect adjunct to doing the online course. The atmosphere was always open and friendly allowing students to absorb the various levels of communication with no pressure to perform but only to show a level of interest. The practical course material is rich and varied and students receiving a personal Diploma from someone of Stephens standing cannot be missed. This can give them the confidence to be the therapist they have dreamed of being.” Paul McNevin, a Hypnotherapist in Dublin Ireland.
RECOMMENDED VIDEO FOR STUDENTS ATTENDING THIS COURSE
The 20th Anniversary Edition DVD – “TRAINING IN INDIRECT HYPNOSIS” – Essential support study video!
Order the classic 2 DVD set “Training in Indirect Hypnosis” published by the BHR Archives. This is the classic recording made by Sussex University for the British National Sound Archives in 1990. Digitally re-mastered and now with comprehensive commentary by Stephen Brooks.
Read the 5 star reviews and buy now on Amazon!
VIEW A SHORT VIDEO CLIP:
BUY IT NOW – THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY DOUBLE DVD EDITION
Please note that this DVD is only available from Amazon in Europe and in a zone free PAL format. If you wish to purchase a zone free NTSC version you can buy direct from BHR. Please email use for information.
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