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Courses for Practicing Hypnotherapists
Practitioner Diploma – London 2012
Master Practitioner Diploma – Thailand 2012
Free One Year Online Course
COURSE LOCATION
Roehampton University, The Terrace Room, Digby Stewart Campus, Roehampton Lane, Roehampton, London SW15 5PU, United Kingdom
COURSE DATES
Saturday 18 – Sunday 26 August, 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. We have also arranged for inexpensive accommodation directly on campus to help those traveling from other parts of the country or abroad. Extremely low cost flights are available on budget airlines if you book early.
If you wish to stay on campus please email the University directly to book a room.
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
Verbal Rapport Building Utilizing Open Questions and Self-sharing: Learn to build trust and rapport with these simple highly focused questions.
Positive Frame and Reverse Frame Hypnotic Suggestions and Negative Tags: Learn how to get the other person to agree with you and develop an acceptance for your ideas.
Identifying the Minimal Cues of Hypnotic Trance: This unit will teach you how to recognise good hypnotic subjects and how to recognise when your patient is going into trance.
The Uptime Downtime Hypnotic Trance Induction: This unit is based on two combined hypnotic induction techniques where the patient is encouraged to shift their attention from one hypnotic state to another as an induction.
The Confusion Hypnosis Induction: This unit demonstrates how to use confusion as a hypnotic induction, how to create confusion, how to utilize it when it occurs naturally.
The Laws of Observation and Utilization in Hypnotherapy: This unit is based on the important principles of observation and utilization and teaches you what to do when you first start using hypnosis and then how to utilize what the patient says or does, moment by moment.
Hypnotic Anchoring and Conditioning Techniques: This unit will teach you how to utilize human conditioning to get patients to accept ideas and therapeutic treatment and how to also use these principles to induce hypnosis.
Pseudo Orientation in Time Hypnosis Technique: This technique will allow you to take your patient into an imagined future and to report on what was necessary for their treatment to be successful.
Double Bind Hypnosis Suggestions: This unit teaches you a very effective hypnotic language pattern called the Double Bind. There are several classes of hypnotic double bind and they motivate patients to accept new ideas and ways of accepting treatment programmes.
Open-ended Hypnosis Suggestions: This unit teaches you a very effective hypnotic language pattern called the Open-ended Suggestion. These suggestions will help you induce hypnosis effectively and help the patient accept new ways of thinking about their problem.
Arm Levitation Hypnosis Induction: The unit is based on an innovative approach to a traditional hypnotic technique where the patient goes into a trance as their arm automatically lifts into the air.
The Laws of Positive Expectancy and Reinforcement in Hypnosis: This unit looks at the role of implication in speech and non-verbal behaviour and teaches you how to develop the skill to influence indirectly through an attitude of expectancy.
Implication, Compression and Economic Hypnotic Language: This unit will teach you how to maximize the time available by streamlining the hypnotic techniques you are being taught. This will help you be more effective when you interact with your patients.
The Laws of Reversed and Concentrated Effort as a Hypnotic Phenomena: This unit looks at the role of paradox in clinical practice and how you can use this as a therapeutic tool within your profession.
Arm and Eye Catalepsy as a Vehicle for Inducing Hypnosis: This unit will teach you how to produce hypnotic catalepsy as a hypnotic induction. This will reinforce your patient’s confidence you and in the treatment.
Responding to Polarity Responses with Hypnosis Patients: This unit will help you deal with difficult and resistant patients. You will learn techniques to calm down your patient, to change the way they think and to turn objections into opportunities.
Passive Response Hypnotic Suggestions: This unit teaches you skills that help the patient trust themselves more easily and not interfere in the treatment process in a negative way.
Learning and Teaching Your Patient How to Use Self Hypnosis: This unit will teach you to use self-hypnosis for your own personal development and to be able to teach it effectively to your patients.
Matching and Mirroring the Patient’s Body Posture for Hypnosis: This unit is based on building rapport very quickly. You will learn to build trust almost immediately with every new patient.
Matching and Mirroring the patients voice tonality, pitch and volume as a Hypnosis Technique: This unit is also based on building rapport very quickly. It will also help you to induce hypnotic trance more quickly and deeply.
Identifying and Matching Predicates as an Indirect Hypnosis Rapport Building Technique: This unit will help you achieve two outcome, understanding how the patient experiences his problems and how to build rapport quickly and effectively.
Hypnotic Inductions based on Eye Fixation and Distraction Techniques: This unit is based innovative new ways of using classic eye fixation techniques as hypnotic inductions. You will learn how to indirectly hypnotise someone using your and their eyes.
Hypnosis Techniques for Communicating with the Unconscious: Learn about the right and left hemisphere and the abilities of the right and left brain.
The Insertive Eye Contact Hypnosis Induction Technique: Learn how to implant suggestions indirectly into another person’s unconscious mind.
The Confusion Hypnosis Induction Technique: Learn how to utilize senses and behaviors as a powerful hypnotic induction by continually re-directing attention.
How to Use Indirect Contingent / Dependent Suggestions to Induce Hypnosis: This Unit will teach you how to apply pacing and leading to create interlocking chains of associated hypnotic suggestions to produce a network of mutually compounding directives.
How to Use Nominalizations as a Hypnosis Deepening Technique: This Unit will teach you how to create and apply non-specific hypnotic language that meets needs at an unconscious level.
How to use Indirect Passive Response Suggestions: This Unit will teach you how to play down the importance of the conscious mind while opening the potential of the unconscious mind.
How to Develop Your Patient’s Response Attentiveness to Hypnosis: When patients enter therapy they are sometimes apprehensive and they have various expectations. This Unit will teach you how to utilize and build these expectations as a hypnotic and therapeutic tool.
How to Use Indirect Eye Fixation and Distraction as Hypnosis Inductions: In this Unit you will learn how to induce trance using only your eye movements. The Unit covers how to focus, direct and re-direct focus of attention directly and indirectly.
How to Use Indirect Non-verbal Hypnosis Inductions: This Unit will teach you how to induce hypnosis non-verbally by replicating trance in yourself, using pantomime techniques and trance anchoring.
How to use Favorite Leisure Activity to Induce Hypnosis: When people are enjoying themselves they are often in trance but don’t know it. This Unit will teach you how to use various leisure interests as trance inductions. Contexts used as trance inductions include: Creative absorption: listening / playing music, painting, listening to a lecture, watching a film, watching television). Conscious focus: playing sports, exercise, dancing. Daydreaming as trance experience, Thinking as trance experience.
How to Indirectly Evoke Previous Trance Experiences: One of the quickest and most effective ways of inducing trance is to re-induce a previous trance. This Unit will teach you how to re-induce previous trance states from your own sessions and from those of other therapists.
How to Match Breathing and Develop Progressive Relaxation in the Patient: This Unit will teach you how to utilize the sensory experiential approach of relaxation, visualization and counting to induce hypnosis.
How to Use Classes of Hypnotic Double Bind: This Unit will teach you how to create a compelling illusionary choice by creating binds and double binds that motivate people and lead to therapeutic benefits. Binds covered include: Binds, Double Binds, Conscious-Unconscious Double Bind, Dissociation Double Bind, Double Dissociation Double Bind, Non Sequitur Double Bind, Reverse Set Double Bind, Bind and Double Bind Questions and Time Binds.
How to Use the Uptime Downtime Hypnosis Induction: This Unit will teach you how to utilize the extremes of altered states of consciousness and eye fatigue to induce hypnosis.
How to use the Self Suggestion Hypnosis Technique: This Unit will teach you how to induce hypnosis through a process of self-observation and self-suggestion that tie up all the senses.
How to perform an Indirect Arm Levitation Hypnosis Induction: This Unit will teach you how to induce and deepen trance with arm levitation techniques based on the apposition of opposites.
How to Use Hypnotic Surprise Techniques: This Unit will teach you how to induce hypnosis with surprise, shock and disorientation.
How to Use Early Learning Set Hypnosis Induction: This Unit will teach you how to use Erickson’s classic induction with people to evoke their early learning strategies for exploring hidden potential.
Learn the “My Friend John” Hypnosis Induction: This Unit will teach you how to utilise your patient’s minimal cues of impending hypnotic trance as part of an analogy about hypnotising another person.
How to Use Indirect Behavioural Emphasis (Analogue Marking, Interspersal Technique) and Embedded Commands for Hypnosis: This Unit will teach you how to induce trance indirectly by covertly placing emphasis on selective parts of your communication.
Learn the Use of Indirect Hypnotic Language Patterns: This Unit will teach you how to use Fractured Semantics (Partial Remarks and Dangling Phrases). The Unit includes: Implication (Implied Directive), Double Meaning, Stacking Realities, Inter-contextual Cues and Suggestions and Conscious Incompetence Suggestions (Losing Abilities).
How to Use Stacking Hypnotic Potential, Multiple Tasks and Indirect Overloading Techniques in Hypnosis: This Unit will teach you how to offer simultaneous tasks that create conscious confusion and an acceptance for ensuing trance.
Learn to Recognize the Minimal Cues of Hypnotic Trance: Learn how to become more intuitive by recognising the indicators of hypnotic trance that happen unconsciously as people drift in and out of hypnosis.
Learn Hypnotic Compound Suggestion Language Patterns Utilizing the Observable and Non-observable Stacking Technique: Learn how to shift your patient’s awareness from external to internal reality by embedding stacked Compound Suggestions and “truisms that shock” within an Ericksonian trance induction
Learn to Identify Your Patient’s Positive and Negative Response Cues: Learn how to recognize when people are thinking yes or no by calibrating to their minimal cues and changes in muscle tone.
The Old Master Hypnosis Induction: How to give your patient the experience of floating out of their body and deeper into trance.
Post Hypnotic Suggestions: Learn how to trigger new behaviors or ways of thinking within a patient after and between consultations.
Hypnotic Serial Suggestions: Learn how to re-create a remembered event in a compelling way by re-structuring a detailed visualization.
Matching and Mirroring Behaviour During a Consultation: How to utilise facial expressions and minimal cues to build rapport and induce hypnosis.
The Four Seasons Hypnosis Induction: Open up your creativity with this therapeutic and metaphoric visualization induction that induces and deepens hypnosis.
Non-verbal Hypnotic Induction: Learn ways to induce hypnosis non-verbally by replicating trance, anchoring suggestions to eye blinks, de-focusing your eyes and offering tactile confusion.
Practitioner Diploma In The Advanced Indirect Conversational Hypnotic Induction Techniques of Brooksonian Hypnosis
18 - 26 August 2012 – Roehampton University London
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:
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 on 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 hypnosis 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 Practitioner Diploma In The Advanced Indirect Conversational Hypnotic Induction Techniques of Brooksonian Hypnosis” issued by British Hypnosis Research. If you also choose to take our “Master Practitioner Diploma In The Advanced Covert Psychotherapeutic Strategies and Creative Interventions of Brooksonian Hypnotherapy”, which follows 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. 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.
Who should attend
This course is open to anyone wishing to study Stephen Brooks’ approach to hypnosis. 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 hypnosis course, but if you intend to practice as a hypnotherapist you must also enroll on our “Master Practitioner Diploma In The Advanced Covert Psychotherapeutic Strategies and Creative Interventions of Brooksonian Hypnotherapy” which only runs once a year. These techniques are based on Milton Erickson’s original 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 an 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.
Brooksonian Hypnosis
Brooksonian Hypnosis is indirect and conversational so allows you to employ highly effective hypnotic techniques conversationally and with compassion as part of your therapy or care work without any of the traditional drama and theatrics of the more direct authoritarian approach to hypnosis. With the indirect approach emphasis is placed on the client or patient’s ability to experience hypnosis for themselves with the therapist’s guidance. We believe this is a repectful approach to hypnosis as it reduces the client’s dependence on the therapist and empowers the patient rather than disempowering them.
Who created Indirect Brooksonian Hypnosis?
Brooksonian Hypnosis is named after Stephen Brooks who has devoted his life to studying the work of his mentor American Psychiatrist Milton H Erickson. Back in the 1970′s Erickson was relatively unknown, but back then Stephen Brooks was already studying his approach. Erickson subsequently became the most influential therapist in the field of hypnosis and Stephen Brooks became a leading expert on Erickson’s approach. Brooks was the first person to introduce Ericksonian Hypnosis into Europe and he subsequently developed it far beyond how Erickson used it. Brooks now travels extensively around the world teaching Brooksonian hypnosis courses. Milton Erickson pioneered the use of indirect suggestion, naturalistic trance techniques, hypnotic metaphor, pattern intervention, conversational hypnosis techniques and unconscious communication, and Brooks’ new innovative approach to hypnosis is recognised universally as the most effective and successful method for inducing clinical hypnosis. This is why British Hypnosis Research has been promoting and teaching if for over 40 years.
We hope you can make it to London this August 2012 as we only run this course once a year in the UK. We invite you to read the comprehensive course syallabus (on the left) and learn what course graduates have to say about their experience of training with us (see below). Please ALSO refer to “The Master Practitioner Diploma in the Advanced Covert Psychotherapeutic Strategies and Creative Interventions of Brooksonian Hypnosis” course page if you wish to become fully qualified to practice professionally.
Course Location: Roehampton University, Digby Stewart Campus, Roehampton Lane, Roehampton London SW15 5PU. United Kingdom. See map and directions. We have reserved 15 bedrooms on campus for students traveling from afar. The prices are very reasonable but are likely to get booked up very quickly so early registration for course and accommodation is highly recommended due to a shortage of overnight accommodation caused by the London Olympics in 2012. You should book your room accommodation directly with the university here. There are also hotels and B&Bs in the area, but again early booking is recomended.
Course Dates: Saturday 18 August to Sunday 26 August 2012. 9.30am – 5.00pm.
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. We also accept students who are unable to pay the balance in one payment. We can arrange an interest free career development loan so you can pay the balance in 12 monthly installments. To apply for an interest free loan please enroll below and then email us .
Student Testimonials
“I am a psychologist and psychoanalyst in Paris (France) with a degree in Clinical psychology from the University of Paris. This is to acknowledge how much I have appreciated your 2008 Summer School in London. Your way of teaching is invaluable. You have summed up and compressed, without any alteration, Ericksonian learning in such a way that it now becomes quite simple to understand why Erickson was Erickson. But you went even further and added your own way of seeing hypnosis as a normal state of mind, a path to freedom and an understanding of Life and enlightenment. These nine days will stay in my mind for the rest of my life and I can never thank you enough for it. Keep spreading your teachings all around the world. We need you! Your students, will carry your light, by healing and teaching. I am proud to be one of them!” Daniel Goldschmidt, a Clinical Psychologist from Paris France.
“The teachings were bountiful; my fellow students committed, supportive and giving; the energy dynamic and the experience amazing! Much love from a very grateful heart to all of you, and especially to Stephen – a truly beautiful, compassionate and artistic teacher and phenomenal man – thank you !!!!!” Helen Braithwaite, a Hypnotherapist in Coventry England
“A huge huge thank you to Stephen for a fantastic hypnosis Practitioner course. We all learnt an incredible amount. I have all improved immeasurably over the last 9 days. I have attended a number of very good quality courses in the past and I can honestly say that Stephen is by far and away the most skilled, talented and compassionate therapist and teacher (even though he would never take credit personally for what he does!). If you are thinking of attending the course DO IT! It’s awesome.” David Godfrey, a Personal Trainer, Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner in London England
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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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