Certified Hypnotherapist training
We offer Hypnotherapist training (Hypnosis I & II) and Master
Hypnotherapist training (Hypnosis III) to those already certified as
NLP Practitioners.
Hypnosis I
This single day of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy training is offered as
a supplement after successful completion of NLP Practitioner training.
The focus of this highly experiential training is to teach popular
Ericksonian hypnotic inductions and hypnotherapeutic principals. As an
NLP Practitioner you'll appreciate the expediency, greater
effectiveness and depth that Ericksonian Hypnotherapy will contribute
to your skills set.
Jevon was originally an enigma, and maybe he
still is at some level to me. When he directs his warmth, his words
wrap you in an amazing glow. He seems to have a light energy shining
out of his eyes all the time. I have done 2 Hypnotherapy courses
before. I can confidently say that Jevon displayed mastery in his
approach to facilitating and imparting the skills."
-Brad Abbott, Consultant Trainer, South Africa-
Patients are patients because they are out of rapport
with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much
outside programming - so much programming that they have lost touch
with their inner selves.
-Milton H Erickson, M.D.-
What is the Link Between Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and NLP?
As Ericksonian Hypnotherapy is about working naturally and easily
with a person's unconscious mind, so it is basic to the art and science
of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP works with language, different
perspectives, how we know what we know, the study of subjective
experience, beliefs and values, time-lines, parts, anchors, strategies
and all these techniques are designed to bring the conscious and
unconscious minds into rapport so that the client can go through their
everyday life more resourceful, more flexible and more able to achieve
their desired outcomes.
"The thinking process is unconscious. We become aware of the results consciously"
-Milton H Erickson, M.D.-
For more information on Ericksonian
Hypnotherapy, see information below on this page.
Please
contact us for further information and bookings.
Hypnosis II
Expand and deepen your Hypnotherapy, NLP and Coaching skills repertoire toward Mastery
- Become fully confident and competent at inducing trance anywhere, anytime
- Learn how to facilitate unconscious healing and transformation conversationally
- Enhance your capacity to tap unconscious resources in both up-time and down-time states
- Boost your effectiveness as a NLP practitioner, coach or hypnotherapist - beyond what you previously believed possible
- Become an internationally recognised certified Master Hypnotherapist
This three day training begins with a revision of the hypnotic
approaches of Milton Erickson, M.D. as modelled by John Overdurf and
Julie Silverthorn. The research and original material taught in this
training, is the basis for their book
Training Trances: Multi-level Communication in Therapy and Training.
You will learn more about the methods that you were introduced to at
Hypnosis I, as well as completely new 'stuff' too. This is a no
nonsense training for those interested in deepening their competence in
using hypnosis personally and professionally. Having attended this
training, you can expect to integrate your understanding and use, of
not only hypnosis, but also NLP.
Course content:
- Review of basic Ericksonian skills required to do more sophisticated, advanced techniques
- What to do after you've induced trance!
- How to do a complete hypnotherapy interview from beginning to end
- How to seamlessly transition in and out of ...that's right!
- How to construct relevant and precise metaphors
- How to easily elicit traditional hypnotic phenomena, including:
- Catalepsy, analgesia/anaesthesia, amnesia, deep trance identification
- How to incorporate these techniques into your own personal style
- How to use Erickson's basic protocol for posthypnotic suggestions
And more...deeply enjoyable unconscious learning...
"This course exceeded
my expectations, it was excellent. I'm delighted to have made the
commitment. The most meaningful and useful parts to me were the
exercises - as practitioner and as subject. I'm sorry I have to wait so
long until Hypnosis III, but I'll enjoy all that excited anticipation.
Thank you, Jevon."
-Dr. Conor Hughes - NLP Trainer, Coach & business owner, South Africa-
Please
contact us for further information and bookings.
Hypnosis III
This is where your NLP and Hypnosis journey ultimately leads to,
and from where the true journey of discovery and delight really
begins...as a certified Master Hypnotherapist...and beyond...
This four day training begins with a revision of your Hypnosis II
material. It goes on to de-mystify what Hypnosis / Trance really is
through learning and practicing advanced, yet simple approaches to
rapidly and effectively help your clients achieve their desired
outcomes.
Course content includes:
- Advanced methods to induce unconscious processing
- Pendulum utilization for deepening trance
- Accessing the validity of ideomotor signalling
- Unconscious review and integration
- Unconscious clearing of unwanted states and beliefs
- Metaphor intervention
- The hypnotic dream induction
- The full unconscious interview
And much more...deeeeeeeply enjoyable unconscious learning...
Successful completion of Hypnosis III and your Certified
Hypnotherapist Review entitles you to internationally recognised Master
Hypnotherapist Certification.
The prerequisite for Hypnosis III training is successful completion of Hypnosis II and NLP Master Practitioner Certification.
2008 Hypnotherapy Training courses in Cape Town:
| Hypnosis III | : 24 - 27 April |
| Hypnosis I | : 19 May |
| Hypnosis II | : 27 - 29 June |
| Hypnosis III | : 24 - 26 October |
| Hypnosis I | : 17 November |
Held at Riverside Estates, Hout Bay from 10am to 6pm each day.
2009 Hypnotherapy Training courses in Cape Town:
| Hypnosis III | : 23 - 26 April |
| Hypnosis I | : 18 May |
| Hypnosis II | : 26 - 28 June |
| Hypnosis III | : 9 - 12 October |
| Hypnosis I | : 1 November |
Held at Riverside Estates, Hout Bay from 10am to 6pm each day.
2009 Hypnotherapy Training courses in Johannesburg:
| Hypnosis II | : 14 - 16 March |
| Hypnosis I | : 31 March |
2009 Hypnotherapy Training courses in Majorca (Spain):
| Hypnosis I | : 23 March |
| Hypnosis I | : 28 September |
Please contact us for further information and bookings.
Jevon presents Hypnosis I, II and III trainings in South Africa in collaboration with Advanced Human Technologies.
What is Ericksonian Hypnotherapy?
Milton Erickson (1901-1980) was an exceptional therapist. He used a
naturalistic and flexible method for trance induction that worked with
the client, not on the client.
He varied his approach all the time, depending on the client's
individual problem and personality. He would gather information about
his client by questions and observation to find what they wanted and
what sort of person they were. He would then know the best way to
induce trance for that person and would be able to work with them on
their own terms. This is why Ericksonian hypnotherapy is known as
"permissive" hypnosis as opposed to other schools of "authoritarian"
hypnosis. It is not about one script to use on all clients, but about
learning enough about the client and their needs to create an induction
that will be best suited to them. It is about assisting the client to
get the outcomes they are looking for. It is not about following a
prescribed script and expecting the client to "do what they are told".
It is extremely pragmatic as opposed to authoritarian.
"I invent a new theory and a new approach for each individual" said Erickson
The
genius of Milton H Erickson was his ability to find within each person,
through hypnotherapy, the answers to long-standing personality
problems, to somatic complaints, or to interpersonal difficulties. He
was able to touch those answers and enable each person to use his or
her unique learnings and inner resources in creatively approaching the
problems of living. Erickson's unique ability to convert symptoms into
signals and psychological problems into creative resources appeals to
all those who intuitively sense that we all hold within ourselves the
keys to our own health and well-being.
It has been made possible to teach Erickson's unique and incredibly
successful form of Hypnotherapy to hundreds of thousands of people
thanks to the modelling work done by the founders of NLP, Richard
Bandler and John Grinder, and to the plethora of books that he co-wrote
in his lifetime. The core of his work is the use of artfully vague
language; this allows the client to take whatever meaning from what is
said that is most appropriate for them. The therapist uses language to
induce and maintain a trance state whereby the client
can connect with the hidden resources of their personality.
Trance is a state where you are highly motivated to learn from your
unconscious in an inner directed way. As opposed to being under the
control of another person or totally passive in the receipt of
instructions, the trance state allows the client to respond in ways
that are different to their normal "conscious" way of responding and
the therapist works with the responses that result. It's like a journey
where the responses of the client direct the therapist as to what to do
next.
Erickson's work was based on certain presuppositions, which have become some of the presuppositions of NLP, namely:
- The client already has all the resources they need - albeit at a level that they are not normally conscious of.
- All behaviour, even the most bizarre, has a positive intention.
- Individuals
make the best choices available to them at any given time. Thus, by
increasing the information available to the client about any situation,
they have access to more resources and can use these resources to
change their response to situations both in the past and to situations
in the now where they may have been feeling "stuck" or unresourceful.
- That
not only can everyone enter trance, but that trance is a naturally
occurring state that all people flow in and out of during the course of
normal experience.
- There is no such thing as a resistant
client, only an inflexible communicator. In Ericksonian hypnotherapy
the onus is on the therapist to be flexible enough in their approach to
allow the client to tap into their unconscious and access the resources
that they have available to them at an unconscious level.
Erickson also believed that clients came to him because their conscious
and unconscious brains were out of rapport. So Ericksonian hypnotherapy
is about enabling the client's conscious and unconscious brain to come
into rapport with each other - to work towards the same outcome, to
pull in the same direction, to see that they are part of the same team
and to listen to still small voice that adds information to the given
scenario.
Milton model language is multi-layered and rich in possible
meanings. It involves the use of metaphors - the art of telling a story
that while seemingly random, actually get to the heart of a client's
problem. It is based on acute observation (sensory acuity) both of very
small changes in a patient's physiology and of the patterns that a
client runs and when and how these patterns occur.
Reference: Joseph O'Connor in NLP Workbook
Take the Trance...You never know how far the Change will go...
The unconscious mind is the Key
To get powerful, lasting and rapid results in therapy, it is
essential that the methods employed reach and influence the unconscious
(subconscious) mind. The unconscious mind houses the emotions,
imagination, memory, habits, intuition, and is the pathway to the
superconscious. It also regulates our autonomic body functions. It is
the very core or essence of how we experience ourselves and the world.
Meaningful personal transformation, whether in or out of therapy,
results from a shift in the unconscious mind.
Through hypnosis, we have access to the unconscious mind. In fact,
during waking states, the only way to reach and change major set
beliefs and emotional responses of the unconscious mind is during
experiences that are hypnotic. Hypnosis is an altered state beyond
ordinary consciousness, but a natural state that can occur
spontaneously. In addition, there are many ways hypnosis can be induced
and deepened. Once in hypnosis during therapy, there is a vast range of
therapeutic possibilities to harness and transform the unconscious
mind. Hypnotherapists are taught to use a variety of methods to bring a
person into a state of hypnosis (also known as trance), deepen and
lighten the state, direct various processes and return the subject back
to normal awareness.
Eclectic training in the uses of hypnotherapy can substantially
enhance the skills of any health, counselling or teaching professional.
Examples include psychologists, physicians, dentists, chiropractors,
social workers, marriage counsellors, physical therapists,
optometrists, ministerial professionals, nurses, massage practitioners,
coaches and electrologists.
Hypnosis, while often unrecognized as such, weaves a common thread
through the healing arts and sciences. Effective therapists often use
hypnotic methods whether they use or understand that semantic or not.
As understanding of the field spreads, the deliberate use of hypnotic
processes is currently making a major impact in the health professions
and truly revolutionizing the field of counseling. While it won't work
for everything or for everybody all the time, it is often a powerful
therapy that is as much an art as a science.
Within the field of hypnotherapy, there are a great variety of ways
to harness the power of the unconscious mind to affect change. Hypnosis
is used in areas such as chronic and acute pain control, to change the
pain threshold or affect the psychological associations of pain. It can
be effective to improve confidence, concentration, recall, motivation,
achievement, focus, health and stress management. Hypnosis can help
overcome addictions, habits, eating disorders, insomnia, fears,
phobias, and negative thought, emotional and behaviour patterns. It can
also tap people into the utilization of their full potential in
endeavours like work, sports, art or creative expression.
Hypnotic Phenomena
Within a therapeutic setting, hypnosis is often induced through
various methods of relaxation. As a result of this process the critical
factor of the conscious mind is bypassed, giving the hypnotherapist and
subject direct access to the deeper mind, the unconscious, which has
been called "the other 90% of the mind."
Generally, the most well known characteristic of hypnosis is
increased suggestibility. Though there are varying degrees of this
heightened responsiveness to suggestion, the potential power of this
direct access to the unconscious mind should not be underestimated.
For example: While presenting a Hypnotherapy training, a student of
mine mentioned that one of her outcomes for attending the course was
that she would like to be able to help quit smoking. While teaching how
to induce the hypnotic trance and direct to the unconscious mind, I
inserted certain covert suggestions to help this student achieve her
outcome. Many months later she attended another of my courses and
gratefully reported that she hadn't smoked since that day at the
previous course.
As important as increased suggestibility can be, it is only one of
many kinds of value that can result from access to the unconscious
mind. Concentration typically increases dramatically during hypnosis.
Within the context of therapy, heightened hypnotic concentration has
value as an inherent aspect of trance and is a partial explanation of
the effectiveness of hypnotic suggestion. In addition, specific issues
such as improved study habits and various achievement goals ranging
from public speaking to improved sports performance, are addressed
directly by this hypnotic phenomenon. The subject can actually re-enter
a state of self-hypnosis later while studying or performing, to gain
further value from the concentration inherent to the hypnotic state.
While sometimes directly associated with concentration (as in some
of the above examples), heightened recall during hypnosis has many
functions. Revivification of significant events, whether or not they
were previously repressed, can be combined with many therapeutic
modalities. Also, many persons have used hypnotic access to buried
memories to find missing objects of value. Although the use of hypnosis
for solving crimes has been restricted in recent years by the courts,
hundreds of crimes have been solved by the use of forensic hypnosis.
Victims and witnesses to crimes have hypnotically recalled crucial
memories, whether buried because of detail or time or trauma.
A person can be taught to re-enter hypnosis to access stored
memories while taking examinations or, in certain situations, to
improve job effectiveness. Therefore, persons developing memory recall
skills are supported by the value of increased suggestibility during
the initial hypnosis sessions, as well as by the later heightened
concentration and recall natural to the state of self-hypnosis.
The pain threshold changes dramatically during hypnosis or
self-hypnosis. Hypnosis can provide great relief for chronic pain
sufferers referred by their physicians for such complaints as back
pain, arthritis, headaches or recovery from injury. As with any issue,
the good hypnotherapist will work comprehensively and holistically
toward lasting results, dealing with life-style, stress, emotions and
personality factors, as well as possible secondary gains. Self-hypnosis
can often provide some immediate benefit, while any underlying
emotional
and life-style issues are addressed during hypnotherapy sessions.
In deeper levels of hypnosis major surgery can, in many cases, be
painlessly performed with no other anaesthetic agent. In addition,
physiological functions normally controlled by the unconscious mind can
be effected, such as by suggestions from a dentist to a hypnotically
anesthetized patient to control salivation and bleeding.
Increased access to the emotions during hypnosis has many uses.
Often hypnotized persons later report having experienced feelings of
bliss, joy or euphoria, sometimes spontaneously and other times as a
response to post-hypnotic suggestions or therapeutic methods. Such
feelings can be very meaningful and have substantial therapeutic value.
When a person has been struggling with feelings such as fear, grief or
anger, there are various therapeutic methods during hypnosis to help
him or her access those feelings when appropriate and express, release
or transform them.
Facts and Fallacies
Misconceptions about hypnosis are still fairly prevalent but
gradually diminishing with time. The fear of loss of control is a
result, in part, of stage hypnosis demonstrations. Volunteers may seem
to be "under the spell" of the stage hypnotist. Some develop the notion
that the participants will do whatever the hypnotist suggests.
Actually, some operators have been known to survey the audience and
express disappointment if, say, five volunteers are needed and there
are only 60 people in the audience. Most people will not respond well
to
stage hypnosis and those that do, will do so only under the right
circumstances.
Stage hypnosis is a chance for a person with some extrovert
tendencies to perform, have fun, and be a star. It is no coincidence
that the longest running series of stage hypnosis shows in history,
with Pat Collins, was in Hollywood. A large percentage of volunteers
for her shows were striving to become actors and actresses. Volunteers
of any stage show know they will be expected to do silly things in
front of an audience, and find that appealing. The ones who show timid
or self-conscious responses are asked early on to go back to the
audience. The participants who are receptive to hypnosis will have, to
some extent, a loss of inhibition. However, the volunteer would not do
anything against his or her moral beliefs. For example, if handed an
imaginary glass of champagne, a non-drinker will refuse to pretend to
drink. Also, some otherwise responsive persons will back off to a
specific suggestion (e.g., to sing) because of a lack of
self-confidence in that area. Even during stage hypnosis, individuals
retain control in areas of principle or in which there is major
unconscious resistance.
Many persons who have not previously experienced a formal hypnotic
induction expect the experience of the state of hypnosis to be far
different, and often more extreme, than what it is. Even after attempts
prior to the induction to alleviate such misconceptions, a classic
response after a first hypnosis is, "I know I wasn't hypnotized. I
heard every word you said." Ironically, the same person, when asked
what this "non-hypnosis" experience was like, may give a dramatic
response, such as, "Well, I haven't relaxed so much in twenty years.
Some will doubt in early sessions whether they went into hypnosis at
all. Others who achieve significant depth may believe only light
hypnosis was achieved. With continuing experience, people tend to go
deeper and also begin to recognize the signs that for them are
associated with hypnosis.
Rather than losing consciousness during hypnosis, there is
typically heightened consciousness. Awareness is much greater than
normal, which is related to the increased focus previously described.
When somnambulism (a deep state of hypnosis) is reached, however, the
shift back to normal consciousness is so great that the memory of the
experience may stay buried in the unconscious mind after the person
comes out of hypnosis. This can be similar to the experience of someone
who has been asleep and dreaming, and upon awakening remembers the
dream at first, only to be unable to recall it a few minutes later. The
memory of the dream or of the hypnotic experience is still there in the
unconscious mind, even when conscious recall fades. Though the
somnambulistic state is the exception, it has led to the still somewhat
common misconception that a person in hypnosis will automatically
experience amnesia. Hypnosis actually leads to increased awareness, and
one result of this is that distant or previously unconscious memories
may be recalled in vivid detail.
Hypnosis is a natural state of mind that is entered spontaneously
every day. Examples include states of narrow focus, such as you might
experience when watching television or absorbed in a good book. Highway
hypnosis can occur when driving on the freeway and suddenly realizing
you have no conscious memory of the past several kilometres travelled.
A form of hypnosis, the hypnogogic state, is entered just prior to
falling asleep, and the heightened suggestibility of the hypnopompic
state occurs when first waking up. Even daydreaming is
considered by many experts to be a form of light hypnosis, or a
borderline (hypnoidal) state. The conscious mind begins to recede and
the unconscious mind comes to the foreground, giving you greater access
to the imagination, memories and feelings.
During most of our daily lives we are in touch with our conscious
minds, while unconscious activities below the surface regulate physical
functions such as the autonomic nervous system and circulatory system.
The unconscious mind can leap into action during emergencies, but it is
in part that portion of the mind that is on "automatic pilot" while we
are awake or asleep.
People who enter hypnosis deliberately in session or during
self-hypnosis know they are suggestible. The most common danger with
hypnosis lies primarily outside of the therapeutic context, in
situations in which people are not aware that they are in suggestible
states. For example, we can be influenced by an authority figure, such
as a doctor or other professional, or a political or parental figure.
When a person is unduly influenced by an authority, a spontaneous
hypnosis can develop and the person may become extremely suggestible.
To give another example, double-blind suggestibility studies have
documented that most persons will respond well to placebos, even when
used in place of morphine for severe pain. That gives us a glimpse at
the enormous power of the unconscious mind. A person who deliberately
uses hypnotic states to control his or her unconscious mind can create
extreme physiological changes and other exceptional achievements
without needing to project power onto a pill or an authority figure.
Additionally, our consumer culture bombards us with various forms
of advertising that can have a hypnotic effect. Advertisers may even
pay a premium for broadcasting late at night or early in the morning
when people are more likely to be highly suggestible. Learning about
hypnosis and suggestibility helps us recognize times when we may be
more open or vulnerable so that we can retain awareness and have more
control.
There are many therapy or healing practices that include forms of
hypnosis. Biofeedback techniques, for instance, are used in conjunction
with hypnosis. Jose Silva, in developing Silva Mind Control methods,
borrowed liberally from Dave Elman's hypnotic inductions. Christian
Scientists use hypnotic methods for pain control. Guided imagery,
guided fantasy, visualization, selective awareness, autogenic training,
progressive relaxation and relaxology are examples of hypnotic methods.
Sometimes the practitioner, teacher, nurse, psychotherapist, etc., who
uses such methods will not associate the methods with hypnosis. If
these methods are recognized as hypnotic and that is communicated to
the client, time needs to be taken to alleviate possible
misconceptions. Any practitioner, who sometimes uses hypnotic methods
but has not previously recognized them as such, would find hypnotic
skills magnified tremendously by a thorough training in hypnosis.
The therapeutic value of hypnosis is gradually becoming much more
widely recognized. As the myths and misconceptions are exposed and word
continues to spread about the values of hypnosis, growing acceptance
and interest has increased in academic and scientific communities as
well. Many doctors and other professionals are being trained themselves
or referring patients to hypnotherapists for work in conjunction with
conventional treatments. While there is still residual misunderstanding
in some people's minds, the misconceptions of many have lessened over
the years.