OUTLINE OF HYPNOSIS CERTIFICATION COURSE



Academy for Professional Hypnosis Training
Mary Elizabeth Raines, Certified Instructor and Director

Discussion of Definition of Hypnosis

History and Overview of Hypnosis (from ancient civilizations to contemporary hypnosis, including Mesmer, Braid, Elliotson, Esdaile,French Schools, Coue, Freud)

How Hypnosis Works


1. Functions of the conscious mind and the subconscious


2. Research


3. Determining who can/cannot be hypnotized


4. What people can achieve through hypnosis


5. Common examples of everyday hypnosis (including hypnagogic state and road hypnosis)

How Suggestion Works

Suggestion vs. Hypnotizability

Suggestibility Testing & Student Practice


1. Arm levitation


2. Handclasp


3. Chevreul's pendulum


4. Postural sway


5. Progressive relaxation


6. Fruit imagery

Myths and Fallacies about Hypnosis

How to determine when a person is in trance


1. Mental indicators and trance logic


2. Physical/objective indicators


3. Subjective indicators (client's observations)

Types of Depth Testing and Research

Aron's Six-step Depth Testing (students experience and practice)


1. Small and large muscle catalepsy


2. Analgesia and anesthesia


3. Mnesic and Amnesic


4. Somnambulism


5. Positive and negative hallucinations

Dangers of Hypnosis


1. Abreaction


2. Hysterical subjects


3. Therapy for which hypnotist is unqualified


4. Appropriate professional behavior


5. Misapplications of hypnosis


6. Liability and professional responsibility

Self-Hypnosis


1. Students experience self-hypnosis, deepening, auto-suggestion


2. Students learn how to teach clients self-hypnosis


3. Students learn how to teach a six-hour self-hypnosis course

Client communication and evaluation


1. Verbal language clues


2. Body language


3. Eye accessing cues


4. Favored sense (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, gustatory, olfactory, digital, intuitive)

Effective ways to deal with different types of clients (abstract, concrete, defensive, talkative, highly suggestible,etc.)

Professional Tips


1. Office Setting (decor, seating choices, appropriate music, colors)


2. Professional appearance and demeanor of hypnotist


3. Mechanical Aids

Initial Steps of a Hypnosis Session


1. Handling telephone inquiries


2. Making the appointment


3. Client intake


4. Establish client comfort and build trust


5. Observation


6. Pre-talk & additional listening techniques


7. Language of Hypnotist


8. Establishing rapport


9. Mirroring


10. Explaining hypnosis to client and allaying fears or misconceptions


11. Permission to touch


12. Taping sessions


13. Establishing contract & obtaining optimum client cooperation


14. Susceptibility and favored sense testing


15. Establishing special place

About Hypnosis Inductions


1. How a person enters hypnosis


2. Permissive and Authoritarian approaches


3. Influential 20th-century hypnotists' techniques (including Erickson, Elman, Tebbets and Arons)

Use of Scripts vs. Improvisation

Hypnotic Induction Techniques (Why and how they work, details of procedures, student experience and practice; below list is partial)


1. Progressive relaxation


2. Dr. Flowers


3. Storytelling


4. Eye fixation


5. Eye-roll


6. Numeric count-downs


7. Fractionization


8. Breathing


9. Mental relaxation


10. Confusion techniques


11. Elman induction


12. Imagery


13. Acupressure points


14. Heightened awareness


15. Mechanical and musical


16. Chakra inductions


17. Hand press


18. Rapid and instant inductions


19. Standing inductions


20. Apposition of Opposites


21. Humor


22. Special procedures for analytical thinkers

Deepening Techniques

Difference between use of Suggestions and use of Imagery

Types of Suggestion


1. Positive


2. Negative


3. Posthypnotic


4. Indirect


5. Embedded


6. Chained


7. Compounded


8. Content


9. Process


10. Interspersed


11. Metaphor


12. Paradoxical


13. Bind of comparable alternatives


14. Future/present tense

Suggestion Repetition, Pyramiding, Chaining, Reinforcement, Creating Success

Imagery (includes watching my video, "Treasure Chest of Guided Imagery Techniques," cautions and guidelines, why imagination is effective & for whom, discovering special place, utilizing five senses, importance of metaphor, establishing & rehearsing success sensations, importance of creating smile)

Specific Applications of Hypnosis (Including Discussion, Scripts, Improvisation, Cautions. Methods and Focus on each of the below and others; additional focus on subjects of special interest to students)


Relaxation


Stress Reduction


Smoking Cessation


Weight Loss


Medical Hypnosis (includes pain management)


Emergency Hypnosis


Parts Therapy


Reframing


Age Regression


Regression to Cause


Hypnosis for children


Anchoring 


Removal of Phobias

Other Common Applications of Hypnosis (Including but not limited to following list:)


Comfortable Childbirth


Sports Performance


Accessing Inner Wisdom


Study skills


Healing


Pain Management


Boosting positive qualities  (confidence, etc.)


Performance


Improving memory


Stuttering


Impotence/Frigidity


Past-life regression


Creativity


Stage hypnosis


Insomnia relief


Public Speaking

How to Emerge a Client from Hypnosis

Post-session and cool-down techniques

How to Conduct a Complete Hypnosis Session

Record-keeping

Common Hypnosis Terms

Marketing Tools and Practice Management

The World of Hypnosis


1. Code of Ethics, National Guild of Hypnotists


2. State Regulations


3. Discussion of various hypnosis associations, conventions, publications

Just for Fun


1. How to do demonstrations


2. Stage Hypnosis (including videos)

Monitored Practice of Techniques (Ongoing)

Graduation and National Guild of Hypnotist Certification Requirements


1. Complete 100 hours of training (includes post-grad work--see below)


2. Demonstrate competency in conducting a complete, professional hypnosis session from beginning to end


3. Pass National Guild of Hypnotists' examination

Additional Academy certification requirements


1. Prepare 20-45 minute talk on hypnosis


2. Hypnotize a minimum of five people at no charge after conclusion of the course, and offer taped, written or telephoned report to instructor for evaluation


3. Prepare a complete written or taped hypnosis script


4. Read and study all hypnosis texts and handouts given in class (5-6 books & manuals)

Post-course


1. Up to 25 hours of credits which may be applied to 100-hour requirement are available through the National Guild for accomplishing certain post-course assignments


2. Yearly continuing education is required for maintaining certification (most easily obtained by attending conventions)


3. Lifelong mentoring and support from Mary Elizabeth Raines.

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