MASTER CLASS
VOICE COACHING FOR HYPNOTHERAPISTS
Josephine Hamilton

As therapists, we often take for granted what our patients hear, understand and interpret from what we are saying and how we deliver it. Practitioners need “a good, clear and expressive voice”, as it can significantly enhance the effectiveness of clinical hypnosis sessions for patients.

This Masterclass aims to improve your ability as clinical hypnotherapists (or counsellors) by focusing on your awareness, and the importance of your voice, its reception, and practise of your delivery with feeling.

“You can do a better job with a good voice.”
In a trance state, a patient’s mind is open to suggestions if they are relaxed and comfortable with your voice. This is why clear delivery, with the use of metaphors, scripts and guided imagery is fundamentally important.

“How do you sound?”
During this Masterclass, delegates will have an opportunity to be aware of their own voice (in practical sessions), to evaluate and improve their voice and delivery skills. Self-improvement techniques will be discussed and practised, which will result in a clear and confident delivery of speech.
“How will you sound?”
Numerous examples will be relayed to the delegates, to demonstrate the positive and negative effects of such deliveries on patients. The richness of these examples will be one of the features of this Masterclass.


SYLLABUS:

  • Anatomy and Physiology
    • Deportment / Breathing / Diaphragm
    • Voice reproduction (speech
    • Voice reception (hearing)
  • How to communicate with clarity and confidence
  • How to deliver a script more effectively
  • Practical sessions with assessments
  • How do you sound?
  • Observations on dialect
  • Rhythm and timing
  • Onomatopoeic expressions
MASTER CLASS
MAXIMIZING PERFORMANCE THROUGH HYPNOSIS
Maureen Kiely

The aim of this Masterclass is to provide the participant with an overview of the concept of performance and its application in the consulting room setting. The basic tenet of the day is that each patient who seeks resolution to a problem wishes to leave the consulting room, not only with a solution to the particular issue, but also a strategy or ‘blueprint’ for recognizing their own capacity and potential to enhance their futures, beyond therapy.

We will provide, through a series of structured hypnosis sessions, an opportunity for participants to identify their own performance strategies and sabotage states, discover untapped resource states, examine personal authenticity and discover how to harness drive and maximize personal potential.

Through the knowledge and experience gained, the participant will be equipped to skilfully identify factors which influence patients’ resistance and provide a ‘fixed and mutable’ impression of their own performance as a practitioner.


This in turn can become their best ‘practise model’ from which to work from; thus providing a more efficacious outcome for both patient and therapist. Full course notes will be provided.

SYLLABUS:
  • What is performance?
  • What is motivation?
  • How can we utilize our performance to enhance others?
  • Hero or Zero?
  • Identifying personal criteria for change
  • Recognizing when performance becomes a barrier to change
  • Pre-morbid functioning
  • Harnessing emotion-challenging cognitions
  • Yesterday’s dinner won’t feed you
  • The beauty of self-limiting frameworks - how to use their potential
  • Using negative states as a motivator
  • Performance and the business arena
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