B O O S T I N G YO U R H Y P N O T H E R A P Y P R A C T I C E

Sara Longmuir

SYLLABUS:

How can you attract more clients? What's cheaper than

advertising? Where can you meet your potential client base

in a friendly, informal atmosphere? Answer: by giving talks

Gaining rapport with your audience

about hypnotherapy. They can also be fun for you and your

What to do with your hands - purposeful gestures and

hand movements

audience.

Structuring your presentation for maximum effect

This Masterclass is for those who want to get comfortable

Whom to target

with public speaking, and boost their practice by doing

Inducing the emotional state you want in your

presentations.

audience

Techniques to prepare your voice to be strong and

All the techniques learnt in the class can also be applied to

clear and confident

your own work with patients who present with public

Getting your message across to every member of

speaking issues: business talks, speeches at weddings,

your audience

student presentations, etc.

Using anecdotes, metaphors and stories to deliver

your message

In this Masterclass you will begin to create your own

Getting your audience into the right frame of mind to

personal presentation. You'll be able to practise techniques

be receptive to your message

and apply them to your presentation. Practising in this safe,

Banish performance anxiety with techniques that are

supportive environment is a real confidence-booster. You'll

incompatible with nerves

Using adrenalin purposefully

enjoy dispelling any issues about speaking in front of an

audience.

Feeling confident in front of any audience

Feeling comfortable being you in front of an audience

Entertaining as well as informing

Prepare to enjoy the applause!

How to manage group hypnosis demonstrations

ADVANCED COGNITIVE HYPNOTHERAPY

Avy Joseph

At the heart of emotional disturbance and self-defeating

This Masterclass will give you an excellent framework for

behaviours lie unhealthy and self-defeating beliefs. Cognitive

explaining psychological health to your patients. It also provides

and behavioural therapies give special consideration to

a specific and detailed protocol which you'll be able to use with

restructuring a person's unhealthy beliefs. In recent years these

your patients.

therapies have been augmented with sensory imagery

techniques, relaxation and hypnosis. This Masterclass has

been specifically designed to integrate hypnotherapy, imagery

SYLLABUS:

and cognitive and behavioural therapies using the Rational

Stage Directed Hypnotherapy (RSDH) process.

Cognitive model of emotional disturbance

RSDH was developed by D. Tosi in 1974. It includes four main

components:

ABCDE paradigm

1)

the hypnotic state;

Advanced Cognitive Hypnotherapy Process:

2)

the identification, vivid imagining, and experiencing of

both self-defeating and self enhancing thoughts,

emotions, physiological responses, and behaviours;

Awareness

3)

cognitive restructuring of unhealthy attitudes;

Exploration

4)

the directing of these processes through development

stages.

Commitment to constructive action

Hypnosis intensifies imagery and the rational restructuring

Implementation

process and facilitates a more immediate implementation and

internalization of more self-enhancing thinking, feeling and

Internalization

responding. It is widely acknowledged that the overall

emotional effect of real or imagined stimuli is qualitatively the

Redirection

same. Through hypnotic imagery the patient can learn to

replace undesirable thoughts, feelings and behaviours for more

desirable ones.

London College of Clinical Hypnosis

Autumn 2003

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