NEWS FROM PORTUGAL

LCCH INTERNATIONAL

News from Portugal - Lisboa and Porto

" Good news I have" would Master Yoda say.

The centre in Lisbon is running quite well with a new

Certificate course starting this month of April. It is the 7th

Certificate course we run here in Portugal, can you imagine,

in three years time! See the photo below.

But it was the Porto TV station `RTP N' that became

interested in our courses, and came to film one day of

classes of our group of northern students, in Porto. Amanda

Farr was lecturing ­ so she is a big TV star in Portugal ­

and Rusa and Vera were interviewed as well as two of our

students.

Vera Teixeira

The aim of the reporter was to demistify hypnosis to the

Speaking of the Portuguese LCCH team, let us introduce

broad public, and once more LCCH was news in our

ourselves: Rusa, Vera, Margarida, Inês and Mário Rui; these

country.

last three very devoted tutors and supervisors. Hopefully by

next September one (or two) of them will be already

Vera Teixeira is our new lecturer. A psychologist born in

lecturing.

Paris and raised in Ottawa, Canada, a daughter of

portuguese folk who imigrated to Canada in the 60's, she

Margarida and Inês are supervisors and tutors in Lisboa, as

came back to her origins to finish her Psychology degree,

well as full-time therapists, and Mário Rui, also a supervisor

and to marry Victor. She is the mother of two beautiful

both in Porto and Lisboa, as well as a hypnotherapist, has

children and lives in Aveiro where she has her consulting

prepared all the notes of the course in a Power Point

room.

presentation.

She took her Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis with the first

Our classes are presented in Power Point, and we find the

course LCCH ran in Portugal, three years ago. She divides

students are very happy about it. We know that when we

her time between Aveiro, Porto and Coimbra where she

experience things in a visual way we absorb the learnings in

works as a hypnotherapist, with a group of high blood

a deeper and stronger manner. We are also preparing two

pressure patients in a local hospital.

Masterclasses presented by two former students ­ the first

Masterclasses in the portuguese language ­ and hopefully

She has proved to be a highly energetic and bright lecturer,

they will be presented in the near future.

and we feel lucky to have her in our team.

"May the Force be with us " Obi Wan would say.

And we feel It around here...in a strong way.

Summer 2005

19

London College of Clinical Hypnosis