Below, you will find the full curriculum for our DVD training program, which is edited from our live training. Our live training includes material not on the DVDs.

Foundational Program

Volume 1: Introduction to Hypnosis

Disc 1

  • About The Instructor
  • What is Results-Based Hypnosis?
  • The Blind Men and the Elephant
  • Definitions of Hypnosis
  • Subconscious vs. Unconscious
  • Three Models of the Conscious and Unconscious Minds
  • What Hypnosis is Not
  • How Stage Hypnosis Works
  • The Hypnotic Contract
  • Five Attitudes that the Client Can Take
  • Words to Avoid in Hypnosis
  • Suggestibility Testing
  • Arms Rising and Falling Test
  • The Lemon Test
  • The Torso Twist Test
  • More On Tests
  • How to Deliver a Compelling Pre-Talk
  • The Parable of The North Wind and The Sun
  • Client Expectations
  • Example of a Pre-Talk
  • Starting Out as a Hypnotherapist

Volume 2: Hypnotic Inductions

Disc 1

  • Authoritative vs. Permissive Inductions
  • Gaining Clients’ Trust and Setting Expectations
  • Setting Up a Hypnosis Clinic
  • Initial Conscious Process
  • Am I in Hypnosis?
  • How to Overcome the “Battle of Wills”
  • Inductions
  • The Progressive Relaxation Induction

Disc 2

  • Desensitizing Clients to Outside Sounds
  • Creating Alternative Meaning
  • Emerging Clients from Hypnosis
  • Demonstration: Permissive Induction
  • The Dave Elman Induction
  • Script: The Dave Elman Induction
  • Contingency Steps
  • Using Touch to Relax Clients
  • Introduction to Suggested Number Amnesia
  • How to Handle Difficulties in Hypnosis
  • Demonstration: Counting Down
  • Relaxation Tools for “Difficult” Clients
  • Relaxation Demonstration: Suggested Number Amnesia

Disc 3

  • More On “Difficult” Clients
  • Arm Levitation Inductions
  • Demonstration: Arm Levitation Induction

Volume 3: Deepening and Direct Suggestion

Disc 1

  • The Hypnotic Seal
  • Hypno-Sleep
  • Natural Hypnosis
  • Trance-Type and Waking Hypnosis
  • Hypnotic Language Patterns
  • Deepening Methods
  • Relaxation and Hypnosis
  • Trance and Hypnosis
  • Self-Hypnosis and Hetero-Hypnosis
  • What Makes A Good Deepening Method?
  • The Art of “Blabber”
  • Eyes Open or Closed?
  • Using Suggestions to Fit Clients’ Ecology

Disc 2

  • Stating Clients’ Goals As Present Fact
  • Styles of Language In Suggestions
  • Being On the Client’s Side
  • Working With Defined, Realistic Goals
  • Direct Suggestion and Age Regression
  • Ecologically Well-Formed Suggestions
  • Appealing to the Senses in Suggestions
  • Suggestions and Associations
  • Using Positive Associations
  • Esoteric States of Suggestion
  • Successive Approximation
  • Post-Hypnotic Suggestion vs. Normal Suggestions
  • Demonstration: Weight Loss Suggestions
  • Basic Suggestion Method With Other Issues
  • Suggestion and Past Relationships
  • Demonstration: Suggestions for Improving Memory

Volume 4: More Inductions and Depth Testing

Disc 1

  • The Pendulum
  • Performing Instant Inductions
  • Demonstration: Instant Induction
  • Handshake Inductions
  • Building Rapport With Clients

Disc 2

  • Testing for Trance Depth
  • Demonstration: Depth Testing using the Harry Arons Scale
  • The “Direct Drive” Technique

Volume 5: Becoming a Good Hypnotist

Disc 1

  • Risks to Be Aware Of
  • The T.O.T.E. Model
  • Increasing Choice through Hypnosis
  • Reality as a Process
  • Changing Results by Changing Process
  • Communicating with Clients
  • Internal Resources Helping Clients Succeed
  • Approaches to Being a Successful Hypnotist
  • Group Induction to Instil Attitudes
  • Being Client-Centred
  • Useful Attitudes to Take: List of NLP presuppositions
  • S.M.A.R.T. Goal Setting

Advanced Program

Volume 6: Age Regression

Disc 1

  • Age Regression
  • Demonstration: Age Regression
  • Age Regression Summary
  • The Affect Bridge Technique
  • Demonstration: Affect Bridge Technique
  • Using Effective Process Language
  • Avoiding Risks Associated with Age Regression

Volume 7: Age Regression: The Initial Sensitizing Event

Disc 1

  • Confronting an ISE
  • Integration
  • Identifying the ISE
  • Resolving the ISE
  • Timing Your Sessions Effectively

Disc 2

  • Demonstration: Age Regression to Overcome Fear
  • Abundance vs. Scarcity Mindsets
  • Applying the Techniques
  • Overcoming Difficulties in Regression

Volume 8: Chair Therapy and Ideomotor Signals

Disc 1

  • Chair Therapy
  • Demonstration: Chair Therapy Session
  • Ideomotor Signals
  • Demonstration: Ideomotor Signalling

Volume 9: Parts Therapy

Disc 1

  • Using Parts Therapy for Smoking Cessation
  • Demonstration: Using Parts Therapy to Overcome Overeating

Disc 2

  • Demonstration: Using Parts Therapy to Overcome Hypochondria

Volume 10: Future and Parts Demonstration

Disc 1

  • Future Projection and Future Pacing
  • Demonstration: Using Parts Therapy to Overcome Insomnia

Volume 11: Introducing NLP

Disc 1

  • Origins of NLP
  • Mirroring and Matching to Gain Rapport
  • Sub-modalities
  • Demonstration: Editing Sub-modalities

Disc 2

  • The Fast Phobia Release
  • Demonstration: Fast Phobia Release
  • Framing and Reframing

Volume 12: NLP Continued

Disc 1

  • Systems Thinking
  • Swish Pattern
  • Anchoring
  • The Meta Model
  • Nominalization
  • Cause and Effect

Disc 2

  • Presupposition
  • Universal Quantifiers
  • Modal Operators
  • Lost Performatives
  • Simple Deletions
  • Lack of Referential Index
  • Unspecified Verbs
  • Purposely Using Ambiguous Language
  • Mind-Reading
  • Complex Equivalence
  • More on the Meta Model
  • Pacing Current Experience
  • Conversational Postulates
  • Double Binds
  • Single Binds
  • Tag Questions
  • Extended Quotes / Nested Loops
  • Selectional Restriction Violation
  • Utilization
  • Embedded Suggestions and Analogue Marking
  • Negative Suggestions
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Ambiguity
  • Linkage Language
  • Demonstration: Embedded Commands
  • Storytelling and Metaphor

Volume 13: Other States

Disc 1

  • Process Language vs. Content Language
  • The Hypnotic Coma/Esdaile State
  • Thoughts vs. Feelings
  • Hyperempiria
  • Demonstration: The Coma State

Volume 14: Self-Hypnosis and Marketing

Disc 1

  • Using Music During Hypnosis
  • Self-Hypnosis vs. Hetero-Hypnosis
  • The Dave Elman Induction, Modified for Self-Hypnosis
  • Methods of Entering Into Self-Hypnosis
  • Keeping Depth in Self-Hypnosis
  • Using a Mantra During Self-Hypnosis
  • Extra Information on Self-Hypnosis
  • The Importance of Your Voice

Disc 2

  • Marketing
  • Generating Revenue
  • Leveraging Your Existing Social Network
  • Using the Internet to Market Yourself
  • Pay-Per-Click Advertising
  • Building on Keywords
  • Risks to be Aware of With Internet Advertising

Disc 3

  • Publicity
  • Referrals
  • Advertising
  • Increasing Your Revenue
  • Three Recommended Books on Marketing
  • Expenses
  • Managing Rent Costs
  • Hiring a Receptionist
  • Final Words on Starting a Business

Volume 15: Common Client Problems

Disc 1

  • Motivators for Smoking Cessation
  • Success Rate
  • Testimonials
  • Completely Abstaining from Alcohol vs. Minimizing Intake

Disc 2

  • Weight Loss
  • Being Selected as a Hypnotherapist
  • Fear of Public Speaking

Volume 16: More Client Problems

Disc 1

  • Getting Over a Past Relationship
  • Confidence With Women
  • Erectile Dysfunction
  • Premature Ejaculation
  • Stress Reduction
  • Improved Sleep
  • Study Skills
  • Generalizations That Can Arise From Scripts

Disc 2

  • Pain Management
  • Helping Clients Find Lost Objects
  • Sales Motivation
  • Stuttering
  • Test Anxiety

Volume 17: Ethical Considerations

Disc 1

  • Managing the Suicidal Client
  • Agreeing to a “Suicide Contract”
  • Law Suits and Insurance
  • Dual Relationships
  • Using Touch With Clients