GRACE HYPNOSIS TRAINING SCHOOL
TAUGHT BY SUSAN JENNIFER GRACE, CH, CI, MPNLP

Hypnosis Certification Course: Curriculum

This curriculum is based on standards set forth by the National Guild of Hypnotists. 
Grace Hypnosis Training School is a Government Accredited Educational Institute. Tax receipts will be issued for the full amount of the course tuition.

  1. How to define and describe hypnosis to your clients
    1. Dave Elman's definition: Bypass of the critical faculty of the conscious mind, and the establishment of acceptable selective thinking
  2. A brief history of hypnosis
  3. How to address common misconceptions about hypnosis
    1. Dispelling fears (hypnosis can't make anybody do anything against their will)
    2. Explaining the trance state (the conscious mind usually remains active in hypnosis)
    3. Explaining clearly what hypnosis "is" and what it is "not"
    4. Dispelling the myth about revealing secrets (nothing will be revealed against the client's will)
  4. Explaining the differences between stage hypnosis and hypnotherapy
  5. Self-hypnosis explained
  6. How to test for suggestibility using a variety of tests
    1. Arms rising and falling test
    2. Chevreul's pendulum
    3. Hand clasp test (authoritarian and permissive)
    4. Miscellaneous tests
  7. Summary: How to deliver a compelling pre-talk
    1. Build rapport through pacing and leading
    2. Explain what hypnosis is, and what hypnosis isn't
    3. Use suggestibility testing to show the client how he or she responds to suggestion
    4. Build mental expectancy
  8. Cautions to the new hypnotist
  9. How to induce hypnosis
    1. Authoritarian vs. permissive inductions
    2. The Dr. Flowers induction
    3. The Dave Elman induction
    4. Progressive relaxation inductions
    5. Instant inductions
    6. Arm levitation induction
    7. Miscellaneous inductions
  10. Six important conditions for establishing the hypnotic trance
  11. Desensitizing clients to outside sounds
  12. Conditioning clients for future hypnosis induction
  13. Subjective and objective indicators of hypnosis
  14. Four trance types
  15. How to test for trance depth using the Harry Arons scale
    1. Stage 1: Eyelid catalepsy
    2. Stage 2: Arm catalepsy
    3. Stage 3: Number amnesia
    4. Stage 4: Analgesia
    5. Stage 5: Positive hallucinations
    6. Stage 6: Negative hallucination
  16. How to deepen hypnosis
    1. Fractionation
    2. Staircase, escalator and elevator deepeners
    3. Miscellaneous deepeners
  17. How to conduct the intake interview
    1. Forms to use
    2. The BASIC assessment
    3. Goal-setting
    4. Questions to ask the client
  18. How to conduct an effective direct-suggestion session
    1. How to construct creative, result-oriented hypnosis scripts
    2. The Goal Image Focusing Technique
    3. The power of compounding suggestion
    4. Five laws of suggestion
  19. Post-hypnotic suggestion: Guidelines for establishing the most effective ph-suggestions
  20. The beliefs, attitudes and approaches that will make you a successful hypnotist
  21. Age regression (This is an introduction only. Further training in  required for use with clients) 
    1. How to deal with abreaction
    2. Directed regressions
    3. Non-directed regressions
    4. The affect bridge technique
    5. Using "clean language" in a regression
  22. Parts mediation:  Addressing secondary gain and conflicting "parts"
  23. Ideomotor signaling (setting up finger signals for communication purposes)
    1. How to set up for use instead of verbal feedback
    2. Applied to progressive desensitization
  24. Other states: Hyperempiria and the Esdaile state
  25. Ego strengthening
  26. Putting it all together: How to structure a session
  27. How to structure a series of sessions
  28. How to practice self-hypnosis and teach self-hypnosis to clients
  29. Applications of hypnosis
    1. Smoking cessation
    2. Weight loss
    3. Stress reduction
    4. Pain control
    5. Fears and anxieties
    6. Fear of public speaking
    7. Habit control
    8. Turning procrastination into motivation
  30. Basic NLP for the hypnotist
    1. Primary representational systems: Visual, auditory and kinesthetic
    2. Framing and reframing
    3. Anchoring
    4. How to use the Meta Model for discovering and expanding your client's model of the world
  31. Introduction to Ericksonian (conversational, waking) hypnosis
    1. The Milton Model: Language patterns for inducing trance and effecting change
    2. Metaphors and storytelling
    3. Utilization
  32. Professional ethics
    1. The NGH Code of Ethics
    2. Your scope of practice
    3. Obtaining medical referrals
    4. Other ethical issues that might arise
  33. How to run a successful hypnosis practice
    1. Marketing your hypnosis practice
    2. The basics of running a business
    3. Legal and accounting issues
  34. Case studies of past clients
  35. Extra time for questions and supervised practice

 

A written exam, set by the NGH, will be given on day 8 of the training. A pass mark of 85% is required in order for students to receive NGH certification. Yearly continuing education units are required for maintaining certification, and can be obtained by taking additional hypnosis courses, attending your local hypnosis chapter meetings or attending the annual NGH hypnosis convention.

 

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