GRACE HYPNOSIS TRAINING CENTER
TAUGHT BY SUSAN JENNIFER GRACE, RCH, CH, CI, MPNLP

Hypnosis Certification Course: Curriculum

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

This course is hands-on with hours of daily practice so that upon successful graduation, each student feels completely confident in their abilities to immediately start a hypnotherapy practice. By the end of day 1, students are already hypnotizing each other. By the end of day six, students have the skills, ability and confidence to complete the required (6) real life case studies. As well as learning how to master the required skills for certification, students are offered the opportunity to work on their own "stuff" under the professional guidance and supervision of Susan Jennifer Grace. At Gracehypnosis Training Center, our standards are extremely high. We pride ourselves in training students to be the very best hypnotherapists in the profession.

  1. Definition of hypnosis and hypnotizability; what hypnosis is, what it is not and how hypnosis works.
  2. History of hypnosis, from the Egyptian Sleep Temples to modern day hypnotherapy
  3. How to minimize client resistance by dispelling common myths & misconceptions about hypnosis
  4. How to explain to your clients the differences between stage hypnosis and hypnotherapy in the clinical environment
  5. How to successfully hypnotize analytical and/or the resistant client, using inductions that distract/confuse the conscious thinking mind
  6. Developing your hypnotic voice
  7. Self-hypnosis & auto-suggestion; teaching self-hypnosis to your clients; how to construct benefical affirmations for positive change
  8. Definition of human suggestibility; suggestibility testing using a variety of suggestibility challenges
  9. Understanding why some people respond to authoritative suggstion & others respond to permissive suggestion
  10. How to hypnotize subjects, using a variety of induction methods and different/individualized induction styles
  11. Hands-on hypnosis practice using Dr. Flowers and the Dave Elman rapid induction techniques
  12. Conditioning every client during the initial session so that they instantly go into hypnosis in future sessions
  13. The 6 depth levels of hypnotic trance according to the Arons depth test scale
  14. The importance of the somnambulistic state for emotional clearing/healing
  15. Deepening the trance state using various deepening techniques, including fractionation and arm drop
  16. Recognising & testing for trance phenomena, including eye and arm catalepsy, glove anagesia, negative and positive hallucination
  17. Cautions to the new hypnotist; following the NGH code of ethics; recognising & practising within the scope of the hypnotist's professional boundaries
  18. Developing the skills required to help your clients achieve their goals once they are in hypnosis; understanding that getting a client into trance is easy
    and recognising that the work done when the client is IN trance is the most important part of the hypnosis process
  19. Human belief systems - why we behave the way we do; suggestion management
  20. Setting "SMART" goals for rapid, positive & beneficial change
  21. Understanding the functions & differences of the conscious and sub-conscious mind
  22. Understanding the critical thinking mind & how it can prevent change from taking place
  23. Understanding how the state of hypnosis by-passes the critical thinking mind so that positive changes and goals can be realized in a very short time frame
  24. How to gather client information using "clean language" and motivational interviewing techniques
  25. How to give a compelling pre-talk, including establishing client/hypnotist trust and rapport; establishing mental expectancy and zeroing in on the specific issue(s)
  26. Putting it all together; understanding and implementing important steps in the structure of a successful hypnosis session
  27. Client session write-up; how to keep client records; the importance of total client confidentiality;
  28. Favorable & unfavorable influences: setting up the perfect hypnosis office environment; conditioning clients to use background environmental noise to deepen their hypnotic trance
  29. How to structure and implement successful hypnosis sessions for smoking-cessation, stress management, weight-management, anxieties, habit elimination, behaviour modification and phobias
  30. Assessing client behaviour using the Harte Behaviour Assessment tools
  31. Learn to create compelling hypnotic scripts for individual clients
  32. Develop the skill & confidence of using hypnotic patter in order to be able to work without generic scripts
  33. Mastering the use of hypnotic language, Ericksonian hypnosis, metaphor, language patterns and embedded commands
  34. Communication & counseling skills for the hypnotherapist
  35. Introduction to uncovering techniques such as age regression and automatic writing
  36. How to help your clients to release blocked emotions, using various techniques such as Forgiveness Circle and Inner Child
  37. Using NLP patterns & reframing for rapid & permanent change
  38. Using EFT (tapping) to manage cravings and reduce chronic pain
  39. When to get referrals from medical practitioners
  40. Setting up your successful hypnotherapy practice; liability insurance; mega marketing strategies & legal issues

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    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.

     

    At Gracehypnosis Training Center, we are pleased to be able to offer a Master level hypnosis course for those hypnotherapists who have earned their basic certification. The Master certification course includes:

    1. Getting every client to somnambulism
    2. Pain management
    3. Working with and hypnotising children
    4. Advanced emotional release techniques such as Parts Therapy & Circle therapy
    5. Advanced induction techniques
    6. Age regression & age progression, using the Affect Bridge & Time Line
    7. Past life regression
    8. And much more.
    The next Master certification course will be held in June 2012. Upon successful completion, graduates will be eligible for membership in the I.M.D.H.A. For full details including the curriculum, pre-requisites, fees and the course dates, please email Susan Jennifer Grace, RCH, CI at
    gracehypnosis.courses@gmail.com

     

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