Foundation in Hypnosis, Counselling and Rapport Skills

Introduction

This course is the first of the three courses that make up the total training in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH).

Eligibility is dependent on satisfactory application form, references, interview and payment. Interviews are conducted by experienced practitioners to ensure the motivation for attending the programme is appropriate for safe clinical practice.

Course Content

Weekend 1

• Hypnosis and hypnotherapy
• Hypnotic states
• Trance levels
• States of mind
• Session structure
• Progressive relaxation
• Awakening the client
• What is counselling?
• Basic structure of a counselling session
• Ethics and practice guidelines

Weekend 2

• Inductions
• Deepeners – countdown techniques
• Laws of suggestions
• Spiegel’’s suggestibility tests
• Eye fixation techniques
• Factors in induction
• Dealing with client questions
• 3-stage counselling models
• Exploring and focusing
• Attending and listening
• Open-ended questions
• Silence
• Ethics

Weekend 3

• Hypnotic phenomena
• Self-hypnosis and its uses
• How to teach your client self-hypnosis
• Voice and its use as a therapeutic skill
• Utilising distractions
• Focusing
• Summarising
• Understanding, leading and goal-setting
• Advanced empathy skills
• Recognising patterns and clients themes
• Ethics

Weekend 4

• Arm levitation techniques
• Vogt’’s fractionation induction
• Hypnotic suggestions
• Authoritarian hypnosis (suggestions and inductions)
• Resistance
• Self-disclosure in therapy
• Immediacy
• Challenging
• Timing and pacing
• Ethics

Weekend 5

• Neurology of hypnosis
• Ego strengthening – hypnotic and non hypnotic
• Milton Erickson
• Indirect suggestions
• Goal-setting
• Decision making
• Problem solving
• Programme choice
• Evaluating
• Teaching skills
• Ethic

Weekend 6

• Creating safe and resourceful states
• Contra-indication to hypnosis
• Abreaction
• Tactile inductions
• Case history taking
• Data collection
• Disclosure
• Goal setting
• Contract termination
• Skills for designing and implementing action
• Ethics

Duration

(Two full days per month Sat/Sun, over six months i.e. 12 full teaching days)

Course Dates

London (F551) March 2010

13th and 14th March 2010
17th and 18th April 2010
15th and 16th May 2010
12th and 13th June 2010
10th and 11th July 2010
14th and 15th August 2010

Exam: 21st August 2010