Facilitated by Lucy Baker, CCHT (USA), ASOCHA, RIH, RM, EFTP


WHAT IS HYPNOTHERAPY?

Hypnotherapy as a contemporary tool for growth and healing is an increasingly accepted therapeutic therapy in the western world.


The roots of hypnosis are lost in the abyss of the ages. However, the human race has always explored altered states of consciousness.


Our ancestors knew many of the keys that open the gates to a different reality, such as fasting, meditation, sleep deprivation and even dance, as we have witnessed in the ecstatic states achieved by the whirling dervishes of Turkey, Haitian voodoo dancers, native American ceremonies, Indian yogis and fakirs, Persian Magi and Christian mystics such as Anthony of Padua and St. Therese of Aviila. All have made use of trance states - which is what hypnotherapy - healing while in a relaxed state - simply put, is.


Modern hypnotherapy is used both independently of, and in conjunction with, traditional medicine, on the belief that the conscious, awake mind is mind, and that true healing can only occur once the awake and alert part of the brain has been placed in a meditative, relaxed state, thus allowing the sub-conscious to communicate and release old emotional blocks and patterns.


WHAT IS PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL HYPNOTHERAPY?

Clinical hypnotherapists tend to deal with present time issues, such as reframing, peak performance, emotional and physical pain and habit control - in present ways, to varying degrees of success, depending on the awareness of the client and skill of the hypnotherapist.


Psycho-Spiritual Hypnotherapy works on the premise of Origin Therapy - that is, to trace the present day issue back to its very beginning. This can often mean beyond this lifetime into other lives. It is irrelevant as to whether a client needs to believe in past lives or reincarnation, in fact, a skeptical client will often successfully regress to a former life as there is the relaxed expectation that nothing will happen!


On a deep, interactive level, issues of loss, grief, pain, death and self-esteem can be worked through on a powerful spiritual level, in areas not normally utilized by traditional hypnotherapists. For instance, a client who has experienced the loss of a baby (either through miscarriage or abortion) can find profound the experience of resolving her grief and guilt in the afterlife, face to face with the soul of her child.


Such a concept was unheard of two decades ago. Now, Interlife Therapy (the space between lives) as a hypnotherapeutic tool, is widely used in the USA and Europe, although there are only a handful of experienced hypnotherapists who do interlife work in Australia.


WHAT DOES THE TRAINING INVOLVE?

Because much of the focus of current Australian hypnotherapy training is on the traditional, this course is easily one of the most extensive trainings in the country. The 65 hour course is run over 5 to 8 days depending upon the number of students, including practical homework. The course also includes clinical hypnotherapy modules as well as Ethics, Marketing and Legalities of being a hypnotherapist to best ensure our students work with integrity and awareness, once certified.


During the 65-hour training, students experience a range of practicums in addition to theoretical study. Graduation is dependent upon the student's attendance and skill in the regular induction sessions, and examination results of a self-hypnosis tape and a video practicum. This practicum can also happen face to face with me if you are able to travel to Canberra for at least one 6 hour weekend training beforehand.


Currently, the two major Hypnotherapy Association bodies in Australia neither work beyond the clinical field nor recognize any other training that focuses primarily on past life or origin therapies, no matter how intensive or historical. Fortunately, in order to practice as a Hypnotherapist or Relaxation Therapist in Australia, it is unnecessary to be a member of any Australian body at present. However, the clinical aspects of this course could be counted towards these associations' membership hourly requirements, and membership is accepted within a number of larger international organisations who do recognise the advanced nature of these training modules.


TRAIN VIA CORRESPONDENCE

The hypnotraining course can be held via correspondence as fast or as slow as suitable for the individual student - with two to three 1-day workshops with me face to face (a day workshop from 10am to 2.30pm, on a Saturday, usually) OR if it is not possible, via DVD.

The cost of the course is $1980 (the most competitive as far as we know in psycho-spiritual work and thus accessible to everyone) payable either in full upfront or in two instalments. You receive my two CDs - hypnosessions of 'The Three Parts of the Soul' and 'Meet Your Guides' to experience, plus two training CDs that accompany the comprehensive notes and get to practice with various people in your life the various techniques. You then mail me a CD or tape cassettes of you practicing to me.


If you live in Australia, the one-days happen whenever we can create them, and are intensive. All in all, it's a training that has a lot of energy as I specialise in vortex work, and students are encouraged to throw away the scripts that so many traditional hypnotherapy trainings offer, and trust the intuition and the imagination to guide your clients into a deeper and much more personally energised state of healing.


This training also enables you - if you are interested in focusing on past life and interlife work - to join the PLTA in the UK and the IARRT in the USA who are the international bodies in this therapy. The clinical aspects of the training can also go towards membership of Australian bodies if you so wish, although I find them fairly limited in terms of value as a psycho-spiritual hypnotherapist.(Most traditional organisations unfortunately focus on present life to clear all issues.) If you are training via correspondence within Australia, you can also have your training recognised to enable you to join one of the major insurance companies in this country as a therapist.


The Certified Metaphysical Hypnotherapy trainings are structured in four levels:

INTENSIVE TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS

Level I: A INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL HYPNOSIS

History of Hypnosis
Basic Applications of Hypnosis
Stress Management
Basic Induction and Deepening Techniques
Interviewing Skills and Rapport Building
Using Affirmations
Client Intake and Assessment
Hypnotic Language and Making Effective Suggestions
Beginning Practicum and Supervision
Legal and Ethical Issues
Making Hypnosis Tapes


Level II: INTERMEDIATE HYPNOSIS: EXPANDING THE ENERGY

Habit Control and Reframing
Establishing a Business as a Hypnotherapist
Intermediate Practicum and Supervision


Level III: MASTER HYPNOTIST: WORKING WITH PSYCHO-SPIRITUALITY

Intuition and Trance States
Dreamwork
Body-Mind Communications in Trance
Past-life Hypnotherapy
Shamanism
Future Life Projection
Rooms in the Interlife
Retrieving Creative and Intuitive Soul Energy from Past Lives
Clarifying Agreements and Identification of Soul Agreements
Reuniting with loved ones in Spirit through Interlife Therapy


Level IV: CERTIFIED PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL HYPNOTHERAPIST

EFT as a tool
Death, Dying and Loss
Marketing Yourself as a Hypnotherapist
Making Referrals
Advanced Video Practicum and Supervision


For prices on both the correspondence and the intensive face to face trainings, please send me a message.

VISITORS TO CANBERRA

Some of our hypnostudents like to stay here, as it is just a few minutes taxi ride away from training: www.stayz.com.au/15104