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Foreword

Welcome to the prospectus for the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Training Course in Clinical and Advanced Hypnotherapy. I am delighted that you are interested in training with us in this exciting profession.

This prospectus is designed to give you all the information that you need to make a decision as to whether to train with us. The field of hypnotherapy in the UK is complex. Our aim is to train you to be a fully qualified, professional, clinical hypnotherapist.

At Hypnotic Solutions we offer a training course that enables you to become a clinical hypnotherapist – internationally recognised, registered and certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH), the world’s largest hypnotherapy organisation. Our course is also validated by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC) in the UK.

However, we don’t just want you to complete the course with a qualification. We also want you to feel competent to help clients overcome their problems and to help you run your own hypnotherapy practice. On the course I will share with you my experiences of my many years in practice, with information on how to set up in practice and generate clients.

If at any time you need any further information, please contact me by e-mail or by phone or and I’ll be pleased to help you.

In this prospectus, we detail not only the course contents but also the requirements that must be met in order for you to complete the course satisfactorily, and obtain your qualification to practise. We want to ensure that anyone who qualifies with us is fit to practise. The profession of hypnotherapy can involve the creation of significant relationships with vulnerable people, and so ethics are of extreme importance.

I very much hope that this prospectus gives you the information you seek and that we will soon be able to welcome you on one of our courses.

Best wishes

Brian M Jacobs, BSc DipHyp., NRAH, GHRreg, BCH NGH, CI

Director

Your Trainer

Your trainer is Brian Jacobs BSc., DipHyp., NRAH, GHRreg, BCH NGH, CI

Brian Jacobs is a Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist and Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). He has been running a successful hypnotherapy practice based in North London and in Harley Street, London WC1.

Brian initially trained in hypnosis and NLP with Paul McKenna (the UK’s foremost hypnotist) and Richard Bandler (the creator of NLP) before undertaking training in Advanced Hypnotherapy. In 2005 he advanced his NLP training to become a Licensed Master Practitioner of NLP, certified by the Society of NLP, and has been an assistant on the courses run by Paul McKenna Training.

Brian initially trained in Advanced Hypnotherapy with Valerie Austin. He subsequently trained in both the UK and the USA with some of the world’s best hypnotherapists, including among others Ormond McGill, Gil Boyne, Tom Silver, Don Mottin, Cal Banyan and Jerry Kein.

Brian has qualified as a Certified Instructor of Hypnosis with The National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH), the largest and oldest hypnosis organisation in the world.

Prior to becoming a hypnotherapist, Brian was a Chartered Accountant specialising in personal taxation. In that capacity, he had many years experience helping clients on a one-to-one basis. The career move to hypnotherapy enabled him to continue using his interpersonal skills to help his therapy clients make positive changes to their lives.

Brian’s many hobbies include public speaking. He is an active member of his local branch of Toastmasters International and the skills he has learned from attending their meetings are put to good use in his hypnotherapy training courses.

The Course

The core of this certified course is the 300 page National Guild of Hypnotists’ training manual.

The course will be held in London. It consists of two modules of 8 days each – a total of 16 days classroom training – plus home study and assignments. Each training day runs from about 9am to 6pm with breaks for coffee/tea and lunch.

Hypnotherapy is both a theoretical and practical based study. We believe that it is very important for a student to not only know the information taught, but also to be able to use this information in a practical way. To this end, a large proportion of the course is dedicated to demonstrations and practice sessions.

The Practitioner Diploma Course offered has been e xternally assessed and validated at Practitioner Level by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (UK) and provides the basis for their externally awarded General Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice (GQHP). It also fully meets the standards of the National Guild of Hypnotists.

On satisfactorily completing the course, students will become members of the National Guild of Hypnotists and will be eligible to join the General Hypnotherapy Register, the UK’s largest hypnotherapy organisation.

Qualifications

Upon successful completion of the course you will become a certified clinical hypnotherapist. You will receive:

• A Diploma in Advanced Hypnotherapy from Hypnotic Solutions Training
• Certification as a smoking cessation specialist
• Certification from the National Guild of Hypnotists

and you will be eligible to use the letters DipHyp (Diploma in Hypnotherapy) or C.H.(Certified Hypnotist) after your name.

In addition you will become a member of the NGH. You will also be eligible to apply for membership of the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR). On acceptance by the GHR, and payment of their membership fee, you will receive their certificate of membership and be entitled to use the initials GHRreg.

Why Train With Hypnotic Solutions?

• Your trainer, Brian Jacobs, has years of experience using hypnotherapy to help clients make positive changes to their lives
• We train a full 16 day Practitioner Training, consisting of two modules of 8 days, to enable you to qualify as a hypnotherapy practitioner in just over one month.
• The number of students per class is limited to allow for individual attention and maximum supervision
• We are a specialist hypnotherapy training school
• On successfully completing your training with us, you will become part of the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH), the world's largest and oldest hypnosis organisation.
• The class will be balanced with instruction, demonstration and practice. You will be able to gain confidence by practising the techniques taught, so that when you finish the course you are competent to work with real clients.
• Unlike many other courses, which are theoretical, we want you to become a successful practising hypnotherapist.
• Your trainer is a specialist in smoking cessation. As part of the course we will teach you how to conduct a one-session smoking cessation programme, that can help your clients stop smoking in as little as one hour.
• We will teach you how to treat phobias in just one session; how to conduct weight loss sessions; how to do self-hypnosis
• We will teach you how to age-regress clients to the root cause of their problem and how to help them resolve their problem.
• Although this is not an NLP training course, we will teach some practical elements of NLP
• We will teach you how to conduct a session from start to finish
• Our course will teach you business and practice management

Syllabus

The syllabus includes the following topics:

• What hypnosis is - and what it is not
• What hypnosis can and cannot do
• How to be a successful professional hypnotherapist
• The difference between the stage hypnotist and hypnotherapist
• How to hypnotise almost anybody - even yourself
• Learn various inductions including rapid and instant inductions. (Hypnotise someone in a matter of seconds!)
• Choosing the best induction
• How to recognise when somebody is hypnotised
• How to effect safe release from the hypnotic state
• Creating the right impression and ethical behaviour
• Dealing with stress and anxiety
• Successful client management
• Use of mechanical aids
• Marketing your practice
• History of hypnosis
• Clinical applications of hypnosis
• Post hypnotic suggestions
• Practice management
• Applications of hypnotherapy
• How to conduct a one session stop smoking programme
• How to help clients lose weight
• How to help clients break habits and achieve positive behaviours
• How to run a self-hypnosis course
• Hypnotherapy script design
• How to treat phobias
• Age regression to cause / Hypno-analysis
• Indirect and direct suggestions
• Some basic practical Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques
• Rapport building
• Contra indications and abreactions
• Goal setting and hypnosis

Accreditation and Validation

Hypnotic Solutions are Certified Instructors of the National Guild of Hypnotists training course. The course is also externally validated by The General Hypnotherapy Standards Council.

The National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH): Tel: 001 603 429 9438.

The NGH is the oldest and largest hypnotherapy certifying body in the world (est 1951). The NGH is based in New Hampshire, USA. It provides its members with some of the most comprehensive literature in the field of professional hypnosis including the Journal of Hypnotism, the Hypno-Gram and Hypnosis Today. The National Guild of Hypnotists holds two major international conferences per year in February and August. The latter of these, the International Hypnotism Convention, attracts the largest group of hypnotists in the world to New Hampshire each year. Your trainer is proud to be certified by the NGH as both a Board Certified Hypnotist and a Certified Instructor.

More information on the NGH at www.ngh.net

 

The General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC): Tel: 01590 683770.

The Hypnotherapy Practitioner Certification Course offered by Hypnotic Solutions Training has been Assessed and Validated at Practitioner Level by The General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (UK). Graduates from this course are eligible for professional registration with the General Hypnotherapy Register (the GHSC’s Registering Agency), together with the acquisition of the industry-based award – The General Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice (GQHP).

More information on the GHR is at www.general-hypnotherapy-register.com

Eligibility & Suitability of applicants

No previous experience of therapy is required to become a hypnotherapist. People come to hypnotherapy from all walks of life.

In fact you don’t need to have any previous knowledge of hypnotherapy. On enrolment students will be given a reading list. We expect students to have read some of the books prior to attending the course.

Anyone can learn to do hypnosis. You don’t have to have a special gift, or have a particular personality type – it’s a skill that you can learn .

However as a practicing hypnotherapist you will be helping people make positive changes to their lives and some of your clients may be emotionally vulnerable. We therefore feel that it is importance that anyone who undertakes this course must:

1. be of suitable character to take on a career of working with such people

2. be sufficiently mature in order to be able to listen to traumatic material without being unduly affected personally

3. be able to meet the academic demands of the course

Furthermore those with certain medical conditions (including epilepsy, schizophrenia, bi-polar) are contraindicated for hypnosis.

Applicants may be interviewed (by phone call or in person) to determine their suitability for the course.

Post-qualification Supervision and Training Requirements

Although the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Certification Course is a full practitioner qualification, we encourage our students to undertake continuing professional development(CPD) in order to keep abreast of new development and techniques within the field of hypnotherapy. In addition the GHR expects newly qualified practitioners to engage in a minimum of 2 hours supervision in any 3 month period during their first 2 years of practice after qualification. Supervision may be via “one-to-one” sessions or via a “peer support group”.

Registrants of the GHR are expected to participate in relevant CPD activity for a minimum of 25 hours annually whilst registered with the GHR. The GHR’s definition of CPD includes appropriate reading, internet research or personal attendance at relevant workshops.

Course Fees

Unless otherwise arranged, tuition fees will be due in full at least seven days before the commencement of the course.

The tuition fee for 2008 for the 16-day Practitioner Course is £1,750.

A deposit of £200 will be required upon enrolment. The deposit is non-refundable unless you are not accepted on the course.

The balance of the fee must be paid in full 21 days prior to the commencement of the course.

Our fee includes all tuition together with the full NGH training manual. It also includes 1 year’s membership of the National Guild of Hypnotists. Students should however be aware that additional expenditure will need to be incurred for books. Those who go into practice after the course will also need to take out professional indemnity insurance and to pay fees to join a professional organisation such as the GHR.

Hypnotic Solutions Training is the trading name of Hypnotic Solutions Training Limited.

Payment Terms and Conditions

A deposit of £200 is required to secure the booking. The balance of the fee is payable 21 full days prior to commencement of the course. The course programme is correct at time of printing. However it may be necessary for us to make changes to the content, dates or the venue. If the course is cancelled then a full refund of fees will be made but Hypnotic Solutions Training will not be liable for any additional expenses incurred by students.

Course Dates 2008

SPRING 2008: Module 1 : 10 th – 17th February 2008 inclusive
Module 2 : 12 th – 19 th March 2008 inclusive

SUMMER 2008: Module 1 : 18 th – 25 th May 2008 inclusive
Module 2 : 14 th – 21 st June 2008 inclusive

WINTER 2008: Module 1 : 26 th October – 2 nd November 2008 inclusive
Module 2: 21 st – 29 th November 2008 inclusive

 

Venue

The planned location for the 2008 trainings is the University of London Union Conference Centre in Malet Street, London WC1. However this may be subject to change. The final location will be confirmed no later than three weeks prior to the start of the course.

Contact Us

Write to us: Hypnotic Solutions Training, Ground Floor, 233 Regents Park Road, London N3 3LF

e-Mail: training@hypnoticsolutions.org.uk

Call: 0845 45 65 234 or +44 (0)208 446 8061