Course Title: Introduction to Hypnosis Training (2-Day Course)

CE Hours: 15

Target Audience: Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Counselors, Nurses, and other medical professionals

Course Level: Introductory

Content Developed By: David Hartman, LCSW and Diane Zimberoff, LMFT

Course Description: This introductory training is for psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, nurses, and other medical professionals who are interested in learning how to use hypnosis to assist clients with their desired behavior modification through access to the subconscious mind. Accessing the subconscious mind allows the professional to guide the client to the source of their dysfunctional behavior patterns and create lasting change through post-hypnotic suggestions and NLP techniques such as ego strengthening, extinguishing unwanted patterns, reframing, anchoring a resource state, and collapsing anchors.

Upon completion of this training, trainees will be able to use hypnosis to address:

• • academic or athletic performance enhancement,
  • weight loss
  • smoking cessation,
  • stress management, pain control and local anesthesia,

This training consists of 15 hours of instruction and hands-on practice in facilitating hypnosis with adults for the purposes of behavior modification. Objectives of the course are to attain functional skills in facilitating hypnosis that are practical and ready-to-use. The course does not prepare participants to provide hypnotherapy to clinically treat issues such as trauma, PTSD, anxiety, addictions, depression, shock, phobias, or the like. Hypnotherapy is outside the scope of practice for which this introductory course is intended, and is available in our Online Hypnotherapy Certification Training (Six-Day Course).

Course Format: This is a live, interactive online course taught by an instructor via Zoom. Participants are required to attend the live online workshop, participate in group discussion, and complete the course evaluation before earning the certificate of attendance.

Continuing Education Course Requirements:

• • Attendees must be present for the duration of the training to receive credit. Full attendance is required to earn your CE credit.
  • Attendees must actively participate during the training, including all practice sessions (conducted in Zoom breakout rooms). Video participation is required so that instructors can assess engagement and progress during the course.
  • At the conclusion of the training, you will fill out a course evaluation in your online student account. This is required in order to earn your CE credit.
  • CE certificates will be accessible in your Wellness Student Account once you have completed all of the requirements (attendance, evaluation).

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to define hypnosis and the signs of its presence and apply ten key ethical issues in the use of hypnosis.
2. Participants will be able to differentially recognize and utilize the authoritarian approach of giving suggestions within his/her scope of practice and avoid the exploratory style of hypnotherapeutic treatment as outside his/her scope of practice.
3. Participants will be able to distinguish the superficial levels of hypnotic trance, and manage a trance state in a cooperative subject, implementing appropriate deepening techniques.
4. Participants will be able to effectively apply the power of suggestion, including four types of suggestions, and eleven principles of suggestion formulation.
5. Participants will be able to administer four suggestibility tests.
6. Participants will be able to recognize which of the subject’s five senses are predominant for receiving suggestions and mental processing.
7. Participants will be able to identify resistance in the subject and apply at least two techniques for effectively handling it.
8. Participants will be able to administer at least three hypnosis inductions and an effective wake-up command.
9. Participants will be able to effectively administer at least six hypnosis deepening techniques.
10. Participants will be able to effectively formulate post-hypnotic suggestions and affirmations, using seven principles and twelve “Laws of the Mind.”
11. Participants will be able to induce self-hypnosis, apply post-hypnotic suggestions, and effect a wake-up using the inner alarm clock technique.
12. Participants will be able to effectively use hypnosis to control pain and induce local anesthesia through the autogenic pain control technique (glove anesthesia).
13. Participants will be able to effectively create and anchor a resource state, utilize reframing and “parts” techniques.
14. Participants will be able to implement the hypnosis behavior modification model, incorporating an induction, ego strengthening, identifying the experiences that trigger off the unwanted behavior or symptom, extinguishing unwanted patterns, providing a corrective experience, anchoring the positive resource state, and completing the session with an appropriate wake-up.
15. Participants will be able to use hypnosis to effectively modify self-defeating behavior patterns related to weight loss, smoking cessation, and stress reduction, discovering the underlying reasons for the behavior and extinguishing the behavior utilizing the collapsing anchors technique.

Instructor Bios:

Judi Vitale, M.A: Judi Vitale earned a Masters degree in Transpersonal Counseling from the Wellness Institute. She is a certified Transpersonal Coach, Certified Heart-Centered Breathwork Facilitator, and Advanced Clinical Heart-Centered Hypnotherapist.

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Online Learning Technology Requirements:

All courses are taught online. Students must be able to access Zoom (via computer, tablet, etc) to participate in our courses. Video participation is required in order to monitor attendance, engagement, and progress during the course. Practice sessions will be conducted in small groups via Zoom Breakout Rooms.

System Requirements: Internet: broadband wired or wireless (3G or 4G/LTE) Speakers and a microphone: built-in, USB plug-in, or wireless Bluetooth Zoom-Supported Browsers

• • Windows: Internet Explorer 11+, Edge 12+, Firefox 27+, Chrome 30+
  • macOS: Safari 7+, Firefox 27+, Chrome 30+
  • Linux: Firefox 27+. Chrome 30+

Accommodations for Disabilities:

To request accommodation; please contact our office at 1-800-326-4418 or email heartcenter@wellness-institute.org

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