Online Hypnosis Class

You can get hypnosis training online. What? Yes, I've seen several websites that offer this. I don't know much about these classes, but I can't imagine how the student gets "hands on" experience doing it this way.

The course I offer must be 100 hours to conform to the National Guild standards, and as a National Guild Certified Instructor, I use their approved curriculum. When I got certified in 1996, there were 2 classes, Basic Hypnosis and Advanced. These 2 classes have been combined into one comprehensive class.

This is how the 100 hours breaks down: 50 hours classwork, and 50 hours demonstration and hands-on practice. The class work covers the 2 manuals and other materials provided by NGH as well as guest speakers and some additional information based on my own experience using hypnosis and giving presentations at the NGH convention. There are many demonstrations usually done by me and a student volunteer. Then we break off into groups and hypnotize each other. I observe these practice sessions and often participate myself. Then, of course, there is homework every week, to practice different processes on your own family and friend volunteers. When we come back to class we discuss the various results of the processes done. Everyone does not respond the same way to suggestion and people vary in their level of suggestibility. So these discussions are very important and the students learn how to improve their technique and interpret their results. This experience and feedback is invaluable. I know my students feel capable and competent when they graduate. After all, they have had lots of experience themselves by the time they graduate and they also have the benefit of discussing the other student’s results.

Also, I offer continuing support to my students. As the Director of the Tampa Bay NGH chapter, I offer monthly meetings in order to give support and continuing education to my students and all hypnotists in the area. My students also are encouraged to contact me with any questions they may have. And they do contact me often. Usually asking about whether hypnosis can help with -------------. In my opinion it can help. The best and most common result of hypnosis is stress reduction and I think stress makes everything worse, so reducing stress makes it better. And stress affects us physically, mentally, emotionally and behaviorally. It suppresses the immune system. It affects us in so many ways, that we don’t even realize that the stress level has steadily been increasing, until we finally….snap! And then we have to pay attention.

So if you are considering getting trained in hypnotism, please check out the course description at http://www.enlightenedhypnosis.com/.

Thank you.