Weekend 1
- Introduction to the course
- Preparation - good study practice
- History of hypnosis
- Psychological and physiological phenomenon of hypnosis
- Self hypnosis
- Data gathering
- Ideo-motor responses
Weekend 2
- Egan's 3-stage model of counselling: Stage 1
- Principles of the mind
- The subconscious mind
- Intelligence and cleverness - mind projection
- Lows of the mind
- The fight and flight response
- Working with modalities
Weekend 3
- Egan's 3-stage model of counselling: Stage 2
- Use of imagery in hypnosis
- Principles of hypnotic suggestion and its effects
- Anchoring
- Suggestibility test: eye closure and hand levitation
- Visualisation in therapy
- Habit control and addictions
- NLP fast phobia cure
Weekend 4
- Egan's 3-stage model of counselling: Stage 3
- The Eriksonian approach
- Methods of induction
- Deepening techniques
- Indirect suggestion
- Common Issues: anxiety, obsession, compulsion, and phobias
Weekend 5
- Introduction to psychotherapy
- Defence mechanisms
- The conscious and unconscious - according to Freud
- Guided affective imagery
- Working with the inner child
Weekend 6
- The cognitive behavioural approch
- The conscious and unconscious - according to Jung and Adler
- Problem solving, decision making and assertiveness
- Use of imagery and metaphors
- Therapeutic stories
- Challenging irrational thoughts
Weekend 7
- Albert Ellis and Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy
- Transference and counter-transference
- The manipulative client
- Dissociation and desensitisation
- Working with and managing abreaction
- Somnambulism
Weekend 8
- Introduction to holism and humanism
- The Humanistic approach: Rogers and Maslow
- Dealing with psychological issues
- Hypnohealing
- The mind/body connection
- Contraindications
Weekend 9
- Eric Berne and Transactional Analysis
- TA Ego States
- Transactional Hypnoanalysis
- Fritz Perls
- Gestalt Therapy
Weekend 10
- Dave Elman approach
- Integration of counselling skills and theory
- The therapeutic relationship
- The I/Thou relationship: the inner/outer world
- Psycho-Imaginative Therapy
Weekend 11
- Working with children
- Hypnotic dream analysis
- Past life regression
- Anaesthesia
- Pain control
- Psychosexual issues
Weekend 12
- Eating disorders
- Practice Management
- Ethical considerations
- Hypnotherapy and the law
- Bereavement and loss
- Revision
FINAL ASSESMENT DAY
PLEASE NOTE
We shall continually assess, review and update the course content, material and methods. We reserve the right, whilst largely maintaining the syllabus, to effect changes in emphasis in any part of this prospectus
ASSESSMENT
Assessments for the courses consist of:
- A practical examination in counselling
- A practical examinaton in hypnotherapy
- Assessment of written case studies which is ongoing throughout the course
In the event that the student has not achieved the required standard in any part of the examinations they may be re-examined within a period of one year