Renaissance-Psychotherapy

  Renaissance Academy

 The Tradition of Excellence

                   Franz Anton Mesmer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Renaissance

The Tradition of Excellence in Hypnotherapy

HYPNOTHERAPY

Stage-1 Affiliate Course (4-weekends)

Weekend 1:

  • Introduction & welcome
  • What is hypnosis?
  • History of hypnotherapy
  • Suggestibility tests
  • Ideo-motor signaling
  • Chevreul’s pendulum
  • Classic hypnotic phenomenon
  • The six-stage model of trance management
  • Basic hypnotic inductions and terminations
  • Self-hypnosis skills

Weekend 2:

  • Review of weekend-1
  • The therapeutic relationship
  • Indirect versus direct trance inductions
  • Hypnosis for stress conditions
  • Hypnosis and relaxation protocols
  • Guided imagery
  • Freud’s ‘pressing technique’
  • Hypnosis and ‘free association’
  • Introduction to psycho-somatic medicine
  • Abreactions and contra-indications

Weekend 3:

  • Review of weekend-2
  • Hypnosis for habit disorders (anti-smoking, weight loss)
  • Introduction to sports hypnosis (to increase performance)
  • National Occupational Standards for Hypnotherapy (1)
  • Understanding stage-hypnosis
  • Hypnosis & healing (eastern methods, ‘Mesmerism’ and traditional western methods)
  • Hypnosis and traditional cultures
  • Hypnotherapy skills with Counselling

Weekend 4:

  • Review of weekend-3
  • Group hypnosis
  • Hypnosis for depression
  • National Occupational Standards for Hypnotherapy (2)
  • Professional ethics
  • Clinical supervision
  • Professional indemnity insurance for practitioners
  • Practice management (part-1) to include assessment and referrals to and from other healthcare professionals
  • Stage-1 (Affiliate) assessment
  • Introduction to Stage-2 Training

Stage-1 Assessment

Students will be continuously assessed on a skills basis. A final examination will be held on the history of hypnotherapy, professional ethics, practice management and on core hypnotherapy theory. The written examination will be in a multiple choice format and will be marked externally.

Successful completion of stage-1 confers the use of the initials RA (Affil) designating Affiliate Membership of  the Renaissance Academy. An Affiliate Certificate is issued by Renaissance.

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