Cooper Hypnosis

Certification Course

What does Cooper Hypnosis offer?

1. Certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists, the world's largest and oldest hypnosis organization.
2. No surprises; all required materials included in the tuition.
3. Accelerated hypnosis training program lead ing to national certification.
4. Learn in pleasant, professional and successful hypnosis practice.
5. Plenty of time to practice your hypnosis skills during the course.
6. Free retake of the course at our center.
7. Free web page on our hypnotist’s directory!
8. Comprehensive course covering modern, including instant and rapid hypnotic inductions, direct and hidden deepening and testing techniques, how to construct suggestions, age regression techniques,
9. Learn how to build your business
10. Learning CDs and DVDs are available to facilitate and reinforce your learning..

Our curriculum is designed to provide a complete approach to hypnosis that enables you to immediately become a practicing hypnotist working with weight loss, stop smoking and stress problems for both individuals and groups. Upon completion of the Level I and Level II (5-PATH®) training, you will be able to help clients deal with fears and anxieties, self-confidence and esteem issues, sports performance, sales performance and most problems presented to hypnotists.

In addition to learning the basics, you will learn a unique approach to hypnosis, Five Phase Advanced Transformational Hypnosis. This is a thorough multiphase approach that was designed to uncover and overcome subconscious issues. In this system you will utilize some of the most powerful hypnosis tools, including Direct Suggestion, Age Regression, Forgiveness Therapy and Parts Mediation Therapy, applied together in a systematic, reliable and highly effective process.

Special training and experience will be available using the 7th Path Self-Hypnosis, a series of self hypnosis techniques designed to remove old blockages to success, before attempting to give yourself suggestions. This new approach has received highest praise from both students and clients. Note that 7th Path Self-Hypnosis® is a holistic Mind-Body-Spirit approach that far surpasses classical approaches to self-hypnosis..

As a student in this program you will learn:

1. How to do instant and rapid inductions.
2. How to turn each client into an excellent hypnotic subject.
3. How to use convincers and testing to get maximum results.
4. How to use techniques that make hypnotic suggestion much more powerful.
5. How to reliably conduct age regression sessions that get results.
6. How to do hypnotic forgiveness therapies (also called chair therapy).
7. How to do Parts Mediation Therapy.
8. How to set up an office that encourages your clients to get results and make referrals.
9. How to work with medical professionals and get referrals.
10. How to reduce "no shows" and how to get paid for missed appointments.
11. How to build your business without investing a lot of money.

Emphasis of this hypnosis training will be placed on practical application and results. You will not just sit there day after day, taking notes. In addition to providing you with important information and techniques, you will get to practice them, especially instant and rapid inductions, use of convincers and age regression.

You will be shown how to create an office environment that increases your success with each client. Learn how to continually suggest success for your client, beginning with the first contact all the way to the end of the last session. Our hypnosis training system accomplishes this in several ways because:

1. You learn and use some of the most powerful hypnosis techniques, you get powerful results.
2. You use them regularly in 5-PATH®, so you become a master of these techniques.
3. You have a system20and know what you are going to do next, so you become more confident.
4. This system has been used to help thousands of clients, so you can feel confident learning and using it.

Because there are other hypnotists using this system, you have a rich pool experience to draw from if you have questions. After you go through our course, you qualify for our e-mail list, an online community of 5-PATH® and 7th Path Self-Hypnosis® Practitioners. So you receive ongoing support and information from us, and other experienced hypnotists. You also qualify for your own web page on this web site that will help potential clients find and contact you.

Each student will have the opportunity to be hypnotized and learn self-hypnosis. Experiencing hypnosis and self-hypnosis is an essential to becoming a well rounded hypnotists. Hypnosis and/or self-hypnosis will be experienced by each student.

Here is why it is an experiential course:

1. On most days of the course, some time will be set aside for practicing and learning how to teach 7th Path Self-Hypnosis®, a mind-body-spirit approach
2. Most days of the course, the office, classrooms and practice rooms will be open for practicing techniques from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. These hours may vary slightly. This will be a great time to practice hypnotic inductions, deepening and testing techniques as well as doing hypnotic age regression.
3. If you would like to be hypnotized, make sure to volunteer during the class. We will conduct live demonstrations of several inductions, deepening techniques, overt and covert depth testing techniques and more on a few willing volunteers from class.
4. The class will also view hypnosis videos conducting real hypnosis sessions, which will include examples of rapid and instant inductions, deepening techniques, hypnotic suggestion techniques, age regression, the Informed Child Technique, and Forgiveness Therapies

About 7th Path Self-Hypnosis® You will be able to learn and use 7th Path Self-Hypnosis®, a unique form of self-hypnosis that was designed to be used with a holistic, mind-body-spirit approach. This perspective adds tremendously to the power of self-hypnosis. You will learn how to use it personally, or to teach it to your clients

National Guild of Hypnotists Hypnosis Certification

Add NGH Certification To Your Credentials

If you have been previously trained and/or certified in the practice of Hypnosis, you may be able to combine that training with these additional hours and become a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists as a Certified Hypnotist.

NGH Hypnosis Certification Course Outline

The following is a course outline of the National Guild of Hypnotists Approved Certification Training as taught through Cooper Hypnosis Health and Welln ess. Total hours for this course are 100 over 10 days. Class time will consist of lecture and supervised practical work, which will constitute 80 hours of the course. Assignments (practice and preparation) outside of class will make up 20 hours of the training. Home assignments will be reviewed during class.

The course is made up of two sections: Level I, consists of Professional Application of Hypnosis, and Level II, consists of Professional Application of Hypnosis, Self-Hypnosis and Setting Up Your Practice.

The course outline may not be followed exactly. Because of the instructor-student interaction, we move through some part of the material faster or slower depending on the needs of the particular class. It is our experience that each class has its own interests and when possible the instructor will structure the class to best meet the needs of the class as a whole.

Level I - Professional Hypnosis

It is the objective of Level I to train the student on the use of classical and modern hypnosis techniques, including hypnotic inductions, deepening techniques, depth testing procedures, delivering hypnotic suggestions, emerging the client as well as educating the student in safety and ethical considerations of working with clients using hypnosis

DAY 1

Level I Course Outline:

Introduction To Hypnosis
Classical and modern principles of inducing hypnosi s
Working model of the mind, including unconscious, subconscious, conscious and critical factors.

Preliminary Suggestibility Tests
"Waking" suggestions
Hand Clasp Test
Pendulum Test
Hands Rising And Falling Test

Recognition and Classification of Subjects
Permissive or authoritarian approaches to meet the needs of different clients
Age considerations
Vocational Considerations
Other background and historical considerations

DAY 2

Favorable and Unfavorable Influences and Dangers of Hypnosis
How your clients beliefs and concerns about hypnosis affect your sessions
How to prepare clients for sessions
How to create trust and rapport with your clients

Establishing And Testing Trance Depth
Classical approaches to hypnosis such as progressive relaxation
Modern inductions such as instant and rapid inductions (e.g., Dave Elman, etc.)
Spontaneous Affect Triggered Hypnotic Induction
Testing hypnosis depth with overt and hidden tests

Suggestion Management and Techniques
Writing and delivering effective hypnotic suggestions
How to make hypnotic suggestions more powerful than direct suggestion alone

Mechanical Aids
Chevreul's Pendulum, and other instruments
Audio tapes and other electronic devices are discussed

DAY 3

Deepening Techniques
Classical deepening techniques
Using depth t ests to deepen hypnosis
Self-deepening and causing the environment to deepen trance
Waking suggestion, and more

Anesthesia Management
Creating analgesia and anesthesia
Working with doctors and other medical professionals

Using Hypnosis Scripts and Outlines
Appropriate use of scripts and outlines
Writing scripts and script delivery
Obtaining scripts
Working without a script

Introduction and Practice of 7th Path Self-Hypnosis
History of 7th Path Self-Hypnosis
Comparison To Classical Self-Hypnosis
Group Hypnosis and Practice of Self-Hypnosis

Level I is taught during the first three days of instruction. An exam will be given on this material. If the student does not pass the test, he or she may take the exam again during course. If additional testing is required the student may take the examination after the course is completed.

Level II

Professional Application of Hypnosis and Setting Up Your Practice
It is the objective of Level II to train the student in hypnosis techniques, including advanced hypnotic suggestion, advanced hypnotic induction, using hypnotic age regression, and other advanced therapies outlined below. Also, this section is designed to teach the student how to setup, organize and promote his or her hypnotherapy practice.

Level II Course Outline:

DAY 4

Overview of Hypnosis
How the mind responds to hypnosis
Who to avoid the rejection of hypnotic suggestion and get lasting change
The role of emotional factors in hypnosis
The role of classical conditioning in hypnosis

How To Integrate Self-Hypnosis Into Hypnosis
Classical approach to self-hypnosis
7th Path Holistic Mind-Body-Spirit approach to self-hypnosis
Writing and delivering hypnotic suggestions for self-hypnosis
Role of visualization and fantasy in self-hypnosis

DAY 5

Using 5-PATH, A Systematic Approach To Hypnosis
Use of 5-PATH (Five Phase Advanced Transformational Hypnosis) as a universal approach for changing habits, working with addictions, weight loss, smoking cessation, fears/phobias, eating disorders, psychosomatic illness, and more (using hypnotic suggestion, age regression, forgiveness therapies and Parts Mediation Therapy, as a system).

Hypnotic Suggestion In Hypnosis
Helping clients move toward health and positive personal change with hypnotic suggestion
When and how to deliver therapeutic hypnotic suggestion
View Video of Therapeutic Application
Group Hypnosis and Practice of Self-Hypnosis

DAY 6

Hypnotic Age Regression As A Powerful Hypnotherapy
How to reliably do hypnotic age regression
How to do revivification (have a client re-experience a past event)
How to uncover the source of the problem (Initial Sensitizing Event)
How to use age regression to remove the problem and help the client
How to use age regression and hypnotic suggestion together
How to avoid most common mistakes in age regression, such as causing false memories
How to do the Informed Child Technique and Informed Adult Technique
View Video of Therapeutic Application
Group Hypnosis and Practice of Self-Hypnosis

DAY 7

Hypnotic Therapies To Aid In Forgiveness and Emotional Healing
How to do "Chair Therapy" a useful gestalt therapy, in the hypnotherapeutic process
How to turn forgiveness into a powerful therapeutic tool
How to apply the necessary principles of forgiveness and hypnotic suggestion together
View Video of Therapeutic Application
Group Hypnosis and Practice of Self-Hypnosis

DAY 8

Using Forgiveness Of Self In Hypnosis
Ten Keys To Forgiveness
Reframing Past Mistakes As Protecting the Self
Self-Forgiveness And Removing Old Self-Defeating Patterns
Self-Forgiveness And Achieving New Goals In Life
View Video of Therapeutic Application
Group Hypnosis and Practice of Self-Hypnosis

DAY 9

Hypnotic Therapies for Internal Conflict and Secondary Gain Issues
How to do Parts Therapy (conventional)
How to do Parts Mediation Therapy
How to use Parts Medi ation Therapy to overcome internal conflict and secondary gain issues
Group Hypnosis and Practice of Self-Hypnosis

Demonstration and Practice (Almost Every Day of Class, As Well)
Live demonstration and supervised practice of hypnotic induction, deepening, testing, hypnotic and post-hypnotic suggestion
Live demonstration and supervised practice of hypnotic age regression (and other techniques as time permits)
Discussion and demonstration of Past Life Regression if requested by members of the class

Day 10

Setting Up Your Practice and Organization
Organizing your office (forms, procedures, shortcuts and systems, for success)
Answering the telephone and making appointments
Use of videos to save time in your practice
Advertising, marketing and free promotion of your business
Letting other professionals know about your business or service, such as physicians and psychologists
Working with, and how to get referrals from medical, psychological and other professionals

Level II, is conducted during the last six sessions of the course. An exam will be given on this material on the 9th day. The last day of the course is reserved for answering questions, additional practice, makeup examinations, review and going through materials related to membership and certification in the National Guild of Hypnotists. If the student does not pass the last test covering hypnosis he or s he may take the exam again that day (different exam). If additional testing is required the student may take the examination after the course is completed.

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Marifran Cooper MS, WHNP
Cooper Hypnosis
www.CooperHypnosis.com