This course is the first of the three courses that make up the total training in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH). There are no specific academic requirements for eligibility for the Foundation course. The CCBH philosophy is that life experience and other skills are valid.

CCBH Certificate is awarded on completion of the Foundation course.

Content of Foundation in Hypnosis, Counselling and Rapport Skills

Weekend 1

• Hypnosis and hypnotherapy
• Emotional responsibility
• Hypnotic states
• Trance levels
• Abreactions
• Session structure
• Progressive relaxation
• Awakening the client
• What is counselling?
• Basic structure of a counselling session
• Ethics and practice guidelines

Weekend 2

• Inductions
• Eye fixation techniques
• Factors in induction
• Utilising distractions
• Deepening - countdown techniques
• Creating safe states
• Dealing with client questions
• 3-stage counselling models
• Exploring and focusing
• Attending and listening
• Open-ended questions
• Silence
• Ethics

Weekend 3

• Hypnotic phenomena
• Ego strengthening
• Creating resourceful states
• Self-hypnosis and its uses
• How to teach your client self-hypnosis
• Focusing
• Summarising
• Understanding, leading and goal-setting
• Advanced empathy skills
• Recognising patterns and clients themes
• Ethics

Weekend 4

• Arm levitation techniques
• Vogt''s fractionation induction
• Laws of suggestion
• Suggestibility
• Hypnotic suggestions
• Authoritarian hypnosis (suggestions and inductions)
• Resistance
• Self-disclosure in therapy
• Immediacy
• Challenging
• Timing and pacing
• Ethics

Weekend 5

• Neurology of hypnosis
• Milton Erickson
• Indirect suggestions
• Goal-setting
• Decision making
• Problem solving
• Programme choice
• Evaluating
• Teaching skills
• Ethics

Weekend 6

• Tactile inductions
• Case history taking
• Data collection
• Contra indications
• Disclosure
• Contract termination
• The first session
• Ethics

Course Dates