Pre conference course.

1 Day Specialty Certification Course

Thursday, 8 AM-4 PM

The Complete Weight Loss Program

Anne King, CHt

Fellow of the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association [TM]

If you are tired of a low success rate with weight loss clients or wonder what to do each session for your "regulars," this seminar is for you!

Learn how to implement an ongoing program for weight loss clients that ensures their success and yours.

Topics covered are:

* Key ingredients for success

* Client Assessment and sample plans

* Client education and homework

* Numerous Ideas for the hypnosis sessions

Ms. King will discuss various ideas for using:

* Suggestions and visualizations

* Aversions techniques

* Anchors

* Metaphors

* Keywords

* Power Drives

Interactive techniques covered include:

* Future projection

* Parts therapy

* Inner guide

* Forgiveness

* Dream Work

* Inner child

* Questioning the subconscious

* Regression

Attendees in this fast-paced course will receive a quality manual, sample forms and contracts, and an abundance of information you can begin using immediately with weight loss clients. Ms. King will also guide you through the experience of as many of the techniques as time allows.

Anne King, CHt, a professional hypnotherapist and instructor of hypnotherapy, began a successful full-time practice in 1966 and has since owned and operated businesses in three Texas cities. She currently sees clients on a part-time basis and focuses her energies on training new hypnotherapists in Basic, Intermediate and Advanced hypnosis techniques. She also teaches specialty CEU classes. She has been heavily involved in metaphysics since the mid '80s and founded the Unity Church of Boerne in her home town in the beautiful Texas hill country in 1995.

Hypnoanesthesia and Pain Management

Jerome Beacham, PhD, CHt

Fellow of the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association[TM]

When you build a client's mental expectancy and enhance your client's imagination, the administering of hypnoanesthesia will become 100% successful. Learn how to administer hypnoanesthesia the correct way and when to use it. We will discuss creating awareness of hypnoanesthesia with your clients and share methods of compounding it with your clients for the best effect.

Prerequisites:

* Read HYPNOTHERAPY by Elman. (The book may be ordered--call 248/549-5594)

* Basic Training and understanding of Hypnosis.

In the Hypnoanesthesia Course you will learn:

* How to create a Magic Spot for Injections

* How to Induce Instant Hypnosis

* How to compound anesthesia with eyes open and by movement

* How to become proficient at administering anesthesia: when and how

* How to gain knowledge of the "critical factor" and its workings with anesthesia

* How to become an Expert in Hypnoanesthesia and Pain Management

* How to relieve Pain, Dental Anxiety, Trauma and More ...

Jerome Beacham holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Wayne State University and is a graduate from Infinity Institute International, Inc. He has also completed advanced courses in Hypnotherapy from Infinity Institute. Dr. Beacham became a Doctor of Metaphysics in 1999, and in the same year Dr. Beacham received the coveted Member of the Year Award from the IMDHA.

Prior to receiving his certification from the IMDHA, he served the public as a law enforcement officer with the Detroit Police Department for 25 years. He is a member of the prestigious 10th Calvary better known as the Buffalo Soldiers.

Along with serving on the Advisory Board of IMDHA, Dr. Beacham is also a member of the Detroit Pistons/Panasonic Speakers Bureau, and an instructor for the Infinity Institute, Wayne State Community College and the cities of Southfield and Ferndale, Michigan.

His specialty is Clinical Hypnotherapy as well as assisting persons with medical and emotional challenges. Dr. Beacham is highly skilled and recognized in the field of Hypnotherapy. His creed is: Seek within, to find and enjoy your inner peace and calm--for it is there you find your own ... PRIVATE PRESTIGE.

Stop Smoking

Robert Otto, CHt

Fellow of the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association[TM]

Providing the therapist with the most innovative ideas and proficient techniques available in our profession today is the goal of this course.

The course will entail a "live" session, involving both the Pre-Talk and the Induction. Those who attend will be able to participate and observe the session first hand as a client normally would.

Undoubtedly, the Pre-Talk or Pre-Induction Interview is by far the most important part of the hypnosis session. When using the powerful techniques demonstrated and discussed in this course, many clients will become non-smokers before the formal induction begins! Stop Smoking sessions average about 50% of a therapist's business. Being proficient in this area is a must for anyone who wishes to obtain a "higher-than-average" success ratio. This makes it possible to cash in on a greater piece of the "pie."

The techniques discussed and demonstrated in this course have a proven and effective way of providing the client with an easy-to-understand format of the therapeutic values of hypnosis and mind dynamics. It has also been proven that by facilitating an effective pre-talk, the client's response is far more attentive in the trance state. By sharing this information with the client, the therapist removes any and all apprehension and/or anxiety about the client's ability to follow through with successful hypnotic trance.

The key to a successful hypnotic session is to use the correct verbiage at the correct time. Combining physical (relaxation) and psychological (imagery) induction, coupled with a confusion technique is most beneficial to clients and also maximizes effectiveness in inducing hypnosis.

Appropriate use of guided imagery moves treatment along rapidly and enables clients to achieve change, wellness and success effortlessly.

Suggestions given are designed to be effective when used in either a group or private session. They are non-challenging in nature, thereby allowing the client the freedom of CHOICE.

Register now for this Specialty Course that can provide the jump start needed to be proficient and knowledgeable in an area that is financially lucrative and socially in demand.

A Sampler of Course Topics

* Cause and Effect of Smoking

* Understanding Human Behavior of the Smoker

* Physical Changes of a Smoker/Non-Smoker

* The Pre-Talk--Breaking the Barriers

-- Ice Breakers

-- Dispelling Myths and Misconceptions

-- Dehypnotization

-- Conflict of the Minds

-- Universal Laws

-- Levels of Hypnosis

-- Laws of Suggestion

-- Dealing with the Difficult Client

-- Depth Scale vs. Behavior Modification 

-- Removing Burden of Trance Expectation

* The Basic Dynamics of an Effective Induction

-- The Do's and Don't's of Modalities

-- Speech Patterns for Programming

-- The Beginning Countdown--The Importance of Control

-- Expectation Therapy

-- Active Visualization

-- Reaffirmation of Expectancy

-- Facilitating a Confusion Therapy

* Experiential Training

-- Participants will have the opportunity to experience first hand a "live" stop smoking session facilitated by Robert Otto.

* Supervised Participant Practice

-- All in Attendance will practice interactively effective pre-talk techniques, speech patterns and hypnotic trance.

* And immensely more

Robert Otto has worked in the field of mind dynamics for over 20 years, having conducted in excess of 4,500 workshops and seminars. Speaking on behavior modification to as many as 150,000 people in 29 states, he is considered by his peers to be a "World-Class Presenter" and serves as convention faculty staff for The International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association [TM], The National Guild of Hypnotists, The International Association of Counselors and Therapists, The American Board of Hypnotherapy, The National Board for Hypnotherapy and Hypnotic Anesthesiology, the Mid-America Hypnosis Conference and The North Coast Hypnosis Society. He is the recipient of numerous awards in the field of human potential, including the prestigious "Outstanding Faculty Member" Award for 1997 from the National Guild of Hypnotists, 1996 Sealah Award form the International Hypnosis Hall of Fame. Robert is also past president of The International Hall of Fame Guild Inc. where he served for five years. He has worked with major hospitals and corporations, and has had frequent guest appearances on radio and television. He has been featured in more that 18 newspapers and magazines, is a regular contributor to hypnosis journals and is the producer of numerous programs on behavior modification and human potential. His training tapes have received national acclaim. As a pioneer in the profession, he is the first hypnotist to receive a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition listed in the Library of Congress. In October, 2000, Robert Otto was awarded the title of Fellow by the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association[TM].

Hypnotherapy, Altered States and Neurofeedback

Candace Pert, PhD

In this workshop you will learn about:

* how to maximize healing potential for yourself and your clients

* methods of emotional expression to unlock healing capacity

* altered states and their biological, chemical and emotional correlates

* possible consequences of emotional repression and release

* immunological responses to emotional expression

* neurofeedback training for induction of deep states for relief of traumatic stress

* possible neurochemical mechanisms behind certain emotional and altered states, including hypnotherapy, dissociative states and anger

You will participate in or observe the experiences of:

* neurofeedback "Alpha-Theta" training for deep relaxation

* methods of expression to tap healing energies and emotions

* healing exercises with affirmations, visualizations and imagery

In this workshop Dr. Pert will be exploring how you can develop and incorporate more mind-body concepts in your therapeutic approaches. She will give practical implications of her neuropeptide theory of emotions in the broader healing traditions. She will discuss connections between religious and meditative practices and psychological and spiritual healing. Dr. Pert will reveal the mechanisms of the dynamic flow of information within your mind/body network: the foundation for our thoughts and emotions. Dr. Pert will be assisted by Deborah Stokes, a Licensed Professional Counselor and neurofeedback practitioner, who will give a one-hour presentation on neurofeedback for the induction of altered states and healing of post-traumatic stress. There will also be a video presentation of an Alpha Theta Neurofeedback session. Interested attendees may sign up for a private demonstration of the process.

Dr. Candace B. Pert was awarded her PhD in pharmacology, with distinction, in 1974, from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Previously, she had completed her undergraduate studies in biology, cum laude, in 1970, from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Dr. Pert conducted a National Institute of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Department of Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1974-1975. After 1975, Dr. Pert held a variety of research positions with the National Institutes of Health, and until 1987, served as Chief of the Section on Brain Biochemistry of the Clinical Neuroscience Branch of the NIMH. She then founded and directed a private biotech laboratory. Dr. Pert currently holds a Research Professorship in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC.

Dr. Pert is an internationally recognized pharmacologist who has published over 250 scientific articles on peptides and their receptors and the role of these neuropeptides in the immune system. Her earliest work as a researcher involved the discovery of opiate receptors and the actions of receptors. She has an international reputation in the field of neuropeptide and receptor pharmacology, and chemical neuroanatomy. Dr. Pert has also lectured worldwide on these and other subjects, including her theories on emotions and mind-body communication. Her recent popular book, Molecules of Emotion, Why You Feel the Way You Feel, (Scribner, September 1997) expounds on her research and theories. She holds a number of patents for modified peptides in the treatment of psoriasis, Alzheimer's disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, stroke and head trauma. One of these, peptide T, is currently in Phase II trial in the United States for the treatment of AIDS and neuroAIDS.

Hypnosis for Pain Management and Enhancing Healing

Paul Durbin, PhD and Artie McMurtrey

This workshop provides skills and techniques for reducing the experience of pain and enhancing healing by the use of suggestions, hypnosis, waking hypnosis, relaxation, guided imagery, prayer, and healing stories. It will consist of lecture, demonstration, role playing and class participation.

It will cover such general areas as:

* The power of suggestion

* Imagery and healing stories

* Hypnosis Inductions

* Deepening techniques

* Case Histories

And in the area of working with patients/clients:

* Preoperative and postoperative suggestions

* Pain reduction techniques

* Cancer

* Bum treatment

* OB/GYN

* Allergies

* Strokes

* Skin problems

* Dentistry

* Arthritis

* Gastrointestinal disorders

* AND MORE

The workshop will cover some words not to use, "mother in hospital" demonstration, suggestibility questionnaire, and induction techniques for direct, indirect and analytical individuals

There will be imagery and healing stories including "Judy Hamilton's Case History," with preoperative and postoperative suggestions and scripts used. Also included will be "Bee's Case History" (working with a cancer patient), list stress factor 6-18 months before diagnosis, values of self-hypnosis, reducing side-effects of chemo-therapy, and the question of false hope.

As time permits, the workshop will also include: dentistry, diabetes, hypertension, stress management, etc.

See pages 20, 21 for biographies of Dr. Durbin and Mr. McMurtrey.

Way of the Hypno-Healer: Healing Synergy of Humor and Hypnosis

Peter Blum and Michael Ellner, PhD

Spend a fun-filled day with Michael Ellner and Peter Blum and Transform your hypnosis practice. Learn the "secrets" of how to reinvent yourself as a Hypno-Healer.

You Will Learn: Powerful, practical hypno-healing techniques that promote self-healing at the most personal and biological levels, utilizing the healing powers of a happy heart, a peaceful mind, and a playful spirit.

Specifically, you will learn strategies for reinventing your practice and marketing your own very specialized hypnotic services. You will also learn how to use Meta-healing for pre-conditioning cooperation and success.

You will learn how to identify mental/emotional states that inhibit the body's ability to heal in a natural fashion. By using "coyote" and "crow" medicine--the ability to see the 'flip side' of things, a hypnotherapist or other health practitioner can enable his/her patients or clients to help themselves enhance and promote the healing process. Humor is very powerful medicine.

Participants will learn through experiential exercise, how to help themselves and their clients laugh their way to health and success.

An internationally prominent Medical Hypnotist, Michael Ellner is a major force in educating health care professionals and the public about the healing powers of a happy heart, peaceful mind and playful spirit. His world-wide reputation for outstanding, inspirational, and life changing workshops, lectures and essays continues to grow.

With an active practice as a hypnotherapist and hypnosis educator, Peter Blum has developed a national following for his innovative work with sound and music for hypnosis, as well as his own blend of Ericksonian hypnosis and shamanism.

He has been a frequent presenter at hypnosis conferences over the past decade.

Hypnokinesiology

Robert Burr

This is a method of finding and releasing emotional and physical problems or undesirable negative energies hidden within a person's subconscious mind or memory records. These repressed memories and any unusual event in one's present or previous life, causing resultant trauma or stress, can be found and released through this procedure by a simple yet powerful, non-invasive method that does not violate a person's privacy. It is simply released by the use of this muscle testing procedure. It can release allergies, pain, fear, anger, abuse, stress, tension, depression, violence, chronic illness, a bad accident, loss of a loved one, etc. This allows your inner child to grow and attain maturity and oneness with the real you. This workshop will teach participants how to use this simple yet powerful tool in your everyday life. Subjects covered include: testing, balancing, finding setting and releasing, doing multiples, surrogate work and programs on how-to for the various methods taught. Handouts will be provided. Learn by doing in this one-of-a-kind workshop.

Spiritual and Physical Rejuvenation 

Cheryl Croci

Rejuvenate NOW! This new and exciting program is designed to open concepts of and actual rejuvenation--physical and spiritual. Learn about what beliefs create physical deterioration and how to release someone's beliefs about death, dying, disease and aging. Learn to create scripts that deactivate "death hormones" and activate the life force, chakras and lifegiving hormones. Open and activate the thymus chakra for life enhancement and extension. Topics will include the transformation of the physical body into spiritualized matter, activation of the DNA, Lightbody activation techniques, holographic healing, the Ascension process, "mutational symptoms and experiences," ways to accelerate your vibrational frequencies, getting spiritual assistance, overviews of the evolution of the chakra system and more. Enhance your ability to communicate with the cells to energize and invigorate the life force. Reprogram your mind (and your client's mind) to transcend death, dis-ease and aging. Receive a sample script to work with. Demonstration and experiential exercises to enjoy. Discover wonderful ways to support ourself and clients through these life-extending and consciousness-expanding concepts. Become a vehicle for love, light and higher consciousness. Experience renewal and rejuvenation for yourself--TODAY!

Emergency Room Hypnotherapy

Albert Bottari

This workshop will inform the hypnotherapist of the unique usefulness of hypnotherapy in a hectically paced environment. Participants should be certified members of IMDHA with a minimum of 120 hours of training. The topics covered will be: referral system (types of patients and referred by whom), pain management, blood flow reduction, staff stress management, violence in the workplace, bereavement counseling, and crisis management. The workshop will also cover management of cardiac flutters and blood pressure; pre and post medications, ER nursing referrals, follow-up inpatient and outpatient criteria, crime victim hypnosis AHJ interaction, child birthing, family and significant other management, reimbursement (employee, fee for service, direct billing), case review, consents, and roles and boundaries for the hypnotherapist.

Parts Therapy

Jaime Feldman

This workshop will be an introduction into "Parts Therapy" as a leading edge technique. Dr. Jaime Feldman will give an overview of a new more structured "Parts Therapy" technique, underscoring how this technique has proven to be a non-invasive therapeutic tool in making therapy extremely successful and brief. It will include NLP techniques which augment the therapy process. Aberrant behaviors, including mood disorders, panic, anxiety and other deep-seated conflicts will be discussed. In addition, this workshop will include how it has proven to be very effective with smoking cessation and weight loss.

Don't miss this workshop with some truly leading edge techniques. It is the workshop that will leave its attendees catapulted way beyond the 21st century. Demonstrations and a complete outline/script will be included as part of this workshop.

Organ Transplant

Murray Fullman

The purpose of this workshop is to familiarize the hypnotherapist with the understanding and treatment of transplant patients. With a greater comprehension of what is involved in transplantation, and what the patient encounters both medically and psychologically, the attendee will be better prepared to use hypnosis as an adjunctive treatment modality. Hypnosis has proven to be beneficial in assisting the patient through both pre and post surgery.

This workshop will prepare the attendee with a better understanding of: 1) psychological and medical preparation for transplantation; 2) various stages of the transplantation procedure; 3) effects of stress and distress associated with the various stages of transplantation; 4) emotional and psychological components that are commonplace before and after transplantation; 5) effects of stress and distress accompanying life changes of the patient and family; 6) the component of loss of control and dissatisfaction with the life and alienation; 7) components of stress and techniques for dealing with the patients' anxieties and stress.