We offer a wide range of CPD courses for both students and practicing hypnotherapists.
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14 & 15 January 2012, Chesterfield, £330
14 April 2012, Chesterfield, (day 3)
31 Mar & 1 Apr 2012, Milton Keynes, £330
7 July 2012, Milton Keynes, (day 3)
A useful addition for those students who are not qualified in NLP, our certificate course covers: Introduction to NLP Representational systems, Calibration, Resource Anchoring & Advanced anchoring techniques, Circle of excellence, Submodalities, Sensory acuity, Pacing & leading, Matching & mirroring, Swish, Perceptual positions, Affirmations, Values, Goal setting, Chunking, TOTE, Eye Accessing, Meta model, Stein's Clenched Fist Technique, Parts Integration, Timeline techniques, As if, Backtrack, Fast Phobia & VAK rewind, Reframing & 6 Step reframe.
22 February 2012, Chesterfield, £120
2 April 2012, Milton Keynes, £120
This CPD proved so popular in 2010 we had to rearrange further dates so accommodate all our delegates! Don't miss out on one of our most popular courses. Hypnosis has a proven record of helping clients suffering from this distressing condition. Learn how to plan and deliver effective strategies for helping clients overcome Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Plenty of scripts provided, based on our own successful work with IBS and other gastrointestinal disorders.
23 Feb 2012, Chesterfield, £120
3 April 2012, Milton Keynes, £120
A day packed full of step-by-step guidelines for effective smoking cessation. Includes plenty of scripts, advice and information on working with groups as well as individual clients. This is one of our most popular CPDs, and feedback from previous delegates confirms that the procedures taught, if followed, give in excellent results. Please book early for this course as it is often oversubscribed.
24 February 2012, Milton Keynes, £230
4 April 2012, Chesterfield, £230)
Motivational interviewing is a counselling style used as a strategy to elicit client’s motivation to change. It is also a useful style to guide clients into the right stage of motivation to achieve the results they want. In hypnotherapy it will be a useful assessment tool and technique for any change behaviour, especially smoking and weight loss.
Delegates will understand the purpose, principles and spirit of MI, and gain an understanding of its uses and limitations.
3 & 4 March 2012, Chesterfield, £330
2 & 3 June 2012, Milton Keynes, £330
Dates for Sheffield to be announced.
For those delegates requiring an insight into stress management or those who also wish to take the Diploma for ISMA membership, our validated route to becomming a stress consultant. As this forms part of our 9-month course in Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy, NLP & Stress Management, you are invited to join our students at a number of locations. Please contact us for details
12 & 13 March 2012, Milton Keynes, £240
20 & 21 June 2012, Chesterfield, £240
Dates for Sheffield to be announced.
Transactional Analysis (TA) is a powerful model of personality that can be used to explain and enable resolution of unhelpful patterns of behaviour within relationships of all kinds. This course is intended for hypnotherapists who would like to know more about TA, its concepts and models, and their use within therapy.
Learn how TA techniques are useful for many issues, including relationship problems at home and/or at work, low self-esteem, and self-sabotage.
21-23 March 2012, Chesterfield, £650
23-25 May 2012, Chesterfield (days 4-6)
As Associate University Lecturers in this subject, Alan and Carole are the ideal people to qualify you as Stress Managers. The course runs over six days, and covers communication skills, workplace bullying, personality profiling, stress & the law, organisational change, occupation stress, time management and much more. Graduates will, on course completion and homework submission, plus our certificate award or similar, qualify to apply for associate membership of the International Stress Management Association (ISMAUK). The Advanced Diploma will run in autumn 2012. (Please note that you need to attend parts 1 & 2 of the Diploma, in either order, to receive certification.)
24-25 March 2012, Chesterfield, £230
23-24 June 2012, Milton Keynes, £230)
This is a useful additional for those students who are not qualified in Psychotherapy. As this forms part of our 8-module course in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, NLP and Stress Management, delegates are invited to join our students at a number of locations for the two-day course. Students will develop an understanding of what Psychotherapy is, and the various techniques used in Psychotherapy with a chance to practice and refine those techniques.
Can be upgraded to a Diploma in Psychotherapy with an additional training in CBT.
16 & 17 April 2012, Chesterfield, £230
This two day course teaches effective techniques drawn from both cognitive & rational-emotive therapies, useful for many of your existing clients presenting with issues surrounding anxiety, depression and low self esteem, also for coaching & relationship issues. Comes with plenty of client forms ready for you to copy!
18 & 19 April 2012, Chesterfield, £230
How to develop skills & confidence working with children of all ages. Children respond incredibly well to hypnosis and often benefit from learning techniques to help them overcome fears, control pain and enhance learning. This course has been developed by Carole, who has worked & taught at Great Ormond Street hospital, using hypnosis for children suffering from pain and phobias.
20 April 2012, Chesterfield, £120
This course is intended for hypnotherapists who would like to understand more about the legal processes of Child Protection Law and Guidance, including the rights and duties of Hypnotherapists. The course is based on the premise that all children should be able to grow up in circumstances where they are safe and supported, so that they can achieve their optimal outcomes in childhood, their teenage years and into adulthood. To achieve this, agencies and practitioners should work together to promote children's welfare and to prevent them from suffering harm.
29 April - 3 May 2012, Scarborough, £1195
An intensive 5-day course suitable for applicants with appropriate prior knowledge & training. The course is conveniently split into two separate, stand-alone modules, meaning that you will be fully qualified within approximately six weeks. You will also be eligible for appropriate insurance, should you wish to go into private practice as a hypnotherapist.
For more details see our Fast Track website or contact us.
14 May 2012, Chesterfield, £120
Tap your way to health! Alongside a comprehensive course manual, delegates will have plenty of time
for practising this fun, safe & effective therapy, useful for therapists and clients alike, adults
and children. Great with addictions, emotional issues, blocking beliefs, panic and fear.
SUITABLE FOR NON-HYPNOTHERAPISTS TOO!
15 & 16 May 2012, Chesterfield, £320 (w/o EFT)
Also available with EFT at £380.
A unique opportunity to run your own 'SlimSolutions' business. This course encompasses the best of coaching, cognitive behaviour therapy, hypnosis, & EFT into a six-week course suitable for groups/individuals serious about losing weight and gaining confidence.
We are actively seeking highly motivated, charismatic hypnotherapists and trainee hypnotherapists to join us in delivering this proven method - please contact us if interested. EFT training desirable or please combine with our own one-day course in energy psychology
29 May 2012, Chesterfield, £155
This one day course is designed for hypnotherapists in practice, who will gain a fuller awareness of the condition, types and stages of tumours and how hypnotherapy can be beneficial.
25 - 27 June 2012, Chesterfield, £330
Carole is a former NCT ante-natal teacher who had taught midwives and nurses in the effective use of language during birth and can therefore combine an expert knowledge in childbirth with the effective interventions she has used so successfully.
Gain an understanding, not just of childbirth itself but other parenthood issues as well, including problems becoming pregnant and adoption. Learn about hypnotic interventions and how can these be used during the various stages of pregnancy, birth and parenting.
24-26 July 2012, Chesterfield, £300
Anxiety, panic & phobias form a large percentage of our work as hypnotherapists. Learn how to offer safe, effective and rapid treatment, using both hypnotherapy and CBT. Covers emetaphobia, dental phobia, separation anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder, avoidant paruresis, adjustment disorders and childhood anxiety, PLUS some innovative & effective techniques for controlling panic attacks. An extremely comprehensive course.
30 July 2012, Chesterfield, £120
Regression work is becoming increasingly recognised as a powerful and therapeutic tool. As interest in past lives has grown over recent years, so too has the realisation that imagery and transpersonal perception is valid as a healing resource.
Learn techniques to empower clients to change their Past Life situation, allowing them to lift the negative influence of their present life, giving the person a sense of controlling their own life again.
22-24 October 2012, Chesterfield, £850
19-21 November 2012, Chesterfield (days 4-6)
6 & 7 December 2012, Chesterfield (days 7 & 8)
Trainer award: covers CBT, pharmacology, mediation, PTSD. Coaching, Goal Setting, Autogenics, Bio-feedback,
postnatal depression & psychosis, shift work, heart disease, environmental stress, working with difficult
people, employee assistance programmes, NLP communication models, stress & education, Disney
model, implosion & flooding, Bernice McCarthy 4-mat system....
Please request our Stress Management Prospectus for further details.
31 Oct - 2 Nov 2012, Chesterfield, £300
This masterclass is designed for hypnotherapists who wish to increase their skill base in depressive disorders. Rates of depression are increasing annually and yet, according to Michael Yapko, in his book Hand-Me-Down Blues, it is one of the most treatable disorders. Medication alone can never be an entirely adequate form of treatment but psychotherapy and hypnotherapy has been shown to be an effective intervention, whether used alongside traditional medication or as a stand-alone therapy. This popular three-day course covers stress & depression, anxiety & depression, Trauma & PTSD, the significance of upbringing, both cognitive and hypnotic interventions and depression in childhood. Recommended!
29 & 30 Nov 2012, Chesterfield, £240
This approach, when first developed some 30 years ago, was unique in focussing on solutions, not problems. Although the techniques were drawn on offering a person-centred, non-judgemental approach, finding solutions was considered more important than offering explanations or looking at past problems.
Alongside the usual course manual and notes, you will get the chance to study the masters of Brief Therapy at work using DVDs, and to practice the techniques in class.
2 day course in integrative counselling skills.
2 day seminar featuring successful therapists who will share their secrets to help you build a profitable business.
Venues are as indicated - click the venue for more details and directions. To download full course details together with a booking form, please click here.
Once you have completed TEN days CPDs you will qualify for a 'master therapist' certification and be awarded an additional qualification of 'Advanced Hypnotherapist'. This entitles you to use the initials 'Adv.Hyp.' after your name.
Our current advanced hypnotherapists are:
David Clegg - www.motivating-change.co.uk
Rob Evans - www.rotherhamhypnotherapy.com
Diane Hoyle
Jeana Hallas - www.barnsley-hypnosis-coaching.co.uk
Natalie Pickford
Claire Taylor - www.claire-taylor-therapy.co.uk
All CPD courses include a comprehensive course manual issued on disc plus a variety of client handouts and appropriate scripts for your use in the therapy room.
If you're interested in our stress management training, please click here.
All LifeSolutions students, whether trainee or graduate, qualify for a LIFETIME DISCOUNT of 15%. We also offer discounts, from time to time, to members of major hypnotherapy organisations.
Please note that VAT is included in the above prices.
Group Bookings of 3 or more qualify for additional discounts - please contact us for details.
Research has shown that the use of hypnosis as an adjunct therapy when receiving treatment for cancer will speed up the healing process in children.Reductions in both nausea and pain were reported by children participating in the study.
Hypnotherapy is an ideal treatment for children, as children respond excellently to this technique, which is totally safe if administered by a skilled therapist. [more...]