Certification Requirements

Basic Certification in Hypnosis

Minimum 54 in-person hours training in hypnosis.

Applicants must demonstrate competency in the following areas:

Conceptual Competency:

• Pass a conceptual written exam
• Provide a definition of hypnosis understandable to the lay person
• Clearly explain the functions of conscious and unconscious mind
• Understand the flow of hypnotic induction and how to use hypnosis – the elements to a complete trance session

Behavioral Competency:

• Process:
  • Can induce trance successfully (by observation) 
  • Produce a hypnotic script that covers: (by script)
    • All phases of hypnotic process
    • Built in ecology
    • Incorporates direct and indirect suggestions
    • Utilizes Milton Model patterns, presuppositions, and indirect language patterns
    • Interpersonal:
      • Develops rapport with client (as observed)
      • Explains and establishes roles of hypnotist and client (Has a clear pre-trance talk)
      • Creates trust and provides client safety – Sponsors the client
      • Elicits the client’s goal and assesses the appropriateness of hypnosis

Professional Competency:

• Understands the legal limits of hypnosis
• Understands, accepts and behaves in accordance with professional ethics
• Annual minimum six hours continuing education and involvement in the field will be required

Hypnotherapy Certification

(198 hours total)

In addition to the basic eight-day requirement;

• A minimum of 54 hours in-person training on advanced hypnosis skills and the practice of hypnotherapy.

• Completion and certification from an NLP Institute offering a minimum of 90 hours Practitioner Certification Training that teaches the NLP Presuppositions as listed below and includes minimum content as described below. Plus a completion of the NLP Master Practitioner Certification Program that consists of at least 54 hours and includes the minimum content listed below.
• Annual minimum six hours continuing education and involvement in the field will be required

Behavioral demonstration of the basic presuppositions of NLP:

Communication is redundant. You are always communicating in all five major representational systems.
The meaning of your communication is the response that you get. Communication is not about what you intend, or about saying the right words; it's about creating an experience in, and getting a response from, the listener. The "bottom line" is the response you elicit.
The map is not the territory. People respond to their map of reality, not to reality itself. NLP is the science of changing these maps (not reality).
You create your own reality. You experience your personal reality, not the "truth."

Requisite variety. The element in a system with the most flexibility will be the controlling element.

People work perfectly. No one is wrong or broken; it's simply a matter of finding out how they function now, so that you can effectively change that to something more useful or desirable. People don't need to be "fixed."
People always make the best choice available to them at the time 
(but often there are lots of other better ones).
Every behavior is useful in some context.
Choice is better than no choice.
Just about anyone can learn to do anything. If one person can do something, it is possible to model it and teach it to others.
People already have all the resources they need.   What they need is access to these resources at appropriate times and places.
There is no such thing as failure, only feedback.
Chunking. Anything can be accomplished if you break the task down into small enough chunks.
Behind every behavior is a positive intention. While a behavior may be harmful or seem "bad," there is always a positive intention behind the behavior.
Symptoms, pains, anxiety, depression, tumors, colds, etc. are communications about needed action.
We are all responsible for creating our own experience. Even when challenging events that we cannot control happen, we are responsible for our responses to these events. Typically, however, we have much more control than we think we have. Another way of stating this presupposition is that we consistently create our own environment through our beliefs, filters, capabilities and behaviors.

Practitioner Certification Training Content to include as a minimum:

Specific Master Practitioner Skills:

Major Meta Programs if not taught in Practitioner;
Timeline elicitation and change; Timeline techniques;
Criteria identification and utilization;
Sleight of Mouth;
GEO (T.O.T.E) and behavioral modeling;
Refined use of submodalities;
Deliberate multilevel communication;
Utilization and transformation of beliefs and presuppositions; including how to identify and change limiting beliefs;
Reimprinting;
Remodeling;
Psycho-Geography;
Counter-example processes.