[GET] Major Mark - The New Curriculum

Formed last year, the Society of Applied Hypnosis is the only professional organization that is dedicated to the competence training, testing and certification of working hypnotists in the world today. Unique in its emphasis that its members must be publicly tested in both their knowledge and skills prior to certification, the Society is pioneering the efforts to move hypnosis from the "alternative" world into the mainstream. The course I am presenting worldwide this year as The New Curriculum is designed to be a complete modernization of hypnosis training. As a requirement for membership in the Society for Applied Hypnosis, this experience provides the most comprehensive preparation for professional practice available today.

The New Curriculum is an explanation of modern theory and practice, incorporating both the latest research and incorporating tools and methods from a wide variety of sources. Included in the latter are techniques I have personally proven in over 15,000 hours of professional clinical practice! There are multiple emphasis within the coursework: emphasis on clients experiencing profound hypnotic effect, emphasis on hypnotist working without patter or props - "out-of-chair experiences" --, extensive use of hypnotic constructs and trance phenomena, and emphasis on teaching and motivating clients to Do for themselves. The processes taught to TNC students embeds exercises and tasks that self-train clients not only to address and solve their reporting problems, but also to be fully capable of solving any subsequent problems themselves!

Historical matters are called out only as reading assignments. Why waste precious training time droning on about things that you can look up outside of class? Instead, the seminar is taught in a challenging sequence of lecture, demonstration and frequent exercises. Each student must be both hypnotist and subject in each exercise - certificates will be awarded only to those who, in the opinion of the teaching team, have performed adequately in BOTH roles. As an added plus, the content of exercises is user-determined, allowing each student to work through their own challenges within the seminar - a dramatic example of hypnotic effect that is used as convincer for the hypnotist themselves. After all, how better to convince a professional of the efficacy of our techniques than to have the student experience the power of permanent, positive change themselves?

The output of our training is a competent, confident change artist, far more knowledgeable and competent than the average practitioner. Each newly-certified student is immediately qualified to enter into a professional/clinical internship (such as the one recommended by the SAH).

And the best part is that we at the SAH are sitting out the dogma wars. It doesn't matter what modality you prefer, where or how you were first trained, what organizations you belong to -- we're neutral. Our pursuit of efficacy means that we will allow and incorporate ANYTHING that works to the client's benefit, provided it meets a few simple tests: The techniques must be easily taught, their positive effects must be something that any trained hypnotist can replicate, the hypnotic operators must be clearly exposed (as opposed to the dogma-specific parts), and they must not require a change of belief system or lifestyle on the part of the hypnotist.

Having said that, there ARE a core set of beliefs that power the astonishing effectiveness of the The New Curriculum's techniques. The course covers these in a discussion of the following:

System of Belief
What is the practice of Hypnosis?
Terms Defined
Dispelling Misconceptions
Dangers to the Client or Hypnotist
Three Models of the Mind
Trance "States" and their characteristics
Utilization

Abreactions
Rules of the Mind
A Working Model of Memory
The Structure of Beliefs
Eliminating Self-Sabotage
Well-Formed Outcomes
Uncovering Techniques
A Malleable Concept of Time