2011 March | Portland Hypnosis Training

Learning Rapport in Hypnotherapy School

On March 26, 2011, in Hypnosis Training, Hypnotherapy Training, NLP Training, by Jody Workman

In our daily lives, whether we know it or not, we build rapport with the people we meet. What is meant by building rapport is building a relation of trust between yourself and another person or group of people. Successful customer service people are very adept at building rapport. The doctor you feel comfortable with and trust, or the clerk at the clothing store whose opinion you ask for. And on the other hand you have the people who, for some reason, are not as good at building rapport and solicit a feeling of distrust in you. For instance the salesman you feel is trying to scam you or the person you just met in the bar and is setting off alarm bells in your head.

As students at the Northwest Hypnosis Institute we’re learning how to successfully build rapport with other people using various techniques. These techniques have many different elements which we practiced in class with each other. The three basic elements involved being body language, voice and behavior, which are broken down into more specific areas.
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Student Review: Learning About Anchors

On March 22, 2011, in NLP Training, by Jody Workman

In our class at the Northwest Hypnosis Institute, we’ve learned that anchors are physical or mental triggers that link behaviors to feelings. These anchors can be anything from a song, to a smell, or even a person.

People naturally use anchors or triggers everyday in life and don’t even realize it. It’s that song that reminds you of that someone special, or the smell of a certain cologne that reminds you of when your dad sat you on his lap and read to you. Triggers can also be associated with negative experiences. Such as the anxiety you feel when you pass through the intersection where you were in an accident.

Learning what triggers an anchor and the feeling associated with it is only part of what we learned in class. We learned that through hypnosis we can take a client back as far as childhood if need be and discover what is causing anxiety to a certain activity or situation and create a new anchor and trigger a more positive feeling association.
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My Third Weekend at Hypnosis College

On March 12, 2011, in Hypnosis Training, Hypnotherapy Training, NLP Training, by Chris Santana

This weekend’s class at The Northwest Hypnosis Institute, Bruce Terrill, our instructor and confidant, introduced Hypnotic Inductions.
It was clear from the start that the class was ready. It seemed like we had become comfortable with each other and we were working well as a unit. Now we could actually start to see how hypnosis works by example.

According to David Mason, an author of many popular inductions, the process involves a combination of suggestions, deepeners and tests for depth of trance. According to my notes, things can get confusing, quickly. After a page or two of mad scribbling, I figured the best way to keep track of the information would be in real time of a typical session. I thought if I could fit all the information I was getting from Bruce and all the material from our Hypnosis Training Manual under that simple system, I could learn more effectively. (more…)

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Hypnosis School: Weekend #1 Review

On March 4, 2011, in Hypnosis Training, Hypnotherapy Training, NLP Training, by Chris Santana

After years as an investigative journalist, where half the story is reading people and getting the best out of them, becoming a certified hypnotherapist might not be too much of a stretch. Well, after weekend one at The Portland Hypnosis Center, I’m here to report that so far it looks like it’s my perception that’s doing the stretching.

In the newspaper business, the way you look at things is critical. Finding those little details, or a new slant on how things may appear can make or certainly break a story. In our first training class, I’m learning the same holds true. We started by discussing in detail how different people communicate differently. Not only in speech patterns, but in non-verbal communication as well. This was my introduction to the portion of our certification training known as Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP training. The first thing that really hit home was that somewhere between our study of Sensory-Specific Words and NLP Eye Accessing Cues, it became quite clear that what Bruce was teaching us in his class, I had been doing for years without knowing it! Now the guessing game is pretty much over. Not only do I now know what to look for with more certainty, but I have years of scientifically and experimentally proved data right in front of me to refer to. After just one hour of study, I could already use this systematic approach to better ‘”read people” and make it easier for all concerned to “get the best out of them.” If only my editor was here for the ride! He might very well pay for the whole course, and then some.
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