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Igor Ledochowski – author of The Deep Trance Training Manual

Your training is unique, refined and dynamic, making each person feel an active part of the course

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Your training is unique, refined and dynamic, making each person feel an active part of the course

Kerin Webb – author of The Language Pattern Bible

You are the leaders in indirect Ericksonian Hypnosis

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You are the leaders in indirect Ericksonian Hypnosis

Dan Jones – author of Advanced Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Scripts

Your legendary hypnotherapy courses are the most highly regarded in the field

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Your legendary hypnotherapy courses are the most highly regarded in the field

Ivan Tyrrell – author of How To Master Anxiety

You are very creative with words, you talk to different parts of a patient's mind, it’s so powerful!

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You are very creative with words, you talk to different parts of a patient's mind, it’s so powerful!

Adam Eason – author of The Science of Self Hypnosis

Your course was eye opening, heartfelt and transforming for me personally and professionally

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Your course was eye opening, heartfelt and transforming for me personally and professionally

Dr Ernest Rossi – author with Milton H Erickson of the Collected Papers of Milton H Erickson

Stephen Brooks and the art of Compassionate Ericksonian Hypnotherapy surely sets the highest standard.

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Stephen Brooks and the art of Compassionate Ericksonian Hypnotherapy surely sets the highest standard.

Bill O’Hanlon – author of Taproots, Solution-Oriented Hypnosis and a Guide To Trance-Land.

Stephen Brooks knows how to do effective Ericksonian Hypnosis and teach others how to do it.

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Stephen Brooks knows how to do effective Ericksonian Hypnosis and teach others how to do it.
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2701, 2017

Hypnotherapy with Children

Most hypnotherapists work with adult patients and rarely have the opportunity to use hypnotherapy with children. Children however, make excellent hypnotic subjects and past research indicates that they are easier to hypnotise than adults. Children have very active imaginations and are able to fantasise easily so can visualise effectively. Likewise therapeutic metaphors can be very effective with children because of children’s familiarity with storytelling. Where can hypnosis help children? Research a few years ago at the child and adolescent psychiatry department of Rikshospitalet University Hospital in Oslo Norway indicated that hypnotherapy could be useful for a wide range of disorders and problems with children. They found that hypnotherapy was particularly valuable in the treatment of anxiety disorders and trauma related conditions. The research advocates the study and application of hypnotherapy in clinical practice and suggests that it could be applied as an adjunct to cognitive behavioural treatment and family therapy. What do you need to consider when working with children? When working with children one always has to consider the influence of the parents or guardians. Sometimes childhood problems are the result of issues between family members. So every childhood problem should not be viewed in isolation but as a

2401, 2017

New hypnotherapy service offered to mums-to-be

New MOTHERS-TO-BE are being offered the chance to learn self-hypnosis techniques to help them through labour. The natal hypnotherapy workshops run by South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the UK focus on relaxation techniques to help women feel calm, in control and fully prepared for the birth of their child. Those opting to take part will be taught about natural ways to reduce pain during childbirth, self-hypnosis skills to overcome any fears or anxieties and effective breathing and relaxation techniques. It’s about time all hospital and anti natal clinics realised that hypnotherapy can be of significant benefit in childbirth, not just for pain control but for coping with anxiety and also for recovery.  I am delighted when I hear great news like this but wish that the medical profession would move a little faster in its acceptance and application of hypnosis in such an important area. Stephen Brooks via New hypnotherapy service offered to mums-to-be (From The Northern Echo).

1401, 2017

Chiastic Structures and Nested Loops

Jon Steel asked me whether I was aware of any research or writing about Chiastic Structures and Nested Loops. As far as I know, no one has connected the concept of Nested Loops with Chiastic structures in literature or historic writing. Milton Erickson must have developed his love of storytelling from somewhere, maybe from family members. But I am not sure he consciously initially set about creating nested loops. I think that maybe he inherited the technique of nested loops by replicating the syntax of a familiar form of storytelling that was handed down, maybe through his family.  And it was then recognised in his work as a technique that he subsequently acknowledged, especially as a way of creating amnesia using the ABBA pattern. But I suspect that amnesia was something that happened as a result of his storytelling approach, rather than through a deliberate attempt to create amnesia, and that he observed it through his experimental work with students at university and with his own clients. The name Erickson originates from Iceland and means son of Erick. Iceland has a long tradition of storytelling and the Icelandic and Norse prose, the epics and sagas being examples, contain Chiastic Structures.

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