New Zealand Hypnotherapy Federation Inc. 14th Annual Conference Weekend
Improving Health and Happiness with Hypnosis
5th - 6th September 2009
Barrycourt Hotel and Conference Centre, Gladstone Road, Parnell, Auckland
PRESENTERS
SATURDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER
| Registration | From 8.15am |
| 8.45-9.00am | Welcome and Hypnotherapy Profession Update – NZHF President | 9.00–10.00am | Neuro – Associative – Hypnotherapy. The Symptom Path to the Whole Person and Lasting Change – Aaron McLoughlin | Presentation style: Lecture, Demonstration/s, Experiential.
The symbiotic relationship between the mind and body allow for a very simple strategy enabling regression to the seat of a persons illness or imbalance. Emotions are a 'whole person' experience. And it is the whole person who heals, not an aspect of the person. Neuro-associative-hypnotherapy is a technique that includes the whole peson, mind, body and spirit. Symptoms are the beginning of the healing process and so they are a direct link to the strategies available within the person and their subconscious for complete healing of the whole person. Outcomes: 1. A new and fascinating tool for hypnotherapists 2. A reframe of the symptom into a healing paradigm 3. New and expanded understanding of the power of hypnotherapy 4. Realising simplicty of powerful change for the whole person 5. Handouts 6. Fun |
| 10.00–10.30am | Morning Tea |
| 10.30–12.00pm | Hypnotherapy Opportunities Around Surgery - Mike Reeves-McMillan | Presentation style: Workshop
Pain control is widely recognized as one of the best-researched applications of hypnosis, and one for which there is considerable evidence of effectiveness. There is also excellent evidence for hypnosis as an effective intervention around other aspects of surgery and medical treatment, including distress, nausea and tension, control of bleeding and even recovery rate. One study in a major anaesthetic journal concluded that 89% of surgical patients could potentially benefit from hypnosis. If we are not out there promoting hypnosis for surgery, surgical patients are missing out, surgeons and anaesthetists are missing out, we are missing out, and the hypnotherapy profession is missing out on a potential big public win. In this workshop, we will look at a number of methods of pain control and consider the other uses for hypnosis in the context of surgery (and other treatments such as radiation therapy or chemotherapy). We will also discuss how we, as individual therapists and as a Federation, can constructively approach individual clients and medical practitioners to offer these effective interventions. Outcomes: 1. Understanding of the strong evidence of effectiveness for hypnotherapy in pain control. 2. Understanding of several effective techniques. 3. Ideas for incorporating pain control into a hypnotherapy practice. 4. Ideas for promoting hypnotherapy as a pain control method. 5. Ideas for the Federation to assist hypnotherapists with this opportunity. |
| 12.00–1.00pm | Lunch |
| 1.00–2.30pm | Hypnotherapy and the Psychology and Physiology of Weight Control and Health – Kevin Bateman | Presentation style: Lecture, Experiential, Questions.
A basic outline of the three food groups, protein, carbohydrate and fat. What happens in our body after we put food into it? Whether we will burn this food for energy or store it as fat and the ongoing damage to our health and wellbeing from making the wrong food choices. Brief comments on commercial weight loss companies. Practical suggestions for clients who want to control their weight and reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease. Personal observations on the psychology of food based on working in the field of nutrition with several thousand ProZone clients over the last 11 years and how some of this information can be used in hypnotic interventions. Presentation of brief case studies for both nutritional advice only and nutritional advice plus hypnotherapy in clients where it is indicated. Outcomes: 1. An understanding of health and weight problems and weight control generally. 2. Be in a position to offer some help to clients on this with practical advice on diet. 3. Information to consider when using hypnotherapy for weight control. 4. More confidence that they have some concept of the diabetic client's condition and the health implications, risks, and dangers of diabetes. |
| 2.30–3.30pm | What part does the tonal frequency of the hypnotic voice play in the quality a hypnotic intervention – Robin Harrison | Presentation style: Lecture, Experiential.
Have you ever stopped to consider what impact the tonal quality of your voice has in the quality of a hypnotic intervention? Have you ever stopped to think that the discomfort that is being felt is not always what is being said, but the way in which it is being said? The same words spoken loudly in anger will impact in a different way than those same words spoken quietly. That some people annoy whilst others may say the same things, but cause little discomfort. Have you ever begun to imagine that fear may be no more that the vibration frequency of the sound being heard, triggering distant memories of a similar sound, where the outcome was one of pain or discomfort. And if this was the case what would you need to do to filter out that sound, so that it no longer caused discomfort? I would like to explore the qualities of sound and their impact. Of the importance of that first sound – our thought - and the way that our body processes that thought. I would like to share a case study relating to fear of flying where sound was the originating event. What the sound was and what we utilized to overcome that fear. Outcomes: 1. An understanding of the need to listen to ourselves as well as our clients. 2. How our voice can nurture not only our clients but ourselves. 3. A greater understanding of the mind body connection. 4. The energy component. 5. Simplicity of intervention. |
| 3.30–4.00pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 4.00–5.00pm | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Roy Hunter (USA) M.S., FAPHP - The Four Cornerstones of Hypnotherapy | There are four important hypnotherapy objectives, which provide a blueprint for increasing the probability of client success. Charles Tebbetts learned them from Gil Boyne, and referred to these objectives as the four main therapeutic steps to facilitate change (helping a client resolve problems). Hypnotic suggestion and imagery (and scripts) help some of the people some of the time, but subconscious blocks often exist that inhibit total acceptance of positive suggestions. Some clients may exhibit this resistance immediately, such as a smoker lighting up after a session before leaving the parking lot. Others may demonstrate temporary success until the subconscious blocks gradually erode the benefits of suggestions and imagery…and the client eventually backslides.
I believe that a competent hypnotherapist can help most of the people most of the time by building the hypnosis program on a foundation of these four primary hypnotherapy objectives: (1) Suggestion and imagery, (2) Discover the cause, (3) Release, and (4) Subconscious relearning. Each of the four hypnotherapy objectives serves as a stepping-stone towards the next objective. Although the first objective may be sufficient for some of the people some of the time, if the problem remains, consider the accomplishment of ALL FOUR hypnotherapy objectives as your prime hypnotherapeutic goal. This is your blueprint for lasting success! Let’s accomplish these hypnotherapy objectives on purpose. Why leave them to chance? When we skip any of the four hypnotherapy objectives, we reduce the probability of lasting results. We can use these four cornerstones to evaluate the efficacy of any hypnotic technique by discerning which of the four hypnotherapy objectives the technique may accomplish, which is why I believe they form the foundation of client centred hypnosis. |
| 5.00–6.15pm | Socialising – Enjoy social time catching up and chatting with your colleagues and friends, both new and 'old' in the bar area. Nibbles provided. Followed by ... |
| 6.30pm onwards | Hypnotherapy Award Dinner – This event is the highlight of the New Zealand hypnotherapy calendar. Enjoy a free glass of wine or fruit juice with your tasty smorgasbord meal.
Award Presentations: After the meal we honour and celebrate those who receive awards from the member organisations, and/or who have made a significant contribution within our profession. |
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