Become a Confident Hypnotist Course

• The causes of low confidence
• Beliefs about confidence and hypnosis

Detailed overview:

We begin the course by looking at some of the main causes of low confidence for hypnotists, because there are many reasons why hypnotists and hypnotherapists may have low confidence. Some hypnotists are just naturally less confident in general, whereas others are more confident in some areas, but lacking confidence in others, or in a specific aspect of their hypnotic abilities. It might also be that ‘something happened’ in the past that caused a sudden drop in confidence. Understanding why confidence is an issue gives you a great starting point to work from, so you can move forwards and become a more confident hypnotist.

As well as looking at the potential causes of low confidence, you’re also going to learn about some of the beliefs that can hold you in an ‘unconfident pattern’, and by recognising these beliefs, you can then go on to challenge and replace them with more helpful confident beliefs.

• How to assess your confidence level
• Confidence assessment questionnaires for:
  – Approaching volunteers/selling services to clients
  – The pre-talk/intake and pre-hypnosis information stage
  – Delivering suggestibility tests and warm-up exercises
  – Doing hypnosis & hypnotherapy
  – Following up afterwards

Detailed overview:

After learning about the reasons that some hypnotists and hypnotherapists have low (or no) confidence, we then move on to shining the spotlight in your direction, and giving you a whole bunch of different tools and strategies to assess your own level of confidence! As well as learning how you can assess your confidence with a number of specific activities, you’re also going to get 5 confidence questionnaires that will help you to evaluate your confidence in the 5 key areas where you will be working. There’s a confidence questionnaire for each of the following hypnosis elements:

1 – Approaching volunteers/selling services to clients
The hypnosis process has to start somewhere, and for stage hypnotists and hypnotherapists, that starting point is getting your clients/shows booked in. To do this, you need to be confidently communicating with your prospective clients, be that in person (in public or at events), or online. For street hypnotists, the hypnosis process starts with approaching people in order to get volunteers. Whatever you’re doing, the approach/selling element of your hypnosis process must be delivered in a confident way, otherwise you’re likely to end up with no clients or volunteers.

2 – The pre-talk/intake and pre-hypnosis information stage
Giving your clients/volunteers information is another aspect of your hypnosis process where confidence is a key to success. It’s at this point in the hypnosis process where you’re informing people, you’re answering questions, dispelling myths, taking information and building rapport. Doing all of this with confidence in your abilities will set your participants up for a positive hypnosis experience.

3 – Delivering suggestibility tests and warm-up exercises
Suggestibility testing is another area that will help to build a participant’s confidence in you, the hypnotist. Delivering these warm-up exercises in a confident manner is integral, as it demonstrates that you know what you’re doing, and that you are sure of yourself.

4 – The hypnosis part
This is the ‘main part’ of your overall hypnosis or hypnotherapy process. It’s the part where you hypnotise your subjects and either do therapy work, or give them entertaining hypnotic suggestions. Confidence here is essential throughout the entire hypnosis process.

5 – Following up afterwards
After you awaken your subjects and the main hypnosis process is over, you then come onto the ‘follow-up’ stage. Some hypnotists and hypnotherapists are sadly so unconfident in their abilities, that they will actively avoid seeking feedback from past clients/volunteers (for various reasons, the main one being ‘what if it didn’t work?’). Confidently requesting feedback and having a good follow-up process is integral to growing as a hypnotist, both in terms of growing your skills and confidence, as well as growing your business. It also demonstrates to your clients/volunteers that you are confident enough in what you’re doing to seek their feedback.

• Tried-and-tested confidence building techniques:
  – How to effectively prepare your hypnosis process
  – Developing your confident hypnosis skills
  – Mental rehearsal & future pacing for confidence
  – How to get practice hypnotising confidently
  – Pushing your comfort zone to grow confidence
  – Developing the key qualities of a confident hypnotist