In this one-day certification course you will learn innovative imagery techniques and guidelines for the successful use of imagery for your own healing and transformation and/or to expand the scope of your practice and your work with clients. You will have numerous opportunities to practice facilitating and receiving imagery work and have a new 'toolkit' for your personal and professional life.

You will learn guided imagery techniques to: identify and transform 'shadow subpersonalities,' heal and uncover the root causes of financial and career issues, ignite and sustain creativity, make intuitive decisions and life choices, and effectively use and/or teach self-guided imagery. This training is taught by Susanne West, a Certified Hypnotherapist since 1990 and a Professor of Psychology at John F. Kennedy University. Susanne teaches in the School of Holistic studies and School of Education and Liberal Arts at JFKU and is the recipient of the 2007 JFK Distinguished Teaching Award.

• How to use Psychosynthesis subpersonality work to heal and transform 'shadow selves', such as the 'Inner Critic'
• Techniques to ignite and sustain creativity
• How to apply the 'Healing and Symbols Process' to financial and career issues
• Guidelines for using personal symbols to identify root causes of life challenges and discover ways to heal and transform these issues
• Methods for deepening spirituality for people with addictions
• Methods for grounding imagery experiences
• Specific imagery techniques for intuitive decision-making

• Guided Imagery Certification from the Center for Hypnotherapy
• Scripts for working with 'shadow subpersonalities,' addictions and spirituality, and intuitive decision-making
• Guidelines for the effective use of imagery and self-guided imagery
• Nurses and hypnotherapists will receive CEUs

Susanne West, MA, CHT is a Professor of Psychology at John F. Kennedy University and teaches in the School of Holistic Studies and School of Education and Liberal Arts at JFKU. She is the recipient of the 2007 Harry L. Morrison distinguished Teaching Award at JFKU. Formerly the chair of the Department of Liberal Arts at JFK, Susanne was also on the faculty of the Psychosynthesis Training Program for seven years and a graduate advisor at the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. She has been a Certified Hypnotherapist since 1990 and is the founder of Insight to Action Coaching ™ and The Soul of Caregiving™.

For more information, visit her website susannewest.com

What others have said about Susanne:

"Susanne West is one of the great mentors of my life. Her profound ability to teach, guide, and inspire opened up new worlds to me at a crucial time in my development, and she was the vital catalyst that directed me to clarify and shape the principles that became the foundation of all of my work.

And after all these years, Susanne's insights, wisdom, and ability to spur me into action are still crucial to my own unfolding as both teacher and author. Not only did her INSIGHT TO ACTION COACHING™ catapult me right through a blockage I recently experienced, but it brought me into the ease and the joy of the creative process. I cannot fully express my gratitude and thrill for how Susanne's coaching led me to write the first draft of my next book in only five weeks!

Beyond my own personal transformation, I want to convey how you too will benefit from Susanne's particular kind of genius. Her intellectual power is wrapped in a depth of kindness, compassion, and wisdom that will alter your life in unimaginable ways. And her work opens the flood gates so that inspiration can flow through you and take you on the blissful ride of your highest expression. You don't want to miss the experience."

~Debbie Ford,

#1 New York Times best-selling author (Why Good People Do Bad Things, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, Spiritual Divorce, The Secret of the Shadow, The Right Questions and The Best Year of Your Life) and creator of the renowned Shadow Process Workshop

Read more glowing comments about Susanne. here.

• This wonderful workshop will take place on Saturday, August 8, 2009 from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
• Location to be announced
• Fee: $139 in advance, $149 at the door.

Pre-registration is advised

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Become a Certified Medical Hypnotherapist

     This 2-day accelerated course presents theory and clinical application of chronic and acute pain management and medical hypnosis, utilizing the latest advancements in hypnosis, and energy therapies. You will master techniques to increase your clients pain thresholds, thereby reducing the need for drugs and medication, and helping to speed recovery.

     You'll learn about hypnosis in pain management, emergencies, irritable bowel, pre-, during- and after surgery, cancer treatment support, auto immune diseases, and simple everyday procedures and much more. You will be given an understanding of the basic physiology and biology behind medical hypnosis. You?ll also learn how to market your services in this field. This 2-day training is taught by Seth-Deborah Roth, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and a Certified Medical Hypnotherapist. She brings over 36 years of diverse medical knowledge to this depth filled course. Gain a feeling of confidence and broaden your scope of practice and knowledge in this very exciting course.

What You Will Learn
• Learn valuable, detailed hypnotherapeutic interventions for allergies, asthma, arthritis, cancer, cardiovascular disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, ulcers, colitis, headaches, hypertension, dermatological disorders and more.
• Help clients eliminate anxiety and discomfort for surgery and other medical procedures.
• Alleviate side effects of chemo and radiation therapy and accelerate healing.
• Discover powerful Pain Management strategies.
• Learn how to produce profound Hypnoanesthesia in 7 minutes or less ?
• Discover innovative patient assessment techniques to eliminate hit-or-miss, trial-and-error methods common to traditional hypnotherapy.
• Obtain critically important questions to ask all medical and pain management patients or clients during the clinical Interview.
• Discover hypnosis for dental procedures.
• Experience specialized inductions and techniques for children.
• Learn how to tailor inductions and techniques for individual patients or clients.
• Experience innovative and effective disguised techniques for patients or clients fearful of hypnosis.
• Discover marketing techniques specifically for medical hypnosis.
• Plus much, much more!

What You Will Receive:
• Two information-packed days of intensive instruction and experiential learning
  
• Medical Hypnotherapy Training Manual
  
• Powerful suggestions and imagery scripts for all areas covered in the course
  
• Certification from The Center for Hypnotherapy, Oakland CA
  

About Medical Hypnosis and the AMA

     In 1958, the American Medical Association accepted Hypnosis as an adjunct to medical practice. According to the AMA, within the decade virtually every outpatient surgery unit and clinic will be utilizing hypnosis. More than ever before, people are demanding alternatives to traditional medicine.

     Alternative therapies are having an incredible impact on people?s perception of health. A 1998 survey by Stanford University reported that 69% of all Americans use some form of complimentary or alternative medicine. It is estimated they spend almost $28 billion a year on them - more than they spend out of pocket for conventional medicine. An American Medical Association study that same year showed U.S. adults made over 600 million visits to alternative practitioners - exceeding the number of visits made to primary care physicians. The medical community is now taking notice.

About Seth-Deborah Roth

     Seth-Deborah Roth, CRNA, Cht. has had many years of experience in the medical field as a Nurse Anesthetist. She graduated from The Hypnotherapy Center in August of 2000. After graduation, she received masters certifications in NLP and Reiki, and she became a practitioner in Time Line Therapy and HypnoBirthing. She has also been certified with special training in Pain Control, Cancer Hypnosis, Medical Hypnosis, Pediatric Hypnosis, Habit Control and Weight Loss. Her practice "Hypnotherapy for Health" is located in both Castro Valley and Pleasanton, CA, where she specializes in Medical Hypnosis. She has been a speaker at conferences and on the radio. She produces hypnosis CDs and specializes in customizing CDs for different medical issues or surgical procedures. For more information please go to her web site at www.hypnotherapyforhealth.com or browse her blog at http://hypnotichealth.blogspot.com

Where and When
Saturday and Sunday, September 12 & 13, 2009 - 9:30 to 5 PM
Fee: $275 in advance, $300 at the door. Can be paid in full or by installments. Credit cards accepted. You can send a $50 deposit, pay in full, or pay at the door. Receive CEUs if you're a nurse or hypnotherapist.
Directions to our new healing center near Whole Foods in Berkeley CA will be given when you register Special: Get a discount of $15 for each person you bring!

How to Enroll
You can email us at mgordon@hypnotherapycenter.com. Tell us it's for the Medical Hypnotherapy Seminar. Please include your name, address and phone. Also let us know how you found out about the workshop. You can also call us at (510) 839-4800 or 1(800) 398-0034. If you'd like to write (and if you'd like to send your fee), you can write to Marilyn Gordon, PO Box 10795, Oakland CA 94610. You can also go to our secure online enrollment form - and you can pay online at https://ssl.hypnotherapycenter.com/order/workshop_enroll.html .

THIS TRAINING AND INSTRUCTOR HAVE RECEIVED RAVE REVIEWS!

"This is the Medical Hypnotherapy Workshop I'd been waiting for! Very practical and well organized." RR.

"I loved it! It was excellent, and the 80 page workshop manual is great." MB

"This workshop completely satisfied my goal of becoming more informed about the medical context for hypnotherapy."MC

"Excellent course - very well thought out and thorough. Seth has a tremendous wealth of knowledge. The information flowed easily" JG

"Great workshop. I felt full of wonder, excitement, and hope. It was very inspirational, and the group dynamic was very special. Seth was full of real-life experience, compassion, knowledge and joy." JL

"Very positive, very informative! Seth's warm caring manner filled our classroom with love and joy." DS

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Come to an enlightening, educational day focusing on the uses of hypnosis and hypnotic techniques for pain management. Earn 16 continuing education units acceptable for the National Guild of Hypnotists, the Board of Registered Nursing, and more.

Here is your opening to a successful pain management hypnosis practice. This course will help you to establish yourself as a part of a multi-disciplinary pain management team!

The Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has set standards for the assessment of pain. It recommends that alternative non-pharmacological methods for pain management be used by all hospitals

This training gives you the ability to:
• Help your clients to overcome chronic pain.
• Increase the profitability of your practice by adding pain management.
• Become the specialist in your area in the management of pain.
• Develop a referral relationship with physicians and other healing professionals.
• Understand how pain affects over a third of the population in the U.S. and is a leading cause of missed work and billions of dollars lost in productivity at the workplace.

Objectives of this workshop:
• Give you a basic understanding of pain, its physiology and theories
• Understand the client or patient in pain
• Learn and demonstrate the skills and various techniques for preventing, reducing and removing pain and when to use which technique
• Learn what you can handle in your pain control practice
• Understand protocol for chronic pain management sessions
• Find out how to get those medical referrals

Techniques you'll learn:
• Waking Hypnosis including Kinesthetic Swish, Reverse Spin, Symbol Fractionation
• Glove Anesthesia
• Light Switch
• Ghost Hand
• Esdaille State
• Parts Therapy for chronic pain/secondary gain
• Rapid Inductions, Touch Hypnosis
• You'll see demonstrations and hear anecdotal case studies.

You'll do hands on practice to give you experience in the various techniques.

You will learn various methods of hypnotic induction, formulating hypnotic suggestions for decreasing or removing symptoms, and metaphorical guidelines with goal setting and treatment planning.

You can immediately apply these skills in your hypnotherapy, nursing, or other practice.

This training is for all who have an interest in pain management: hypnotherapists, nurses, and others. You'll become a Certified Hypnosis Pain Management Practitioner if you're a hypnotherapist or a certificate of completion if not.

Seth-Deborah Roth, CRNA, RN,DCHT(c) NBCCH, Cht. has had many years of experience in the medical field as a Nurse Anesthetist. She graduated from The Hypnotherapy Center in August of 2000. After graduation, she received master's certifications in NLP and Reiki, and she became a practitioner in Time Line Therapy and HypnoBirthing. She has also been certified with special training in Pain Control, Cancer Hypnosis, Medical Hypnosis, Pediatric Hypnosis, Habit Control and Weight Loss. Her practice "Hypnotherapy for Health" is located in both Castro Valley and Pleasanton, CA, where she specializes in Medical Hypnosis. She has been a speaker at conferences and on the radio. She produces hypnosis CDs and specializes in customizing CDs for different medical issues or surgical procedures. For more information please go to her web site at http://hypnotherapyforhealth.com or browse her blog at http://hypnotichealth.blogspot.com

She appeared on Discovery Channel's "Myth Busters." She specializes in Complementary Medical Hypnosis - chronic pain, pre-op intra-op and post-op support, IBS, insomnia, weight loss and stop smoking, stress management, Hypnosis for Childbirth, and she is an instructor at the Center for Hypnotherapy in Oakland, CA.

Saturday & Sunday, October 10 & 11, 2009, 9:30 to 5:30
Location to be announced
Fee: $275 in advance, $300 at the door. Can be paid in full or by installments. Credit cards accepted. You can send a $50 deposit, pay in full, or pay at the door. Receive CEUs if you're a nurse or hypnotherapist.

You can go to our secure online enrollment form - and you can pay online at www.hypnotherapycenter.com. Or, you can email us at mgordon@hypnotherapycenter.com. Tell us it's for the "Pain Management With Hypnosis" workshop. Please include your name, address and phone. Also let us know how you found out about the workshop. You can also call us at (510) 839-4800 or 1(800) 398-0034. If you'd like to write (and if you'd like to send your fee), you can write to Marilyn Gordon, PO Box 10795, Oakland CA 94610.

• This is the Medical Hypnotherapy Workshop I'd been waiting for! Very practical and well organized." RR.
• I loved it! It was excellent, and the handouts are great." MB
• This workshop completely satisfied my goal of becoming more informed about the medical context for hypnotherapy." MC
• Excellent course - very well thought out and thorough. Seth has a tremendous wealth of knowledge. The information flowed easily" JG
• Great workshop. I felt full of wonder, excitement, and hope. It was very inspirational, and the group dynamic was very special. Seth was full of real-life experience, compassion, knowledge and joy." JL
• Very positive, very informative! Seth's warm caring manner filled our classroom with love and joy." DS
• A+++. Excellent. Went beyond my expectations." (Anon.)

We would love to see you!  We honor your presence.

Contact Information
Center for Hypnotherapy Certification, www.hypnotherapycenter.com
(510) 839-4800 or 1 (800) 398-0034
Marilyn Gordon, mgordon@hypnotherapycenter.com
PO Box 10795; Oakland CA 94610
Workshops held at 3645 Grand Avenue, Oakland CA; Enroll in Advance

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