Double the hours for training in hypnosis now 450?

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Permalink Reply by Graham Old on January 7, 2011 at 10:22am

As high as possible, if you ask me.

 

Graham Old
Solutions Therapy
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Permalink Reply by Valerie Austin on January 7, 2011 at 10:54am

Yes, on home study as you would in a University but you don't need anything like that in classroom hours.  The classroom is needed to teach you to hynotise and that doesn't take long.

 

It used to be 50 hours for full training and then you could go to workshops if you wished to learn more techniques. Sitting like children in classrooms does not produce excellence. Study based on compulsory classroom hours is the way children are educated higher University study is base on proving competence in exams, tutorials with professors, and demonstration of knowledge in written thesis. 

Just good training and tight exam will sort out the ones that can hypnotise with confidence and get results. Also if you know the history of hypnosis there is no reason to sit in a class you could just take an exam to prove competence.  However, I could stretch my teaching out for a few years and it would be more knowledge but not necessarily produce a better therapist.  Just my opinion fromover 20 years training. Before the mid 90's it was one week to learn to hypnotise and a long weekend for advanced hypnosis. 90's went to 200 hours and in the 2000's 250 hours. Just my opinion from over 20 years training.

 

Graham Old said:

As high as possible, if you ask me.

 

Graham Old
Solutions Therapy
Learn Therapeutic Inductions: Live Training in the UK!

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Permalink Reply by John Maclean on January 7, 2011 at 2:49pm

I agree that the ability to hypnotise effectively can be taught fairly quickly but surely the extra time is needed to learn how to do therapy? There are far too many people out there who can effectively do an induction but have no idea what to do next. Dangerous!

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Permalink Reply by Graham Old on January 7, 2011 at 3:50pm

Absolutely, John.

Surely we shouldn't be lead by how little we could do (e.g. looking at some higher education classes), but by how good the education could be.

You don't get many surgeons trained by correspondance courses, after all!

John Maclean - Hypno-Band tm said:

I agree that the ability to hypnotise effectively can be taught fairly quickly but surely the extra time is needed to learn how to do therapy?

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Permalink Reply by Graham Old on January 7, 2011 at 3:52pm

Hey,

If all we want to do is learn to hypnotise as quickly as possible, I could teach you to do that in an hour!

But don't we have higher standards than that?

 

Valerie Austin said:

Before the mid 90's it was one week to learn to hypnotise and a long weekend for advanced hypnosis. 90's went to 200 hours and in the 2000's 250 hours. Just my opinion from over 20 years training.

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Permalink Reply by Henxy on January 9, 2011 at 9:17am

From my experience, the GHR really did need to up its standards, and this is a good way of doing it. It's not just the hours of 'bums on seats', it's the content of the training, it's the practising in a safer, supported environment and it's not about 'wham, bam, thank you ma'am' if you want to produce safe, professional, caring practitioners.

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