2008 Class Description

Medical Hypnotherapy, Pre-Op & Post-Op

This intensive course will give you the tools to expand your practice into the medical field. Practitioners will learn to empower individuals who are planning to have or have already had surgery. You will learn how to teach patients to create a ?healing contract? between themselves and their health care providers. In partnership with a Medical Hypnotherapist, patients learn self-awareness and relaxation; realize the influence of their beliefs on self-care behaviors and learn tools to motivate life-affirming change.

Course teaches how to formulate a ?toolkit? of techniques specific to medical hypnotherapy. This ?toolkit? prepares patients for a perioperative experience, or deal with the stress of long-term health challenges or chronic pain.  This will include new medical inductions, deepenings, post operative suggestions, mind/body/spirit concepts, quantum physics, and perioperative time-frame.

Benefits of Medical Hypnotherapy   

• Decreased need for pain medication             

• Being actively involved in the process          

• Having a sense of control of one's own healing

• Greatly reduces pre-operative anxiety             

• Less time spent in the recovery room

• Less overall pain                                            

• Shorter healing time

• More mobility and less pain during recovery

• Decreased need for pain medication

• Shorter healing time

• Less time spent in recovery room

"Surgery is a life changing event"

Linda has had extensive hands on experience in this field, working with patients in office and in hospital. She has worked with everything from minor surgery to organ transplant. She has been teaching this course since 2001.

Andrea is a Supervisor Registered Nurse. Originally trained in the UK, she has been working in the US for many years. Her skills will help the students understand basic anatomy, terminology and the hospital and surgical arena. Andrea is a registered "Sacred Healing" counselor and co-sponsors classes in the UK.

Pre-Registration is required

Stop Smoking & Weight Management

Smoking Cessation using hypnosis and behavior modification.  

In this class you will learn how to offer a four week program which effectively assists in letting go of smoking. The class also teaches how to get past nicotine cravings.

Techniques

Weight Management

Sacred Healing suggests a four week program as a basis for weight management. Weight management is a very complex issue and we have to get to know the client and their history so that we can work with them to find the emotional connection behind the weight issue. Often this does not surface easily. We cannot fix someone or simply hypnotize them into losing weight. In this class you will learn how to work with your client in assessing the core issue, planning the program for your client and helping them make a commitment for change that will last. 

Techniques

Inner Child Processing

Most personal growth requires processing aspects of our personality, especially the inner child. Do we even know that we have an inner child? Is our inner child missing, or hiding? What caused this child self to disappear? Finding the answers to these questions we begin to understand that there is a lot of unfinished business.  The inner child is sometimes injured, abandoned, abused or unloved.

In the class you will learn subjective communication skills to reach the inner child. Once the inner child surfaces we continue on with unique ways to communicate, heal and integrate at a whole level. It’s an amazing journey to take and the benefits are astounding. Carl Jung wrote “the child paves the way for a future change of personality”, and his words reference the child as the bringer of healing, or one who makes whole. The bible says “and a little child shall lead them”.

Techniques

Anger Management, Conflict Resolution and Time Line Therapy

 Anger is an emotional state that varies in intensity from mild irritation to intense rage.

We all have anger somewhere in our emotional bank account. In the class you will learn about the source of anger and the anatomy of anger. You will learn how it affects health, both physically and emotionally. Once we find the source, which is usually at an unconscious level, then we can shine the light of awareness on the anger, bring it into the arms of compassion and facilitate a healing.

In the conflict resolution section of this class you will learn new communication skills, accountability and coping skills.

Time Line Therapy is a technique where you, or your client, is able to manage thoughts through the activity of walking along a time line. You will experience this technique which can tap into the subconscious mind and draw on experiences to uncover past emotional debt. This is a great tool to help one to understand past, present and future aspects of time and events.

Empowerment & Fear  vs  Joy

Authentic power is the alignment of the personality with the soul. In this class we will define power and discover the many dimensions of power. Through a series of exercises we will learn about our own personal power, our personal mythology and our patterns of working with power.

We will use Sacred Healing techniques of progression, time line, inner child and expression resolution. We will learn about boundaries and about our “warrior spirit”.

Fear vs Joy deepens our understanding of power, both personal and spiritual. This portion of the class studies the anatomy of fear through Sacred Healing. We experience the power of the “Circle of Love” & Sanctuary and we process forgiveness at a Self level. Joy transcends happiness and as we become familiar with the vibration of Joy we learn how to accept and anchor our Joy. We will learn simple and practical methods of goal setting. This class will teach us how to experience joy, peace and harmony.

Grief & Loss and Sexual Abuse

For many people grief & loss is a difficult issue to work on both personally and professionally. There are specialists in grief and loss. It is a vast and complex issue. With Sacred Healing we attempt to scratch the surface.. We know that loss takes time to heal so the element of “little by little” is very important to honor. Each person’s story needs an audience. Everyone needs to be understood by at least one person. When we hold the space with compassion we can listen and understand. It is a sacred honor to be in the presence of truth expressing through emotions.

In this class you will learn the forms of grief and loss. You will learn the stages of grief and how to guide someone through those stages. Using the Sacred Healing techniques you will learn how to work with past losses, future losses and how to honor the spiritual dimension of grief and loss.

Sexual Abuse is in epidemic proportion. As a counselor, I am always amazed at how often the issue of sexual abuse arises. I have discovered that some counselors do not want to work in the issue. They either find it too painful to listen to the stories or they don’t feel qualified. I have found in my private practice that using the Sacred Healing techniques and the seven elements, we are able to guide victims of sexual abuse from victim to survivors to thrivers who are empowered. There is a huge difference between survivor and thriver. We will study the traits and results of sexual abuse. And, we will learn how to move beyond and how to help others move beyond.