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Wednesday 31 March 2010

why choose wellerassociates for your hypnotherapy training?

Having spent 20 years as a hypnotherapist and running a full time business. You learn what works and what does not. Too many courses in my opinion try to train hypnotherapists to be psychologists and whatever.
The danger being "Jack-of-all-trades and masters of none".
This route takes them outside of established skills sets.

Hypnotherapy is a practical profession built on results. Key to this is building a successful practise so your skill levels are at the highest levels possible. This only happens with successful outcomes.
Little point in being trained to a high standard theoretically then not being able to use it.
Our training therefore has a very practical focus.

Clients use and pay hypnotherapists in my experience of a few thousand hours or more for stop smoking, weight loss, anxiety cures,and anxiety based (phobias,stress,IBS etc)

If they did not need us they would not use us.
My training schools underpin the training by 3 months of coaching back up. We show you how to run a practise and then take hands on approach to help them do it. Neither do we charge extra for it.
Real world.

You do not need a degree to be a successful hypnotherapist, but you do need common sense and the ability to build report with your client. Without that you cannot communicate with the subconscious(this sets us apart from other therapies) and fulfil what they are paying you for. So rapport building is key.

Most purely psychology based work tends to go elsewhere, clients come to hypnotherapy when all else fails.
So lets just train and practise professionally,ethically, and effectively, results driven, getting the best results for clients,without pretending to be what we are not.

Saturday 27 March 2010

Workplace stress

What is stress

H&SE definition

Adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demands placed upon them.

Why is there so much stress around at work??
· Compliance
· Paper work
· Lack of communication
· Technology
· Relocation
· Down sizing
· Promotion
· Bullying
· Corporate stress management

· Why
· H&SE
· Options
· UK is at the bottom of European league for getting people back to work

Source CIPD

· H&SE 2000 18 million days lost
· UK stress related illness costing 3.75b –7bn pa

Source Gary cooper Univ Manchester Pres International stress management Association

· Stress related illness Europe’s largest single source of sickness absence costs.
· 64% (ISMA) 2002 UK workforce is suffering from workplace stress
· 66% say stress is reducing job satisfaction
· 33% believe reducing productivity
· 75% 18-24 yr olds surveyed said experienced it

H&SE

Meeting July 2004, which I attended CIPD &HSE workshop-how to take forward

· Discussion guidelines /benchmarks
· Recent survey of safety procedures by business information service Conel
· 79% taken no action/interest draft standards
· 55% completely unaware
· Guidelines were due to be enforced end 2004
· Feedback from H&SE inspectors-not happening
· 2 HSE inspectors making compensation claims against HSE workplace stress and unreasonable demands

Is it an employers concern??

· “Yes it your duty in law to make sure your employees are not made ill by work. Stress can make your employees ill.”

· How do I recognise stress in a person??

“Many of the outward signs of stress should be noticeable to managers…”

6 key workplace stressors

· Cope demands
· Adequate say in how/control
· Support
· Not subject to bullying/relationships
· Roles
· Involvement in organisational changes
· Benchmarks 65%-85%
· 15%-35% of staff could feel under severe excessive pressure for any given standard causing stress-employer has been seen to meet obligation.
· Why
· CBI 1992 360 m days lost
· 8.5 cost to organisations
· £5b economy
· 1996 institute of Management 270,000 took time off everyday due to workplace stress
· Lost production NHS charges 7B

Legal costs

· Walker V Northumberland county
· Costs employer 400k damages/trial/sick pay
· Latest figs Unison 2004 5m Brits suffered workplace stress

· H&SE has guidelines/standards will make it easier for employees to bring actions against firms failing to act.
· Nobody is taking any notice
· Inspectors are not enforcing
· Door wide-open for compensation.
· Only a matter of time
· Employee win no fee basis
· Request Riddor reporting form no 2508
· No mechanism dealing stress insurer dim view
· Claim civil route failed duty of care
· Improvement notice
· Organisation stress assessment /audit
· Not complying with the law
· Feedback HSE bullying

Tips

· Ensure employee handbook & induction shows that management aware adverse effects too much stress
· Clear written & precise procedures refer to stress policy
· Precise job description
· Stress agenda management meetings
· Offer communication workshops-improved communications means better productivity
· Offer stress management workshops

· Monitor stress levels questionnaire x2 a year.3 things company can do to reduce stress. Anonymous /actions taken
· Simple records book combat unreasonable stress
· Recruitment interview see how they handle stress.

Prevention is better than cure or compensation

· Stress policy-show them
· Guide to work related stress H&SE
· CIPD Managing Organisational stress
· hypnotictrack relaxation & confidence download
· Stress test
· Work stress .net –Ian Draper

Options

Studied it in some depth

Communication

· Actively listen
· Body language
· Relate style flex. On –verbal communication unlike
· Skilled at 121`s
· Open ended questions
· Management style-bully/ buy in

Stress identified

· Techniques I use offer complete physical and mental; relaxation-antidote to stress.
· Stop smoking/weight gain
· Website Corporate stress management
· Communication training
· More business.

Friday 26 March 2010

Hypnosis and sex

Hypnotherapy is a very powerful form of complete relaxation which helps programme the subconscious mind to both unblock stagnant feelings and achieve your true sexual potential.


A common, effective use of hypnotherapy is to lower your anxiety.

The anticipation of failure (particularly for men anxious about their ability to have or to maintain an erection) brings on feelings of anxiety.

This in turn brings about the pressure to perform and failure. Hypnotherapy ends this vicious circle and replaces the anticipation of failure with the certainty of sexual success and sexual confidence.

Sexual enhancement therapy methods are more readily accepted by someone when in hypnosis because the conscious, judgmental, analytical part of the mind is temporarily set aside. The subconscious then absorbs the new, positive messages being by the hypnotherapist to create.

Precisely because hypnosis taps into the autonomic nervous system, a person can use it to improve or alter functions that normally happen without conscious control, e.g., a man's erection.

Hypnotictracks feedback

Hi Sam,

Thanks for the quick reply, I'll certainly try it tonight.
The track definitely helped over the last few months - I bought it at a time when I was thinking of giving up learning because I just couldn't seem to relax enough to listen to my instructor and it really helped with that. Obviously, since I've put in for my test! I downloaded the driving test track because of the success I had with the weight loss one :)

I've been recommending the site/tracks to friends of mine and have no problem doing the same to others!

Thanks again for your reply,
Georgina

Hypnotherapy training

Wellerassociates training
http://training.wellerassociates.co.uk

Wellerassociates will be running hypnotherapy diploma courses from April 2010 at the Holiday Inn Express Swindon and Jury’s Milton Keynes.

Principal Sam Weller has been a hypnotherapist for 20 years trained by the renowned Gil Boyne.
The GHR standards consul validates the course.

Sam training experience, Regional training manager for a large financial services company, Tutor for Chrysalis and Director of Training for the Academy of Clinical and Medical hypnosis.

The hypnotherapy diploma course will be run over 5x 2-day modules with emphasis on practical application.

Uniquely 3 months of coaching /supervision/ support will be offered at no extra cost.

No interest is charged for instalment payments.

Further details
Sam Weller Principal SQHP (Senior Qualification Hypnotherapy Practise)
01608 645445
http://training.wellerassociates.co.uk/

“Sam’s experience in sales and proactive marketing was a helpful tool in the training as it gave a real insight into how a therapist can develop quickly and what is effective at securing clients. He also has a vast knowledge of different techniques which were brought in when relevant to the training.

Sam was personable and enjoyable to work with. I didn’t feel I was being ‘trained’ I felt as if he was helping me to learn. Too many people cannot connect with their classes and talk at the students, with Sam it was very much a synchronised effort to learn the knowledge and I felt that they really cared about my qualification”.

Tom Blackman
UK body building champion

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Anxiety

Anxiety underpins most if not all of the work you do as a hypnotherapist. Anxiety is free range, people feel anxious about being anxious, and anxious if they are not anxious, so that the anxiety returns and everything is then back to “normal”.
I call it anxiety syndrome. Many may not even understand why they are feeling anxious.

The anxiety track can break that habit and reverse the negative downward spiral. This track works well with relaxation and confidence.

Anxiety can drain you of energy; you always feel tired, so increased energy and relief of tiredness were devised to counter this.

Side effects of stress and anxiety include the need to move from pain to pleasure so people may eat more, so there is a need to eat less by realigning the relationship to food. Without feeling as if you are on a diet. Some may lose weight instead.

Many find breaking a smoking habit more difficult.

Anxiety may be caused by having to engage in public speaking when you have never done this before or you may have a fear of flying.

If you have any questions regarding anxiety please feel free to contact me.

Best
Sam

Thursday 4 March 2010

regulation of hypnotherapy training

Some training providers state that you can only practise using their HPD qualification because of forthcoming regulation. This is total nonsense.
Nothing as yet has been agreed about regulation nor compliance, especially with regard to hypnotherapy training.

In the main hypnotherapy is undertaken by part-timers, very few run full time practises. To do that you must be able to run a very professional and effective operation, whereby results and ethics are key.
If a practitioner is Senior Reg.This means at least 500 hours in practise so the likelihood is they are full time, with the skills set to match.

As a start point if you are looking at ethics and standards, anybody coming into hypnotherapy,or is in the business, should be credit checked regularly , and checked to see if they have a criminal or police record.

Some hypnotherapy organisations allow testimonials and some do not.My view is that they can provide important evidence of effectiveness and professionalism and as long as they can be backed up, are therefore valid.

Hypnotherapy practioners must always show on there websites which organisation they are affiliated to,especially if they promote themselves as advocates of regulation.

What can help our profession is the education of the public, away from the link to stage hypnosis. Most perceptions are based on this and this unfortunately makes hypnotherapy underused as a technique.
Hypnotherapy should be in the main stream and until stage performers are marginalised as just that, and nothing else, hypnotherapy will overall remain outside of the mainstream.

hypnotherapy training franchises

A training franchise is a set up whereby you pay an amount to buy into a training provider and then pay a percentage of your gross income to them. (This can vary between 17.5% to 25% of the gross)

This saves you having to write your own training material and having it approved,so it can be a much quicker route into training.
To be an effective trainer you need to be an experienced hypnotherapist.
The franchisor may or may not take this into consideration.

Trainer levels may be lower due to the fact that after net costs, the net profit share of the remaining balance will be lower.

They may still advertise 2 trainers however only one will be in full time attendance the other may “guest” at various slots.
This will affect the level of practical work, which may mean you will have to pay more for "practise sessions" outside of the training.
The franchisor may or may not visit the franchisee to see if the training taking place resembles the prospectus.

Terence Watts in his guide to hypnotherapy training providers is especially scathing of franchise operations.He states

"The Franchised Training School
BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL OF THIS ONE: It is becoming quite common for owners of schools to get therapists to run their courses in different parts of the Country. All well and good, except for the fact that it often looks to the student as if you are studying with a branch of the 'parent' school. The fact is, though, that these satellite schools frequently do not belong to and are not under the guidance/jurisdiction of the 'parent' school. It is a business transaction, pure and simple, like a franchise operation".

Some may hide the fact that it is franchise by saying they are a “director" or a "principal" or they run an "academy" even.At the end of the day it is still a franchise.

If you’re looking at training providers in the Milton Keynes and Swindon area and wish to know whether a training provider is franchise please call or email for more information.

When is a hypnotherapy training provider an academy?

An academy-for those that like to use the term- (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is meant to be an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name actually traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, north of Athens, Greece.

hypnotherapy training feedback

This training has far exceeded my expectations! In fact, being a scientist this has tremendously helped me gaining new insights into the subconscious world and made me look at research approaches from a different angle. Sam Weller is very knowledgeable and creates an experiential environment that fosters ultimate learning with passion, humour and creative hands on training. I highly recommend training with Sam  to anyone who really wants to get to grips with hypnotherapy on highest standards.

Best wishes

Dr. Susanne Droste
Research scientist
Bristol

hypnotherapy training milton keynes

Wellerassociates will be running hypnotherapy diploma courses from April 2010 at the Jury`s Inn Milton Keynes. Principal Sam Weller has been a hypnotherapist for over 20 years having been trained in 1989 by the world renowned Gil Boyne. The GHR standards consul validates the course.

Sam Weller’s training experience, Regional training manager for a large financial services company, Tutor for Chrysalis and Director of Training for the Academy of Clinical and Medical hypnosis. The hypnotherapy diploma course will be run over 5 x 2-day masterclasses with emphasis on practical application. The course will be geared to the needs of running a hypnotherapy practise full time or a second income stream.

Our approach means you will be qualified far quicker than the more traditonal training methods and generating income sooner. Our course content is relevant and focused to the realities of running a modern day hypnotherapy practise.

The training will take place at the actual venue in Milton Keynes so you will not be moved on elsewhere. Each course will have 2 trainers minimum. The training team consists of Sam Weller,Alison Gatenby,Scott Whitrow,Jon Margetts and support trainers Nick Pease and David beck. This is not a franchise operation. Therefore we can resource the training with more trainers.

Uniquely 3 months of coaching /supervision/ support will be offered at no extra cost. No interest is charged for instalment payments. Cost £1750(full upfront payment 20% discount £1400)


Further details Sam Weller. Principal. SQHP. (Senior Qualification Hypnotherapy Practise) 01608 645445 http://training.wellerassociates.co.uk/ sam@wellerassociates.co.uk

"A fantastic course with Sam - most weekends were full of fun as well as lots of lectures and practical work. The tutor on this course was knowledgeable, very approachable and very much full of character in class. Not only did I come away as a hypnotherapist but also I thoroughly enjoyed the weekend retreats that this type of course was able to offer and on this course I was also able to continue on my journey of self-development. I also met some fantastic and interesting people on this course. I have set up the hypnotherapy business alongside my other therapies so I am utilizing all that I have learnt, in my work as well as it helping in my everyday personal life. I recommend this course to anyone who wishes to become a hypnotherapist or for anyone who wants personal growth, as long as you are happy to work hard and are prepared to laugh a lot along the way".

Sam Simmons
Wootton Bassett

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hypnotherapy training some facts

The more organisations that recognise the hypnotherapy training the better it is?

Not so. A recognised body (there are several) that can independently validate the quality of training to set criteria and standards is enough. Their validation allows the training to award a diploma, which means that indemnity can be acquired which is a legal requirement to be able to practise and charge fees.

The more awards we give you the better the hypnotherapy training.

In the real world what matters, when you are running a practise is having the skill set from a hypnotherapy diploma that allows you to be effective, within the actual work streams that will be presented to you. Most work streams for hypnotherapy are based on smoking, weight loss and anxiety. Anxiety underpins most if not all of the work. Also phobias and whatever your chosen market is.
Even more important is having the tool kit to be able to attract clients and build up your skill levels and professionalism. Most clients are referred to you from other clients who have experienced successful outcomes working with you.
Hypnotherapy is a practical profession and results driven. Full time hypnotherapists who are the minority are self-employed.
Some training providers in striving to be able to advertise training in other areas, to attract more students, invariably go outside their own areas of expertise.

HPD is the finest qualification in the land for hypnotherapy training

This is often touted by training schools that offer it. HPD "training" is not really further training at all but rather relies upon the submission of a portfolio of varied material - scarcely viable evidence of either superior training or resultant superior practitioners. It often duplicates the diploma, which you are studying for

HPD will be required for hypnotherapy training due to forthcoming regulation

Not so. Regulation of any type has yet to be agreed. There is absolutely no link between the need for HPD to be able to practise and any forthcoming regulation.

HPD is the only externally verified and independent hypnotherapy training in the land

HPD has been created by the NCH. and is marked and assessed by them as such after a trainer has marked it. The NCFE produces the award. In my experience having trained students in it and thus having marked numerous portfolios, not all portfolios are then actually assessed. It is totally theory based.

The more hours the better the hypnotherapy training?

Not so. Quality not quantity. If a training provider knows the business, and what they are doing, and provides the number of hours required without unnecessary excess and no more, (with validation from a major body that has examined the training) you will be able you to practise successfully. Especially if free coaching back up and support has been provided.

hypnotherapy training swindon

Wellerassociates will be running hypnotherapy diploma courses from April 2010 at the Holiday Express Inn Swindon.
Principal Sam Weller has been a hypnotherapist for over 20 years having been trained in 1989 by the world renowned Gil Boyne. The GHR standards consul validates the course.

Sam Weller’s training experience, Regional training manager for a large financial services company, Tutor for Chrysalis and Director of Training for the Academy of Clinical and Medical hypnosis. The hypnotherapy diploma course will be run over 5 x 2-day masterclasses with emphasis on practical application. The course will be geared to the needs of running a hypnotherapy practise full time or a second income stream.

Our approach means you will be qualified far quicker than the more traditonal training methods and generating income sooner. Our course content is relevant and focused to the realities of running a modern day hypnotherapy practise.

The training will take place at the actual venue in Swindon so you will not be moved on elsewhere. Each course will have 2 trainers minimum. The training team consists of Sam Weller,Alison Gatenby,Scott Whitrow,Jon Margotts and support trainers Nick Pease and David beck. This is not a franchise operation. Therefore we can resource the training with more trainers.

Uniquely 3 months of coaching /supervision/ support will be offered at no extra cost. No interest is charged for instalment payments. Cost £1750(full upfront payment 20% discount £1400)


Further details Sam Weller. Principal. SQHP. (Senior Qualification Hypnotherapy Practise) 01608 645445 http://training.wellerassociates.co.uk/ sam@wellerassociates.co.uk

"A fantastic course with Sam - most weekends were full of fun as well as lots of lectures and practical work. The tutor on this course was knowledgeable, very approachable and very much full of character in class. Not only did I come away as a hypnotherapist but also I thoroughly enjoyed the weekend retreats that this type of course was able to offer and on this course I was also able to continue on my journey of self-development. I also met some fantastic and interesting people on this course. I have set up the hypnotherapy business alongside my other therapies so I am utilizing all that I have learnt, in my work as well as it helping in my everyday personal life. I recommend this course to anyone who wishes to become a hypnotherapist or for anyone who wants personal growth, as long as you are happy to work hard and are prepared to laugh a lot along the way".

Sam Simmons
Wootton Bassett

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