Diploma Course Modules
Note: Applicants must hold a pass in the Certificate Course before being able to apply for this course.
Students who have successfully completed the Certificate Course requirements, and passed the examination are entitled to apply to study at Diploma level.
Whether your intention is to become a therapist and be in a position to improve your skills to enable you to help others; or to understand how we work to release our own hidden potentials. There would be some benefit in understanding the theories of the behavioural sciences, and discuss the theories of some of the greatest thinkers in psychotherapy in the 20th Century. Of course, therapy is about the application of these skills, whether using traditional hypnosis or not.
With this in mind, there are four assignments built into the Diploma Course (one per term). The first being the application of simple understood positive language to a rather ambiguous script. During the Diploma Course we will be spending some time in understanding human behaviour, discussing Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner and Bandura, their theories and applications in the therapeutic context, enabling the patient to change unwanted habits, and develop more constructive ways of responding to stress and to achieve their aims.
To study psychotherapy without considering the pathology of the symptoms would be to offer the subject an injustice; with this in mind Freud, Jung and Adler are discussed encouraging the student to reflect on their theories and their implications in the modern practice.
The last assignment would be approached as a theoretical case study applying the theories from the previously discussed disciplines to a theoretical patient presenting with headaches. To understand the therapeutic relationship which allows the development of the patient in a safe environment, we are considering Carl Rogers for his client centred approach, and Fritz Perles responsible for Gestalt therapy.
Milton Erickson considered to be the master of hypnotherapy and his use of language delivered as a therapeutic intervention in a permissive environment; weaves these different if not challenging disciplines into a cohesive eclectic approach to change.
The aim of the Diploma Course and the presenting tutors is to help the student achieve their potential, which may be a new career as a practising therapist, or the application of these new learnings to one's self.
We wish you well in your future endeavours and assure you of our continued support.
Term 1
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Weekend 1 Hand rotation Glove anaesthesia Hemispheric functioning of the brain Thought stopping Locus of control IMR therapy Nail-biting Performance anxiety Diagnostic scale regression Nocturnal enuresis Confusion techniques. |
Weekend 2 Pattern breaking inductions Age regression The nervous system Free-floating regression Psychology Bruxism Behavioural psychotherapy Phobias Subjective units of disturbance Construction of hierarchies Systematic desensitisation Desensitisation procedure Hypno-desensitisation. |
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Weekend 3 Snoring Psychogenic infertility Pregnancy loss Obstetrics Neurosis Aversion therapy Flooding Massed practice Assertiveness training Esoteric regressions Sigmund Freud Regressions. |
Weekend 4 Sexual abuse Glaucoma Inner child one Inner child two Suggested amnesia Stage hypnosis Memory substitution Basic elements of NLP Transformational grammar The Meta Model Hallucination |
Term 2
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Weekend 5 Hallucinations - visual/auditory Hallucinations - negative/positive Mirror - pacing - leading NLP accessing cues Pseudo-dyslexia Bingeing cessation Dissociation Dissociation - deepening The 'yes' set The negative question response Dissociation, identifying the part. |
Weekend 6 Dermatology Stuttering Two-stage dissociation Obsessive-compulsive disorders IMR Therapy Erickson - truisms Erickson - utilising time Multiple-part dissociation Headaches Progress of dissociation Miscellaneous dissociation. |
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Weekend 7 Jung Analytical psychology Lucid dreaming Control of nightmares Creatively enhancing dreams Problem solving with dreams Insomnia Sleeping pills - tranquillisers Automatic writing Automatic drawing Symptom manipulation Practice management. |
Weekend 8 The Humanistic approach Alfred Adler Time distortion Time distortion - induction - deepener Reversing subjective time Conventional time distortion Bulimia nervosa Gestalt therapy Erickson - not knowing, not doing Erickson - open-ended suggestions Re-birthing Pre-birth to birth regression. |
Term 3
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Weekend 9 Obsessive compulsive disorders Autogenic training Pseudo-orientation one Pseudo-orientation two Miscellaneous pseudo-orientation Rhythmic eye movement - induction EMDR therapy EMDR trauma protocol EMDR current anxiety protocol EMDR phobia protocol IBS. |
Weekend 10 Panic disorders Erickson - all possibilities Erickson - questions Erickson - compounds Advanced pseudo regression therapy Psycho sexual The Client centred approach Carl Rogers Positive phobia replacement Asthma Tinnitus. |
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Weekend 11 Practice management Patient therapist relationship NLP - the swish NLP - calibration NLP - anchoring NLP - non-verbal anchoring NLP - technique for phobia/anxiety NLP - reframing in a trance Hypnosis in sport Transactional analysis Timelines Timeline therapy |
Weekend 12 Erickson - implications Erickson - binds and double-binds Erickson - interspersal techniques Apposition of opposites - induction Apposition of opposites - therapy Paradox in therapy Brief strategic therapy Problem formation - group therapy Problem resolution - logical types Implementing the therapeutic paradox Polarity dissociation |
Term 4
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Weekend 13 Depression HIV/Aids Magnetic field induction/therapy Alcoholism Dystonia Erithrophobia Self-integration dissociation Agoraphobia Paranoia Psycho-drama/hypno-drama Anorexia nervosa. |
Weekend 14 Myocardial infarction/cardio-phobia Symptom signalling Childhood anxiety disorders Mind/body dissociation - induction Mind/body dissociation - deepener Criminology Arthritis - rheumatism Chaos theory of neurosis Quantum therapy Symptom de-labelling Depolarisation. |