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Newsletter 27
Containing:
Woman losses weight with hypnotherapy
"The Daily Telegraph".
The process of grieving and the tools that facilitate change.
Fully certificated, NCH & HA accredited workshops that subject to your governing body can count toward CPD.
http://www.sccphypnosis.com
Welcome to our autumn workshops. We look forward to meeting you again over these weekends. These workshops are fully accredited by the National Counsel for Hypnotherapy (NCH) & the Hypnotherapy Association (HA) and so count towards your CPD. You will receive: a certificate of attendance; a comprehensive support pack containing strategies; and scripts developed through clinical experience.
To enrol on these workshops please download and complete the booking form and post with your cheque made to ‘SCCP’. If we can be of further help please contact us by email or phone:
Email: info@sccp.org.uk
Telephone number: 01932 341055
Address: SCCP, Nuleaf, 83 Woodlands Avenue, West Byfleet, Surrey, KT14 6AP
As place numbers are restricted we would advise you to book early to avoid disappointment.
These workshops will be held at West Byfleet or Woking College, Surrey.
Tea, coffee and biscuits are supplied. We only have thirty minutes for lunch so you may wish to bring a packed lunch.
Smoking Cessation. 3rd October
Held by James Golding on the 3rd of October at West Byfleet. It is said that there are more than 4.5 billion smokers worldwide. Certainly the volume of people contacting you this year for help with smoking cessation will be a substantial part of your workload, and yet this area can be the most complex to deal with. This is not a workshop offering a formula with one approach for all clients. We all have a series of habits peculiar to us as individuals, which of course we include in everything that we do, especially with a stress-related behaviour, and these need to be addressed, usually in more than one session. This will probably be your largest area of referrals from the medical profession, which recognises hypnotherapy as a successful approach to smoking cessation. This one-day class aims to give you the tools to substantially improve your skills and ability to help your client "Put It Out".
Syllabus:
- The initial consultation;
- How to translate the patient's explanation into a therapeutic elimination of the habit;
- Working with the addictive part of the personality;
- Nicotine - therapeutic use or addiction?
- What other habits are being built into smoking?
- What need is smoking satiating?
- Addressing the psychological side of the addiction;
- How do you best help your client?
This individualised approach to smoking cessation is incredibly successful. The therapeutic interventions are comprehensively covered and scripts supplied. This a fast moving day we start at 10am and finish at 5pm with lots to discuss throughout the day. Cost: £60.
Emotional Eating 10th & 11th October
Weight loss can be the trickiest of issues to work with. The client wants you to hypnotise them to lose weight and you, the therapist, can quite clearly hear that your client is emotionally eating. We all know just how effective hypnotherapy is with smoking cessation and alcohol reduction and cessation, so why do we find it so difficult to help clients to lose weight? Sometimes we don’t. If a client has a simple habit that is helping them to increase their weight then deconditioning the habit is relatively straight forward.
What about the clients who do not seem to make any changes in terms of general diet and weight loss? Simply, if the client’s eating habits are changing because they are having a good or bad day then they are emotionally eating. If your client has been on several diets, and lost more than they weigh over this period of time, then they are (probably) emotionally eating. So just addressing the eating habits is attempting to alter the symptoms, but not working with the cause.
We can live without cigarettes and alcohol but that is not possible with food. We need to eat, so managing is harder to do than cessation. In lots of ways cessation is like turning off the switch, whilst managing is constantly living with temptation.
The way that I have helped so many clients, is not to address their diet at all in the early stages - they have already done this so many times and failed. My approach, and the one I teach, is to help the client process their stress without needing to anaesthetise themselves with food or without insulating their feelings with weight (fat); assisting the client to build a better relationship with themselves and food, not deny them the pleasure but help them to tune in and listen to the needs of their body and enjoy the food they eat.
Twenty-five percent of the UK’s population is now obese. Why don’t diets work? Why do they usually predict the client will lose weight whilst they are on the diet but put on more weight than they originally had after the diet? Finland used to have the highest levels of obesity but now has the lowest in Europe. Why? We need to change our life-style and help others to do the same. If you find this subject of interest for your own reasons, or want to know more to be able to help others, we are holding a two-day workshop on October 10th & 11th at West Byfleet where we will be addressing these issues. The cost is £120:00 for the two days. Over the weekend, you can expect to gain the tools to help yourself and others.
Previous delegates who have attended this course have said:
“This has given me such an insight into how people that are overweight think or why they eat this way.” (Nicola)
“I feel much more confident working with weight loss now.” (Stephen)
“Thanks for so many scripts and different approaches that I can use with my clients.” (Martin)
“Really enjoyed the weekend, thank you so much for sharing your practice experience.” (Pat)
Person-Centred therapy 31st October & 1st November
This two-day workshop has been designed to introduce the therapist to working within the phenomenological field of the client; to be involved in and led by the client's experience. Another way to look at this approach might be to say that the therapist is no longer restricted by his or her training or understanding of technique, but taught to trust that the client brings his own skills and resources which might be drawn on and utilised by focusing on the client and not a therapeutic approach; understanding how to encourage the client to apply those unique attributes to their own lives whilst developing at his own pace. This approach is superb at allowing us to understand how to
be with a client quietly and with confidence.
Famous for his three core conditions: empathy; congruence; and unconditional positive regard, Carl Rogers went on to develop these into six conditions for therapeutic change. In fact Rogers posited the theory of change and the working alliance through the core conditions. Some hypnotherapists have felt they have had little training or understanding of these skills, of how to develop a working relationship and of how to develop that working alliance into one of therapeutic change. Rogers believed that Empathy: the ability to quickly establish an empathic understanding with your client; Congruence: the ability to be transparently open and genuine with your client without hiding behind a professional persona; and Unconditional Positive Regard: caring for your client regardless of their concerns, working with an understanding that the client is unique; were the core conditions necessary for a working alliance and for therapeutic change. And in the presence of the therapist, the client experiences being cared for without feeling judged, through acceptance of his self, habits and behaviour. We believe that this workshop will offer you the experience of these theories and support you in developing your practice through these tried and proven ways of being. Whilst the handout is comprehensive for this day, this approach has meaning when experienced through the therapist and so the approach is largely experiential.
If you are looking to develop your ability in working with people and helping them to change, regardless of your discipline, orientation or career, these two days would be of great benefit to you. A two day work shop £120.
Working With Loss and Bereavement 7th & 8th November
This weekend looks at the theory and the process of bereavement, the phases that your client is liable to experience and how you might affect these therapeutically. We are turning the theory into practice whilst caring for others and ourselves as therapists. The theories of attachment and loss are applied to bereavement,
unemployment, divorce and the struggle of separation and loneliness. This workshop does not look at bereavement as a pathology but as a process or journey of healing. It also explores how we might assist the client through these phases and the therapeutic interventions used, whether we are supporting the family in coping with unexpected death; or working with the carer of the long term sufferer. The aim is to help the client in living with and facing the loss of dreams and expectations and to promote a journey of healing through the therapeutic relationship. This work and the weekend are both challenging and rewarding and offers so much in terms of approaches to working with clients with any issue. This is a weekend for those in the therapeutic profession, whether student or fully qualified. As always, all disciplines are welcome. A two day workshop £120.
We look forward to greeting you.
For further information on our courses please contact James Golding.
For therapy
Hillview Medical Centre, Heathside Rd, Woking, Surrey GU22 7QP
www.jamesgoldinghypnotherapy.com
Email jamesgolding@btconnect.com
For training
SCCP, Nuleaf, 83 Woodlands Avenue, West Byfleet, Surrey KT14 6AP Tel: 01932 341055
www.sccphypnosis.com Email info@sccp.org.uk