Sydney Hypnotherapy Training - 22nd to 27th January, 2027
Confidently learn practical hypnotherapy, with ease.
An instant mesmerism knockout, in twenty seconds. No script, no countdown, no relaxation talk.
- Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy and a Transcript of Studies on completion
- Accredited by the Hypnotherapy Council of Australia, recognised by the AHA and PHA
- Taught by Rick Collingwood, thirty years of international training experience
- Permanent, free access to the student training and resource centre
Accredited by the HCA. Recognised by the AHA and the PHA.
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The benefits of learning from Rick Collingwood on your career.
Students arrive from three different directions and the same eight days serve all three. Tell us which one you are on and we will answer for that.
Practise as a clinical hypnotherapist
The full professional route. You finish with a Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy and a Transcript of Studies, and with the paperwork, ethics and consultation structure a real practice needs.
- Client intake, consultation forms and case notes
- Ethical, moral and religious considerations
- Abreaction management and therapeutic reality
- The Total Resolution Process, a full five-session protocol
- Marketing your hypnosis practice, all of day four
- Training recognised by the AHA, PHA and HCA
Add it to the profession you already have
Therapists, coaches, clinicians and anyone whose work is mostly conversation. Suggestion, rapport and attention are teachable skills, and most of this training is about how language and presence actually land on another person.
- The nature of suggestion, direct and indirect
- Ericksonian and conversational hypnosis
- Using the gaze in ordinary conversation
- Presuppositions, reframing and anchoring
- Overcoming resistance
- Reading and holding another person's attention
Use it on yourself
Rick's recordings have sold more than two million copies since 2002 because self-directed suggestion works. Day four is given to exactly this, taught by Michael Nadalin, and you keep the material permanently.
- Self-hypnosis, taught as a method not a theory
- Hypnosis for achievement
- Concentration and mastery of the mind
- Breathing, stillness and getting yourself into state
- Creating and finishing your day
- Permanent access to the resource centre after you qualify
Examples of hypnosis training.
Four unedited training demonstrations. Nothing here is a lecture about hypnosis. Watch how little is said, and how much is done with attention, gaze and touch.
These are training demonstrations. The methods should not be attempted by an untrained person.
What you will actually be taught.
Open any module to see the topics it covers. This is the whole training, laid out, not a summary of it.
01Foundations, history and where the profession sitsModule one
Theory
Where hypnosis came from, why the profession looks the way it does, and how the modern clinical picture was assembled. This is the part that stops you repeating folklore to a client.
- How the need for hypnotherapy was created
- Mesmerism and hypnosis, the actual difference
- Franz Anton Mesmer and the Paris vats
- Mesmerists and magnetists of the Renaissance period
- Vital fluids of repulsion and attraction
- Healing by magnetic stroking
- Medical uses of magnetic plates
- Freud, and a second view of Freud and hypnosis
- Dr George Estabrooks
- Milton Erickson
- The medical acceptance of hypnosis
- Modern clinical research
- Psychotherapy, and how hypnosis sits beside it
- Hypnosis associations and professional membership
02The mind, the body, and the client in front of youModule two
Theory
The working model of the mind you will use with every client, the ethics that govern the work, and the paperwork a practice runs on. It closes with a full glossary of the terms the profession uses, so nothing later in the training is a guess.
- The conscious, subconscious and unconscious minds
- The mind-body interaction
- Interaction of the brain and the immune system
- Genetic factors and social stresses
- Abreaction management, and the four primary types
- Therapeutic reality
- Ethical, moral and religious considerations
- The esoteric aspects of hypnosis
- Hypnotherapy consultation form and observations
- Sound mental health acknowledgement, disclaimer, warranty
- The three levels of trance accessible to all people
- Hypnosis responsiveness questionnaire
- Evaluating hypnotic capacity
- Basic psychology and what normality means clinically
- Glossary of hypnosis terms, from age regression to trance logic
03Inducing hypnosis: the inductions themselvesModule three
Practical
The largest practical module, and the one students most often say they did not get from a previous course. You do not learn one induction. You learn the family of them, why each one suits a different person, and how to deepen and finish a trance cleanly.
Suggestion and resistance
- Structuring hypnotic suggestions
- Overcoming resistance
- Presuppositions and indirect suggestions
- Ericksonian indirect and conversational hypnosis against direct suggestion
- The experience of being hypnotised
- Ideo-motor questioning
Inductions
- Hand to face induction
- Progressive muscle relaxation
- Progressive muscle tensing and relaxation
- Confusion induction
- The eye lock induction
- Lagoon induction
- Finger press induction
- Gil Boyne's version of the Dave Elman technique
- Wolberg arm levitation
- Eye catalepsy
- Magnet between the palms of outstretched arms
- Authoritative induction
- Coma state induction
- Ego strengthening induction
- Indirect hypnosis induction method
- Induction questionnaire, matching method to person
Rapid inductions, deepening and finishing
- Hand press induction
- Stiff arm
- The direct gaze
- Induction methods of the masters
- Six verbal deepening techniques
- Deepening through physical disorientation
- Fractionation
- Flocking, and confusion deepening
- Obtaining mental relaxation
- Trance finish
04Suggestion, script and metaphor, by presenting issueModule four
Practical
What you actually say once the person is under, organised by what they came in with. You get the scripts, and you are taught to build your own, which matters more.
- Metaphors, and creating your own metaphors
- Dragons and watermelons, swimming to Japan, the self worth metaphor
- Suggestions for positive change and change enhancement
- Reframing suggestions
- Anchoring a suggestion
- Creating amnesia, and amnesia metaphors
- Smoking cessation, single session
- Stop smoking instructions and affirmation
- Eating control and positive suggestion
- Weight loss, authoritative and direct
- Curative suggestion
- Stress
- Self worth enhancement
- Self confidence and self esteem
- Motivation
- Insomnia
- Nail biting, two approaches
- Finding present life memories
- Past life regression, and the hall of regression
- Childbirth script
- The treatment of pain with hypnosis
- Children's work: magic TV, egg timer, bucket of water and face on thumb inductions
- Child health and happiness, including suggestion while asleep
05Therapeutic hypnosis and pain managementModule five
Clinical
The clinical end of the work, including how to behave around a person who is seriously unwell, and how to work alongside their treating doctor rather than around them.
- Identifying the shock-conflict
- Working with the critically ill
- Objective and subjective thinking during emergencies
- Direct suggestion in emergencies
- Emotional factors in persistent pain states
- Subconscious awareness of illness
- Ideo-motor methods of recognising subliminal pain
- Resistance to hypnosis and therapy
- Resistance from guilt, and from manipulative pain states
- Devaluation of hypnosis by professionals, relatives and friends
- General principles for alleviating persistent pain
- Techniques for creating hypnotic analgesia
- Anaesthesia and direct diminution of sensation
- Sensory substitution, displacement, dissociation
- Extending relief with post-hypnotic suggestion
- Self-hypnotic pain management
- Metaphor modifications effective in clinical practice
- Persistent pain and natural sleep
- Co-operation with the treating doctor
- Depth of trance, and the three aspects of the mind
06Mesmerism and magnetism, hypnosis without wordsModule six
Four in-class days
Four of the eight days. This is the part of the training almost nobody else in the world teaches, and it is what students in the videos below keep pointing at. It is non-verbal: attention, gaze, breath, movement and touch.
- The difference between magnetism, mesmerism and hypnosis
- Mesmerism, somnambulism, fascination, hypnosis, and how they relate
- Presence
- Gamma waves and fascination
- Intuition and human sensing systems
- Personal magnetism
- Desire and will
- Mental suggestion, and the nature of suggestion
- Gazing and hypnotic fascination
- The practice of Trataka
- Fascination basics and eye expression
- Concentration and mastery of the mind
- Concentration on body parts
- The power of breathing
- The power of mirrors
- Using the gaze in ordinary conversation
- The power of muscular tension and the kundalini
- Physical movement, and the technique of the Sphinx
- Visualisation, imagination and projection
- Gaze, inner trance and outer trance
- Getting yourself into state, and external influence
- Stilling the mind
- Transference and transferring intention
- Magnetic passes, hand movements and influence with the fingers
- The five primary magnetic methods
- Inducing mesmerism and magnetism
- Combining magnetism and hypnotism
- Advanced magnetism techniques
- How to make a baquet
07The Total Resolution Process, a complete client protocolModule seven
Client protocol
A five-session therapy protocol from first contact to close. Most training leaves you with techniques and no structure to hang them on. This is the structure.
- The therapy protocol, end to end
- The symptoms and the presentation
- Taking the history
- The presently desired and future projected result
- The resolution process itself
- Handling the slip back
- The forest
- Session one questionnaire and curative suggestion
- Sessions two, three, four and five, in order
- Giving relevant direct suggestions
08Self-hypnosis, achievement, and marketing your practiceModule eight
Day four, in class
A full day, not a session. Day four is the day the training turns from what you can do to a client into what you can do for yourself, and whether anyone ever finds out you exist.
- Self-hypnosis as a daily practice
- Hypnosis for achievement
- Marketing your hypnosis practice
- Where clients actually come from
- Positioning yourself against every other hypnotherapist locally
Eight consecutive days. Here is how they run.
Eight days in a block, not weekly evenings across months, so you complete the in-class requirement without carving up your year.
Advanced Hypnosis
Conducted by Rick Collingwood. Inductions, deepening, suggestion, therapeutic application and supervised practice on real people, assessed live in the room.
Self-hypnosis, achievement and marketing
Delivered in full by Michael Nadalin. Self-hypnosis, hypnosis for achievement, and marketing your hypnosis practice.
Advanced Mesmerism and Magnetism
Conducted by Rick Collingwood. Day five covers advanced mesmerism and hypnosis combinations. Days six to eight are advanced mesmerism and magnetism, and how to combine those methods with hypnosis in practice.
Previous student cohorts.
Class photos from the Academy's own intakes, taken on the last day. More than 5,000 students have come through since 1993.
Student testimonials.
Not written testimonials. These are the students themselves, filmed at the end of their trainings. Several of them had already paid for a hypnosis course somewhere else first.
Your training starts the day you register, not the day class starts.
- An acceptance letter with your dates and details
- Every required training manual in eBook format, immediately
- A password to the student training and resource centre, filled with training videos and relevant books
- Permanent, free access to that resource centre, which does not expire when you qualify
- Six two-hour online group Zoom trainings, held once monthly
- The ability to repeat any future training at a very low cost
Online theory opens the day you register, so most students have completed a substantial part of the course before the first in-class day in January.
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Sydney, 22 to 29 January 2027. Classes are limited in size.
Tell us where you are and where you are starting from. We will reply with the fees, the dates and the detail that applies to your situation. An enquiry holds nothing and obliges nothing.
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