Balanced Approach
(Mark Peters)
Venue: West Midlands Hypnotherapy Centre Kings Norton Birmingham W MIDS
2 minutes walk from Kings Norton train station.

There is free on-site parking and a good selection of low cost accommodation locally.
Refreshments: provided – local shops within 5 minutes’ walk for lunch.
 

Ref No: 2382
NLP Practitioner - course fully accredited by Society for NLP (SNLP)

Course is run over two modules.
Spring Modules 2020
•Module 1: 6th to 9th March
•Module 2: 13th to 15th March
Summer Modules 2020
•Module 1: 19th to 22nd June
•Module 2: 26th to 28th June
Autumn Modules 2020
•Module 1: 4th to 7th September
•Module 2: 18th to 20th September
£1495 inc all cert fees
Module 1 - The Building blocks of change
In this first module you will be immersed in the core methodology, learn the classic patterns and processes of NLP and give you plenty of time to practice and develop your skills.
•Behavioural integration of the basic presuppositions of NLP
•Rapport establishment & maintenance
•Verbal & nonverbal pacing & leading
•Calibrating through sensory experience
•Representational Systems (Sensory Predicates and Accessing Cues)
•Elicitation of Well-Formed Goals, Direction, and Present State.
•How to structure an intervention.
•Eliciting, Installing & Utilising Anchors in all sensory systems.
•Eliciting and manipulating Submodalities.
•Overlapping and Translating Representational Systems
•Strategy Detection, Elicitation, Utilisation, And Installation
•Timelines
Module 2 – the language of Change
This module builds and extends on your knowledge of the first module including more advanced techniques and the classic patterns of NLP including:
•Ability To Shift Consciousness
•Omni Directional Chunking
•Accessing and Building Resources
•Content & Context Reframing
•The Meta Model – How our language defines and creates our reality
•The Milton Model – Artfully vague language and persuasive language
Successful completion of this course enables you to move on to the Master-Practitioner course licensed and accredited by The Society of NLP (SNLP)

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Ref No: 2383
Coaching for Change – licensed NLP Coach from SNLP. Take your NLP Practitioner to the next level and develop your coaching business.
•10th to 12th July
Winter course 2020
•30th October to 1st November
£749 inc all cert fees
Coaching for Change is a set of tools to develop belief and behaviour change and to gain commitment by overcoming resistance.
NLP Coaching has the distinct advantage over standard coaching as it utilises unconscious processes to enable the client to congruently achieve the objectives established in the coaching plan. NLP offers coaches the ability to tailor selected interventions to take into account the client’s unconscious mind where both resources and incongruities are present.
With your current knowledge of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) you already have some of the most powerful change work techniques available. This 3-day training will enable you to put these NLP skills into the context of coaching and give you additional tools to become an effective coach.
If you are already trained in NLP and want to explore the uses and possibilities of coaching, either in your personal or professional life, this is the ideal course for you. NLP is the perfect foundation to build your coaching skills.
It also comes with the reassurance of a robust and internationally recognised qualification from the Society of NLP if that is of interest to you.

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Ref No: 2384
NLP Master-Practitioner – this course is fully accredited by SNLP and takes your NLP practitioner to the next level. The 8 day course is delivered in two modules as outlined below.
£2000 inc all cert fess
November 2020
Module 1: 6th to 9th November
Module 2: 20th to 23rd November
Module 1: Re-Discover and Extend your Practitioner Skills and Knowledge
One of the major benefits of participating in a Master Practitioner is the opportunity to re-visit the Practitioner material, review it through applying it alongside more advanced material, bring it to the level of unconscious competence – and move beyond relying on techniques by learning to tailor your approach to suit the situation, individual or group.
Sensory Acuity: This is the key area in NLP without this everything else is a waste of time. Learn to tune your senses right up so you can get as much information as possible in any given situation
Anchoring: Extend your skill by learning to use and recognise tonal, visual and spatial anchors in the main representational systems, and move beyond the techniques to consider the patterns involved in the ‘anchoring phenomenon’.
Timelines: Revisit the Practitioner Time Line methods, explore the main submodality configurations, use them seamlessly using spatial anchoring, and integrate Time Line work with other NLP methods.
NLP Techniques: We will be examining how to use NLP techniques to enable people to make pervasive changes in their lives by supporting the behavioural change with change in the upper levels of the Personality Map – and you will have the opportunity of experiencing these processes during practical sessions at the course. Including:
•Re-imprinting & changing belief
•Instant rapport techniques
•Advanced sensory acuity
•Advanced submodality techniques
•Modeling excellence
Module 2: Advanced Language and Hypnotic Mastery
Revisit, refine and extend the Meta Model and Milton Models and integrate these with the other approaches to develop a more perceptive, receptive and influential style of communicating.
Sleight of Mouth and Persuasion Patterns
Explore this huge range of advanced reframing patterns which can be used seamlessly in everyday conversation and with which you can assist a person in examining and altering limiting beliefs and values, resolving self esteem problems, and changing how they perceive and respond to difficulties and setbacks.
Neurological Levels, Metaprogrammes and Reality Tunnels
Identify neurological levels and metaprogrammes through their linguistic structure, recognise the levels of belief, use spatial and verbal methods to resolve belief conflicts, apply belief utilisation and change patterns including advanced Re-imprinting. Recognise and deal with values’ hierarchies, values conflicts, values’ criteria. Work with motivation patterns through enhancing and changing values and beliefs. Recognise these out-of-awareness filters or pre-dispositions, which influence a person’s understanding, decision-making and actions.
Learn how to recognise the principal Metaprogramme patterns and ‘clusters’ of patterns, the linguistic indicators of Metaprogrammes, how a person’s Metaprogrammes guide their choices and needs and how to use your awareness of Metaprogrammes to greatly enhance your ability to influence. Learn how to recognise a person’s habitual ways of thinking, responding and behaving so that you can recognise trends and predict likely outcomes.
Creating and Chaining States
The greatest “teaching tales” are metaphors, using all the other skills and techniques above learn how to create and chain these metaphors in a way that will enthrall and entrance your audience to create deep and lasting change.
Other Skills and Techniques:
•Covert trance induction
•Hypnotic protocols for rapid change
•Meta & Milton models in-depth
•Multi-level communication
•Advanced language patterns
•Embedded metaphor and nested loops
•and much, much more

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Ref No: 2398
Group supervision session
18th April 2020
This group supervision day is only £60
You can bring cases to discuss, issues that you have been struggling with, ideas that have worked for you and more.
NLP, hypnosis, IEMT/EMDR, coaching. hypno-coaching and more...
Attend face-to-face in birmingham or via zoom.
Maximum of 8 people face-to-face. maximum of 8 people via zoom.

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Ref No: 2386
Resilience & Mindfulness
1st August 2020, 9.30am - 4.30pm
£165
This day will teach you simple yet powerful techniques. The word resilient comes from Latin resili, or resilīre, meaning - to spring back, to rebound, to recover. Mindfulness is about being present and in a state of non-judgement. Combining the skills builds greater strength.
As the world of work and life seem to become faster and faster, plus expectations become higher and higher, maybe now is the time to step back and take a new approach to:
•Mental resilience
•Personal resilience
•Business resilience
•Cultural/social resilience and more...
Our resilience training has a core set of principles that can be applied in any setting so our trainings tend to be flexible to meet the needs of those attending. The trainings include
•CBT/NLP to build strategies for change
•Problem solving ‘from problems to solutions’
•Emotional intelligence and the ‘emotional hostage’
•Mindfulness and awareness
•Relaxation and stress management
•Ground Hog day thinking and more....
We plan to run the morning as a taught session with discussion and practice. The afternoon which be completely focused on practice and practical application

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Ref No: 2387
Metaphors & more – include ‘metaphors at work’
15th May 2020, 9.30am - 4.30pm
£165
All language is metaphoric, it is much more than embedding stories in hypnotic scripts. The aim of this day is to identify and design metaphors for change already present in your clients language which are an expression of their current belief/behaviour.
“A metaphor is understanding something in terms of something else” – George Lakoff
“Metaphor mediates the interface between the conscious and unconscious mind” – David Grove
You will learn:
•Both conscious and unconscious (sub-conscious) applications to enable lasting change.
•Metaphors at work
•4 key elements to metaphor construction
•Isomorphic and Homomorphic metaphor

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Ref No: 2391
Business Builder
4th July 2020, 9.30am - 4.30pm
£165
Identify the why's, what's and how's
So many people want to work for themselves and build their own business. Self-employment can look very appealing. But where do you start? Is it for you? If yes, how do you build it to be successful? This Masterclass looks to answer these questions and more.
Do you want to get off the wheel?
Do you want to get off the hamster wheel? do you want to start living your life but are fearful of taking that step?
Statistics show:
•36% of businesses fail in the first 2 years
•71% of new start-ups fail within the first 5 years
There is little to no support for Holistic, Therapy and Coaching businesses so what chance do you have? This Master-Class is designed to plug this hole and help you gain the confidence to succeed. Real skills from real-world experience.
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Ref No: 2397
Anxiety Management
16 May 2020, 9.30am-4.30pm
£165
Anxiety is a natural process (fight-or-flight) that is designed to drive us away from perceived danger; It can be seen as a battle between the conscious logical mind and the unconscious mind.
This day will look at:
•The structure of anxiety and the function of the amygdale
•Sensory based information and the Reticular Activating System
•The Map is not the Territory – signs are for the locals
•Phobias, Social Anxiety, Generalised Anxiety Disorder
•Negative self-hypnosis
•Relaxation and self-hypnosis
We will build on the metaphor day to teach remapping of thoughts and behaviours that will enable you and your clients to gain control of the state they want to be in.

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Ref No: 2392
Regression (current life regression not past life regression)
17th May 2020, 9.30am - 4.30pm
£165
The focus will be on current life regression not past life regression and will include
•Deep Trance Identification
•Affect Bridge
•Application of Timelines
•Hypno-Coaching
This will connect to the previous two days to build a holistic skills package enabling greater flexibility in client change work.
Analytical Hypnosis
Much of hypnosis could be classified as ‘suggestion therapy’ as the language used builds on metaphor, direct and indirect suggestion. Analytical Hypnosis follows much of the path of analysis in the vein of Freud and is very structured of 8 sessions. This day will work through the structure and application of this specific style of hypnotherapy and its application in getting to the route course of problems; this enables change to happen by dealing with the ISS (initial sensitising event).

Ref No: 2393
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy (GDH)
23rd May 2020, 9.30am - 4.30pm
£165
Gut-directed hypnosis (GDH) addresses the “miscommunication” between the brain and gut. A trained therapist guides a person into a focused state of awareness while feeling deeply relaxed. This approach uses hypnosis, suggestion, guided-imagery and relaxation to produce a therapeutic effect.
People with IBS present with varying symptom profiles, most commonly 'diarrhoea predominant', 'constipation predominant' or alternating symptom profiles. IBS most often affects people between the ages of 20 and 30 years and is twice as common in women as in men. Prevalence in the general population is estimated to be between 10% and 20%. Recent trends indicate that there is also a significant prevalence of IBS in older people. The aims of both CBT and hypnotherapy are to enable self-reliance for the suffer, and could enable them to take back control of their own body.
NICE Clinical Practice Guidelines for IBS in adults
February 2008 (updated April 2017)
"RECOMMENDATION Referral for psychological interventions (cognitive behavioural therapy [CBT], hypnotherapy and/or psychological therapy) should be considered for people with IBS who do not respond to pharmacological treatments after 12 months and who develop a continuing symptom profile (described as refractory IBS)."
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Hypnotherapy routinely produces long-term positive results in over 80% of the people who use it.
"Nine out of ten 10 people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) benefited from hypnotherapy, and 4 in 10 saw their symptoms clear up completely, according to new research by leading UK gastroenterologist Professor Roland Valori."
Telegraph.co.uk, Rebecca Smith
Researches from the University of Southampton have found that psychological therapy is better at relieving IBS symptoms than drugs.
In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the University of Southampton and King’s College London carried out a trial involving 558 patients who had ongoing significant IBS symptoms despite having tried other IBS treatments for at least a year.
The findings, published in the journal GUT, show that those who received psychological therapy were more likely to report significant improvement in severity of symptoms and impact on their work and life after 12 months of treatment compared to those who only received current standard IBS treatments. - April 2019
Train to use Gut Directed Hypnotherapy with your clients
This 1-day CPD for therapists will look at:
•The key areas of IBS and GI tract worries
•What IBS is and isn’t
•How metaphor frames the experience
•The relaxation response
•Sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous system
•Warm hand technique (like a hot water bottle) on the belly.
•Anchoring relaxation in trance to be used in daily life when tense or anxious.
•Healing from within through hypnosis
•Working with IBS in parts therapy
•And more…

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Ref No: 2394
ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy), Mindfulness and CBT
2nd August 2020, 9.30am - 4.30pm
£165
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy gets its name from its main themes - to accept things that are out of your control and commit to changing things that can be changed to make your life better. In summary, ACT uses mindfulness and acceptance skills to develop a more flexible relationship with your thoughts, feelings, memories and sensations. Time is also taken to clarify what gives your life meaning, your values. Without being held back by tricky thoughts and feelings and with a new sense of purpose and direction, you can begin to build a more enriched and meaningful life.
There are six stages to ACT that take a client from acceptance through to committed action. The process can incorporate hypnosis, CBT, mindfulness and even coaching. It is heavily supported by the NHS and NICE guidelines.
The days training will take you through practical processes and is ideal for use with anger, anxiety, loss, even addictions.

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Ref No: 2395
Provocative Coaching – Coaching difficult and resistant clients
28th November 2020, 9.30am - 4.30pm
£165
Sometimes change requires a push…
Often with coaching, clients try to avoid responsibility. The more you tell them that they are capable of change, the louder their inner voices tell them they are not. Provocative coaching challenges this. It puts fun and laughter back into your change work.
Frank Farrelly (1931-2013) first called it ‘provoke therapy’ then provocative therapy, and said “Provoking change is not just about playing the devil’s advocate, it’s about the effective use of challenge, warmth and humour in equal measure”.
In this one-day workshop, you will learn:
•How the approach differs and when to use it
•Stacking states for a powerful push
•Pushing by pulling
•Challenging you clients 1st statement
•Exaggerate to absurdity
•Playing Devil’s advocate
•But what is the problem?
•Moving beyond your clients limits
This day is ideal for those interested in overcoming limitations and sometimes frustrated with the “Yes but” people.

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Ref No: 2396
OCD, intrusive thoughts and dissociative disorder (DID)
22nd February 2020, live Zoom training
£82.50
This CPD day will give you a greater understanding of OCD and intrusive thoughts. There has also been an increasing diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID), which can lead to OCD so I have decided to include it in this day.
The day will include:
•What is OCD and sub-types of OCD
•What are intrusive thoughts
•What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)
•Effective strategies
•Retraining your brain
•Not all mindfulness is the same…
As with all our CPD days, it will be a mix of theory and practice so please do bring along example cases to discuss

Ref No: 2399
Therapy for Therapists - a fun day of relaxation and well-being.
12th December 2020
£165