“I challenge you to "The greatest success in

spend 8 Dynamic providing lasting change

occurred with Hypnosis (93%
Days with me and
recovery), followed by behavior
take your hypno- therapy (72% recovery), and then
therapeutic skills to psychotherapy (38% recovery).
NEW HEIGHTS! —Psychotherapy Magazine

Unparalleled Hypnosis Training!

with Dr. George Bien,
Recipient of Every Major Award in Hypnotherapy

Dr. George Bien,

Director of the Train-the-
Trainer program for the
International Association
of Counselors and
Therapists, and the
International Medical and
Dental Hypnotherapy
Association.
Hypnosis Hall of Fame
Inductee.

The Dynamic, 120-Hour, Accelerated Professional

Hypnosis Certification Seminar
with Dr. George Bien
Teaches ALL the significant systems
of Hypnotherapy!

This 8 -Day Hypnotherapy Intensive

is broken up into two, 4-Day Modules!

You will learn . . .
• History of Hypnosis
• The Professional Practice of Hypnotherapy
• Suggestibility Testing
• Rules of the Mind
• Office Procedures and Interviewing Tech-
niques
• How to Help Your Clients Overcome Fears
of Hypnosis
• How to Recognize the Three basic Hypnotic
Personalities
• How to Induce Trance With Each Type
• Psychodynamics of the Hypnotic Induction
• Disguised Hypnotic Inductions
• Instantaneous Hypnotic Techniques
• George Bien’s unique interactive word as-
sociation that cuts through the chase.
• Common denominator approaches for in-
sight and emotional clearing.
• Direct techniques, subtle techniques and
disguised techniques of hypnotic induction.
• George Bien's, easy-to-follow, 17-Step hyp-
notherapeutic process that takes the guess
work out of working with clients.
• How to work with subjects who have failed
with other hypnotherapists.
• How to add more creativity to your hypno-
therapeutic sessions.
• Authoritarian and Permissive Hypnotic In-
ductions.
• When to Use Hypnotic Devices
• Objective and Subjective Trance Recogni-
tion
• Recognizing and Dealing with Hypersug-
gestibility
• How to Measure Depth in Hypnosis
• Proper Dehypnotization
• The Keys to Successful Programming
• Past Life Regression
• Effective Uses of Imagery
• How to Use Hypnosis With Groups
• Specific Treatment Techniques Utilizing
Hypnosis
• Self-Hypnosis
• Dangers of Hypnosis and Contra-
Indications
• Effective uses of Submodalities.
• Effective hypnoanalysis techniques.
• Use of hypnosis with performing artists/one
of hypnotism's fastest growing areas.
• Hypnosis techniques for Sports.
• Instantaneous Regression Techniques.
• Trance Ratification Methods.
• The Hypnotic use of Body Syndromes.
• How to deal with the basic forms of resis-
tance.
• And much more!
"Numerous scientific studies have emerged in
recent years showing that the hypnotized mind
can exert a real and powerful effect on the body.”
—The Wall Street Journal - October 7th, 2003
You Will Receive . . .
Hands-on practice of pre-induction suggestibility testing,
hypnotic inductions, trance management, deepening tech-
niques, posthypnotic re-induction, and trance termination.
Supervised programming practice, coaching in speech pat-
terns, physical movements and personal mannerisms.
Hands-on practice of specific hypnotherapeutic techniques
for Stress Management, Smoking Cessation, Weight Loss,
General Self-Improvement, and much more!
Advanced Hypnotherapeutic Techniques Including:
Emotional Clearing • Transformational Hypnotherapy • Spiri-
tual Hypnosis • Analytical Hypnotherapy • Ericksonian Tech-
niques • Stages of Development • Transpersonal Hypnosis •
Corrective Therapy • Timeline Work • Body Syndromes •
Ideomotor Methods • Gestalt Dreamwork • Inner Child/Parent
Processes • Parts Therapy • Radical Hypnosis • Clinical
Guided Imagery • Radical Techniques • Conference Room
Technique • Advanced Systematic Desensitization • Etheric
Plane Communication • And Much More....
You Will Receive . . .
72 hours of intensive class instruction (Note: an additional
48 hours of independent study is required for approved 120-
hour IACT Certification) • Dr. George Bien's special hypno-
sis workbook for easy reference • Specialized induction and
programming scripts to use with your clients • Actual hands-
on practice of hypnotic inductions and therapeutic work • A
Certificate of Completion suitable for framing • Certification
by and Registration with the International Association of
Counselors and Therapists (IACT). Note: Certification by
International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association
(IMDHA) requires and addition fee.
You Will Learn How To Set Up Your Practice As Soon
As You Graduate . . .
How to avoid start-up mistakes • Setting appropriate fees •
How to sell your own hypnotic tapes • How to create your
own seminar business • Legal do's and don'ts • No-cost/low-
cost methods to get clients • How to get strong word-of-
mouth publicity • How to get referrals • How to get free pub-
licity • Getting recommendations from doctors, dentists,
health clubs, etc. • And much more!
Basic Program Outline . . .
• DYNAMICS OF PROFESSIONAL HYPNOTHERAPY
History of hypnosis. Hypnotic terminology and basic definitions. General misconceptions. The professional practice of
hypnotherapy. Hypnosis as a modality. Roles and responsibilities of the professional. Office procedures and interview-
ing techniques. The eight basic questions that every interview should include. The hypnotic alliance. Theory of mind.
Creating hypnotic rapport. Basic levels of hypnosis. Hypnotization versus de-hypnotization. Hypersuggestibility.
• SUGGESTIBILITY TESTING INCLUDING SUPERVISED PRACTICE
Discussion, explanation, and demonstration of physical suggestibility tests. Dynamics of the first session. Determining
hypnotic personality types. Authoritarian verses permissive methods of testing. Factors that influence suggestibility.
Class members will practice authoritarian and permissive suggestibility tests.
• HYPNOTIC INDUCTION TECHNIQUES
Speech techniques including "Voice Rolling." Physical movements and mannerisms. Psychodynamics of the induction.
Explanation and demonstration of permissive and authoritarian induction methods. Objective and subjective trance rec-
ognition. Deepening techniques. Proper de-hypnotization.
• SUPERVISED PRACTICE BY CLASS MEMBERS
Class members will practice permissive and authoritarian induction techniques and proper de-hypnotization.
Although scripts will be provided, creativity will be encouraged.
• FURTHER TECHNIQUES OF HYPNOTIC INDUCTION
Stages of hypnosis. Use of hypnotic devices (spiral, music, air machine, metronome, pendulum, flashing light), and ba-
sic contra-indications. Further methods of hypnotic induction and deepening. Hypnotic challenges. Measuring depth in
hypnosis. Effective uses of imagery. Self-hypnosis.
• SUPERVISED PRACTICE BY CLASS MEMBERS
Practice will include further induction-deepening techniques, hypnotic challenges, re-hypnotization and de-
hypnotization.
• CLINICAL APPLICATION OF HYPNOSIS
Basic laws of suggestion. Keys to effective suggestion. Specific techniques for Stress Management, Smoking Cessa-
tion, Weight Loss, General Self-Improvement, etc.
• SUPERVISED PRACTICE BY CLASS MEMBERS
Practice will include basic Clinical Hypnotherapeutic techniques for Stress Management, Smoking Cessation, Weight
Loss, General Self-Improvement, etc.
• THE ESSENCE OF THE CLINICAL INTERVIEW
The clinical interview and how to use it effectively. Proper assessment of the client. Formulating action suggestions. Us-
ing hypnosis in conjunction with image psychology. How to effectively work with groups. Rapport building techniques.
Pacing and leading. Creating an empathic environment. Pull versus push. Fight/Flight mechanisms. Blame and outcome
frames. George Bien's eleven-step process that promotes a successful first session. Defining clear and positive goals
for the client. Keys to effective suggestion. Rules of the mind. VAK accessing modalities and submodalities. Anchoring
techniques in all three systems. Covert pacing and anchoring.
• ADVANCED HYPNOTIC INDUCTION TECHNIQUES
Disguised, direct and indirect inductions. Speed inductions. Reactional Hypnosis, Trance Ratification Techniques, and
specialized use various hypnotherapeutic modalities.
• CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES
Common denominator approach, Symptomatic approach, Circle Therapy, Systematic Desensitization, Body Syn-
dromes.
• FURTHER HYPNOTHERAPEUTIC MODALITIES
Single-session smoking cessation techniques. Working with performing artists; athletes; executives. Peak performance.
• ADVANCED HYPNOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES AND RELATED MODALITIES—PART 1
Hypnotherapeutic techniques will be explained and demonstrated. George Bien’s Rapid Word Association. Parts Ther-
apy. Trance Ratification methods. Hypnodrama.
• ADVANCED HYPNOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES AND RELATED MODALITIES—PART 2
Gestalt dialogue. Conference Room Technique. Etheric Plane Communication. Connection of Feelings/Regression. In-
teractive techniques. Emotional clearing. Running and Changing the Incident.
• Added Feature: "LIVE" VIDEO-TAPED GEORGE BIEN CASE HISTORIES
Throughout the seminar, excerpts of "Live," video-taped sessions will provide an accelerated learning environment. Ex-
amples will be drawn from various video case histories and may include: Need for Achievement; fear of public speaking;
Hatred of mother; Feeling of total failure; Single-session smoking cessation; Self-hatred; Feeling of complete ugliness;
Dependency, Sexual abuse, and other real life case histories. A discussion will be included.
 “Hypnosis Changes Lives!”
"U.S. Olympic athletes use hypnosis to win."
—Detroit Free Press

The Dynamic, 120-Hour, Accelerated Professional

Hypnosis Certification Seminar with the Principal Trainer
for the world's largest hypnosis organization,
Dr. George Bien
About Your Trainer . . .
Dr. George Bien is the world's first recipient of the National Guild of Hypnotists President's Award, the world's first recipi-
ent of the Charles Tebbetts Award, and the world's second recipient of the Rexfold L. North Memorial Trophy (the "Oscar
of Hypnosis"). He is the former Principal Trainer for the National Guild of Hypnotists, the American Board of Hypnother-
apy, and the International Association of Counselors & Therapists, and has trained most of the hypnotherapy teachers in
New York and hundreds of others throughout the world.

George serves on IACT's Advisory Board with Dr. Bernie Siegel, Dr. Raymond Moody, John Bradshaw and Dannion
Brinkley. He has been featured on the covers of professional journals, magazines, in scores of books (including Gary
Null's "Encyclopedia of Natural Healing," and the best-seller, "Just A Breath Away," by Rev. Ed Tabbitas), and on numer-
ous radio and television programs, including: Donahue, Good Day New York, First Edition, America's Talking, Alive and
Wellness, Fox 5 News, NBC News, WWOR Channel 9, CNN and Inside Edition. He has been called the "Twenty-First
Century Hypnotist," and his list of former students reads like a who's who in the field of subconscious reprogramming,
many of whom have gone on to become national celebrities. George is the Director of the International Association of
Counselors and Therapists (IACT) and the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association (IMDHA) Train-
the-Trainer program. His Award-Winning training videos are used by hypnosis instructors throughout the world.

One of the Most Powerful Upon successful completion of

Seminars on Human Change! this seminar you will receive
Certification by and registration
with the prestigious
International Association of Coun-
selors and Therapists (IACT).

Certification by the International

Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy
Association (IMDHA) is also
available (Extra fee required).
Call for information.

The Achievement Center

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Flushing, NY 11358 U.S.A.
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