100-Hour Hypnosis Certification Training

Learn Hypnosis by Doing Hypnosis

Hypnosis is an experiential skill. You can read about it, watch demonstrations, and study scripts, but confidence develops by actually experiencing hypnosis and learning to hypnotize others.

This 100-hour certification program combines instruction with demonstration, personal experience, supervised practice, discussion, and repeated opportunities to work with other participants.

The training meets over five alternate weekends. This gives participants time between meetings to practice, reflect on what they have learned, and return with questions and new experiences.

What You Will Learn

The course begins with the fundamentals of hypnosis and progressively develops more sophisticated clinical and practical skills. Participants learn to:

• Conduct inductions and deepen hypnotic experience

• Develop effective hypnotic language and therapeutic suggestion

• Use imagery, metaphor, ego-strengthening, and resource development

• Work with anxiety, stress, habits, confidence, pain, health concerns, and emotional regulation

• Understand resistance, ambivalence, and individual differences in hypnotic responsiveness

• Develop interventions appropriate to the needs of the individual client

• Use hypnosis ethically, collaboratively, and within the participant's existing professional role

Scripts and structured exercises provide a starting point, but the larger goal is to move beyond dependence on scripts and develop confidence, flexibility, judgment, and an individual style.

An Experiential Training

A substantial portion of every class is devoted to practice.

Participants experience hypnosis themselves, practice with partners, observe demonstrations, discuss what happened, and receive individualized feedback.

The small cohort creates room to experiment, ask questions, make mistakes safely, try something differently, and discover what actually works.

Course Format

• 100 hours of instruction, demonstration, supervised practice, and consultation

• Five alternate weekends

• In person at 939 Route 146, Clifton Park, NY

• Small cohort of no more than six participants

• Scripts and course materials provided

• Brief screening conversation required before enrollment

• Certification upon successful completion of the program

2027 National Guild of Hypnotists Certification Course 

The next professional National Guild of Hypnotists Certification Course will be held at my office conference room at 939 Rt. 146 in Clifton Park.  The times and dates are as follows:

2027 Class Schedule

8:00am—6:00pm

Saturday & Sunday, Jan. 9, 10, 23, 24

Saturday & Sunday Feb. 6, 7, 20, 21

Saturday & Sunday, March 6, 7

Makeup day:

Saturday, March 27

For information about the 2027 class, call 518-577-8367 or email me at jmh@jameshislop.com

More Than Learning Techniques

Learning hypnosis can change the way we listen to people and understand human experience. We begin to notice the role of attention, expectation, imagination, language, belief, emotion, and relationship in creating change.

Throughout the course, we will look beyond individual techniques to explore hypnosis as a way of understanding how people become absorbed in particular experiences and how they can discover greater freedom, flexibility, and choice.

Films, stories, clinical examples, demonstrations, and discussion will occasionally help us examine these processes in everyday life. The aim is not simply to produce competent technique, but to encourage curiosity about the remarkable ways human beings influence, organize, and change their experience.

Enrollment

Enrollment is limited to six participants so that everyone has ample opportunity for individual attention, supervised practice, and feedback.

Tuition: $2,000 | Deposit: $500 | Balance: $1,500 due before the first class

Admission begins with a brief screening conversation. This gives us an opportunity to discuss your interests, professional background, what you hope to gain from the training, and whether the program is a good fit.

For information or to arrange a screening conversation:

James M. Hislop, LCSW-R
518-577-8367
jmh@jameshislop.com