Active-Alert Hypnosis as a Practice for Transcending Human Limitations

When insight is not enough – and movement becomes transformation

For clients in your practice, active hypnosis is almost a miracle pill: it works quickly, is safe, and requires almost no effort on the client’s part.

Active-Alert Hypnosis is a movement-based altered state in which the ability to act is enhanced rather than suspended. People enter altered states without losing their ability to act. Instead of ‘going within,’ participants move forward.
This workshop deals with how limiting external and self-attributions about one’s own abilities and possibilities, blockages, fear, pain, exhaustion, and even the fear of death can be overcome without dissociation, without breakdown, without belief.

Participants do not talk about change. They experience how they go beyond their previous limits – physically, emotionally, systemically. While change is usually expected to be difficult, tedious, lengthy and labour-intensive, with Active-Alert Hypnosis, crossing boundaries is playful, almost unnoticeable, like flying high, a feeling of flow.

In this presentation, Claude will show you which suggestions serve as little nudges to make crossing boundaries smooth and joyful. For example, how can I use resistance to move forward even faster? How can I help clients use unexpectedly difficult exam tasks to activate their own dormant potential? How can I transform the supposedly most difficult and tedious phase of moving forward into a sexy feeling of elation or flow?

More entrepreneurship. More freedom. More creative power. That was the real reason I stepped out of safe structures and built my own business in 1998 - as a coach, consultant, therapist, and expert. Not to repeat what already existed, but to challenge it. Before that, I spent 15 years at the Red Cross after studying social sciences and conducting field research - working where theory collapses and reality takes over. As programme manager and head of department, I led personnel strategy, recruitment, training, financing, and complex strategic processes, specialising in crisis management and cooperation within the health sector. As an independent expert, I have advised major European corporations and institutions, including DaimlerChrysler, DHL, Swisscom, UBS AG, and the German and Swiss governments. Since 1991, I have conducted more than 15,000 solution-focused sessions as a trainer, coach, and therapist. For over 15 years, my work has centred on one question: how to create FLOW at work - maximum performance without sacrificing well-being. I was also part of the pioneering Hypno-Science project at the University of Zurich, served as an expert consultant on active-alert hypnosis for a clinical study at Charité Hospital in Berlin, and acted as a board member of the Swiss Professional Association for Hypnotherapy.