UKHC25 Presentations

Hidden Resource Activation(HRA)™

Hidden Resource Activation (HRA™) is a revolutionary mind-healing and transformation technique and automate the healing process. Designed to activate the natural, in-built healing and problem-solving resources of the subconscious mind—without force, analysis, or emotional reliving.

Every human being already possesses powerful inner resources such as confidence, calmness, clarity, courage, safety, self-worth, and emotional balance. However, due to past negative memories, trauma, stress, conditioning, or limiting beliefs, these resources often remain blocked or dormant.
HRA™ works by bypassing conscious resistance and directly activating these hidden resources at the subconscious level and Automate the healing process.

World Renowned Hypnotherapist, NLP Trainer, Innovator Of Hidden Resource Activation(HRA)™, Mind Vastu Shastra(MVS)™, Neuro Hypnotic Patterning(NHP)™, Hypnotic Magic Questions(HMQ)™ MR. PRADEEP AGGARWAL – Practicing Since 48 years, More than 10 lakh People Attended live Training Program In 180 Countries.

TBC: Working with Gambling addiction using Cognitive Reprogramming OR: Using Cognitive Reprogramming for Trauma related Emotion

I hope the research results will have been confirmed for the first 6 months of the planned 12 month duration.

If not I will speak about how Cognitive Reprogramming can remove fixed emotions caused by trauma and thereby cure anxiety, depression and most other problems

The live demo in either case will be a very quick problem resolution using “pure” Subliminal Therapy

Started the ISHH Icelandic School of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy in 2011. Trained by Roy Hunter and Dr. Edwin Yager. Has spent the last 10 years creating a multimodal hypnotherapy, Cognitive Reprogramming. Published as Hugræn endurforritun in Iceland in 2020, now in its 4th Edition. Has educated 90% of all hypnotists and hypnotherapists in Iceland, including 90 from the advanced course. Thousands of Icelanders have been helped with Cognitive Reprogramming

Hypnosis, Wellbeing, and the Power of Sensory States

This session draws on over 40 years’ experience using hypnotic interventions across therapeutic settings. Now working as a wellbeing ambassador in spa environments, I explore how hypnosis naturally operates within an expanded sensory based wellbeing context. The presentation reframes relaxation, touch, scent, rhythm, and ritual as hypnotic entry points focused states of attention that support nervous system function and learning.

Using a neuroscience-informed lens, we examine how arousal, attention, and interoception shape client experience, particularly in stress, illness, and sensory overload. Hypnotic meditation is positioned through the RISE framework (Relax, Imagine, Suggest, Empower), demonstrating how a simple ritualised psycho-sensory induction helps even busy clients and therapists access imagination more easily.

A live demonstration of the role of scent, psychosensory touch and the RISE protocol shows how hypnotic structures can be reimagined, offering a transferable framework for working safely, subtly, and effectively in both group and 1:1 settings.

Scent enrichment and baby sized brain fun also included !

Louise Baker is an award-winning hypnotherapist, applied neuroscientist, and wellbeing educator with over 40 years’ experience in therapeutic practice. She holds an MSc in Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health from King’s College London. Her work translates brain science into practical, human-centred tools that support thinking, emotional regulation, and behaviour change. She specialises in brain-led approaches for people navigating illness, uncertainty, and life transitions, and is the creator of A Dose of Neuroscience. Louise contributes to the Vital personalised meditation platform and is Wellbeing Ambassador for Made for Life Organics.

Beyond Pain: Uncovering the Hidden Drivers of Fibromyalgia

It is estimated that up to 3 million people in the UK and 10 million in the US are living with fibromyalgia—yet it remains vastly misunderstood, with pain still commonly treated as the primary problem in therapeutic settings.

This presentation challenges that assumption.

Rather than positioning pain as the central driver of fibromyalgia, I invite you to explore what sits beneath it: chronic stress, cumulative nervous system load, sleep disruption, sensory overload, and the body’s prolonged stay in survival mode.

Using two integrative frameworks—the Fibro Symptom Loop and the Biopsychosocial (BPS) model—this presentation demonstrates how pain is frequently the output of an overwhelmed system, not the root cause. When interventions focus solely on symptom reduction, meaningful and lasting change can remain elusive. By addressing stress as the primary driver, we begin to influence sleep, fatigue, pain sensitivity, and emotional resilience simultaneously.

The presentation will include a live hypnotic experiential demonstration using the NLP Logical Levels model to illustrate how fibromyalgia symptoms are maintained across biological, psychological, and social layers. Showing how identity, beliefs, and nervous system load interact.

This presentation is ideal for hypnotherapists seeking a clearer clinical map, greater confidence working with fibromyalgia, and a more effective framework for supporting long-term client change.

Mark (Robert) Barber is the founder of Mark Robert Hypnotherapy and a UK-based hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner specialising in nervous system regulation, chronic stress, and fibromyalgia support. Drawing on both professional expertise and personal lived experience of fibromyalgia, Mark developed the Fibro Freedom Therapy framework, integrating hypnotherapy, NLP, and psycho-sensory techniques. His work moves beyond symptom management to address stress load, sleep disruption, and identity patterns, supporting sustainable change alongside medical care.

Enhancing therapy outcomes with core values

Core values can influence every aspect of our personal and professional lives, acting as a compass for how we engage with ourselves and others.

From a personal perspective, values offer a framework for authentic decision-making, and guide the formulation of effective goals and personal development strategies.

Within business or sport, aligning values can enhance cohesive team and organisational performance.

Within relationships, an understanding of the influence of personal values and those of others, can aid effective communication, and build stronger connections with greater understanding.

This session will teach you what core values are, their influences, benefits and approaches, together with specific examples and scenarios to demonstrate the diverse applications and beneficial outcomes. The supporting research will also be explored.

You will then learn how to elicit personal and client core values, both online and in person and can see this in action with a live demonstration, followed by a core value group activity.

There will also be some time for Q&A.

Dr Kate Beaven-Marks is an energetic, enthusiastic, experienced clinical hypnotist, hypnotherapy trainer, international presenter and author, She works with UK and international clients and teaches medical hypnosis and hypnotherapy in the NHS, Universities, Colleges and to groups and events around the world. Contributing to the hypnotherapy profession is a key interest for Kate, together with a passion for raising hypnotherapy education standards and helping each therapist develop to their fullest potential.

Micro–Hypnotic Phenomena for Macro Change

How subtle responses are elicited and used to create powerful therapeutic momentum

Hypnosis begins far earlier than we think. From the moment we meet a client, expectation, attention, and subtle suggestion begin to shape response. In this engaging, demonstration-led session, David explores how micro-hypnotic phenomena—small, involuntary changes, are gently elicited through skilful interaction and can be used as reliable leverage for therapeutic change.
Rather than waiting for obvious “trance” or relying on fixed induction sequences, this approach shows how hypnotherapists can work with the smallest emerging responses as clear signs of unconscious engagement. Through live demonstrations and practical explanation, David illustrates how these subtle phenomena can be recognised, stabilised, and quietly amplified, allowing hypnosis to unfold naturally and with less effort for both client and therapist.
Blending clinical insight with humour and participation, this session offers a refined way of working that supports analytical or sceptical clients, reduces resistance, and builds immediate experiential proof that something meaningful is already happening. Attendees will leave with a clearer eye for hypnotic phenomena as they arise, greater confidence in their timing and interventions, and practical skills for guiding change by trusting the smallest responses that often lead to the biggest shifts. As always, David will have some new techniques to throw in for good measure!

David Bolton has been using hypnosis to entertain, educate and help people for over 30 years. David is an experienced hypnotherapist and stage performer and has been featured as the hypnotist on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. David is proud to serve on the committee of the Federation of Ethical Stage Hypnotists and is passionate about promoting stage hypnosis as safe, fascinating and highly entertaining.

The Confidence Trap

Why So Many Good Hypnotherapists Are Held Back By Doubt

Many hypnotherapists find it hard to start and maintain a successful practice.

But they don’t struggle due to a lack of knowledge, skill or training, neither is it really a shortage of marketing acumen.

They struggle because they still doubt their effectiveness, and in some way they hold themselves back.
They are fully qualified, often in multiple methods from some of the most well known and skilled trainers in the industry, yet nothing ever seems quite enough to move forwards with confidence in their practice, and they feel unsure about what they will do should the client throw them something they weren’t expecting.

If you’re a trained practitioner who’s been working with clients but still finds yourself second-guessing your approach at times, then this talk is for you.

In this session, I’ll talk about:

– Why more techniques don’t resolve practitioner uncertainty.
– What actually helps sessions feel calmer and more predictable.
– The shift that changed how I work with clients.
– How to stop over preparing and trust your process more fully.

The talk will include a practical demonstration of how I work with clients and the things that allow me to feel comfortable in my sessions no matter what the client brings to the table.

Tim is a Hypnotist, author, and creator of the CONTROL System, a method that utilises hypnotic phenomena without any formal trance process. He has spent the last 15 years running a full time therapeutic practice and training others in his method. He specialises in anxiety issues, is author of the book Clear Your Head, and his TED talk ‘How To Stop Feeling Anxious About Anxiety’ has now had more then 3 million views.

Psychological Violence

How Capable, Intelligent People Get Broken Down – and How to Rebuild Power, Clarity and Self-Trust

Psychological violence rarely leaves bruises — but it dismantles identity, clarity and self-trust.

Many high-functioning, intelligent people slowly lose their voice, boundaries and decision-making power in relationships characterized by manipulation, coercion, gaslighting and control.

As therapists and helpers, we often meet clients when they are confused, ashamed and unable to think clearly — yet we treat it as “low self-esteem” or “attachment issues.”

What if we are actually looking at the effects of psychological violence?

This talk introduces a practical, trauma-informed and strategy-based framework for understanding how people are broken down — and how we can help them rebuild strength, clarity and personal power before focusing on healing.

Because healing is difficult when the fire is still burning.

Benedikte Brantsæter is trained in law with specialization in conflict resolution and mediation, and works at the intersection of psychology, strategy, and high-conflict dynamics. With backgrounds in social anthropology, mental training, hypnosis, and grief therapy, she helps clients rebuild clarity, strength, and agency in psychologically unsafe relationships and legal stress situations. Benedikte teaches therapists and «hjelpers» how to combine emotional healing with practical preparation, resilience, and strategic thinking when “just leaving” isn’t an option.

The Secret Agent

In this talk James will present a frame for understanding hypnosis based on ‘projected false agency’ and ‘pattern matching’. Through numerous interactive demonstrations he will show that each aspect of induction, experience and phenomena can easily be explained using this simple and direct model of understanding. Most importantly, from a therapeutic perspective, this model squarely puts the power of transformation (and the experience or non experience of phenomena) back into the hands of the client… not as blame, but as empowerment.

Included in the talk will be his Cinema Analogy: a wonderful way to help a nervous or skeptical client ‘let go’ and step into the experience of hypnosis.

James Brown is well known at the UKHC for his interactive and sometimes controversial presentations. A performer employing 30 years of experience, James is a magic consultant for TV and film (including Dynamo and Tom Cruise). James runs hypnosis training alongside Howard Cooper, encouraging industry professionals to connect with clients through play, using science backed tools.

Beyond the Closet: Hypnotic Healing for Shame and Identity

Shame is one of the most powerful forces shaping human behaviour – and for many LGBTQ+ people, it can be a lifelong companion formed through messages of rejection, invisibility, or fear. In this transformative one-hour presentation, you’ll discover how hypnosis can become a profound tool for healing shame and reshaping identity from the inside out.

We’ll explore the unique psychological and emotional experiences that LGBTQ+ clients often carry into the therapy room, including internalised stigma, hypervigilance, and fractured self-worth. You’ll learn how to identify shame-based narratives, listen for the subtle cues that reveal identity conflict, and work sensitively with clients who may have never spoken openly about their experiences.

Through practical frameworks and demonstration-style teaching, you’ll gain tools for:

Using hypnotic language to dismantle shame at its root.

Guiding clients into compassionate self-recognition and emotional release.

Reframing identity as a source of empowerment, resilience, and authenticity.

Creating hypnotic journeys that safely explore and rewrite limiting inner stories.

This session goes beyond theory, offering actionable strategies you can use immediately in your practice. Whether you’re an experienced hypnotist or newly developing your inclusive skills, you’ll leave with deeper insight, refined techniques, and a renewed understanding of the role hypnosis can play in helping LGBTQ+ clients live proudly, openly, and without shame.

Daniel Browne (aka The Mind Bender) is a multi-award-winning hypnotherapist, counsellor, and coach. He's the author of ‘How to be an LGBT+ Affirmative Therapist’, 'LGBTSEX', and trains hypnotists and therapists globally to work with LGBTQ+ clients. He was named among the most influential LGBTQ+ people in the UK by the Independent, has advised the UK government on mental health policy for LGBT+ people, and is a leading authority on working therapeutically with this community.

Transcendental Psychosomatic Therapy System for Rapid Trauma Relief

Trauma is not a cognitive matter; it is a brain and body matter.

Transcendental Psychosomatic Therapy is an integrative body–mind approach designed to facilitate rapid emotional release and nervous system regulation. It is based on the understanding that unresolved experiences are not only stored as memories in the mind, but also encoded within the body and energetic field. When emotional imprints remain trapped, they can manifest as anxiety, chronic stress, physical pain, phobias, and psychosomatic symptoms.

This system combines subconscious reprogramming with somatic and energetic methods, integrating EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), EMDR principles, Bilateral Stimulation (BLS), Simultaneous Brain Processing, Hypnosis, Reiki, Marma Therapy, and Sound Healing. Rather than relying solely on verbal processing, this multidimensional model works simultaneously with cognition, sensation, emotion, and energy.

Participants will learn how to recognize trauma responses in the body, identify emotional root causes behind symptoms, and apply structured yet intuitive protocols that help clients shift from survival states into regulation and coherence. The focus is on gentle, efficient techniques that support deep change without retraumatization.

Because this is a hands-on methodology, participants will observe at least one live demonstration, allowing them to see how the system is applied in real therapeutic contexts.

Attendees will leave with practical tools to facilitate emotional discharge, calm the nervous system, and support lasting transfo

Cristodora Buiculescu is a hypnotherapist, trainer, and creator of the Transcendental Psychosomatic Therapy System, an integrative approach combining hypnosis, NLP, and somatic-energetic techniques to address emotional roots of physical and psychological symptoms. She is founder of MindsetPRO Academy, training practitioners internationally. Working online and in Spain, she supports clients with anxiety, trauma, phobias, addictions, and personal transformation, bridging neuroscience, subconscious reprogramming, and body-based healing for sustainable change and conscious leadership development in modern practice worldwide.

Working with Symbolic Past Lives

Between Therapeutic Metaphor and Subconscious Narrative

In therapeutic practice, clients may access vivid inner experiences that appear to be from “past lives.” But are these literal reincarnations or rich symbolic narratives drawn from the subconscious?
This workshop invites practitioners to explore a clinical, non-dogmatic approach to past-life regression, where the focus is not on proving past lives, but on working with the material as a therapeutic metaphor. We will examine how these symbolic experiences can reveal emotional imprints, unresolved patterns, or deep-rooted beliefs, and how to hold them within a safe, structured process that facilitates transformation.
The session bridges hypnotic regression techniques with insights from neuroscience and trauma theory, showing how the subconscious uses imagery, story, and sensation to externalise internal conflicts. We will discuss how to distinguish between memory, metaphor, and psychological projection, and why the distinction may not always be necessary for healing to occur.
Through case examples and practical guidance, this presentation will offer tools for working ethically and effectively with clients who spontaneously access symbolic “past-life” content, whether or not they believe in reincarnation.
This workshop is ideal for hypnotherapists, psychotherapists and coaches interested in integrating regression in a way that is ethical, accessible and grounded in good clinical practice.

Ruxandra Bulzan is a psychologist, transpersonal psychotherapist, internationally accredited trainer in regression therapy, and published author. She is the president of the Romanian Association for Hypnosis and Regression Therapy and one of the few trainers worldwide accredited by the Earth Association for Regression Therapy (EARTh). With extensive clinical and teaching experience across Europe, she integrates hypnosis, trauma-informed approaches, and symbolic processing to support ethical, transformative regression work grounded in psychological and neuroscientific principles.

From Chaos to Peace

A hypnotherapy framework for recovering after Narcissistic relationships.

‘Narcissist’ is a label we’ve become increasing familiar with over the past few years. There is a vast amount of information and experiences readily shared on social media. People seeking help already have a deep understanding of narcissistic dynamics, manipulative relationships and toxic behaviour.

And yet, even with all that knowledge many struggle to achieve closure, to calm their emotions or regain self confidence. Many struggle to break from the cyclical patterns which see them going back, again and again. (Which is why many are turning to Hypnotherapists for help.)

Recovery after a narcissistic relationship does not happen in a straight line, it’s messy, and the knowledge your clients need isn’t theoretical, it’s experiential. Healing begins when the nervous system is guided out of survival and back towards safety, choice, and self-trust.

In this presentation I’ll share the exact Hypnotherapy framework I’ve been using to facilitate that process – guiding clients to arise from Chaos into Peace.

This framework provides an overarching structure and direction for the therapeutic recovery journey, while allowing space for individual concerns and needs.

I’ll share case studies, talk through how this framework can be applied in practise, and show how traditional Hypnotherapy techniques fit in, so that by the end you’ll have all the tools to utilise this framework within your own practice.

James is a Hypnotherapist and Mindfulness practitioner. He brings a calming, relaxed approach, combined with a wealth of therapeutic knowledge and hypnosis experience, to his client work. This same approach is also applied to his mentoring and trainings. His practice, based in Bournemouth, focusses on clients who are struggling with Emotional regulation, Insomnia and Anxiety.

What a Pain!

A Demonstration of Three Pain Control Techniques

Pain is a very personal thing and it’s all in the mind! It’s the brain’s way of indicating trauma in a specific part of the body. Pain control with hypnotherapy is the most scientifically studied area within the realm of complementary therapies and has generally been shown to be of great usefulness in working with many types of pain issues.
However, in my experience, because pain perception is such a personal thing, an approach that might work brilliantly with one person may not have any effect on other. There are numerous different approaches to targeting pain hypnotically, and many more (mostly variations of traditional approaches ‘rebadged’), so the key is to find the approach most suitable for the patient in front of you.
In this presentation I’m going to give you an introduction to my interpretation of how pain is perceived and will demonstrate three of my ‘go to’ hypnotic approaches to assisting with its relief.

Garry is renowned as an expert in Hypno-Oncology, with over two decades experience, working within a GP practice and hospital oncology unit and holding an MSc in Clinical Hypnotherapy. In 2024, Garry was awarded ‘Medical Hypnotherapist of the Year’. Garry advises the CNHC, on hypnotherapy ethics, training, and malpractice issues. Garry is a regular global lecturer, including presenting monthly mentoring Zoom sessions. Garry has published a script book and is completing a Hypno-Oncology academic book.

The Hidden Musts

Discover a simple method for identifying and resolving the deep rules that keep clients stuck.

Why do clients who genuinely want change sometimes still stay stuck? Even after you “boshed’em into a trance”?

In this workshop, Howard Cooper introduces **The Hidden Musts…** the rigid, often unconscious internal rules that quietly drive behaviours, emotions, and identity.

These are the “I must…”, “I have to…”, “I must not…”, “I should Not” structures operating beneath the presenting problem.

They are not simply surface beliefs; they are psychological imperatives.

When these rules remain intact, symptoms make sense. Anxiety, avoidance, procrastination, perfectionism and people pleasing are often logical responses to a deeper mandate the client feels compelled to obey.

Rather than fighting resistance, the Hidden Musts helps you uncover the protective logic driving it. When you identify and loosen the rule, the symptom frequently loses its necessity.

This session will include a live demonstration, showing how Hidden Musts can be surfaced and shifted in real time.

You will leave with:

– A practical lens for identifying rigid internal rules
– Questioning structures to reveal them quickly in session
– A clearer understanding of why relapse happens — and how to reduce it

When the rule changes, behaviour no longer needs to defend it.

Howard Cooper helps people create rapid shifts in their thinking, working with thousands of individuals over 24 years. As a semi regular Anxiety Expert on BBC Morning Live, past contributor to Virgin Atlantic's "Flying Without Fear" course, and host of the "Rapid Change Matters" podcast, he demonstrates how meaningful change can happen quickly. He now shares this expertise with others in the business.

Aikido for Anxiety: From Resistance to Flow

Physical Metaphors That Teach Clients How Change Actually Happens

Most clients logically understand how they should deal with anxiety: breathe, accept, redirect attention, stop overthinking. But knowing something intellectually is very different from understanding it deep down. When anxiety hits, logic disappears and the body takes over. This is where Aikido-inspired physical metaphors become powerful. They transform abstract emotional concepts into something clients can feel—making the learning deeper, more memorable, and far more effective.

In this experiential presentation, you’ll explore simple Aikido-based demonstrations. Each one reveals a core emotional principle: resistance amplifies distress, tension collapses options, grounding restores stability, and redirection (not force) creates change.

These somatic lessons give clients immediate “aha” moments. Instead of trying to apply intellectual advice during an anxious episode, they rely on an embodied understanding: a physical sense of what to do and how to shift.

No martial arts experience is required. The exercises are gentle, accessible, and designed to enrich hypnotherapy, coaching, trauma-informed work, or any therapeutic practice. You’ll leave with practical somatic tools that help clients move from knowing what to do to being able to do it.

Christophe Courtin is a hypnotherapist, trainer, and Aikido instructor specialising in anxiety, ADHD, and emotional regulation. With over 20 years of martial arts coaching and a decade of therapeutic practice, he’s spent a lifetime helping people stay calm, whether they’re panicking or being gently thrown across a mat. Christophe teaches hypnotherapy and wellbeing workshops in the UK and France, bringing a practical, no-nonsense approach to understanding the mind. He runs Folkestone Hypnotherapy and the Courtin Mind Academy.

Why Street Hypnosis is the Masterclass every Hypnotherapist needs

FFS Just Do it!

The pavement is our friend. That’s right…trust me when I say that by the end of this session, where we will explore how Street Hypnosis is both the fiercest, friendliest and most accessible Masterclass you’ll ever have, we’ll all be chanting “The Pavement is Our Friend” and you can hold me accountable to that!

In this lively and practical session, you will learn how to gauge the best people to approach and discover how approaching complete strangers and hypnotising them in loud, distracting environments turbo-charges your confidence, sharpens your language, and upgrades your ability to read and respond to actual human beings in real time.

If you can get a person’s fingers glued together while sitting at the station in Waterloo Station with the tannoy bellowing in the background, then having a slightly sceptical or resistant client in the therapy room becomes a walk in the park – a quiet one at that.

Expect a few laughs and a practical framework that you can take straight back into your clinical setting. I’ll show you my top three street tools that work brilliantly online and in the therapy environment.

I’ll show you exactly why I walk around in a gold hat looking ridiculous.

I'm with Stephen Fry on this: "We are not nouns, we are verbs". However, not wishing to be contrary, I would have to say I am a hypnotherapist, hypnotist, writer, comedian and teacher. I did stand up comedy for seven years, taught for 17, have written books, plays and radio scripts. I've been a hypnotherapist for the last five years. and have 76 five star google reviews and have created many of my own protocols. In the last two years I've moved into Stage Hypnosis and have been staging my comedy hypnosis show "Lara's Comedy Hypnosis Rave".

Movie Metaphors: How to Harness Hollywood for Your Hypnosis

Hollywood has already done the hard work for us: it has created unforgettable metaphors, emotional frameworks, and narrative structures that clients immediately understand. This presentation shows practising hypnotherapists how to leverage well-known films to deepen engagement, strengthen suggestions, and create more meaningful change work.
Using examples from Inception, Inside Out, time-travel films like Back to the Future, and classic hero-journey stories, you’ll learn how to translate cinematic ideas into clean, ethical therapeutic metaphors. You’ll see how nested loops can be taught through dream-within-a-dream imagery, how parts work becomes instantly relatable when framed through familiar characters, and how regression, future pacing, and timeline shifts can be introduced through the logic of time-travel narratives.
The session also explores how to build your own “movie-based therapeutic sequences”, short, adaptable metaphors you can use in real sessions to enhance motivation, resolve inner conflict, and help clients reauthor their identity. Adam will share real step-by-step examples you can immediately use with your next client and end with a movie-themed hypnosis experience.
Whether you’re new to metaphor or want to expand your creative toolkit, this presentation will give you practical strategies to enrich your work, increase client buy-in, and make your hypnosis more memorable, emotional, and effective, all without ever needing the client to have seen the film.

Adam Cox is a full-time hypnotherapist, podcast host, and creator of The Hypnotist, one of the world’s most-listened-to hypnosis podcasts with over 17 million downloads. Known for integrating film structure, storytelling, nested loops, and advanced hypnotic communication, Adam specialises in turning complex ideas into practical, client-ready techniques. He works internationally with clients and teaches therapists how to apply creativity, metaphor, and narrative frameworks to enhance therapeutic impact.

Hypno-Palace

Understanding Memory & Recall

Memories are often what Hypnotists are working with in their sessions. We tend to assume memory is a recording, something stored and replayed, when in reality it is created, shaped, edited, and reconstructed every time it is recalled.

In this talk, we will explore how memory works in a fun memorable way , looking at how experiences are encoded, stored, and retrieved, and why recall can be unreliable. We will examine why people remember the same event differently, how confidence in a memory does not always equal accuracy.

We will explore they different memory and concepts and we will bring them to life through simple demonstrations and metaphors that make memory easier to understand and easier to work with in practice.

The session will conclude by building a shared Hypno Palace — a practical, memorable way of organising information using spatial imagery — giving attendees a simple framework they can adapt for hypnosis procedures, learning, and for their own personal memory building space.

Ian Cue is the fearless leader of Wolf Mindset, helping people break free from fear, anxiety, and self-doubt so they can Fear Less, Live More. Using NLP, hypnosis, and the R.I.S.E. Journey, Ian guides individuals to escape the mental traps holding them back. His slightly unhinged approach, humour, and high-energy style shake people out of their comfort zones, transforming fear into action.

Hypnotherapy Without Hypnosis:

Delivering Change Through Story, Safety, and Space

In your practice, you may be seeing clients who do not respond to direct suggestion, formal trance, or insight-led work, not because they are resistant, but because those approaches are not accessible or appropriate for them. This is especially common when working with neurodivergent children, families, and clients who experience heightened sensitivity to demand, pressure, or perceived control.
In this session, I will invite you to step slightly outside the traditional hypnosis model and explore how change can occur without overt induction or direct suggestion. Drawing on clinical work with neurodivergent children and their families, we will look at how hypnosis can operate indirectly, through story, environmental safety, and relational positioning, rather than solely within the therapy chair.
You will be guided through when indirect work is indicated, why safety and predictability often drive outcomes more effectively than technique or depth, and how hypno-stories can function as a precise therapeutic delivery system rather than a creative add-on. Case examples will illustrate how meaningful change can take place without insight, compliance, or conscious engagement.
This talk is designed to expand your thinking, not replace your existing skills. You will leave with a clear conceptual framework for integrating indirect hypnosis into your practice ethically and safely, enabling you to work more confidently with “hard to reach” clients and to do less, while achieving more.

Amy Dalwood-Fairbanks is a multi-award winning paediatric clinical hypnotherapist, author, and speaker specialising in low-demand, neuro-affirming work with neurodivergent children and their families. A former primary school teacher, she is the founder of Magic Minds Family Hypnotherapy. Amy is known for her work with indirect hypnosis and hypno-stories, and is developing training for clinicians and medical professionals in relational, safety-led practice.

Reaching Millennials and Gen-Z: Grow Your Digital Audience & Social Media

Millennials and Gen-Z are the largest online audience, but reaching them requires more than posting content: it’s about connection, relevance, and understanding their values. Drawing on her experience running social platforms for global international brands (TikTok, YouTube, IG.) Tara Day shares practical strategies to grow online audiences, craft authentic messaging, and grow your social pages.

As levels of anxiety skyrocket, there is an increase in younger clients battling with fears, anxieties and low self-esteem. Millennials want QUICK results and are in touch with their emotions – this is where hypnotherapists come in! We need to spread the word of hypnotherapy and reach this important demographic.

Attendees will leave with actionable insights they can implement immediately.

Key Takeaways:

➡️ How to create content that resonates with a millennial audience
➡️ 5 Tips to Improve Your Social Media today
➡️ Optimising your website for SEO to attract and convert the right audience
➡️ Understanding the latest trends and behaviours in millennial digital consumption

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The reason I have decided to put forward this presentation is because I was surprised at UKHC how small the social pages of the speakers and delegates were. There is SO much skill in the room, but it’s not translating to social reach. I think every hypnotherapist at UKHC will benefit from learning about these tips and tricks to improve their social pages AND to help promote hypnotherapy more broadly.

Hi! I’m Tara Day, a fairly newly-qualified hypnotherapist (June 2025) bringing a fresh perspective to hypnotherapy. I specialise in Hypnobirthing, digital marketing, and supporting individuals with anxiety and work-based issues - think public speaking, imposter syndrome etc! After a successful career leading global digital platforms (TikTok, YouTube, IG) for international F500 brands, I made a complete career change to build my own hypnotherapy practice, offering both in-person and online sessions. This unique combination of experience means I understand both the power of the mind and how to connect effectively with audiences (particularly millennials!) online and in real life. I attended UKHC this year for the first time and it was fantastic - thank you Adam and team! I would love the opportunity to speak next year.

TETRALEMMA: going beyond the duality

How to embrace the totality of yourself

Either/or thinking lies at the root of so many psychological problems.

Am I right or wrong?
Strong or weak?
Worthy or worthless?

Whatever answer we choose, it rarely satisfies us. We long for a simple, black-and-white world, but reality is almost never a binary switch. It’s a spectrum.

Either/or thinking squeezes complex experience into false categories. When life doesn’t fit them (which it almost never does), tension and distress arise. “If I’m not confident, I must be weak” ignores the rich middle ground where learning, uncertainty, and growth live.

So how can we move beyond the either/or dilemma? How can we embrace both ends of the spectrum and everything in between? Can we go even beyond the spectrum and realise that we are so much more than we imagine?

The answer is the TETRALEMMA.

I’ve learnt this experiential method from Stephen Gilligan, and it’s one of my favourites. With clients stuck between opposites—strong or weak, for example—we explore being strong, being weak, being both strong and weak, being neither strong nor weak. Finally, they will experience all of these at the same time, and realise they are so much more… It is a wonderfully hypnotic, mind-expanding experience.

The result is a realisation: you are much more than any category your mind tries to assign. You are a totality.

I am going to teach participants how to do the Tetralemma with themselves and with their clients, both in a formal and a conversational way.

I am an MD, a psychiatrist, a certified Master Hypnotherapist, and an NLP Trainer certified by Richard Bandler, Chris Hall and John Overdurf. I have been using hypnosis and NLP in my clinical practice since 1998 and teaching it since 2000. I specialise mostly in Ericksonian and Conversational Hypnosis.

Change Limiting Beliefs Permanently

As hypnotherapists, we witness daily how profoundly past experiences shape our clients’ lives. Early experiences — in childhood and even in the womb — often give rise to deep beliefs about who we are and how the world works. Formed during periods of great vulnerability, these beliefs can later restrict behaviour, undermine self-worth, and interfere with growth and emotional wellbeing.

Beliefs such as “I am not good enough,” “I must please others to be loved,” or “I must succeed to be seen and recognised” are sadly very common. They are not logical conclusions, but emotional interpretations created in response to early experiences. For example, when a baby cries and the mother does not come, the baby may unconsciously conclude: “My mother doesn’t love me,” “My voice is not important,” or “It’s safer to stay quiet.” These are the child’s best attempts to make sense of the world with a nervous system still in formation.

When we return to these early moments and allow the inner child to understand that the mother’s absence was not due to lack of love, but a reflection of her own limitations or circumstances, something profound shifts.

I will demonstrate how to release outdated emotional interpretations and replace them with more compassionate and supportive meanings, thus enabling our clients to build new internal foundations — ones that support self-worth, emotional safety, healthy relationships, and a more balanced, fulfilling life.

Maria João Dias, a passionate hypnotherapist, was certified by the International Association of Counselors and Therapists (IACT, USA) in 2012 and became a Master Trainer in 2014. For about 15 years, she has taught hypnotherapy, mentoring 100+ professionals while running “Hypnobalance”, her thriving clinic in Cascais, Portugal. Now launching her first book, she aims to inspire even more people to embrace the profound transformations made possible by accessing the subconscious mind.

PTSD Unlocked: How Emotional Imprints, Identity States, and see IEMT Create Rapid Relief Without Reliving Trauma

A breakthrough look at PTSD through the lens of IEMT—and why this method works when others fail

PTSD is not created by the event itself, but by the emotional and sensory imprints encoded in the nervous system, combined with the identity shift that occurs in a precise moment. In this workshop you will get a clear, elegant model of how PTSD forms and why certain things become “locked in,” creating chronic emotional looping long after the event has passed.

Participants will learn how Integral Eye Movement Technique (IEMT) updates these imprints without requiring clients to retell their trauma, relive intense memories, or experience emotional flooding. By bypassing narrative processing and working directly with imprint architecture, IEMT can create rapid and lasting relief.

This session covers the PTSD Linchpin model, identity states commonly activated during trauma, the Five Patterns of Chronicity, and why traditional talk therapy often struggles with imprint-driven responses. A live demonstration will show how quickly emotional intensity can shift and attendees will be able to use that technique upon leaving workshop.

This workshop offers a modern, non-content, highly practical approach to PTSD resolution—combining neuroscience, identity work, and the precision of IEMT into a framework practitioners can apply immediately.

Lori Donnelly, C.HT., is a Board-Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Certified Brain Health Coach with the Amen Clinics. She is the only active IEMT Trainer currently teaching in North or South America. Lori’s work focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying emotional memory, identity imprinting, and state-dependent trauma responses. With advanced training in Mind-Body Psychology and advanced applied eye-movement models, she teaches evidence-informed, non-content interventions for PTSD and chronic emotional dysregulation. Lori presents internationally on clinical applications of IEMT.

Big Emotions, No Drama: Empowering Teens to Self-Regulate

BrainHack tools to help teens calm the chaos and find their balance

Working with teenagers can feel deeply rewarding and at times uniquely challenging. Big emotions, rapid mood shifts, low self-esteem, and overwhelm often sit just beneath the surface, leaving practitioners wondering how best to support teens without escalating the “drama” that so often accompanies this stage of life.
In this presentation, Julie Taylor and Marcia Eden introduce their BrainHack approach, a practical and teen-friendly way of helping young people understand their brains and emotions. Drawing on Hypnosis, CBT, Tapping, and Positive Psychology, they share creative strategies that validate teens experiences while empowering them to feel more in control of their emotional responses.
You will explore how simple, relatable explanations of the teenage brain can reduce overwhelm, build self-esteem, and support emotional regulation. The session also introduces a range of mood-boosting exercises that help teens shift state, access calm, and reconnect with a sense of balance and inner stability in everyday life.
This session is ideal for Hypnotherapists who want fresh inspiration, practical techniques, and greater confidence when working with teenagers, whether you are new to this age group or looking to expand and refine your existing approach.

Julie Taylor and Marcia Eden are experienced hypnotherapists, and trainers based in the UK, with decades of combined experience working with adults, children, and teens. In 2021, they founded Hypno4Children, developing the MINDHACK system, an integrative approach for working with young clients. Passionate about children's and teens' wellbeing, they are dedicated to empowering hypnotherapists to feel confident in working with young clients, helping the next generation build resilience, confidence, and a strong foundation for lifelong mental health.

Street Hypnosis for Everyone

Impromptu Hypnosis for Real-World Moments

Do you want to hypnotize people anywhere, anytime—with ease and confidence?
This session shows you how. Street Hypnosis for Everyone teaches fast, reliable induction techniques and demonstrational effects that work immediately in live settings—whether at parties, soial gatherigs or even as an ice breaker in your coaching.

Forget long scripts, props, or formal inductions. You’ll discover simple, reliable methods to create rapid hypnotic responses. The focus is on practical skills you can apply straight away, making hypnotic effects accessible, ethical, and impressive for any audience.

Experiential Practice & Live Participation:
This is a hands-on session. Live demonstrations with volunteers will show the techniques in action, while guided exercises let the audience practice immediately. You’ll leave the session able to create hypnotic moments on the spot, confident in using the skills in real-world situations.

Key Takeaway:
Leave with a repertoire of fast, demonstrational hypnosis techniques that work anywhere, anytime—perfect for presentations, parties, or spontaneous interactions. Expand your skills with hypnotic effects that are as impressive as they are practical.

Tom Faith, a distinguished figure in hypnosis for over two decades, boasts a rich background as a Hypnosis and NLP Master Trainer and coach for personal growth. With 30+ years on show and business stages, he's authored multiple hypnosis books, spoken at global conferences, and is renowned for his expertise in Instant and Street Hypnosis. Tom is the visionary behind Germany's Street Hypnosis community and the developer of HELIX, a groundbreaking participative hypnosis model.

Automating your business and creating passive income

Reduce your admin burden and create an online income.

In this practical session I’ll talk about how automations can make everything from booking clients in, to following up much easier and less time consuming. We’ll take a look at how you can build an online product/s using lead funnels and email sequencing, alongside digital marketing with Ai, without it sounding like Ai. We’ll go through building booking sequences, product creation, and social media. If you have an idea bring it to the session with your laptop for notes and get stuck in. You’ll go away with a seed idea and clear route to lightening your workload and making money while you sleep.

Sophie has been working in the field for 20 years and is the bestselling author of three books. She also runs online courses and training, and has done additional training in Ai and digital marketing.

Intro to Emotional Response Design™

Facilitating Effective Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse (and other complex trauma)

In this expert session, Ronia introduces her pioneering, trauma-informed approach to narcissistic abuse recovery and explains why many well-intentioned interventions fail to create lasting change.

In this talk, you will discover:
– How complex trauma manifests
– Why survivors remain “stuck” despite insight, motivation, or prior therapy
– Her proven, step-by-step recovery blueprint that restores safety, identity, and agency
– How to apply hypnosis safely and effectively for complex trauma healing

Whether you are a hypnotherapist working with abuse survivors and want to deepen your clinical impact, or a survivor of narcissistic abuse seeking a clear path out of survival mode, this session offers rare insight, practical application, and transformative perspective. This is not theory. It’s a roadmap.

“Ronia has saved my life with this programme.” Jayne, UK (Client Testimonial)

“Ronia has crafted a remarkable first-of-its-kind program. Her own knowledge, forged through a deep cellular understanding, has created a highly effective program to recovery and thriving. I highly recommend Ronia Fraser and her model to recovery from complex trauma.” Dr Steven Ruden – Co-Creator Havening Techniques

“Ronia’s methodology is incredibly masterful and the best structure to recovery from complex trauma that I have seen.” Ulf Sandström – Founder Peaceful Heart Network

Ronia Fraser is a multi-award-winning Clinical Hypnotherapist and a leading expert in the field of Trauma and Narcissistic Abuse Recovery. An internationally published author and globally renowned speaker, Ronia combines professional expertise with lived experience as a survivor of narcissistic abuse to provide practical, structured guidance for recovery. For almost a decade Ronia has been supporting abuse survivors from all over the world get back on their feet, regain their mental health and recover who they were always meant to be. Her pioneering approach is widely recognised as one of the most effective, structured and masterful methods for the recovery from complex trauma. Ronia also offers trauma-informed specialist training for (hypno)therapists, coaches and medical professionals, offering clear strategies for lasting healing. Ronia brings her deep knowledge of hypnosis and trauma recovery to offer practical solutions and help practitioners understand and support survivors with compassion, insight, and evidence-based methods.

The Inner Jukebox – Group Hypnosis Experience

For Learning, Recall, and Integration.

The UK Hypnosis Convention offers a rich learning environment, filled with ideas, techniques, and inspiration, with multiple presentation streams and sustained cognitive engagement. This group hypnosis session supports delegates to absorb, retain, and integrate what they have learned across the event.

This experiential group hypnosis session offers a structured pause within the programme — an opportunity to relax, reflect, and gently organise learning from across the convention at a deeper, subconscious level. Using an engaging metaphor of an “inner jukebox,” participants are guided to symbolically sort, store, and strengthen access to key insights, techniques, and moments of learning.

The session demonstrates how metaphor, imagery, and suggestion can be used within group hypnosis to support memory, recall, and learning integration in a calm, non-intrusive way. Delivered live and experientially, it is suitable for delegates of all experience levels.

Designed to stand alone as a restorative and practical experience, this session also models an adaptable group hypnosis approach that can be applied in educational settings, workshops, and client groups. Delegates leave feeling calmer, more organised, and more confident in accessing what they have learned during the convention.

NB: The usual contraindications for hypnosis apply. Delegates should only attend if it is safe and appropriate for them to experience hypnosis.

Lisa French is a qualified hypnotherapist with over 14 years’ experience, working predominantly online with individuals and groups. She specialises in supporting desk-based and hybrid workers who feel mentally overloaded or find it hard to switch off from work. Alongside her hypnotherapy practice, Lisa also works part-time in an office-based role, giving her a genuine, first-hand understanding of modern working life. Her approach to hypnosis is calm, practical, and deeply supportive.

The ADHD Hypnosis Paradox: Why Traditional Relaxation-Based Inductions Fail (And What Actually Works)

Modified Protocols for Neurodivergent Attention Patterns

With ADHD diagnosis rates surging globally in the past five years, hypnotherapists are encountering more neurodivergent clients than ever. Yet a frustrating pattern emerges: ‘My ADHD clients can’t seem to go into trance.’
ADHD individuals can absolutely be hypnotized. The problem is that our traditional relaxation-based, eyes-closed, progressive muscle relaxation inductions are fundamentally incompatible with ADHD neurology. Asking an ADHD brain to ‘sit still, close your eyes, and clear your mind’ creates paradoxical resistance—the opposite of trance.
This presentation challenges one of hypnotherapy’s core assumptions: that there’s a ‘standard’ way to induce trance. You’ll discover why movement can aid hypnotic depth rather than disrupt it, why rapid inductions outperform lengthy relaxation scripts, and how to recognize authentic ADHD trance states that don’t look like traditional hypnosis.
You’ll leave with practical, immediately applicable techniques:
• Modified rapid inductions
• Eyes-open and movement-based trance protocols
• Language pattern adaptations for ADHD processing styles
• Homework protocols ADHD clients will actually complete
• How to handle the ‘I can’t visualize’ challenge
This Is a practical toolkit you can implement with clients who’ve been told they’re ‘unhypnotizable.’ Join to make hypnotherapy truly accessible to all neurotypes.

A certified hypnotherapist and life coach practicing since 2021. Working across diverse client presentations, he integrates hypnotherapy and coaching methodologies to address both conscious goal-setting and subconscious pattern change. Through clinical practice, Govind has developed particular interest in neurodivergent-affirming approaches after observing how traditional hypnotic methods often fail ADHD clients. He is passionate about making therapeutic tools accessible to all neurotypes and questioning field assumptions about standardized techniques.

Menopause as an Identity Threshold: Moving Beyond Symptom-Focused Hypnotherapy

How hypnotherapy can support identity transition, nervous system change, and trauma-informed work during menopause

Much of the current conversation around hypnotherapy and menopause focuses on symptom relief, particularly hot flushes, sleep disturbance, and anxiety. While this work is valuable, many clinicians will recognise that, for some menopausal clients, things don’t neatly resolve at the level of symptoms alone.
This presentation explores menopause as an identity threshold: a time of neurological, emotional, and psychological change that can intensify unresolved trauma patterns, attachment dynamics, and long-standing nervous system adaptations. Drawing on my hypnotherapy practice, trauma-informed thinking, and emerging understandings of neuroendocrine sensitivity, this talk invites practitioners to gently widen their focus beyond symptom-targeted work.
Attendees will be encouraged to consider how hypnotherapy can support emotional regulation, internal coherence, and shifts in self-concept during menopause, particularly for clients with complex trauma histories. The presentation looks at why symptom-focused approaches can sometimes plateau, how menopausal change may unsettle previously ‘compensatory’ identities, and how hypnotic work can ethically support this transition.
The session closes by inviting reflection on whether menopause calls for subtle shifts in how hypnosis is delivered, particularly around pacing, language, and relational safety, to better support women engaging in hypnotherapy during this significant life stage.

Sally Garozzo is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in trauma-informed work with women in midlife and menopause. She is the host of The Menopause Mindset podcast and a published writer, including work for Tiny Buddha. Her work is known for synthesising hypnotherapy, nervous system regulation, attachment theory, and women’s lived experience, with a particular interest in how hormonal transition reshapes identity, meaning, and self-concept during menopause.

Why Change Doesn’t Stick

How Identity Shifting Creates Lasting Results in Hypnotherapy

Many hypnotherapy clients experience powerful insights, emotional breakthroughs, and a strong sense of motivation, yet find themselves returning to old patterns over time. This presentation explores why change so often fails to stabilise – not because hypnosis was ineffective, but because identity-level processes were never fully addressed.

This session introduces identity shifting as a central mechanism of lasting therapeutic change. Rather than focusing solely on behaviour, habits, or symptom relief, it examines how clients unconsciously maintain continuity with an old sense of self. These identity patterns are often protective and familiar, creating an internal pull back to what feels known, even when the client genuinely wants change.

The presentation focuses on how hypnosis can be used to work directly with identity-level structures, supporting clients to move from effort-based change into a more stable experience of “who I am now.” Through language, imagery, and internal positioning, hypnotherapists can help clients integrate change at a deeper level, reducing internal conflict and relapse.

This session is relevant for practitioners working with clients who are insightful, motivated, and engaged, yet struggle to maintain progress. It offers a clear, ethical framework for using hypnosis to support deeper integration and more durable outcomes across a wide range of presenting issues.

Ieva Gerciene (Eva Gercas for English speaking audience) is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, RTT practitioner, and mindset coach specialising in identity-based change and subconscious self-sabotage. She works with high-functioning and high-achieving clients who feel stuck despite insight and capability. Ieva integrates clinical hypnotherapy with strategic intervention and mindset approaches, and runs workshops focused on confidence, internal alignment, and sustainable personal and professional growth.

The New Weight-Loss Conversation: Working Confidently in the GLP-1 Era

Session structure and language patterns you can use immediately

GLP-1 medications have changed the weight-loss landscape, and they’ve changed the conversations clients bring into the therapy room. “Food noise”, fear of regain, emotional eating creeping back in, and uncertainty about what happens when medication reduces or ends are now everyday themes.
In this practical, demonstration-led session, I’ll share what I’ve learned from 17 years specialising in weight-loss hypnotherapy and translate it into a modern, ethical approach for the GLP-1 era. A key theme is this: for many people, GLP-1s can create rapid change, but they may feel they’ve borrowed control rather than learned it. When that borrowed control reduces, the old patterns can rush back unless we help clients build internal regulation and a stable maintenance identity.
You’ll experience a live Food-Noise Downshift demonstration and learn rapid techniques to settle the nervous system, reduce urge intensity, and move clients out of “autopilot eating”. We’ll explore clean, effective hypnotic language that strengthens choice, consistency, and self-leadership, so clients don’t just lose weight, they learn how to keep it off.
Everyone will leave with a simple, repeatable session structure and ready-to-use language they can apply immediately with GLP-1 users, GLP-1 “exit” clients, and those choosing a non-medicated route.

Sheila Granger is a UK Clinical Hypnotherapist and trainer driven by one question: What else is possible? Best known for her Virtual Gastric Band weight-loss protocol, she’s helped thousands of hypnotherapists worldwide grow their practices and achieve stronger client results. Expect practical strategies, a straight-talking style, and an ego-free, can-do attitude. Sheila was IMDHA Hypnotist of the Year (2019), won the IMDHA Distinguished Service Award (2025), and her business was UK National Business of the Year (2021).

Compassion Fatigue

How to Avoid Burnout, but Still Care

As hypnotherapists, we pour our energy, focus, and compassion into supporting others on their path to healing. Yet the same deep level of care that makes us effective practitioners can also leave us emotionally depleted. Compassion fatigue and burnout are real risks in our profession—and too often, we recognize them only after they’ve already taken hold.

This insightful and energizing session will help you protect your passion and maintain the joy in your work. We’ll begin by examining the Compassion Fatigue Scale to gain clarity on where we currently stand, followed by an exploration of the boundaries—both internal and external—that preserve our well-being. You’ll learn the essential differences between sympathy and empathy (and why one exhausts us while the other empowers us), along with strategies for healthier work–life balance and sustainable client relationships.

Through practical tools, interactive learning, and a supportive atmosphere, you’ll leave with actionable self-care techniques designed specifically for hypnotherapists. Most importantly, you’ll rediscover how to show up fully for your clients without sacrificing your own mental and emotional health.

Join us for this vital conversation and ensure that you can continue doing the meaningful work you love—at your best, and for the long term.

Dr. Kathy Gruver is an award-winning author, hypnotherapist, professional speaker, Psychedelic Coach and ACC-Certified Life Coach with over 30 years of experience in mind/body medicine and human behavior. She has captivated hundreds of audiences on four continents, three cruise ships and a handful of islands. It’s been her true honor to have delivered two TEDx talks. Kathy has written eight books which have garnered 12 awards. She has earned her PhD in natural health and has studied mind-body medicine at the famed Benson Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Harvard. For fun Kathy does flying trapeze.

Quantum or Quackery?

A Closer Look at the “Q” Word in Therapy and Healing

The word “quantum” holds a lot of fascination for many people, and has found a home in countless therapy and healing practices. It promises deep, non-linear change and sudden breakthroughs in physical healing or self-understanding.
But what does “quantum” actually mean and how does it work? Does it really interlink with the laws of quantum physics?
In this talk, we’ll look at where the term comes from, what physics actually says about observation, particles, and energy – and whether mysterious, sudden healing requires a quantum label or whether it can be explained by proven mind-body pathways. Can we close the gap between popular “quantum” ideas and the real science?
And – how ethical is it to use “quantum” language in therapy? When can it inspire trust or hope, when does it risk misleading clients, and when does cross the line into pseudoscience?

Astrid Harms is a hypnotherapist and coach at www.soulessense.co in Amsterdam, working online with clients worldwide. With a background in TV, media, and a degree in technical communication, she makes complex ideas clear and practical in her therapy work. Fascinated by the mind-body connection and the frontiers of human consciousness, Astrid stays current with research in neuroscience, cell biology, and mind-body healing. She specializes in helping clients with challenges like tinnitus and chronic conditions, combining hypnosis with evidence-based insights. Her mission is to bridge the gap between what science explains and what we still sense but don’t fully understand — supporting real change through clarity, curiosity, and ethical practice.

Beyond Scripts: Symbolic Intelligence, Creativity, and the Future of Therapeutic Hypnosis

Reclaiming Imagination, Relational Depth, and Innovation in Hypnotic Practice

Hypnosis has always operated through symbol, metaphor, and imagination, yet modern practice can sometimes drift toward scripted interventions. This presentation invites practitioners to move beyond technique alone and re-engage hypnosis as a dynamic, creative, and relational process. Drawing on extensive clinical experience across psychotherapy, trauma-informed work, and private practice, the session reframes hypnosis as an embodied dialogue with the unconscious rather than a set of procedural steps.
Informed by doctoral research published in the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, the talk explores how creative therapeutic techniques can catalyze deep insight while preserving the central importance of therapeutic relationship. Participants will be encouraged to consider how symbolic imagery, metaphor, and imaginative trance states can be intentionally shaped to support meaning-making, psychological flexibility, and integration, particularly where change unfolds over time.
The presentation also looks toward the future of hypnotic practice, opening a thoughtful discussion on the ethical integration of emerging technologies, including AI-supported reflective tools. Rather than replacing the practitioner, these technologies can function as symbolic extensions of the therapeutic process, supporting reflection, reinforcing autonomy, and deepening between-session integration when applied with clinical rigor and ethical guardrails.

Dr. Victoria Harris holds a Doctorate in Psychotherapy and works at the intersection of mental health, creativity, and emerging technology. Her doctoral research, published in the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, explored how creative therapeutic approaches foster insight and relational connection. Her clinical experience spans psychiatry, suicide prevention, schools, community mental health, and private practice. She is also an author, certified yoga instructor, and developer of an ethical AI wellness platform expanding access to reflective, evidence-informed support.

Hypnosis use in breast-cancer related pain

The experiences of both practitioners and women

Pain in medical terms is widely regarded as a personal, subjective, sensory and emotional experience. It is classified as a symptom or a disease. Pain in psychology terms, in contrast, is understood as a psycho-neurobiological phenomenon with biopsychosocial affects impacting self and identity. The outcomes of experimental and clinical hypnosis published research usually focus on process and medical comparisons such as drug efficiency. They are frequently of limited evidential value due to their low methodological quality and a lack or replicability, though do underline the potential of clinical hypnosis for pain management work.
To date there is limited qualitative peer reviewed research published on the lived experiences of using hypnosis for pain management in complementary health care settings. The growing interdisciplinary research in psychoneuroimmunology and neurobiology identifies the psychobiological state of hypnosis can serve as a therapeutic tool to influence neurobiological processes for healing, including that for managing pain. For example, in managing psychological overwhelm, a condition reported as experienced by participants to this study can cause the brain to respond in ways similar to a hypnotic state.
This IPA study explores the experiences of practitioners and clients in complementary practice to hypnosis interventions as part of a breast-cancer journey.

Having obtained an MSc in psychology I qualified and became a practicing psychotherapist with the Spencelayh Practice Limited, Wellingborough, where I am now a director of the company. I am currently writing up my Professional Doctorate Psychotherapy dissertation for presentation by September 2026 to the University of Lancashire. The thesis topic is the experience of hypnosis for breast-cancer related pain. I am a member of the Committee of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

Why do some changes never seem to last?

Working with biological capacity to support sustainable change in hypnosis.

Many hypnotists notice a frustrating pattern: sessions that feel effective in the moment, but changes that don’t last. This presentation explores a commonly overlooked reason: clients who lack the biological capacity to sustain change, regardless of motivation or insight.

This talk reframes resilience as a physiological state, rather than a psychological trait. Drawing on Human Mismatch Theory, it examines how modern lifestyles erode capacity through disrupted sleep, reduced movement, poor nourishment, and chronic disconnection. When capacity is low, the nervous system prioritises survival over change, making even well-delivered hypnosis difficult to integrate.

Delegates will learn how to recognise low-capacity presentations, adjust their approach ethically, and avoid pushing clients beyond what their system can tolerate. The session will demonstrate how to explain resilience in non-shaming language, and how hypnosis can be used to support consolidation and stabilisation rather than forcing transformation.

Rather than offering lifestyle prescriptions, this session focuses on how hypnotists can work more intelligently with capacity, improving outcomes while staying firmly within the scope of practice. This presentation is ideal for experienced practitioners who want to reduce relapse, improve long-term results, and work in a way that respects both biology and client autonomy.

Juliet Hollingsworth is a UK clinical hypnotherapist with nearly twenty years’ experience working with anxiety, stress, addiction, sleep difficulties, and nervous system dysregulation. She holds an MSc in Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology, which informs her focus on biological capacity, resilience, and sustainable change. Juliet works from a collaborative, non-state approach to hypnosis, helping practitioners recognise when clients lack the physiological resources to integrate change, and adjust their work ethically to support consolidation rather than force transformation.

From Overthinking to Pleasure: Clinical Applications of Erotic Hypnosis (alternative: From Performance to Pleasure: Unlearning Hustle Through Erotic Hypnosis)

How pleasure-focused hypnosis resolves performance anxiety

We’ve been taught that success requires relentless effort, constant thinking and performing at all cost, which is exhausting mentally. Most of us live entirely in our heads—strategising, performing, achieving—disconnected from our bodies and authentic desires, yet what if everything we’ve learned about achievement is backwards?
Erotic hypnosis offers a radical alternative. When people step into this work, something unexpected happens: the mental chatter quiets, performance anxiety dissolves, and they discover that pleasure isn’t the obstacle to success—it’s the pathways to it. Through erotic trance, clients begin to unlearn the conditioning that keeps them striving and experience what it means to achieve more through embodied pleasure rather than mental effort.

This workshop demonstrates how erotic hypnosis helps people reconnect with their authentic selves—not who they were taught they should be, but who they genuinely are beneath the programming. You’ll discover how this shift from head to body, from performance to pleasure, creates a more joyous and ultimately more effective way of living.

Through experiential practice, participants will learn how to use erotic hypnosis as a transformative tool for helping self and clients shed decades of conditioning and step into authenticity—where achievement flows naturally from pleasure rather than forced busy-ness or performance.

Alexandra Holovitz is a highly skilled Sex Coach, Orgasmic Hypnotist, and subconscious reprogramming expert. With 8 years of client-facing experience, she helps high-achieving men and women shift from performance anxiety to embodied pleasure, specialising in erotic hypnosis for authentic self-expression. Her expertise blends deep trance hypnosis, somatic embodiment, and subconscious reprogramming, positioning her as a leading voice in pleasure-based hypnosis for personal empowerment. As the CEO of Alexandra Guru, Alexandra has been published on erotic hypnosis in Brainz Magazine sharing her insights on the power of handsfree orgasms.

Hypnotherapy for Sleep Disorders: Evidence-Based Strategies and Practical Clinical Tools

Sleep difficulties are a major contributor to many of the concerns clients seek hypnotherapy for, including anxiety, low mood, chronic pain, and weight-related challenges. Yet, despite a strong and growing evidence base for hypnotherapy in the treatment of sleep disorders, many clinicians still address sleep with generic relaxation alone. While this may reduce arousal and stress, it often overlooks the breadth of sleep presentations, including nightmares, circadian rhythm/sleep phase disorders, and insomnia.

This presentation offers a clear, clinically usable overview of common sleep disorders, with a structured approach to identifying the nature of a client’s sleep difficulty from intake. Attendees will learn assessment strategies to identify a broader range of sleep difficulties, including nightmares and circadian rhythm/sleep phase disorders, and to differentiate between presentations.

It then translates the research into practical, tailored interventions, including directed dreaming, hormone-informed mind:body approaches, and skills-based strategies that build client self-efficacy and support lasting change.

Dr. Claire Jack is an experienced hypnotherapist, training provider, and writer specialising in neurodivergence, women’s wellbeing, and sleep disorders. With a PhD focused on women’s lived experiences, she delivers evidence-informed, trauma-informed training that prioritises ethical practice, client safety, and relevant, modern outcomes. She provides CPD-accredited education in menopause, sleep, neurodiversity, and children’s hypnotherapy, translating research into structured, usable protocols. She is the author of "Women with Autism" and "Raised by a Narcissist", and a regular contributor to Psychology Today.

Hardwired to Rise

Triumphing and Connecting to Greatness Within

Based on my international bestseller book about triumphing over fear: Hardwired to Rise – Live Fearlessly, Prosperously and Optimally. I realized after doing thousands of hypnosis sessions with clients that all issues that people came to me to resolve were, at the foundation, various fears showing up in various ways. The two types of fears are necessary (which is built into us to keep us alive and safe) and unnecessary fear – that which holds us back and causes us suffering in modes such as anxiety, stress, negative and limiting beliefs, negative thoughts, feelings and behaviors, pain avoiding by coping in ways that make life worse, and so on. Humans are hardwired to be stronger and more powerful than unnecessary fears so they can rise above them and reach their potential. My presentation will demonstrate how to resolve the core, fear-based roots of issues for your clients at the deepest level possible, and how to then optimize their self-positivity by connecting to their greatness and power within.

Meet Amy Koford, "The Happy Hypnotist", a highly acclaimed speaker, bestselling author, clinical and stage hypnotist, and host of life-changing seminars. Amy has trained with the world's top hypnotists, has been featured on a billboard in Times Square, TV shows, publications, and countless leading professional podcasts. She was selected to be a presenter at Hypnothoughts 2026. Her book about triumphing over fear, titled Hardwired to Rise, an international bestseller, is available on Amazon.

What’s the Color of Your Anger?

Enhanced Emotional Bridge Induction to Quickly Reach to the Root Causes of Clients’ Issues

Regression techniques are invaluable tools for identifying the source of many emotional and mental issues that arose in the past and worsened over time. However, “digging into the past” can be a lengthy and slow process involving the exploration of various events and periods of the client’s life. The “Emotional Bridge Technique” uses emotions associated with the issues at hand to reach the past cause directly, streamlining the hypnoanalytical process, making it more specific and faster. But can we increase its efficiency even more?
Yes – by adding NLP submodalities and other linguistic tools. In this way the hypnoanalytical process becomes much quicker and more efficient than the “ordinary” Emotional Bridge approach, revealing the Initial Sensitizing Event(s) rapidly, sometimes within minutes. At the same time, it bypasses conventional induction and deepening.
You will learn a simple technique for identifying the core emotions connected with client’s issues and utilizing those emotions to quickly address the root of the issue.

Sinisa Kruska is a Hypnotherapist and Mind Coach who works internationally with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds on their personal development and the promotion of physical, emotional and mental health. Originally trained in the natural sciences, he has expanded his knowledge into the fields of human mind, behaviour and spirituality. From an early age, he has been researching and applying various holistic healing modalities, integrating modern scientific knowledge with the ancient spiritual teachings of various traditions. With over 25 years of professional experience, the last 15 as a certified hypnotherapist, Sinisa has helped thousands of people recognise and unleash the hidden powers of their minds and use them to improve all aspects of their lives.

What’s your party trick?

Entertaining and educating with hypnosis

“Oh, you’re a hypnotist? Can you show me something?”

You’ve probably experienced this many times. Parties give the opportunity to discuss random topics with strangers you’ve never met before. But what do you do when someone asks you to demonstrate hypnosis?

I’ve never been a big fan of parties, until I discovered I could turn my passion into a party trick. It’s a place full of open-minded people looking for fun experiences, which makes it a great environment to find amazing hypnotic subjects. And how fun is it to be able to entertain a small crowd while also educating them about hypnosis?

In this presentation, I will tell you all about my favourite party trick! How do you select the right subjects? How do you make the pre-talk fun and interactive? What induction do you use? Which suggestions entertain the crowd and give the hypnotee a fun and magical experience at the same time? I’ll share all the tips and tricks with you to impress new people and give partygoers a fun, positive experience.

Madelief was 16 years old when she saw a magician use hypnosis on TV. Ever since, she's been fascinated by hypnosis and the wonderful things it can do. As a true hypnonerd, she loves to satisfy her curiosity by learning and experimenting with hypnosis. She loves to get creative with techniques and to have fun with hypnosis. When she was 21 years old, she published her first book: 'Hypnotebook - A Practical Beginner's Guide to Hypnosis', to help beginners learn hypnosis. Besides her book, Madelief publishes lot of fun and educational content on Social Media, hoping to get rid of all the misconceptions about hypnosis that are out there.

Double Down on Dental Hypnosis

Dual Senior Practitioners in Hypnotic Analgesia

Dr Brice LeMaire and Sharon Waxkirsh bring nearly half a century of combined experience in dental hypnotherapy. Internationally recognised clinicians and educators, they have presented and trained together worldwide, offering a rare opportunity to learn from two senior practitioners working in the same specialty with thousands of hours of combined clinical and teaching experience.
This joint presentation examines how dental hypnotherapy can be effectively integrated into everyday dental practice to reduce anxiety, manage pain, improve patient cooperation, and enhance treatment outcomes. Grounded in extensive real-world experience, the session emphasizes practical applications.
What makes this presentation unique is the live modelling of collaboration between a dentist and a hypnotherapist, both experienced in the use of hypnosis for procedures performed without chemical anesthesia. Dr LeMaire presents the dentist’s perspective, demonstrating how hypnotic analgesia and anesthesia are integrated within clinical procedures. Ms. Waxkirsh contributes her extensive experience conducting a wide range of surgical procedures using hypnosis as the primary anesthetic, offering the complementary hypnotherapist’s perspective within the same clinical framework. Together, they present a unified and clinically grounded approach to hypnosis-based dental care.
Clinical examples and demonstrations illustrate the techniques.

Sharon Waxkirsh and Dr. Brice LeMaire have delivered joint presentations at ACHE, Hypnosummit, IMDHA, Hypnodontics Summit, and DEHI. They have led training courses at the Royal College of Medicine, across UK venues, and online. Together, they bring nearly 50 years of combined experience in dental hypnotherapy and run their own hypnotherapy schools. Their training includes work with Boyne, Butler, Kein, and McGill, reflecting a deep and diverse foundation in clinical hypnosis.

Hypnotherapy & Counselling: A Powerful Therapeutic Partnership

How Combining Counselling and Hypnotherapy May Enrich Therapeutic Practice

Hypnotherapy and counselling each offer valuable ways of supporting clients, yet when used together they have the potential to create a richer and more holistic therapeutic experience. This presentation explores why these two modalities complement one another and how integrating them may enhance depth, safety and the potential for meaningful long-term shifts.

Louiza, a psychotherapeutic counsellor and clinical hypnotherapist, shares a pluralistic perspective on how counselling skills, such as attunement, emotional pacing, reflective language, and collaborative meaning-making, can support clients to feel grounded and understood. When combined with hypnotherapeutic techniques that work with subconscious patterns, embodied responses and internal imagery, practitioners may find that clients can explore their difficulties from multiple angles, increasing the opportunity for insight and therapeutic movement.

This presentation highlights how both sectors may benefit from embracing each other’s strengths and how hypnotherapy can be a valuable, ethical and versatile addition to the counselling toolbox. Attendees will be shown a range of practical integration methods, session structures and language-based techniques illustrating how counselling and hypnosis can naturally support one another.

Participants will leave with multiple examples of integrative approaches they can explore and adapt within their own practice.

Louiza is a psychotherapeutic counsellor and clinical hypnotherapist specialising in anxiety and stress. As a pluralistic practitioner, she blends evidence-informed counselling approaches with hypnotic techniques to support clients in exploring and shifting internal patterns. Louiza hosts the podcast From the Therapy Room and has spoken on Spectrum On Air radio about low-cost counselling provision. She runs Empowering Minds, supporting clients across the UK.

The therapist’s inner critic: Not on the client list but always in the room

Most therapists are very good at helping clients challenge self-doubt, yet many of us walk into sessions carrying quiet but powerful expectations about ourselves, about getting it right, not letting people down and feeling responsible for how sessions go. These expectations can shape how safe, calm and confident we feel in the room, often without us realising it.
This talk will explore how many of these professional rules were learned earlier in life as sensible ways of trying hard and doing well and how our nervous system can continue to apply those habits to our work long after they are needed. When the inner critic becomes active, the nervous system is listening to that message and responding, not always in the most helpful way.

The presentation will look at how this internal state does not always stay contained within the therapist. Nervous systems are highly responsive to each other and subtle shifts in tone, pace and presence can communicate safety or urgency to clients, sometimes before any technique is used. In this way, therapy becomes not only a conversation between minds but a meeting between two nervous systems that influence each other.

The presentation will demonstrate how small internal shifts can update old habits and support calmer, more connected and more effective therapeutic work.

Marie is an integrative psychotherapist with hypnosis at the core of her work. She has a strong interest in how internal self-talk shapes confidence, motivation and behaviour. Earlier in her career, she recognised that imposter-style thinking was limiting her own professional confidence and addressed the underlying patterns driving it. This work strengthened her clinical effectiveness and contributed to the growth of her practice. Marie now brings this understanding into her work, supporting meaningful and lasting change.

Bypassing Resistance with Conversational Hypnosis

Have you ever worked with a client who has an “invisible wall” up, blocking every suggestion? It is exhausting to navigate an analytical mind that doubts or clings to the problem. This rigid resistance can make traditional techniques feel like an uphill battle for even the most experienced hypnotist.

In this presentation, you will discover how to stop fighting that resistance and start bypassing it through conversational hypnosis. You’ll learn to weave hypnotic influence into normal dialogue so naturally that the client’s critical factor simply steps aside, allowing transformative work to begin without the struggle.

By mastering specific language strategies, you will create subtle shifts in focus, moving clients away from “problem-talk” and into high receptivity. This often happens before a formal induction even begins, proving that profound change occurs in the magical space of an open-eye trance where the conscious mind forgets to interfere.

When you learn to bypass these barriers, your clients will experience a smoother, more effective therapeutic process. This leads to the rapid progress that characterizes master practitioners, resulting in better outcomes for your participants and a significant boost to your own confidence as a hypnotist.

Degree in Engineering (Ing.), Hypnotist, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (HPD), Hypnosis Trainer, Guest Appearance in TV and Radio shows, speaker in International Hypnosis Conventions and President of the Scientific Council of the Portuguese Association of Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnoanalysis (APHCH). Also an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of www.evolutionhypnosis.com®. Trained in hypnosis by personalities like: Anthony Jacquin, Larry Elman and Cheryl Elman, Roy Hunter, Teresa Robles, Edgar Barnet, and others.

The most spectacular instant inductions as a WOW effect in therapy, on stage and streets.

Spectacular hypnotic inductions are very important part of the hypnotic show. However, they can also be used in hypnotherapeutic practice. They instantly suspend the critical factor of awareness and immediately put the client in a trance, giving him a huge WOW effect an even greater understanding of the power of his mind. During this one-hour presentation, I will share with you flash and spectacular ways to induce a state of hypnosis, in less than 7 seconds.

Content:
– Differences between classical, rapid and instant inductions
– How to play with amygdala
– Suspend critical factor
– Shakehand induction
– Falling induction
– „Psychokinetic” induction – let’s add some „magic” 🙂
– Practice

I am the hypnotist and hypnotherapist from Poland with over 15 years of experience. Founder of the Professional School of Hypnotherapy and Stage Hypnosis Masterclass. TV expert on the Polish version of You're Back in the Room prime time game show. Television and radio hypnosis expert on various channels (MTV, TVN, TVN24BiS, TTV, TVP). Author of press articles (Nature & Health Magazine, Businessman Today). 5-times TEDx speaker. The main purpose of my practice is to teach people to be well-prepared hypnotherapists and stage hypnotists, and to support speakers and presenters in preparing for their keynote speeches. Privately, I am the father of a 7-year-old who shows me new areas of hypnosis worth exploring every day.

Confidence Reborn

Unstoppable Subconscious Change Through Pendulum Guidance and Somatic Anchoring

I work in restorative nipple and areola tattooing, a field where clients often arrive with deep emotional wounds from breast cancer or trauma. Over time, I developed a powerful mind–body method that blends somatic transformation with hypnotic principles. When clients see their new nipple for the first time, they enter a natural trance state—an emotional peak where identity, safety and self-belief are instantly rewired.

In that moment, I integrate NLP anchoring, direct-command hypnotic language and pendulum-based subconscious communication to release fear, restore confidence and install new empowering beliefs.

My presentation teaches practitioners how to recognise and use these “somatic breakthrough moments” in their own work. Whether they’re hypnotists, bodyworkers, aestheticians or therapists, they will learn how to anchor emotional shifts, use high-impact subconscious commands and access the subconscious mind quickly and safely.

Attendees will leave with simple, practical tools they can use immediately to create deeper transformations through touch, emotion and hypnotic suggestion. This is hypnosis through the body—identity healing at its most powerful and authentic.

I am Vicky Martin, creator of the VMM® 3D Nipple Tattooing Method—a mind–body approach that restores confidence from the inside out. I use NLP, hypnosis, pendulum work and emotional anchoring during the reveal to help survivors reprogram beliefs, reclaim identity and reconnect with their bodies. With 25 years’ experience, I teach internationally and innovate tools used worldwide. My mission is to empower people to feel fearless, confident and whole again

Stop Trying So Hard

Letting Go of Outcome Attachment to Restore Confidence, Presence, and Therapeutic Effectiveness

Eleven years ago, I was given a 20 to 25 percent chance of surviving cancer. While medical treatment was essential, the most profound change happened internally. When I stopped fighting for a specific outcome and learned to let go, without giving up, my level of calm, clarity, and effectiveness changed completely.

This talk is not about survival. It is about how the same shift in mindset that helped me through a life-threatening crisis can help hypnotherapists navigate self-doubt, pressure, and the often overlooked Dunning-Kruger dip that many practitioners experience after their early successes. As confidence fades, hypnotists often start trying harder, using more techniques and placing more pressure on themselves, which can unintentionally reduce therapeutic effectiveness.

Drawing on personal experience, clinical practice, and a scientific understanding of state-dependent performance, this presentation explores why confidence in hypnosis is less about knowledge and more about presence, trust, and outcome detachment. You will learn how attachment to “must-work” thinking subtly interferes with rapport, responsiveness, and hypnotic depth, and how letting go restores effectiveness.

The session includes practical mindset shifts, simple pre-session state regulation strategies, and a brief experiential demonstration that participants can immediately apply in their own practice.

Christian Marx, PhD, is a former molecular microbiologist who worked in Germany, the UK, and Sweden before transitioning into full-time hypnotherapy. During his academic career, he also volunteered with a crisis intervention team. After being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and personally experiencing the stabilising and empowering effects of hypnosis, he shifted his professional focus. Today, Christian runs a successful hypnotherapy practice in Germany, combining scientific curiosity with experiential, client-centred hypnosis.

Epigenetics

Nurture, Nature, Change, and Hope

Nurture wins so hard it tells nature what to do – for a long time we knew about inheritance via genes and memes, but 2004 marked the discovery of another way to inherit, and understanding how this works can give your clients a real sense of hope.

Behaviors and emotional orientation can be physically inherited. This soft inheritance is not via genetic changes; epigenetics refers to heritable chemical modifications to DNA that alter gene activity without changing nucleotide sequence. Your clients may believe that they have inherited a family curse like trauma or addiction. The good news that, unlike genetic inheritance, epigenetic inheritances are not destiny can be changed. We will review the current state of behavioral epigenetics with a focus on ways to help and encourage your clients as they create change.

Dr. Fredric Mau (D.Min. M.A. M.Div., LPC, LPCS) served on a psychiatric medical faculty and is regularly invited to provide training for physicians. He contributed to a psychiatric medical textbook published by Norton, has written three books, has given keynote addresses on three continents – including the closing keynote address at the UKHC, has been fêted with numerous professional awards, and has over twenty years’ experience in clinical practice. His presentations are fun, practical, and evidence-based.

Working With the Part That Doesn’t Want to Change

A Gentle, Ego-State-Informed Hypnotherapy Approach

Many clients arrive in therapy wanting change while simultaneously feeling blocked, conflicted, or “self-sabotaging.” These inner conflicts are often misunderstood as resistance or lack of motivation, when in fact they usually represent protective responses developed for emotional safety.
This presentation explores how ego-state-informed hypnotherapy can be used gently and ethically to work with the part of the client that does not want to change. Rather than attempting to override or confront resistance, this approach focuses on understanding the positive intention behind protective behaviours and working collaboratively with inner parts.
Drawing on extensive clinical experience, the session examines how inner conflict shows up in presentations such as addiction, anxiety, ambivalence, and relapse. Attendees will learn how to recognise protective patterns, reduce internal struggle, and support integration without creating dependency or destabilisation.
Ethical boundaries are a key focus of this presentation, including knowing when ego-state work is appropriate, how to avoid reinforcing maladaptive identities, and how to maintain client autonomy and safety throughout the process.
This session is particularly valuable for practitioners who are interested in ego-state-informed work but lack confidence in applying it safely. Practical insights shared will help hypnotherapists work with inner conflict in a way that supports trust, cooperation, and sustainable change.

Meredith McCarthy is a clinical hypnotherapist with over 30 years of experience and more than a decade teaching clinical hypnotherapy. She is the founder of the New Zealand Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy and President of the New Zealand Association of Professional Hypnotherapists. Meredith has presented at the Hypno Summit and numerous NLP and hypnosis conferences internationally. Her clinical work focuses on helping clients resolve inner conflict through safe, ethical, ego-state-informed hypnotherapy that supports trust, cooperation, and sustainable change.

Finding your rhythm in hypnosis

An approach to creating audio content with impact

Music is everywhere. It is processed throughout our neural system and we respond to it directly. Music has the potential to transport and transform us, so a basic appreciation of the process of time and rhythm helps unlock potential for hypnotic delivery.

When creating hypnosis audio products, responding to and being in time with the background sounds and music turn an average induction into a powerful transformative experience, so knowing how to create multiple tracks of effectively takes trance induction and suggestions to a whole new level. When working with others on double inductions it helps each person to know where they are in the process so they can deliver more effectively together as a unit.

Talking in rhythm assists in creating a compelling experience for the client(s). Being able to speak freely while holding a rhythm deliberately in the mind helps with the induction process. Switching timing, tempo, tone, speed, volume and so on is harnessing the musical instrument that you are.

We will be exploring timing, using backing tracks to play with the process of speaking freely while maintaining presence.

It’s a fun process – I want people to get involved and have a go. Once the basic skill is experienced at the conscious level you will be able to return to conversational use of rhythm in your own time.

Prepare to have a lot of fun, and discover for your self how to begin mastering the art of freestyle hypnosis.

Marc is a Master Trainer of Hypnosis and a Master Trainer of NLP, as well as a Trainer of Master Time Line Therapy®; and Coaching, with 29 years experience in the field. He is also a member of the American Board of Hypnosis Advisory Panel. Marc is fascinated by the relationship between the structure of sound and language, and the structure of consciousness, in present-moment experiencing, and the potential for this to enable access to the gateway through to new levels of presence and awareness. Besides certifying others, he has worked at the top of the film industry, in prisons and schools, focusing on personal evolution, harnessing the power of the Unconscious Mind, and living a more satisfying life. Outside the field, Marc also studies many other disciplines which enable development of awareness. He is studying Japanese in University, and has been studying and teaching Japanese Martial arts for 45 years.

How to Create Personalised Hypnotic Bedtime Stories for Children

I create stories for children by gathering important information about the child’s life. Their hobbies, books, movies, superheroes, friends, family, pets, their likes and dislikes around food, favourite clothes, colours, smells, holidays, school subjects their wishes for example.
Within the stories are coping strategies, techniques woven within the tale, that gives the child power and control when facing an uneasy situation. Every night they are strengthening these beliefs and techniques through the story so that they become automatic.
I will share how I construct the narrative, the important linking phrases and words, and how I gather the information and do the research on each child’s interests. Most importantly is that throughout the stories the child is uplifted by praise for their uniqueness and skills and successes, and suggestions about how focused and curious they are at school, playing sports, how loved and precious they are, and looking for they key elements that need to be addressed, which are quite often different to what has been presented, the hidden knowledge.
Children learn to use their minds from an early age, giving them the awareness and knowledge for the future, knowing that they have been successful at making positive changes, and setting them up for future believing in hypnotherapy or mindfulness as they move through life, when in need.
I will use slides and also a short video from a child client, speaking about her positive experience.

Evelyn has been working for many years as a Strategic Hypnotherapist and Mind Coach, from her clinic in County Kildare in Ireland. She works with children, adults and families utilising a number of modalities, including NLP and CBT, working with broad spectrum of issues. She also works with Corporate Wellness Facilitation, is a Trainer and International Speaker and holds a Master’s Degree in Child, Youth and Family Studies [with Applied Psychology, Addiction Studies]

The Hypnosis Before the Induction

Conversational Hypnosis: The Induction Starts Earlier Than You Think

Many hypnotherapists focus on the induction itself, yet some sessions flow effortlessly while others feel like hard work. The difference often happens before the induction even begins.

In this presentation, Turan explores the often-overlooked conversational hypnosis that prepares a client’s mind for change long before their eyes close. Drawing on over a decade of experience in both street hypnosis and clinical practice, he demonstrates how attention, expectation, authority and identity are shaped naturally through conversation.

Street hypnosis offers a unique perspective: there is no couch, no script, and no quiet room, yet hypnosis still happens quickly and reliably. Turan shows how the same principles can be ethically and effectively applied in the therapy room to reduce resistance, deepen trance, and make inductions feel almost effortless.

This talk will give attendees practical language patterns, simple frameworks, and real-world examples they can immediately integrate into their own style of hypnotherapy. Whether you work with analytical clients, sceptics, or those who “struggle to go under”, you’ll leave with a clearer understanding of where hypnosis truly begins and how to use it with confidence.

The plan is to have a live demo and no doubt, there will be cool video examples from my street hypnosis work.

Turan has been using hypnosis since 2010. What began as curiosity quickly developed into practical experience through street and entertainment hypnosis, where people soon began asking for deeper, therapeutic help. Drawn by the results and rewards of this work, Turan became a full-time hypnotherapist in 2016, leaving behind a 27-year engineering career as a Director of Engineering.

Coming Era of Synthetic Clients: AI, Cognitive Architecture & the Future of Hypnosis Training

Introducing the World's First Scientifically Modelled Synthetic Mind for Hypnotic Practice

Hypnosis is evolving — and so are the standards for how we learn and practise it.
Across medicine, aviation, the military, and emergency response, one principle reshaped professional training: simulation accelerates mastery while reducing avoidable risk.

In this pioneering session, Frankie Mooney introduces hypnosis to its next evolutionary step — one that complements the skills practitioners already use, whether traditional, conversational, Ericksonian, or integrative.

You’ll meet Cynthia, the world’s first Synthetic Client — an AI-driven cognitive simulation built on the ARCITECT® engine, a scientifically modelled framework capable of shifting emotional states, generating resistance patterns, adapting to hypnotic language, and signalling subtle indicators associated with unwanted effects described in clinical literature.

This is not about replacing clients or established methods.
It adds a professional layer of training — a safe, controlled, endlessly repeatable environment where inductions, suggestions, conversational hypnosis, and trance dynamics can be refined with clarity and confidence.

You’ll explore how synthetic minds model responsiveness, resistance, and coherence shifts; why certain interactions produce unexpected reactions; how to rehearse complex inductions without pressure; and how simulation reveals blind spots no script or case study can expose.

A live demonstration of Cynthia will be presented (availability permitting — she decides).

Frankie Mooney is a consultant, author, and thought leader in psychotechnology and hypnosis. Founder of ARCITECT® Technologies, he created the first scientifically modelled synthetic mind for training and simulation. Frankie entered the hypnosis community as a teen, training with Paul McKenna and Bandler before graduating from HMI Los Angeles, where he received the Director’s Award for Remarkable Performance in Professional Practice. He also created the Dual-Mode Elicitation Model™ (DEM), enhancing precision and safety in hypnotic practice.

Can We Talk About Sex?

Sex is essential to the human experience! In this talk, Dr. Nic explores how integrating fun and engaging sex therapy principles can enrich your work, deepen client insight, and open new pathways for healing. You’ll learn how to recognize and safely address sexual concerns, explore the link between intimacy and emotional well-being, and gain tools to help clients navigate shame, desire, and relationship dynamics. Whether you specialize in trauma, couples work, or general mental health as part of your hypnotherapy work, this talk will expand your confidence in supporting clients’ full human experience, including their sexual selves.

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Identify common sexual concerns that arise and understand when and how to address them within their scope of practice.
2. Describe the connection between sexual health, emotional well-being, and relational dynamics to enhance therapeutic outcomes.
3. Apply foundational sex therapy principles and language to foster a more open, inclusive, and shame-free environment for clients exploring intimacy and desire.

Dr. Nic is passionate about helping people embrace their inner strength. As a sex therapist and hypnotist, he draws out the best in others. His work addresses the deepest shades of personal experiences, assisting individuals and couples in reaching new levels of healthy relationships, restoring pieces of the fragmented self, and become more confident lovers. Professional Credentials: Nicholas A. Natale, Ph.D., is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Sex Therapist through AASECT, and Certified Hypnotherapist (NGH) who has received advanced training in the areas of marriage therapy, spirituality, sex therapy, problematic sexual behavior, hypnotherapy, leadership development, and entrepreneurism. He currently maintains a private practice in Columbia, South Carolina as well as a consulting practice reaching individuals across the United States.

The Sensory Immersion Technique

An 8 Step Hypnotic Process for Anchoring Cognitive,Emotional, and Physical Shifts

In this dynamic, skills-focused session, Joni Neidigh will guide you through the Sensory Immersion Technique (SIT)—an 8-step hypnotic process designed to create powerful, lasting shifts in cognition, emotion, and physical response. Rooted in VAKOG and performance psychology, SIT helps clients lock in the changes they experience, whether they are athletes seeking peak performance or everyday clients striving for healthier patterns, stronger motivation, and sustained success.

You’ll discover how to weave sensory language, embodiment, cognitive restructuring, and hypnotic anchoring into a seamless, repeatable process that clients can use both in and out of trance. This session will include video demonstrations, as well as live group demonstrations, so attendees can experience the technique firsthand, build confidence using it, and learn how to adapt it to a wide range of issues—from athletic performance to anxiety relief, habit change, and personal empowerment.

By the end, you’ll walk away with practical tools you can implement immediately to help your clients create and maintain the cognitive, emotional, and physical changes they want most.

Joni Johnston Neidigh is a licensed psychotherapist in the state of Florida and has been in private practice for more than 30 years. She is also a Certified Clinical Hypnotist specializing in peak performance. Joni has mentored and hypnotized athletes, coaches, and teams ranging from youth competitors to Olympians and professionals. In her work with non-athletes, Joni promotes whole-person transformation by integrating mind–body approaches that include movement and exercise for overall wellness. She is widely recognized for her engaging and impactful “team talks,” which she delivers to sports teams, corporations, and conferences worldwide. Her presentations consistently highlight the power of the mind, practical mental-skills training, and evidence-based hypnotic strategies that support lasting change.

Solution Focused Hypnosis

A Framework for Recognition-Based Change

Rooted in Ericksonian hypnosis and influenced by Solution-focused brief therapy, Recognition-based change offers a way of understanding therapeutic transformation that explains how change can occur without insight, without regression, and without interpretation, while remaining robust, ethical, and durable.

By treating awareness of difference as a sufficient mechanism of change, recognition-based change clarifies why solution-focused hypnosis works – and why, so often, change takes place despite therapeutic intervention, not because of it.

Graham Old is a Solution-focused therapist, certified hypnotist and author from the United Kingdom. He has experience as an Assistant Social Worker and a Father's Worker, as well as working in private practice and running one of the most popular hypnosis sites on the web. Graham is a valued international speaker, writer and trainer, with over three decades experience teaching meditation and self-hypnosis. He is an innovative presence in contemporary hypnosis and the developer of the popular 'Therapeutic Inductions' approach. As the developer of Brief Acceptance, Graham is often consulted on the subject of mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies.

ACTivating Change: How ACT and Hypnosis Create Rapid, Flexible Transformation” This title:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers a robust, process-based framework for building psychological flexibility, yet many hypnotherapists struggle to integrate its behavioural principles within trance work. This presentation demonstrates how ACT’s core processes—acceptance, defusion, present-moment awareness, self-as-context, values, and committed action—can be enhanced through the strategic use of hypnosis.
Grounded in Functional Contextualism and Relational Frame Theory (RFT), the session explores how hypnotic suggestions, metaphors, and experiential exercises can strengthen willingness, reduce experiential avoidance, and help clients contact new behavioural choices. Case material will highlight how to preserve the behavioural integrity of ACT while utilising the distinctive benefits of hypnotic states.
Participants will gain a clear, ethical framework for integrating ACT and hypnosis to support meaningful, sustainable change.
Learning Outcomes
• Explain how ACT processes align with hypnotic mechanisms.
• Integrate ACT-consistent language and metaphors into hypnosis.
• Avoid reinforcing fusion or experiential avoidance through suggestion.
• Apply hypnotic strategies that build psychological flexibility.
• Use a functional, process-based approach to enhance ACT outcomes.

Dr Sue Peacock is a Consultant Health Psychologist. She has an extensive track record of supporting clients with persistent pain, sleep disorders, physical health problems, dental and medical phobias, anxiety and clinical depression. She runs her own thriving independent practice, providing specialist psychological therapy to clients and training programmes for health professionals. Sue is also a published best- selling author and has been featured in academia and regularly by the media for her work.

Hypnotic Constellations: When Hypnotherapy meets Systemic Constellations

When Hypnotherapy meets Systemic Constellations

Psyche – Greek Goddess of the Soul – was wife to Eros – the God of Love. Born a mortal, she had to accomplish ‘impossible’ jobs to earn immortality… and be worthy of Eros… She symbolizes the human journey of growth, struggle and self-discovery.
The human psyche is a system… A living system “defined not by the individual parts, but by the relationships between them. The flow of energy. The flow of love” (B.Hellinger, Systemic Constellations’ founder).
A system with subtle boundaries transgressing the personal into the transpersonal, transgenerational and ancestral.
Often, trauma healing is not just a ‘personal business’, but a systemic intervention that requires uncovering implicit transgenerational recurring patterns, allowing for unconscious entanglements, unhealthy loyalties and ‘hot potato’ type of family legacies to be revealed, restoring the ‘order of love’ through the wisdom of ‘The Field’.
Those stubborn repetitive ‘impossible’ issues that just don’t get resolved, no matter how much therapy one has done?! The answer is in the system, not just in the individual biography. They are as ‘immortal’ as the transgenerational trauma we secretly carry in our genes.
Applying systemic thinking and practical processes in hypnosis facilitates a powerful symbolic transgenerational trauma archaeology and relational soul surgery, with rippling effects across generations.
And so, she (Psyche) can earn again her immortality…, dissolving in a hypnotic ancestral river… that never

Originally a forensic and organizational psychologist, dr. Anemona Peres left an international career within law enforcement to follow her passion: bridging science and ancient practices in her clinical work, drawing from a wide range of therapeutic approaches. Dr. Peres is clinical & transpersonal hypnotherapist, hypnosis trainer, supervisor, counsellor, author, researcher, educationalist and shamanic practitioner. She created HypnoPhysis trauma-informed therapeutic modality, to enhance trauma awareness within the hypnotherapy and transpersonal field, through practitioner training and mentoring.

The De-Identification Method

You are one identity away from suffering to healing

Many clients don’t walk in with a problem. They walk in fused with it.

“I’m broken.”
“I’m anxious.”
“I’m unlovable.”
“I ruin everything.”
“I can’t stop.”

They are not describing an issue. They are describing their identity.
When identity fuses with the problem, shame gets heavier, hope gets thinner, and every attempt to change feels like danger.
People start hiding. Numbing. Snapping. Freezing. Overeating. Overthinking. Avoiding.
They repeat the same cycles with panic, self-sabotage, relationship conflict, procrastination, compulsions, and chronic self-criticism. They watch themselves do it again and say, “This is who I am.”

In this presentation, you’ll learn profound, structured and effective method that helps your clients fast and for good. Once you learn it, it is yours foveret! You can deliver it conversationally or in trance. You do not need long history-taking or long, complex models. You guide the mind through a precise sequence, and the client feels space return.

When the problem stops being “me,” the nervous system calms, the inner pressure drops and choice becomes possible.
This produces a deep shift in just minutes, and it becomes the ideal setup for reframing, parts work, regression, or any deeper intervention you prefer.

If you work with clients who feel trapped inside their symptoms, labels, or stories, this method will give you a powerfull tool you can apply immediately, with consistent results.

Eugen Popa is president of Romanian Hypnosis Association and renowned international trainer and speaker. He is specialized in concrete, effective and efficient methods of intervention, cutting through the fluff and unnecessary work. Eugen an avid learner and the only parts therapy expert who can teach Parts Therapy, Yagerian Method, Core Transformation, Wholeness Process and Resoruce Therapy having studied each method directly from the creator of the method. He is passionate to help people and to share his knowledge and expertise in the simplest way possible so everyone can understand how to use the methods he is teaching, regardless of the audience.

Rewriting the Memory Without Re-Living the Trauma: An Upgraded Fast-Forward / Fast-Rewind Technique

A Trauma-Informed, Neuroscience-Based Approach to Safely Diffusing Emotional Memory

Traumatic memories are not stored as static records of the past. They are living neural networks that can continue to activate the nervous system long after an event has ended. When accessed without care, traditional exposure-based approaches risk emotional flooding, dissociation, or re-traumatization, leaving both clients and practitioners hesitant to work directly with memory.
This one-hour experiential presentation introduces a trauma-informed, upgraded version of the classic Fast-Forward / Fast-Rewind “movie theatre” technique, redesigned for modern hypnotherapy practice. This refined approach prioritizes nervous system regulation, client autonomy, and emotional safety while still allowing meaningful diffusion of traumatic emotional charge.
Participants will observe and experience a gentle demonstration of the technique using neutral or mildly charged material, with clear opt-out options and grounding built in throughout. The focus is not on reliving events, but on changing how the brain stores and responds to memory.
Following the demonstration, the neuroscience behind the technique will be clearly explained, Participants will leave with an immediately applicable, ethical intervention, and the confidence to explain both the how and the why to clients, making this an essential session for practitioners seeking effective, trauma-responsive tools that respect the nervous system.

Robin Popowich is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, educator, and speaker with over a decade of full-time clinical hypnotherapy experience. She is the founder and lead instructor of the Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy, where she teaches modern, neuroscience-informed, trauma-responsive approaches to hypnosis. Known for blending compassion with clinical precision, Robin is passionate about raising ethical standards and equipping practitioners with safe, effective tools for real life practice.

Whirls, Whispers & Wordless Wisdom

Timeless Non-Verbal Hypnotic practices including Sufi Movement, Buddhist Stillness and Mystery of the East

My presentation will explore non-verbal hypnosis induction techniques rooted in Eastern philosophy, especially Buddhist and Sufi traditions, and I will demonstrate how these methods create trance states without the use of spoken suggestion.

I will begin by showing how ancient practices use breath, rhythm, and embodied movement to shift awareness.

These techniques rely on presence and internal focus, allowing the mind to settle naturally into a receptive and hypnotics state.

From the Buddhist perspective, I will demonstrate methods such as The Honey bee breathing, where humming vibrations help draw attention inward and quiet mental activity.

I will also introduce 3 step walking and Slow Motion Eye exercise to show how repetitive motion or stillness can gently guide participants into a calm and centered trance without verbal cues.

Next, I will move into Sufi-inspired techniques, including a practical demonstration of whirling, the iconic Mevlevi method that uses continuous spinning to blur external perception and create a deeply inward-focused state. I will also showcase the expressive “madman” technique, which uses spontaneous, unstructured movement to bypass analytical thinking and release emotional tension.

In closing, I will highlight how all of these practice whether breath-based, rhythmic, or movement driven use the body itself as the primary tool for trance. Through live demos, I aim to show how non-verbal induction can be powerful, and deeply transformative.

Magical Rafi is Asia”s Top Most Behavioral Scientist with more than 2 decades of experience in Behavioral Training, Holistic Therapy, NLP , Hypnosis & Peak Performance Coaching. Rafi is the only trainer in Asia to train the Army, Navy, Civil Service Officers and International Athletes. Rafi focuses on results and his expertise is in blending different therapeutic approaches that suits the clients needs.

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, it is safe, and it requires almost no effort on the part of the client.
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 workshop, I show 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.

We are not our behaviours, we are good intention

The birth of The Bunny Talk Process™.

Why do people do the things they do — even when those behaviours seem confusing, frustrating, or self-destructive?

In this presentation, Claudia Rickard invites you to step beyond behaviour and into understanding. Using a simple, powerful visual diagram, Claudia explains how behaviours are not the problem — they are the communication. Beneath every behaviour lies a good intention: protection, safety, belonging, or survival.

This session offers a clear, accessible way to understand human behaviour without blame or judgement — for clients, for children, and for ourselves.

Claudia will demonstrate how this framework helps practitioners quickly identify what is really happening beneath emotional reactions, anxiety, shutdown, anger, and coping behaviours. The diagram brings instant clarity, allowing clients to feel seen, understood, and safe — often for the first time.

From this foundation, Claudia shares the deeply personal story that led to the creation of The Bunny Talk Process™. During a challenging period in her daughter’s life, Claudia instinctively applied these principles through play, imagination, and safety — creating a gentle, trauma-informed way for a child to express what words could not.
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This presentation is heartfelt, practical, and empowering. You will leave with:
• A new lens for understanding behaviour
• A visual model
• A deeper appreciation of intention over judgement
• And insight into how play, safety, and imagination can create profound change

Claudia Rickard is an award-winning hypnotherapist, author, and creator of The Bunny Talk Process™, empowering professionals to integrate emotional intelligence and hypnosis with measurable results. As an international speaker and hypnosis instructor, Claudia Rickard teaches innovative methods that help clients release trauma, regulate emotions, and create lasting transformation. With expertise in hypnosis, NLP, and emotional intelligence, Claudia Rickard equips practitioners with playful yet powerful tools to serve children, families, and communities worldwide.

The Hidden Impact of Inequity: Leveraging Hypnosis to Rewire Outdated Beliefs That Drive Imposter Syndrome

Imposter syndrome isn’t just “self-doubt.” For many clients, it’s the internalised impact of inequality, exclusion, perfectionism, and years of over-functioning in systems that were not built for them. In this session, we’ll go beyond the surface narrative and explore how identity, lived experience, and inequity shape the subconscious and how hypnosis and RTT can be used to transform the deepest roots of self-belief.

We’ll look at why traditional mindset tools often fail high achievers and how the subconscious forms protective patterns that keep clients stuck in overworking, people-pleasing, and a narrative of not-enoughness. You’ll learn how to recognise these patterns clinically, work safely with them, and avoid the common pitfalls that accidentally reinforce internalised self-doubt.

Through the Beyond the Barriers™ 4R Framework, you’ll discover a structured, practical approach to helping clients detach from outdated success scripts, regulate their nervous system, and rewire the subconscious beliefs driving imposter syndrome. Expect case examples and tools you can use immediately whether, you’re supporting senior leaders, creatives, entrepreneurs, or anyone who feels they’re “not enough.”

If you want a fresh, grounded, and evidence-informed way to work with one of the most common issues in modern practice, this session will shift how you understand and treat imposter syndrome from the inside out.

Belinda Riley is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Leadership Strategist, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and founder of Beyond the Barriers Academy. She blends neuroscience, subconscious reprogramming, and trauma-informed practice to help individuals and organisations shift deep-rooted beliefs and build cultures of psychological safety. With experience shaping leadership and inclusion strategies for global brands including EY, Amazon and Dentons, Belinda specialises in transforming imposter syndrome, identity-based self-doubt and high-achiever burnout. Her work bridges strategy and human behaviour, empowering clients to lead with clarity, confidence and authentic self-trust.

The Toxicity of Forgiveness

Indifference as a Therapeutic Solution

Forgiveness is often promoted as a necessary step in healing, yet for many trauma survivors it can feel coercive, invalidating, and unsafe. Encouraging clients to forgive may keep them emotionally tethered to their abuser, reinforcing shame and preserving harmful power dynamics. In some cases, forgiveness becomes a moral obligation imposed by therapists, spiritual traditions, or self-help culture, rather than a genuine client-led outcome.
This one-hour talk challenges the assumption that forgiveness is required for recovery and introduces therapeutic indifference as an alternative clinical goal. Indifference is not denial, dissociation, or emotional numbing; it is the state in which the perpetrator no longer holds emotional or psychological charge. Rather than reconciling with what happened, clients are guided toward autonomy, emotional sovereignty, and genuine freedom from the trauma bond.
Attendees will explore how forgiveness narratives can retraumatise survivors, reinforce self-blame, and maintain the abuser’s psychological influence. The session presents a trauma-informed framework for working with clients who cannot, will not, or should not forgive, including clinical language for reframing healing goals and ethical considerations in trauma therapy. A brief therapeutic protocol for cultivating indifference will be outlined, with a short demonstration to illustrate practical application.

Kaz Riley is an award-winning clinical hypnotherapist, author, trainer, and educator specialising in sexual wellbeing, desire, and mind–body connection. She teaches therapists how to work confidently and ethically with sexual health concerns using evidence-informed hypnosis frameworks and practical clinical protocols. Kaz is the founder of Sexual Freedom Hypnosis and delivers training internationally for hypnotherapists and therapeutic professionals. Her work integrates biopsychosocial models, neuroscience-informed practice, and experiential hypnosis techniques to support confidence, intimacy, and embodied presence.

Empowering Parents as Co-Therapists

Beyond the Session Room: Teaching Parents the Tools to Support Emotional Change

The Parent Partnership – Transforming Child Outcomes Through Home-Based Therapeutic Strategies.
Working with children in the therapy room can be extremely powerful, but real change happens in the environments they live in every day. My presentation explores a practical & collaborative approach that empowers parents to become confident emotional guides for their children, without turning them into therapists!
Delegates will discover how simple, home-based tools can dramatically accelerate progress, reduce relapse & create a more stable foundation for both their child and their own long-term wellbeing.
I will introduces a clear Parent Partnership Model that blends emotional education, imaginative techniques, co-regulation & practical routines that fit easily into busy family life. Attendees will learn how to coach parents to understand their child’s behaviour, use calming & grounding strategies, supporting emotional expression through everyday conversations, stories & play. The presentation also highlights how to break down common barriers, such as parental overwhelm, fear of being judged & the impact of a parent’s own stress or trauma, while maintaining clear boundaries & professional safety.
Through real case examples and easy-to-apply tools, Practitioners will leave with a structured approach to involving parents in a way that strengthens the therapeutic process, enhances the child’s emotional resilience & builds confidence across the whole family system.

I am an Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist & Children’s Mental Health & Wellbeing Specialist based, in NW England, where I run a full-time clinic. I’m the founder of Little Mind Masters, supporting children aged 4 upwards to understand & manage their emotions through gentle therapeutic techniques, 1:1 sessions & wellbeing classes. I also work closely with parents/carers, Social Services & schools to promote early intervention & emotional resilience. I’m passionate about helping young people thrive.

Five signs of hidden neurodivergence in clients, and how to adapt your hypnosis

Practical hypnosis adaptations based on three years of anonymised client data

In the last four years I’ve seen more clients coming in with anxiety, burnout, overwhelm, sleep problems and trauma symptoms, but often the usual approach doesn’t quite fit. In many cases, the missing piece is undiagnosed or unrecognised neurodivergence (for example ADHD or autistic traits).
This session shares what I’ve learned from three years of client work in my clinic, presented as anonymous totals and patterns (not individual stories). I’ll explain five common “clues” that suggest a client may need a different approach, and I’ll show you exactly how to adapt your hypnosis so the client feels safe, understood and able to engage.
You’ll learn how to: (1) spot five non-diagnostic signs, (2) ask a short set of screening questions to improve formulation and consent, and (3) use a simple adaptation checklist so you know what to change and why. We’ll cover three practical hypnosis tweaks you can use immediately: choice-based inductions, slower pacing using “micro-steps” to prevent overwhelm, and permission-based deepeners with clear stop/step-back signals. You’ll take away scripts and session templates to use straight away.

Cara Robins (UK) is an Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist based in Aberdeenshire, Northeast Scotland. She specialises in neurodiversity, supporting children, teenagers and adults with anxiety, overwhelm, sleep issues and emotional regulation. Drawing on four years of practice-based research and her experience as the parent of a non-verbal autistic daughter, Cara shares practical, non-diagnostic ways to adapt hypnosis so clients engage safely and make progress. She also supports parents and carers with simple tools they can use at home.

Emetophobia

What is it and how hypnotherapy can help

Emetophobia, or fear of vomiting, is a poorly understood anxiety disorder predominantely affecting women but not really well reserached so far. For quite some time ist was even seen as an eating disorder rather than a phobia.
The impact Emetophobia has on a client’s life on the other hand often is huge as it can cause intense anxiety and panic attacks and can impact various areas of a client’s life. In most cases Emetophobia is treated with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or exposure therapy.
In my talk I will give you an overview on what Emetophobia is and what it isn’t. I will also outline the possibilites of treating a client suffering from Emetophobia with hypnosis.
I will give you some insight on where, when and how hypnosis can be used and how many sessions it might need to help a client. I will bring along some real cases from my office and share some do’s and don’ts with you.

My name is Ruth Roethlisberger and I am practicing hypnosis in my own office in Switzerland since 2016. I am specialised in working with kids and teens and am mostly working with fears and phobias as well as ADHD related topics. I am an OMNI Trained Hypnotherapist as well as a Visualization Coach and ADHD Coach. One of my favourite methods is the Active Alert Hypnosis.

Global Without Burnout: Scale Your Hypnotherapy Business Beyond One-Off Sessions

For hypnotherapists who are ready for more income, more freedom, and international reach.

Many hypnotherapists reach a point where they’re fully booked with one-off sessions, but still feel capped, exhausted, or unsure how to grow beyond their current capacity.

This session is designed to help you shift from busy to scalable, by introducing a clear, high-integrity business model that allows you to work less while serving more of the right clients… including those beyond your local area.

We’ll walk through the five key areas that support sustainable, global growth as a hypnotherapist.

You’ll leave this session with a roadmap to restructure your services, reach international clients, and create more spaciousness in your diary – without needing a massive following, daily content, or complicated funnels.

This is a full walkthrough of the approach we’ve used to support over 500 hypnotherapists, packed with insights you can implement right away.

If you’re ready to evolve your business model and serve globally without sacrificing wellbeing, this session is for you.

Erika and Marianne - founders of The RiseUp Academy - are dedicated to helping hypnotherapists grow and scale successful online businesses. Erika, a Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Marianne, a Certified Coach, are both business strategists who have helped hundreds of hypnotherapists build sustainable, scalable businesses. They specialise in helping hypnotherapists attract international clients online and create a diverse range of offers, from high-value 1:1 packages and group programs to passive income streams.

From Stage to Clinic: Authority, Engagement & Rapid Client Response

Jason Simmons is a professional hypnotist, mentalist and speaker whose work focuses on the psychology of influence, authority and rapid client responsiveness. Drawing on extensive live performance experience, Jason explores how expectation, certainty and engagement directly shape hypnotic effectiveness.

His presentation, From Stage to Clinic: Authority, Engagement & Rapid Client Response, bridges the gap between performance hypnosis and therapeutic practice. The session is designed to show how stage-tested psychological principles can be ethically adapted to enhance clinical work, improve client buy-in, and increase confidence in delivery.

Rather than teaching performance hypnosis, the talk focuses on practical mechanisms that influence responsiveness, including pre-talk structure, authority installation, engagement momentum, and the use of convincers to deepen belief and therapeutic commitment.

Jason’s teaching style is highly experiential, combining live demonstration with immediately applicable strategies that delegates can implement in one-to-one or small group settings. The goal is to help hypnotherapists enhance outcomes while maintaining ethical and professional standards.

Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how presence, certainty and structured communication can improve session impact and client experience.

Jason Simmons is a professional hypnotist, mentalist and speaker specialising in influence, authority and rapid state change. With extensive live performance experience, he explores how expectation and engagement shape responsiveness in hypnosis. Jason’s work bridges performance and clinical practice, helping practitioners apply stage-tested psychological principles ethically to improve client outcomes, confidence and session impact.

From Identity by Default to Choosing Who We Choose to Be

Most hypnotherapy approaches focus on changing symptoms, habits, or behaviours. Yet many clients struggle to sustain progress because the underlying identity driving those behaviours remains unchanged. In practice, we often arrive at our identity by default — shaped by early experiences, environment, circumstance, and survival adaptations rather than conscious choice.

This presentation explores identity as the core organising principle behind behaviour, motivation, and long-term change. Drawing on clinical work with adoption & early childhood and adult trauma, Functional Neurological Disorder, and long-standing patterns, identity is reframed not as something fixed, but as an embodied, unconscious framework that guides perception and response.

Participants will explore:

How identity is often formed by default rather than design

Why behaviour change without identity change frequently leads to surface-level or short-lived results

How hypnosis can engage identity safely and ethically

How offering clients choice at the level of identity opens the door to sustainable change

Using a simple identity-mapping framework (the Lighthouse model), this session demonstrates how therapists can support clients in moving from an inherited or default identity toward one that is consciously chosen and aligned with health, agency, and values. Attendees will leave with practical insights they can integrate directly into their therapeutic work.

John Scanlon is a clinical hypnotherapist, trainer, and speaker specialising in identity-based change, trauma-informed hypnotherapy, Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), and early childhood and adoption-related trauma. His clinical work focuses on helping clients move beyond symptom management to sustainable identity-level transformation. John is the founder and organiser of the Irish Hypnotherapy Conference (IHC) and delivers advanced practitioner training integrating neuroscience, unconscious processes, and ethical trauma-aware practice.

The Skinny on Weight Loss from a Hypnotist Who Has Lost and Kept Off 200 pounds

95% of people who lose weight gain all back (and many times more), Why? (It isn’t their diet). Their value and beliefs do not support them being healthy and thin. Scott Schmaren has spent more than 20 years developing systems that have helped 100’s of people lose and keep off weight. Scott has personally kept off 200 pounds for almost 20 years.

Scott Schmaren is an internationally known hypnotist, professional speaker, coach and author. He co-wrote the book, “Stepping Stones to Success”, along with Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra and Dr. Denis Waitley. He is also the creator of, “The Quatric Formula for Success” which is the life transformation program he created to literally transform every area of his life, including helping him lose and keep off almost 200 pounds. Scott has appeared on “Oprah” and Oprah said, “If Scott can do it, I can do it and so can you!". Scott is a regular guest on “The Howard Stern Show” and “Daily Mail”. He has also appeared on Fox News, Coast to Coast Radio and has been featured in Reader’s Digest and The New York Times. Scott recently appeared on the television show, “Moving America Forward”, with William Shatner and Doug Lewellyn and was honored for his work.

The State Becomes the Script

How to Let Hypnosis Write Itself

Hypnotherapy is commonly delivered using prewritten scripts, structured inductions and carefully planned language. Yet many experienced practitioners discover their most effective sessions occur when they are fully in flow – present, regulated and responsive – allowing language to arise naturally rather than through mechanical delivery.

Dipti introduces Free Flow Transformation Therapy®, a state-becomes-script approach to hypnosis in which therapeutic change is guided by a silent transmission of nervous system regulation, hypnotic rapport and flow. Drawing on neuroscience and over 15 years of clinical experience, Dipti shares how hypnosis can unfold organically when the practitioner prioritises internal state over prepared wording.

Dipti explains how effective hypnotic scripts can be created on the fly by listening deeply to the client’s language and reading emotional cues. Rather than abandoning structure, this approach allows structure to emerge moment by moment from presence.

A live experiential demonstration of Free Flow Transformation Therapy® shows how trance language, metaphor and suggestion naturally arise when the practitioner is regulated, curious and responsive. Attendees will witness how flow replaces performance, and how hypnosis becomes a conversation rather than a recitation.

This presentation is ideal for practitioners who want to work with greater ease, authenticity and impact – trusting state to shape language, rather than the other way around.

Dipti Tait, creator of Free Flow Transformation Therapy®, is a worldwide Solution Focused Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapist, Author and Speaker with over 15 years’ clinical experience. Her work integrates neuroscience, nervous system regulation and therapeutic presence, reframing hypnosis as a state-based, relational process in which change often precedes language. Dipti does not use prewritten scripts, instead allowing hypnotic language, metaphor and intervention to emerge in real time through presence and flow. She is the author of two books on grief and emotional resilience and has been affectionately nicknamed by Adam Eason as the “Darling of Breakfast TV” for her media broadcasting presence.

When the Mind Mistakes Control for Safey

People don’t usually come to therapy saying they overthink everything. They come because they feel anxious, stuck, exhausted, can’t switch off, or keep going round in circles despite understanding what’s going on. It’s often only later that the extent of their thinking becomes clear.

This presentation considers overthinking as a way the mind strives to stay safe. For many people, thinking things through, analysing, and staying in control once helped. It reduced risk, avoided mistakes or kept emotions contained. The problem is that the mind doesn’t always realise when that strategy is no longer needed.

When control gets linked to safety, the mind keeps working even when it’s not helping. Reassurance and insight don’t work, and thinking harder just keeps the loop going. So this focuses on noticing what the mind is doing and why. Once we understand the role it’s playing, we can work beneath it instead of arguing with it.

This is where hypnosis comes into its own. It allows the mind to step back from control and gives the system a chance to settle without needing to analyse or fix anything. Change happens because the mind no longer feels it has to work so hard to keep the person safe.

Overthinking shows up in many different issues, even when it isn’t named. This session is for anyone who recognises the pattern and wants to work with it more effectively.

With over 15 years’ experience in the wellbeing field, Jackie Thomson works from her base in North Wales supporting people to live happier, healthier lives. Her work blends hypnosis with holistic mind–body approaches, shaped by creativity, curiosity, writing and storytelling. She is a hypnotherapist, Heal Your Life® coach, Reiki Master and author, sharing her work with both individuals and professionals through practice and education.

Beyond Regression to Cause – Why Memory recall is No Longer the Goal.

Regression to cause isn't outdated because it doesn't work, it's outdated because we didn't understand how it works.

For decades, regression to cause has been taught as a method of locating the “original” event behind a client’s symptoms. But modern neuroscience tells a different story: memory is unreliable, reconstructive, and constantly changing. When regression is treated as factual recall, practitioners risk reinforcing distress, false memories, and in some cases, re-traumatization.

This presentation teaches a modern, trauma-informed approach to regression that reframes the process as subconscious communication rather than historical retrieval. Emotional responses, imagery, symbolism, and sensation are treated as meaningful data, without requiring accuracy, explanation, or reliving the past.
Participants will be taught the entire clinical method from pre-talk to conclusion, with clear structure and safeguards. Rather than “going back to find the cause,” this approach teaches practitioners how to follow the way the subconscious communicates change, safely, ethically, and without amplifying emotional intensity.

Attendees will leave with practical, immediately usable skills, including how to dismantle client expectations around “remembering correctly,” recognize when memory content is symbolic, protective, or adaptive, process emotionally encoded material without chasing narrative truth, and conclude sessions in a way that supports nervous system regulation, integration, and lasting change.

Lindy Thomson is a Clinical Hypnotherapist with over 25 years of experience in the wellness industry. For the past five years, her work has focused on a hypnotherapeutic, client-centred approach to supporting lasting personal and professional change. As a Lead Instructor, Lindy is known for translating complex concepts into ethical, practical techniques tailored to each client—supporting practitioners and individuals in creating meaningful, measurable transformation.

Building an online community for your niche: is it worth it?

Lessons from running a fast growing FB group

One of the things marketing gurus have been telling us recently is – building an online community is the way to go. Start a FB group, build your audience and you’ll have a pool of ‘hot leads’ to sell to at any time! But is this really the case? Or is it just hype? What does running a successful FB group actually entail? What even defines its success? And at the end of the day – is it actually worth it?

In this talk, Paulina will tell you as it is. With 2.5 years’ experience of building her dynamically growing FB community ‘Aphantasia World with Dr Paulina Trevena’, she will talk you through the ‘why’, the ‘why not’, and the ‘if so – how’?

If you have been pondering on starting a FB community and are wondering if this is the right step for you – this is the talk you need!

Dr Paulina Trevena is a hypnotherapist and researcher. Due to her global aphantasia (inability to visualise or tap into any other internal sense), commonly used hypnosis techniques did not work for her. This led her to research aphantasia and hypnosis. She now specialises in supporting people with aphantasia and training hypnotherapists on working with non-visualisers. As part of her educational mission and personal brand, Paulina runs a large FB community called ‘Aphantasia World’.

What Milton H. Erickson Was Actually Doing!

Strategies, Tactics and Operating Assumptions of Ericksonian Changework.

What exactly is ‘Ericksonian Hypnotherapy? (And is it any good?!). Whilst few would deny that Milton H. Erickson was one of the biggest names in 20th century therapeutic hypnosis – and many have learned the NLP Milton Model and make use of those ‘language patterns’ in their work – the reality is that very few people actually have much of an understanding of his approach.

Indeed, Erickson himself is reported to have said of Bandler and Grinder’s take on his work: “those boys really cracked the nut on my work; the trouble is they took the shell but left the nut!” So that raises the question – “what was the nut?” If it wasn’t all those fancy language patterns, what was Erickson actually doing and how?

In this session we unpack the deeper patterns (strategies and tactics) underneath of the famous ‘language patterns’ as well as taking a look at (and evaluating) some of Erickson’s key operating assumptions. (And I’ll make sure I throw in a demo or two for fun! JT).

James Tripp is a coach, teacher and change agent known for his work in the fields of personal development and hypnosis. Coming from a diverse background including philosophy, music, martial arts and movement culture, James is also the developer of the Hypnosis Without Trance approach to hypnotic facilitation, and is the author of the critically acclaimed book of the same title.

When Healing Feels Unsafe

Working With Clients Who Fear Getting Better

Many clients arrive wanting change, yet something unseen holds them back. Sessions stall, symptoms resurface, or progress feels fragile not because the client is resistant, but because healing itself can feel threatening. For some nervous systems, staying the same once meant staying safe.

This talk explores the often unspoken fear of getting better. Drawing on trauma-informed hypnosis, attachment theory, and somatic awareness, it examines how improvement can challenge identity, relational roles, and long-held survival strategies. Rather than framing this as sabotage, the session reframes ambivalence as intelligence, a protective response asking to be met, not pushed.

Attendees will learn how to recognise subtle cues that healing feels unsafe, how hypnotic language and pacing can either activate fear or deepen trust, and how to work with ambivalence in a way that preserves dignity and choice. Emphasis is placed on consent-led practice, ethical suggestion, and creating safety before change.

A brief experiential practice will be offered, allowing participants to feel how safety and curiosity can coexist without urgency. This session supports practitioners to work with greater confidence, compassion, and depth, especially when clients fear not the work itself, but who they might become.

Symone Tucker is a trauma-informed hypnotherapist and embodiment practitioner known for her nuanced work with nervous system safety and identity change. She specialises in supporting clients who desire transformation yet unconsciously fear healing. Blending hypnosis with somatic awareness, Symone offers a consent-led, relational approach that honours protection, restores trust, and allows change to emerge without force.

Shifting the Secret Structures in a Stuck Relationships – Where do your Clients’ Stand?

Let’s be honest, some relationships just suck. Clients don’t only struggle with their own thoughts and feelings; sometimes the people around them make life genuinely challenging. Many arrive feeling drained, frustrated, or trapped. It could be family tension, a distant partner, friendships that feel one-sided, or coworkers who put them in awkward positions. Even if clients “feel better” internally, these dynamics can persist if clients maintain their position.
In this workshop, I’ll show you a simple, practical way to help clients understand why certain relationships are so challenging for them and what they can actually do about it.
You’ll Learn To:
Spot the everyday hidden metaphors clients use, that reveal their position in relationships (“He doesn’t support me,” “She never puts me first,” “I can never do the right thing”).
Make hidden, unconscious relationship dynamics visible so clients feel genuinely understood.
Identify new positions clients can take to move from feeling stuck to seeing new possibilities in their relationships.
Hypnotherapy can create powerful internal shifts and adding an understanding of hidden relational dynamics gives clients even more clarity and agency. By mapping these patterns, you help them explore new positions and open fresh possibilities in the relationships that matter most.
If you want a grounded, honest, and practical way to help clients navigate challenging relationships, this workshop will show you how.

Dale Turnbull is a Metaphors of Movement Coach and Trainer, helping people explore the metaphors, stories, and symbols that shape, and sometimes limit, their lives. With 12 years of experience in personal development and a background in NLP, Hypnosis, IEMT, and Provocative Change Works, Dale brings a relaxed, interactive style to his sessions. He’s passionate about helping clients get unstuck, shift perspective, and discover new possibilities through metaphor, storytelling, and meaningful conversation.

Bridging the Gap: Moving from Scripted to Personalised Hypnosis

Using Meta-Model Inquiry to Map the Journey from Stuck to Success

Generic scripts often fail because they don’t reflect the client’s unique experience—sometimes leading to awkward errors, like suggesting a client be a role model for children they don’t have. For a suggestion to be effective, it must align with the client’s internal reality.
In this practical, hands-on session, Jessica Vassallo shows you how to move away from “one-size-fits-all” protocols. You will learn a focused set of Meta-Model questions designed to bridge the gap between where your client is currently stuck (Present State) and where they want to be (Desired State). By uncovering the “deeper structure” of their experience, you can construct suggestions using the client’s own linguistic logic—making them virtually impossible for the unconscious mind to reject.

Learning Outcomes:
Precision Mapping: Identify the exact linguistic markers that keep a client stuck.
Sensory Evidence: Elicit the specific “success signals” the unconscious mind needs to achieve the Desired State.
The Bespoke Blueprint: Learn to weave a client’s specific vocabulary into your hypnosis for seamless acceptance.

Jessica Vassallo is a Trainer and Master of NLP and Hypnosis with 12 years of clinical experience. Trained by NLP co-founder Richard Bandler and having assisted Paul McKenna on his 2024 tour, Jessica is known for her intuitive, high-energy approach to teaching. Her clients and students describe her as a "gifted communicator" who simplifies complex linguistic patterns into practical tools. In her workshop, "Bridging the Gap," she shares her mastery of the Meta-Model, helping practitioners move from generic scripting to creating deeply personalised hypnotic suggestions that the unconscious mind accepts with ease.

Noethics in Hypnosis – The Responsibility Beyond Technique

The Nervous System Is Always Listening

In this presentation, I explore what truly influences change in hypnosis beyond techniques and protocols. My intention is to bring attention to the often unseen level at which hypnosis is already working: the inner attitude of the practitioner, the micro-communicative signals we transmit, and the way our nervous system shapes the relational field with a client.
I show how thoughts, expectations, doubt, and emotional states are not private, but are continuously communicated through tone, presence, and regulation — even without words. Using clear, sometimes challenging live demonstrations, I contrast pressure-based suggestions with autonomy-supportive language to illustrate how safety and trust enable deeper therapeutic processes.
My goal is not to teach another method, but to invite practitioners to refine their inner alignment. By serving the process rather than the outcome, hypnotists can create a safer field for self-regulation, responsibility, and sustainable change.

Sabine Volkmann Licensed Psychotherapy Practitioner (Germany) | Hypnotherapist | Lecturer | Hypnosis Trainer | Author Sabine Volkmann regularly offers hypnosis trainings and seminars for a broad audience. Her participants come from diverse professional backgrounds, including driving instructors, physiotherapists, dentists, as well as individuals seeking personal development through hypnosis. She is the author of "Your Anxiety-Coach" (2025), a book on clinical hypnosis and anxiety, published on Amazon.

Pain Control with Hypnosis: Clinical Depth Beyond Protocols

From Structured Techniques to Clinical Decision-Making

Pain management with hypnosis is often taught through structured techniques and standardised protocols. While these approaches can be helpful, real clinical practice frequently presents situations that do not follow predefined patterns. This presentation explores the clinical depth required when hypnosis is applied to pain control in complex, unpredictable, or medically sensitive contexts.
Drawing on extensive experience in medical hypnosis, hypno-analgesia and interdisciplinary teaching, this lecture focuses on the transition from technique-based application to clinical decision-making. Particular attention is given to recognising limits, assessing suitability, and adapting hypnotic interventions responsibly when patients present with high levels of pain, anxiety, or medical vulnerability.
The presentation addresses ethical considerations, clinical safety and professional judgment, highlighting why pain control with hypnosis requires more than scripts or rapid methods. Case-based reflections illustrate how therapeutic presence, timing and clinical awareness influence outcomes more than technique alone.
This session is designed for clinicians, physicians, therapists and educators who wish to deepen their understanding of hypnosis in pain management and strengthen their capacity to work responsibly within medical and therapeutic frameworks. Participants will gain insights into applying hypnosis with clarity, safety and professional integrity in real-world clinical practice.

Nicole Wackernagel is an internationally recognised educator in medical hypnosis with a clinical background in biomedical sciences. She specialises in pain control and hypno-analgesia and teaches hypnosis to physicians, therapists and healthcare professionals. Her work has received international recognition, and as founder and lead trainer of the Swiss Hypnosis Institute she focuses on ethical standards, clinical safety and responsible application in medical contexts.

“I’m Just Not the Creative Type” : Why Creative Self-Belief Matters More Than Ability

Evidence-based strategies to boost client confidence and hypnotic response

Have you ever heard the client objection: “I just don’t think I have a good imagination”? As hypnotherapists, we know hypnosis is a natural ability, but your client’s belief about their own creativity might be the biggest barrier to their success. What if you could predict a client’s openness to hypnosis before the session even begins?

Based on my Master’s degree research, this presentation explores the powerful psychological construct of Creative Self-Belief (CSB). My research study found that a person’s confidence in their creative potential—specifically “little-c” everyday creativity—is a significant predictor of positive attitudes towards hypnosis. Crucially, this is distinct from artistic talent; it is about the belief in one’s capacity to imagine and problem-solve.

Moving beyond statistics, this session translates academic findings into the therapy room. We will explore practical strategies to assess and boost your client’s Creative Self-Belief during the intake process. You will learn how to help clients reframe “I’m not creative” into a resource for change, fostering the “effortless experiencing” often associated with deep trance. Whether you are a researcher or a hypnotherapist, you will leave with a fresh perspective on the pre-talk and a new toolkit for navigating client resistance. Join me to discover why a client’s belief in their creativity is so important, and how to harness the power of psychology to enhance therapeutic rapport and outcomes.

Lee Walker, a BPS member and accredited clinical hypnotherapist (HPD), holds a Master’s in Psychology. Since 2018, he has specialised in treating anxiety and IBS, integrating positive psychology into his practice. His academic research investigates how creative self-belief predicts client attitudes towards hypnosis. Dedicated to evidence-based practice, Lee bridges the gap between science and the therapy room, translating complex psychological data into actionable strategies for hypnotherapists.

Hypnosis – as easy as 1…2…Sleep

Tips and Tricks for quick successful Hypnosis

There are many ways of which hypnosis can be applied, fast slow through scripts or off the cuff. So many hypnotherapists get caught up in whatever way their tutor taught them (and I get it)! but that doesn’t have to be the case. Having a larger tool shed to work with can assist in not only confidence, but an abundance of ways that you can work with your client (or person you are doing a quick demonstration with.

So during this presentation, I will be taking you through the aspect to confidently be hypnotising people at pace with accuracy. I will also be sharing some ways I demonstrate hypnotic suggestibilities that at times can give you a 100% hit rate. One of these methods became the talk of the 2024 UKHC and you can learn it too.

During this talk you will not only learn the mechanics behind rapid hypnosis inductions and practical demos, you will also be taking part and with such short time, all attendees will be walking away with more tools in their shed.

Graham has been a hypnotist in the therapy and entertainment scene for the last 15 years. With a Military background, Graham also has his own businesses working with people for therapy and as a Magician, Hypnotist and Musician. Graham first found hypnosis when looking for new magic tricks, and hypnosis was advertised. After years of self education, he took it all to the next level performing shows and then completing his diploma in hypnotherapy.

When Clients Can’t Find Evidence of Self-Worth

A Strengths-Based System for Anchoring Confidence and Self-Belief in Ourselves and our Clients

Almost every client I work with, regardless of age or background, carries some version of the belief “I’m not enough.” And, if I’m honest, many of us as clinicians have felt this too. This session was born from my own experience of that limiting belief, and from discovering a way to answer it.

In this live, guided session, I will share my unique Strengths Unlocked approach, a strengths psychology-based system developed over the past decade that now forms the foundation of my clinical hypnotherapy practice. I loved the deep impact strengths-based analysis had on me so much, that I developed a way to use it with every client, from children as young as six, to clients in their seventies.

Participants will be guided through the Strengths Unlocked process themselves, discovering their own unique strengths, values, and energisers. This creates a felt sense of “enoughness” that does not rely on performance, outcomes, or external validation, but can be returned to during moments of doubt, pressure, or comparison.

From there, I will show how the same framework can be used powerfully with clients. In my experience, transformational change happens more quickly and with greater ease when clients first recognise who they are at their best, before addressing symptoms, patterns, or protective behaviours.

I will openly share the tools I use in practice, enabling attendees to integrate this approach immediately into their work with clients.

Cat Williams is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, ex-Physiotherapist, Author, Strengths-Psychology Coach and Professional Speaker specialising in alleviating anxiety and restoring confidence and self-belief. Known as The Stallion Mind Speaker, Cat blends knowledge of hypnotherapy, strengths psychology and physiotherapy with powerful storytelling and metaphors; she is the current Regional President of the UK's Professional Speaking Society. Drawing on lived experience, including 26 years as a military wife, and over 25 years of therapeutic practice, Cat delivers practical and engaging insights that resonate with both clinicians and clients alike.

Stand Up, Speak Out and Shine: How to ditch the presentation nerves and own the room (or the Zoom)

You might be a brilliant hypnotherapist – helping your clients overcome fears and quash their nerves – but that doesn’t automatically mean you feel confident on camera, stage or screen.
Are your presentation nerves or fear of visibility stopping your business from growing? Imagine saying “Yes” instead of turning down media appearances, online marketing opportunities, or speaker invites.

What if you could confidently walk your talk?

In this interactive session, I’ll share confidence-boosting strategies drawn from my dual careers: 38 years as a multi-award-winning BBC TV Producer and now as a specialist Confidence Hypnotherapist. We’ll explore practical tools and techniques you can use immediately with clients and yourself – covering mindset shifts, body language, vocal delivery, and how to prep for media moments without feeling like a rabbit in headlights.
Expect humour, honesty and some very real TV industry secrets – plus practical tips to help you unmute yourself and your message. Whether you’re aiming to speak on stage or simply want to show up more confidently in your business, this session will help you avoid common presentation pitfalls and leave you calm, credible and camera-ready.

Who knows… this time next year, YOU could be speaking at UKHC!

Annette Williams is a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist and the founder of Silverbrook Hypnotherapy. After 38 years as a multi award-winning BBC TV Producer, she now helps clients unblock their confidence to stand up and speak out. Her signature UnMute Method blends mindset techniques with real-world performance strategies. Annette is also a lecturer, speaker and author of "Step Into Your Spotlight: the TV insider’s guide to feeling confident when all eyes are on YOU!"

The Power of the Pre Talk

Tailoring your pre talk to bring about the most effective change.

“It’s all about the Pre-Talk” How many times have we heard this? Well, it’s true. So often the pre talk can be the difference between success and failure. But what makes a good one?
In this hour not only will I demonstrate how a good pre talk can set you up for great results with a live demonstration, but also go through the steps needed for you to create your own.

After working for 10 years as a stage hypnotist my interest in hypnosis turned to therapeutic use. Over the last 10 years I have my skills from stage with my other hypnotherapy training and added breath work and other naturally occurring physiological methods to create a very powerful permanent change in my clients.

The Gallery Process

Stuck in Time

This presentation will be a demo of a simple yet powerful way to facilitate change work for practically any issue your clients will see you for. This protocol is regression hypnosis, without having to regress to cause.

The Gallery hypnosis utilizes various techniques and somatic release to work with parts of the client that come forward in particular circumstances or are the cause of general behaviors that they want to change. Name the issue, and the source of the problem will be found in The Gallery.

This technique can be used in a single session or over the course of a series, depending on the depth of the client’s issue and the compounding experiences. With a longer session or with certain clients, you can cover multiple issues in a single session with this one technique.

This process is especially great for those sessions that you want to invite client to play with their imaginations in a very interactive way. The Gallery approach is equally effective with verbal and non-verbal responses works beautifully with both Emotional and Physical suggestibility. Know your client and you will know exactly how to execute this protocol with powerful effect.

Are you ready to play? Excellent! I’ll meet you in The Gallery!

Considered a hypnotist’s hypnotist and known for her innovative methods, Gila Zak, C.Ht. is the creatrix of The Gallery © process, The Two Minds Technique © and the author of the teaching manual Handwriting Analysis for Therapists and Coaches. With over 12 years of clinical experience and extensive certifications, she brings warmth, creativity, and depth to every session and training. You can find her on Youtube at @theGSpotHypnotherapy and @QuantumWavesHypnotherapy, Instagram and tiktok at hypno_g and her website QuantumWavesHypnotherapy.com

The Psychological Alignment Framework

A depth-oriented, integrative approach to hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy offers direct access to the unconscious, making it a natural complement to Jungian psychology and integrative psychotherapy. This presentation introduces “The Psychological Alignment Framework” (a depth-oriented approach that draws from Jungian theory, clinical hypnotherapy, and contemporary psychotherapeutic models).

The framework helps clients move toward internal cohesion by addressing disowned parts of the self, unresolved complexes, and archetypal imbalances. Using the trance state, therapists can facilitate corrective emotional experiences, symbolic transformation, and the integration of shadow elements and unconscious material.
By engaging the psyche through structured hypnotic processes, practitioners can support the individuation process while addressing core psychological fragmentation often underlying anxiety, trauma, or addiction.

Attendees will gain practical insights into using hypnosis to:
– Facilitate Shadow work and dialogue with inner parts
– Access and work with archetypal dynamics
– Support deeper alignment between the conscious and unconscious mind

Through clinical examples and brief demonstrations, this session will equip practitioners with tools to deepen therapeutic impact by integrating hypnosis with a structured, psychologically informed framework.

Constantinos Zissimopoulos is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and lecturer with an MSc in Addictology from the Medical School of the University of Athens and a BSc in Psychology from the University of Chichester. He holds a Clinical Hypnotherapy qualification from the University of West London and is an accredited lecturer by the University of Derby. He has worked with the UN’s International Organization for Migration and specializes in integrative psychotherapy, Jungian hypnotherapy, and addiction treatment.