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Ready for Regression First Session System

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About this course

Learn how to use your first session to set up for successful regression to cause therapeutic hypnosis.  

  • Module 1: Get Set for Clients Course.
  • Module 2: Preliminary Assessment System Course.  
  • Module 3:  Strategic Intake Process Course.
  • Module 4: Educational Pre-Talk Course.
  • Module 5: The Potty Break Protocol Course
  • Module 6: Create Your Ideal Client Session Course .
  • Module 7: Ready for Regression Session Course. 
  • Module 8: Bonus Content!

You’ll find a PDF Report for each course in the Module Summary section. 

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Course Structure

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6 Chapters

Get Set for Clients

In this program you will learn how to create space for healing to happen in your regression hypnotherapy sessions.

Introduction to Get Set for Clients 2 Lessons

Pre-Course Tips

A few tips to help you get the most out of this course.

Introduction

A quick overview of what you will learn in this module.

Set Up Your Session Space 5 Lessons

Create Space for Healing

How to use your healing space to encourage the client to expect positive results.

Make it Safe

How to create space that works with the Subconscious Mind's Prime Directive.

Size Matters

How to avoid costly mistakes when choosing the room or office space you will work out of.

Choosing Chairs

Tips on what to consider when choosing a chair for your clients and yourself.

Water, Water Everywhere

Why water is important to the healing process.

Set Up Your Paperwork 2 Lessons

Scripts & Protocols

Tips on how to manage your scripts and protocols in session.

Session Manual

Tips on how to create your own session manual.

Set Up Your Tools 3 Lessons

What Tools Do You Need?

Recommendations for tools that can support you in your regression hypnotherapy sessions.

What’s That Smell?

How essential oils can provide a safe space for both you and your clients.

Emotional Release Work

Tips to support you in facilitating the emotional release work of regression hypnotherapy.

Separate the Business from the Practice 2 Lessons

The 3 Ps Before Hypnosis

How to create a separation between the business and the practice of hypnotherapy using the 3 Ps.

Client File System

How to create a client file system.

Module 1 Set for Success Summary 1 Lesson

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9 Chapters

Preliminary Assessment Systems

In this course you will learn systems that can support you in getting the right clients for you.

Introduction to Preliminary Assessments 1 Lesson

Introduction to Preliminary Assessments

A brief overview of what you will learn in this module.

Attract the Right Clients 3 Lessons

Attract the Right Clients

How to use preliminary assessments in social settings to get more clients you can be successful with.

Free Consultation

How to use a free consultation as a preliminary assessment tool.

How Much?

How to respond when a potential client asks "How much?" and why you should never answer this question, right away.

Book the Right Clients 4 Lessons

The 3 Rs in R-R-Results

A simple 3-step assessment process you can use to quickly assess whether or not a person is the right client for you.

The Bowling Lady

An example of how the 3 Rs in R-R-Results worked to screen out a problem client.

Pre-Session Technique

How to use the 3 Rs in R-R-Results as a pre-session assessment strategy.

Hidden & Complex Issues

How to recognize issues that may be outside the scope of your practice.

Turn Callers into Cash 2 Lessons

Use Voicemail Suggestively

How to use your voice messaging to make a good first impression and encourage callers to leave you their number.

Keep Good Notes

The key information you need when a person calls to inquire about your services.

Qualify Your Clients 7 Lessons

Introduction to Qualify Your Client

Introduction to the 6 Critical Qualifying Questions.

Q1 – Ask Permission

How to use Critical Qualifying Question #1 as a response to "How much?"

Q2 – Listen

How to use Critical Qualifying Question #2 to begin establishing the therapeutic relationship.

Q3 – Increase Motivation

How to use Critical Qualifying Question #3 to increase the client's motivation for change.

Q4 – Assess Motivation

How to use Critical Qualifying Question #4 to assess how motivated the client really is.

Q5 – Assess Expectations

How to use Critical Qualifying Question #5 to assess the client's expectations.

Q6 – Book the Session

How to use Critical Qualifying Question #6 to book the first session without having to sell a thing.

Set Up for the First Session 3 Lessons

What’s Going to Happen?

How to reduce the client's anxiety about the first session by telling them what's going to happen.

Use Baby Steps

How having a first-session strategy can help you to set yourself up for success.

When to Fire the Client

How your preliminary assessment system can help you to avoid having to fire a client.

Plan Ahead 5 Lessons

Plan Your Time

How to set up a scheduling system that puts you in charge of your time and supports you in doing the things that truly matter to you.

Book the First Session

Tips on how to book the client's first session.

Get Paid

Tips on how to handle getting paid.

Don’t Buy the Drama

How to deal with a new client who is in distress.

Employ These 8 Strategies

A review of the 8 scheduling strategies.

Follow Up 4 Lessons

Follow Up

How to create a Session Confirmation System to follow-up once you have booked a client in for their first session.

Include Your Fee Schedule

How to include your fee schedule into your Session Confirmation System.

Provide Tips

How to prepare the client for their first session by providing a tip list.

Client Contact Form

How to create and use a Client Contact Form as part of your Session Confirmation System.

Module 2 PA Summary 1 Lesson

Preliminary Assessment System Summary

A quick review of the Preliminary Assessment System module.

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6 Chapters

Strategic Intake Process

In this program you will learn how to conduct an intake in a way that prepares you to guide your client through the healing processes of regression hypnotherapy.

Introduction to the Strategic Intake Process 1 Lesson

Introduction to the Strategic Intake Process

A brief overview of what you will learn in the Strategic Intake Process course.

Establish the Therapeutic Relationship 3 Lessons

Establish the Therapeutic Relationship

How to use your intake process to establish the therapeutic relationship for regression hypnotherapy.

Satisfy

How to satisfy the needs of both the Conscious Mind and the Subconscious Mind while you are conducting the intake process.

Focus on Feelings

How to use your intake process to bring up feelings and emotions that can give you a bridge to the past.

The 10 Strategic Intake Questions 10 Lessons

Strategic Intake Question #1

How to begin the intake process with Strategic Intake Question #1.

Strategic Intake Question #2

How to use Strategic Intake Question #2 to make your educational pre-talk relevant to the client.

Strategic Intake Question #3

How to use Strategic Intake Question #3 to build the client's confidence in the healing process.

Strategic Intake Question #4

How to get the client into the pain of the problem with Strategic Intake Question #4.

Strategic Intake Question #5

How to identify spiritual blocks and resources with Strategic Intake Question #5.

Strategic Intake Question #6

How to use Strategic Intake Question #6 to set up for regression to childhood events.

Strategic Intake Question #7

How to uncover unresolved relationship issues which may be related to the client's presenting issue with Strategic Intake Question #7.

Strategic Intake Question #8

How to address self-medicating behaviors with Strategic Intake Question #8.

Strategic Intake Question #9

How to begin establishing the Therapeutic Goal with Strategic Intake Question #9.

Strategic Intake Questions #10

How to uncover hidden issues and prepare for the next step using Strategic Intake Question #10.

Intake Assessments 2 Lessons

Assess

3 problem areas to assess for while you're conducting the intake process.

Beware Syndromes!

How to identify and address a syndrome.

Wrap Up Positively 1 Lesson

Invite Magic!

How to wrap up your intake process in a way that invites the client's magical child in.

Module 3 - SI Summary 1 Lesson

Summary of Strategic Intake Process

A short summary of what you learned in this module.

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9 Chapters

Educational Pre-Talk Process

In this course you will learn how to educate a client specifically for regression to cause hypnosis in a way that makes the client responsible for the results.

Introduction to the Educational Pre-Talk 1 Lesson

Introduction to the Educational Pre-Talk

A brief overview of what you will learn in this module.

How the Mind Works 2 Lessons

A Mind is a Wonderful Thing

How to use your Mind Model to empower the client.

Memories

How to educate the client about how the Conscious Mind and Subconscious Minds in a way that makes hypnosis relevant.

How Hypnosis Works 2 Lessons

Hypnosis Happens

How to dispel common myths about hypnosis and begin preparing the client to cooperate with the healing process.

Unspoken Objections

How to address common objections to hypnosis that most clients won't mention.

How Body-Mind Works 1 Lesson

Feeling is Healing

How to educate the client about how to work with the Subconscious Mind.

How Stress Works 1 Lesson

The Stress Factor

How to educate the client about stress, how it is the underlying problem, and how stress is not what most people think.

How Trauma Works 2 Lessons

Tracks & Trauma

How to make regression to cause hypnosis relevant and safe for the client.

Story

How to introduce a body-centered approach to healing while educating the client.

How to Release 3 Lessons

Find the Feeling

How to teach the client to find, name and claim a feeling to release it.

Use Tapping Techniques

How tapping techniques can be incorporated into your healing sessions and taught during the educational pre-talk - even when you don't know how to tap.

Test for the ISE

How to set up for the ISE Test before you begin the hypnosis.

Establish the Therapeutic Contract 3 Lessons

The 3 Fs in Contract

How to make the client responsible for the results by establishing a Contract specifically for regression to cause hypnosis.

Be Consistent

How to build your educational pre-talk on the foundation of three key elements to keep your delivery consistent when educating clients and groups.

No to Regression

How to use your educational pre-talk to resolve resistance to the regression.

Module 4 - EDU Summary 1 Lesson

Educational Pre-Talk Summary

A quick summation of the Educational Pre-Talk module.

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5 Chapters

The Potty Break Protocol

In this program you will learn how to set up for a multi-session healing program.

Introduction to the Potty Break Protocol 2 Lessons

Introduction to the Potty Break Protocol

What you will learn in this module.

Prepare-Prepare-Prepare

How a strategically-placed potty break in the first session gives you a way to set up for a multi-session healing program.

The Critical Information 5 Lessons

The Critical Information

The 3 key pieces of information you need to refer to in every session and how to create a Session Worksheet.

The What

How to identify where to begin the healing work when the client has a Laundry List of issues.

The How

How to identify what, exactly, needs to change to achieve the client's Therapeutic Goal.

The Why

How to identify key sources of motivation to allow change.

The Who

How to keep track of key players who may be contributing to the client's issue.

Wrap Up Powerfully 4 Lessons

Wrap Up Your Sessions Powerfully

How to wrap up your session with suggestions that encourage the client to go the distance to realize real and lasting change.

Generalize & Integrate Change

A three-step process for encouraging a deeper level of healing by generalizing and integrating all changes.

Send it Forward

How to establish positive expectations and encourage the Subconscious Mind to begin making changes.

The Wrap Up Review

How to wrap up a session using the 3 Rs in the Wrap Up Review.

Emerge & Debrief 3 Lessons

Emerge & Debrief Your Client

How to set up for the next session while you're wrapping up your session.

The 2-Minute Post-Hypnosis Session Coaching Session

How to use the time between sessions to give you the information you need to begin the next session.

Debrief Doubt

How to dispel doubt when a client questions whether was revealed during a regression session actually happened.

Module 5 - PBP Summary 1 Lesson

Potty Break Protocol Summary

A quick summary of the Potty Break Protocol.

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7 Chapters

Create Your Ideal Client Session

In this program you will learn how to save time in your regression sessions by conditioning your client to go back into hypnosis very quickly and easily.

Introduction to Create Your Ideal Client Session 1 Lesson

Introduction to Create Your Ideal Client Session

A brief overview of what you will learn in this module.

Preliminary Hypnosis Set Ups 4 Lessons

Preliminary Set Ups

What to set up for before you begin the induction process.

Set Up Permissions

How to establish 3 permissions before beginning the hypnosis.

Set Up Safety

How to set up safety before you begin the induction.

Set Up for a Convincer

How to set up for a Time Distortion Convincer.

Induce Hypnosis 5 Lessons

Formalize the Induction Process

How to formalize any induction with 5 easy steps.

Utilize Sounds

How to utilize sounds to begin narrowing the client's focus of attention.

Use Physical Relaxation

How to use relaxation hypnosis in the first session and why you should.

Focus on the Body

How to use a body awareness exercise to increase the client's focus on feelings and emotions.

Autosuggestion Test

How to use autosuggestion to test the acceptability of a suggestion and increase the client's awareness of Subconscious communication.

Use the Power of Wow 2 Lessons

Tweak the Elman Induction

How a few simple modifications to the Elman Induction makes it the ideal induction to condition a client for regression hypnosis sessions.

Test for State

How to use overt and covert testing to induce the Wow Factor.

Deliver a Gift 4 Lessons

Install a Trigger

How to install a trigger for rapid induction in 4 easy steps.

Emerge (Not Really)

How to conduct the Time Distortion Test and set up to test the re-induction trigger.

Re-Induce Hypnosis

How to conduct the Hand-Drop Rapid Induction in 5 steps.

Conditioning Session Hack

How to make your trigger for re-induction fail-safe.

Wrap Up & Check In 4 Lessons

Conditioning Session Wrap Up

How to use the Conditioning Session as a stand-alone session and wrap up your session powerfully.

The Preliminary Check-In

How to conduct the Preliminary Check-In in subsequent sessions, what questions to ask, and a 9-step session protocol.

Session Time Management Tips

The most comfortable time-frame for the first session and a 6-step session template.

Add Tapping

8 reasons for adding tapping (EFT) to your set of therapeutic tools.

Module 6 - CIC Summary 1 Lesson

Create Your Ideal Client Summary

A summary of the Create Your Ideal Client Session and how it fits into the 5-phase Hypnosis Practice Business System.

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9 Chapters

Ready for Regression Session

In this program you will learn how to assess and prepare your client for regression to cause therapeutic hypnosis.

Introduction to Ready for Regression Session 3 Lessons

Introduction to Ready for Regression Session

A brief overview of what you will learn in this module and the 5 essential tools of Regression to Cause Therapeutic Hypnosis.  

Traumatic History

How to deal with clients who have conscious recall of traumatic memories and may be apprehensive about revisiting those events.

Chemical Lids

The real problem with anti-depressants, how they can impact your sessions, and how to deal with them when the client wants to get off of their medications.

Teach Your Client How to Regress 2 Lessons

Use a Pseudo-Regression

How to create a safe environment in which regression can happen very easily.

Hypermnesia Exercise

How to use a Hypermnesia Exercise to get a real regression without any client resistance.

Teach Your Client How to Respond in Sessions 5 Lessons

The Uncovering Procedure

How to teach the client how to respond during the uncovering procedure using the 6 Basic Uncovering Questions of Regression Hypnotherapy.

If Things Go Sideways (Uh-Oh …)

What to expect and how to respond when the Subconscious Mind doesn't go where you tell it to go.

Memory is Not Fact

What makes an experience "real" and why memory is not a recording of "facts."

Insight is Not Enough

Why insight is seldom sufficient to create change and what needs to change to get a lasting result.

Feeling is Healing

Why you should never try to get rid of a feeling.

Introduce the Inner Child 4 Lessons

Introduce Inner Child Work

How to use the client's first session to set up for the Inner Child Work.

Assess the Adult

How to assess the client's readiness to participate in the Inner Child Work by providing what their Inner Child most needs.

Find the Love

A 7 step process for guiding the client to fine and send love to their Inner Child.

Validate Truth

  • How to test to see if the Inner Child is accepting love from the Adult client
  • What to do when the Inner Child is not accept love
  • How to elicit insight that generates positive change
  • How to encourage integration of all changes.

Introduce Forgiveness 4 Lessons

Introduce Forgiveness

  • When the Forgiveness Work begins in the first session
  • What the Mask of Forgiveness looks like
  • Why forgiveness is required to get a real healing
  • The difference between Head Forgiveness and Authentic Forgiveness
  • How to test the acceptability of forgiveness with the client
  • The most important person calling for forgiveness

Forgive the Child

The easiest place to begin the forgiveness work and set up for self-forgiveness. 

Forgive Mom & Dad

What to do when Mom and Dad show up in an event in childhood.

Where There Is Anger …

  • How to deal with the client's angry feelings.
  • How to make it safe for the client to allow anger.
  • Why the feeling is never the problem.
  • What happens when anger doesn't get expressed.
  • How the answer to anger allows forgiveness to happen.
  • The purpose of Pillow Therapy
  • How to introduce the client to Pillow Therapy 

Wrapping Up 3 Lessons

Revelation Review

How to transform a regression session into a revelation by wrapping up with the 3 Rs in the Revelation Review.

Pocket of Pain

What to do when your client bumps into a pocket of pain in the first session and how to transform it into new learning during the Revelation Review.

Button Up for the Next Session

A 5-step procedure for buttoning up a session when you run out of session time and there's still work to be done.

Test the Results 5 Lessons

Test the Results

How to test your results to ensure a lasting change.

Conduct a Preliminary Check In

  • The 3 things to watch for when the client comes back for the next session
  • How to provoke a feeling for Affect Bridge
  • How to amplify the feeling
  • How to test the strength of a Bridge
  • How to verify before bridging back
  • Direct and Autosuggestion techniques

Assign Homework

How to use homework assignments to test and reinforce the results.

Get Consent

  • How to formulate a homework assignment that is right for the client
  • How to use the results of a homework assignment to guide the healing process

Bonus: The Artist’s Way

How Julia Cameron's self-healing, self-empowerment process can support both you and your clients in getting clear and staying clear on an ongoing basis.

Use Preliminary Tests 4 Lessons

Preliminary Tests

How to use preliminary tests in your hypnosis sessions.

Mental Rehearsal Technique

How you can use Mental Rehearsal to uncover hidden blocks and reinforce new learnings.

Future Pacing Process

How to use Future Pacing to test a belief, uncover hidden aspects and provide proof that change is occurring.

Keep the Contract Open

The correct attitude for a professional regression hypnotherapist and why you should always keep the contract open.

Module 7 - RR Summary 2 Lessons

Ready for Regression Session Summary

  • A review of what you learned in the Ready for Regression Session
  • The 6 objectives for creating your ideal client for regression hypnotherapy
  • The 4 distinct phases of the First Session
  • How to manage your time in a typical first session
  • What to do if you run short on time in the first session
  • How to pick up where you left off in the next session
  • a 7 Step Time Management Chart

The Next Step

What's the next best step for you?

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6 Lessons

BONUS: Healing Childhood Trauma

In this bonus section you will learn:

  • How to heal the birthing experience
  • 3 Core Needs to watch for in childhood events
  • How anger toward self can be seeded very early in life
  • What the aftermath of abuse looks like
  • 4 Universal Healing Steps
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