I have to say that doing this video Podcast was extra special. I managed to talk Maureen, my wife and General Manager of the Banyan Hypnosis Center for Training & Services into doing a video Podcast for everyone.
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Cal Banyan’s Hypnosis Training Podcast #21 *Audio-Only*
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So we go beyond our usual format of hypnosis training, and give you some hypnosis practice building business tips. In this interview Maureen gives out some important tips on how and why you should dress for success. Then she goes into giving you some really important tips on how to book appointments. This Podcast can increase your income as soon as you receive your next telephone call from a potential client!
Here is a brief outline of what Maureen Banyan will cover.
Dressing Professionally:
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How and why you should dress professionally
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What dressing professionally looks like for men and women.
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Tips on how to talk to employees about how they should dress:
How to Make More Appointments:
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How to get your client to want to book with you and no one else.
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How to stop them from shopping based on price of services.
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How to build trust right away.
Of course we hope you can make it to the National Guild of Hypnotists Solid Gold Weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada where she is going to be speaking on the topic and going into much greater detail on both of these topics.
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Advanced techniques for booking appointments (during normal business hours).
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How and when to raise your rates.
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How and when to reduce your fees and make more money!
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How to make multiple appointments during your first telephone call.
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How to prevent “No-Shows” and last minute cancellations.
I hope to see you there! It is the best investment that you can make this winter in your hypnosis practice and help you to have the best year yet!
Oh, and here are some links to some of the topics and resources we mention during the Podcast, and a couple we forgot to mention.
Enjoy!
Cal & Maureen Banyan
www.CalBanyan.com
Hypnosis Blog with Video Podcasts & Hypnosis Manifesto
My search for interesting, informative and successful hypnotherapists continues. I hope that these interviews will encourage all hypnotherapists everywhere to believe in themselves as well as the profession. I believe that these interviews will provide you with inspiration and some additional tips that can really help your practice to thrive.
I am very happy to do this interview with Matt Sison, an experienced and talented hypnotherapist with a very interesting background. I am especially excited about the healing work he has been doing, and also I want to tell you about his new CD.
With that brief introduction let’s get on with the interview.
Cal Banyan: Matt, it is great doing this article with you. Let’s start off with finding out a bit about the kind of background you had before you became a hypnotherapist.
Matt Sison: Before becoming a hypnotherapist, I was a Fitness Trainer in Los Angeles, California for over 8 years. Being a fitness trainer is similar to being a hypnotherapist in some ways as your clients tell you about their life stories during their workout. I was privy to hearing about all the ups and downs of their lives, and there were more then a few moments I actually enjoyed hearing about their stories more then training them to get fit. It’s probably what allowed me to be a great trainer; I had a genuine compassion for their stories while I made them sweat to exhaustion. It’s because of this compassion; I feel I did much better than the average fitness trainer that only kept their clients for 6 weeks. I kept mine for an average of 2 years with a consistent referral base.
Cal: That is a really unique background, and it makes perfect sense how it really prepared you for working with the clients that you see now in your hypnotherapy practice. And, of course really caring about your clients is key in any helping profession.
How was it that you decided to look into becoming a hypnotherapist?
Matt: I actually started learning about hypnosis around the age of 10 years. My brother, who is currently a renowned psychiatrist, was learning about hypnosis in school and he wanted to try an experiment on me. He had me lay down on the floor, and in retrospect he did a hypnosis induction on me and then laid his index finger lightly on my chest and suggested that I was stuck to the floor. Well, long story short, it worked 
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Cal: That is an interesting way to get interested in hypnosis. Then what happened?
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Thanks again for all the input about these video blog entries. It seems like I am reaching a crowd that I don’t usually reach because there has been a lot of questions about 5-PATH®, so I decided that I’d do an overview of the program, and then in the future I can just point people to this video blog entry for basic information.
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Cal Banyan’s Hypnosis Training Podcast #20 *Audio-Only*
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However, when I started I just couldn’t help myself I went further than just giving you an overview and went into some deeper information, and gave you a tip or two that you can use right away with your next client.
As usual, here are some links to the items and classes that I mention in the video. They are right below. If you are seeing this or hearing this and you are not on www.CalBanyan.com you need to know that is my blog and that is where I keep all this information and hypnosis news as it happens.
Enjoy the video!
Topics discussed at the beginning of the video:
- Solid Gold Weekend. February 24 -25 in Las Vegas, Nevada. I will talk about how to build your income and hypnotherapy practice. Maureen will talk about how to book appointments. And, there will be many other leading trainers and speakers as well.
- March Hypnotherapy Cert. Training in Tustin Learn about our NGH approved Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Certification Course, with 5-PATH® and 7th Path Self-Hypnosis® Self-Hypnosis given at our center in beautiful Tustin, California.
- Online option Click this link and learn about how you can take this training without coming to our center.
- If you can’t make to London or our Center and you are already certified you can become 5-PATH® Certified through my DVD course. Get the details about how you can get this advanced training now at your convenience.
- Veteran’s Scholarship Program. More information on how to qualify for a 50 to 100% scholarship toward taking our certification course. To qualify you must we working with American war veterans and/or their families.
Main points for this edition; the links below will take you to the items that I recommend or discuss during this training. Click on them at your leisure.
5-PATH® is heavily influenced by the work and teachings of the following leaders in the field of hypnosis:
- Dave Elman’s, book, Hypnotherapy.
- Charles Tebbitts, now reflected in the books by Roy Hunter.
- Harry Arons, Master Course in Hypnotism (may be out of print).
- Jerry Kein, book and videos.
Introduction to 5-PATH®:
Refer to Podcast #17 for a Brief Overview of 5-PATH®
Quick review:
- Phase I: Preparation, Testing and Convincing Phase (PTC)
- Phase II: Age Regression and Age Progression Phase (AR)
- Phase III: Forgiveness of Others Phase (FOO)
- Phase IV: Forgiveness of Self Phase (FOS)
- Phase V: Parts Mediation Phase (PMT)
5-PATH® is a flexible system, hence Scrambled 5-PATH®
- You don’t have to spend a whole session on Phase I (confidence and hope).
- When you are working on Phase II (AR) and you believe you have done the work needed on the ISE you can move into Phase III (FOO). But if you find out that the client is having difficulty getting in touch with anger, or the reasons they are anger with the offender, you can do more regression.
- If you find additional fear while working on forgiveness you can always AR and remove it and then return to the FOO or FOS (for guild and anger at the Self).
- You can always go back to a previous Phase and do additional work. Let 5-PATH® be the main structure, but you can float around inside of that structure as needed.
- You can also add other skills such as NLP, Ericksonian Hypnosis and EFT to the framework that 5-PATH® provides.
Here is that link I promised you to the Banyan Online Supervision Meeting Program (CDs) our externship program.
That’s it. I hope you enjoyed the video. If you have any recommendations for future topics please leave a comment. See the link on the lower right hand side at the bottom of this blog entry.
As you know, I like to pass along good news, and in this article we learn that scientists are catching up with what 5-PATHers already know, hypnotic age regression is a powerful tool that works.
Check out this News article…
Hypnosis may help victims of traumatic crimes overcome fears by freeing them of painful memories, a psychologist says.
The University of Adelaide has embarked on a radical study, recruiting people traumatised by violent attacks or other crimes to help them enter an altered state.
Registered psychologist Birgit Pfitzer says that victims who are unable to escape fearful thoughts are already in a state close to hypnosis.
In this article he states, “So it makes sense that we use this to treat them, to help them unlock these memories, reconsider them and then get on with their lives.”
To read this interesting and informative article go to, http://au.news.yahoo.com/070125/2/126t6.html
Spread the word, hypnosis works!
Hypnosis helps, and the Banyan Hypnosis Center for Training & Services, Inc., a California State Registered School is offering scholarships to professionals who work with war veterans and their families.
These have been very difficult times for the men and women who are serving in our armed forces, especially for those who have experienced the stresses of war. And of course, this stress also affects their families as well. So, we have decided that we want to help, and this is what we would like to do. We would like to provide scholarships for our hypnotherapy certification courses to some of those who are in the helping professions, such as doctors, nurses, counselors, social workers and psychologists who work directly with these brave men, women and their families.
Selection for these scholarships, will be done on a trial and case-by-case basis. Starting with the March 2007 Hypnotherapy Certification course, the Banyan Hypnosis Center will enroll up to two such helping professionals in each class. The size of the scholarship that the person or institution can expect to receive will cover at least 50% off the regular tuition cost, and can go as high as 100% for those who work full time, directly with Armed Forces Personnel, veterans of any war in which the American military has served, and of course their families. Highest preferences will be given to those who will be able to use their hypnosis as part of the service that they provide the vets and their families.
In this way, we hope to bring the rapid relief that advanced hypnotherapeutic techniques can provide to those who have served our country and made us all so proud. We hope this idea will grow and spread. We hope to have helping professionals from a VA Center doing this kind of work on a regular basis. It would truly benefit those who we owe so much to.
The scholarships will be applied to the full 100-plus hour courses given at the Banyan Hypnosis Center for Training & Services, Inc. in Tustin, California.
Upon graduation there will be ongoing support to help to ensure that these valuable techniques are being used in the most effective way to help the vets and their families.
If you know someone who would qualify for this scholarship program please help us to get the word out and tell them about this. By the way, this program also applies to our Hands-On Live Internet Option for our hypnosis certification classes.
More information about this scholarship program can be obtained by calling 800-965-3390 or 714-258-8380. More information at, www.HypnosisCenter.com.
Hello Everyone!
Well, as it turned out I was so pleased with the last video podcast I decided to “dig in” and produce another one right away.
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Cal Banyan’s Hypnosis Training Podcast #19 *Audio-Only*
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In this podcast I take on the advanced topic of what one should do if they are doing hypnotic age regression with a client, and a second or third emotion comes up?
I talk about whether one should keep to the first emotion that came up? Or, should we work on two or three emotions as the same time in the age regression? If it takes longer than the time we have to do a session what should we do? Should some emotions uncovered in an age regression session be left alone? Or should we deal with them in another way?
Here are links to some of the resources I mention in the video:
1. These Podcasts are available at www.CalBanyan.com.
2. Get the good stuff hypnotists really want at, www.BanyanHypnosisMall.com.
3. Learn all about our upcoming training programs at, www.HypnosisCenter.com, including free articles and scripts.
4. Learn about the book, The Secret Language of Feelings at, www.TheSecretLanguageOfFeelings.com.
5. Learn about the NEW Hypnosis Manifesto, by using the link at the top right hand side of this page or click here.
6. Learn about the Banyan Online Supervision CD set I mention.
7. Read introductory article on 5-PATH®. If you are not already a 5-PATH® certified hypnotherapist, reading this article now will help you to have a better understanding of the advanced topics I mention in this video.
8. Read about the 5-PATH® Certification Course on DVD that I mention in the video.
I hope you enjoyed the video. There are more on the way. Keep checking back and keep leaving your requests and comments here on www.CalBanyan.com.
Thanks for viewing this video Podcast!
Please excuse me ahead of time. My voice became a little rough during this video and I have to clear my throat and cough a couple of times. I haven’t figured out how exactly I should manage that during a video podcast! Hopefully we can at least lower the volume when I cough during the editing process. It is SO interesting being at the beginning of this video blogging learning curve, so thank you for your patience.
Okay, I hope you enjoy this podcast. Please keep those suggestions and comments coming!
Congratulations to the National Guild of Hypnotists who are now celebrating their 55th Anniversary. The NGH is now the largest and “friendliest” hypnosis organization in the world. And, the NGH has done more than any other organization to promote the profession, and to ensure the right to practice in the profession more than any other organization, bar none.
I want to take this time to tell you about Dr. Dwight Damon, the President of the NGH (shown on the left), someone who I believe has simply been the most important person in the field of hypnotism, during the last 20 years. It has been under his leadership that the profession and organization has grown like never before, and along with the NGH, the profession has grown as well.
Let me tell you a little bit about Dr. Dwight F. Damon, who in addition to his many recognitions and awards, last year received the 5-PATHer’s Life Time Achievement Award.
Dr. Dwight F. Damon, DC, DNGH, OB, is a founding member of the NGH. It all seems to have started back in 1949 when he studied with Dr. Rexford L. North. According to the the December issue of the NGH Journal of Hypotism, Dr. Damon attended Cushing Academy, Emerson College and earned his doctorate from Palmer College in 1959.” In addition to the work that he has done in the area of hypnotism and chiropractic, he also worked with the government of New Hampshire under the title of “New Hampshire’s Magical Goodwill Ambassador,” and the NH Chamber of Commerce named him “Citizen of the Year.”
Dr. Damon is not a man who only works with science, health and business, he has also had a career in the entertainment world, working in both radio and television, as well as being an avid writer.
This broad and interesting life has benefited us all because his talents and experience has enabled him to lead the NGH in an extraordinary way. Our NGH President is an honest and straight forward man, who in my experience has always been fair, thoughtful, and humorous at just the right times. I owe him a debt of thanks for taking time out from his busy schedule to talk to me and help me to mature into the profession. I wish I could say that I have received any special treatment, but I know that Dr. Damon would extend that kind of assistance to anyone.
Here are some of the ways that the members of the NGH have benefited under his leadership:
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- Regular publication of the best hypnosis journal in the world since 1951 (shown on the left).
- Established the affiliation between the NGH and the OPEIU, AFL/CIO and now serves as the President on the National Federation of Hypnotists local 104, which operates in all 50 States in the USA.
- Established the Board Certification Committee of the NGH, and serves as CEO.
- Established The Order of Braid, and serves as Chairman/Governor.
- Build the membership up to over ten thousand around the world in sixty-three countries.
- NGH now has, or soon will have training materials in several languages including English, French, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Japanese and Chinese.
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Over the last 50 years or so our profession has benefited from the leadership of many different people, but I wanted to take a little time out to tell everyone about Dr. Dwight F. Damon. Dr. Damon, thank you for everything you have done, and congratulations goes out the National Guild of Hypnotists of all of your great accomplishments over the last 55 years. I know that we have just begun!
For more information about the NGH and how to enroll in our NGH Approved Certification Course or Week of Power Advanced Hypnotherapy Certification please visit our website at www.HypnosisCenter.com.
