Hypnotherapy Program Course Descriptions
Listed below are courses within our programs with course descriptions. To find out the next date and location of courses, consult our Calendar of Courses and Special Events. All classes are taught by David Quigley unless otherwise noted. Read a graduate's story.
Personal Transformation Program
100 Hour Program including the following:
101: Trance Induction and Post-Hypnotic Suggestion
History of hypnosis, trance induction, levels of trance, deepening techniques, post-hypnotic suggestion, rapport, pre-induction interview, goal-setting. (Course 101 or equivalent training is a prerequisite for all other courses listed here) No Prerequisite. (17 Hours)
201: Emotional Clearing Therapy
No matter what presenting problem your clients bring to you , it is usually connected to unresolved feelings of anger, grief, and shame. These could stem from incomplete communication or the residue of unresolved emotional trauma and neglect, much of it from the client’s childhood. But regression therapy as practiced by most hypnotherapists is often not enough to affect a cure. That is because the hypnotized client must do more than examine the memories and relive them. They must express with the body as well as the voice all of the emotions that have been repressed and stored there. We will learn the use of bodywork techniques to help release these emotions. We must also transform these memories of trauma into positive resources of safety, empowerment, love, and wisdom. In the case of childhood memories this includes the rescue of the inner child from these traumas, and if necessary the discovery of new parental resources and their integration into the cells of the body with movement, bodywork, and hypnotic suggestion. Together I call these methods "Emotional Clearing Therapy". (33 Hours)
301: Past Life Regression and Inner Guides
Using inner guides for rapid personal change, physical and emotional healing, creativity, spiritual growth. Ancient shamanic and modern techniques. Past life regression as applied to clearing trauma, changing karma, accessing creativity, changing relationship contracts. (25 Hours)
303: Conference Room Therapy
Communicating with different aspects of the personality and working with them to facilitate behavioral change. The judge, the inner child, the rescuer, the victim, the cynic, the rebel--learn how to help your clients create contracts with these characters that strengthen the will. (25 Hours)
150 Hour Master Hypnotist Certification Program
Additional 50 Hours including the following:
304: Specific Regimens
Techniques for working with weight loss, smoking, addictions and phobias, including the powerful Addictive Personality Technique and the John Daughters Smoking Cessation Program. Also saboteur and depossession. (25 Hours)
305: Establishing a Professional Practice
This course focuses on empowering you to become a successful hypnotherapist. We teach how to conduct an in-depth first interview utilizing assessment techniques and professional interview skills. Learn about patterns, boundaries, transference, referrals, safety, advertising, teaching, free marketing opportunities, office management, legal and ethical limits to your practice. The last day also includes the final exam. (25 Hours)
200 Hour Hypnotherapist Certification Program.
(Additional 50 hours or three 17 hour classes)
* denotes class is recommended for all hypnotherapy professionals
402: Somatic Healing
Heal illness and injury with powerful new tools including hypnotic movement, energy channeling, inner healer, spiritual surgery, and color healing. For more information, see Somatic Healing.
403: Advanced Alchemical Techniques
Techniques for direct trance state work with mythical and symbolic imagery. Alchemical Dream work, religious deprogramming, Alchemical Tarot and spiritual philosophy of Alchemy.
405: Advanced Conference Room*
How to work with hidden sub-personalities, use of evocative language, contract work, "mocking up" the conference room, and couple's conference room. A must for the practicing hypnotherapist who wishes to work with sub-personalities.
416: Clearing the Trauma of Sexual Abuse*
(with Debbie Unterman )
Sexual abuse may affect one-third of your clients. Learn to use rapport skills, assessment tools, Alchemical.and Ericksonian Hypnosis, art and writing to facilitate healing.
417: The Magic Theatre: Alchemy and Psychodrama
We empower our clients by bringing the Alchemical process into the incredible cauldron of group process work. In this exciting group participation class we will learn to use psychodrama, voice, movement and touch in the context of group therapy. Includes safety and intimacy issues, conflict management, and various forms of group therapy.
418: Seminar Leadership
Learn to be an effective leader of hypnosis seminars: Teach weight loss, smoking cessation, past life regression, and emotional healing in your community. Hands on experience available.
423: Hypnosis with Children
(with Zolita Grant)
Hypnosis with children requires special hypnotherapy tools and techniques such as the use of storytelling, art, puppets and games. Students will also learn to work with ADD and clinical issues.
424: Alchemy of Chakras
Instructor: Rabia Erduman
Chakras are subtle energy centers in the body. In this class we will explore the 7 major chakras, which are connected to the body through the Nervous System. If the chakras are off-balance our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being are affected, resulting in imbalanced organs, emotions, thoughts, and consciousness. In this 2-day advanced level workshop you will learn to utilize Alchemical Hypnotherapy techniques (as well as breath, color, movement and sound) to access and transform old wounding from childhood and past lives in our chakras.
425: Advanced Past Life Regression
Basic past life regression class and may leave you feeling confused about such complex techniques as overt acts, contracts, and the pre-conception contract. Or perhaps vivid past life recollection still eludes you. If so this is the class for you.- We'll spend two very full days watching, participating in and analyzing sessions on PLR with David Quigley.
- You will be able to perform sessions with David's direct supervision.
- Group guided journeys will help you clear your blocks to achieving memories of your past lives, and will help you discover the secrets and messages of your pre-conception contract.
432: Advanced Somatic Healing
This course takes the techniques of Somatic Healing to NEW and advanced applications, including:- Clearing the underlying causes of chronic illness in childhood trauma
- Massage Therapy applications for Somatic Healing, also called "Alchemical Bodywork"
- Teaching clients to wiggle love into their bodies from loving inner parents. Providing the inner child of the past with a loving inner family, and using the resources of this loving inner family to perform daily healing rituals for self-healing and pain removal
- Uses of Past Life Regression to heal illness
- Advanced methods of Hypnotic Movement for arthritis, dislocations, accidental injury residues like whiplash and back pain, advanced methods of headache and backache removal. Specifics for cancer. Applications to pre- and post-surgical intervention, and work with allergies and chemical sensitivities.
435: Advanced Inductions and Hypnotic Languaging
Course Instructor: Lois Prinz- Day One: Introducing trance logic to your client can be the easiest part of the entire hypnotic process. You will learn advanced induction styles such as inducing client trance without saying a word or Utilization Techniques, Challenge Exercises and the more technical side of inducing state: Light & Sound.
- Days Two and Three: In two short days you will be speaking the language of the subconscious mind with ALL your successful new clients. Master the art of Reframing and learn to create suggestions your client quickly responds to. Fine tune your hypnotic skills, learn new trance approaches and add information from this advanced class to add to your counseling toolbox.
440: Wilderness Intensive
Week long wilderness experiences are offered in Sedona and Mount Shasta.
444: Personal Empowerment*
The new frontier in Alchemy is about bringing your inner guides into your body, transforming your posture, your movement and voice, your being in the world. This course is recommended for every Alchemist.
Now you can experience in a small, intimate and supportive group the building of these powers within yourself.
- Ecstatic spirit guide contact in the body is accessed through touch, movement, dance, and shamanic practices.
- Psychodrama and intense group process create a bonding that accelerates your journey to release blockages that prevent guide contact, self-empowerment and emotional healing.
- Cellular clearing techniques using touch, bodywork, sound, and breath bring your transformation into your body.
- Soul retrieval deepens your connection to your essence.
If you ever wanted to work directly with David Quigley, with no lectures, no distractions, just the power of the group, this is your opportunity. This special three-day program is available now to Alchemists and non-Alchemist who are ready for personal empowerment. Cost varies according to location. Institute members get 10% discount. (Some prerequisites apply for non-Alchemists.)
Cost: $450.00
What participants say about the Empowerment Intensive
445: Healing and Transformation
From Friday evening to Sunday evening, this weekend retreat class includes...
- 3 individual sessions for each participant, with David and gifted Alchemical Hypnotherapists
- group guided journeys in an intimate supported setting
- advanced systems of self-care for any illness, for you &/or your family &/or clients
350 Hour Professional Development Program
501: Graduate Supervision*
A must for beginning a practice or doing practice sessions. Feedback on client sessions, review of basics, supervised practice, shared success. Supervision is done by telephone with eight 1/2 hour sessions. 17 hours
502: Assistant Program*
Assist at a basic training to polish your alchemical skills.
503: Group Therapy Facilitator Training
This course provides numerous tools and profound personal transformation to prepare you for this exciting work. Prerequisites: 417, 444, MH program.
504: Belief Transformation Workshop
Teacher Certification
We are in an age of self help. People want to be empowered to help themselves. In particular people are very interested in discovering limiting core beliefs and then changing those beliefs. Core beliefs include negative repetitive self talk like ... I can't ... I never will ... life isn't fair ... it's too late to ... I am not good enough ... etc etc. We will teach you how to address these issues to groups of any size with an inexpensive workshop.
We are prepared to teach you to lead groups to help shift our planetary consciousness to a more positive and constructive direction.
- Through this training you will learn how to help your participants to build their inner resources such as inner-parents and their adult self. Here is where those Core issues started and transformation can begin.
- They will learn to identify a recurring problem. There will be special muscle testing to narrow in on the "core beliefs" that underlie that problem and you can help them change that by inserting new core beliefs.
- Hypnotherapy techniques including inner child rescues, anchors, using mental rehearsals are some of the methods that we will cover.
- Finally a retesting of the muscles will confirm the success of the process.
After your completion of this class you will receive a certification as a Core Belief Teacher and we will supply you with support and promotional materials so you can go out and start your own successful workshops. Here's an opportunity to expand your horizons
My gratitude goes to Sidnee Cox who helped me develop this class.
Cost $350.00 17 CEUSClick for the costs of our Professional Training Program in Hypnotherapy
* denotes class is recommended for all hypnotherapy professionals