Training & Seminars Schedule

Hypnosis
Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP)
Investment/Tuition

Level I Basic Hypnosis Certification:
March 7-9 2008 - Dallas, Texas
April 4-6 2008 - Houston, Texas
May 30-June 1 2008 - New Orleans, LA
Fri. 6pm-10pm, Sat. 10am-8pm, Sun. 9am-3pm

Level II Advanced Hypnosis Certification:
June 7-8 2008 - Dallas, Texas
June 21-22 2008 - Houston, Texas
June 14-15 2008 - New Orleans, LA
Sat. 9am-7pm, Sun. 9am-3pm
Level III Ericksonian Hypnosis Certification:
August 16-17 2008 - Dallas, Texas
August 23-24 2008 - Houston, Texas
June 28-29 2008 - New Orleans, LA

NLP Practitioner Training:
August 25-31 2008 - New Orleans, Louisiana

Advanced Behavioral Consultants is an approved Continuing Education Provider by the Texas Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (Provider #202), the Texas State Board of Social Workers Examiners (Provider #4930), and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists
(Provider #203).

Hypnosis

Level I Hypnosis Certification:
March 7-9 2008 - Dallas, Texas
April 4-6 2008 - Houston, Texas
May 30-June 1 2008 - New Orleans, LA
Fri. 6pm-10pm, Sat. 10am-8pm, Sun. 9am-3pm
Location:

Dallas Training:
La Quinta Inn Dfw Airport West Euless
1001 West Airport Frwy
Euless, TX 76040
817-540-0233

Houston Training:
Holiday Inn
15157 IH 10 East
Channelview, TX 77530
281-452-7304

New Orleans Training:
TBA

Level II Hypnosis Certification:
June 7-8 2008 - Dallas, Texas
Sat. 9am-9pm, Sun. 8am-12pm

June 21-22 2008 - Houston, Texas
Sat. 9am-7pm, Sun. 9am-3pm

June 17-18 2008 - New Orleans, LA
Sat. 9am-7pm, Sun. 9am-3pm

Level III Hypnosis Certification:
August 16-17 2008 - Dallas, Texas
August 23-24 2008 - Houston, Texas
June 28-29 2008 - New Orleans, LA

Level I Basic Hypnosis Certification:

Hypnosis is a scientifically proven technique that has many effective applications to create change in behaviors. In our Basic Hypnosis Certification course you will learn hypnotherapy from an experienced hypnotherapist, certified trainer, and licensed counselor. This course of training will guide you through many of the most common issues dealt with in hypnosis.

This training will give you "hands-on" experience and supervised practice. We will fully prepare YOU to begin using this powerful, popular, and financially rewarding technique immediately after you finish this weekend with complete confidence in your ability to induce trance.

You will discover that you can learn and use hypnosis successfully in just one weekend.

Your training curriculum includes:

Supervision by a Licensed Counselor, Experienced Hypnotherapist, and Certified Trainer.
"Hands-On" Practice.
Understanding the concepts of hypnotherapy, how it works, and why it is so powerful.
Experience the hypnotic state first hand through group hypnotic induction.
Hypnotic suggestions to help you retain and recall the information you learn during the training weekend.
Demonstration, demystification, and explanation of Stage Hypnosis. (This section is important in preparing you for client questions about why people "bark like dogs" or "quack like ducks.")
Live demonstration of smoking cessation. You will have the opportunity to track this person's success for the next 3 days. (If you want to stop smoking, you may volunteer for this role.)
Demonstration of weight loss (you may volunteer for this role).
Demonstration of pain control (you may volunteer for this role).
4 basic prime directives of the unconscious mind.
Application of the 4 prime directives for creating permanent change.
Common myths of hypnosis.
Review of the history of hypnosis.
Group trance inductions.
Explanation of hypnosis demonstrations.
Learn and rehearse a powerful 5 step exercise to:
1) prepare a client for trance
2) determine how long it will take to enter trance
3) induce hypnosis
4) convince the client they are under hypnosis
5) bring them out of hypnosis.
How to conduct an effective interview for hypnotherapy (we explain how to convert your client's list of answers into a powerful and effective therapeutic process).
The difference between being a great hypnotherapist and a good hypnotherapist?
How to deal with three possible scenarios that your clients will experience:
1) "I'm doing great!"
2) "I'm doing okay, but not as well as I had hoped"
3) "This stuff isn't working."
Successful self-hypnosis.
Marketing hypnosis services.
Ethical use and application of hypnosis.
Completion of Level I with the knowledge, confidence and belief that you can succeed at basic behavioral hypnotherapy.
20 CEU's, (includes 3 hours ethics)
Certification as a Hypnotherapist.

If you want to continue your hypnosis education, you will receive homework to complete before beginning Level II training.

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Level II Advanced Hypnosis Certification:

The Advanced Course will cover new techniques and information and allows individuals the opportunity to refine their clinical hypnosis skills.

Review of Level I information to discuss any challenges or successes with your use of hypnosis.
Two types of relaxation techniques.
Use of relaxation techniques in a direct or indirect manner.
Use of authoritarian or permissive language inductions.
Creating an induction.
Introduction to rapid inductions.
Introduction to Elman, Estabrooks, & Erickson inductions.
Review of the hypnotic process covered in the first seminar with attention added to the subtle nuances that can make or break the success of therapy.
The importance of language and how to use language with clients to enable them to feel an emotion or distance themselves from one.
Examining your pre-talk and changing your language to create a more powerful effect on your clients.
How to read clients to help you to design more powerful inductions and therapies.
How to incorporate direct suggestions in combination with end result visualization.
How to create and install powerful post-hypnotic commands.
Learning how to remember anything.
Putting it all together as you combine your Level I and Level II skills to demonstrate your ability to prepare your client for trance, create an induction, design and structure the entire therapeutic process with post-hypnotic commands, and deliver it with the confidence and competence to walk away from this seminar certain in your abilities as a hypnotherapist.
16 CEU's, (includes 1.5 hours ethics)
Advanced Hypnotherapist Certification.

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Level III Ericksonian Hypnosis Certification:

The Ericksonian Hypnosis Course will enable you to engage in the most advanced applications of trance- formation. True mastery of the "magic" of hypnosis requires learning the conversational techniques of Milton Erickson and NLP.

Additional and advanced techniques you can and should use to induce trance.
Ericksonian hypnosis.
The art of conversational hypnosis - using words spoken in normal dialogue to assist your clients in entering altered states of consciousness.
19 language patterns which use normal and everyday dialogue to assist people in entering a hypnotic state.
Unconscious learning and utilizatoin of the 19 language patterns.
Creating powerful therapeutic metaphors.
Techniques for communicating directly to your unconscious mind and specific ways in which you can receive clear "yes or no" signals from your unconscious mind.
Cutting edge sound technologies to incorporate into your work.
Creating your own powerful audio CDs to use with clients.
16 CEU's, (includes 1.5 hours ethics)
Ericksonian Hypnosis Certification.

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Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP)

NLP Practitioner Training:
August 25-31 2008 - New Orleans, Louisiana

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is one of the most advanced technologies today for creating human change both in individuals and groups for Business, Education, Coaching, and Therapy. NLP is the most practical, results oriented technology of detecting, understanding and getting in control of our conscious and unconscious thinking. We will show you how to use this technology with yourself and others -- individually, as a therapist, and as a coach.

"NLP cannot be dismissed as just another hustle. Its theoretical underpinnings represent an ambitious attempt to codify and synthesize the insights of linguistics, body language, and the study of communication systems."
-- Psychology Today

". . . real estate brokers and salespeople use Neuro-Linguistics to enhance their communication skills and provide them with more choices when working in a difficult situation. . . it shows how we make sense of the world around us and communicate."
-- Real Estate Today

"NLP cold be the most important synthesis of knowledge about human communication to emerge since the 1960s."
-- Science Digest

"(NLP) does offer the potential for making changes without the usual agony that accompanies these phenomena. . . Thus it affords the opportunity to gain flexibility, creativity, and greater freedom of action than most of us now know. ."
-- Training and Development Journal

"NLP has untapped potential for treating individual problems and is becoming an all purpose self improvement program and technology."
-- Time Magazine

NLP Practitioner Training

Certification Requirements:

A. Duration of Training: Minimum of 120 hours of training in the basics of NLP patterns taught by a Certified Trainer, or a certified Master Practitioner under the supervision of a trainer.

B. Demonstration of ability to identify the following basic skills, techniques, patterns and concepts of NLP and to utilize them competently with self and with others.

1.Behavioral integration of the basic presuppositions of NLP, including:
a. Outcome orientation with respect for others’ models of the world and the ecology of the system.
b. Distinction between map and territory.
c. There is only feedback (cybernetic)-no failure.
d. Meaning of your communication is the response you get.
e. Adaptive intent of all behavior.
f. Everyone has the necessary resources to succeed.
g. Resistance is a signal of insufficient pacing.
h. Law of requisite variety.

2. Rapport, establishment and maintenance of.

3. Pacing and Leading (verbal and non verbal).

4. Calibration (sensory based experience).

5. Representational systems (predicates, and accessing cues).

6. Meta-Model.

7. Milton-Model.

8. Elicitation of well-formed, ecological outcomes
and structures of present state.

9. Overlap and Translation.

10. Metaphor creation.

11. Frames; contrast, relevancy, As If, Backtrack.

12. Anchoring (VAK).

13. Anchoring Techniques (contextualized to the field of application).

14. Ability to shift consciousness to external or internal, as required by the moment's task.

15. Dissociation and Association.

16. Chunking.

17. SubModalities.

18. Verbal and non-verbal elicitation of responses.

19. Accessing and building of resources.

20. Reframing.

21. Strategies; detection, elicitation, utilization, & installation.

22. Demonstration of behavioral flexibility.

During our NLP Practitioner Training you will learn:

The Basis of NLP – fundamental assumptions from where we start.

Fundamental beliefs that allows you to begin to choose the empowering "Cause" model and leave behind the disempowering "Effect" model
Identify and take control of the intricate connections between your mind, your emotions and your behavior.
The clearest and easiest model of how people learn, communicate, change, and evolve themselves.
The 11 principles of achieving your goals used by all successful goal setters.
The difference between goals you achieve and goals you don’t achieve.
Learn to set goals and always achieve them.
Discover how to ask questions so that your (and somebody else’s) goals become free from confusion or ambiguity.

Rapport – how to create instant liking and agreement.

Instantly be able to switch onto mutual understanding with anyone you choose.
Increase your sensitivity to body-language and its true meaning.
How to use unconscious body postures so that people unconsciously associate positively with you.
Identify how to use your voice tonality to build rapport (even on the phone).
How to create instant liking when communicating with friends, relatives, even people you don’t know.

Representational Systems – we use our 5 senses to represent internally the information from the world.

Become aware of how our 5 senses are represented internally in the nervous system.
Discover how what we see, hear, feel, smell and taste have an influence on our physical response (whether we are conscious of the process or not).
People have different preferences in how they use the 5 senses to process information internally. Learn how to match this to create instant rapport and mutual agreement.
Identify and learn how eye movement reflects a person's real thoughts.
Find out how to increase creativity, flexibility and learning by using the eye patterns.

Submodalities – the secret programming software of your mind.

Find out the inner encoding mechanism of your brain and take control of it.
Get rid of unwanted behaviors (like eating the wrong foods) using Submodalities.
Learn to create a sequence of instructions to modify your disempowering beliefs.
Un-useful emotional responses? Discover how to change them with the Swish Pattern.

Language Patterns – The words you use show off your intellectual attributes and your personal characteristics.

The words we use are chosen unconsciously but they have a special meaning for each individual.
Learn how to recognize what type of personality is hiding behind different types of words.
Find out how to customize your speech for each individual to achieve instant acceptance and wavelength communication.
Learn how to use abstract language to achieve instant agreement and induce trance easily.
Discover how 3 questions can help you to reveal specific information about any concealed subject (like a presenting problem).
Challenge and overcome objections elegantly.
How to assist someone in changing their mind.

Anchoring – how to control your feelings and your state of mind.

How to be in charge of your internal emotional state rather than being controlled by it.
Learn how to set up a personal trigger or stimulus which can move you in a specific direction.
Discover how to free yourself from an unwanted internal response to some (past or present) external trigger, like someone’s voice.
Find out how to link your strong personal resources with your ability to access them whenever you want.
Get rid of procrastination forever.

Strategies - how to control your mental sequence of internal processes to create specific results.

Discover the technique of sequencing of various internal processes to create a certain result and how to make the result successful each time.
Achieve concrete and long lasting results with the help of specific strategies.
Discover and learn how to use how people buy things (the decision making strategy) from just watching their eye movements.
Learn how to sell based on your client’s strategy (rather than yours) for a more fulfilling outcome.
Find out how to discover deep love and attraction strategies.

Parts – stop inner conflicts.

How to move beyond “I want this BUT I’m not sure”, “I can’t decide between these two things."
Have all your inner “parts” agree with each other.

When You Study With Us, You Will Be Able to Use NLP Applications in:

Business and Personal Coaching
All Modes of Business including Sales and Communication
Learning and Educational Coaching
To Create Change and Growth on a Personal Level
Therapy and Relationship Coaching

When you successfully complete this training you will be Certified as an NLP Practitioner.

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is one of the most advanced technologies today for creating human change both in individuals and groups in Business, Education, Coaching, and Therapy.

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NLP Master Practitioner Certification Training

NLP Master Practitioner Certification Training is at a whole new level of thinking. Easy to understand, and from a more powerful mode of thinking -- you reach a new perspective, so you master your NLP patterns and techniques -- you learn everything from a "higher logical level," which means that every NLP technique that you've ever learned before becomes just that mch more useable and workable. Plus you will learn how to apply them in therapy and coaching.

Certification Requirements:

A. Duration of Training: Minimum of 120 hours of advanced training taught by a certified trainer. A minimum of 15 hours of direct trainer supervision.

B. Demonstration of the ability to identify the following basic skills, techniques patterns and concepts of NLP and to utilize these competently with self and with others.

1.All practitioner level skills, singly and in combination.

2.Design individualized interventions (generative and remedial).

3.Ecological change work.

4.Shifting easily back and forth between content and form,
and experience and label.

5. Specific Master Practitioner Skills:
a. Meta Programs.
b. Criteria (Values).
i. identification and utilization.
ii. criteria ladder.
iii. elicitation of complex equivalence and adjustment of criteria.
iv. sleight of mouth.
c. Installation and utilization of strategies.
d. Refined use of submodalities.
e. Deliberate multi-level communication.
f. Negotiations.
g. Presentation skills.
h. Modeling.
i. Utilization and transformation of beliefs and presuppositions.

At the NLP Master Practitioner Certification Training, you will learn:

Quantum Linguistics - conversational change

Learn how to use the verb tense to conversationally put present problems in the past and future solutions in the present.
Learn how to use language with volition as a resource for success.
Discover how easy it is to change limiting beliefs unobtrusively, during conversation.
16 ways of answering any kind of objection (Sleight of Mouth).
How to use a set of specific questions to direct your client’s thinking in a more positive way (Meta Model III).
Discover deep unconscious sources of unhappiness (Prime Concerns).
A fail-safe negotiation model (always produces results).

NLP and Quantum Physics

Simple and easy to understand introduction to quantum physics and personal change.
We simplify Quantum Physics for you and show you how to use the principles in using your NLP techniques.
We show you why the human mind works more like Quantum Physics than Newtonian Physics and how to use that to create change with individuals.
The holographic nature of the universe and why spontaneous healing occurs.

Personal Values – one of your sources of personal happiness

Discover what motivates you, what constitutes your personal conscious and unconscious source of ethics and fulfillment.
Learn how to identify the part of values which do not serve and support you anymore.
Identify and get rid of unconscious values conflicts (I.E. I want to make money, but if I work hard I won’t have any freedom).
Thinking in relation to values and your personal evolution.
How to change values so that they support your desires and growth.
How to use values alignment in business, sales, management, relationships, etc.

Meta Programs – unconscious inner patterns that make you who you are

Discover how these inner filters make people have different skills and abilities.
How to select the people you consider most suitable for certain jobs in a win-win situation (extremely valuable in business).
Learn how to elicit Meta Programs conversationally without intruding in client’s personal life.

Advanced Submodalities

Use hardwired neurological drivers to create lasting change.
Learn how to manufacture designer SWISH patterns according to your client’s individual needs.

Advanced Strategies

Learn how to install strategies (formally and informally through the Logical Levels of Therapy process).
Advanced elicitation of strategies with particular business (sales, management) applications.

Modeling

How to model excellence in others and then install the model in yourself.
How to create a training program to install models of excellence.

NLP Presentation Skills and Training Design

How to design a presentation that will appeal to any type of personality.
And...Much, much more ... and all at an advanced level! Topics such as the Quantum Linguistics, Hierarchy of Ideas, Sleight of Mouth, Platform Skills, Prime Concerns, Suggestibility, Advanced Healing, and Allergy Intervention are just the tip of the iceberg of what we have in store for you when you join us for the NLP Master Practitioner Certification Training.

When you successfully complete this training you will be Certified as an NLP Master Practitioner.

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Investment

Level I Basic Hypnosis Certification:
(20 CEU's, includes 3 hours ethics)
Regularly $562.50 Web Enrollment Bonus Price $450*
*Includes $85 Initial Hypnotherapist Certification.
(Certification through the American Board of Hypnotherapy)

Level II Advanced Hypnosis Certification:
(16 CEU's, includes 1.5 hours ethics)
Regularly $437.50 Web Enrollment Bonus Price $350

Level III Ericksonian Hypnosis Certification:
(16 CEU's, includes 1.5 hours ethics)
Regularly $437.50 Web Enrollment Bonus Price $350

Training price includes:

Training Manuals
Required course books
CEU's

Limited Time Web Special

Just $875.00* for all Three certification programs with 52 CEU's including 6 hours of ethics.
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*Includes $85 Initial Hypnotherapist Certification.
(Certification through the American Board of Hypnotherapy)

NLP Practitioner Training:
Regularly $3,125 Web Enrollment Bonus Price $2500

Training price includes:

$100 Certification Fee
Magic of NLP Demystified Book
Training Manual
120 Hours of CEU's

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