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Eclectic Learning

Distribution of skills and concepts within each monthly module

Our course is based on non-linear eclectic learning where you are exposed to a large number
of approaches, techniques, strategies and skills from different parts of the
hypnotherapeutic process. Most other courses start with the basics, for example Rapport
Building, and then move up to more advanced skills as the course progresses, BHR courses
are different, our course has basic skills interspersed with more advanced skills and each is
chosen from a different stage in the hypnotherapeutic process. This means that no one skill
becomes a pre-requisite to another. If you learn therapy in a linear way there is a
tendency, when in practice with patients, to always follow one skill with another in the
same sequence that you were taught.
Indirect Hypnosis is conversational and to maintain a flexible conversational framework we
must not expect Patients to follow a sequence of therapeutic steps just because we learnt
them in that order. Therapists need to be able to juggle with their skills within the main
stages of the hypnotherapeutic process. We prefer that you learn each skill in isolation from
other skills and therefore develop an understanding (and later proficiency) in each skill so
that you can use them anywhere within a therapy session where it is appropriate. For
example, rapport building does not stop once the patient is in trance and trance induction
doesnt always happen half way through the session, sometimes it happens right at the
beginning.

The Structure of an Indirect Hypnotherapy Session

The practice of Indirect Hypnotherapy can be divided into the following six stages but
doesnt always follow this sequence as each stage overlaps with another and the therapist
may move between stages according to the needs of therapy:
1. Rapport
2. Information Gathering
3. Identifying Resources
4. Trance Induction
5. Therapeutic Interventions
6. Motivating Your Patients

The approaches, techniques, strategies and skills that form the Study Units from the above
stages have their origins in the following areas of study:
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The Nature of Problems.

The Principles of Indirect Hypnosis.
Therapeutic Principles.
Rapport Building.
Information Gathering.
Indirect Trance Induction.
Language Patterns.
Therapy Techniques.
Hypnotic Phenomena.
Post-therapy Techniques.
Personal Development.
Psychopathology.
When studying the Study Units it might be helpful to guess which stage of therapy and area
of study each particular Study Unit falls in to. For more detailed study of the stages I
recommend that you read the Structure of an Indirect Hypnotherapy Session resource that
follows this resource in the course block.

The relationship between Study Units and the Therapy Videos

The videos are archive recordings of unique Stephen Brooks therapy sessions recorded at
various UK hospitals over the past 20 years. Because they vary considerably in content and
contain interventions that were appropriate at that moment in time for that particular
patient, you will not see a pre-prepared structured therapy session demonstrating all of the
techniques, skills and concepts contained within that months module. It would be
impossible to single out a particular therapy session that contained only the things you were
learning in the Study Units for that month. Instead you will see a live spontaneous therapy
session that utilizes the approaches, techniques, strategies and skills taught on the course as
a whole.
You will find my analysis of each therapy session most educational as it also introduces
course material that you will learn later in the course. Many of the things that I do within
the therapy sessions are not listed as Study Units, simply because there would be too many
units to study. Never-the-less I do explain them in the analysis videos and I encourage you
to learn by my example when watching the therapy sessions and utilise everything you can
in your future practice with Patients.

Course Evolution
The course is continually evolving and new concepts and ideas are being added all of the
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time. Even insights and ideas from students may be added to the course over time and
external resources introduced.
This is an ongoing rolling course with each monthly course module totally independent of
the other. No module is a pre-requisite to any other so students can in future join at any
time. BHR started running courses successfully in this way in 1990s. Students have to acquire
points for each online module they study and in theory they can even take them in any
order, although in practice it is better that all students are studying the same module at the
same time.
One of the main benefits of the course is the high degree of interaction between students
and as new students join at later dates the earlier students compound their learning further
by sharing what they have learnt with the newer students. It is not a linear learning, it is
highly interactive and dependent on students sharing and asking each other questions as a
way of testing and compounding their knowledge.
The Non-compulsory Practitioner Training that we run at Roehampton University can come
at the end of the course for some students or at the middle or beginning for others,
depending on when they join. Like any other face to face course elsewhere, there are
people with different backgounds and levels of experience making for a rich mix of ideas
and interests.
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