Here’s What I’m Going to Teach You

Most of us were trained to deliver hypnosis at our clients. Read the script, manage the process, hope it lands. And then one day a client analyzes everything, refuses to close their eyes, or tells you flat out, “I can’t be hypnotized” — and the script has no answer.

Erickson never had that problem. He didn’t have resistant clients — not because he was magic, but because he understood something most hypnotists were never taught: hypnosis is an interaction, not a performance. The client isn’t your audience. They’re your partner.

That shift — from performing hypnosis to interacting with your client — is what this class delivers. And once you make it, you will never fear a “difficult” client again.

What You’ll Learn in This Two-Hour Training

I built this class on the five foundational principles of interactive Ericksonian work, and then I taught seven specific techniques you can use in your very next session:

• Mirroring and Pacing — how to meet your client where their body already is, and then lead them where they need to go. This is rapport at the deepest level, and it works before you’ve said a single hypnotic word.
• The Yes Set — the art of building momentum through small agreements. Learn why the question you ask matters more than the suggestion you give, and why the induction — done right — is the therapy.
• Assertions — the single-sentence observation that sends your client’s attention inward instantly. Simple, genuine, and one of the fastest absorption tools that exists.
• The Not-Hypnosis Frame — my go-to strategy for the client who insists they can’t be hypnotized. You’ll agree with them, remove all performance pressure, and watch trance find them anyway.
• Amplify, Then Transform — stop fighting your client’s symptoms and start using them. When you learn this technique, resistance stops being an obstacle and becomes your induction.
• The Comfort Dial — put your client’s hands (literally) on the controls of their own change. This is the technique that gets clients doing instead of just listening — and it’s a game-changer for willingness, pain, and habit work.
• Future Pacing and the Future Self — help your clients borrow resources from the person they’re becoming. Plus the simple twenty-minute homework assignment Erickson gave his own patients

Every technique comes with the how and the why — because knowing a technique and knowing when and why to use it are two different things, and the second one is what separates good hypnotists from great ones.

What You Get When You Register Today

• The complete high-quality video replay of the entire conference presentation — every technique, every demonstration, every question from the audience
• Comprehensive class notes — the same structured notes I taught from, so you can review the principles and techniques without scrubbing through video
• Hypnosis script ideas built on these interactive methods, ready to adapt for your own clients
• An ICBCH Certificate of Completion to document your continuing professional education

All of it. For $25.

I priced this deliberately. I’ve spent more than forty years in this field, and I believe this material — the material that closes the gap between knowing Ericksonian ideas and actually doing Ericksonian work — should be in the hands of every practicing hypnotist, not just the ones who could attend the conference.

Who This is For

If you’re a new hypnosis professional, this class will give you a foundation that most practitioners take years to stumble into. If you’re experienced, it will sharpen tools you already own and hand you a few you’ve been missing. And if you’ve ever lost a session to a skeptical, analytical, or “unhypnotizable” client — this class was built for you.

The hypnotists who attended this presentation live rated it one of the best of the conference. Now it’s your turn.

See you in the training,

Dr. Richard K. Nongard, Psy.D. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Board-Certified Hypnotist, Founder of the ICBCH