How did you get started..........

[Ice_9]

Once you learnt your hypnosis skills?
Did you just bite the bullet and advertise yourselves?

[Terry (existing)]

Ice, I would be happy to pass on any information that might assist you. We do need more decent and competent practitioners, and everyone needs to start somewere. However, my experience would in no way assist you, and neither would the experiences of others. You see, you are you, you are located in a different place to me and those others, and likely in a different country, were laws differ. Now let us just take my own experience as an example. I took my first course, and instantly joined H.S.A. so I was able to rub shoulders with experienced practitioners right away. Are you able to replicate that? I started by working with friends and aquaintances, as did most of those on this board likely, and was honest enough to inform them that I was a novice, and would perhaps refuse my help if I felt I lacked experience to deal with that problem. Fortunately, I also was able to give lectures, which promoted me, as well as taught me how to better deal with both people and problems.... In all my time in regular practise, I never once placed an ad in a newspaper, though I was invited on several occassions to speak on radio talk shows, which of course cost me nothing; to lecture to both my fellow practitioners in the Society, and to the general public on various aspect of hypnosis, and of course under those circumstances I needed to know what I was talking about, and the public who attended knew that I knew also, so I got clients without any advertising costs. Now this experience is of no help to you, in that you are not able to replicate my growth, and I imagine that the story of others will show just the same differences in conditions.... There are some who, based on their experience will tell you to bite the bullet and go for it right away, while others just as honest, will tell you the oposite, because their individual experiences differ..... I would never advise anyone to go full time instantly, I was offered the opportunity by my original instructor, who offered me a parnership about three months after I completed my first course, and looking back, I am glad I turned the offer down, because I lacked the experience to do a credible job, and would have been destroyed by the pressure.... My advise for what it is worth, start slowly, and build a business before you go full time and spoil the fun. Never lie to a prospect, refuse to deal with anything beyond your skills until you are more experienced, and alway enjoy what you do..... By all means give much thought to your future goals, but don't rush it.....

[Nicholas]

I've learnt a lot, but i'm still practicing on friends.
Do you mean advertsing hypnotherapy, or stage shows, or what? I'm pretty sure you can't get into hypnotherapy without real credentials or certificates.
Stage shows, yeah certainly, just bite the bullet and hope for the best. Perform a couple of shows for your friends and family first, just to get the basics down, and make sure you have some set guidelines of what to do, and have an anchored state of confidence ready at your disposal. If you think you're ready i'm sure you'll be fine.

[Terry (existing)]

Guess I replied to the wrong person, you apologies.....

[Cassandra 8]

Once you learnt your hypnosis skills?
Did you just bite the bullet and advertise yourselves?I didn't strictly 'learn' hypnosis per se. That came later, once I had the time and space to explore things properly. Imagine my surprise to find that my homebrew concepts and acres of meticulously stoned theories of mind mapped onto generally accepted norms.

It boils down to this: If you desperately need to convince someone of something you find a way to communicate ideas in a way that goes straight in, or you fail. If they're paying, you're desperate, I'd advise, so I'd say advertise and be damned for trying to help. Model confidence until you become it involuntarily. What's the worst that can happen, eh?

But always have a solid career to fall back on first. That's just common sense. Don't jump until you're sure of where, or you'll end up being swept away.

[Ice_9]

No way am I going full time. I was thinkingof advertising and doing weekend/evening work.

I would just like to have had more practice first. I have limited people I can practice on.

[Merlin]

>I would just like to have had more practice first. I have limited people I can practice on.

Better hypnosis schools have a supervised 'intern' program.

[Merlin]

I went about helping people.
Never did advertise.
Word got about.

[wheeler]

are there hypnosis schools in Portland, oregon
wheeler

[Jack]

Hello Ice,

You are wise to practice. You would be even wiser to get decent hypnotherapy training from a recognised and accredited school if you haven't done so already. At least you would get other students to practice on, all of whom will be eager to help you, as you will be eager to help them.

Without such training you will not be able to join a good professional association - quite rightly, in my opinion - and will not be taken seriously. Whatever you do don't join one of these spurious 'pay your money and welcome' outfits. It is also likely that future EU legislation will prevent non-accredited hypnotherapists from practising.

In the UK we are working towards one hypnotherapy qualification and one professional association, a move which I welcome.

Jack


Jack
No way am I going full time. I was thinkingof advertising and doing weekend/evening work.


I would just like to have had more practice first. I have limited people I can practice on.

[Dizzy]

Heya Ice. If you are thinking of gaining a little information from some others who while learning, have gained quite a great deal of skill, pm/e-mail me. There are a group of english people very interested in hypnosis, of which I am one. Note we are all reasonably young, but if you don't have a problem learning from someone younger we have no problem teaching :)