View Full Version : Has anyone hear taken Robert Sheilds course?
buckeyetd
02-17-2006, 06:55 AM
He's advertising a Hypnotherapy course you can take on-line for $148.00 US. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
nUnregistered
02-17-2006, 08:39 AM
He's advertising a Hypnotherapy course you can take on-line for $148.00 US. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
buckeyetd,
while I've never heard of Robert Shields, if you've done any cursory search in the threads of this website, you would have already found recommendations for highly regarded trainers of hypnotherapy. so unless you've got your "heart set" on Shields, there are recommendations, many with affordable courses, already on this site.
Jim
Poodle
02-17-2006, 11:43 AM
Look at it with a new perspective. Would you prefer to go to a surgeon who learned on-line and from a book or one that went to medical school and had hands-on practice with real people? It is the same with hypnosis. You can watch something many, many times on-line and not realize totally exactly how it really works without having someone right there at the time to practice on with the teacher checking on the practice. It just does NOT work. If one is a skilled hypnotist and wants to study the methods of another, then watching a video can be useful but even then not always productive without having studied with that person in person. I know where you can get a dynamite video course for $29.00. Great C.I. Would I recommend it as a starting point: Not only NO but HELL NO!
pmdigi
02-17-2006, 03:36 PM
why not on-line and hands-on - in-person + books,tapes, cds, videos, real life experiential training and theoretical research and etc. isn't that what everybody does anyway?
Poodle
02-17-2006, 06:13 PM
Why not on-line? Who is to correct your mistakes? Do you bring all your friends over and say: "I learned an induction on-line, let me try it out on you". You mess up. It does NOT work. Who is there to help you? No one. Who do you ask about why? How does one learn how to handle abreactions on-line? What do you say if it does happen to work? I learned an induction by video and I still cannot get it to work. Why? No teacher around to ask what am I doing wrong. Obviously it is something as I saw it work on the video but it doesn't work for me. It could be something as small as timing. Does this tell you something? I am a very skilled hypnotist. If I cannot learn something from a video, what makes you who knows nothing about the subject get it to work. Then comes the REALLY BIG PROBLEM. What do you say after the induction? You just don't read scripts as each client has a different reason for whatever. Okay, fine. You finish your course on-line. Who is going to certify you? NGH certainly will not take you.
I said I can get you a really great course that will even "certify" you for $29.00. The instructor is wonderful and I totally endorse and recommend his live trainings but I certainly would NOT endorse videos instead of live training.
pmdigi
02-17-2006, 08:00 PM
uh, with all due respect you seem to have missed almost all of what i wrote except for 5 words: why not on line and videos.
Hello,
One simple reason: most hands on hypnotherapy schools will have you dealing with real people in real time. Neither video nor online can do this, and it is arguably the most important part of learning about how to be an hypnotherapist. If you only want to be an hypnotist then you can learn that in about 5 minutes from a book and then practice on your unwitting friends and family.
No amount of books, videos, tapes or online tuition can compensate for supervised, live training. They are a way to introduce yourself to it, but at some point you will find it of great benefit to work with a tutor in a live environment.
Jack
uh, with all due respect you seem to have missed almost all of what i wrote except for 5 words: why not on line and videos.
why not on-line and hands-on - in-person + books,tapes, cds, videos, real life experiential training and theoretical research and etc. isn't that what everybody does anyway?
Makes sense to me.
I wouldn't want someone who only had trainings, because there is so much available from other sources which trainings couldn't have the time to cover. Similarly, in-person trainings provide guidance, feedback, observations, work with other people, etc. that 10,000 books, tapes, CDs and videos could never provide.
I would respectfully suggest that to leave out in-person training or singular study leaves gaps.