Focus on Hypnosis and Dentistry Masterclass 

Masterclass

Dear Friends

Happy spring!  The birds are starting to sing and the daffodils and crocuses are well on their way now: hope, colour, new life.  This has been a challenging winter in so many ways!   

Many thanks for all the good wishes, cards and e-mails.   I found a marvellous Clinic in Austria which helped me "find the way" to treating my Fibromyalgia I now share my learning's on Auto Immune Disease/Gastro-Intestinal connection/Ill Health/Weight and Detox in "The Mayr Day" which we are representing in May this year.  Last time we were over booked, so if you couldn't get on last time, now's your chance!

The day before I'm running "There's Nothing Wrong With You" based on Zen Therapy applied to Childhood Conditioning Issues.  It's always been a well received day.  Both Masterclasses are held at my home in the beautiful countryside outside Condorrat and being May we can hope to share lunch in the garden and enjoy the birdsongs and views (..Ahem! well, maybe)

As numbers are limited to 12 please book in good time.  Again I appreciate that finances are pushed.  If you'd like to come and can offer a commitment to "eventual payment" we are flexible.  Post dated cheques are fine in a way that suits you, if presented on the day.

One of our students, Sandra Kennedy, passed over last year from cancer. Sandra "the bonny wee fighter" surpassed all expectations and not only completed her certificate on chemo (...which we didn't think she would) then started her Diploma (...we didn't post her deposit because we didn't think she'd make it!) but completed her Diploma and was giving the thumbs up 3 days before she died to attending the Mayr Day in November whilst on oxygen.  She was an inspiration to us all and donated all her books to our "library" for future students.  We have now set up "The Sandra Kennedy Bursary" which means on every course The Harvest Clinic runs, we will offer one free place to anyone who applies in writing with financial difficulty caused through ill health or life challenging problems.  It's not a means test, just an honest request.  It will be on a first come basis. "Courses" cover Masterclasses, Residentials , (not accommodations) and all Reiki training.  Apply in writing to the Harvest Clinic.

Glasgow Students Studying Hard

Anyone looking for a therapy room?  We have a room available on a Monday 9.30-5pm and a Thursday 9.30-2pm.  We will help you build your own client base and of course we will do our best to support you.  We offer Business Consultation and full Reception management.  The rental fee is very competitive and only monthly in advance, no deposit.  Call Marian or Morag if interested.

If you are seriously interested in upgrading your skills as a therapist of any discipline, or improving your skills as a parent, carer, helper, friend, have you considered Reiki? It changes the way I viewed the therapeutic, helper relationship for life.  Given the way the world is unfolding in the ego  self dynamic and all the relevant damage, it is even more needed as a skill.  The planet has never needed it more!  The issues of personal dynamics, grounding and protection, energy fields and their implications and the power of positive energy are all addressed as well as the fundamentals of healing, whether physical, emotional or spiritual. (It is not whacky new-age nonsense,  as I originally thought, its Quantum Physics!) To this end we are offering a £25 gift voucher redeemable against any Reiki training throughout 2011.  It will improve your skills no matter what your discipline and give you the "language" to work on another level without burning out, drying up in the process.  Wish I'd known about it during the first fifteen years! Again all courses held in the Countryside, with fires, Wishing tree, the Standing stone," home baking" (Ha, Ha!) and laughs around the table, all taught in Glaswegian, not hippy speak!

If you want to get better at what you do, why not upgrade? Our Hypnotherapy trainings are now taught at Post Graduate Degree Level! Wooo!, but it's true.  We were the first in Europe to bring the world of Hypnosis into Academia. We are constantly and never endingly improving and boy does it open doors!  If you trained a year of two ago, you wouldn't recognise the course now! Why not upgrade and get on board as a Supervisor so you can re-train free of charge on the Certificate or Diploma course.  Its fresh, new and challenging.  We are looking for people from September to commit to 4 weekends (certificate) or 12 weekends Diploma/PG cert 2012 and an 80% commitment is required.  It's a real opportunity!

Work Experience Opportunity! Can you give us a week of your time at the Clinic, and we'll give you week of our time, training you in behind-the scenes practice management of running a busy clinic.  Practical Hands on Training on walk in and phone enquiries, setting up, e-mail enquiries, admin, meet and greet, watching therapist's in action (before and after).  Everyone who has done it said  it was an invaluable experience.  Once done if we are looking for reception cover due to holidays or sickness, we would offer you the chance of paid work, so to this end we obviously prefer those who have a lot of free time or work part-time.  You'd learn a lot, update skills and have some fun! Let us know.

Dates for your diary!

£25 gift voucher off any Reiki training in 2011, available from Glasgow office.

Click on the following links to download a booking form for Mayr Day or for There's Nothing Wrong With You. Please call us on 0141 333 0878 to book for the other courses  or to express an interest in other areas.

Love Angela x

p.s. we'd like to include student/graduate stories and experiences in future issues.  Please e-mail us your input at info@harvestclinic.co.uk for future inclusion.

News From Exeter 

As we settle in to 2011, there is a lot of planning going on down in Devon, and the South West.

The CPPD is beginning to slowly fill up and we look forward optimistically to the numbers growing in strength.   

In June we will be promoting the LCCH at an event aimed at recruiting new students, with introductory workshops, talks and some experienced past students available to help answer questions. My thanks to all those PgCert students who have offered their help for the Newton Abbot show. More news of this to follow in the next news letter, and of course  you would all be most welcome to attend.

As our PgCert Students, are preparing for their practical exam, and finishing off their case studies, it would be nice to take this opportunity to wish them all well.

Lessons From Self Disclosure

Experienced as we all are, or become, it is never too late to learn from those whom practice and understanding has taught some of its lessons.

I was reminded last year of this by a fellow practitioner of many years practice, and much my senior.  We gathered (as we often do) down in Exeter, for an informal peer supervision session, to share, drink coffee and learn from each other, to support and to help, but also for mutual companionship.

During this meeting she told me her story, with a wise woman's observation, that I should share it if ever I was given the chance, so that others may learn from it too.

A returning client had been in contact recently, with a new presenting condition.  A year or so had passed since she had seen him last and he had been making great progress, and all had been well with the original presenting condition which had been a tablet taking habit, and as time had progressed all was assumed to be well.  This is the first lesson, assume nothing.

As there was no mention of the past presenting symptom it was not discussed assuming that it could cause embarrassment.

Because it was a retuning client the information gathered at the first meeting was briefly checked as accurate, and then the details of the new presenting symptom were taken. He now presented for smoking cessation, with no disclosed medical conditions, a straightforward case.

To cut a long story down to the point, upon leaving the therapist remarked on how well the client was looking and congratulated him on having done so well, and commentated in passing that in the past she too had had an issue with self medication and had recovered.  This last lesson is the real lesson to be learned here. In our efforts to build rapport we must be mindful of not stepping across the line, to refrain from explicit self disclosure, which may leave us vulnerable or be misinterpreted.

This case, did indeed escalate, the client took a complaint to the appropriate body, and reports were filed, in this case, the therapist was found not to have done anything wrong, but to have been ill advised to disclose in this way to someone who, it turned out  - was a registered but undisclosed drug addict.

Lesson  1. Never Assume

Lesson  2. Always take a full case history - and check past presenting conditions.

Lesson 3. When building rapport, be mindful of protecting yourself - self disclosure can expose your own vulnerability and potentially damage the very thing you are working so hard to create.

Lesson 4.  Good Supervision is always helpful (for everyone, irrespective of how experienced you are). Both formal and informal supervision have their place, as we work in an isolated field and  it is good to have the opportunity to share.

Notícias de Portugal

Em Portugal, temos estado muito ocupados desde que assumimos as rédeas da LCCH Portugal em Novembro do ano passado, elaboramos um novo site www.lcchportugal.com  com toda a informação dos cursos que estão a decorrer.

Na sequência do trabalho normal de preparação para os cursos, em Janeiro 2011 começamos  dois cursos  Certificado, um em Lisboa e um no Porto. A  receptividade e presença nos cursos tem sido excelente.  

Em Março abriremos  inscrições para mais dois Certificados a  iniciar em Setembro 2011, e tendo alunos suficientes, iniciaremos também dois cursos Diploma em Lisboa e no Porto.

Atenciosamente

Tess 

News From London 

Graduation Ceremony

We would like to congratulate all our students who have recently sat their exams. Successful students of the Postgraduate Certificate Clinical Hypnotherapy course were invited to attend TVUs graduation ceremony at the university to accept their awards. TVU are planning to hold the next ceremony in November, so those students coming up for graduation from all our centres should keep an eye on both their personal and TVU emails for when the dates are announced.

PgCert Graduates at Their Graduation Ceremony

LCCH on TV

LCCH graduate Jacqueline Van der Voort was featured in episode 4 of Channel 4's Embarrassing Bodies. She was shown using hypnotherapy to successfully treat a patient who has cervical dystonia. The outcome was that the patient stopped letting the dystonia interfere with his day-to-day life and that his cervical dystonia dramatically reduced.  

 

Talking about her patients success, Jacqueline said "...his insomnia is gone. He used to suffocate in his pillow through the night because of his neck, spasms and that has 100% gone. His depression has completely lifted, as has his anger and midlife crisis. His anxiety and social isolation have gone too. And importantly his dystonia has reduced by at least 50%, sometimes more, and he has lost his self-consciousness..."

 

Hopefully Jaq and her patients success will inspire others affected by all types of dystonia to seek out treatment using hypnotherapy whilst at the same time letting the medical profession see that there is another viable option to help treat this often challenging condition.  

 

 

George Houguez Teaching Behaviourism

With all the best from the London Team 

News From Singapore

News From Birmingham

News From Malaysia

In the Manchester and Leeds centres we are receiving many enquiries from mature students looking for a life change. They are either dissatisfied with their present jobs or worried about being made redundant and so wish to broaden their horizons and increase their options. If you have ever read the book 'Who Moved my Cheese?' you will realise why it is important to continue to evaluate your options and make those contingency plans before you are dragged along, suffering the consequences of decisions that are out of your control.  

My advice to those prospective students who are not sure about their future, is to sign up now. I wasted 10 years 'thinking about it' and now wish I had been brave enough to embrace change much sooner.

With best wishes,

Amanda