Greetings!
I am so proud and excited to be welcoming you to the very first edition of the LCCH Asia-Australasia News. Five years ago we were tentatively dipping our toes into Kuala Lumpur wondering what the future might bring. Today we are a region increasingly exploring and explaining clinical hypnosis to colleagues and patients throughout Asia. We have centres in Penang and Singapore; have conducted workshops throughout the region and this year three new Asia centres will open. This newsletter is dedicated to all of you who have shared our journey. We have laughed a lot and cried a little along the way. But all of us share that deep-seated fascination for the inner unconscious mind, the sense of wonder that there is more to life and the curiosity and courage that keeps us looking. Oh yes, and we all share that mild obsession with the strange and wonderful experience we call clinical hypnosis. So everyone who receives this newsletter has a place on the journey. In our own and unique way we have contributed to the Best College Status granted last year, to the acceptance as members by the to the Academy of Family Physicians, to the growing number of patients who now seek clinical hypnosis as a viable treatment option. And we know that this is only the beginning of something that can fundamentally make a difference to so many peoples lives. As we travel and grow within the LCCH Asia-Australia region, this newsletter is a way of updating you on the monthly news and happenings. You will find news items, stories from colleagues, ideas to share and snippets of how hypnosis is working. There is a calendar of events and of course links through to the LCCH UK Newsletter to what our colleagues are doing in Europe. Let Us Know What You Are Up ToIf you have featured in the media, or are involved in an interesting project and would like people to know about it then send details to your local centre manager or to us at info@hypnosis-malaysia.com and we will publish it in an upcoming issue of the LCCH News from Asia and Australasia. It is good to remember that every journey begins with a single footstep ... and NOWwww ... With very best wishes, Sheila Menon
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LCCH Events around the Asia/Austalasia Region
2011
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April
28th April
Talk on "The Potentials of Applying Clinical Hypnosis in Cancer Care and Nursing" by Sheila Menon in Kuala Lumpur
May
12th May
Children and Hypnosis (Anxiety and Panic Disorder) with Darren Roscoe in Singapore
21st May
Practitioner Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy starts in Kuala Lumpur
23rd May
Approaches for Working with Children in Clinical Hypnotherapy with Darren Roscoe in Kuala Lumpur
28th May
Understanding Psychiatric Patients by Dr Amarpreet Kaur DCH in Kuala Lumpur
June
9th June
Workshop on Managing Dental Anxiety with Clinical Hypnosis and a Talk on Benefits of Clinical Hypnosis in Dentistry in Kuala Lumpur
25th June
LCCH Alumni Gathering and Q & A Workshop by Peter Mabbutt and LCCH Kuala Lumpur Practitioner Graduates
26th June
Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) Workshop by Dr Gayathri Kumarasuriar and Peter Mabbutt in Kuala Lumpur
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Meeting With the Director General of Health at the Ministry of Health Malaysia
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The Director General of Health invited Sheila Menon, Principal & Director of LCCH (Asia) to his offices at Putrajaya to meet and discuss the proposed conference in Clinical Hypnosis. The Director General referred to the conference as "a most important event" and invited the LCCH to work increasingly more closely with the Allied Health Division. Dr Siva (Sivashanmuganathan), Dr Alan Soh and Dr Julia Shahnaz Merican accompanied as part of the visitng LCCH team. Dr Siva discussed the Hypnotherapy Pain Clinic now in its second year and conduced in collaboration with Prof Tunku Sara, Head of Orthopedics at University Malaya. Dr Alan who combines clinical hypnosis with his general practice work also discussed the inclusion of hypnotherapy when working with rehabilitation patients. Dr Shanaz, spoke about the holistic benefits of combining hypnotherapy with her other work in pain management which also includes acupuncture. The Director General, Tan Sri Ismail Merican, said he was very much of the opinion that clinical hypnosis was helpful in the treatment of certain specific conditions and has agreed to share his thoughts with the LCCH team. The proposed conference has been moved to 2012 to allow for the appropriate MOH support and involvement. The conference itself focuses on 21st Century Medicine with clinical hypnosis as an adjunctive approach. The MOH has agreed to assist by recommending and sponsoring the attendance of Allied Health and MOH doctors. - The Ministry agreed to endorse and support the conference.
- The Director General agreed to deliver the Keynote Address
- He will be requesting the Allied Health Division of the Ministry to co-organize the conference with the LCCH.
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Graduating With The Academy of Family Physicians Malaysia
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LCCH Practitioner graduates were the very first non doctors to graduate at the AFPM Convocation Ceremony last year (2010). Doctors and non doctors graduating with the Practitioner Diploma and holding full BSCH membership are now also eligible for Affiliate membership with the AFPM designated as Affil AFPM. Medicial doctors will also qualify for Associate and Full membership also. This year the Practitioner Graduates who have also completed their Cognitive Behaviour Hypnotherapy Diplomas are also eligible to receive their Diploma awards at the AFPM graduation ceremony. The date is 16th April and graduates may invite friends and family to the dinner ceremony. The LCCH and AFPM are committed to creating increasing awareness of the benefits of clinical hypnosis in healthcare. This year the pre-AGM conference will be presented by the LCCH entitled Hypnotherapy and Healthcare. The workshop open to medical doctors, clinical hypnotherapists and allied health professionals will provide an afternoon of debate, practical work and sharing on the inclusion of clinical hypnosis in the treatment of hypertensive patients and also on the benefits of introducing hypnotherapy pre and post surgery. Bill Frost from the UK has agreed to be part of the presenting team. Dr Alan will co-present on this important conference. Practitioner graduates will be invited to facilitate and to provide support in the round table debates which form part of this workshop. |
| Dr Gayathri Kumarasuria Thirukumar | 
We all remember that Dr Gayathri was nominated by Tun Siti Hasmah to travel to Harvard University and study under the Mahadevan Traveling Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
She was lucky enough to meet Dr Herbert Benson who has researched and worked on the relaxation response for the last 60 years. This eminent cardiologist was tremendously supportive of the work that Dr Gaya has done both for the London College of Clinical Hypnosis as the Head of Medical Hypnosis in Asia and in her own hospital in Sungai Petani.
Dr Gaya spent part of her Fellowship attached to the Mind Body Division of the Mass General Hospital, a hospital which has been voted best in the world for 15 consecutive years. Apart from being bolwed over from the opportunity to work and observe Dr Herbert Benson, Dr Gaya demonstrated her own methods of relaxation using Hartland's Progressive Relaxation. She created a deep and profound state of relaxation with her subject (one of the over-worked healthcare researchers in the Mind Body department. It was a tremendous success and the subject experienced a profound abreaction (of hearty chuckles) and emerged from the experience deeply refreshed. Dr Benson himself explained that self-hypnosis is one of the routes to the relaxation response and since all hypnosis is self-hypnosis this has exciting implications for hypnotherapists. This is especially so for those of us working in the clinical context since Harvard has also published exciting work on the Relaxation Response and how certain illness producing genes are actually switched off by effective relaxation (including of course self-hypnosis).
Dr Gaya has been utilizing this method of relaxation with many of her patients at the outpatient clinic. It is a combination of LCCH clinical methods under-pinned with Dr Benson's theoretical model. It includes, relaxation, suggestion, imagination and ego-strengthening
"I was very impressed by the tremendous improvements that my patients have shown since practicing this method. My patients are overjoyed too for they saw themselves improving due to their own effort and not only because of the medications they were taking. That is empowering!" Dr Gayathri has been working as a physician in the psychiatric department of the government hospital Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital for 13 years. She is the first government doctor to be allocated her own consulting room for clinical hypnotherapy to treat patients.
Encouraged with these positive results, and with the support of my Head of Department, Dr Shamshunnisah Bt Abu Bakar and her Hospital Director, Dr Harif Fadzillah bin Che Hashim, Dr Gaya now provides a new service in the Psychiatric Department using the Relaxation Response for patients suffering from Anxiety, Panic Disorder and Depression in Bahasa Malaysia and English, every 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month respectively. It is very exciting working in the two different languages and translating the skills that we teach in the classroom into a working model with some benefit for our local speaking patients.
Each session lasts for one and a half hour where I touch briefly on the actual role of stress in humans, the effect of short term and long term stress and then launch on the benefits of relaxation and its positive outcome from scientific research using mind body techniques. I have modified this technique a little to suit our culture and also adding more vivid imagery descriptions and ego strengthening and positive suggestions used in Hypnotherapy. The response has been great and the results very encouraging.
It is such a simple and wonderful technique for relieving stress and can be adopted into our daily lives and can be employed by anyone.
My Director and I have decided to incorporate this session as part of the Orientation Program for the house officers, before they start their postings thus arming them with a coping technique to battle their stress. This is such exciting work because it means so many more doctors and their patients have the opportunity to benefit from clinical hypnosis
We all know from various studies that de-stressing oneself reduces the risk of many illnesses. The ability to relax also plays a role in reducing the intensity of an already acquired illness providing we adhere to all other aspects of the mainline therapy of a respective illness.
My department has already started having health education programs with some of the schools in the Kuala Muda District. Soon we shall start introducing these sessions to the schools as well.
One of the most stressful professions today is teaching. Being a student today is highly stressful. The world has become so competitive. Knowing these relaxation techniques will be of great help to these kids. By adding a few simple strategies to this work we can help students become more confident and positive and of course share these newly acquired skills with the community at large.
I am so proud of this work and am so delighted that the London College of Clinical Hypnosis and the Mahadevan Fellowship were able to support my passion to effect such positive changes. As a lecturer for the college I will be able to provide insights that are based on increasingly local populations along with those already so well referenced by Peter Mabbutt in our notes.
My main interest lies in helping people suffering from autoimmune diseases and the terminally ill using a combination of the Relaxation Response and Hypnotherapy. I would like to help them have the little bit of hope, enjoy a better quality of life with minimal pain or discomfort and stay around a little longer to enjoy their family. Dr. Pierce encouraged me to believe in my dreams........I do and I am getting there.
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Introducing the New Student Cards For LCCH Asia
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These student cards are one of the perks of being an LCCH student. You are eligible for small discounts at an increasing number of stores - one is Crown House Books - but please let Zalina (KL office know) since the LCCH will need to confirm the order. MPH have also agreed a 15% discount which means a small saving on peter's Hypnotherapy for Dummies book. Zalina who has been organising the card, has also written to Air Asia and Firefly so keep your fingers crossed. Cards will be issued from the 31st March.
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Practitioner Diploma
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The Practitioner Diploma is an important course. Why?
- Because the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia (AFPM) recognizes this qualification and graduates are now eligible for entry to the AFPM. Medical doctors are eligible for membership status and non doctors are eligible for affiliate membership. This is a first and there is an exclusive place and you along with just 20 other graduates in Asia. Students enrolling onto this years Practitioner Diploma will graduate next year with the AFPM doctors at the AFPM convocation ceremony.
- The British Society of Clinical Hypnosis recognizes your qualification as grounds for full membership, i.e. MBSCH. As full members appear in Malaysia, the BSCH has agreed to introduce an increasingly active register for working clinical hypnotherapists.
The Practitioner Diploma has an emphasis on practical work, and clinical mentoring is an integral part of this course. On this course you will meet some of the most experienced clinical hypnotherapists on the LCCH lecture team. Visiting lecturers will include, Darren, Peter, Bill and Matt. It is a chance to learn from the best, grow as a clinical hypnotherapist and develop the skills and confidence to begin the contribution you can make to patients and health-care. Six sessions are a minimum requirement and you will learn to work with a wider range of medical, psychological, emotional and chronic problems. Typically, students progress from the Diploma course on to the Practitioner level without any delay, so we will commence on 21 May 2011.
 As a clinical hypnotherapist you are now ready to add some of the most advanced methods of hypnotherapy to your repertoire. Some are sophisticated and others will surprise you by their simplicity and elegance. There are hypnotic inductions and deepeners, dissociative techniques, strategic therapeutic interventions and much more. The course focuses on solution-focused therapy and includes therapeutic specialties for working with children, ethical practice EMDR and extensive focus on trauma work. But perhaps most important this is the course that puts everything into perspective and where you make the all important final step into the world as a registered and professional clinical hypnotherapist.
Here is a little snap shot of what is to come:
- Bereavement
- Pregnancy loss
- Terminal illness
- Dissociative identity disorder
- Physical abuse
- Rape
- Sexual abuse
- Anger
- Cancer
- PTSD
- ADD/ADHD
- Cardiovascular disorders
- HIV/AIDS
- Substance Abuse
- Excessive alcohol consumption
Techniques :
- Advanced Pseudo-Regressive Therapy
- Ego State Therapy
- Paradoxical Intervention
- Quantum Psychology
- Solution Focused Therapy
- Time Line Techniques
- Anchoring
- EMDR
- Polarity Dissociation
- Rapid Inductions
- The Swiss Technique
- Apposition of Opposites
- Mind-Body Dissociation
- HIV and AIDS
- Six Step Reframe
- Symptom Signalling
To find out more and download a booking form click here.
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Neurolinguistic Programming for Hypnotherapists Comes to Asia
|  Ms Thevi Sinnadurai PDCH from the LCCH conducted the first two-day workshop on the 'Art of Changing using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)' from 26-27 February 2011 in Kuala Lumpur. Among the topics presented were an introduction to NLP, the presuppositions of NLP, unconscious filters, your internal world, representation systems: VAK, eye accessing cues, body language, changing states, creating achievable outcomes (goals) and an introduction to timeline therapy. The course was run in response to many requests from students. Below are some of the feedback/comments from our students: "I am more than satisfied with the aforementioned workshop. I bought the book on NLP by Richard Bandler last year but didn't quite grasp the gist of it. Ms Thevi's presentation was succinct, pragmatic and thought stimulating. The handout notes are comprehensive and illustrative. She is indeed an excellent lecturer---approachable, confidence inspiring, open minded ----need I elaborate more? But, but---I think you should advertise such useful workshop to attract and benefit more participants to make more fruitful exchange of views and knowledge. Perhaps at least 8-10 participants will be optimal. However, I am not complaining --- we had personal attention from the dedicated coach and I had very communicative fellow participants. It was indeed an enjoyable weekend for me."
~ CY Wong "The 2-day course, conducted by an experienced NLP practitioner who's also well versed in hypnotherapy, was a great learning and sharing experience for me. Together with fellow-hypnotherapists, we explored the contents and application of both fields. The NLP books suddenly came alive! Thank you, Thevi." ~ Lily Hor |
| Ng Yi Ching and Global Doctors | 
My work with Global Doctors Specialist Centre (Hospital) has been both interesting and challenging, since I joined them as a clinical hypnotherapist six months ago. Being part of an international group providing medical services, in China, Indonesia, Thailand and Australia, the patients at Global Doctors tend to come from all parts of the world. This means that the patients whom I have had the pleasure to work with are all diverse, culturally, linguistically and socially, and therefore quite different from the cultural and social outlook I am used to in Malaysia. For example, a man from a certain country, who came to see me to stop smoking, said that smoking is part of his genetic make-up, and that all men from his country are born to smoke, and therefore it would be impossible for him to stop. Not being familiar with his culture, I couldn't refute his view, so you can imagine the progress I made with him! Being a multiple disciplinary medical centre, with services ranging from dental, chiropractic, cardiology, gastroenterology, gynaecology and dermatology, Global Doctors provides vast opportunities to apply the LCCH Diploma and Practitioner Diploma syllabuses in their entirety. Having said that, some medical specialists don't quite know how to react to clinical hypnosis, and as a result, although the opportunities abound, the fish are still not quite biting! I am very confident, however, that this will change with time, given the inroads Sheila has laid down, not only with the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia, but also with the Malaysian Ministry of Health, and am equally confident that clinical hypnosis in Malaysia will soon have the same regard as in the UK for the complementary role it plays in medicine. I also had the opportunity of presenting a short talk in January 2011 on "Stress Management" at the Heart Smart Week (in conjunction with the 50th World CPR Anniversary) organized by Sunrise Berhad, together with other specialists from Global Doctors, during which I silently thanked Peter Mabbutt for holding a Masterclass on the very same subject in Kuala Lumpur three years ago. Before I silently thanked Peter, I also silently panicked, this being the first talk that I have ever given, until I cognitively stopped demanding my audience of 100 people to love my talk. Sound familiar? All in all, my experience at Global Doctors has been very positive. My confidence as a therapist has grown, and will continue to grow, knowing I am supported by knowledgeable, kind and considerate colleagues, lecturers and tutors at the LCCH, all of whom have shown nothing less than their very best wishes for me. |
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Alumni Gathering and LCCH (Malaysia) 5th Anniversary
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The LCCH will celebrate 5 years in Asia (LCCH Malaysia in 2011). Our birthday party will be on the same lecture weekend that the very first Certificate course started in 2006. So, please
mark your calendar for 25th and 26th June 2011.
The LCCH will mark the occasion in true Malaysia style - by a dinner (evening of the 25th) and social gathering in Kuala Lumpur - venue to be confirmed and suggestions are most welcome to Zalina or Mildred in the KL HQ.
The 25th June will be a day of short master-classes sponsored by the BSCH Asia and the LCCH so that our many hypnotherapists have an opportunity to gather, share and enjoy the experience of going into trance again...!
On the 26th June we will host a public forum so that members of the public can come and discover what clinical hypnosis is all about. It is designed to benefit our working clinical hypnotherapists and will be conducted by the pioneering LCCH Asia Practitioner Graduates. This workshop is also free and sponsored by the BSCH Asia and the  LCCH.
There will be an opportunity to meet old friends and learn new things. We would really appreciate your support to make this day a success. So once Alice and Zalina have organised the details please make sure, your colleagues and of course members of the public get to know about this one. Remember the bigger we party the more likely our anniversary bash will be a success. WE want to be able to invite the press and make a bit of a splash.
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BSCH in Asia
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Many of you know that the BSCH has an Asia chapter. Now that our very first Practitioner Graduates are actively involved in doing good work in hospitals and centres throughout Asia it is a good time to make this society more public. A soft launch designed to provide a wider recognition to our BSCH Asia members is planned to coincide with the 5th anniversary. Anyone who should have their details on the register - now is a great time to make sure we have a short paragraph about you along with a photo (please send to Zalina and Meeta in Malaysia and Tony Chuah in Singapore if you are eligible and want to be included on BSCH register) . It is also a great opportunity to thank our BSCH Heads of Asia - Prof Khoo Ee Ming, Prof Lo Wah Yun, and Tan Sri Dato Seri Azlanii Dr Mahadevan. Their amazing support and guidance has helped to ensure that BSCH members are recognised in government hospitals, with the AFPM and as a recognised code of ethics for professional indemnity for clinical hypnotherapists in Asia. It will be an opportunity to say thank you to Tom Connolley who has provided so much support and hand-holding in the early days and to Karine Solloway for coming out to Asia and meeting our three Heads of BSCH Asia.
Part of the launch of the BSCH Asia will include the launch of the register for MBSCH members (that is Practitioner-Graduates who hold a LCCH-AFPM accredited qualification). Your names and contact details will be given to the AFPM doctors within your region so that doctors can refer patients to you. The BSCH Asia will sponsor a number of promotional workshops for AFPM and MMA members so that GPs are more aware of the patients you can work with and the conditions you can manage. |
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A Story of Self-hypnosis from Our Singapore Centre
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"Out Limp the Tiger ... and in come bouncy Rabbit"
The last Chinese Lunar year wasthat of the Tiger. It was a fine year for our Singapore centre and I am proud to say that Diploma 2 graduated in the Tiger year and we have some very fine clinical hypnotherapists providing excellent work at the LCCH Singagpore centre. I am especially fond of the Tiger Zodiac since it is also my lunar calendar year. However I can feel that the year of the Rabbit will also be a fine year. I was cleaning a huge pane of glass in my alter room on the last days of the Tiger Year when our bouncy frisky Rabbit made itself known. Somehow that extra energy ricochetted around the room and the huge pane came loose and crashed to the floor, slicing through my leg at the ankle and tearing a huge gash down to the bone. Well the old tiger may be limping out but we are made of stern stuff. Without even thinking about it I put myself into self-hypnosis and reached down and pushed back the dangling flesh above the ankle bone. I applied a compress still in trance and stopped the breathing. In a calm and dissociated state I sat back and relaxed. Just calm... and relaxxxxed ... waiting for my wife to send me to the clinic. Remaining completely in control at the clinic I told the doctor to attend to another patient. I used the time to deepen the trance and five minutes later when the doctors started his 20 minute task of cleaning and stitching the wound, I was in my favourite place of relaxation without pain killers. Ten stitches later I was up and limping my way back home. Needless to say the wound knitted and healed quickly with no secondary infection. My leg is still in bandages at the time of writing this. Self-hypnosis works and who says it doesn't!!!!
A big thank you to Tony Chuah for limping his way across Singapore in the line of duty to explain clinical hypnosis to two new students. And a warning to us all that the Rabbit this year is frisky.
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Two new qualifications for Singapore
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The LCCH have introduced two new qualifications to Singapore. The Foundation Course in Clinical Hypnosis and the Advanced Training Award in Clinical Hypnosis
Advanced training in clinical hypnosis started on 22nd January 2011 and Singapore has welcomed its third batch of excited and very enthusiastic students. We are starting a new group for the Foundation Course in Clinical Hypnosis on the 19th and 20th March. For more information, please contact Mr Tony Chuah, Center Manager, at 0065 6500 6280 or visit www.hypnosis-singapore.com
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Dr Sivashanmuganathan and the Pain Clinic in the University of Malaya Hospital
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The Pain Clinic in University of Malaya was started in collaboration with the LCCH in June 2009. Currently, there are 10 patients undergoing hypnotherapy for pain management.
Dr Siva informed there has been a lot of improvement in the patients whom he was seeing. For example, some of them have stopped taking their medications and their quality of life has increased as well. Normally, after the second and third sessions whereby they are taught how to practice self hypnosis, the outcome has been good. He added that he informed patients that he was there to help them cope with pain and not movements.
Prof Dr. Sara doing her morning rounds stopped beside a patient who was scheduled for surgery that day. When she enquired, whether he was doing his self-hypnosis, the patient said yes doctor. And I was doing it just now. He closed his eyes and dozed off peacefully. This was a patient who described his pain as off the scale when he presented for his first consult two weeks earlier.
The work we do at this clinic is very satisfying because, patients are often resistant to other methods of pain management. We work with brachial plexus injury which can be quite traumatic in itself and many patients have no other relief.
Our clinic is scheduled on a Tuesday at the University Hospital and we have two wonderful rooms with comfortable chairs and doors (this was the most difficult piece of equipment to acquire!). We are in an out-patient clinic on the orthopaedic floor. Our one concern was the noisy. Asian hospitals can have very noisy waiting areas and in addition the buzzer announcing the number for each new patient was right outside our room. I mean can we really manipulate all these distractions. Well the answer is a very big YES. WE have never had difficulty in taking our patients into trance nor managing the hypnotic session. And none of the patients complain of sound disturbance, so in a strange but contradictory way......
Prof Tunku Dr Sara Ahmad Yahaya (Head of Orthopedic Dept) Sheila Menon and Peter Mabbutt, Dr Siva and Dr Alan form the core team for the Pain Clinic.
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Academic Development Centre (ADeC) training
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 The LCCH conducted a training workshop for the staff of the Academic Development Centre (ADEC) in University of Malaya from 28 December to 29 December 2010. The theme was "Refresh & Rejuvenate - The Academic You". Among the topics highlighted were on what is hypnosis and self-hypnosis, the unconscious mind, stages of hypnosis session, self-hypnosis, making of suggestion, creating the mental spa and about the LCCH. There were about 20 participants and it was very successful.
Sheila Menon, who presented the workshop (everyone else was too busy refreshing and rejuvenating in more traditional ways) said it was great fun to work with the Heads of Department at University Malaya. In fact sharing some of the problems and head-aches with the delegates was therapeutic for me!
I was delighted when everyone rated the workshop as off the fantastic scale and two delegates even asked to join the Cert.
This is very encouraging since the LCCH has just launched a corporate division. Increasingly, we are approached by the big business to provide therapy and workshops for top executives. I always remember Michael saying that these guys are great subjects since these participants make great subjects since they are motivated and focused in their work . It is absolutely true. LCCH Asia has provided these unique corporate and training workshops for big corporations in Thailand and Kuala Lumpur. LCCH Malaysia has also provided smoking cessation information (not therapy) workshops for a Japanese company in the Malaya language and the results were so effective that a number of participants (20 per group) stopped smoking as a result.
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Workshops
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Substance Abuse - Issues and Solutions
Organised by the Malaysian Medical Association Substance Abuse Committee, 5th March 2011
Sheila was invited to deliver a talk on Hypnosis and Substance Abuse Management at this seminar in Kuala Lumpur. The objective of this seminar is to disseminate information on contemporary issues in substance abuse management and a platform to exchange and imbibe practical, clinical or workplace issues and solutions pertaining to substance abuse. The participants would comprise mostly of doctors.
Workshop on Managing Dental Anxiety With Clinical Hypnosis and a Workshop on the Benefits of Clinical Hypnosis in Dentistry, 9th June 2011
The LCCH has been invited to deliver a talk and conduct a workshop on hypnosis and dentistry on 9 June 2011 in Kuala Lumpur in conjunction with the Malaysian Dental Association's 68th Annual General Meeting and Trade Exhibition. The talk would be on the benefits of clinical hypnosis in dentistry and some of the issues that she will touch on is the reduction of anxiety and fear, preparing patient for local or general anaesthetic, toleration of impression without gagging or sickness, reduced bleeding, analgesic and other pain management using hypnosis, working with children, hypnosis for relaxation, reducing stress and the treatment of bruxism.
Whereas the workshop will be for 3 hours on managing dental anxiety with clinical hypnosis and it will provide members of the dental profession with skill sets to reduce dental anxiety for their patients and enhance the positive aspects of the dental experience. It would be designed to provide insight into the dynamics of dental anxiety, etc.
AFPM Pre-AGM Workshop on Clinical Hypnotherapy
Approaches in Healthcare and Medicine, 15 April 2011, Kuala Lumpur
This workshop will be presented by the LCCH (Malaysia) and would present a unique opportunity for GPs, medical and allied healthcare professionals and students to explore the contribution that clinical hypnosis can make to treatment plans and to patient benefits.
This workshop will be held at a leading hotel in Kuala Lumpur and it would be a half-day event.
For more details, please click here to download the flyer.
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Certificate Course Intake for 2011
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The certificate course started in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Penang in March 2011. This four months intensive course will provide a thorough introduction to hypnosis, enabling those attending to obtain a foundation of knowledge for both personal and professional  development. Ten induction methods, depth of trance, management of hypnotic state, contra-indications and the use of suggestions along with safe ethical practice form the basis. The course is part time, presented on four int ermittent weekends. Students are required to do reading, written work and an examination as part of the course structure. For more details, please contact 603-79606439 or email info@hypnosis-malaysia.com or visit www.hypnosis-malaysia.com
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LCCH Telephone Numbers
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Malaysia
+603 7960 6439/49
Singapore
+65 6100 3950
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LCCH on the Web
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Click the relevant icon below to check out the LCCH blogs. Here you will find more news as well as links to relevant research into all things hypnosis:
 Malaysia Blog
Singapore Blog
London Blog
Exeter Blog
Even more news and research can be found on our Facebook pages:
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If you are on Twitter then click below to catch up with the LCCH moment by moment by following our feed:
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You can also follow LCCH CEO and Director of Studies Peter Mabbutt on Twitter too:
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We are even on YouTube:
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LCCH Secretariat
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WHATS HER TITLE????
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| LCCH Secretariat |  | Siti Zalina Abdullah
Administrator
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| LCCH Secretariat |  | Alice Joseph
Public Relations Executive
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| LCCH Secretariat |  | Zainal Abidin
Despatch and Driver
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Academic Team
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Thanam Selva, Thevi Sinnadurai, Sheila Menon and Dr Alan Soh |
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