SPEAKERS
The Hypnosis World Mid-America Conference brings together 100+ of the world’s most respected hypnotists, NLP practitioners, coaches, and personal transformation experts for one extraordinary weekend of learning, connection, and growth.
From cutting-edge techniques and proven strategies to powerful real-world insights, every presenter is committed to helping you become a more confident, skilled, and successful practitioner. Whether you’re looking to grow your practice, deepen your expertise, or discover fresh ideas that inspire your next breakthrough, you’ll learn directly from leaders who are shaping the future of our profession.
Explore the presenters, discover the sessions that speak to you, and get ready for a conference experience that will challenge your thinking, expand your possibilities, and leave you inspired long after you return home.
Licensed Counselor and Addictions Specialist, Hypnotherapist and Executive Coach
Matthew D. McMillan, MS, LCMHC, LCAS, CHt, CCS, is a visionary clinician, hypnotherapist, and executive coach with a passion for helping people rewrite their personal narratives. Since 1992, he has helped individuals and organizations transform through his integrative and experiential approaches. As founder of Impact4Today Consulting & Counseling in North Carolina, he combines psychology, leadership training, and innovative programs—like his Horse Integrated Learning Program (HIL™)—to promote health, emotional regulation, and human connection. His clinical focus on trauma, PTSD, and addiction has led to national recognition. With degrees from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Central College, along with cross-cultural experiences in Wales and Mexico, Matthew brings a global perspective to healing and leadership. He inspires clients to rediscover the inner resources they already possess—helping them create impact4Today… and beyond.
From Frozen to Flow: Mind Shift Mastery & the Power of Possibility Thinking
When Clients Feel Stuck, Changing the Language Can Change the Possibilities
What do you do when a client has tried everything, expects nothing to work, or seems completely frozen in the very pattern they want to change?
Sometimes the answer isn’t another technique. It’s changing how you communicate with the mind in front of you.
In this experiential training, Matthew McMillan introduces Mind Shift Mastery and Possibility Thinking—an approach that combines precision language, ethical persuasion, therapeutic presence, hypnosis, NLP, psychology, and trauma-informed principles to help practitioners create movement without confrontation or manipulation.
Drawing on more than 25 years of experience as a licensed psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, and executive coach, Matt demonstrates how seemingly small changes in language can interrupt rigid patterns, reduce resistance, and help clients move from survival-oriented thinking toward curiosity, choice, and possibility.
From Frozen → Thaw → Flow
Matt will introduce a practical framework for recognizing where a client is stuck and adjusting your communication accordingly.
You’ll explore how to:
Identify language that may unintentionally reinforce hopelessness or stuckness
Recognize the difference between resistance and a protective survival response
Use micro-language shifts to introduce possibility without arguing with the client’s experience
Apply ethical persuasion while respecting client autonomy and values
Work more effectively with statements such as “Nothing works for me” or “I’ve tried everything”
Strengthen your timing, presence, intuition, and intentional use of language
Help clients begin moving from Frozen → Thaw → Flow
See It. Hear It. Practice It.
This isn’t designed as a slide-heavy lecture.
Through demonstrations, clinical examples, live language modeling, and interactive exercises, you’ll hear how changing only a few words can completely change the direction of a conversation.
The concepts can be particularly valuable for practitioners working with clients navigating trauma histories, addiction, grief, entrenched negative beliefs, and identity-based challenges.
Your Most Powerful Tool May Be the One You Already Have
In a profession increasingly surrounded by technology, protocols, scripts, and AI, Matt brings the focus back to something profoundly human:
Your ability to listen, recognize meaning, choose your words intentionally, and deliver them at precisely the right moment.
You don’t necessarily need another complicated technique.
Sometimes you need to become better at using the most powerful instrument already in the room—you.
Dog-nosis™: Using Hypnosis to Deepen the Bond Between Humans and Their Pets
Dog-nosis™: Using Hypnosis to Deepen the Bond Between Humans and Their Pets
Step into a heart-centered, humorous, and hypnotic experience with Thom & Cindy Somes, co-founders of Pet Tech, the first international training center dedicated to CPR, First Aid & Care for dogs and cats. In this playful yet powerful session, you’ll discover how Hypnosis & NLP can deepen the People + Pet Bond (PPB)—a source of deep emotion, healing, growth, and lifelong connection.
Through storytelling, light trance, and vivid imagery, Thom & Cindy introduce Dog-nosis™—a science-backed and intuitive approach to pet connection that helps hypnotists and pet parents alike build safer, stronger, and more harmonious relationships with their animals. From laughter to soulful inductions like the Hand/Paw Clasp and the Dog Park in Your Heart, this dynamic duo weaves together hypnosis, humor, and heart into an unforgettable journey.
Whether you’re a practicing hypnotist, a passionate pet parent, or both, you’ll gain practical tools, proven techniques, and fascinating insights into canine psychology (and yes… sometimes cats too). You’ll leave inspired with new ways of communicating with and caring for your furry four-legged family members.
Because once you’ve been “Bow-Wowed”… you’ll never look at your pets the same way again.
And here’s a question to ponder: Have you ever considered a hypnotic skill or technique that could work on a dog or cat? If so, Thom & Cindy want to hear about it!
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What You Will Learn
Benefits of the People + Pet Bond (PPB)
Explore how this quantum love or bond expands health, healing, and happiness for both people and pets. Learn why strengthening this connection reduces stress, builds trust, and supports lifelong wellness for you and your furry family members.
Step into PPB Dog-nosis™ Experience
Dog-nosis™ Amplifies the PPB. Through a double induction hypnotic experience, you’ll rediscover (or should that be revivify??) the love, bond, joy and healing power pets bring into our lives. Experience our Hand/Paw Clasp induction, which is just the start of eliciting your Executive Pet Parent Ego State! And our Dog Park in Your Heart, Dog-nosis™ component deepens and magnifies that quantum relationship.
Harness the Law of CompHOUNDING Effect
Discover how small, consistent positive interactions layer together over time—creating powerful shifts in trust, behavior, and mutual understanding.
Pacing & Leading Without a Leash
Become more aware of subtle cues and pacing techniques to guide your pet’s behavior and establish trust, without the need for physical restraint. It works both ways as you will become more aware of how your pet paces and leads you to take them on a walk, give a treat or to improve your bad day.
Discuss Pattern InterRUFFt™ & Fido Fractionation™
Explore how to break tension and redirect focus through humor, rhythmic patter, and playful hypnotic language. Discover a powerful technique for building resilience and relaxation in pets by alternating moments of arousal and then signal that all is well in the world…strengthening their ability to respond to stress and return to balance quickly. Also a powerFULL technique to help your dog sleep deeply and contentedly.
Implement Immediately
Walk away with practical tools and techniques you can apply right away when you get home. Your pets too will notice a difference in you, which will enrich your daily dynamic with them.
Ideal For:
Hypnotists, pet lovers, trainers, animal communicators, and anyone interested in building deeper, more intuitive bonds with animals using a hypnotic approach.
Why This Session is Unique:
This is not your average hypnosis talk. Dog-nosis™ is a one-of-a-kind blend of hypnotic science, animal behavior insight, and real-world training experience that no one else is bringing to the hypnosis space—making this session truly groundbreaking.
“Because great hypnosis isn’t just for humans.”
Trainers, Speakers, Authors & Hypnotist
Thom Somes, internationally known as The Pet Safety Guy™, and Cindy Somes, VP and co-founder of Pet Tech™, are the couple who created the world’s first international training center dedicated to CPR, First Aid & Care for dogs and cats. For nearly 30 years, Thom & Cindy have transformed the way people care for their pets in emergency and in health—training over 1,000 students a month, certifying 100+ new instructors each year, and leading a network of more than 600 active instructors across seven countries.
Their mission: to “Improve the Quality of Pets’ Lives, One Pet Parent at a Time.”™ with the bold goal of “Preventing 1 Million Pet ER Visits.”™ They teach pet parents and professionals alike to use their head, hands, and heart—use your head, be careful with your hands because you have a head.
Together, they have authored over 20 books, including the popular Pet Health Journals and the beloved Cheerio, the One-Eyed Chihuahua children’s series and bestselling Knowing Your Pet’s Health (featured in Dear Abby, with 17,000+ copies sold in its first month!) have touched audiences worldwide.
At the intersection of heart and hypnosis, their Dog-nosis™ presentation reveals how hypnotic communication techniques can deepen the People + Pet Bond, elevate safety, and inspire lifelong healing connections.
P.S. Our Cheerio Series is currently being considered by multiple streaming services to be developed into a kids’ cartoon series! Keep your paws crossed for us!
Questions;
Call or text Thom & Cindy at 760-576-8423
Board-Certified Hypnotist, Trainer, Mentor, International Best-Selling Author
Karen Hand is a dynamic Board-Certified Hypnotist, Trainer, Mentor, international best-selling author, and world-class communicator whose unique expertise blends her 30-year career as a Chicago radio personality with her passion for hypnosis. Known for her mastery of language and its power to engage the imagination, Karen has helped thousands of clients worldwide regain control of their lives since transitioning to hypnosis in 2005. She has also trained countless hypnotists and NLP practitioners, equipping them with practical tools to create lasting, positive change for their own clients.
Karen’s deep understanding of language patterns and suggestion stems from years of professional communication experience, making her presentations particularly valuable for hypnotists, NLP experts, and body language practitioners who want to elevate their craft. Her internationally recognized work has earned her prestigious awards such as Hypnotist of the Year, Educator of the Year, and the IMDHA Pen & Quill Award for Literary Excellence.
As an author, Karen has published several influential books including Magic Words and Language Patterns, The Hypnotist’s Essential Guide to Crafting Irresistible Suggestions, and Hypnosis – So Easy YOU CAN DO IT with your Eyes Closed…or Wide Open. She also co-authored Hypnotic Workshops Like A Pro! with Kelley T. Woods, further demonstrating her dedication to teaching hypnosis effectively.
Karen conducts client sessions and trainings globally via Zoom, allowing her to connect with and support a diverse audience. Her engaging style, combined with practical insights and proven techniques, makes her a standout presenter for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of hypnotic language and communication.
https://www.karenhand.com/
The Curiosity Protocol
When you’re ready to stop leaving it to chance…you’re ready to discover the effectiveness of conversational change.
In this session, you’ll learn the questions that lead to problem solving and personal trance words.
Leading to an effective freestyle hypnosis session.
Reaching Performance Goals With the Sensory Immersion Technique: A Hypnotic Approach
What if you could help clients achieve peak performance by engaging not just their mind, but their full sensory experience? In this compelling presentation, Joni Neidigh introduces the Sensory Immersion Technique (SIT)—an integrative 8-step method that combines hypnotic principles with vivid sensory goal-setting to align thoughts, emotions, and actions for breakthrough results.
Through the lens of a real-life case study—an athlete preparing for her first World Masters Indoor Track Championship—you’ll see exactly how SIT is applied in practice. But this method isn’t just for sports. Joni will also demonstrate how SIT enhances performance across areas like public speaking, test-taking, artistic expression, and leadership.
You will walk away with:
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Use the Sensory Immersion Technique to help clients visualize and embody success
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Integrate SIT with hypnosis to deepen impact and increase client breakthroughs
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Set sensory-specific goals that engage the subconscious mind on a deeper level
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Apply SIT across multiple real-life performance contexts—not just athletics
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Walk away with a framework, sample script, and affirmations ready to use immediately
CEO/Clinical Director
Joni Johnston Neidigh – Gold Medal Minds: Elevating Performance and Purpose with Sports Hypnosis
What if the same mental training techniques used by Olympians could be applied to your clients—or even your own life—for breakthrough results? Joni Johnston Neidigh, LMHC, Certified Clinical Hypnotist, and award-winning psychotherapist, has spent over 30 years doing exactly that.
Known internationally for her pioneering work in sports hypnosis and mental toughness training, Joni has hypnotized and mentored athletes and coaches at every level—from rising stars to Olympic champions. Her dynamic “team talks” have become a sought-after feature at sports conferences, corporate events, and elite coaching clinics around the world.
Joni brings a powerful blend of clinical insight, hypnotic mastery, and performance psychology to every room she steps into. She has worked with athletes and teams from over a dozen countries including Spain, Brazil, Japan, Australia, Scotland, and the U.S., helping them overcome fear, build focus, and unlock the mindset of champions. But her passion doesn’t stop at the stadium.
Joni’s Gold Medal Mental Toughness Sports Hypnosis Certification has become a go-to training for professionals looking to blend hypnosis with high-performance coaching. She teaches an “inner coaching” model that’s perfect for anyone supporting clients through long-term transformation—be it in sports, business, or life. Whether you’re a hypnotist new to performance work or a Reiki or NLP practitioner curious about the mind-body connection under pressure, Joni’s approach is personalized, practical, and profoundly empowering.
Hypnotist/Mentalist/Madman
Israel Mandrake is a Hypnotist, NLP Coach, and Mentalist with over 25 years of experience exploring the limitless power of the human mind. His passion has led him to work with powerhouse executives, entrepreneurs, professional athletes, and even national political campaigns. Mandrake has developed seminars and workshops that tackle diverse issues, from trauma and pain management to breaking unwanted habits. His teachings have empowered PhDs, MDs, holistic healers, and metaphysicians with effective methods to help clients overcome trauma, regain self-control, and reach their highest potential.
Whether online or in person, in a group or one-on-one, Mandrake works holistically to “trance-form” the mind, body, and spirit. Strap on your “psychological seat belts” and prepare for a journey of liberation, manifestation, and transformation.
Mentalist's secrets for enhanced hypnotherapy
Step into the mysterious world where mentalism and hypnosis collide—and discover how to wield the tools of suggestion, psychology, and showmanship like never before.
In this captivating and highly interactive session, master mentalist Israel Mandrake will reveal elite hybrid techniques that fuse mind reading, hypnotic trance, cold reading, and psychological influence into a seamless performance—and therapeutic—experience. You’ll learn how mentalism isn’t just entertainment, but a deeply powerful tool for communication, transformation, and insight.
Israel’s methods are not found in traditional hypnosis trainings. These are cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary strategies drawn from elite entertainment, covert influence, and therapeutic frameworks—crafted for those ready to level up their skill set and push beyond the ordinary.
What You’ll Learn:
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Mind Reading & Cold Reading for Connection
Use subtle cues, microexpressions, and intuitive techniques to build instant rapport and uncover subconscious truths. -
Hypnotic Trance Through Performance
Learn how to rapidly guide individuals into altered states using stage-ready suggestion techniques. -
Hybrid Methods for Influence & Healing
Combine hypnosis, mentalism, and persuasive psychology into a signature client or audience experience. -
Theatrical Techniques for Hypnotists
Master the use of misdirection, sleight of hand, and presence to elevate your delivery—on stage or in session.
Ideal For:
Hypnotists, stage performers, coaches, entertainers, and practitioners who want to expand their impact through hybrid techniques and elevated showmanship.
Why This Session Is One-of-a-Kind:
All of Israel’s techniques are proprietary hybrids—never taught in any other forum. This is your chance to learn directly from a master mentalist and innovator who has fused the art of entertainment with the science of transformation.
“Prepare to challenge your limits and redefine what’s possible in the minds of your audience—and yourself.”
Stacking Modalities including Psychedelics for Healing
What happens when one healing modality isn’t enough?
In this thought-provoking presentation, Sean Schoonover explores the concept of strategically combining—or “stacking”—complementary approaches to support deeper personal transformation. He’ll examine how hypnosis, mindset work, somatic practices, and psychedelic-assisted approaches may intersect within appropriate therapeutic and legal contexts.
Attendees will gain a broader perspective on integrative change work, the importance of preparation and integration, and how different modalities can complement one another rather than compete.
What You’ll Explore:
Why combining modalities may help address change from multiple directions
Where hypnosis can fit within an integrative healing framework
The role of preparation and integration surrounding psychedelic experiences
Important considerations around scope of practice, safety, ethics, and legality
How to think more strategically about matching approaches to individual client needs
For practitioners curious about the rapidly evolving world of integrative and psychedelic-assisted healing, Sean’s session offers an opportunity to expand your thinking about what transformational work can look like when multiple disciplines come together.
Hypnotist, Transformation Coach & CEO of Haven Hill of the Ozarks
Sean Schoonover is a hypnotist, transformation coach, and owner of Haven Hill of the Ozarks, a retreat space dedicated to healing, growth, and self-discovery. Known for his open-minded approach, Sean explores the intersection of hypnosis, neuroscience, and psychedelic-assisted modalities to expand the possibilities of holistic healing. His mission is to create spaces where people can safely access deeper transformation, while equipping practitioners with tools for the future of integrative wellness.
Peak Performance Coach, Hypnosis Instructor, Healer
Randi Light, MS, CH, CHT, is a recognized hypnotherapist, certified hypnosis instructor, healer, and peak performance coach. With over 40 years of experience, she has helped thousands of children and adults break through barriers and achieve their goals. Randi is the author of two books, “How To Enhance Your Peak Performance Methods” and “The Essential 4 Success System,” which have helped countless clients overcome issues like insomnia, chronic pain, anxiety, and depression and become peak performers the best version of themselves.
Randi’s approach is practical, thorough and effective. She’s been recognized for her work, winning awards such as ‘Hypnosis Instructor of The Year’ in 2022 and ‘Hypnotist of The Year’ in 2012. Beyond her professional achievements, Randi is dedicated to serving others, whether through her healing modalities or her involvement in women’s and environmental causes.
At the Enlightened Living Hypnosis Academy, she offers courses designed to create confident and successful Essential 4 Certified Hypnotherapists, healingpreneurs and coaches. Through her retreats and educational programs, Randi continues to make a positive impact on individuals seeking personal and professional growth.
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Supercharge your parts therapy – with the RELEASE Method
Medical & Clinical Hypnotherapist
Garry is renowned around the world as one of the top specialists in the area of Hypno-Oncology, with over two decades of experience as a hypnotherapist and holding an MSc in Clinical Hypnotherapy. He carried out pioneering research into the effects of pre-surgical hypnosis on the recovery quality in breast cancer operations. Garry has worked for nineteen years both within an NHS hospital oncology unit, and a GP surgery. In 2016, the UK Hypnosis Convention claimed Garry to be amongst the top thirty hypnotherapists in the world. In 2024, The Mid America Hypnotherapy Conference in Chicago presented Garry with the ‘Medical Hypnotherapist of the Year’ award.
Garry sits on the Profession Specific Board (for Hypnotherapy) for the CNHC, (in the UK) advising on ethics, training, and malpractice issues. Garry is a regular global lecturer and presenter, including teaching Hypno-Oncology and presenting monthly mentoring Zoom sessions with top guest presenters from around the world.
Garry has published a Hypno-Oncology script book and is currently working on a Hypno-Oncology academic teaching book.
Board-Certified Hypnotherapist, Author, and Co-founder of Eastburn Hypnotherapy Center and the Eastburn Institute of Hypnosis.
Drake Eastburn is a board-certified hypnotherapist, author, and co-founder of Eastburn Hypnotherapy Center and the Eastburn Institute of Hypnosis. With more than 40 years of experience, he is one of today’s most prolific authors in the field, having written eight books on hypnosis, several of which are used in training programs worldwide.
Widely recognized for his expertise in sport hypnotherapy, Drake serves as the official hypnotist to the U.S. Olympic Cycling Team and has worked with athletes ranging from school-age competitors to world champions. His work with national cycling champion Timmy Duggan, supporting him through recovery from a traumatic brain injury, stands as one of many examples of his profound impact. Drake focuses on the psychological side of sports, helping athletes consistently access “the zone” for peak performance.
In addition to his thriving global private practice, Drake teaches both foundational and advanced hypnosis courses through the Eastburn Institute, training students worldwide to become Certified Hypnotherapists and offering continuing education for practitioners wishing to specialize or expand their practice.
An accomplished athlete himself, Drake is a former ultra-distance runner who has completed the Pikes Peak Marathon and Mt. Evans Trophy Run numerous times. He also holds a black belt in Aikido and has competed in the USA, UK, and Japan. His love of athletics and deep understanding of the mind-body connection fuel his passion for helping others achieve success.
Currently at work on his next book, In the Zone, Drake continues his mission to educate and inspire others with the transformative power of hypnosis.
The Therapeutic Hypnotist
The North Node: Using Astrology and Hypnosis to Unlock Purpose, Healing, and Deeper Client Connection
Hypnotherapist, Comedy Hypnotist, Medium, Author, Aspiring Mentalist
Gail Webster is a dynamic change agent, grief healer, and hypnotist who helps individuals and families navigate profound loss, emotional transformation, and personal renewal. With a rare blend of clinical hypnosis, spiritual mediumship, and uplifting humor, Gail offers a one-of-a-kind approach that brings both depth and light to even life’s darkest moments.
As a comedy hypnotist, speaker, and aspiring mentalist, she captivates audiences while delivering meaningful tools for healing, empowerment, and inner breakthrough. Gail is also the author of Beyond the Veil of Grief, drawing from lived experience and professional expertise to guide others from pain into purpose.
Attendees will benefit from her powerful perspective, engaging presence, and practical insights that inspire hope, resilience, and lasting change.
Professional Hypnotist
Sir Xcott Privette is a professional hypnotist, mentalist, life coach, entertainer, musician, and inventor/creator whose work blends performance, psychology, and transformational coaching. A former USN–FMF veteran and healthcare professional with over 30 years of experience, Sir Xcott brings discipline, compassion, and deep human insight to both stage and therapeutic settings. His diverse background allows him to engage audiences while empowering individuals to access focus, resilience, and positive change through the power of the subconscious mind. You will learn and be entertained simultaneously.
Create Client Connections and Establish Rapport While Having Fun
Ancestral Lineage Regression: When the Individual Story Is Not Enough
Many regression sessions stall because the issue being explored does not originate in the client’s personal history alone. Inherited family patterns, unresolved ancestral trauma, and unconscious loyalties can quietly shape emotional responses, relationships, and life choices—often without being recognized.
This presentation is for hypnosis practitioners who want to expand regression-to-cause work into the transgenerational field.
You’ll learn how to recognize when ancestral dynamics are active and how hypnosis can be used to work with this material safely and effectively.
Attendees will also experience a guided ancestral regression to feel how ancestral material emerges and begins to shift inside a session.
Masha Rosen will share a clear, grounded approach to ancestral lineage regression, illustrated with real examples from her practice, and show how these methods can be integrated into hypnosis and regression work. Participants will also receive ancestral regression scripts to help them bring this meaningful work into their own practice with confidence and care.
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Regression Therapy Trainer, and Founder of Rosen School of Healing Arts
Masha Rosen is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, regression therapy trainer, and founder of Rosen School of Healing Arts, where she offers professional training in regression therapy. She helps hypnotherapists and regression practitioners work with clients who feel stuck despite insight or repeated sessions—when regression slows down, resistance appears, or change does not hold. Masha’s work focuses on understanding where blocks originate and how to respond skillfully, whether they arise from personal history, relational dynamics, or ancestral patterns that emerge during regression. Her approach integrates regression therapy, ancestral regression, process-oriented therapy, and relationship-focused work, including divorce and separation coaching. Through her clinical practice, she has supported meaningful change in areas such as relationships, anxiety, fertility challenges, and major life transitions. Attendees benefit from her clear, grounded perspective and practical tools for working with complex material and creating more effective regression sessions.
Comedy Hypnotist
Jim Mitchell, known professionally as The Astonishing Hypnotist, helps hypnotists turn entertaining hypnosis into consistently booked, profitable shows.
Best known for his high-energy Comedy Hypnosis performances at fairs, festivals, bars, and special events, Jim blends solid hypnotic technique with real-world showmanship and marketing strategy. What sets Jim apart is his focus on what actually sells tickets—from crafting a show audiences talk about to building repeat bookings with venues and event organizers. His approach is practical, field-tested, and built from years of performing paid, ticketed shows for mainstream audiences who have never seen hypnosis before.
Attendees will benefit from Jim’s clear, no-fluff insights on audience engagement, positioning hypnosis as a headline attraction, and creating a show that bookers actively want to bring back year after year.
Booked, Paid, and Rebooked: Using Stage Hypnosis Skills to Grow Your Business
Most hypnosis practitioners never realize one important truth:
The real value of stage hypnosis is not just entertainment…
It’s the ability to command attention, influence a room, create emotional engagement, and turn those skills into multiple streams of income.
In this high-energy and business-focused presentation, Jim Mitchell — The Astonishing Hypnotist — reveals how the skills used by successful stage hypnotists can help practitioners dramatically expand their visibility, confidence, authority, and earning potential.
This session is designed specifically for clinical hypnotists, coaches, trainers, speakers, and wellness professionals who want to grow their business beyond one-on-one sessions and learn how to work with larger groups, corporate audiences, workshops, and live events.
Jim shares how stage hypnosis principles can be applied far beyond the theater stage and used to:
- Lead transformational group experiences
- Increase confidence speaking in front of audiences
- Improve sales and audience engagement
- Book corporate and private events
- Create workshops and seminars
- Build authority and referrals
- Generate additional income streams
This is not a “magic tricks” lecture.
It’s a practical look at how performer-level communication and influence skills can help practitioners become more dynamic, memorable, and profitable in virtually every area of their business.
In This Session You’ll Discover:
✔ How stage hypnosis skills translate into real business opportunities
✔ Ways to confidently lead and engage groups of any size
✔ How to create audience connection and instant rapport
✔ Techniques for holding attention and reducing resistance
✔ How to ethically sell from the stage or during presentations
✔ Strategies for getting booked, rebooked, and referred
Jim will also explore how these skills can be used in:
- Corporate trainings
- Group hypnosis programs
- Wellness workshops
- Retreats and seminars
- Keynote speaking
- Community events
- Client attraction and brand building
Whether you have zero interest in becoming a full-time entertainer or secretly dream of stepping onto a stage someday, this presentation offers practical skills that can immediately elevate your communication, confidence, influence, and income.
Because sometimes the biggest breakthrough in your hypnosis business doesn’t happen in the office…
It happens when you learn how to own the room.
GAMIFY YOUR TRAUMA: Effective (and fun) Healing Framework
“It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.”
What if healing actually begins when the fun and games come back?
In this deeply personal, highly engaging, and refreshingly original presentation, Marina Kostina introduces a groundbreaking approach to trauma recovery that blends neuroscience, gamification, motivation psychology, and emotional healing into a framework designed to help clients reconnect with joy, engagement, and momentum after trauma.
Drawing from her own extraordinary journey surviving a near-fatal skydiving accident — followed by four years of recovery and 24 reconstructive surgeries — Marina understands firsthand how trauma can pull people into survival mode and disconnect them from pleasure, motivation, curiosity, and emotional aliveness.
Trauma doesn’t just create pain.
It often steals:
- Joy
- Playfulness
- Motivation
- Creativity
- Engagement
- The ability to experience reward and progress
Many clients become emotionally numb, disconnected, and stuck in cycles of fear, avoidance, or hopelessness — even after traditional therapeutic work begins.
Marina’s solution?
Gamification.
Backed by emerging research on reward circuitry, engagement psychology, and nervous system regulation, this presentation explores how game-based strategies can dramatically improve motivation, participation, emotional resilience, and treatment adherence within trauma healing work.
This is not about trivializing trauma.
It’s about strategically reintroducing:
- Pleasure
- Curiosity
- Momentum
- Reward
- Progress
- Safe engagement
…into the healing journey.
In This Interactive Session You’ll Discover:
✔ The foundations of Marina’s Trauma Gamification Framework
✔ How trauma disrupts reward circuitry and emotional motivation
✔ Why many trauma clients lose interest, drive, and emotional engagement
✔ How gamification can improve healing participation and momentum
✔ The 6 major gaming archetypes and how they influence healing styles
✔ Ways to match therapeutic rewards and experiences to individual psychotypes
Marina also shares how she successfully integrated research-based gamification principles from her background as an online course trainer into her trauma therapy practice — producing remarkable increases in client engagement, motivation, and emotional participation.
This presentation is interactive, experiential, and filled with practical applications attendees can immediately begin using in therapeutic, coaching, hypnosis, and personal development settings.
Attendees Will Leave With:
- A new perspective on trauma recovery and motivation
- Practical gamification tools for healing work
- Greater understanding of reward systems and emotional engagement
- Strategies to increase client participation and consistency
- Tools for creating more hopeful, energizing healing experiences
For practitioners looking to move beyond traditional models and bring more creativity, engagement, and emotional momentum into trauma work, this session offers a bold and innovative framework that attendees are unlikely to forget.
Because sometimes healing doesn’t begin by pushing harder…
Sometimes healing begins by helping people feel alive again.
Award-winning Bestselling Author, TEDx Speaker, Award-Winning Neuroscience Coach, Educator, and Clinical Hypnotherapist
Dr. Marina Kostina is an Award-winning Bestselling Author, TEDx Speaker, Award-Winning Neuroscience Coach and Educator, Clinical Hypnotherapist specializing in Trauma and Addictions. She is also the owner of the award-winning healing center in Chicago (Ravenous 4 Life). After suffering a life-threatening crash, resulting in fifty-two bone breaks, Marina embodied her life’s work, research and passion as she demonstrated unpredictable progress that far exceeded her medical prognosis. Her journey became the foundation of the Amazon Bestselling book “52 Pieces: A Manual of Light to Survive the Abyss of Trauma” that has been displayed on Times Square, NYC, and for which she won multiple awards including the Author of The Year in Inspiration category, She now helps people find light in the abyss of their trauma.
Creator of The Bunny Talk Process™
Claudia Rickard helps hypnotherapists and NLP practitioners achieve deeper change with children, teens, and emotionally dysregulated clients using a playful yet clinically effective approach grounded in neuroscience, anchoring, and eye-movement integration. As the creator of The Bunny Talk Process™, she has developed a structured emotional intelligence framework that works where language-based methods struggle — particularly with clients who shut down, dissociate, or cannot articulate internal states. The process integrates smoothly with hypnosis, NLP, EMDR-informed work, and parts models, giving practitioners a reliable protocol for emotional release without needing story, content, or catharsis. Practitioners who attend Claudia’s session will gain instantly usable tools for rapport, regulation, and rapid state shifts with younger clients, parents, and neurodivergent individuals. If you want to expand your client base, improve outcomes, and increase confidence in complex cases, this session is for you.
Bringing Play into Change Work
Working with kids, teens, or emotionally shut-down clients can be challenging when language breaks down, emotions overwhelm, or insight-based techniques stall. The Bunny Talk Process™ gives practitioners a structured, playful, and highly effective way to create emotional change—without needing the client to explain their story, relive trauma, or “have insight first.” In this session, you’ll learn how to use metaphors, anchoring, visual diagrams, and gentle eye movements to help clients externalize emotion, regulate the nervous system, and shift state quickly. The process integrates beautifully with hypnosis, NLP, EMDR-informed approaches, and somatic work. This is for practitioners who want better results with younger clients, neurodivergent clients, parents, and adults with blocked emotional expression. Expect practical tools, demonstrations, and strategies you can use the moment you return to session. If you love techniques that are simple, safe, playful, and profound—don’t miss this one.
Working Effectively With Adult ADHD: Tools, Regulation, and Neuro-Informed Change
UK-based mental wellbeing practitioner and the creator of Cognitive Hypno-Neuro Therapy (CHaNT™)
Ivan Rose is a UK-based mental wellbeing practitioner and the creator of Cognitive Hypno-Neuro Therapy (CHaNT™) — a modern, integrative approach combining neuroscience, cognitive reframing, and hypno-analysis to support emotional regulation and long-term change. Ivan’s work is particularly relevant for professionals working with adults who remain stuck in cycles of overwhelm, emotional reactivity, or ADHD-related challenges. His approach focuses on emotional regulation, self-trust, and practical cognitive tools that clients can apply immediately. With years of clinical experience and consistent positive outcomes, Ivan is known for creating clear, ethical frameworks that practitioners can confidently integrate into their existing work. Attendees will gain a grounded, contemporary perspective and learning, working with Adults struggling with ADHD. Teaching practical strategies for those struggling with attention, focus, and impulsive behaviours, as well as learning to understand how to recognize ADHD in clients. (a different subject from last year’s presentation)
Neuroscience Coach
Deni Van is a neuroscience-informed hypnosis practitioner, professional linguist, and experiential educator who specializes in imagination, nervous system regulation, and embodied transformation. Her work bridges hypnosis, sound, and somatic awareness to help practitioners understand not only what creates change, but how it stabilizes in the body. Known for translating complex neuroscience into practical, felt experience, Deni offers a unique approach that integrates hypnotic language, sound, and movement as medicine. Her sessions are experiential, grounded, and accessible, designed to engage the nervous system directly rather than relying on suggestion alone. Attendees benefit from her clear teaching style, practical application, and emphasis on embodiment, leaving with tools they can immediately apply in both personal practice and client work.
Hypnosis as a Living Process: Imagination, Sound, and Somatic Intelligence in Practice
Step into an immersive experience where hypnosis, sound, and movement come together to create transformation that is felt, not just imagined.
This session is designed for hypnotists, NLP practitioners, coaches, and wellness professionals who want to deepen their understanding of how the nervous system and embodiment influence client outcomes. Through guided exercises, live and recorded sound, and practical demonstrations, attendees will explore how imagination interacts with the body to amplify change.
You’ll leave with tools to engage the nervous system, integrate somatic intelligence, and design experiences that foster deeper client connection and lasting results. This is more than a lecture, it’s a hands-on, experiential session that combines education with practice, giving participants the knowledge and felt experience to immediately elevate their work.
Unlocking Insight with Metaphoric Associative Cards.
The Power of Metaphors: Unlocking Insight with Metaphoric Associative Cards
What if your clients could access the emotions beneath their struggles… without pressure, resistance, or needing to explain everything with words?
In this engaging and interactive workshop, Natalya Chevskaya introduces practitioners to the transformative power of Metaphoric Associative Cards (MAC) — a creative and highly effective tool for accessing subconscious insight, emotional awareness, and deeper client communication.
Designed for hypnotists, coaches, therapists, educators, trainers, and personal development professionals, this presentation demonstrates how symbolic imagery and metaphor can gently bypass resistance and help clients uncover emotions and patterns that may otherwise remain hidden.
Rather than relying solely on direct questioning or analysis, MAC allows clients to explore their internal world through intuition, creativity, and personal interpretation — often creating breakthroughs that feel natural, safe, and deeply meaningful.
In This Workshop You’ll Discover:
✔ How metaphors create powerful subconscious communication
✔ Ways to build instant rapport without relying on words alone
✔ How to gently bypass resistance and emotional defensiveness
✔ Creative techniques for emotional exploration and healing
✔ Practical applications for children, adults, and trauma-sensitive clients
✔ How to guide simple yet effective MAC exercises in both individual and group settings
This is more than a lecture — it’s an experiential workshop where participants will actively engage with the cards through hands-on exercises designed to create both personal insight and professional application.
Attendees will:
- Learn the foundations of Metaphoric Associative Cards
- Experience practical MAC exercises firsthand
- Discover how imagery can evoke emotions tied to presenting problems
- Develop tools they can immediately integrate into sessions and workshops
- Gain confidence facilitating MAC activities with clients and groups
Natalya’s approachable teaching style and practical demonstrations make this session ideal for practitioners looking to expand their toolkit with creative, trauma-sensitive, and highly adaptable methods for subconscious exploration.
Sometimes the subconscious speaks more clearly through symbols than words.
Join Natalya Chevskaya for a fascinating exploration into how metaphor, imagery, and intuition can unlock deeper understanding, emotional clarity, and transformation.
Legal/Negotiator/Hypnotist/Complicated Grief Therapist/Yoga and Meditation Teacher
Benedikte Brantsæter is educated in law with a specialization in conflict resolution and negotiation law, where she also mediates in conflicts.
In addition to her education in social anthropology, mental training, and hypnosis, she is a certified yoga, breathwork and meditation teacher, as well as a grief therapist specializing in complicated grief.
With an interdisciplinary approach, Benedikte helps clients rebuild their identity after being exposed to narcissistic relationships, as well as process complex traumas and losses.
She also offers mental training tools and hypnosis techniques for individuals facing legal challenges or stressful life situations.
Benedikte is an experienced international speaker and conducts courses and workshops on grief, personal growth, and resilience in the face of adversity. Her mission is to inspire people to find their inner strength and achieve lasting, positive changes in their lives.
Enhancing Performance and Resilience in High-Stakes Situations – The Power of Mental Training and Hypnosis
How do you stay calm, confident, and clear-headed when everything around you feels chaotic?
Whether it’s a contentious legal battle, a toxic relationship, a manipulative personality, or an ongoing high-pressure situation, many clients find themselves trapped in survival mode — overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, and struggling to trust themselves.
In this timely and empowering presentation, Benedikte Brantsaeter reveals how mental training and hypnosis can help individuals build the inner resilience needed to perform effectively when the stakes are highest.
Drawing from real-world cases and professional experience, Benedikte explores what happens when people are exposed to ongoing psychological pressure, distorted narratives, gaslighting, intimidation, or high-conflict relationships. She explains why even intelligent, capable people can become emotionally dysregulated when confronted with manipulative personalities and prolonged stress.
Most importantly, she provides practical tools to help them regain their footing.
This presentation is especially valuable for hypnotists, therapists, coaches, mediators, and helping professionals who work with clients navigating:
- High-conflict relationships
- Narcissistic or manipulative personalities
- Custody battles and legal disputes
- Smear campaigns
- Workplace power struggles
- Chronic psychological stress
In This Session You’ll Discover:
✔ Why high-stakes situations trigger survival responses that impair decision-making
✔ Mental training techniques that strengthen focus, confidence, and emotional stability
✔ How hypnosis can rewire automatic reactions and create a sense of internal safety
✔ Strategies for helping clients maintain self-trust when facing manipulation or intimidation
✔ Tools for working effectively with clients dealing with narcissistic and high-conflict personalities
✔ Ways practitioners can protect their own emotional well-being while supporting challenging cases
Attendees will learn practical techniques such as:
- Visualization exercises
- Focus anchoring
- Cognitive rehearsal
- Emotional regulation strategies
- Resilience-building hypnosis techniques
Benedikte also addresses an often-overlooked aspect of helping professionals’ work: therapist resilience.
When working with emotionally charged, legally sensitive, or trauma-heavy situations, practitioners themselves need tools to remain grounded, objective, and emotionally balanced.
- Attendees Will Leave With:
- Greater confidence working with high-conflict clients
- Practical mental training exercises they can immediately apply
- New hypnosis strategies for emotional regulation and resilience
- Better tools for navigating manipulative personalities
- Increased clarity, confidence, and professional boundaries
For anyone who works with clients facing overwhelming pressure, toxic dynamics, or impossible people, this presentation offers a powerful roadmap for helping them move from survival mode to strength, clarity, and lasting resilience.
Insomnia - 3 Essentials for Long-Term Success
Clinical Hypnotherapist and Instructor
Tracy Barrett Adams specializes in medical hypnosis, with an emphasis on insomnia, neurological issues, and reproductive health. Tracy is the author of the CLEAR Sleep Practitioner Protocol, HypnoMothering programs for Fertility, Childbirth, and Postpartum, and she’s the co-creator with Roger Moore of the ICBCH Integrative Medical Hypnosis Practitioner Certification Program.
Certified Hypnotherapist, Registered Nurse, Licensed Massage Therapist
Despite her young age and youthful demeanor, our speaker has several professional careers.
As a master’s prepared Registered Nurse, she has worked in Intensive Care, a Level 1 Trauma ER, and as an event nurse, and has cared for thousands of people, including Rock Stars and Circus performers.
As a Licensed Massage Therapist, her passion for Sports Massage helped her care for Olympic Athletes as well as world-class runners and triathletes, and people with pain problems.
As a professional Certified Hypnotherapist, she has helped save the lives of many people who quit smoking or changed their mindsets and lifestyles by using the power of the mind to delete or overwrite old programming that no longer serves them and upload new ways of thinking and feeling.
Hypno Massage: Where Touch Meets Trance
Are you ready to expand your skillset with a powerful, innovative technique that can profoundly impact your clients’ well-being?
Join Janet Rapala for an exciting presentation on Hypno Massage, where you will learn how to combine the soothing effects of massage with the transformative power of hypnosis.
Why Attend?
- Enhance Client Relaxation and Pain Relief: Discover a new modality that helps your clients achieve deep relaxation, reduce pain, and release muscle tension. This approach is perfect for anyone looking to elevate their practice and deliver exceptional results.
- Hands-On and No-Hands Techniques: Learn both hands-on techniques and a unique no-touch method, making this training invaluable whether you’re a health care provider, massage therapist, or someone without a touch license. Imagine being able to offer the benefits of massage using only the power of the mind and guided imagination.
- Hypnotic Language Meets Massage: Master a process that combines hypnotic language with a simple yet effective massage technique. By observing and entraining your client’s breathing, you’ll be able to relieve stress and anxiety, induce deep relaxation, or even guide your client into a hypnotic trance—all while they remain comfortably seated.
- Experiential Learning: Experience firsthand how this technique establishes tissue memory, enhancing its effectiveness. Additionally, you’ll participate in a guided experience of massage through a carefully scripted process, allowing you to feel the benefits and understand the profound impact it can have.
Who Should Attend?
This session is perfect for massage therapists, hypnotherapists, healthcare providers, or anyone interested in expanding their therapeutic repertoire. Whether you’re looking to enhance your current practice or introduce a new, non-invasive technique, Hypno Massage offers a unique and valuable toolset that can make a real difference in your clients’ lives.
Don’t miss this chance to learn a groundbreaking approach that merges the physical and the mental for unparalleled client care.
Check out Janet Rapala and unlock the potential of Hypno Massage!
The Best Hypnotist Is the One With The Best Character
“The Best Hypnotist is the One With the Best Character” is a play on Rich Guzzi’s famous rule: The best hypnotist is the one with the best act. But what about the character inside the act? We are not actors pretending to be hypnotists. We are the hypnotists! So who is “The Hypnotist”? For professionals calling ourselves masters of a life-changing tool of human transformation, we have no excuse to be anything other than extraordinary people living extraordinary lives.
This presentation is an invitation to get serious about becoming walking, talking, living proof of what hypnosis and hypnotherapy can really do. Come learn how to develop your character so thoroughly that your act — of opening minds and changing lives — becomes a natural extension of who you truly are.
Cassandra McLean is living proof of the dramatic transformation that’s possible with hypnosis and hypnotherapy. She became a multi-certified clinical hypnotherapist, master coach and NLP practitioner only after hitting a personal rock bottom – despite years of therapy, graduate level education in psychology, and a 5-year career in clinical neurotherapy. “How could I have gone through all of that,” she wondered, “and still end up like this?” After literally praying for a miracle, she found hypnosis and hypnotherapy, and quickly discovered a natural way of being and becoming more peaceful, productively proactive, emotionally mature, and spiritually aligned. She started sleeping better at night, and her chronic digestive issues started fading away. That’s when she decided to go all-in and become a master of the one modality that truly made a difference. Cassandra’s mission is to bring hypnosis to the mainstream, to empower people everywhere to organize and integrate subconscious mind-power – not only to live better lives, but to become better people.
Ken Guzzo, the founder of the North American Academy of hypnosis. He has been sharing his transformational work with colleagues at Hypnothoughts Live for nearly a decade and a half.
Ken has been sponsoring the annual welcome pool party for many years. So come by and share some connection with us on Thursday night before the conference begins welcome!
TBA
Something Amazing!
Hypnotherapy & Trauma Release
Many adult struggles don’t begin in adulthood.
Anxiety. People-pleasing. Hypervigilance. Emotional triggers. The constant feeling of being “on guard.” These are often survival patterns that were formed in early childhood—and long after the danger has passed, the nervous system continues to react as if it’s still there.
In this experiential training, Helen Boland shares proven hypnotherapy protocols designed to help release the lingering effects of childhood attachment trauma and retrain the subconscious for greater calm, resilience, and emotional freedom.
Rather than simply managing symptoms, you’ll learn how to address the outdated programming that often drives them.
In This Session You’ll Discover:
How childhood attachment experiences shape adult emotional and behavioral patterns
Why the brain continues to trigger fight, flight, freeze, or startle responses long after the original events
Three proven hypnotherapy protocols for releasing trauma-based reactions
How Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotherapy can help create lasting emotional change
Why teaching clients self-hypnosis empowers them to continue healing long after the session ends
This isn’t just a lecture—you’ll have the opportunity to experience the protocols yourself, gaining a deeper understanding of how these techniques work from both the practitioner’s and the client’s perspective.
You’ll Leave Ready To:
Recognize the hidden signs of unresolved childhood trauma
Help clients reduce emotional triggers and automatic stress responses
Apply practical trauma-informed hypnosis techniques in your own practice
Teach clients self-hypnosis for continued healing and self-regulation
Feel more confident working with anxiety, attachment wounds, and complex trauma presentations
Whether you work with trauma every day or simply want to expand your clinical toolbox, this session offers practical methods that can benefit almost every client who walks through your door.
Because when outdated survival patterns are finally released…
People are free to respond to life as the person they are today—not the child they once had to be.
Trauma Recovery Specialist | Founder, Boland School of Hypnotherapy
Helen Boland, CHT. and Boland School of Hypnotherapy is a traveling trauma centered Clinical Certification School for The American Council of Hypnotist Examiners(est1980). Helen Boland, CHT, a tenured school teacher in her 20’s, now teaches Trauma Release and Clinical Hypnotherapy all over the globe. Helen teaches Clients, Continuing Education Classes, and Clinicians the three simple protocols to guide the release of residual or outdated symptoms of trauma that we grow physiologically form wound. Using Self-Hypnosis, Helen teaches cognitive behavioral hypnosis to help create new neural pathways toward health, vitality, and strength. Helen Boland, CHT. since 2005, alchemizes the ‘Miracle Cases’ that she notices are not ‘miracles’ at all, but moreover, how our brain works. We can release our triggers. We can change. It is teachable. Welcome.
Broken Heart Syndrome: Not Just a Myth
Can a broken heart actually break your body?
The answer is yes.
Broken Heart Syndrome is a medically recognized condition that can occur after intense emotional stress, grief, trauma, or sudden life-changing events. Yet many people—including healthcare professionals and helping practitioners—know very little about how profoundly emotional pain can affect physical health.
In this heartfelt and educational presentation, Shamie Parks combines current medical research with her own powerful personal journey after being diagnosed with Broken Heart Syndrome. Her story offers a rare look at the intersection of emotional trauma, physical health, and the remarkable capacity of the human mind and body to heal.
This session will challenge the way you think about grief, loss, and recovery while providing valuable insights for anyone who works with clients navigating emotional trauma.
In This Session You’ll Discover:
- What Broken Heart Syndrome is and why it’s a medically recognized condition
- How emotional trauma can create real physical symptoms throughout the body
- The connection between grief, stress, the nervous system, and heart health
- Warning signs practitioners should recognize in clients experiencing profound loss
- The role hypnosis and holistic approaches can play in supporting emotional healing
Shamie shares both scientific understanding and lived experience, creating a presentation that is informative, inspiring, and deeply moving.
You’ll Leave With:
- A deeper understanding of the mind-body connection
- Greater awareness of how emotional trauma affects physical health
- New perspectives for supporting grieving and emotionally overwhelmed clients
- Practical insights you can integrate into your hypnosis or helping practice
- A renewed appreciation for the resilience of the human spirit
Whether you work with clients experiencing grief, trauma, stress, or major life transitions—or you’ve experienced profound loss yourself—this presentation offers knowledge, hope, and a powerful reminder that healing involves far more than the heart alone.
Reframe Failure with Improv Comedy Games
The best hypnotists don’t always know exactly what’s going to happen.
They simply know how to respond.
Whether you’re working with a client who says something unexpected, leading a group hypnosis session, speaking from a stage, or handling a challenging coaching conversation, your greatest asset isn’t having the perfect script—it’s the confidence to adapt in the moment.
In this energetic, laughter-filled workshop, Antonio Perez uses the principles of improvisational comedy to help hypnotists, coaches, and speakers become more flexible, creative, and resilient under pressure.
You’ll quickly discover that failure isn’t something to avoid.
It’s one of the fastest paths to confidence.
Through a series of fun, interactive improv games, Antonio creates an environment where mistakes are celebrated instead of feared. As participants let go of perfectionism, they naturally become more present, resourceful, and adaptable—qualities that directly translate into stronger hypnosis sessions and better client outcomes.
In This Session You’ll Discover:
How to reframe failure as an opportunity instead of a setback
Why flexibility is one of the most valuable skills a hypnotist can develop
The improv principle of “Yes, And…” and how it strengthens communication
How to stay calm and creative when sessions don’t go as planned
Why embracing mistakes builds confidence faster than avoiding them
This isn’t a lecture.
It’s an experience.
You’ll participate in engaging improv games that teach powerful lessons about communication, trust, spontaneity, and adaptability while having more fun than you thought possible at a professional conference.
You’ll Leave Ready To:
Think faster and respond more naturally during hypnosis sessions
Build greater confidence when working with unpredictable clients
Reduce the fear of making mistakes in front of groups or individuals
Improve your communication, creativity, and rapport
Bring more energy, authenticity, and playfulness into your practice
The skills you’ll develop extend far beyond hypnosis.
They’ll improve your coaching, speaking, leadership, networking, and even everyday conversations.
Because when you stop fearing failure…
You become free to create your very best work.
Antonio Perez is a hypnotist that got into improv comedy to overcome his fears of failure and stage fright. I teach hypnotists how to become flexible with improv comedy games.
Performance Psychologist | Clinical Hypnotherapist | NLP Practitioner | CEO, Bramante Artists
Success isn’t determined by talent alone.
For countless actors, singers, dancers, speakers, and high achievers, the greatest obstacle isn’t ability—it’s what happens in the moments that matter most. The confidence disappears before the audition. Self-doubt shows up just as opportunity arrives. Perfectionism quietly sabotages performance.
Helping people overcome those invisible barriers is where Dr. Albert Bramante has built his career.
As the CEO of Bramante Artists, one of the leading talent agencies serving the New York and New Jersey entertainment markets, Dr. Bramante has spent years helping performers build successful careers while witnessing firsthand the mental obstacles that keep exceptional talent from reaching its full potential. His unique perspective comes from working on both sides of the industry—representing artists professionally while helping them eliminate the subconscious patterns that limit confidence, performance, and success.
Combining expertise in performance psychology, clinical hypnotherapy, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Dr. Bramante specializes in helping clients overcome self-sabotage, perfectionism, performance anxiety, and limiting beliefs so they can consistently perform at their highest level.
He is the author of Rise Above the Script and host of The Mental Rehearsal Podcast, where he translates cutting-edge psychological principles into practical strategies that performers, entrepreneurs, and high achievers can immediately apply.
Whether working with entertainers preparing for the spotlight or professionals facing high-pressure moments, Dr. Bramante’s approach is grounded in one belief: when you master your mind, you unlock the performance you’ve always been capable of delivering.
At the Hypnosis World Mid-America Conference, Dr. Bramante shares practical, field-tested techniques drawn from real client work—giving attendees tools they can immediately use to help clients break through mental barriers and perform with greater confidence, resilience, and consistency.
Hypnosis & NLP for Actors: Helping Performers Master the Moments That Matter
Talent gets performers noticed.
But mindset determines whether they book the job.
Actors, singers, dancers, musicians, speakers, and performers face a unique kind of pressure. In the moments that matter most—auditions, live performances, self-tapes, competitions, and on-camera appearances—their greatest challenge is rarely a lack of ability. It’s the internal dialogue, anxiety, perfectionism, and self-doubt that quietly sabotage performance.
In this practical, demonstration-based presentation, Dr. Albert Bramante shares the same hypnosis and NLP strategies he uses every day to help performers replace fear with focus, pressure with presence, and self-doubt with confidence.
Drawing on his experience as both a performance psychologist and the CEO of a successful New York talent agency, Albert offers a rare insider’s perspective on what performers truly need to succeed—and how hypnotists can become the trusted professionals who help them get there.
In This Session You’ll Discover:
Why performers require a different approach than traditional anxiety clients
The hidden mental patterns that interfere with auditions and live performance
How hypnosis and NLP can quickly reshape limiting beliefs about performance
The psychology behind confidence, presence, and consistency under pressure
Why performers represent one of the most overlooked—and rewarding—specialties in hypnosis
You’ll also watch live demonstrations of Albert’s B.A.D.A.S.S. Method, including belief change techniques, confidence anchoring, and hypnotic rehearsal strategies that you can immediately adapt for your own clients.
You’ll Leave Ready To:
Confidently work with actors, musicians, speakers, dancers, and performers
Help clients overcome performance anxiety, perfectionism, and self-sabotage
Build powerful confidence anchors clients can access on demand
Create effective pre-performance hypnosis routines that improve consistency
Expand your practice into a niche that is growing, underserved, and eager for qualified professionals
Even if you never plan to specialize in performers, the techniques you’ll learn apply to anyone who needs to perform under pressure—executives, athletes, entrepreneurs, students, sales professionals, or clients preparing for life’s biggest moments.
Because when people can perform at their best when it matters most…
Everything changes.
Instant Inductions Without Suggestibility Tests: Rapid Trance, Deeper Transformation
Jason Gobeli is a Neuro-Communication Expert, certified hypnotist, NLP practitioner, author, speaker, and creator of the FFL Modality. He helps hypnotists, coaches, speakers, and transformation professionals understand how internal communication, identity, sensory awareness, and emotional state influence change, performance, confidence, and human connection. With more than 40 years of experience in communication, sales, leadership, recovery, hypnosis, and personal transformation, Jason brings a practical, energetic, and deeply human approach to the stage. He recently presented at HypnoThoughts Live in Las Vegas, where his session drew a standing-room-only audience and created strong attendee engagement. Jason’s presentations are known for being interactive, real-world, and easy to apply. Attendees leave with practical tools they can use personally and professionally to create faster connection, deeper transformation, and more meaningful results with the people they serve.
Janet Rotella, CHT, is the Founder & Chief Calming Officer of Calm & Brite Holistic Coping Services & Events Center in Jupiter, Florida, and an accomplished speaker known for delivering engaging, interactive presentations that educate, inspire, and create lasting impact. A Certified Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Sound Healing Practitioner, Somatic Healing Practitioner, and EFT Practitioner, she is the creator of Hypnoki™, an integrative approach that blends hypnosis with complementary holistic modalities. Janet works with children, adults, families, caregivers, and professionals facing anxiety, trauma, grief, stress, chronic pain, performance challenges, and life transitions, with a special passion for supporting autistic, neurodivergent, special needs, and low-to-non-verbal individuals. Through practical techniques, live demonstrations, audience participation, and heartfelt storytelling, she equips attendees with innovative tools they can immediately apply in both their professional and personal lives.
Beyond Words: Hypnosis & Energy Work for Autistic, Neurodivergent, Special Needs & Low-to-Non-Verbal Individuals
HypnoMeditation: Awaken Your Greatness Through Self-Hypnosis
What if meditation didn’t require years of practice?
What if you could quiet your mind, enter a deep hypnotic state, and reconnect with your highest potential—in less than a minute?
In this completely experiential session, veteran hypnotherapist Michael Myers invites you to experience a powerful form of meditation that bypasses the struggle of “trying” to meditate. Instead of fighting mental chatter or forcing yourself to relax, you’ll discover how effortless self-hypnosis can become when you learn to work with your subconscious mind.
Within moments, Michael will guide the audience into hypnosis and then teach you how to deepen the experience yourself—giving you the confidence and ability to access this peaceful, resourceful state whenever you choose.
This isn’t a lecture.
It’s an experience you’ll remember long after the conference ends.
During This Experience You’ll Discover:
- How to enter a hypnotic state in as little as 45 seconds
- Why self-hypnosis can be easier and more effective than traditional meditation
- How to deepen your own hypnotic experience naturally
- The connection between deep relaxation, clarity, and your subconscious mind
- How positive post-hypnotic suggestions can strengthen confidence, purpose, and personal growth
What You’ll Take Away:
- A practical self-hypnosis technique you can use every day
- Greater mental clarity, relaxation, and emotional balance
- A simple process for reducing stress and quieting an overactive mind
- A deeper connection to your own inner resources and personal potential
- A powerful experience you can continue practicing long after the conference
For more than 16 years, Michael has guided thousands of people through this exact process in both private sessions and group experiences. Participants consistently describe leaving feeling deeply relaxed, mentally refreshed, emotionally renewed, and inspired by what they discovered within themselves.
Sometimes the greatest transformation doesn’t come from learning something new.
It comes from reconnecting with the greatness that has been inside you all along.
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist | Personal Transformation Specialist
For nearly three decades, Michael Myers has been helping people break free from the thoughts, habits, and emotional patterns that keep them from living the life they want.
A Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist since 1997, Michael has dedicated his career to helping clients overcome stress, anxiety, fears, unwanted habits, and self-imposed limitations through practical, results-focused hypnosis. His calm, compassionate style creates an environment where clients feel safe, understood, and empowered to make meaningful, lasting change.
Serving clients throughout Palm Desert, Palm Springs, Indian Wells, and California’s Coachella Valley, as well as online worldwide, Michael combines decades of clinical experience with a personalized approach that recognizes every client—and every challenge—is unique.
Whether helping someone regain confidence, overcome anxiety, or unlock greater personal potential, Michael’s philosophy is simple: lasting transformation happens when you work with the subconscious mind, not against it.
At the Hypnosis World Mid-America Conference, Michael brings nearly 30 years of hands-on experience, practical insight, and real-world techniques that attendees can immediately apply in their own lives and practices.
The HypnoYogi | Clinical Hypnotist | NLP Practitioner | RYT-500
The HypnoYogi | Clinical Hypnotist • NLP Practitioner • Mind-Body Performance Coach
Matt Dickson, known as The HypnoYogi, has built a reputation for helping people break through subconscious barriers by combining the science of hypnosis and NLP with the wisdom of yoga and somatic awareness.
Drawing from more than 17 years of experience in personal training, high-performance coaching, and executive sales, Matt understands that lasting transformation happens when the mind and body work together. His unique approach helps entrepreneurs, professionals, athletes, and everyday people eliminate fear, silence limiting self-talk, and develop the confidence to perform at their highest level.
As the creator of Subconscious Sanctuary™, an innovative blend of Yin Yoga and hypnosis, Matt has developed practical systems that help clients regulate their nervous system, create emotional resilience, and accelerate personal growth. His trauma-informed approach integrates ethical persuasion, hypnotic language, and mind-body awareness into techniques that are both powerful and immediately applicable.
Whether he’s working with individuals, leading workshops, or speaking from the stage, Matt is known for making complex concepts simple, experiential, and transformational. His mission is to help people move beyond survival, unlock their full potential, and step confidently into the next version of themselves.
Confidence Is a Side Effect: What Yoga Taught Me About Hypnosis
What if you’ve been thinking about confidence completely backwards?
Most people believe confidence comes first—that you have to feel confident before you can take action. Before speaking on stage. Before raising your fees. Before asking for the sale. Before working with high-level clients.
But what if confidence isn’t the starting point…
What if it’s the result?
In this thought-provoking and experiential presentation, Matt Dickson, The HypnoYogi, shares the unexpected lesson that transformed not only his life, but the way he helps clients overcome fear, self-doubt, and performance anxiety.
Blending the timeless wisdom of yoga with the modern science of hypnosis and NLP, Matt introduces a simple yet profound framework that helps people stop waiting to feel ready—and start taking the actions that naturally create confidence.
Rather than teaching another technique, Matt challenges one of the biggest myths in personal development and shows how attachment to outcomes often becomes the very thing holding both practitioners and clients back.
In This Session You’ll Discover:
- Why confidence is often the result of action—not the requirement for it
- The hidden ways attachment creates anxiety, hesitation, and self-doubt
- How ancient yogic principles can dramatically improve your hypnosis practice
- A new approach for helping clients struggling with confidence, perfectionism, and fear of failure
- Practical language patterns and coaching strategies that encourage action instead of waiting
Through engaging stories, interactive reflection, live demonstrations, and a powerful experiential exercise, you’ll experience this shift for yourself—not just understand it intellectually.
You’ll Leave Ready To:
- Help clients move beyond fear without waiting for confidence to appear
- Reduce performance anxiety in yourself and others
- Coach clients through perfectionism, procrastination, and self-doubt
- Show up more authentically in your business, presentations, and client sessions
- Replace the pressure to “fake it until you make it” with a mindset that creates genuine confidence naturally
Whether you’re a hypnotist, coach, therapist, speaker, or entrepreneur, this presentation will change the way you think about confidence forever.
Because the most successful people don’t act because they feel confident…
They become confident because they were willing to act.
Your Greatest Hypnotic Technique... Isn't a Technique.
Hypnotist, Author, Motivational Speaker
Bridging the Stage and the Subconscious
Marc Marshall is an award-winning certified hypnotist who seamlessly blends clinical expertise with world-class entertainment. As a trauma-informed practitioner, Marc specializes in healing the deep wounds of PTSD, sexual trauma, and addiction, while also guiding clients through challenges like weight loss, anxiety, smoking cessation, and sexual wellness.
With certifications in clinical, medical, and trauma hypnosis, Marc has helped countless individuals reclaim their lives—while also training and mentoring the next generation of hypnotherapists. His transformational work has been trusted by major corporations, including Johnson & Johnson and Continuum Health Care, who turn to him for powerful solutions that last.
But Marc doesn’t stop at the therapy room. Under the stage name HypnoMarc, he’s performed over 1,000 shows across the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean, captivating audiences in casinos, cruise ships, corporate retreats, and comedy clubs. His performances deliver laughs, awe, and inspiration—proving that hypnosis can both heal and entertain.
Whether you’re here to expand your skillset or simply be amazed, Marc Marshall offers a one-of-a-kind perspective that’s both deeply human and highly hypnotic.
NLP Master Trainer
Juan Antonio Pérez isn’t just a teacher — he’s a living testament to the transformative power of hypnosis and NLP. As a Licensed Master Trainer of NLP™, named by Dr. Richard Bandler, John & Kathleen of the Society of NLP he brings unmatched depth, authenticity, and compassion to every session he conducts.
His remarkable journey began inside Pérez de León Hospital in Venezuela, where he helped transform the lives of over 6,000 patients in high-pressure, real-world clinical environments. In his private practice, he’s guided more than 2,000 clients to breakthrough results in his Private Practice — making him one of the most experienced practitioners in the field.
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Before You Love Again: Heal the Emotion. Honor the Value. Break the Pattern.
Why do so many people find themselves repeating the same painful relationship patterns—even when they desperately want something different?
Why do healthy relationships sometimes feel unfamiliar, while unhealthy ones feel strangely comfortable?
In this powerful and emotionally insightful presentation, therapist and author Dr. Leon Sankofa explores the hidden emotional patterns that shape the way we love, attach, trust, and protect ourselves. Based on his groundbreaking book, Before You Love Again, this session offers a fresh perspective on why lasting relationship change begins long before meeting the next partner.
Drawing on years of clinical experience, Dr. Sankofa reveals how the nervous system stores emotional experiences from heartbreak, betrayal, rejection, divorce, abandonment, and loss. Over time, the survival strategies that once protected us can quietly become the very patterns that keep us stuck.
This presentation introduces attendees to Emotional Value Integration, a transformative framework for understanding how emotions give rise to protective values, beliefs, and behaviors that influence every future relationship.
Rather than asking, “Why do I keep choosing the wrong person?” Dr. Sankofa invites attendees to explore a more powerful question:
“What part of me learned this was the safest way to love?”
In This Session You’ll Discover:
✔ Why relationship patterns often repeat despite our best intentions
✔ How emotional wounds shape attraction, attachment, and trust
✔ The connection between the nervous system and relationship choices
✔ How protective behaviors can become mistaken for personality
✔ The principles of Emotional Value Integration for lasting emotional healing
✔ How to help clients move from survival-based relationships to emotionally healthy connection
This presentation is valuable for hypnotists, therapists, coaches, counselors, and anyone who works with clients healing from relationship trauma, divorce, abandonment, rejection, or unhealthy attachment patterns.
Dr. Sankofa combines clinical insight with practical application, offering attendees a compassionate framework that helps clients understand—not judge—the parts of themselves that developed in response to emotional pain.
Attendees Will Leave With:
A deeper understanding of relationship dynamics and attachment patterns
New tools for helping clients heal emotional wounds beneath repeating behaviors
Practical ways to recognize survival-based beliefs that interfere with healthy relationships
A powerful framework for guiding clients toward emotional clarity and lasting change
Greater insight into how healing the past creates the freedom to love differently in the future
Because before someone can truly love again…
They must first understand the part of themselves that learned how to survive when love hurt.
This presentation offers a profound roadmap for helping clients heal the emotion, honor the value that once protected them, and finally break the patterns that no longer serve them.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker | Hypnotherapist | Creator of Emotional Value Integration (EVI)
Dr. Leon Sankofa is a trailblazer in the field of trauma-informed care and personal transformation. With over 25 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker and hypnotherapist, he has dedicated his life to helping clients achieve deep emotional change by bridging subconscious healing with identity realignment. As the creator of the Emotional Value Integration (EVI) method, Dr. Sankofa combines the power of hypnosis, EMDR, IFS, and neuroscience to unlock the potential within clients, enabling them to break free from limiting beliefs and embrace their true self.
Dr. Sankofa’s innovative approach, EVI, is rapidly becoming a go-to framework for clinicians seeking to deepen their practice and create lasting transformation. His work has touched thousands of lives, especially for those struggling with trauma, self-worth, and identity challenges. EVI’s unique integration of subconscious healing with value discovery offers an entirely new level of support for hypnotherapists and healing professionals looking to elevate their therapeutic work.
Dr. Sankofa has trained therapists across the globe in his methodology, empowering them to guide their clients toward emotional freedom and self-empowerment. His extensive experience with trauma, combined with his cutting-edge approach, makes him a sought-after expert in the field of hypnotherapy and holistic healing.
Dr. Sankofa’s commitment to personal growth and healing shines through in his approach—combining clinical expertise with a deep, compassionate understanding of the human spirit. Whether you’re a hypnotherapist, counselor, or healer, his methods will inspire you to expand your own practice and embrace transformative techniques that align with your clients’ core values.
CEO of Alan Sands Entertainment
Alan Sands is one of North America’s most accomplished comedy stage hypnotists, magicians, and live entertainment professionals. For more than four decades, he has built a career captivating audiences with a unique blend of comedy, hypnosis, magic, and audience engagement while performing thousands of live shows across the United States and around the world.
Born into a family of professional entertainers, Alan was literally raised in show business. He first stepped onto a stage at just three years old, assisting his father, renowned magician and inventor George Sands. By age six, he was performing for audiences, and by seventeen he was working professionally while developing the stage presence and audience rapport that would become his trademark.
After receiving his clinical hypnosis training in 1997 and becoming a Certified Stage Hypnotist in 1998, Alan quickly established himself as one of the industry’s premier performers. His career includes performances at more than 250 state and county fairs, hundreds of colleges, casinos, cruise ships, theaters, comedy clubs, amusement parks, conventions, corporate events, festivals, and more than 400 high school graduation celebrations.
In addition to his performing career, Alan is the founder of Alan Sands Entertainment, a successful talent agency representing top specialty entertainers throughout North America. He is also passionate about mentoring the next generation of hypnotists, helping aspiring performers develop the skills, confidence, and business knowledge needed to build successful careers.
Known for his ability to instantly connect with audiences, Alan combines decades of real-world experience with practical business insight, making him a sought-after speaker, trainer, and mentor. Whether performing on stage or teaching fellow hypnotists, his mission is to help others entertain, inspire, and build thriving careers by expanding what is possible through the art and business of hypnosis.
Multiple Streams of Income: Building a Thriving Business with Hypnosis
Most hypnotists think success comes from seeing more clients.
Successful entrepreneurs know it comes from creating more opportunities.
After decades as one of North America’s most successful comedy hypnotists, magician, talent agent, and business owner, Alan Sands has built a career by refusing to rely on a single source of income. Instead, he has developed multiple revenue streams that work together to create a thriving, resilient business.
In this practical, experience-filled presentation, Alan shares the mindset and strategies that have allowed him to perform around the world while building a business that extends far beyond the stage.
This session isn’t about chasing the latest marketing trend.
It’s about learning how to leverage your existing skills to create new opportunities, increase financial stability, and build a business that continues to grow year after year.
Whether you’re a clinical hypnotist, stage hypnotist, coach, speaker, or entrepreneur, you’ll discover how one area of expertise can open doors to many others.
In This Session You’ll Discover:
✔ Why relying on a single income source limits your business growth
✔ How to identify additional revenue opportunities you may already be qualified to offer
✔ The power of combining services, products, speaking, training, and events
✔ Ways to create recurring income instead of constantly starting over
✔ How performing and public visibility can become powerful marketing tools
✔ Lessons learned from decades of building a successful entertainment and hypnosis career
Alan also shares real-world insights from producing thousands of live performances, operating a successful talent agency, and mentoring the next generation of professional hypnotists.
His practical advice comes from experience—not theory—and is designed to help attendees think differently about what is possible for their own careers.
Attendees Will Leave With:
A new perspective on building a sustainable hypnosis business
Ideas for creating multiple streams of income
Greater confidence expanding beyond one-on-one sessions
Practical strategies for increasing visibility and opportunities
Inspiration to build a career that is both financially rewarding and personally fulfilling
Whether your goal is to perform on stage, grow a clinical practice, teach workshops, sell products, speak professionally, or create new business opportunities, this presentation will challenge you to stop thinking like a technician…
…and start thinking like an entrepreneur.
From Clinical to Stage: Expanding Your Hypnosis Career
What if your hypnosis skills could do more than change lives one client at a time?
What if they could also entertain audiences, build your reputation, generate new income streams, and open doors to exciting speaking and performance opportunities?
In this inspiring presentation, Lisa Kunschick explores how clinical hypnotists can successfully transition into the world of stage hypnosis while building on the skills they already possess.
Many practitioners are curious about stage hypnosis but aren’t sure where to begin. They may wonder what makes entertainment hypnosis different, how to confidently work with volunteers, or whether they have the skills to perform in front of a live audience.
Lisa offers an encouraging look at how the core principles of hypnosis remain the same while the delivery, pacing, audience interaction, and performance techniques create an entirely different experience.
In This Session You’ll Discover:
✔ The key differences between clinical and stage hypnosis
✔ How your existing hypnosis skills transfer to live performance
✔ The confidence required to step onto a stage and lead an audience
✔ What makes stage hypnosis entertaining, safe, and memorable
✔ Opportunities to expand your career through live events and performances
✔ Practical insights for getting started in the world of stage hypnosis
Whether your goal is to perform comedy hypnosis shows, add live events to your business, or simply explore a new side of the profession, this presentation offers valuable perspective on what’s possible.
Stage hypnosis isn’t just about making people laugh.
It’s about learning to command a room, build instant rapport, create unforgettable experiences, and demonstrate the incredible power of hypnosis in front of a live audience.
Attendees Will Leave With:
- A clearer understanding of what it takes to become a stage hypnotist
- Greater confidence exploring performance opportunities
- Insight into how clinical and stage hypnosis complement one another
- New ideas for expanding their skills and income
- Inspiration to take their hypnosis career in exciting new directions
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to step out from behind the therapy chair and into the spotlight, Lisa Kunschick’s presentation will show you how your existing hypnosis skills may be the perfect foundation for an entirely new adventure.
Lisa Kunschick is a stage hypnosis performer and educator who is passionate about introducing audiences to the fascinating world of hypnosis in ways that are engaging, memorable, and inspiring. She believes hypnosis is far more than entertainment—it is an opportunity to spark curiosity, build confidence, and demonstrate the incredible potential of the human mind.
Working alongside some of the industry’s most respected stage hypnosis professionals, Lisa has helped develop unique hypnosis experiences that move beyond traditional comedy shows. Through innovative concepts such as immersive themed performances and close-up hypnosis demonstrations, she has helped create interactive experiences that allow audiences to witness—and even participate in—the remarkable possibilities of hypnosis in a safe, welcoming environment.
Lisa is especially passionate about helping practitioners discover that the skills developed in clinical hypnosis can successfully translate to live performance. Her approach emphasizes building confidence, connecting with audiences, and creating experiences that leave people with a genuine sense of wonder rather than simply a laugh.
Whether performing on stage, engaging guests one-on-one, or sharing her knowledge with fellow hypnotists, Lisa is committed to expanding public awareness of hypnosis while inspiring practitioners to explore new opportunities for personal growth, professional development, and creative expression.
Meghan Helms helps people who are ready to create positive change & are feeling stuck in their current situation. She is an intuitive healer, hypnotist, Reiki master & yoga instructor. She is passionate about helping people learn how to manage stress, feel more at ease in their bodies, and feel supported while grieving through trauma or loss. She creates a safe place for people to be seen & heard. She comes from a place of understanding & support, not from a place of judgement. Meghan meets you where you are, helps you identify stuck energy, and supports you as you release & let go of anything that is holding you back from the life that you want to live.
Stillness Within: Hypnosis for Mindful Awareness
In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to feel distracted, overwhelmed, and pulled in a hundred different directions. Stress, anxiety, and constant mental noise can leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves, making it difficult to stay focused, grounded, and fully present.
In this uplifting and experiential presentation, Meghan Helmes explores how mindful living and hypnosis work together to create greater awareness, inner calm, and lasting personal growth.
Many people don’t realize that hypnosis is already a natural part of everyday life. Meghan demonstrates how becoming more aware of these natural hypnotic states allows us to intentionally replace unwanted habits, quiet limiting beliefs, and create healthier emotional patterns.
This session is designed for anyone who wants to feel more present, less reactive, and better equipped to navigate life’s challenges with confidence and clarity.
In This Session You’ll Discover:
✔ How mindfulness and hypnosis naturally complement one another
✔ Why stress and anxiety often fuel limiting beliefs and unwanted behaviors
✔ Practical ways to become more present and emotionally grounded
✔ Simple techniques to improve focus, relaxation, and mental clarity
✔ Everyday tools you can use to reduce stress and increase resilience
Throughout the presentation, Meghan guides attendees through a relaxing hypnosis experience designed to release personal obstacles and encourage a greater sense of peace and confidence. Participants will also experience gentle breathwork techniques that can be used anytime to calm the nervous system and regain focus.
Blending practical instruction with warmth, humor, and relatable real-life examples, Meghan creates an experience that is both educational and deeply restorative.
Attendees Will Leave With:
Greater awareness of how hypnosis influences everyday life
Practical mindfulness tools for daily use
Breathwork techniques to reduce stress and increase focus
Greater confidence in managing life’s challenges
A renewed sense of calm, clarity, and emotional balance
Whether you’re looking to reduce stress, strengthen your focus, or simply become more intentional in the way you live each day, this session offers simple yet powerful tools that can help you create lasting positive change—one mindful moment at a time.
Cosmic Context: Integrating Astrology into a Modern Hypnosis Practice
Hypnosis is a powerful tool for change — but understanding where a client is starting from can make all the difference.
In this fascinating and practical presentation, Charles Buckingham shares how he uses astrology as an assessment and preparation tool to better understand a client’s strengths, challenges, propensities, and subconscious patterns before a hypnosis session even begins.
Most hypnosis practitioners rely on client self-report, observation, and in-session discovery to assess subconscious dynamics. While effective, this approach can leave gaps — especially when clients struggle to explain their behaviors, emotional responses, or recurring life patterns.
Charles demonstrates how astrology helps bridge that gap by providing a structured framework for understanding:
- Anxiety and stress patterns
- Emotional reactivity
- Analytical vs. imaginative processing
- Communication style
- Motivational drivers
- Defensive patterns
- Trance responsiveness
Rather than teaching astrology itself, this presentation focuses on how astrology can function as a stand-alone assessment skill that sharpens session preparation, improves rapport, and allows hypnosis to be applied with greater precision and intention.
Drawing from his experience using hypnosis in practice since 2018, Charles explains how clients often arrive with very different internal landscapes. Some enter trance easily while others remain cautious. Some process emotionally while others stay highly analytical. Some issues resolve quickly while others are connected to deeper repeating patterns.
This is where astrology becomes valuable — not as a replacement for hypnosis, but as a way to better understand the terrain before the journey begins.
In This Session You’ll Discover:
✔ How astrology can help identify subconscious patterns before a session starts
✔ Why some clients respond differently to trance and hypnotic language
✔ How chart patterns may reveal emotional processing styles and defense systems
✔ Ways to improve communication, pacing, and rapport with clients
✔ How astrology can support more accurate and personalized hypnosis work
Charles will also briefly explain several chart elements he commonly looks at in practice, including:
- The Rising Sign as a reflection of defense systems and how clients meet the world
- The Moon as an indicator of emotional processing and unconscious responses
- Mercury as a representation of conscious thinking and communication style
- Planetary and house placements that often point toward recurring life challenges and behavioral patterns
Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how astrology can function as a practical assessment framework — helping practitioners locate where a client is “on the map” so hypnosis and transformational work can move forward with greater clarity, precision, and confidence.
For hypnotists, coaches, and change workers interested in a deeper understanding of human behavior and subconscious dynamics, this presentation offers a unique and thought-provoking approach to personalized transformation work.
Certified Hypnotist & Spiritual Transformation Coach
Charles Buckingham is a certified hypnotist and professional astrologer who helps individuals create meaningful and lasting change through hypnosis, meditation, and spiritually integrated subconscious work. Using hypnosis as his primary modality for transformation, Charles combines practical hypnotic techniques with deeper self-awareness practices designed to create change that feels authentic, aligned, and sustainable.
As co-owner of Colorado Springs Hypnosis, Charles has worked with thousands of clients seeking support with stress reduction, habit change, sleep improvement, emotional balance, confidence, and purpose alignment. His unique approach blends modern hypnosis with meditative and spiritual frameworks that help clients better understand themselves while building greater inner stability and resilience.
What sets Charles apart is his ability to integrate astrology as a tool for insight and personalization within the transformational process. By identifying natural strengths, challenges, and recurring life patterns, he helps tailor hypnotic work to the individual in a way that feels both precise and deeply personal.
Known for his grounded, approachable, and highly accessible teaching style, Charles empowers people to work with their own unique nature rather than against it — creating transformation that supports long-term growth, clarity, and emotional well-being.
Burnout Recovery Specialist & Stress Resilience Expert
With a background in leadership development, adult learning, and positive youth development, Dr. Carrie Stark has spent her career helping individuals and organizations build resilience, strengthen engagement, and improve performance under pressure. Her work spans higher education, workforce development, and statewide training initiatives, where she has designed and delivered programs focused on stress management, professional growth, and human development.
Carrie brings a practical, research-informed perspective to burnout prevention and recovery, translating complex concepts into accessible strategies professionals can immediately apply in their work with clients. Drawing from experience in organizational leadership, mental wellness education, and experiential learning, she helps practitioners recognize the signs of burnout and support healthier, more sustainable functioning in both personal and professional settings.
Attendees at the Hypnosis World Mid-America Conference will benefit from this workshop by gaining practical tools to identify burnout patterns commonly seen and will gain actionable, client-centered strategies that can be integrated immediately into professional practice. The session is designed for practitioners seeking grounded, ethical, and effective approaches to supporting clients experiencing chronic stress, overwhelm, and emotional exhaustion.
The Quiet Burnout: Helping Clients Recognize Stress, Exhaustion, and Emotional Overload
This workshop addresses the growing challenge of burnout among clients experiencing chronic stress, emotional exhaustion, overwhelm, and reduced functioning in both personal and professional environments. Many hypnotists and mental health practitioners encounter clients who present with anxiety, lack of motivation, sleep disruption, irritability, or feeling “stuck,” yet the underlying issue of burnout often goes unrecognized.
The workshop helps practitioners:
- Recognize the signs and patterns of burnout earlier
- Differentiate burnout from short-term stress or fatigue
- Understand how chronic stress impacts motivation, cognition, and emotional regulation
- Apply practical, client-centered interventions to support recovery and resilience
- Improve client outcomes by addressing systemic stress and depletion rather than symptoms alone
For attendees of the Hypnosis World Mid-America Conference, the workshop fills a practical gap between recognizing client distress and knowing how to respond with ethical, evidence-informed, and immediately usable strategies.
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Energy Hygiene for Hypnotists: The Rose Protocol
Brisa Chacon, CHt., is a Certified Hypnotist and Intuitive Reader with over 10 years of experience helping people unlock confidence and step into their full potential. She specializes in guiding individuals who feel stuck, uncertain, or disconnected from their inner power to create lasting change through hypnosis, NLP techniques, and intuitive insight.
Holly Stokes, International Best-selling Author, Master NLP Coach & Hypnosis Trainer has helped thousands of clients rewire their brains over the last 20 years.
In 2024 she released the International Bestseller book, The Miracle Code: Elevate Your Mind to Heal Your Body in which she shares her story of overcoming an “incurable” autoimmune condition through using mind-body Hypnosis tools and NLP strategies.
She has been quoted by Shape Magazine, Active Times, Chicago Tribune and appears on podcasts and local TV. She loves empowering clients to overcome life’s challenges, embrace their intuition and heal their lives. She teaches, trains and certifies professionals in Neuro Linguistic Programming and Hypnosis and co-owns the Life Harmony Wellness Center in Salt Lake City Utah.
• Discover The Miracle Code book: Elevate your mind to heal your body at: www.TheBrainTrainerllc.com/book
Hypnosis As Mind-Body Medicine
What more is possible in healing with hypnosis?
In this workshop, we’ll deep-dive into understanding the multiple levels of mind-body interactions so you can unlock new possibilities for your clients. By recognizing symptoms as communication from the unconscious mind, you can help clients move out of confines of resistance, pain, chronic illness and limitations.
Discover the expansive Power of your Mind and Body to work together for health and healing. Unlock new possibilities for pain relief, health and healing through the power of Hypnosis.
Breathe like the Animals
Did you know that the emotions you feel today are having a conversation with your DNA right now?
Science is revealing something extraordinary — our emotional world doesn’t just live in our minds. It reaches into our cells, influences how our genes express themselves, and can even shape the health of future generations. This is not metaphor. This is biology.
In this powerful session, we bridge cutting-edge epigenetic research with practical, real-world tools you can use immediately — with yourself and with the people you serve.
You’ll walk away understanding why emotional wellbeing is not a luxury but a biological necessity.
We’ll explore, reflect, and breathe together.
You’ll leave with science that validates what you’ve always felt intuitively, a deeper appreciation for your own mental health as a practitioner, and a simple meditation tool you can use with kids and adults alike.
Your emotions are powerful. It’s time to understand just how powerful.
Jeff Benink began his career surrounded by sound — first as a mobile DJ in his native Amsterdam, then as a live sound engineer mixing bands across the globe. A chance encounter with stage hypnotist Pharo at a German trade fair changed everything. When a theater accident ended his audio career, he enrolled in a four-year hypnosis training program and never looked back. Fifteen years ago, he opened his first practice.
Today, he runs Hypnosepraktijk Zwolle, has helped thousands of clients, and travels internationally to train hypnotherapists, speak at conferences, and consult with organizations. His expertise spans human behavioral science, child development, and forensic psychology. I
n 2023, Jeff published widely recognized research on COVID-19 lockdowns and young people. In 2024, he developed “Voices of the Mind,” a school program building critical thinking in children, and was named Hypnotist of the Year. In 2026, he received the prestigious title of Hypnosis Ambassador of the Year.
Certified Hypnotist, Professional Photographer & EMT
With over 35 years behind the camera, Greg Loll built a successful career as a professional photographer known for capturing powerful moments and unforgettable images. When the world shifted during the COVID-19 pandemic, Greg reinvented himself—channeling his creativity and communication skills into the world of hypnosis and becoming a certified Hypnotist and Master Practitioner of NLP.
Today, Greg brings a unique blend of performance, power of the mind, and visual artistry to the stage as a dynamic comedy hypnotist. His deep understanding of human behavior and eye for detail make him a master at both entertaining audiences and teaching others how to make their presence pop—on stage and on screen.
Whether he’s leading a hypnosis show or showing professionals how to pose for the perfect shot, Greg helps people stand out, connect, and shine.
From Awkward to AMAZING: How to Pose & Look Your Best in Photos
Your next client is judging you before you ever speak.
Your photo is your first impression—and most people are losing business with images that look outdated, unprofessional, or forgettable.
At the conference, you have the opportunity to fix that.
Greg Loll—stage hypnotist and professional photographer—will be offering on-site headshots and personal branding photos designed specifically for hypnotists, coaches, and entrepreneurs who want to look confident, credible, and high-level.
This isn’t a basic snapshot.
This is strategic positioning.
You’ll get:
- Professional headshots that instantly elevate your brand
- Guided posing so you look natural, confident, and polished
- Expert lighting and angles that bring out your best look
- Photos you can use immediately for your website, social media, and marketing
No guesswork. No awkwardness. No outdated images.
You’re already showing up to grow your business—
make sure your image reflects the level you’re stepping into.
Limited spots available during the event.
Book your session with Greg at the conference before they’re gone-
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Why Working with Teens Makes Sense—For Them, Their Families, and Your Balance Sheet
Most practitioners avoid working with teenagers.
Not because it’s not needed…
but because it feels unpredictable, resistant, and hard to manage.
That hesitation is costing you—both in impact and income.
In this high-energy, hands-on session, Jill Lien shows you why working with teens isn’t something to avoid… it’s one of the most rewarding and strategic areas you can step into.
This is where you make THE SHIFT from seeing teens as “difficult clients”… to understanding them as one of the most powerful opportunities in your practice.
You’ll discover:
- How the teenage brain actually works—and why traditional approaches often fail
- Why emotional processing overrides logic (and how to work with it instead of against it)
- How to build instant rapport—even with teens who don’t want to be there
- The Harmony Protocol for working with families as a system, not just the “problem teen”
- How to navigate real-world challenges like resistance, confidentiality, and parent dynamics
This session doesn’t stay theoretical—you’ll see it in action.
Through a live demonstration, you’ll watch exactly how to break through defenses, connect quickly, and guide meaningful change with a teen client.
What you’ll be able to do immediately:
- Confidently take on teen clients instead of avoiding them
- Use practical techniques to engage resistant or unmotivated teens
- Work more effectively with family dynamics that impact results
- Turn one teen client into multiple referral streams within a family network
- Build a reputation in a high-demand niche that most practitioners ignore
There’s a massive need for this work—and very few doing it well.
If you’re ready to expand your impact, grow your practice, and step into a niche that creates real, lasting change across generations…
This is where you start.
Board-Certified Hypnotist, Life Coach, and Certified Hypnosis Trainer
Jill Lien is a Board-Certified Hypnotist, Life Coach, and Certified Hypnosis Trainer with over 30 years of experience transforming family dynamics across cultures and continents. Originally from England and now based in the US, Jill is a sought-after conference speaker known for her practical, integrated approach to working with teenagers and families. As creator of The Harmony Protocol and author of multiple bestselling books and transformational journals on Amazon, Jill brings a unique blend of psychology, neuroscience, and real-world wisdom to her practice. Her specialty? Meeting teens exactly where they are—even the ones who arrive resentful at being “sent” to therapy. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies plus exclusive giveaways and resources. This is one session you won’t want to miss!
CEO Lubinescence and Certified Consulting Hypnotist
Hester Lubin helps thoughtful, self-aware adults who feel internally fragmented reclaim coherence, agency, and embodied power. Drawing on decades of personal integration work, early self-developed hypnotic practice, and a career devoted to understanding identity formation under pressure, she guides clients through structured, transformational processes that turn fragmentation into mastery. Her approach blends archetypal storytelling, precision hypnosis, and deep structural insight into how identity is formed, disrupted, and rebuilt. Rather than treating multiplicity as pathology, she teaches practitioners how to work with it as range, intelligence, and creative force. Attendees will gain a replicable framework for guiding clients from powerlessness to agency, along with a deeper understanding of identity flexibility and transformational narrative in hypnotic work. Find her at Lubinescence.com
Identity: Turning Structural Rupture to Conscious Agency
Step into the story of a little girl trapped — in her circumstances, her body, her mind — and journey with her through confusion, fragments, and the small steps that open doors to possibility. In this session, hypnotists and helping professionals are invited to inhabit the experience, to notice, to choose, to experiment, and to feel what it is to step into agency. Through story, archetypal imagery, and gentle interactive moments, participants will sense the light hidden in the shadows, discover how transformation emerges in motion, and leave inspired, energized, and with a renewed understanding of how to guide others — and themselves — into conscious, empowered selfhood.
In this immersive and experiential session, Hester Lubin guides you through THE SHIFT from working on surface behaviors… to helping clients rebuild identity, reclaim agency, and move forward with intention.
This is not a lecture. It’s an experience.
Through powerful storytelling, archetypal imagery, and guided interaction, you’ll step inside the journey of transformation—so you can understand it at a deeper level and apply it with your own clients.
You’ll discover:
- How and why identity becomes fractured, stuck, or disconnected
- The hidden structures that keep clients feeling trapped—even when they want change
- A framework for guiding clients from confusion and limitation into clarity and agency
- How to use story, imagery, and internal “movement” to create breakthroughs
- Why small internal shifts and decisions can unlock major transformation
What you’ll be able to do immediately:
- Help clients move beyond surface issues and address identity-level change
- Guide clients from feeling stuck or powerless into taking meaningful internal action
- Use storytelling and imagery to create deeper emotional engagement in sessions
- Facilitate breakthroughs for clients who feel lost, fragmented, or disconnected
- Elevate your work by becoming a practitioner who helps clients redefine who they are
You won’t just learn this process—
you’ll experience it.
And once you understand how identity shifts from the inside out…
you’ll be able to guide clients through some of the most powerful transformations possible.
Because when identity changes—
everything changes.
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Choosing the Life Sentence over the Death Sentence
Certified Medical Hypnotist
Pam helps people facing cancer and other serious illnesses, who have been told to “ stay positive “, follow the treatment plan”, “ just take the medication “. If this is you, you have most likely done what you have been told- the medication, the therapies, and more, yet the stress, fear, and anxiety remain with you. When you or someone you love is facing a life threatening diagnoses, it can feel less like a plan of care, and more of a sentence. A death sentence instead of a life sentence filled with possibilities you may not know existed. Pam knows the quiet anger and grief that can live beneath the surface. It has been a part of her for the majority of her lifetime. Step into the world of bringing your seven bodies, and mind back into a state of calm and resilience. Change the death sentence you have had placed upon you for a life sentence of possibilities. You won’t want to miss this opportunity.
Human Design Educator, Author, Transformational Coach, & Hypnosis Practitioner
Tamas Pocze is a Human Design educator, author, transformational coach, and hypnosis practitioner who helps professionals understand how people make decisions, respond to influence, and create lasting change. With more than 15 years of experience working with entrepreneurs, executives, and high-performing professionals, Tamas also brings a background in leadership and organizational development, helping individuals and teams gain clarity and direction during periods of change. His work focuses on one central question: why do some people change easily while others resist, even when the desire to change is strong? By integrating Human Design with hypnosis and subconscious transformation work, he offers practitioners a practical framework for understanding why some clients respond immediately while others resist traditional approaches. Tamas is currently co-authoring a book on Human Design and its practical application in personal transformation and professional practice. He is known for translating complex human behavior into clear insights that professionals can immediately apply in their client work and business.
Human Design in Hypnosis: 5 Client Types — Why Your Marketing Attracts the Wrong People
Lessons from 25 Years of Hypnotherapy Practice — How Helping People Heal Made Me a Millionaire
A Swansong Teaching
For twenty‑five years, Dr. Neill has walked beside clients as they released pain, reclaimed agency, and rebuilt their lives. In this intimate teaching, she shares the essential lessons learned from a quarter‑century of practice—lessons that brought her professional mastery, financial prosperity, deep joy, and enduring peace.
This is a legacy conversation about clarity, compassion, energetic alignment, and the truth that abundance follows meaningful service. It is her final teaching to the profession, offered with gratitude and grace.
Educator • Healer • Artist • Chief Catalyst for Change
For fifty years, Dr. Kweethai has devoted her life to teaching, healing, and guiding others toward clarity, peace, and personal agency. Her journey began in academia, where she spent decades shaping minds and exploring how humans learn, grow, and transform. That deep educational lineage became the foundation for her later work as a hypnotherapist, energy medicine practitioner, and creator of iChange Therapy™.
For twenty‑five years, Dr. Kweethai sat with clients in the sacred space where pain softens and possibility awakens. Through iHealth Center for Integrated Wellness, she helped many individuals release trauma, reclaim their voice, and rebuild their lives with intention. Her work blended communication, ceremony, humor, and energetic alignment into a healing experience that changed lives from the inside out.
Now, at the culmination of her clinical career, Dr. Kweethai offers her Swansong Trilogy—three closing sessions that honor her legacy as a healer and teacher. These sessions mark her graceful transition from individual therapy work into healing through art. As she steps away from hypnotherapy practice, she is recalibrating her healing energies into her artistic ventures, launching Transformative Designs through her signature body of work, Threads Made New: From Fragments to Tapestry.
In this next evolution, Dr. Neill continues her mission of helping people “stop suffering and start living” by transforming emotional residue into beauty, meaning, and choice. Her art carries the same magic as her clinical work—the alchemy of turning fragments into wholeness, pain into peace, and scattered stories into living tapestry. Through fabric, color, and form, she continues to heal, teach, and inspire.
Dr. Kweethai is also an author of nine books, a mixed‑media and fabric artist, and a beloved public speaker. Whether in the therapy room, on stage, or through her art, she remains devoted to helping people live fuller, more intentional, and more joyful lives.
Her motto: Live well. Love wholeheartedly. Learn passionately. Leave a legacy.
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Email: Kweethaineill@gmail.com
Founder of Messinger’s Mind Mastery: Unlocking Your Inner Potential
Pamala Messinger is a seasoned counselor, trainer, and certified hypnotist with over 30 years of experience guiding individuals through life’s most profound transitions. Her path to hypnosis was forged through personal tragedy—the murder of her mother and the loss of her husband to ALS—experiences that led her to seek deeper healing beyond the limits of traditional talk therapy.
Blending decades of clinical experience with the transformative tools of hypnosis, Pamala helps clients unlock inner strength, shift subconscious patterns, and reclaim a sense of purpose. She is known for her warmth, intuition, and powerful storytelling, creating safe and compassionate spaces for deep transformation.
As the founder of Messinger’s Mind Mastery: Unlocking Your Inner Potential, Pamala is dedicated to helping people move from pain to personal power with clarity, confidence, and grace.
The Confidence Reset Using Hypnosis to Help Clients Overcome Self-Doubt and Step Into Their Strength
Most clients don’t just need relief from their problems…
they need to feel powerful again.
When someone is stuck in anxiety, self-doubt, or discouragement, the real issue isn’t just the symptom—it’s a loss of belief in their ability to change. And if that doesn’t shift, the results don’t stick.
In this transformational session, Pamala Messinger shows you how to make THE SHIFT from symptom-focused work… to empowerment-driven hypnosis that creates lasting change.
Drawing from over 30 years of clinical experience, she breaks down how to help clients move from “something is wrong with me” to “I can handle this—and move forward.”
You’ll learn:
Why lack of empowerment sits at the core of many client struggles
How subconscious patterns of helplessness and identity loss hold clients back
How to use hypnotic language to rebuild confidence, clarity, and personal agency
Practical reframing techniques that shift clients out of limitation and into possibility
How to install empowering anchors that clients can access long after the session ends
This session goes beyond concepts—you’ll experience it.
Through a guided exercise, you’ll personally feel how quickly hypnosis can activate confidence, clarity, and emotional strength when the right internal switches are flipped.
What you’ll be able to do immediately:
Help clients reconnect with their sense of control and capability
Move clients out of stuck patterns faster by addressing the real root issue
Create stronger, longer-lasting results that go beyond symptom relief
Use empowerment-focused language that deepens your impact in every session
Build a reputation as a practitioner who creates real transformation—not just temporary change
If you want clients who don’t just feel better—but become stronger, more confident, and more self-directed…
This is the work that makes it happen.
Because when a client feels empowered—
they don’t just change…
They take their life back.
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Command the Outcome - Turn inquiries into clients, conversations into confidence, and results into referrals.
Most hypnotists focus on what happens in the session.
Top practitioners know the outcome is decided before it even starts.
If your phone rings but doesn’t convert… if clients show up unsure, skeptical, or inconsistent… if your results aren’t turning into referrals… this is where the breakdown is happening.
In this results-driven session, Shelly Clayton shows you how to make THE SHIFT from hoping sessions go well… to intentionally shaping the entire client experience from the very first interaction.
This isn’t about scripts, funnels, or high-pressure sales tactics.
It’s about mastering the moments that actually determine whether someone becomes a client—and whether they succeed once they do.
You’ll learn:
- What really determines whether an inquiry becomes a booked, committed client
- How to create trust, confidence, and expectation in the very first conversation
- The subtle shifts that move clients from “interested” to “ready”
- How to set the stage so your sessions land stronger and produce better outcomes
- Why authentic presence—not polished scripts—is your most powerful conversion tool
What you’ll be able to do immediately:
- Convert more inquiries into paying clients without feeling “salesy”
- Walk into sessions with clients who are mentally prepared and ready to succeed
- Increase your success rate by setting stronger expectations upfront
- Generate more referrals and better reviews through a more intentional client experience
- Build a practice that fills through reputation, not constant chasing
If you want more bookings, better results, and clients who rave about you after the session…
It starts before the session ever begins.
And once you learn how to command that process—
you don’t just get clients…
You get outcomes.
Hypnotist and CEO of H2Ohypnosis.com
Shelly Clayton is a dynamic and compassionate hypnosis practitioner with over 15 years of experience helping individuals unlock their potential and live their best lives. Inspired by the teachings of Oprah, Deepak Chopra, and Tony Robbins, Shelly believes that the answers to life’s biggest questions lie within us. Like Glenda the Good Witch told Dorothy, Shelly knows we all have the power within us to create the life we desire.
Shelly’s journey into hypnosis began with a deep love for understanding the human mind and behavior. Her formal education at Indiana University, combined with her decade-long career as an industrial corporate sales executive, laid the foundation for her unique approach. However, it was her personal experiences, particularly raising four children, including a son with Down syndrome and autism, that truly shaped her compassionate and transformative methods.
As the founder of H2O Hypnosis in Frankfort, Illinois, Shelly specializes in helping clients achieve their heart’s desires, whether it’s running a marathon, improving focus, quitting habits like smoking, or overcoming fears and anxieties. Her extensive training includes certifications from the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) and the International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapists (ICBCH), along with specialized training in virtual gastric bypass, sexual freedom hypnosis, smoking cessation, and performance coaching.
Shelly’s passion is to share her energy for life and help others discover the power they’ve had all along, guiding them towards their own personal transformations and success.
Hypnotist
Olga Zvereva is a hypnotherapist and former software engineer who focuses on helping high-functioning professionals whose minds rarely switch off.
After years in high-pressure technical environments, she became interested in how analytical thinking affects the ability to enter and stabilize trance. Her work explores how reducing mental interference can make hypnotic work easier and more natural for analytical minds. She integrates structured hypnotic protocols with immersive sound-supported recalibration to help clients settle the part of the mind that stays responsible and in control.
Olga offers private hypnotherapy sessions and immersive experiences designed to help professionals move from mental overdrive toward greater clarity, stability, and focus.
Immersive Hypnosis: Sound-Supported Recalibration for High-Functioning Minds
Some of your smartest clients are the hardest to take deep.
They follow every instruction. They understand the process. They want the result.
But part of their mind never shuts off—and that quiet “observer” keeps them from fully dropping in.
If you work with high-performing, analytical clients—executives, engineers, entrepreneurs—you’ve seen this. And if you don’t solve it, your results plateau.
In this innovative session, Olga Zvereva shows you how to make THE SHIFT from trying to push clients deeper… to removing the mental interference that’s keeping them shallow in the first place.
You’ll discover:
- Why high-functioning clients stay mentally “on” during trance—and how that limits depth and results
- The hidden monitoring process that keeps analytical minds evaluating instead of experiencing
- A simple, practical framework to reduce cognitive interference without forcing deeper techniques
- How predictable sensory input (including sound) can stabilize trance naturally
- When and how to integrate sound-supported hypnosis safely and effectively into your sessions
This isn’t just theory—you’ll experience it.
Through a live immersive demonstration, you’ll feel firsthand how a stable sensory environment can quiet the analytical mind and create a smoother, deeper hypnotic experience.
What you’ll be able to do immediately:
- Work more effectively with analytical, high-performing clients
- Create faster, more stable trance states without overcomplicating your process
- Reduce session resistance and mental “overthinking” in real time
- Deliver deeper, more consistent results—leading to stronger testimonials and referrals
- Position yourself as the go-to hypnotist for high-level clients who others struggle with
Stop fighting the thinking mind.
Start working with it.
Because sometimes the breakthrough isn’t about doing more…
it’s about removing what’s in the way.
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Drug of Choice. Generate Your Own Powerful Inner State, on Demand.
In this provocative session, Alessandro Gavello explores the idea that your “drug of choice” isn’t a substance—it’s a pattern that you learned neurologically, that you can learn to use to your advantage.
Designed for coaches, seekers, and high performers, this talk is for anyone ready to see what you can do when you learn to change with intention.
Blending awareness work with hypnosis and with NLP, Alessandro guides attendees to learn how to make the most of many unexpected patterns. Expect a direct, eye-opening experience that challenges perception and invites a deeper level of personal responsibility. You’ll leave with a sharper awareness of your internal patterns—and practical tools to shift them—so you can stop reacting on autopilot and start choosing your state, your actions, and ultimately, your direction.
Awareness Coach and Licensed NLP Trainer
Alessandro Gavello is an Awareness Coach and Licensed NLP Trainer who helps coaches and high performers sharpen their perception, recalibrate their thinking, and act with precision. His work centers on one core principle: when awareness expands, everything else follows.
With over 30 years of experience as a professional performer and educator, Alessandro brings a grounded, no-nonsense approach that blends deep insight with real-world application. He is known for simplifying complexity, cutting through noise, and guiding people to access clarity, emotional control, and aligned action.
Attendees can expect a direct, engaging session that challenges how they see themselves and their potential—leaving them with practical tools to think better, decide faster, and perform at a higher level.
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Lester Fu is a professional hypnotist who helps people find clarity and create positive changes using the power of the subconscious mind. Lester offers in-person and online sessions to clients worldwide, and his viral hypnosis videos have amassed more than 50 million views globally.
He serves as the resident hypnotist at Bishop’s Lodge Auberge Resort, and also captivates audiences with stage hypnosis shows exploring themes like love, time, and dreams. When not doing hypnosis, you might find him hiking in the New Mexican wilderness or singing in the shower.
What most Hypnotists Don't Get About Social Media
The session is about why most people’s social media contents aren’t working, and how to fix it.
On a deeper level – it is about truly understanding what social media is for, and how to build real connection with the right people on social media as a hypnotist – and most importantly – as a human.
It is for anyone who wants to use social media to build meaningful connections that will fuel their work, their creativity, and their business.
People will learn how to attract the right people on social media, how to show up on social media that’s meaningful and effective, how to build an audience, how to use social media in a way that’s sustainable for themselves and the people they care about, and etc.
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The Shift to Rupture-Proof Hypnotherapy
You can have the right technique… and still lose the client.
Not because the method failed—
but because trust broke.
In this bold, necessary session, VaJezatha Payne takes you inside one of the most overlooked factors in client success: therapeutic rupture—the subtle (and not-so-subtle) moments where misattunement, bias, defensiveness, or lack of awareness quietly damage the relationship.
This is where THE SHIFT happens—from focusing only on technique… to mastering the human experience inside the session.
You’ll learn:
- Why clients disengage, shut down, or don’t fully respond—even when you’re “doing it right”
- How cultural misattunement and unseen bias impact trust, safety, and outcomes
- The real-time internal triggers that cause therapists to lose connection without realizing it
- How to recognize rupture as it’s happening—not after the damage is done
- Practical strategies to repair trust, deepen connection, and keep sessions productive
This session goes beyond awareness. It gives you in-the-moment control.
What you’ll be able to do immediately:
- Stay grounded and effective when difficult or uncomfortable moments arise
- Adjust your responses in real time to maintain trust and safety
- Work more effectively with clients from diverse and marginalized backgrounds
- Strengthen client retention, results, and referrals by improving the therapeutic relationship
- Build a reputation as a practitioner who creates a space where all clients feel seen, respected, and supported
This isn’t surface-level “be more aware” advice.
This is clinical self-mastery—the difference between losing the client… and leading them through transformation.
Because when trust is strong, everything works better.
And when it’s not… nothing else matters.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Speaker, & Visionary Leader
VaJezatha is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, speaker, and visionary leader whose work helps individuals, families, and communities move toward healing, wholeness, and purposeful living. She is the founder of ShePRAYneurs, a entrepreneur-centered empowerment movement that encourages women to pursue spiritual, emotional, and practical growth with courage and clarity.
Drawing from her experience in behavioral health, trauma-informed care, community service, and faith-integrated support, she offers a perspective that is both clinically grounded and deeply relatable. Her unique approach bridges mind, body, soul, and everyday life, helping audiences understand how what surrounds them can shape how they think, feel, and live.
Attendees will benefit from her ability to blend insight, warmth, and actionable wisdom in a way that inspires personal reflection, stronger boundaries, and meaningful change.
Clinical Hypnotist and Integrative Health Facilitator
Dr. Gris Galvez is a medical doctor with over 30 years of hospital practice as a pediatrician/ neonatologist. For the last 10 years, she has expanded her practice as a clinical hypnotist and integrative health facilitator with complementary modalities for an integrative approach. Based not only on neuroscience but also the mind, body & spirituality connection, her experience will provide you with tools to use with your clients.
Hypnosis for your Neurodivergent Client
Hypnosis for Your Neurodivergent Client
Most hypnotists are trained for the “average” mind.
Your clients are not average.
If you’ve ever felt like a technique should have worked—but didn’t… if you’ve had clients who struggle to relax, follow suggestions, or fully engage in the process… this is where the gap is.
In this essential session, Dr. Gris Galvez breaks down how neurodivergent clients (ADHD, autism, and related profiles) actually process information—and why traditional hypnosis approaches often miss the mark.
This is about making THE SHIFT from a one-size-fits-all model… to a practitioner who can adapt, connect, and get results with a wider range of clients.
You’ll learn:
- How neurodivergent clients think, process, and respond during hypnosis
- Why standard scripts, pacing, and structure can create resistance instead of results
- How to adjust your language, sequencing, and delivery for maximum effectiveness
- Environmental and sensory factors that can make or break a session
- How to create a session experience that feels safe, engaging, and productive for neurodivergent minds
What you’ll be able to do immediately:
- Confidently work with clients who previously felt “difficult” or unresponsive
- Modify your sessions in real time based on how a client is processing
- Increase your success rate by meeting clients where they are—not where you expect them to be
- Expand your services to a growing and underserved audience
This isn’t just about inclusion—it’s about effectiveness and growth.
When you understand how to work with the neurodivergent mind, you don’t just become a better hypnotist…
you become a more versatile, in-demand practitioner.
And that shift changes everything.
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Eavesdropping on the Mind
Eavesdropping on the Mind: What Your Brain Is Saying About You (and How to Change It)
You’re not stuck because of a lack of skill. You’re stuck because of the conversation happening in your own head.
In this powerful, highly interactive session, Carolyn Cahn exposes the hidden driver behind procrastination, hesitation, and inconsistent results—the automatic internal dialogue that quietly dictates your actions all day long. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it… and more importantly, you can finally take control of it.
This isn’t theory-heavy fluff. This is practical mental reprogramming you can use immediately in your life, your sessions, and your business.
You’ll discover:
- Why up to 80% of your thoughts default negative—and how that’s sabotaging your progress
- How your brain wires in self-doubt, hesitation, and stop-start behavior (and how to interrupt it)
- A simple, repeatable framework to break unproductive thought loops on demand
- How to replace automatic negative thinking with patterns that drive confidence, action, and follow-through
- Real-time techniques you can use with clients to help them shift faster and more effectively
During the session, you won’t just learn this—you’ll experience it. You’ll identify your own hidden thought patterns, disrupt them in real time, and feel what it’s like to regain control of that internal voice.
What this means for you:
- Make decisions faster instead of overthinking
- Take consistent action instead of starting and stopping
- Show up with more confidence in sessions, on stage, or in your business
- Help your clients break through mental blocks more quickly
If your results—or your clients’ results—aren’t where they should be, this is one of the root causes.
Fix the conversation in the mind… and everything else starts to move.
Success Coach and Registered Nurse
Carolyn Cahn is a highly experienced Success Coach and Registered Nurse, with over 35 years dedicated to empowering individuals. Holding advanced degrees from George Washington University and certified in NLP, Coaching, IEMT, and Hypnosis, Carolyn brings a powerful blend of expertise to her public speaking. She specializes in helping audiences tackle challenges like low self-esteem, ADHD, and burnout, and uniquely, in releasing negative emotions tied to memories. Her proven methods guide individuals toward personal and professional fulfillment, with clients achieving satisfying careers, improved relationships, and increased revenues. Carolyn’s compassionate approach makes her a trusted voice, inspiring lasting transformation.
Clinical hypnotist, holistic healing practitioner, ordained interfaith minister, and creator of the Heal the Cause Mastery Method™.
Debra Troy is a transformational clinical hypnotist, holistic healing practitioner, ordained interfaith minister, and creator of the Heal the Cause Mastery Method™.
For more than 35 years, she has been a carer for caregivers — sometimes called “the caregiver gal” — providing holistic healing, hypnotic support, coaching, and integrative counseling for women who care for many. Through her private trauma-informed hypnosis, coaching, and energy healing practice, she has worked with more than 7,500 clients over three decades. Recognizing a growing gap in caregiver support — where holistic, hypnotic, and healing strategies for stress reduction and energy renewal are rarely offered — she developed the Caregiver Renewal™ approach and practitioner certification.
In her “Who Cares for the Caregivers?,” an Introduction to Caregiver Renewal Practitioner Certification, presentation, she introduces this emerging specialty to today’s rapidly expanding caregiver population.
Who Cares For the Caregiver?
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NLP Language Patterns for the Clinical Hypnotist
Your results are only as strong as your words.
Before the trance begins… before the technique is applied… before the client even commits—
your language is already shaping the outcome.
Most hypnotists don’t have a technique problem.
They have a communication problem they don’t realize is costing them conversions, compliance, and results.
In this precision-focused session, Jeffrey Richards shows you how to make THE SHIFT from speaking habitually… to using language with intention, structure, and impact at every stage of the client journey.
This is where small changes create massive results.
You’ll learn:
- How specific language patterns influence client decisions, emotions, and expectations
- What to say (and what to avoid) during sales calls, pretalks, inductions, and beyond
- How to reduce resistance before it ever shows up
- How to structure suggestions so they land deeper and stick longer
- Where most hypnotists unknowingly weaken their authority or reinforce the very issues they’re trying to solve
This session is interactive and practical.
You won’t just hear examples—you’ll break them down, refine them, and start using stronger, cleaner language in real time.
What you’ll be able to do immediately:
- Convert more inquiries into committed clients through better communication
- Deliver clearer, more effective sessions without changing your core techniques
- Increase client responsiveness and follow-through
- Eliminate subtle language mistakes that sabotage results
- Upgrade every conversation you have—from first contact to final outcome
You don’t need a new system.
You need to say what you’re already saying… better.
Because when your language improves—
everything improves.
Hypnotist and a Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Jeffrey Richards is a hypnotist and a Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, with over 24 years of professional experience. He is the creator of the Mindset Integration Hypnosis and the Sugar Reset System, designed to help individuals overcome sugar addiction. In addition to his full-time hypnosis practice, Jeff presents comedy and transformative hypnosis entertainment for private and public events. He is a founding instructor with Kenton Knepper’s Silent Influence Academy. Jeff lives near Columbus, Ohio, with a very nice dog and a bunch of dust bunnies that more than make up for how nice the dog is.
Certified Master Transpersonal Hypnotist, educator, and the President & CEO of NATH (The National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists)
Linda Thunberg is an award-winning Certified Master Transpersonal Hypnotist, educator, and the President & CEO of NATH (The National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists). Through her company, Transpersonal Power, LLC, Linda helps clients and practitioners create profound transformation by integrating the body, mind, and spirit.
Recognized for her compassionate teaching style and deep expertise, Linda has trained hundreds of students nationally and internationally in hypnosis, regression work, spiritual healing modalities, and hypnosis business development. Her advanced trainings and certifications include Certified Hypnotherapist, Master Hypnotherapist, Childhood Chakra Regression, and Life Between Lives programs.
Linda is passionate about helping hypnosis practitioners expand both their confidence and their impact. In her presentation, she shares a practical and inspiring approach to group hypnosis that allows practitioners to help more clients simultaneously, increase income opportunities, and facilitate powerful collective healing experiences.
Attendees will leave her session with actionable tools, creative ideas, and a practical blueprint for confidently designing and leading successful group hypnosis programs with greater ease and effectiveness.
Group Hypnosis: Multiply Your Impact and Grow Your Practice
Imagine guiding an entire room of people into positive change with a single, well-crafted hypnosis session. In this engaging and inspiring presentation, Linda Thunberg reveals how group hypnosis can become one of the most powerful and rewarding tools in your professional toolkit. Perfect for hypnotists, coaches, and wellness practitioners, this session will show you how to help more clients at one time while expanding your visibility, increasing referrals, and creating new income opportunities. Linda will share practical strategies for choosing irresistible themes, structuring effective sessions, managing group dynamics, and marketing programs that people are excited to attend. Whether you are just beginning or looking to grow your practice, you will leave energized, inspired, and equipped with practical ideas you can immediately use to launch successful group hypnosis programs that transform lives—including your own business.
When the Body Won't Perform: Trauma-Informed Hypnosis for Athletes
Creator of the Equihypnose® / Equihypnosis Method
Nicole Weber is a licensed psychotherapist in Germany, hypnotherapist, and trauma-informed performance coach based in Texas. She specializes in the powerful intersection of trauma, performance, and hypnosis, with a particular focus on equestrians, athletes, and equine-assisted work.
Before bringing her expertise to the United States, Nicole successfully operated a hypnosis and trauma therapy practice in Germany for more than a decade, helping clients overcome deep emotional barriers and performance limitations. Today, she works extensively with athletes — especially riders and their horses — helping them move beyond fear, blocks, pressure, and nervous system dysregulation to perform with greater confidence, connection, and focus.
Nicole is widely recognized for her innovative work in sports hypnosis, trauma-informed coaching, neurodivergence, and advanced hypnotic techniques. She has presented at major hypnosis and equestrian conferences throughout North America, Europe, and Australia, earning a reputation for delivering highly practical, immediately usable strategies that blend science, psychology, and experiential learning.
She is also the creator of the Equihypnose® / Equihypnosis Method, a groundbreaking approach integrating hypnosis principles into equestrian performance and equine-assisted transformation work. In addition, Nicole is an NGH-certified hypnotherapist and instructor, as well as the published author of three books focused on hypnosis and performance.
Attendees of Nicole’s presentation can expect a dynamic, insight-rich experience filled with practical tools and techniques they can immediately apply with clients struggling with performance blocks, trauma responses, confidence issues, and emotional regulation under pressure.
Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt) and Kōmoto, Master of Ceremonies
John Launius is a certified hypnotherapist (CHt) and Kōmoto, Master of Ceremonies, in the Japanese tradition of incense, bringing a rare and powerful integration of fragrance and subconscious transformation to the field of hypnosis. He works with professionals, first responders, and individuals seeking rapid shifts in emotional regulation, focus, and performance.
His approach, known as Fragrance Hypnosis, leverages the direct neurological pathway between scent and the limbic system to deepen hypnotic states and accelerate lasting change. With decades of training in both sensory disciplines and human behavior, John offers a perspective few in the field have encountered.
Attendees will gain practical methods to enhance induction, anchoring, and client outcomes by engaging the most primal and immediate gateway to the subconscious: scent.
Scent and the Subconscious: Neurochemical Pathways to Linking Olfaction to Hypnosis
Scent and the Subconscious: Neurochemical Pathways Linking Olfaction to Hypnosis This session reveals how scent can be used as a direct, powerful gateway into the subconscious mind.
Designed for hypnotherapists, coaches, and practitioners who want to deepen their impact, it explores the unique neurological relationship between olfaction, emotion, memory, and suggestibility.
Attendees will learn how to integrate fragrance into their hypnotic work to accelerate induction, deepen trance states, and create stronger, more reliable anchors for change.
The session includes a live demonstration, giving participants a firsthand experience of how scent rapidly shifts internal states. If you’re looking to enhance your results without adding complexity, this is a practical, memorable approach you can immediately apply.
You’ll leave with clear techniques and a new level of precision in how you access and influence the subconscious.
Best Known Beats Best
Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur & Visibility Strategist
Hypnotists and coaches who struggle to make it a full-time business. Also, those who keep chasing certificates, thinking “if I can just get this one, everything will suddenly bring me in tons of business”
I’m the author of the book “Best Known Beats Best” (foreword by Rich Guzzi), and ran several small businesses that all dominated their local markets. WHY ATTENDEES WOULD BENEFIT!!! Best Known Beats Best challenges one of the most damaging myths in the hypnosis industry: that being highly skilled is enough to build a thriving practice. It isn’t.
In this presentation, Nick Hughes explains why many talented hypnotists stay broke, invisible, or stuck trading hours for dollars, while less-skilled peers dominate their markets. Attendees will learn that visibility, positioning, and authority consistently outperform technical ability in attracting clients. Rather than theory or hype, this talk delivers a practical framework for becoming the obvious choice in a crowded marketplace.
Attendees will walk away with clear strategies for increasing local and online visibility, clarifying who they are for, and avoiding the common marketing mistakes that quietly kill hypnosis and coaching businesses. This session is especially valuable for hypnotists and coaches who are certified, competent, yet frustrated that their calendar and income don’t reflect it. If attendees want more clients, higher fees, and less reliance on referrals or luck, this presentation gives them the blueprint.
In “Best Known Beats Best,” best-selling author, coach, and award-winning speaker Nick Hughes reveals the exact playbook he used to dominate his local market, no matter what industry he’s been involved in. Get Your Copy Today
Advanced Clinical HypnoCounselor
Integrative Healer – Mind, Body & NeuroGraphica
Elena Huttenlocher is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist as well as a NeuroGraphica Instructor who is passionate about healing the whole person. With a deep commitment to bridging the gap between mind and body, she uses a unique, integrative approach that combines cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness strategies with the transformative power of NeuroGraphica.
Elena’s work isn’t just about managing symptoms—it’s about unlocking your innate potential for lasting change. By weaving together evidence-based techniques and creative visual mapping, she guides clients to discover new perspectives, release emotional blocks, and build healthier, more resilient lives. Whether you’re a practitioner looking for advanced methods to enhance your practice or someone on a personal journey to deeper well-being, Elena’s insights offer practical, inspiring tools to transform challenges into opportunities for growth.
NeuroGraphica: The Art of Rewiring Your Mind
What if the key to personal transformation was already in your hands—literally? NeuroGraphica is a groundbreaking technique that blends neuroscience with creative expression, giving participants a visual and tactile way to unlock healing, clarity, and emotional freedom.
In this experiential session, you’ll discover how NeuroArt uses the brain’s neuroplasticity—its ability to create new connections—to reframe limiting beliefs, reduce stress, and promote emotional balance. This isn’t about drawing beautiful pictures; it’s about creating visible pathways of change.
You’ll learn:
- How NeuroGraphica rewires your brain through simple artistic tools
- The science of how creative engagement improves emotional well-being
- Hands-on techniques you can use immediately—for yourself or your clients
- How to integrate this method into therapeutic, coaching, or self-care practices
No artistic talent needed—just curiosity and an open mind. Whether you’re a therapist, coach, or personal growth enthusiast, this powerful modality will give you a fresh, accessible, and deeply effective way to create breakthroughs.
Join Elena and leave with tools, insight, and your own piece of transformational art. This is creativity redefined—and healing made visual.
Stage Safety: What Every Hypnotist Must Know
Whether you’re performing on a stage, in a classroom, or at an impromptu event, safety isn’t optional—it’s essential.
In this practical and eye-opening session, you’ll learn how to protect yourself and your volunteers from common (and often overlooked) risks that can arise in any performance or demonstration setting. From lighting and seating to microphone cords and participant management, this presentation dives into the real-world hazards that many hypnotists miss—and shows you exactly how to avoid them.
You’ll also explore how to spot subtle cues that may signal an impending abreaction or unsafe emotional response, and how to create a controlled environment where both you and your participants feel secure and confident.
What You’ll Learn:
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How to identify hidden hazards in various environments—on stage, in lecture halls, or on the street
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The do’s and don’ts of volunteer safety, including seating, staging, and positioning
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Managing microphone cords, lighting, room layout, and people flow
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How to minimize the risk of physical or emotional triggers and abreactions
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Pro tips to set up your space for smooth, secure demonstrations—every time
This session is a must for any hypnotist who works with live audiences, offering practical insights and behind-the-scenes knowledge that will help you feel confident, prepared, and professional in any setting.
Because when you make safety second nature, everything else flows better.
Hypnotist (full-time)
Master Hypnotist | Industry Pioneer | Stage & Therapeutic Hypnosis Expert
With a career spanning more than five decades, Lee Darrow is a true legend in the world of hypnosis. Since 1968, he has captivated audiences across the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, and Europe, blending the art of stage hypnosis with the integrity of therapeutic practice. As the official hypnotist for Sandals & Beaches Resorts, Lee has brought ethical entertainment to the global stage—creating unforgettable experiences grounded in safety, professionalism, and skill.
A trailblazer in the field, Lee authored the first-ever ebook on stage hypnosis safety, and his expertise has been featured on numerous radio and television programs. But his greatest contribution may be his commitment to mentorship and education. He has spent decades guiding new and seasoned hypnotists alike through the finer points of audience psychology, ethical performance, and the true power of suggestion.
Lee’s sessions are as engaging as they are educational—rich with humor, real-world stories, and time-tested tools you can immediately apply to elevate your practice, whether you’re onstage or in session.
If you want to learn from one of the most experienced minds in modern hypnosis, this is your opportunity.
CEO - Shine on Hypnosis
Licensed Social Worker | Certified Hypnotherapist | Trauma Specialist
Theresa Price is a deeply intuitive and clinically trained trauma specialist, hypnotherapist, and licensed social workerbased in Northeast Pennsylvania. With a master’s degree in social work and a gift for blending therapeutic depth with spiritual insight, she helps clients reclaim their power by transforming the subconscious patterns that keep them stuck.
Theresa specializes in guiding individuals through trauma, self-worth issues, and spiritual disconnection—meeting each client with compassion, clarity, and a powerful toolkit rooted in hypnosis, clinical expertise, and intuitive wisdom.
Her philosophy is simple yet profound: “People search the world for magic without realizing they are the magic.” That belief guides both her private practice and her teaching style, which combines grounded methods with soulful reflection.
A natural fit for hypnotists, coaches, energy workers, and healing professionals, Theresa’s work resonates with those looking to bridge the clinical and the spiritual, the evidence-based and the energetically aligned.
When she’s not in session, Theresa can often be found barefoot in her garden or exploring sacred spaces in nature—always tuned into the quiet wisdom that lives beneath the surface.
The Holy Trinity of Calm: Replacing Anxiety in Under 15 Minutes
Trauma doesn’t just live in the mind—it echoes through the body, shapes behavior, and influences every decision your clients make. In this transformative, hands-on session, you’ll learn how to break those patterns at their root.
You’ll be introduced to the concept of the “billboard of the past”—those persistent, outdated subconscious messages that silently guide clients back into trauma loops. Through proven, rapid hypnotic protocols developed in high-pressure clinical environments, you’ll discover how to interrupt those loops, release stored emotional responses, and create meaningful change on both the emotional and somatic levels.
This isn’t just theory—it’s a live experience. You’ll see change happen in real time.
💡 What You’ll Learn:
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How trauma is stored in the subconscious and expressed through the body
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The “billboard of the past” metaphor—and why it keeps trauma patterns in place
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Rapid hypnotic techniques that dismantle trauma loops and shift the nervous system
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A structured trauma resolution process backed by field-tested clinical success
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How to recognize physical and emotional signs of real-time transformation
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How to blend intuitive and experiential tools with clinical structure for deeper results
Whether you’re working with anxiety, grief, PTSD, or deeply rooted behavioral patterns, this session will equip you with a repeatable, impactful approach to facilitate healing—quickly and effectively.
Come for the insight. Leave with a protocol—and a new level of confidence in your ability to create lasting change.
Rapid Rapport Building Secrets Learn the Trifecta of Trust: Build Connection Anywhere, Anytime
Hypnostist, Mindset Coach & Stage
Rebecca Wagner is a certified hypnotist, NLP practitioner, and mindset coach specializing in helping women break free from anxiety, self-doubt, and past limitations. Through her signature Heal From the Heart method, she guides clients to unlock their subconscious, clear emotional blocks, and create lasting transformation. Rebecca’s work blends hypnosis and NLP for rapid, deep change, empowering women to reclaim confidence, joy, and inner peace. She is also the host of the Stressed to Best podcast, where she shares insights and tools for overcoming stress and anxiety. In addition to her coaching practice, Rebecca performs comedy hypnosis shows, showcasing the power of the subconscious mind in an entertaining and transformative way. Her mission is to help women step into their fullest potential with ease and clarity.
Words That Work: Unconscious Influence Through Language
Words That Work: Unconscious Influence Through Language
What if the right words could inspire change, dissolve resistance, and open new possibilities—all without force or persuasion?
In this engaging and interactive session, Rebecca Wagner will introduce you to the transformative power of hypnotic language. Using conversational hypnosis and principles from the Milton Model, you’ll discover how subtle phrasing, ambiguity, and suggestion can create powerful unconscious shifts—naturally and ethically.
Whether you’re a coach, therapist, speaker, or simply someone who wants to connect more deeply and communicate with impact, this presentation will equip you with tools you can use immediately.
You’ll discover:
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The core principles of the Milton Model and how they shape perception
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How to use hypnotic language to build rapport, trust, and openness
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Techniques for embedding powerful suggestions into everyday conversation
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Ways to guide people toward insight and transformation—without resistance
With real-time practice, storytelling, and audience participation, you’ll walk away with hands-on experience and practical tools to elevate your communication—and influence with confidence and integrity.
Unlock the secret language of transformation. It’s time to make your words truly work.
Hypnosis for the Overthinking Mind
Award-Winning, Board-Certified Hypnotherapist, Instructor, and the creator of HypnoFertility®
Lynsi Eastburn, MA is an award-winning, board-certified hypnotherapist, instructor, and creator of HypnoFertility®, a groundbreaking method that has supported clients and practitioners worldwide for more than two decades. Author of three books and founder of an internationally recognized certification program, she has trained hypnotherapists across multiple continents to build thriving practices and expand their specialties.
A Reiki Master Teacher since 1994, Lynsi helped establish one of the first state-licensed Reiki training programs in the U.S. and continues to bridge hypnosis with energy-based practices in her private and teaching work. She has worked with individuals and medical clinics worldwide and is the creator and host of Journeys within the Journey on New Reality TV, where she shares inspiring conversations and transformational tools.
Lynsi brings warmth, depth, and extensive experience to her presentations, offering attendees both practical skills and transformative insights they can immediately apply to their own practice.
Hypnotist and Subconscious Transformation Guide
Jenya Steinberg is a hypnotist and subconscious transformation guide known for working in the realms most practitioners cannot access. She specializes in removing non-physical energetic intrusions — the heavy, foreign influences that attach to a person’s subconscious and quietly drain vitality, distort emotions, and block progress.
These hidden forces often go undetected for years; Jenya identifies and clears them within minutes, allowing clients to feel lighter, clearer, and fully themselves again. Her approach blends hypnosis, dehypnosis, non-contact hypnosis, and advanced energetic clearing methods that reach beyond the psychological into the subtle, unseen layers of the human field.
Clients come to her when they feel “something is off,” when life won’t improve despite every effort, or when emotional patterns return with no logical explanation. Jenya is also the only certified facilitator of Transformational Games in the United States, using this mystical diagnostic method to reveal subconscious truths with uncanny precision.
Spells, Dark Energies & Negative Influences: The Hidden Factors Affecting Your Clients
Mind-Body Magic: Using Somatic Hypnosis for Pain Control
Certified Master Hypnotherapist, Transpersonal Wellness Coach, Transformational Speaker, and International Best-Selling Author
Dr. Jodie Solberg is a Certified Master Hypnotherapist, Transpersonal Wellness Coach, Transformational Speaker, and International Best-Selling Author, holding a Doctorate in Counseling. With over two decades of experience as both a therapist and coach, and an educational background in both Social and Clinical Psychology, Jodie founded Psyched Up Success in 2019 to integrate her expertise and support clients of all ages and stages in their healing journey. Her work focuses on helping her clients heal from trauma and anxiety, embrace neurodiversity, remove mental blocks to success, gain clarity and confidence, creating inner peace and work-life harmony, preventing burnout, and achieving their personal and professional goals while prioritizing self-care and self-compassion. Jodie is passionate about helping her clients feel empowered to foster secure attachment, build healthy relationships, and cultivate lasting personal confidence and self-esteem.
https://www.psychedupsuccess.com
Certified Hypnotist
Mr. Steven Rollins is a Certified Hypnotist (CH) and Hypnosis Instructor with the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) and the International Certification Board of Coaches and Hypnotists (ICBCH). He is available for sessions, speaking engagements and Hypnosis Certification courses.
Hypnosis uses goal-focused techniques to achieve client objectives. Despite what we see in TV and the movies, Hypnosis is extremely cooperative and natural. It is also extremely effective for achieving a wide range of goals.
Mr. Rollins retired from the United States Marine Corps in 2006 after 24 years of honorable service.
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Why Knowing Isn’t Enough: 5 Emotional Patterns That Keep Clients Stuck with Food
“I know what to do… I just don’t do it.”
For many practitioners, this is one of the most frustrating statements clients make — especially when they are intelligent, self-aware, motivated, and genuinely want to change.
So why do they continue to sabotage themselves?
Why do emotional eating, bingeing, shutdown, inconsistency, and body shame continue even after clients have learned the strategies, read the books, and understand what they “should” be doing?
According to TEDx speaker and emotional eating expert Lenora Edwards, the answer is not a lack of discipline.
It’s the nervous system.
In this deeply insightful and practical presentation, Lenora reveals the five hidden emotional patterns that quietly drive self-sabotage and keep clients trapped in repeating cycles of food struggles, emotional overwhelm, and identity-based limitation.
This session goes beyond surface-level behavior change and dives into the subconscious emotional loops that influence how clients regulate stress, seek comfort, protect themselves, and relate to their bodies.
Attendees will learn how these patterns are often rooted in emotional survival responses — not laziness, weakness, or lack of motivation.
In This Session You’ll Discover:
✔ The five emotional patterns most commonly linked to food sabotage
✔ Why knowledge alone rarely creates lasting transformation
✔ How subconscious identity loops keep clients stuck
✔ The connection between nervous system dysregulation and eating behaviors
✔ How shame and self-judgment reinforce emotional eating cycles
✔ Trauma-informed strategies that create change without willpower battles
At the center of this training is Lenora’s HEART Protocol — a gentle, practical, and trauma-informed framework designed to help clients regulate emotionally, reconnect with agency, and shift long-standing subconscious patterns in real time.
Lenora will walk attendees step-by-step through:
When to use the HEART Protocol
What emotional cues to listen for
How to guide clients back into emotional safety
Ways to work with identity and nervous system responses instead of fighting behaviors directly
This is not theory-heavy learning. Participants will experience practical examples, demonstrations, guided reflection, and immediately usable tools they can integrate into sessions right away.
Attendees Will Leave With:
A deeper understanding of emotional eating and subconscious sabotage
New ways to recognize hidden emotional drivers in clients
A practical framework for working with shame and emotional dysregulation
Trauma-informed tools that support sustainable transformation
Greater confidence helping clients create real, lasting change
For hypnotists, coaches, clinicians, and wellness professionals ready to move beyond surface-level solutions, this presentation offers a powerful new lens on why clients stay stuck — and what truly helps them move forward.
Behavioral Change & Identity Specialist
Helping people identify and rewire the subconscious patterns that drive behavior and block change. Lenora Edwards is a nationally recognized two-time TEDx speaker, keynote presenter, author, and creator of the BEFREE Method, a neuroscience-rooted and trauma-informed approach to emotional and behavioral transformation. With a background in Speech-Language Pathology, NLP, Hypnosis, and Holographic Memory Resolution®, Lenora combines clinical expertise with deep pattern recognition to help people interrupt outdated scripts and create identity-level change that lasts. Through keynote talks, workshops, and practitioner training, she teaches practical tools for rewiring the nervous system, shifting inner dialogue, and breaking free from the hidden loops behind emotional eating, burnout, and self-sabotage. Her work is for people who want change that lasts , not quick fixes, hype, or surface-level mindset tricks. Lenora’s approach is practical, grounded, and built around what actually works to create meaningful shifts in identity, behavior, and long-term results.
Award Winning Hypnotherapist & Co-Founder of SFTI Hypnosis Academy
Cormac Colleran is an internationally recognised hypnotherapist, trainer, and creator of cutting-edge therapeutic protocols that deliver rapid, lasting change. With nearly 20 years’ experience, he helps hypnotherapists and coaches work more effectively with complex issues such as addiction, trauma, and deep-rooted behavioural patterns. Cormac’s approach is uniquely informed by his background in psychology, coaching, business, and years working within highly regulated pharmaceutical and medical device industries. This blend led to the development of the ICAAN Transformation Protocol and one of the world’s first comprehensive Cocaine Addiction Hypnotherapy programmes—now widely praised for producing powerful, real-world results. Featured in national media and consistently rated five-star by practitioners worldwide, Cormac is known for simplifying complex change work into practical, immediately usable techniques. Attendees can expect insights they can apply straight away to create deeper, faster transformations with their clients.
Pretalk for Anxiety Sessions: Hypnosis doesn’t start with trance, it starts with the pretalk.
The real hypnosis doesn’t begin with trance, it begins with the pretalk. In this dynamic session, internationally respected trainer Cormac Colleran reveals why even skilled practitioners sometimes get inconsistent results, and how the pretalk quietly determines success or failure before induction starts. This talk is for hypnotherapists who want faster engagement, deeper trust, and more reliable breakthroughs. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and trauma-informed, solution-focused training, Cormac shares the three essential elements of an effective pretalk, a simple framework that turns explanation into waking hypnosis. Especially powerful for anxiety clients, this approach helps clients recognise how they’re creating their symptoms and how to take back control. Expect practical language, real examples, and tools you can use immediately to create momentum and change before trance ever begins.
Neuroplasticity and Change Work: What You Need to Know
CEO Trauma Counseling & Training
Dr. Mike Deninger is a pioneer in the field of trauma resolution and the creator of Multichannel Eye Movement Integration (MEMI). A licensed professional counselor with 25+ years of clinical experience, Dr. Deninger is also a published author, certified NLP developer, and sought-after speaker and trainer.
With advanced degrees in Special Education Administration and Mental Health Counseling, Mike bridges science and strategy in a way that empowers both clinicians and non-clinical professionals. As the CEO of Trauma Counseling & Training of Tucson, he trains hypnotists, coaches, NLP practitioners, and first responders worldwide to use MEMI to help clients heal quickly, safely, and effectively.
https://deninger.com
Board Certified Hypnotherapist & Instructor, Executive Neuro-Coach
Carmen Sauciuc, BCHt, CHI, is a board-certified hypnotherapist, certified hypnosis instructor, neuro-coach, and internationally acclaimed author. She is the patent holder of Feelfulness® Meta-Conscious Therapeutic Design and Identity Architecture™, an integrated system that brings together depth psychology, hypnosis, neuroscience, metacognition, and spiritual psychology within a cohesive architecture of transformation.
Rather than simply introducing therapeutic techniques, Carmen’s work introduces missing distinctions that change how practitioners observe clinical work, think therapeutically, and develop Therapeutic Mastery.
Inspired by the work of Carl Jung, Milton Erickson, Antonio Damasio, Carl Rogers, and David R. Hawkins, Carmen trains practitioners to develop Therapeutic Mastery through Identity Architecture Work, generating Therapeutic States of Being, Word Triangles Neuro-Language, Metacognition, Alchemy and Transferring Therapeutic Consciousness.
When individuals train with Carmen Sauciuc, they do not simply learn additional techniques. They begin to perceive therapy differently. Through Identity Architecture™, they discover missing distinctions that reveal clinical patterns, therapeutic opportunities, and deeper structures of human experience that were previously invisible. For example: Identity-Level Work vs. Identity Architecture Work, Emotion vs. Emotional-Feeling, Feeling vs. State of Being, Empathy vs. Empath vs. Ultra-Empath, Therapeutic Presence vs. Transferring Therapeutic Consciousness, Neuro-Language vs. NLP, Word Triangles vs. Affirmations, Depotentiation vs. Double Bind vs. Therapeutic Dissonance, Alchemy vs. Mindset.
These distinctions not only change the resolution at which practitioners perceive therapy but become the foundation for greater precision, discernment, and Therapeutic Mastery. Like looking through a microscope instead of a magnifying glass, practitioners begin to recognize structures, and therapeutic possibilities that were always present but previously unseen.
Empaths and Ultra-Empaths: Self-Other Distinction in Identity Architecture™
Empaths, are highly responsive to the emotional-feeling states of others while they receive them through the body. Ultra-Empaths may additionally register the cognitive-feeling direction beneath another person’s words, behaviors, and surface presentation, with an immediate sense of what remains unspoken. These gifts can accelerate a practitioner’s development toward Transferring Therapeutic Consciousness.
Why This Presentation?
Discover the five types of Empaths and why sensitivity becomes overwhelming when it is not understood, differentiated, and architected.
Many Empaths become overwhelmed in the presence of others despite using grounding, shielding, or energetic protection techniques. They may absorb emotions they did not generate, assume responsibility for moods they did not create, and confuse emotional resonance with their own identity.
An Ultra-Empath is someone whose nervous system is highly responsive to the cognitive-feeling states of others. They may feel-know what is unspoken more strongly than what is said. They sense the sadness behind someone’s smile, the irritation behind politeness, the loneliness behind success, the fear behind control, the wound behind anger.
The Empath must learn to say, “This is moving through me, but it may not belong to me.”
This sentence creates the first separation. Without that separation, the Empath absorbs. With that separation, the Empath perceives and learns to discern. The Empath must learn to distinguish their own emotional-feeling states while the Ultra-Empath must learn to distinguish cognitive-feeling states.
This presentation explores how Self-Other Distinction is needed in the empathic experience. Self-Other Distinction is not the end of the journey, it is the foundation upon which Therapeutic Mastery develops.
The “gifts” of Empaths and Ultra-Empaths can be difficult to carry. However, these „gifts” can also accelerate a practitioner’s development toward Therapeutic Mastery. Once Self-Other Distinction is developed, sensitivity becomes a clinical advantage rather than a personal burden.
The Empath practitioner often recognizes what traditional observation alone may overlook, including when a client’s sensitivity is mistaken for anxiety, emotional instability, excessive reactivity, or poor boundaries.
With Metacognition skills the Empath and Ultra-Empath begins to look through a microscope instead of a magnifying glass, practitioners begin to recognize structures, architectural elements and their relationships, and therapeutic possibilities that were always present but previously unseen.
The most powerful therapeutic influence in every session is Transferring Therapeutic Consciousness.
Key takeaways:
- The five different types of Empaths
• How each type experiences, absorbs, interprets, and responds to emotional-feeling states
• Why the goal is not to stop feeling what others feel
• Why sensitivity requires Self-Other Distinction
• How to discern what is moving through you before becoming fused with it
• How to distinguish what belongs to The Self from what may belong to another person
• Why sensed information must be observed, differentiated, and verified
• How sensitivity can shift from emotional absorption into differentiated awareness
• Why Empaths may confuse resonance with responsibility
• How empathic sensitivity can become a doorway into Therapeutic Mastery
Practitioners who are Empaths may develop Therapeutic Mastery more rapidly because their nervous system already receives subtle information that many practitioners must first learn to notice. Once Self-Other Distinction develops, that sensitivity can become a clinical advantage rather than a personal burden.
When sensitivity is trained through Metacognition, Metaemotion, and Self-Other Distinction, the Empath no longer only absorbs the field. They learn to read it, differentiate it, and choose the State of Being the work requires.
Hypnotherapy: The OG of Somatic Approaches for Trauma Treatment
Long before the term somatic therapy became a buzzword, hypnotherapists were already helping clients create profound mind-body transformation.
While today’s neuroscience highlights the importance of body-based healing, hypnosis has been quietly integrating the mind and body for generations—making it one of the original and most effective somatic therapies available.
In this engaging, experiential presentation, internationally recognized author, trainer, and clinician Dr. Richard Nongard explores why hypnotherapy continues to be one of the most powerful tools for helping clients release tension, build resilience, and create lasting emotional and physical change.
Rather than separating the mind from the body, hypnosis works by bringing them into alignment—allowing the nervous system to access its natural capacity for regulation, healing, and transformation.
This session blends modern neuroscience with the timeless principles of clinical hypnosis, demonstrating why hypnosis remains uniquely positioned at the intersection of psychological and somatic healing.
In This Session You’ll Discover:
✔ Why hypnotherapy was practicing somatic healing long before it became mainstream
✔ How hypnosis naturally engages the mind-body connection
✔ The neuroscience behind focused awareness and nervous system regulation
✔ Practical techniques for helping clients release deeply held stress and tension
✔ Ways hypnosis builds resilience and supports lasting emotional change
✔ How body awareness can accelerate therapeutic outcomes
This is far more than a lecture.
Through live demonstrations and interactive exercises, attendees will experience firsthand how hypnosis creates a state where the body and subconscious mind work together to resolve patterns that often resist purely cognitive approaches.
Whether you’re working with anxiety, trauma, chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, or clients simply seeking greater well-being, you’ll leave with practical tools that can be integrated immediately into your professional practice.
Attendees Will Leave With:
A deeper understanding of hypnosis as a somatic intervention
Practical mind-body techniques for client sessions
Greater confidence integrating neuroscience into hypnosis
New strategies for helping clients regulate the nervous system
Experiential exercises that promote rapid, lasting change
Whether you’re an experienced hypnotist, therapist, coach, or just beginning to explore somatic approaches, this presentation will give you a fresh appreciation for hypnosis as one of the most enduring—and effective—methods for helping people heal from the inside out.
Discover why the “original somatic therapy” continues to lead the way in creating meaningful, whole-person transformation.
President, ICBCH Professional Hypnosis
Dr. Richard Nongard, Psy.D. is a licensed psychotherapist, clinical hypnotherapist, and sought-after trainer with decades of experience in mental health and personal development. He is the founder of the International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapists (ICBCH). He is recognized for integrating mindfulness-based approaches into evidence-based therapies; he has authored numerous books—including his most recent, Experiential Approaches to Somatic Therapy. Both a TEDx speaker and popular speaker at conferences worldwide, Dr. Nongard focuses on empowering both professionals and clients with practical, outcome-oriented techniques for creating meaningful and lasting change.
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