Clinical Workshops
The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis-Education and Research Foundation (ASCH-ERF) sponsors three levels of instruction through its professional training in clinical hypnosis. These Clinical Workshops are held four to six times a year. ASCH-ERF makes every effort to hold workshops in all regions of the US.
Clinical Workshop Schedule
The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis-Education and Research Foundation (ASCH-ERF) sponsors three levels of instruction through its professional training in clinical hypnosis. These Clinical Workshops are held four to six times a year. ASCH-ERF makes every effort to hold workshops in all regions of the US.
October 2021
December 2021
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December 2-5, 2021
(In-Person) Level 1, Level 2 & Advanced Workshops
Wyndham Celebration; Kissimmee, FL
Clinical Workshop Registration
Workshop Registration:
October 28-31, 2021 (Virtual) Level 1 & Level 2 Workshops (Both Sold Out)
Last day to pay registration fees via check is Friday, September 17, 2021; only credit card payments will be accepted after that date. Last day to transfer workshop dates and complete credit card payment, Friday, October 8, 2021; Last day to cancel with a partial refund, Monday, October 18, 2021.
Register Here for the October Workshop
December 2-5, 2021 (In-Person) Level 1, Level 2 & Advanced Workshops
Last day to pay registration fees via check is Friday, October 22, 2021; only credit card payments accepted after that date. Last day to transfer workshop dates and complete credit card payment, Friday, November 12, 2021; Last day to cancel with a partial refund, Monday, November 22, 2021.
Register Here for the December Workshop
Level 1
Why pursue training in Clinical Hypnosis? What are the benefits?
The Level 1 workshop, the first part of a series of workshops in the certification program for clinical hypnosis, is intended for licensed health professionals including physicians, nurses, psychologists, dentists, counselors, social workers, and those in related fields. A diverse faculty from a range of health disciplines will teach the principles and process of hypnotic inductions, suggestions, and treatment. The workshop is a mix of didactic presentations, demonstrations, experiential exercises, and faculty-led small group practice tailored to the specific needs and learning styles of each participant. At the conclusion of the workshop participants will have been taught the basic skills required to utilize clinical hypnosis and begin to apply it to their practice.
Advantages:
- Rapidly establish rapport and the hypnotic relationship across developmental ages.
- Facilitate change, ego-strengthen, and reduce impediments to change.
- Cost-effective, collaborative, person-centered treatment.
- Empower clients and patients to build skills for better health.
- Learn a highly creative, broad-ranging technique for use in integrative medicine.
Level 1 Sample Workshop Curriculum
Level 2
What are the advantages of more training in Clinical Hypnosis?
The second step in certification training is to strengthen skills, strategies, and applications of clinical hypnosis. Part one taught “how to” do clinical hypnosis, and part two builds on this skill set and refines and furthers development to add the when, why, and where to the “how-to”.
Advantages:
- Introduction to a wider range of topics on the utility of clinical hypnosis (e.g., Pain Management; Anxiety and Sleep Disorders; Habit Disorders).
- Learn more techniques for the creative use of the language of suggestion to facilitate change.
- Learn specific tools (complex inductions and intensification techniques) for specific populations (children).
- More practice with the feedback of expert faculty.
The Level 2 workshop increases skills and builds confidence in the use of hypnosis. It prepares the workshop participant to move on to the Advanced Workshop level and Individual Consultation with a strong basis of skills and understanding of the principles and practice of clinical hypnosis.
Level 2 Sample Workshop Curriculum
Advanced Level Workshops are offered throughout the year. Recent professional training workshops have focused on behavioral medicine, health psychology, hypnosis and pediatrics, and mind-body medicine.
Advanced level workshop participants are encouraged to complete Level 1 and Level 2 training. Skills mastered in these workshops ensure comprehension and applicability of the material.
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Workshop Registration Fees:
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Member |
Non-Member |
Resident/Intern/Fellow |
Graduate Student |
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Level 1 |
$460.00 |
$660.00 |
$320.00 |
$275.00 |
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Level 2 |
$460.00 |
$660.00 |
$320.00 |
$275.00 |
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Advanced |
$460.00 |
$660.00 |
$320.00 |
$275.00 |
Workshop Capacities:
Level 1 capacity is set at 30 and Level 2 capacity at 25 to ensure participants are given the opportunity for active participation and provided the required attention and oversight by faculty especially in small group activities. Advanced level workshop capacity is varied depending on the topic.
Typical Workshop Schedule:
Virtual: Workshops are offered Thursday-Sunday with a typical start time of 12:00 pm ET and an end time of 7:30 pm ET and 6:00 pm ET on Sunday.
In-Person: Workshops typically begin Thursday at 6:30 pm (local time) and end on Sunday at 12:00 pm (local time). Expect a full day of sessions on Friday and Saturday beginning around 8:30-9:00 am local time and ending before 7:00 pm.
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Registration Instructions:
On-line registration will take you to the new ASCH site and require a new account set-up (non-members) or Member login. If you are an ASCH member enter the email address associated with your ASCH Membership as our UserID; click Forgot Password to set a new password.
Payments can now be made in a secure online environment. The system DOES NOT save credit card information once the transaction has been completed and registration submitted.
General Information:
Workshop Material. Approximately one week before the workshop, registered participants will receive a link to a private webpage that will include links to handouts and resource materials. This access will be good for seven days after the workshop has been completed. Note: workshop handouts can be approximately 200+ pages for Level 1; 150+ pages for Level 2; and 100+ pages for Advanced. Participants are responsible for downloading and printing workshop materials.
Continuing Education Hours. On-time attendance, full engagement, and completion of the daily program evaluations are required for a Certificate of Completion. The workshop is approved for 20.0 - 21.5 hrs.
Changing Dates. ASCH will honor one registration transfer. Transfer requests must be made in writing, by emailing education@asch.net, a minimum of fourteen (14) working days in advance of the workshop start date. Changes made after the fourteen windows will be treated as a cancellation.
Check & Credit Card Payments. Check payments must be received a minimum of six weeks before the start date. Credit Card payments must be completed a minimum of three weeks before the start date. The ASCH Registrar will send reminders of the due date will in advance. The Registrants seat will be relinquished if payment is not received by the stated due date.
Cancellations. Cancellations must be made in writing, by emailing education@asch.net, a minimum of seven (7) working days in advance of the workshop start date. No cancellations will be taken by phone. The registration fee, minus a $50 administrative fee will be processed. No refund will be made after the seven working day window.
Clinical Workshop Eligibility
Registrants must hold a master's degree or higher in a health care discipline deemed appropriate by the Society from a college or university accredited by its appropriate regional accrediting body. In addition, registrants must be licensed or certified in the state in which they practice.
Registered Nurses with a bachelor's degree from a college or university accredited by its appropriate regional accrediting body who are licensed or certified in the state in which they practice are eligible to attend the Level 1 Workshop on Clinical Hypnosis.
Students enrolled full-time in master's level or higher program are eligible to attend at a reduced rate. Students must have completed a minimum of one full semester of the program and must submit proof of full-time enrollment at an ACE-approved institution of higher education on school letterhead that clearly identifies the individual’s program of study, area of concentration (if applicable), level of degree pursued and date of intended graduation.
Full-time residents or interns participating in a recognized residency or internship program may also register to attend at a reduced rate. Residents/interns need to submit correspondence from their supervisor on official letterhead explaining the nature of the residency/internship and the date of intended completion of the program.
Scholarships & Grants for Training
Several scholarships and grants are available to Graduate Students, Residents, Interns, and those new to the profession.
- Betty Alice Erickson & Kay Thompson Student Scholarship Fund
Founded in memory of Betty Alice Erickson, LPC, LMFT, and Kay Thompson, DDS., two strong, compassionate, brilliant women who contributed mightily to the field of hypnosis, these scholarship funds are awarded to full-time students enrolled in a graduate program that meets ASCH membership criteria. - Mutter Scholarship Fund
For early-career professional training (Mutter Fund), is designed to offset the registration fee for an ASCH sponsored or approved Level 1 Clinical Hypnosis Workshop or the Refining Skills & Treatment Applications Workshop, when offered at an Annual Meeting. - Virginia Hypnosis Fund Grant
Funded by a generous grant from the Virginia Society of Hypnosis these funds offer scholarships to cover the registration fee for Level 1, Level 2, or Advance Clinical Hypnosis Workshops. They are designated for applicants who are currently enrolled in an accredited graduate program in clinical psychology, medicine and psychiatry, dentistry, social work, or nursing at a Commonwealth of Virginia University, or to licensed mental health or medical clinicians practicing in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Accreditation/Continuing Education Credits
The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis-Education and Research Foundation (ASCH-ERF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis-Education and Research Foundation (ASCH-ERF) designates this live activity for a maximum of 21.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ASCH-ERF is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. ASCH-ERF maintains responsibility for the regional workshops. The ASCH Standards of Training Committee has approved all regional workshops as meeting the twenty hours required for membership and certification requirements.
Courses approved by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis are approved continuing education courses per Florida's AC-Rule 64B-4-6002 for Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage and Family Therapists in the State of Florida.
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California Board of Behavioral Sciences Accreditation
Please note that effective July 1, 2015, the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (CBBS) is no longer renewing existing CE provider numbers. ASCH-ERF’s accreditation through CBBS expired on December 31, 2015. BBS licensees now obtain their continuing education through the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychological Association, among others, both through which ASCH-ERF maintains accreditation.
Individualized Consultation
Individualized Consultation (IC) is offered for those health and mental health care practitioners interested in enhancing their knowledge and expertise in the use of hypnosis. This 20-hour intensive meeting is designed to fulfill the requirements for attaining ASCH Certification in Clinical Hypnosis or to obtain the hours of consultation necessary to become an Approved Consultant.
Individuals attending this program must have completed an ASCH-ERF-approved Basic and Intermediate Workshop and should be using hypnosis in their professional practice.
This workshop is unique among ASCH’-ERF's educational offerings. Participants meet and consult in a small group setting with fellow practitioners and Faculty who are ASCH Approved Consultants. This model encourages participants to learn from one another, to have their own expertise affirmed and expanded, and to network with other professionals in the clinical hypnosis community. During the twenty hours of consultation, the focus is on issues unique to each practitioner’s clinical practice. Consultation occurs in full group and small group sessions that are comprised of no more than 4 people. The groups are heterogeneous as to discipline (medicine, psychology, dentistry, social work, etc.). This diversity in group membership encourages participants to focus their attention on refining techniques and skills in the context of interdisciplinary learning about the mind/body considerations in the application of clinical hypnosis to a wide range of presenting concerns using a multiplicity of intervention strategies.
Each small group remains together during the 20 hours with the occasional opportunity for a self-selected group based upon topic. In such groups, participants will have the opportunity to enhance utilization techniques and to address specific uses of hypnosis in behavioral medicine, pain management, obstetrics and gynecology, children and adolescents, trauma, DID, chronic illness, and/or palliative care. Actual topics discussed will be determined by attendee learning contracts.
The depth of learning in the Consultation model of training is directly related to the level of involvement of the participants. Participants are required to submit the following to the ASCH office prior to their attending the workshop:
- A minimum of two work samples (Recordings [video preferred] of work with clients using clinical hypnosis)(appropriate standards of practice or confidentiality are expected); and
- A completed ASCH-ERF Learning Contract with learning objectives.
IC Consultation/IC Workshop Description
IC Consultation/IC Workshop Application
These materials are used to explore and deepen the participants’ understanding and application of hypnosis in their existing practices. There is no test of competence, but rather this is an opportunity to receive constructive feedback, input, and creative suggestions from facilitators and professional peers. Many participants have described the Individualized Consultation experience as the best training they had received in hypnosis.
For more information about the IC Workshop or the certification process, contact ASCH at 410-940-6585 or email at certification@asch.net.
