Friday, May 26th

8:30am to 9:00am – Morning Meditation with Matthew Brownstein

9:00am to 12:00pm (One break around 10:30am) – Matthew Brownstein, President, International Association of Interpersonal Hypnotherapists

• Keynote Speech and Presentation – Redefining Facilitation: Embracing a Path of Healing and Enlightenment
  
  This year’s Conference provides additional powerful tools and techniques to enhance your hypnotherapy practice based upon the theme of healing and enlightenment. Most therapy and medicine are based upon a movement away from sickness by treating symptoms, yet where the client is not necessarily guided towards a true path of healing and enlightenment. This Conference is dedicated exclusively to a movement in a direction that is truly meaningful and worthy of our attention.
  
  In Matthew Brownstein’s book The Sutras on Healing and Enlightenment, “Healing and enlightenment are synonymous terms, which both arise with the knowledge and awareness of Truth.” This is a very different model than we find in western medicine and psychology. Here our focus is on using powerful transformational modalities to guide ourselves and our clients back into an experiential state of being “perfect, whole, and complete.” Humanity needs this now more than ever and Interpersonal Hypnotherapy and its related modalities are working to be a part of that solution.
  
  

12:00pm to 1:10pm – Lunch

1:10pm to 2:40pm – Dr. Abby Parsons, Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist

• Moving towards Wholeness with Universal Truth-talk: The Language and Vocabulary of Source
  
  Truth-talk as used in our Hypnotherapy sessions finds its base in Spirit and is universal, all-inclusive. Strengthening spiritual understanding and developing an ever-clearer receptivity or ability to intuit, hear, and speak that which Higher Intelligence imparts, can peak the effectiveness of our work. A study of recommended textbooks in our training enables one to imbibe the Spirit of Truth and Love and can supply needed vocabulary for ease when incorporating Truth-talk in a session. These works include Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy; A Course in Miracles, by Helen Schucman, PhD; and our own Matthew Brownstein’s, The Sutras on Healing and Enlightenment.
  
  The focus of this presentation will be primarily on words and ideas from Science and Health since it has been a major textbook in my decades-long metaphysical healing practice. The coinciding of listening to a client while simultaneously attending to Spirit (or Higher Intelligence) enables naturalness in speaking Truth to clients, like a clean transparency allows more and more light to enter and enlighten a room. When Truth-talk is understood as universal we can be assured that the power of these words will resonate with every client, clear major blocks, and demonstrate the highest good with the best outcome. The words our clients speak in response to questions at intake allow us to incorporate their own terms, their own spirituality, their own beliefs, and convictions when speaking with the vocabulary of Truth that leads to wholeness.
  
  

3:00pm to 4:40pm – Dr. Chris Coslett, Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine

• Utilizing Our Neural Landscape to Guide Hypnotic Healing, Learning and Well-being: A Mental Integrative Network Development (M.I.N.D.) Paradigm
  
  As recipients of the most advanced central control systems on the planet, we have been gifted with a tiered cacophony of unconscious, subconscious, and conscious brain-based networks. These hierarchical levels of control assist us in navigating our existence and experience in this world. Come join us as we bring clarity and explore the attributes of the key tiered neural networks supporting the various depths and facilitation of “state change”. Throughout this session we will incorporate brief exercises to tangibly experience these shifts in the seamless flow that working with an understanding of the terrain facilitates. In the physical realm, we learn key muscles, how they move our body and then we can choose our dance. Similarly, with a foundational understanding of the various brain processing hubs, their” persona” and morphed roles in the global brain network schema, we find our true voice and purpose for realizing happiness and wellbeing through selecting and training for “Right Thinking & Action”.
  
  

5:00pm to 6:30pm – Rebecca Zayas, Clinical and Interpersonal Hypnotherapist, IIH Instructor

• Past-Life and Life-Between-Life Regression on the Path to Healing and Enlightenment:
  
  Join IIH Orlando Instructor, Rebecca Zayas as she explores how past-life and life-between-life exploration can help heal emotional wounds, including repressed memories. Together we will explore how these modalities could certainly be metaphorical journeys, yet whether real or imagined, how they can support our journey into healing and enlightenment. During this dynamic presentation, the benefits of building self-love, self-acceptance, and self-forgiveness are integrated into this work to help clients achieve higher states of consciousness in alignment with their greatest good.
  
  

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Saturday, May 27th

8:30am to 9:00am – Morning Meditation with Matthew Brownstein

9:00am to 10:40am – Rene Brent, Clinical and Interpersonal Hypnotherapist, IIH Director and Lead Instructor

• Enhance the Success of Your Clients and Your Business with Effective Take Home Techniques.
  
  Interactive session where Rene Brent will open her tool chest and share her favorite science-based techniques that have helped her clients retrain their brains and bodies and helped her develop a successful practice.
  Open opportunity to ask questions and learn Pro Tips for a successful business.
  Participants will leave with a handful of techniques to teach their clients to build confidence and self-generated change when outside of your office.
  
  

11:00am to 12:00pm – Lori Burke, Clinical and Interpersonal Hypnotherapist, IIH Supervisor

• Stages of Consciousness Leading to Enlightenment: Collective Awakening through Hypnotherapy
  
  As facilitators of healing, we help our clients move into states of forgiveness, compassion, and love. A ripple effect is created, and the healing is often felt by family and friends. So, what part does our work play in raising the collective consciousness? And why is it so important to maintain focus on forgiveness, compassion, and love within hypnotherapy? This presentation will address both questions, as well as reviewing Dr. David Hawkins’ system of measuring the stages of consciousness leading to Enlightenment – and our part, as facilitators of healing, in that progression.
  
  

12:00pm to 1:10pm – Lunch

1:10 pm to 2:40pm – Dr. Kelsey Evans-Amalu

• Trauma Informed Contemplative Interventions: How to make mindfulness-based practices accessible for all
  
  In embracing the path toward greater healing and enlightenment, we must be aware of what practices we choose and with whom. According to research, 70% of adults in the U.S. have experienced some type of traumatic event at least once in their lives. That’s 223.4 million people. What this means for the contemplative community, is that in any environment where contemplative interventions (meditation hypnosis, yoga nidra, etc.) are being practiced (inclusive of yogic spaces, private offices, clinical spaces, schools, etc.), there’s a high likelihood that someone will be struggling with traumatic stress. And while not everyone who has experienced trauma will have an adverse response to contemplative based practices, we need to be prepared and aware of this possibility and create accessibility and agency for all who practice. This conversation is rooted in the work of Dr. David Treleaven and Resmaa Menakem and will outline ways to facilitate brave spaces and accessibility for everyone to practice contemplative based interventions through more agentic measures. Dr. Kelsey Evans-Amalu will also provide tangible takeaways for teachers of contemplative traditions (yoga, meditation, hypnosis, etc.) to apply to their own classrooms, private practices, and studios. Included in this workshop will be a Trauma Informed Vipassana Meditation and discussion to integrate post-meditation.
  
  

3:00pm to 4:45pm – Esteban Londono, Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist, IIH Instructor

• Love Garden: Understanding and working with the Subconscious Mind
  
  Join IIH Instructor Esteban Londono for a metaphorical journey into a first hypnotherapy session. This presentation offers a thorough explanation of how the subconscious works metaphorically comparing it to a garden. This is a clear way to help clients understand how the subconscious works and to start creating the changes that they desire. The client is asked to close his/her eyes and envision a garden. They are led to understand that they have a responsibility to bring that garden to a beautiful state. Then they are given the necessary “gardening tools” that they need for a powerful inner blossoming. Those tools all bring peace and empower the client to start working on the necessary changes to transform their lives from within.
  
  

5:00pm to 6:30pm – Christine Bergstrom and Bianca Ramos, IIH Instructors, Certified Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapists, Certified Breathwork Facilitators

• The Power of Breath: Practices for Emotional Freedom
  
  In this 90-minute presentation, IIH Lead Instructors Bianca Ramos and Christine Bergstrom will be co-presenting on the power of the breath. They will dive deep into techniques and practices to help you facilitate more powerful client breathwork sessions. They will also be exploring other styles of breathwork and demonstrating how to utilize them. In this interactive and dynamic offering, Bianca and Christine will share their passion for these transformative practices, and how they aid and support us on the path of healing and enlightenment.
  
  

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Sunday, May 28th

8:30am to 9:00am – Morning Meditation with Matthew Brownstein

9:00am to 10:45am – Dani Fox, Clinical and Interpersonal Hypnotherapist, IIH Lead Instructor

• Advanced Regression Processing & Strategy Reframing
  
  Take your childhood regressions to another level by integrating Family Systems Theory concepts into the “Healing the Memory” step of your IIH Regression Protocol.
  Learn a specific questioning sequence designed to draw out an expanded set of beliefs which shape perception and behavior contributing to the current day issue.
  Learn a specific questioning sequence designed to draw out the strategies for survival a client may have created as a function of those beliefs.
  
  Learn how to reframe both and identify new strategies.
  Learn how to install a “Tiny Habit” at the key moment where the new strategy is most useful.
  
  Note: An understanding of the IIH Regression Protocol Knowledge of the IIH Regression Protocol is helpful. This is not a refresher on the entire 16 Step Protocol. This presentation targets a specific area of the process and introduces a bend and blend of techniques designed to create an additional level of insight, healing, and behavior modification in the problem context. No previous knowledge of the “Tiny Habits” model is necessary.
  
  

11:00am to 11:50pm – Daniela Bellin, Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner

• Games People Play: How we get manipulated by people and what we can do to stop it
  
  Whenever there’s communication, there is also the potential for conflict. Repeating interactions with people that go wrong no matter what you do are known as psychological games. Eric Berne, the father of transactional analysis, gave us several tools to examine communication and conflicting roles. In this presentation you will learn what psychological games are, how to spot them, and how to end the most common games efficiently. You will only win the game if you don’t play it.
  
  

12:00pm to 1:10pm – Lunch

1:10pm to 2:00pm – Lani Gonzales, Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist

• Awakening Through the Astral Plane: Transformation Through Hypnotherapy, Ayahuasca, and Astral Projection
  
  We are more than just our physical bodies, and we are greater than our thoughts. Within each of us resides an astral body. Awareness of this spiritual counterpart to our physical body is the key to exploring the astral plane to unlock the highest wisdom and highest truth. Discover how to traverse the astral plane through Hypnotherapy, ayahuasca and astral projection to honor and awaken the life within us longing to live more fully.
  
  

2:10pm to 2:50pm – Beth Honeycutt, Clinical and Interpersonal Hypnotherapist

• Shamanic Animal Archetypes: A Supportive Approach to Parts Therapy
  
  Come share in an experiential approach to shamanic animal archetypes as we dive into meditation to heal something within ourselves, using the assistance of the mind in the creative use of animal archetypes: friends of shamans and friends of Hypnotherapists! If you find Parts Therapy a delightful forum for helping your clients, learn how to allow the energy of animals to step into your practice and offer greater support to further your healing sessions. Walk away with practical ideas and insights on the use of animal energies for your healing sessions.
  
  

3:10pm to 4:00pm – Elenique Pizziolo, Clinical and Interpersonal Hypnotherapist

• Surrender as a Path to Transforming Challenge into Grace
  
  In this presentation, we will explore how the path of surrender can help us transform our challenges into opportunities for personal and spiritual growth. Instead of resisting what is, we can learn to cultivate leaning into the fear, loss, or grief and through surrendering into it, allow it to be transmuted into a deep, transformative grace. We will also share a brief “surrender meditation” to help anchor in the ideas and concepts discussed.
  
  

4:10pm to 5:00pm – Ashley Caputo, Clinical and Interpersonal Hypnotherapist, IIH Supervisor

• HypnoCrafting™: Building Your Practice with Fun and Informative Group Sessions
  
  This interactive presentation is designed to show you easy ways to create group hypnosis workshops centered around various themes that allow for a sense of connection and group interaction (something many people are truly longing for these days). The use of arts and crafts is implemented after a brief lecture to build community as well as give the attendees a physical anchor to take home to remember the power of hypnosis and the shifts they have made. Ashley will show you step-by-step how she builds a workshop with a theme that ties the crafts and hypnosis together as well as lead you through an abbreviated HypnoCrafting™ experience. Warning: You might just find yourself having fun!
  
  

5:10pm to 6:00pm – Traci Kanaan, Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist

• The Hilarity and Hypnosis Approach (HAHA!): How to break bad trances with laughter to create lasting changes.
  
  Turn your client’s “boo hoos” into “ha has” with The Hilarity and Hypnosis Approach! This fun technique is taught by Traci Kanaan, a former internationally touring musical comedian turned Certified Hypnotherapist! Combine the word lists taught by the Institute of interpersonal Hypnotherapy with the word lists comedians use to make jokes about their life, you’ll have your clients laughing about the very same issues that had them in tears at the start of the session. The techniques you’ll learn are perfect for clients who need a good pattern interrupt, because they are stuck in the muck and need to get out of their rut. You’ll find that laughter makes your sessions much more enjoyable and fun for yourself as a practitioner too!
  
  

6:00pm to 6:30pm – Matthew Brownstein and Staff

• Concluding Words and Presenter Awards
  
  We hope you’ll stay to the very end as we honor our presenters and express our gratitude for their commitment to creating a great conference for all involved. Awards are given out to presenters, and this is when you can pick up your CEU Certification for 30 additional hours of hypnotherapy training.