National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute (NPHTI) workshop in Australia (Nov 01 - 03, 2025)

National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute (NPHTI) workshop in Australia is organized by National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute (NPHTI) and will be held from Nov 01 - 03, 2025 at Rydges South Bank Brisbane, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Why Attend?
These intensive workshops feature a combined lecture-demonstration-experiential training format with a developmental perspective in the use of clinical hypnosis & its empirically supported applications for children and teens with various medical & mental health conditions and challenges. Both research-based and pragmatic hypnotic interventions are taught. 

• Cutting edge presentations: (including VIDEOS of faculty cases) highlight therapeutic communication, goal setting and goal-driven suggestions and other hypnosis strategies.  
• Faculty: The multi-disciplinary, seasoned paediatric clinician-teachers with expertise in paediatric hypnosis include the most renowned leaders-teachers-researchers-authors in this field.  
• Two levels of workshop on offer: Fundamentals and Utilisation and Expanded Clinical Applications. Consultation offered to licensed paediatric professionals with advanced clinical degrees and to full-time trainees working toward an advanced clinical license. 
• Extensive experiential learning: Activities during presentations, and abundant supervised practice of hypnotic techniques within supportive small groups with a high faculty to trainee ratio.

General Workshop Information:
Fundamentals of Paediatric Clinical Hypnosis (Introductory) Workshop:
This workshop is for clinicians who have NOT YET completed a pediatric-specific hypnosis training (20+ hours)

• Foundation skill-building in hypnosis as therapeutic communication and adjunctive intervention for children/teens with clinical conditions.
• Clinical focus: hypnosis adjunctive management of pain, anxiety, fear, and sleep issues for children and teens at different developmental stages.
• State-of-the-art presentations include instructional videos (faculty cases) and case vignettes
• Experiential learning is a critical focus: Over half of total workshop time is spent in very small group practice
  (6:1 trainee: faculty ratio) and large group exercises focused on the structure and elements of clinical hypnosis with children/teens, using therapeutic language, explaining hypnosis to parents and children, delivering goal-directed hypnotic suggestions, and the use of self-hypnosis.

Utilisation and Expanded Clinical Applications Workshop:
NOTE:  Participants must have completed a Fundamentals all paediatric-specific hypnosis training workshop (20+ hours), and are using clinical hypnosis with paediatric patients on a frequent basis.

A Prior Learning/Needs Assessment application is required & reviewed prior to acceptance for this workshop.

This is NOT a beginning level course.

• Workshop emphasises experiential learning how to set personalised hypnosis GOALS and create goal-driven SUGGESTIONS!
• Learn how to incorporate Ericksonian Utilisation principles in your hypnosis approach.
• Refine and expand existing hypnosis skills and develop individualised hypnotic treatment approaches for your patients.
• Faculty videos and case vignettes are integral throughout workshop.
• Supervised exercises: Augment your confidence and utilisation skills (conversational invitations, pacing & leading, constructing goal-driven suggestions, talking in trance, self-regulation strategies, and other person-centered strategies) within thoughtfully clustered small groups (with high faculty to trainee ratios)