National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute (NPHTI) workshop in New Zealand 2025

National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute (NPHTI) workshop in New Zealand is organized by National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute (NPHTI) and will be held from Nov 14 - 16, 2025 at Rydges Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

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

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.

Educational Objectives:
At the completion of the Fundamentals Workshop, learners should be better able to:

• List the stages of hypnosis
• Describe hypnosis as a process of therapeutic communication
• Describe three pediatric hypnosis “invitation” methods
• Demonstrate three appropriate “invitation” techniques
• Describe methods for intensification of and re-alerting from hypnosis
• Outline applications for pediatric hypnosis
• Describe and demonstrate the use of hypnosis for pain control for procedures and for chronic, recurrent pain
• Describe and demonstrate how to teach a child/parent the skill of self-hypnosis and how to practice it regularly
• Describe and demonstrate a hypno-therapeutic approach for sleep onset insomnia/anxiety and for circadian rhythm disorders in teens
• Outline a strategy for getting started using hypnosis in clinical practice
• Using therapeutic language, design a hypnotic suggestion for children and teens with clinical anxiety