Sports Hypnosis

This course in run by our special guest lecturer Hazel Gale, an ICH graduate who has held a number of titles including World and European Full Contact Kickboxing Champion and English ABA Boxing Champion on this 2 day CPD module. She says the really great thing about working with athletes of any kind is that they are used to hard work. Motivation is usually very high for athletes to perform well, and as a result sports hypnosis sessions can be some of the most rewarding cases you will take on.

The psychology of sport is becoming an increasingly popular field of study and practice for psychologists and therapists alike. As hypnotherapists, we have at our disposal many techniques that can be extremely effective in helping sportspeople to get over past failures, utilise their successes and actively create the most beneficial mind-set for competing and training.

Athletes devote an enormous amount of time and effort to their physical training but few spend much time on the mental aspects of competition or their development as an athlete, but this is changing. Athletes and coaches alike are beginning to fully recognise the importance of mental training and a psychological approach to competition.

The course will cover the following topics:
❖ Sports Orientated Intake Questioning
❖ The Athlete's Mind-set
❖ Anchoring The "Zone" (IZOF)
❖ Anxiety Management & Arousal Control
❖ Dealing With Self-Talk
❖ Motivation & Goal Setting
❖ Maintaining & Understanding Focus
❖ Competition Preparation & Technical Rehearsal

This course utilise many NLP techniques that can be used within hypnosis to enhance any performance and the uses are not limited to sport. Due to the content of this course, it is also equally useful for coaches as it is for hypnotherapists. We will not teach how to carry out hypnosis inductions during this weekend but will teach instead how to use these powerful techniques whether you use them in hypnosis or not! That said, the course includes hypnotherapy scripts as well, giving a perfect coverage regardless of your therapeutic style.