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Help Even the Most Complex Clients with Conversational Uncommon Hypnotherapy

Become fluent in indirect hypnotic language and discover how to sidestep the tricky resistances of the conscious mind

How Uncommon Hypnotherapy is different from Uncommon Hypnosis...

Uncommon Hypnotherapy focuses on how to use hypnosis therapeutically to help others. In it, you’ll learn a lot more about psychology, how the human brain works and most importantly - you’ll learn approaches to use on your clients.

You don’t need to be a hypnotherapist to take this course, many of our students come from professions such as nursing and social work, and some have no previous experience at all in the therapeutic industry.  We have kept this course free from jargon and terminology, so that everyone, regardless of their career history, can understand it.

Uncommon Hypnotherapy goes way beyond teaching techniques or inductions

In the Uncommon Hypnotherapy course, you’ll learn why the hypnotic state is the optimum state for learning and for changing thinking and behavior. Based around indirect 'Ericksonian hypnosis', the course will give you highly flexible hypnotic language skills. At the end of the Uncommon Hypnotherapy course, students will know more about hypnosis than the majority of practicing hypnotherapists. Why? Because they will understand the central role of hypnosis in directing human psychology.

See 'behind the curtain' of human behaviour

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psychology.

The 'Uncommon' psychology you'll learn from this course will illuminate much more of human behaviour that may have previously seemed weird or unpredictable.

You'll know which approach and techniques will work best with your client's problem, upping your success rate and making you a much more confident therapist.

You'll be able to fine-tune your communication to get the outcomes you want in both the therapy room and your own relationships.

That's the real beauty in Uncommon Hypnotherapy. And as a bonus, you'll gain much greater control over your own emotional state, too.

Quickly develop confidence in your therapeutic abilities

Learning conversational, indirect hypnosis is like speaking a language fluently instead of using a phrasebook. If you have a phrasebook, you can get relatively far in a foreign country. You might be able to book a hotel for the night. But as soon as someone asks, "Do you want a view of the river?", you're totally lost. When you speak the language fluently, it's natural and easy to respond.

Access your own unconscious resources

Because the skilled hypnotherapist goes into trance along with their client, they gain access to the full creativity of their unconscious mind.

Ask any therapist who has been able to confidently use hypnosis for any length of time. They'll tell you that even if they are unsure of how to help a client, the ideas start to flow once the deeply relaxed phase of hypnosis begins.

What's inside the Uncommon Hypnotherapy course

1) Live client session videos of hypnotherapy for severe anxiety

Live client session video screenshot

Watch Mark Tyrrell treat a woman for severe anxiety stemming from a violent relationship. This subtitled video includes a follow up session one week later where the client talks about what has improved and why. This is an instructive example of Uncommon Hypnotherapy in action, with the use of fascinating language patterns, metaphors and stories.

2) 9 therapy technique training videos

Therapy technique training video screenshot

These short instructional videos were shot with actors to ensure clear communication of the skills being taught. Including voiceover audio and onscreen explanations of what is happening, these videos are a new, cutting-edge therapy training tool.

3) 8 audio lectures on Uncommon Hypnotherapy, with transcripts

8 hypnosis lectures given by Mark and Roger and covering:

  1. How hypnosis is central to understanding human psychology
  2. Structured hypnotic inductions
  3. Self-hypnosis and how to help yourself
  4. Hypnotic language
  5. Anchoring and pattern matching
  6. Ways to communicate with a person's unconscious mind
  7. Enhancing hypnotic communication
  8. Your client's Primal Human Needs and how to use hypnosis to help meet them.

The self-study pack is supported by additional audio, articles, assignments, and tests, all deepening your insight into hypnosis and how you can use it to help others.

4) The 121-page workbook

Uncommon Hypnotherapy PDF

Guiding you through the Uncommon Hypnotherapy course is our 121-page booklet (available to download in PDF format), there for resources and reference. It has transcripts of the video and audio lectures (also available online), so if you're more of a reader than a watcher or if you just need to check something, then the ebook is there for you.

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Testimonials from previous delegates

These testimonials come from happy customers who bought our Uncommon Hypnotherapy course (previously called Hypnosis Unwrapped).

Meredith Mendes

I loved this course. Thanks so much. Mark, I love your ease with words - your grace with language and your ability to hone in on just what your clients need. That's what I got most out of the course... how much more effective the process is when you throw away the script and listen to the client from the heart and head!

I've been doing intuitive readings for years via email and in person, and have had many clients tell me that something I said - or wrote - prompted tremendous change. Yet I still struggled to write a "perfect script" during my hypnosis sections and healing groups. Not any more. Thanks for opening my eyes to a "new way." I am inspired by you (and Roger) as much as by the material itself and have made it my goal to develop the same conversational facility in hypnotherapy that you have over the next year or so.

I've had many hypnotherapy teachers over the year and always left the course feeling that something was missing, prompting me to read endlessly on my own. You were the first one to make me sit up and say, "YES! This is the way." I'm working on my healing group flyer now and am inspired to move away from intuitive readings/alternative healing towards hypnosis largely thanks to all of the seeds that you planted. Kudos!

Meredith Easton Mendes, Founder of the Healing Garden from East Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Monica Mcintyre

My degree in Psychology is from the University of Tulsa, and I have been a Reiki Master Teacher since 2007.

I am as passionate about hypnosis and the unrealized potential of the mind as your practitioners, and I was delighted to find a course that gives a comprehensive explanation of what hypnosis is, with lots of supplementary materials to expand the course content, and with several demonstrations that show clearly the techniques being taught.

I look forward to reviewing the materials, both on-and off-line, and applying my new knowledge with my clients.

Monica McIntyre, M.A., R.M.T who is a Reiki Master from Oklahoma, USA

Tammy

I have just completed the course, and have LOVED it. I found having finished the one before this (Uncommon Hypnosis), helped tremendously with completing this course more quickly than I anticipated, so that's great. It means I've retained the information from the first course, which this one reflected upon.

I'm very pleased and very happy with the courses through Uncommon Knowledge. I found the courses so professional, interesting and informative. Again, I love being able to watch the videos or listen to the MP3's, and pause or stop them to write notes, or go back over. I truly feel it's a better way to learn, as opposed to a classroom where even an outside noise/distraction can have students missing a vital piece of information. This way it's all here for me and I can go back over it whenever I like. Marvellous!!!

I commence my Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy tomorrow, so thank goodness I have all this wonderful background and information. I am positive it will help me to become an even better Clinical Hypnotherapist, that I can use in my Business: Tammy's Tarot and Healing (which is all about healing and helping people through guidance and assistance).. mostly Reiki/Reflexology, Tarot and shortly hypnotherapy. It's been a true pleasure connecting with Uncommon Knowledge. Thank you.

Tammy from Australia

"I was certified in 2000 by a school that taught the "National Guild of Hypnotists" (NGH) agenda. I enjoyed the classes but felt that much of the training was too close to stage hypnotist techniques.

"During one class, the guest instructor used a different approach -- a permissive induction, similar to the techniques you teach. I fell into a much deeper trance than I had when our regular instructors used a more authoritarian approach. Instead of feeling badgered and intimidated into a trance, this guest instructor seduced me into a trance. In fact, I felt myself going so deeply that I pulled back a bit, apprehensive about unchartered territory.

"At the end of the entire course, even though I had a certificate in hand that said I was a certified hypnotherapist, I knew that my training had just begun. Since then, I've focused my study on those "Eriksonian" techniques that my school merely touched upon but intrigued me the most.

"My never-ending quest brought me to your online school via your sister site-- hypnosisdownloads.com. (I had already found that site to be a wealth of information.) I've really enjoyed your course -- Mark and Jill are great teachers. You've helped me understand the thought and reasons behind the tools and techniques -- not just what to do, but why.

"I'll still be learning from your study materials for some time, as I go over this information again and again. I like your multi-media approach to teaching -- videos, audio files, written materials. In particular, I think the "Hypnosis Unwrapped" DVDs were the cornerstone of the course.

"Much of the other materials emphasized and expanded on these videos. Actually being able to watch Jill and Mark teach classes, plus intros and summaries from Roger, was worth the price of the course."

James Stewart from Salt Lake City, USA

"I thoroughly enjoyed the Hypnosis Unwrapped Course as it felt like gaps were filled in and it was comforting and satisfying having the missing pieces come together, just like completing that puzzle and finding those last bits. I guess I am... well I know I am, totally inspired by all the teaching you all impart at UNK and now know I can step into my future with confidence. Thank-you all so much :-)"

Rose Morgan who is a Hypnotherapist from Christchurch, New Zealand

"The course presentation very integrated, compact, could always refer back to material before or after sessions, very challenging at times for me - out of my depth at times, especially after sessions.

"It gave me an opportunity to learn much about myself moving out of comfort zone in the first instance and taking a metha-stance to understand my responses [in relation to my basic needs, for example].

"The course was far more than just content - or about the 'how to' do hypnosis for me. That in itself has been very useful and fulfilling of course, but new concepts about the role of [self] hypnotic induction really enriched my way of thinking as a whole, e.g. on my personal spiritual meditation level; as well as understanding the significance of language [metaphor, narrative, reframing, prescribing of symptom, double bind] in therapy, and checking on hypnotic content in everyday conversations. I also tried self hypnosis during a migraine attack and minimised the irritating light flashes in my eyes.

"The 'know how' expertise, I'm sure will continue with practice and I am currently reviewing the course holistically to integrate into my therapy practice further."

Pieter G Spies, Senior Social Work Practitioner, Wales

"This course has good structure and clear building blocks to enable participants to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to get started with hypnosis. It was also an eye opener to learn that even shallow trance states can be considered as useful in hypnosis and that repetition would eventually pay off.

"I was not very active during conference calls and online chat mostly because of the time difference. I had to join in at 3.30 am from Adelaide Australia (thus getting up at 3am). Therefore I enjoyed having the recorded conferences and I have listened to them all! I would like to get into the rewind technique and depression training as well, however will first want to implement and condition myself in basic hypnosis. You will sure hear from me again!'

"Thank you for a lovely course and your enthusiasm in presenting this material."

Louis van der Bank from Australia

"I specifically enjoyed how each session was presented in the way they were as to basically tie it all in together. Each session I attended we got a recap somewhat of the previous one and when ahead with more information."

"It really seems simple common sense as to how people react to different things in life but yet we are all the same and just knowing some of the psychology of our unconscious minds works, the emotion, the resistance, the needs. Learning these things in this way has anchored it far more in my mind than any other readings I have done, including some therapy sessions I have received in the past."

Lynda Curlette from Nanton Alberta, Canada

"I would like to say that this hypnosis home study course is very well done. You can tell just looking at it that someone took a lot of time focusing on every little detail.

"This is different than most books and courses that I've seen. Those typically tape a seminar and sell it on a DVD, or they'll write books that are terse and difficult to comprehend or use in real world situations."

Dan Weber from Colorado, USA

Closing thoughts from Mark Tyrrell

Mark Tyrrell

If you, like me, believe every client must be treated as an unique individual, and cannot be dealt with by cookie cutter approaches, then you'll find Uncommon Hypnotherapy hugely beneficial to your therapy work.

The framework of psychology and hypnosis that I teach in this course will help you become a highly flexible therapy practitioner, able to deal creatively with whoever walks through your clinic door.

To your therapeutic success,

Mark Tyrrell

P.S I know this price seems incredibly low for all the resources you'll receive but I want this knowledge to reach as many people as possible. And as always, this course is covered by our rock-solid guarantee. I'll see you in the course!

Marks Signature

Frequently Asked Questions:

What is the difference between the Uncommon Hypnosis and Uncommon Hypnotherapy courses?

Uncommon Hypnosis is for anyone who wants to know more about hypnosis and get practical step-by-step ways of using it to make themselves or loved ones feel better. It’s not aimed at therapists, but more for a person who is intrigued by how the unconscious mind works. It’s taken by people from all walks of life, young and old, male and female, those who have read a lot about hypnosis and NLP, and those completely new to the whole concept. No certificate of completion is provided.

Uncommon Hypnotherapy contains everything that’s in Uncommon Hypnosis, but also additional material on psychology and how to use these techniques in the therapy environment. There are 8 lectures (5 audio, 3 video) going further in-depth into updated psychological understandings, as well as hypnotic techniques. We also provide live footage of Mark working with a therapy client, an instructive example of Uncommon Hypnotherapy in action, with the use of fascinating language patterns, metaphors, and stories. Uncommon Hypnotherapy is typically taken by practitioners (therapists, nurses, social workers, and more) wanting to learn more about therapeutic hypnosis or practising hypnotherapists wanting to use conversational Ericksonian hypnosis. A certificate of completion is mailed to you when you pass the course.

Neither course provides an official qualification in professional hypnotherapy, as we're unable to evaluate your skills in-person.

What will I learn in each session of the course?

Session 1 - Uncommon hypnosis

We will demonstrate how an understanding of hypnosis is central to understanding human psychology. Not just a way to stop smoking or light entertainment, but a governing principle in all human behaviour.

Learning this 'uncommon knowledge' will enable you to understand complex and irrational reactions through the process of 'pattern matching' and REM (rapid eye movement). You will then understand why the hypnotic techniques you will build over the coming Sessions are so powerful. They will also take you through the steps for a relaxing 'conversational' induction. These will include some hypnotic processes such as:

  • Utilization
  • Nominalizations
  • How to help someone build a multi-sensory hypnotic experience.

Session 2 - Structured hypnotic inductions

We explain how to use structured inductions, give examples, and emphasize the importance of keeping your language positive.

Session 3 - Self hypnosis

Self hypnosis is the single most powerful personal development tool. We will guide you to understand how self hypnosis can bring you the reins to your emotional health.

We will also demonstrate how hypnotic preparation and rehearsal are key to optimum performance. And you will recognize the power of expectation in determining the outcome of events.

Session 4 - The language of hypnosis

Mark explains how embedded commands work through pattern matching. The importance of creating positive expectation with your language through the use of positive presupposition and how to use:

  • Illusory choice
  • Positive nominalizations
  • Overlapping sensory experience
  • Permissively/indirectly phrased language.

Session 5 - Anchoring and pattern matching

Consolidating your knowledge through a short refresher of what you have learned so far. We will then describe the wider implications of pattern matching and anchoring in everyday life. This naturally occurring process 'glues' emotion to a stimulus - a person, an object, a situation, even a thought.

Mark and Roger have worked with clients who have had all sorts of reactions to things such as belly buttons and snack packets, as well as the more usual stuff like spider phobias and public performance.

The hypnotic technique of anchoring allows you to hypnotically develop resourceful states in circumstances that may have been challenging in the past. We often keep resourceful states patterned in one area of our lives, so we may be relaxed with a friend and a shaky wreck with our boss. Learning how to naturally and effortlessly utilize our resources in all situations makes life so much more enjoyable and fun.

Session 6 - More ways to communicate with a person's unconscious mind

Mark explains the principle of 'splitting' and describes how to use 'priming' (also known as 'seeding') conversationally. He talks about:

  • Metaphors
  • Embedded commands
  • Voice tonality
  • Double entendres
  • Puns and jokes
  • Facial expression and body language
  • Sandwiching.

He discusses why these modes of communication appeal directly to the unconscious mind and briefly explores how 'double binds' can hold problem behaviours in place.

Session 7 - Enhancing hypnotic communication

Indirect hypnosis – we talk about resistance, a term often used in psychological circles to describe a person who seems unlikely to change or is displaying behaviour that consistently opposes what the therapist or teacher is saying.

Recognizing resistance and knowing how to use the motivation that drives behaviour is not only relevant in hypnotic communication, but gives you the edge in everyday situations, too. It will make you more persuasive in a very subtle way.

And a chance to hear the expert at work! Listen to a mini-induction and experience the effects that putting all the skills together can have.

Session 8 - Primal human (or emotional) needs

We look at primal human needs, the foundation of all good mental health. Checking these primal human needs in yourself or your clients gives you a road map for how to structure your life to inoculate yourself against psychological problems.

Do I need to be a hypnotherapist to do this course?

No. This course assumes no knowledge of hypnosis whatsoever. However, taking this course does not make you a licensed or certified hypnotherapist. Licensing and certification arrangements differ from country to country and we made a decision several years ago that we would not accredit therapists via purely online courses. Uncommon Hypnotherapy is typically taken by therapists, counsellors, and coaches to add a new skill to their toolbox and also by hypnotherapists looking to upgrade their knowledge of indirect hypnotherapy. In the past, we have had people from disciplines such as social work, nursing, massage therapy, and more take our courses. We welcome anyone with an interest in helping others to the Uncommon Hypnotherapy online course.

Do I get a certificate if I complete the course?
Uncommon U Training Certificate

Yes. We will send you a certificate of completion when you have passed the final test.

Does this course qualify me to be a hypnotherapist?

No. Because our training is done online and we're unable to observe your practice of hypnosis techniques and give feedback, this course is not a qualification in professional hypnotherapy. This course is for professionals who want to improve their therapeutic skills or for interested laypeople.

How many continuing professional development hours does this course give me?

We've attributed 12 CPD hours to this course and we'll confirm this in our covering letter when we send your completion certificate.

Does this course teach me NLP?

NLP (neurolinguistic programming) is a system that was created from the study of hypnosis and particularly Milton H. Erickson, perhaps the greatest therapist of modern times. Uncommon Hypnotherapy fully embraces the work of Erickson and so the approaches you'll learn here encompass NLP techniques.

How long do I have to complete the course?

You'll have access to the online course for at least a year (and usually longer), but if you don't get it completed in that time we certainly won't restrict your access!

How does it work?
  1. You access the course by clicking the 'Enrol Now' button. Then, the next time you log into Uncommon U you'll see a new button has appeared for Uncommon Hypnotherapy (don't worry if you've forgotten your log in details, we'll send you a welcome email with them anyway).
  2. Once you've logged in, you can access the course materials, including a welcome video from Mark, and the comments section where you can introduce yourself to your fellow delegates.
  3. You can begin Session 1 immediately, where you'll see a checklist that shows what you need to do to complete that session. This includes listening to the audio lecture, reading supporting materials, and watching videos. During the session, you'll learn about how hypnosis is central to understanding all human psychology, what hypnosis is, and its connection to dreaming. We also talk about pattern matching, how the unconscious mind works, and how to do a conversational indirect hypnotic induction without once directly asking someone to go into hypnosis. We also look at the powerful principle of utilization.
  4. You complete a short assignment then a multiple choice test and move on to Session 2. And so on through each of the 8 Sessions (there are no assignments for Sessions 2 and 7, and no tests for Sessions 6 and 7).
  5. As you go along, you ask any questions in the comments boxes you'll find on every page.
  6. You continue through the course in this fashion until you have completed the Checklists, assignments and tests.
  7. We send you your certificate through the post.
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