Make Your Words Surgical with Precision Hypnosis

The courses you make available are so valuable compared to previous courses I have gone through, both in South Africa and in Namibia. Not that other courses are not good, but this course is so valuable because you can go back to any detail again and again and refresh and discover so much more detail as you dig yourself deeper into the context. I get the feeling that you withhold no detail of your valuable knowledge, you give your all - even sometimes your "shortcomings" made in the past - that gives us so much more hope for own development.

If you want to feel like a true Hypnotherapist, this course will do the job! The techniques and course content are clearly explained and a rational provided for their use. The course is exciting in that it provides more of a challenge to the therapist as there is a great deal to think about and to master. It promotes self-confidence and can be exciting if a therapist has been working in the same way over many years and is seeking something more. It can 'spark' you into action!

The Precision Hypnosis course has enhanced my understanding of the use of language and grammar in a therapeutic setting and given me greater confidence in myself and my ability to help others.

For me, this course delivered so much wisdom and useful techniques in an enjoyable format that was, in itself, somewhat hypnotic. I don't think I have ever enjoyed training as much as Precision Hypnosis - I thoroughly recommend it.

This course has changed my outlook on life. I feel personally empowered. I see in myself and others untapped potential. Rather than focus on just technical skills, I felt this course reframed my way of seeing challenges and connected me personally to resources I can use in my own life and to help others. Thank you to Mark and Joe for a life-changing experience!

Loved the course! It gave me great insights into the unconscious mind and into how to fine-tune my hypnotic language skills to help clients access their own inner resources to make the changes they desire. It surely made my sessions more effective. Happy clients, happy therapist!

This course does an excellent job of explaining the framework of effective hypnosis. This is in turn allows you to come up with effective interventions on the spot when working with clients. I was able to apply this knowledge in my client sessions almost immediately and it greatly enhanced my effectiveness. I would highly recommend Precision Hypnosis to any serious practitioner.

I am a hypnotherapist and I almost always have a pre-talk with my client before scheduling a new appointment for the hypnotherapy. After completing this course, I find I am able to do a lot of the hypnosis work during our pre-talk. The clients often come to the hypnosis session saying they already have experienced major shifts. I highly recommend this course!

I have done previous hypnotherapy training and have been working as a hypnotherapist for some time, but always felt there were gaps and missing links. Then I found Uncommon Knowledge and the wonderful Mark. This course and his amazing knowledge and experience connected all the dots for me. This is definitely wonderful training, delivered with great passion, easy to understand, and just makes perfect sense. I learned a lot! Thank you Mark and Joe.

This is one of the best courses I've completed because it is so easy to access online and to do so at my own pace. I love that it allows me to revisit key insights time and again to embed the learning and has a variety of resources so it's engaging. The content builds upon existing knowledge to deepen any hypnotherapist's skill base. Fantastic value for money.

This session [Session 4] of the Precision Hypnosis course was a particularly great learning experience for me -- such a wealth of concrete examples is so helpful in a distance environment in which it's difficult to ask clarifying questions, and it also enriches my practice of hypnotherapy with ideas I can apply directly and immediately to sessions with clients.

This course was a complete enlightenment for me. My skill set has gone from naïve and unsure to feeling well equipped and confident in dealing with whatever my clients bring to me. I'm learning to trust my intuition and enjoying the creativity that flows when I let go of parroting scripts. This course helped to understand how my own caring interaction can be honed to create real lasting change in another human being. A big thank you to the team at Uncommon Knowledge.

The course material is first class, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have quite a bit of knowledge of hypnosis and NLP, etc., gleaned over the years like little gems. I feel your course allowed me to join up all the parts to consolidate with what I already know, better understand the details of things I thought I knew, learn a whole lot more too, and tie them all together (like pieces of jewellery) into something precious. Many thanks and I will be sure to review it again and again to drill it in.

Just wanted to say thank you for a wonderfully engaging and informative course. I've just finished and am going to whisk off in a moment to get my new badge to display on my website.

Maybe finished is the wrong word though, as I'm looking forward to the learning going on for a long time yet, and that's pretty cool.

Thanks for your suggestions guys, the seeds have grown roots and are blossoming as we speak.

Thank you Mark and Joe, what a truly enriching and informative course! I looked forward to this course for quite some time and now (as with every course I have done with you) I am sad it is over as I found that each day I learned such informative, interesting, and exciting information.

Mark, I loved your final video and the fact that you said "be brave" - such good encouragement. Will definitely keep going back through all the material until it becomes second nature. Lovely "meeting" Joe at last.

Thanks, Mark and Joe. I really enjoyed this course. It ratified and explained a lot about hypnotic phenomena that I've observed and used during my time as a hypnotherapist. It also clarified many issues for me which I've questioned regarding approaches that I've come across in the myriad of books that I've collected over the years - many of which I no longer require.

You've made the whole process of hypnotherapy so much more credible and usable by providing explanations of tools and a structure in which to use them. Thank you so much for bringing the knowledge and research together. I feel more validated and have a well grounded set of expectations around the outcomes of therapy as a result of the courses I've taken with Uncommon Knowledge. In fact, you've helped me overcome a huge anxiety regarding the efficacy of hypnotherapy. I can now put successes and failures into a better perspective and give anxiety the boot.

As I continue to develop new skills and discover new applications, having knowledge about more precise techniques and practices is invaluable. Working through the course material has also helped with confidence. I look forward to revisiting the material from time to time to strengthen my skill and decision-making about when to use the skills.

Precision Hypnosis is my third course with the wonderful Uncommon Knowledge and it's been a great investment in my ongoing professional development. I have almost completed the How to Lift Depression Fast course now, as sudden onset health issues put me out of the picture for most of last year. I have a diploma and certificate in hypnotherapy along with a background in psychology and have been self employed for three years now as a counsellor, life coach, and hypnotherapist.

I have found the courses at Unk to be so much better in terms of content than those I paid $1000's for. I look forward to completing the Precision Hypnosis course very soon as the therapy, demonstrations, and use of hypnotic language by Mark and his team is second to none. The course content and materials are excellent and very detailed and the courses are structured in such a way that the information is easy to learn and implement. Highly recommended.

It's great to learn skills that you can start implementing straight away instead of just theory.

I have been practising as a therapist for around 9 years now and during that time, I've done a number of courses both online and in person. The Precision Hypnosis course has to be one of the best courses I've done so far and is very different to many of the other online or distance learning courses available.

The quality and quantity of information provided, variety of subjects covered, support, advice and interaction make it very interesting and informative, whilst being enjoyable too. I liked the way that although it was an online course, there are real people behind it as well as real feedback and interaction. Although I was away for the live Q&A calls, I listened to them afterwards and found those really useful too. Many online courses are quite faceless and impersonal, so I think the contact and interaction aspects of this (and other Uncommon Knowledge courses) is what sets it apart.

I've always believed that you learn something new everyday, no matter whether you're newly qualified or experienced. I certainly learned some really useful things from this course and would definitely recommend it.

I have loved this course, thank you so much. It has been really engaging and accessible. I feel much more confident and adventurous and am beginning now to utilise some of my new learning in practice. I will keep going back into the material as it is so helpful to revisit and get a bit more each time!

Thank you so much for a very informative, useful, and well-constructed course. This is my first online learning experience and I can't praise it enough. It's been so engaging that I almost feel I've attended an actual 'live' course. I've really valued your responses to my questions through the message boards and the Q&A sessions have added that extra personal touch.

I feel that my skills as a clinical hypnotherapist have been greatly enhanced by the Precision Hypnosis course and I've been so impressed that I've also signed up for the Stop Smoking course (which is also living up to expectation).

Precision Hypnosis and the previous course that I completed, Uncommon Hypnosis, have really done wonders for me both as a person and as a hypnotist. I feel much better about life; it's as if I gained some insight which makes me philosophical and at ease with the world (if that is possible!). Precision Hypnosis taught me so much about why people are the way they are, that I now walk about observing certain types and know exactly what could be done to alleviate their fears, phobias and unwanted habits. The best way I can say a big 'thank you' to Uncommon Knowledge is to take another of their courses, which of course I will do in the near future. Thanks to Mark and the team for a quality product of the highest professional standard.

I'm VERY happy you allow non-therapists to take this class because it has helped greatly in many areas of life. I volunteer for hospice and it is astonishing how powerful hypnotic language can be ... for the patient and family members. Hypnotic language was also very useful with neighbors who didn't want to cut down their tree that was hit by lightning and about to fall into our home! (Haha, they just cut it down! Nothing like hypnotic language in an email!) Lastly, I have seen a therapist or two over the years and should I ever feel the need to pursue that path again, I would insist on a therapist who knows how to use hypnosis.

I wanted to share an amazing experience I've had with the things I've learned from Precision Hypnosis and Uncommon Knowledge. Four weeks ago, I began discussing smoking with a friend - we both smoked and neither of us was planning on quitting just yet. Without consciously thinking about what I was doing, I found myself using so many of the tips and techniques I've found here - referring to smoking as "it" throughout, we likened it to abusive relationships from our pasts and how its "voice" demands that we stop whatever we're doing and tend to its "needs," making numerous connections to its dishonesty, pretending to be comforting us, its selfishness and how it only demands our attention when it needs something from us - after about an hour, the following conversation ensued:

Friend: But isn't it strange how acceptable it is? At work, I'll say, "I'm just going outside for a cigarette" and everyone just says "OK."

Me: Think how much like a mental illness smoking actually is - that "voice" in your head telling you what you have to do, right now, to placate it. Can you imagine being at work and saying, "Oh, wait, the voice in my head is talking to me again - I'm just going to pop outside for five minutes and harm myself." Your workmates would freak.

Friend: I just realised something else - we were talking about it being like (ex) taking everything from me and giving nothing in return, even to the point of stealing from me - it isn't just stealing from me ... it's stealing from the children I haven't even had yet.

Me: It's like when (ex) moved in - he never paid rent or any bills, he made such a mess and never cleaned up ... it started off seeming like a friend and moved into the spare room (in our head) - it was only supposed to be temporary, but it's been squatting there ever since, and we're paying for it, constantly cleaning up after it, while it sits there and demands our time and money, and convinces us we can't live without it.

Friend: It's moving out right now. I'm taking my spare room back.

Me: me too.

Neither of us has had a cigarette since. When we call each other, we refer to ourselves as being "squatter free."

I had no intention of practicing hypnosis that day (although we were discussing the course as part of the smoking discussion) and I can assure you neither of us believed ourselves to be anywhere near "ready" to quit. But the incredible thing is, none of the triggers and circumstances that would normally have accompanied the quitting process (we've both stopped before) have occurred - there's no sense of something missing after a meal, or when having a glass of wine. The entire "thinking like a smoker" process was gone by the end of the conversation. Neither of us has felt any need to "fill the space" with eating (or anything else) because the only "space" is the spare room in our minds, which each of us decided to use for something else at the point we moved the squatter out. More than anything, we both know, deep down, that this is permanent.

Just wanted you to know how successful my accidental therapy session was for both of us.

I am a practicing Hypnotherapist, and was looking for some further insights, even tools, that I may not be using currently. My hope was that I would breathe new life into my practice, and this course did not disappoint! It was everything and more that I expected. The information is delivered in a clear, concise way, with enough repetition to help cement the learning process. I really appreciated the quizzes at the end of the chapters. I found them to be well thought-out and designed to truly test whether or not the concepts taught had been understood and assimilated. I would highly recommend this course to all Hypnotherapists wanting to improve or add to their skills!

I would thoroughly recommend this course. It's great value and there is a huge amount of information within it that will elevate the knowledge and experience of any hypnotherapist. I will revisit the lectures as they are so interesting and informative.

It was refreshing, sometimes challenging and really good to see others at work. The information shared on this course I found vary valuable and would think it would be of great value to anyone in this profession. Great to look at different ideas, update present skills and refresh. If you are thinking of doing the course , stop thinking and just do it. Highly recommend.

The Precision Hypnosis course was full of valuable and very interesting content which helped me optimise my hypnosis skills and learn more about psychology and the unconscious mind. It was fun and easy to follow, but had very powerful content!

I enjoyed the wealth of subtle techniques. The course was very well produced, which made you really able to get these subtleties. What also really helps are all the professionally acted bonus videos demonstrating the techniques. And of course the monthly (recorded) conference calls which allows you to ask questions.

The Precision Hypnosis course has been wonderfully inspiring. For me - a hypnotherapist and psychotherapist in practice since 2003 - I'm still learning.

Precision is a great word, Mark, because that's what your course offers: cutting edge bang up-to-date precision learning.

The tools and confidence I've gained are delightful. I'm a huge fan of Uncommon U. Really appreciate the effort you guys have put into the course and all the bonus material. Love the 'Confident Hypnotherapist' session; will be listening often, leaves me smiling.

Oh and thanks for the watch, very nice. Haven't used one for years but did on Friday with two clients. Honestly they were fascinated and it proved very effective; will be using it again.

Precision Hypnosis has helped me as a therapist overall in many different ways. Everything was amazing in this course, from the material to the exercises. I really like how this course used multiple methods to help teach, and it was incredibly useful and valuable. I'm now using the conversational style of hypnosis in essentially every session. This is one of the best courses to improve your overall therapeutic efficacy.

A thoughtfully written course, which cuts through the grime to produce clean, clear, flowing language in which to fully participate alongside your clients. It also makes you laugh, which is an added bonus. Definitely recommend the course, money well spent.

What a course - I have always found Uncommon Knowledge courses brilliant and challenging in the sense of... I have learnt so much and can be so different from what I have learnt so far even though the content was the same... words can be such an art and have such a different meaning - all because of the interpretation one can put on them - I knew this and understood it and yet found my own journey here at times a challenge and self exploration of what my understanding to be of what is being said... having to resit the test at the end a couple of times.

Although I may not "get it" at first even though I already have learnt it and practice... it's this new challenge that awakens and embeds permanently.

Many thanks again for the insight.

I was so happy when I got the "Congratulations" reply when I submitted the final test, that I got tears in my eyes! Yes, we sign up/ pay for the course, but as I see it, you have actually given us a gift - one that so truly will keep on giving! The knowledge that you have shared is just amazing - I am so grateful and appreciate your dedicated instructions very much. I printed out each lecture and consider them to be my # 1 resource and guide.

This course more than exceeded my expectations and is a must for any therapist who really wants to get to grips with using cutting edge skills in hypnosis. I have learnt that there is much more to conversational hypnosis than I ever imagined possible. All of the supporting materials are excellent, particularly the videos which are invaluable in their demonstrative content. As per usual, the teleconferences were packed full of knowledge, were easy to understand and great fun too! Uncommon Knowledge have really pulled out all the stops with this one - well done Mark and Joe!!

I really liked the way the whole course was presented. I felt Joe and Mark really complemented each other and their knowledge and skill was a breath of fresh air to the way I had been taught. I found the course to be very informative overall. I like having lots of ways to learn things and therefore the conference calls, audios, videos, forums, booklets, word docs and pdfs helped to keep me focused and interested. I found Kirstin to be a great help with any enquiries I had, she had a lovely warm and friendly manner and was a pleasure to deal with. Overall it was a very enjoyable course, thank-you very much :-)

I thought the course was excellent and covered a great deal of ground with wisdom, depth and compassion. It was innovative, thoughtful and practical and I am incorporating some of the new learnings with great success. This is my first internet course and I think it tremendously exciting that such a comprehensive, high calibre course can be enjoyed here in my tiny home office in the rainforests of western Canada. I plan on taking more. Thanks a million for all your good efforts and for reaching out over the internet Mark, Joe and Kirstin. It's been great.

I have an unpredictable schedule and it was a luxury to be able to participate in the live conference calls or fall back on the recordings if necessary. Using written, audio and video seems like a wonderful combination, reinforcing learning. Being able to have all the material downloaded for further review is great as I will have to go back over areas identified in testing that I did not absorb likely due to my workload being higher.

I've been involved with hypnosis for 67 years (I'm 80). I've taught it for nearly 20. I've taken courses all over the world. Never, never have I had so much fun as taking your course. I learned so much, enjoyed the thought processes created, and had a load of fun. I learned why some of my techniques have been so successful(!) Thank you. And you've left me with enough polishing techniques to use for the rest of my life.

It was a great workshop! The best hypnotic workshop I have ever been in. I have already done a "shock induction", for example, and have used a powerful reframe for a woman who has a very cluttered and messy house to keep her from having an "empty nest". She is very excited about the changes she is making.

I so like your approach to the subject, psychology as well as hypnosis. I also very much like your friendly and "casual" approach to teaching, which makes it so much more enjoyable and interesting. Of course, as I expected, the standards are high and I really learned a lot! You people are so good! Thank you very much for this course!

I really liked going to the depth of known principle, and really understand them on a different level. I found a dramatic change while sitting with clients. Instead of going down a familiar path I go into a fascinating journey with the client, and I have no idea where it will lead us. But I have the confidence (and knowledge) to give the right suggestion in the right way and the right time. The responses and the results are really encouraging.

I am so glad I found Uncommon Knowledge! I found this whole Precision Hypnosis course fascinating, and the presenting of it was excellent and held my attention throughout. Mark and Joe are very engaging and funny, and really adept at putting their points across in an easy to understand way. This is the second course I have done now with Uncommon Knowledge and because I have learnt such a lot from these courses, I will definitely be doing the 'Depression' course at some stage in the future. Thanks guys!

I've just come home after attending the Precision Hypnosis course in Dublin. I really enjoyed it and it introduced me to Uncommon Knowledge. Wow, I'm looking forward to working this week so I can introduce some of these new techniques to my work with clients

I enjoyed that the course could be done on my schedule WITH support if I needed it. It's a lovely refresher that I will download and save to replay once or twice a year. I work alone as a hypnotherapist and it was lovely to be temporarily engaged with others who are enhancing their skills set.

I used to be the internal education manager for IBM in the UK and from that critical/analytical viewpoint would like to say that you have been very professional indeed in both creating and executing this course. You have tried to ensure that the material was not just transmitted but understood and remembered. You both have a pleasant, easy style of delivery and worked very well together. Thank you both for your obvious commitment and personal integrity - you are both making a significant difference to people - practitioners and clients alike.

Both Mark and Joe are excellent lecturers and demonstrate both knowledge and the ability to relate pertinent examples from there past work in the field. Also the videos were interesting and instructive. The course was a good progression from 'Uncommon Hypnotherapy' and answered many questions that occurred to me whilst re-reading the past notes. Thanks to all at Uncommon Knowledge, and I hope to continue my studies, with yourselves, in the future.

My first exposure to hypnosis training was last year, 2008 with 'Hypnosis Unwrapped' which I considered very worth while as an introduction. With out the particular structure and content of 'Precision Hypnosis' as a necessary and meaningful follow up, I would however have found myself far less empowered to integrate new perceptions within my existing family therapy practice.

Secondly, I have found your approach supportive albeit that in comparison with other trainees, I have not had that much practical experience of [closed eye] hypnosis.

Thirdly - what I liked most were the links with change theory that I am accustomed with [Watzlawick et all 1967 and 1974; Keeney, 1983] as well as the new ways of thinking about change within the contexts of [conscious/unconscious] splitting and linking and the [for me] golden phrase of the course:

However, remember hypnosis [going into the REM state] is a fundamental and integral part of ... new ... patterns of behaviour".

The instructors clearly know the information inside and out, and they were also very willing to answer any and all questions. The information was challenging, but it was presented in a very logical, step-by-step fashion, so I felt quite capable of understanding.

I like the informal approach, although there was plenty of serious points made, in a very succinct manner. This type of approach in Hypnotherapy fits in with the style I have in mind to become proficient at, and have used, to an extent, in the past. In an industry seemingly obsessed with behavioural approaches (or at least with the school I studied with) I find this approach refreshing, and very effective.

I loved this course and even though I've completed it, I'm going to go back and review everything, there is just so much information in it. Thanks Mark and Joe!

Precision Hypnosis is a course for serious practitioners presented in a relaxed, simple, practical and realistic way. It is generous with its extended supplementary materials and provides excellent opportunity to see real hypnosis in action.