The Art of Simple Hypnosis by Rob De Groof
In this podcast, Rob De Groof will interview seasoned hypnotherapists and ask them a few questions on how to keep hypnosis simple and effective. With every guest, he will discuss a certain topic which they selected. Every second Wednesday of the month a new episode of the show will be aired as a video (YouTube) and a podcast.
Episode 10 - Ines Simpson on The Concept of Modern Hypnosis and Simpson Protocol
June 9, 2021 • 31 MIN
Hi, my name is Ines Simpson and here’s a little Obligatory Bio about me. Prior to Hypnosis, I worked in many fields from the hospitality industry to commercial fishing on Canada’s west coast. In my 40’s, I started to reevaluate my life and to search for something that would fulfil me and hopefully give my life more meaning. In the late 90s my mother took a hypnotherapy course (by mistake – she thought it was Psychic event – and I guess in a way it was! ) She told me about it and a light bulb went on! And I reconnected to Hypnosis. From then on I was committed. It seemed to be my thing. Something I could truly commit to. I avidly (fanatically) pursued a career in hypnosis and became a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists in 2000. By 2005, I was admitted as a faculty member by the National Guild and continues to this day to teach as well as study to add to my knowledge of hypnosis. A field that is never static never finished – there is always more to learn. I am a Board-Certified hypnotist with the National Guild of Hypnotists, the largest hypnosis body in the world. I was, in fact, the very first certified instructor for the NGH in western Canada. I have my own business Advanced Hypnosis and Training Institute in British Columbia. Advanced Hypnosis offers individual services as well as Mentoring to Full Hypnosis Certification and Simpson Protocol training for hypnotists. I was inducted in 2012 to the NGH’s Order of Braid in recognition of service to professional hypnotism. Each hypnotist inducted to the Order of Braid have enriched the lives of others and have made a significant contribution to the hypnosis profession. Also in 2012, I received the Hallmark Award- Top Rated Instructor by Student Evaluation Award from the NGH. And in 2014 became the first instructor of Jerry Kein’s Omni Hypnosis program in Canada. (Jerry Kein was my Mentor and Hero as a Hypnotist- if you haven’t heard of him – look him up – really!) I also developed and created the Simpson Protocol, a method of Hypnosis that allows the Hypnotists to communicate with a Client even when in deep states of Hypnosis – such as Esdaile and even Sichort. For the first time, the hypnotist can converse with the client’s deepest mind to learn what the true issues are and to direct it to do what is needed to achieve the best results possible.
Episode 9 - Tim Box on Working Without Trance
May 12, 2021 • 49 MIN
About Scott Sandland: Tim is a Remedial Hypnotist and Mind Coach specialising in helping clients get control of their anxiety response. He has run a full time therapeutic practice in the UK for more than 10 years and is the creator of The CONTROL System, a way of utilising an hypnotherapeutic approach without incorporating any formal trance process. He trains his method internationally and now has CONTROL Practitioners in the UK, US, Europe, and Australasia. In 2017 he released his first book: Clear Your Head: How to enjoy life without anxiety getting in the way which went on to become an Amazon best seller. In 2019 he gave a TED talk entitled 'How to stop feeling anxious about anxiety’ which has now had over three quarters of a million views.
Episode #8 - Scott Sandland on Visiting Hypnosis Conventions
April 14, 2021 • 47 MIN
About Scott Sandland: Former worlds youngest hypnotherapist, Scott has been on staff in doctors offices, dental offices, drug rehabilitation centers, mental health clinics, and his private practice. He is the creator of HypnoThoughts Live, the largest hypnosis conference in the world.
Episode #7 - Dan Candell on Working with Anxiety
March 10, 2021 • 62 MIN
About Dan Candell: Known as “The Anxiety Relief Guy,” Dan travels the world teaching people to release anxiety quickly and gain confidence on demand. Dan is also a multi-award winning hypnotist, author, podcast host and speaker. Dan travels the world speaking, presenting and also performs his comedy hypnosis shows for groups of hundreds of people at a time. He also works with clients both individually and in groups online/offline. Clients and people who attend his programs are often AMAZED at how quickly Dan helps them break free from anxiety, obstacles, worry, doubt and fear to create a high performing life. Dan can take a chronic worrier who is crippled with anxiety and within just a few hours, teach them how to break free from those limitations and embrace their inner superhero!
Episode #6 - Nicole Wackernagel on being confident as a hypnotist
February 10, 2021 • 41 MIN
About Nicole Wackernagel: Nicole Wackernagel ist a full time hypnotherapist and a certified IMDHA, IACT Instructor from Switzerland and the director of the Swiss Hypnosis Institute. She has a higher degree in a medical profession. Because of her medical background Nicole is specialized in pain management and medical hypnosis, and she is teaching internationally doctors, dentists and nurses in those areas. For a few years she was working on pulmonary function in the hospital and saw there live what happens if somebody has lung problems and the problems of smoking. That is the reason, why Nicole one of Nicole's passion are nonsmoker sessions. Instand and rapid inductions are something that Nicole likes to us as a keynote and corporate speaker and stage hypnotist internationally. She is known from one of the biggest TV (PRO7) station in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and was speaking in different radio stations internationally. But Nicole was not always that confident in using hypnosis. She was struggling like many new hypnotist being confident in using hypnosis or instant and rapid inductions. During the last 10 years she was realizing what are the difficulties and the "must" for getting confident. Today Nicole is supporting, teaching and helping other hypnotists how to get confident in different techniques and tool - a lot of humor, fun and laughing included.
Episode #5 - Caryn Bird on Working with Athletes
January 13, 2021 • 60 MIN
About Caryn Bird: International Coach & Speaker to 15+ Countries | Over 5,000 Clients Since Caryn was young, she aspired to work in mental health and inspire others to live their best, authentic selves. On her way to becoming an international speaker and trainer, Caryn earned a Psychology degree and founded Win With Hypnosis, where she has worked with over 5,000 athletes and high performers. Caryn is known as the 'Game Changer Trainer', for her ability to produce high performers with a mental edge. Now, through her Attitude of Champion certification program, Caryn empowers therapists to become game-changing Performance Mindset Trainers and is known as the leading mindset expert for athletes and high performers in the Tri-State area. Featured on newscasts, podcasts, and on world stages, Caryn stands for authenticity, integrity, and joy. She holds a vision for her colleagues and trainees as powerful and unstoppable - capable of creating thriving businesses and having the abundant lives they've always dreamed of. She loves traveling abroad, teaching entrepreneurs in her field to be successful, helping athletes find the champion within, inspiring others to love life, and cherishes spending time with her family. Caryn recently lost her eldest son to a motorcycle accident which reminds her to be grateful for every day she is alive to make a difference in the lives of others.
Episode #4 - Jonathan Chase on Past Lives and much mores
December 9, 2020 • 79 MIN
About Jonathan Chase: In 1965, at the age of 10, a Staffordshire coal miners son sat in the London Palladium stalls with his musical mad Mom, and caught SHOW BUSINESS! Despite his crippling hereditary Muscular Dystrophy, he started on a fascinating success journey that would take him from Colliery Clubs to the stages of the West End of London and Las Vegas! He’s won a national CIU Command Performance Award for fundraising with mentalism and mesmerism. In a career spanning over 4 decades, he has successfully hypnotised tens of thousands of people, and broadcast to over 4.4 million; but - he promises he’s not putting you to sleep 
today if you behave! Best selling author about all things subconscious, he knows a lot about minds and resilience, and today he’ll be showing you how to use your SubSkills; the little things you do to get what you want… On Ecademy he was called the Gordon Ramsay of Hypnotists and The Stage dubbed him the ‘Dream Pilot’. https://jonathanchase.com https://www.facebook.com/JonathanCHASEpage https://twitter.com/jonathanchase
Episode #3 - Sean Michael Andrews on Getting Deep Trances
November 11, 2020 • 50 MIN
Sean Michael Andrews it a Certified Hypnotist and a Certified Instructor of Hypnosis. He is a graduate of Regents College (1999) Sean is a Master Practitioner of NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) and one of the few Practitioners who has trained with both co-developers of NLP. He is the author of two books: • “Who, Me?” 2015 • “Street Hypnosis” 2016 He is also the author of eight Educational video products. Sean is in demand at hypnosis conferences around the world and has presented at: • Canadian Hypnosis Conference (Toronto, ON) • Hypnosis Congress (Zurich, Switzerland) • World Hypnosis Congress (Rome, Italy) • UK Hypnosis Convention (London, England) • Mid-America Hypnosis Conference (Chicago, IL) • National Guild of Hypnotists (Marlborough, MA) • American Council of Hypnotist Examiners (Los Angeles, CA) • International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association (Orlando, FL) An accomplished stage hypnotist, Sean is one of only two hypnotists ever to have performed a show at three hypnosis conferences in one year! He is the Supervising Instructor for the Dave Elman Hypnosis Institute, and he is also a qualified nursing hypnosis instructor. He has taught hypnotic pain control to anesthesiologists in Adelaide, South Australia and he has taught nurse anesthetists in Orlando, Florida. Sean has taught in the following countries: • USA • Canada • Mexico • Germany • Switzerland • Belgium • Spain • United Kingdom • Netherlands • Australia • Denmark • Poland • Portugal • Brazil • Singapore • Thailand • Romania In addition, Sean has appeared on Television in the following countries: • Canada • Poland • Romania • Denmark Currently, Sean is the Director and Senior Instructor for the Atlantic Hypnosis Institute in Orlando, Florida. There he teaches courses such as: • Street Hypnosis • Instant and Rapid Hypnosis • Dave Elman’s Best Practices • Medical Hypnosis and Pain Management Techniques • Body Language and NLP • Hypnotic Age Regression Techniques He is the former Senior Hypnotherapist at: • Maryland Family Hypnosis • Virginia Family Hypnosis • Augusta Family Hypnosis Sean’s awards include: 2018 Hypnotist of the Year – IACT 2016 Educator of the Year – MAHC 2013 Hypnotist of the Year – MAHC Many people consider him to be “The World’s Fastest Hypnotist.” He is certified with: • National Guild of Hypnotists • National Board of Hypnosis Education and Certification • International Medical & Dental Hypnotherapy Association • Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Episode #2 - Sheila Granger on Breaking the Eating Trances
October 14, 2020 • 41 MIN
A transformation leader in the fields of personal and business development, Sheila is a multi-award winning hypnotherapist and business owner She has been described by some as ‘Britains Leading Hypnotist’, and by others as “A Magician of Belief”, “ A Creator of programs that work like magic” Sheila was recognised for her work in the field of hypnosis by the International Medical and dental hypnosis association being awarded the “Hypnotist Of The Year” She is the creator of the widely recognised Virtual Gastric Band weight loss programme Sheila is the author of two amazon best selling books “No More Diets” and “How To Build A Hypnotherapy Business” - A professional guest and keynote speaker at conferences around the world. Sheila has delivered training to over 2500 hypnosis practitioners in 16 countries. Whether it’s working one-on-one with clients, empowering them to overcome behaviours and situations that no longer work, or training and empowering other practitioners to do similarly, Sheila is all in. Her toolbox is full, her skill set is at master level, the results she helps to create are undeniable. Having built an international hypnotherapy business from scratch and her business growth being noted with awards including “Exporter of the Year”, her mission now is to educate, motivate, help and inspire other hypnotherapists to achieve more than they ever thought possible in their own business.
Episode #1 - Helen Mitas on Pivoting Your Business Like A Boss during Changing Times
September 9, 2020 • 39 MIN
Helen Mitas is a world-renowned Hypnotherapy Trainer with over 2,000 Hypnotherapists from 15 countries who have undertaken her first class HypnoFit training. Helen was awarded the esteemed title of ‘Hypnotist of the Year’ in 2018 by her peers at the Mid American Conference in Chicago. Helen’s vision is to fill the world with empowered souls by making Hypnotherapy mainstream and the ‘Go -To ‘ Profession for life’s biggest challenges. Helen is the Author of the book “Mindset Dominance’ and has licensed the HypnoFit Brand with 5 HypnoFit Clinics in Australia & New Zealand. Helen has presented all over the world including New York, London, Las Vegas, Boston, Missouri, Chicago and throughout New Zealand & Australia. Helen was Co Founder of the biggest Hypnosis Conference in Australia being HypnoBiz Australia Helen believes that each and every one of us is capable of so much more than we even dare to imagine and we need to shed the ego to connect to our infinite source of wisdom within us.