• Residential Retreats
• Hypnotherapy Training
• Workshops
“The key to understanding the nature of our conscious life and that of the soul lies in the sphere of the unconscious. All the difficulties, even the apparent
impossibility of a real understanding of the secrets of the psyche becomes obvious in this light, the light of the unconscious.” Carl Gustav Carus
RESIDENTIAL RETREATS (top)

Residential Intensives are designed for people that live out of the local school area, in another state or another country. They are held in California or New Mexico. Students that are local may wish to complete the training in this time frame and are also invited to attend. They are structured in four six day blocks (50 hours class time) with a two day break in between each 50 hour session. The residential intensives include room and board and are scheduled once a year. The fall 2004 Residential Intensive is forming now. Residential Intensive Retreats are a powerful experience, a total immersion of oneself into learning, community, and growth. Please call or e-mail us if you are interested in this training option. (learn more)

HYPNOTHERAPY TRAINING (top)
CERTIFIED HYPNOTHERAPY INTENSIVE
200-hour Certified Hypnotherapist Training


Winter Hypnotherapy Training dates.

Sept. 5,6,7
Sept 26,27,28
Oct. 17,18,19
Nov. 7,8,9
Nov. 21,22,23
December,12,13,14
Jan. 2,3,4
Jan. 23,24,25

The Hypnotherapy Training offered by the California Institute for Mind/Body Awareness is a special event in each student’s life. Our next training will begin Fall 2008. The training will be held at the California Institute for Mind/Body Awareness Penngrove Campus. The training will conclude it’s final weekend at the ‘Sea Ranch’, a pristine and environmentally responsible community that stretches along nine miles of the Sonoma Coastline and includes beautiful beaches, coves, meadows, wild life and walking and hiking trails through the redwood forest. It will be taught in a private home surrounded by natural beauty with fireplaces, decks and spas. Accommodations for shared space will be available in a private home and will include all amenities, with gourmet meals prepared and catered fresh daily. Special dietary concerns will be respected and considered whenever possible. There will be a fully equipped community kitchen available. For those wishing private rooms, they are available in near by Gualala, an information packet is available. From the time you start the training, on the first day through graduation, you will be participating in a journey of self-empowerment through self-awareness. You will graduate with the latest profession skills in Hypnotherapy available today.

Hypnotherapy is a powerful healing science, a tool for your life and the lives you touch through your practice. The California Institute for Mind/Body Awareness training offers you a strong, complete foundation to begin a professional career as a Certified Hypnotherapist or expand, enhance and add depth to an existing healing practice. On a personal level, the training will create profound and lasting change. You will finish this training with the latest technology and professional skills to begin your career as a Certified Hypnotherapist.
Hypnotherapy and the hypnotic trance have much to offer. It is in fact a skill that offers access to a richer and more meaningful existence. By safely bringing your clients into trance, they learn how to relax and experience the comfort of being present in the moment. They learn how to allow their attention to become absorbed by subtle perceptions and internal images and become aware of a host of thoughts, sensations and feelings that would otherwise go unnoticed. The hypnotic trance allows us to safely explore forgotten memories, reexamine childhood experiences, process and release past trauma and enjoy freedom from our ordinary cares, concerns, and fears. We can discover unconscious abilities and capabilities that we might otherwise never recognize, and we can realize how much control over ourselves and our lives we really have. We can reexamine old problems in new ways, release ourselves from destructive patterns and allow the perfect power of our unconscious mind to find realistic ways to make our most precious hopes and dreams come true. We can understand ourselves and others in ways we could never imagine. We can learn to use the remarkable gifts hidden in the vast reservoir of the unconscious mind. Eliminating negative reactions and cultivating positive actions are some the benefits offered by hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy can help us behave the way we want to behave, feel the way we want to feel, and think the way the way we want to think. This is why hypnosis is such a powerful tool in realizing our conscious desires about happiness, peace, and well being. Hypnotherapy can guide our clients and ourselves to health and truth.

David Williams PHT, CHT, has been a transformational therapist, trainer, teacher and a researcher in client lead hypnotherapy for years. David was active in the humanist psychology movement during the late 1960’s and studied with Dr. Fritz Perls, Dr. Stan Groff and others in San Francisco and at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. He sits on the Board of Directors and is a licensed staff counselor for the Renewal Center, a California non-profit institute established in 1970, as a psychological and spiritual center for the community. David is the director for the California Institute for Mind/Body Awareness (est. 1990), and is certified by The American Counsel of Hypnotist Examiners as an ACHE certified instructor, and ACHE certified examiner. His own continuing healing work and commitment to self-actualization and spiritual approach to therapy and teaching provides a safe and powerful environment for his students and clients’ transformation, healing and learning.

Training: Holistic, Transformational, Somatic, Alchemical, Clinical

The Certified Hypnotherapy Course training you will receive will be in depth, cutting edge and include the latest available technology in the field. You will learn; Emotional Clearing, Age Regression, Inner Child Processes, Past Life Regression, Strategic Approaches, Spirit Guide Journeys, Etheric Plane Communication, Rebirthing, Habit Control, Pain Control, Stress Management, Mind/Body Healing, Ericksonian Techniques, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Ideodynamic Techniques. This training will include the integration of all current psychotherapies for hypnosis; Psychosynthesis, Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Jungian Archetypal Psychology, as well as covering Somatic, Transformational, Alchemical, and Clinical Hypnotherapy techniques. We will study Ancient Shamanism and Hermetic Science and their relationship to hypnosis and personal transformation.

Workshops offered in 2008

Medical Hypnosis
  • The Psychology of Mind/Body Healing

    New concepts in Therapeutic Hypnosis
    Methods of ideodynamic healing in Hypnosis

  • Body Centered Psychotherapy
    A two day workshop


    The history of psychotherapy
    Theorectical perspectives
    Body psychotherapy in practice for trauma and regression

  • NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
    A two day workshop

    Reframing
    Representational systems
    Sub-Modalities

  • Ericksonian Therapy
    A two day workshop

    Stragies
    Double Binds
    Utilizing
    Approaches to Hypnotic suggestion


  • Complex Hypnotherapy
    A two day workshop

    Reactive complex
    Source work
    In-trance experience of desired state
Hypnotherapy Training Begins Fall, 2008!
Contact CIMBA for more details.
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