Advanced Workshop: Hypnosis and Performance Enhancement
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Advanced Workshop: Hypnosis and Performance Enhancement
Held virtually
Dates: Saturday, September 13, 2025 & Sunday, September 14, 2025 – Each day : 10 – 5pm, 2 15-minute breaks and 30-minute lunch
Description: If you work with people who want to get better at something in their lives – whether your clients are athletes, artists, performers, students, writers, professionals in the workplace, or those simply trying to achieve work-life balance – you know that mental health challenges can derail performance. For example, studies show depression affects between 6-34% of high-level athletes, with anxiety and burnout common during transitions, injuries, or high-pressure events. Despite the growing awareness of the importance of mental health, many still struggle to get to the next level of performance no matter what field of play or work. In the spirit of “skills not pills” (see Dr. Michael Yapko) this workshop will provide clinicians who use hypnosis the opportunity to experience several hypnotically informed strategies to draw out the best performance in their clients, whether they perform on stage, the playing field, or in the office. It will provide practical ways to help your clients achieve peak performance, improve your own tennis or pickle ball serve, enhance creativity, and also, tackle mental health challenges in the process.
Dr. Dana Lebo, psychologist, has focused the past two decades of her career on performance and executive coaching, and has helped hundreds of leaders, elite athletes, teams, writers, students and individuals in diverse fields to achieve their optimal levels of functioning while also addressing challenges to their mental health. She will combine organizational/business, coaching, sports and other mind-body psychologies with hypnosis in ways to improve performance, and guide participants through performance enhancement processes they can readily apply in their work.
Join ASCH for this 2-day, 12-hour online workshop on using hypnosis to improve performance. Day 1 centers on how hypnosis can play a role in performance enhancement, and a practical process is presented that can be applied to improvement in a wide range of performance areas. Day 2 builds on the concepts of Day 1, exploring with participants some cases, experiential tools, techniques and examples that bring the 3-part performance enhancement process to life. Participants will be able to practice these tools and techniques together.
Learning Objectives
- Describe at least 3 examples of how hypnotic techniques have been used to enhance performance. Examples will be drawn from sports, performing arts, or workplace settings.
- State the 3 key components to a process-oriented approach to performance enhancement.
- Identify the core 4 steps to setting the stage for a process-oriented approach to performance enhancement.
- Define performance psychology and give 3 representative examples of cases that might benefit from the guidance of a performance psychologist/therapist.
- Demonstrate the use of at least one question that utilizes the client’s experience to determine their improvement target.
- Give at least 5 examples of improvement targets that clients might want to work on.
- Determine the polarity of an improvement target using at least two approaches.
- Define a moment of “Pause-itivity” and its role in the process of performance enhancement.
- Describe at least three ways to experience mindfulness in the process of performance enhancement.
- Describe at least three ways to experience visualization in the process of performance enhancement.
- Give at least three examples of positive coaching/positive expectancies in the process of performance enhancement.
- Demonstrate at least one experiential exercise — incorporating hypnosis — that can be applied with individuals or groups in the process of performance enhancement.
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Registration Instructions
Online registration will take you to the ASCH site and require a new account set-up (non-members) or Member login. If you are an ASCH member enter the email address associated with your ASCH Membership as our UserID; click Forgot Password to set a new password.
Payments can now be made in a secure online environment. The system DOES NOT save credit card information once the transaction has been completed and registration submitted.
Continuing Education Hours
Online attendance, full engagement and completion of a pre-test, post-test and daily program evaluations are required for a certificate of completion. Level 1 and Level 2 will be approved for 20-24 hours.
Changing Dates
ASCH will honor one registration transfer. Transfer requests must be made in writing, to education@asch.net, by March 24, 2025. Change requests after that date will be treated as a cancellation.
Credit Card Payments
Registration payments must be made online and received by March 24, 2025. The ASCH Registrar will send reminders of the due date will in advance. The Registrants seat will be relinquished if payment is not received by this date.
Cancellations
Cancellations must be made in writing to education@asch.net. No cancellations will be taken by phone. Cancellations made by March 24, 2025 will receive a full refund minus a $50 administrative fee. No refunds will be made for cancellations made after that date unless the seat can be filled by a waitlisted person.
Clinical Workshop Eligibility
Registrants must be healthcare professionals licensed in their jurisdiction functioning within the scope of their practice.
Students must have completed a minimum of one full semester of the program and must submit proof of full-time enrollment at an ACE-approved institution of higher education on school letterhead that clearly identifies the individual’s program of study, area of concentration (if applicable), level of degree pursued and date of intended graduation.
Full-time residents or interns participating in a recognized residency or internship program may also register to attend at a reduced rate. Residents/interns need to submit correspondence from their supervisor on official letterhead explaining the nature of the residency/internship and the date of intended completion of the program.
Workshop CME & ASCH Continuing Education (CE) Credits
This program has been approved by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Standards of Training Committee to be used toward Membership and Certification requirements.
The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis-Education and Research Foundation (ASCH-ERF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis-Education and Research Foundation (ASCH-ERF) designates this live activity for a maximum of 22.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (886386995-7390) for 22.50 continuing education contact hours.
This course is approved by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and as such is an approved continuing education course per Florida’s AC-Rule 64B-4-6002 American Society of Clinical Hypnosis-ERF is designated as an Approved PACE Program Provider.
The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Education & Research Foundation Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. 10/1/2021 to 9/30/2027. Provider ID#217022