ASCH Level 1 & Level 2 Workshop
February 20, 2025 - February 23, 2025
ASCH Level 1 & Level 2 Workshop
Thursday, February 20th-Sunday, February 23rd
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Our Clinical Hypnosis training program offers a progressive series of workshops designed to equip licensed health professionals with skills to incorporate clinical hypnosis into their practices. In the Level 1 workshop, participants learn the foundational principles and techniques of hypnosis, including inductions, suggestions, and therapeutic strategies, guided by experienced faculty from various health disciplines. This course blends presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on practice to provide basic skills for immediate application. Building on this foundation, the Level 2 workshop delves deeper into clinical hypnosis, expanding on “how to” by adding the “when, why, and where” for techniques, especially for specific populations and complex cases like pain and anxiety management. Advanced skills such as complex inductions and the nuanced use of suggestion language are explored with expert feedback. For those seeking continued growth, Advanced Workshops offered throughout the year cover specialized topics, including behavioral medicine and mind-body integration, enabling participants to further enhance and apply their skills in targeted areas. Each level builds confidence, competence, and the ability to provide patient-centered, integrative care
Important Notes
- Register for only ONE Workshop – Participants are expected to attend all days.
- Detailed workshop schedules, faculty and other materials will be available to participants, online, two weeks before the start date. Workshop materials will be available in electronic form only.
- You must complete Level 1 prior to taking Level 2.
- Approximately one week before the workshop, registered participants will receive a link to a private webpage that will include links to handouts and resource materials. This access will be good for seven days after the workshop has been completed. Note: workshop handouts can be approximately 200+ pages for Level 1; 150+ pages for Level 2; and 100+ pages for Advanced.
Clinical Workshop Level 1
The Level 1 workshop, the first part of a series of workshops in the certification program for clinical hypnosis, is intended for licensed health professionals including physicians, nurses, psychologists, dentists, counselors, social workers, and those in related fields. A diverse faculty from a range of health disciplines will teach the principles and process of hypnotic inductions, suggestions, and treatment. The workshop is a mix of didactic presentations, demonstrations, experiential exercises, and faculty-led small group practice tailored to the specific needs and learning styles of each participant. At the conclusion of the workshop participants will have been taught the basic skills required to utilize clinical hypnosis and begin to apply it to their practice.
Advantages:
- Rapidly establish rapport and the hypnotic relationship across developmental ages.
- Facilitate change, ego-strengthen, and reduce impediments to change.
- Cost-effective, collaborative, person-centered treatment.
- Empower clients and patients to build skills for better health.
- Learn a highly creative, broad-ranging technique for use in integrative medicine.
Level 1 Schedule
(All times listed are in EST. Times are subject to minor changes)
| Thursday, February 20, 2025 | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM |
| Friday, February 21, 2025 | 8:30 AM-6:00 PM |
| Saturday, February 22, 2025 | 8:30 AM-6:00 PM |
| Sunday, February, 23, 2025 | 8:30 AM-12:00 PM |
A general agenda for Level 1 can be found here: https://asch.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/L1Agenda_Feb25.pdf
(an agenda with faculty assignments will be sent to registrants approximately 1-2 weeks prior to the live course date)
Register for Level 1 here
Clinical Workshop Level 2
The second step in certification training is to strengthen skills, strategies, and applications of clinical hypnosis. Part one taught “how to” do clinical hypnosis, and part two builds on this skill set and refines and furthers development to add the when, why, and where to the “how-to”.
Advantages:
- Introduction to a wider range of topics on the utility of clinical hypnosis (e.g., Pain Management; Anxiety and Sleep Disorders; Habit Disorders).
- Learn more techniques for the creative use of the language of suggestion to facilitate change.
- Learn specific tools (complex inductions and intensification techniques) for specific populations (children).
- More practice with the feedback of expert faculty.
The Level 2 workshop increases skills and builds confidence in the use of hypnosis. It prepares the workshop participant to move on to the Advanced Workshop level and Individual Consultation with a strong basis of skills and understanding of the principles and practice of clinical hypnosis.
Level 2 Schedule
(All times listed are in EST. Times are subject to minor changes)
| Thursday, February 20, 2025 | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM |
| Friday, February 21, 2025 | 8:30 AM-6:00 PM |
| Saturday, February 22, 2025 | 8:30 AM-6:00 PM |
| Sunday, February, 23, 2025 | 8:30 AM-12:00 PM |
A general agenda for Level 2 can be found here: https://asch.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/L2Agenda_Feb25.pdf
(an agenda with faculty assignments will be sent to registrants approximately 1-2 weeks prior to the live course date)
Register for Level 2 here
Details and Fees
| Course | Member | Non-Member | Resident/Intern/Fellow | Graduate Student |
| Level 1 | $500 | $675 | $400 | $320 |
| Level 2 | $500 | $675 | $400 | $320 |
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 20-22 hours.
Changing Dates
ASCH will honor one registration transfer. Transfer requests must be made in writing, to education@asch.net, by February 13, 2025 Change requests after that date will be treated as a cancellation.
Credit Card Payments
Registration payments must be made online and received by February 13, 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 February 13, 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
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 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ASCH-ERF is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. ASCH-ERF maintains responsibility for the regional workshops. The ASCH Standards of Training Committee has approved all regional workshops as meeting the twenty hours required for membership and certification requirements.
Courses approved by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis are approved continuing education courses per Florida’s AC-Rule 64B-4-6002 for Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage and Family Therapists in the State of Florida.
| 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. 6/1/2022 to 5/31/2025. Provider ID#217022 |
California Board of Behavioral Sciences Accreditation
Please note that effective July 1, 2015, the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (CBBS) is no longer renewing existing CE provider numbers. ASCH-ERF’s accreditation through CBBS expired on December 31, 2015. BBS licensees now obtain their continuing education through the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychological Association, among others, both through which ASCH-ERF maintains accreditation.