FITTING THE MODELS OF NEURO-SEMANTICS TOGETHER I decided to make explicit the system of Neuro-Semantics after getting questions in my Meta Master Practitioner training: "How do the pieces of Neuro-Semantics fit together? How do the models interface with each other?" The following sorts out the models of Neuro-Semantics in terms of: Processes, Patterns and Models and I end it with how it all fits together within the larger context of Self-Actualization Psychology. Processes: First of all – State. A state is a general description of the combination of thinking, feeling, body movement, degree of muscle tension etc, We are always in a state and that state effects what we think, feel, and how we act and speak. We get information about the world outside our head through our eyes, ears, nose, tounge and touch/sense. We re-present this information through mental imagery, sounds or voices, tension and other kinds of feelings in our body and we also store information in smell and taste. We edit the movies (a metaphorical description of the VAKOG-information) by how we relate to it in space (near/far, above/under/in front of/behind, inside our outside the images etc) and we give meaning to that relationship to the "movie". In Neuro-Semantics this is called Meta-modalities or Sub-Modalities. As we represent the world in sequences of images/sounds/feeling/smell/taste we called that
 We use Language as a way to code the world symbolically and metaphorically (all language is metaphorical). Language is correlating with our representations - "internal senses", the meta-modalities, and we use language to give meaning and even though we use the same words they mean different things depending to how we make meaning of the symbols through what we see, hear/say and feel about them. The Language patterns or language models are all different applications of the same process, Language. Then we give Meaning to things through language. We make sense of the world by explaining it to ourselves linguistically by what something "is" or adapt our "map" (which of course is a metaphoric description of how we connect things) to what we learn from parents, family, friends, school (which has the purpose of making us productive citizens), work, media etc. We can give meaning that explain, that give us freedom… and toxic meaning that limit us and can make us sick both physically and mentally. We embody meaning and when we tell ourselves that the meanings we have given to things is real and true we form beliefs.


 Recommended books on the processes, patterns and models: Processes: VAKOG: MovieMind by L. Michael Hall Meta-Modalities: Sub-Modalities going Meta by L. Michael Hall and Bob Bodenhamer Get the life you want – Richard Bandler Language: Communication Magic by L. Michael Hall MindLines by L. Michael Hall and Bob Bodenhamer Hypnosis – a comprehensive guide by Tad James Richard Bandlers guide to Trance-Formation by Richard Bandler Cognitive Linguistics – An introduction by Vyvyan Evans and Melanie Green Hypnotic Realities by Erickson, Rossi & Rossi Training Trances by Overdurf & Silverthorn Precision – A new approach to Communication by Grinder & McMaster Sleight of Mouth by Robert Dilts Meaning & Meta-States: Meta-States by L. Michael Hall Neuro-Semantics – actualizing Meaning & Performance by L. Michael Hall States of Equilibrium by John Burton Beliefs by Dilts, Hallway & Smith (not explicitly on Meta-States but if read with "Meta- State eyes" it´s all about Meta-States) Patterns: The Sourcebook of Magic by L. Michael Hall The Sourcebook of Magic Volume II (Meta-Stating patterns) by L. Michael Hall Change your Mind and Keep the change by Steve Andreas and Connirae Andreas Heart of the Mind by Steve Andreas and Connirae Andreas Models: The Matrix Model by L. Michael Hall The Crucible by L. Michael Hall Meta-Coaching vol I by L. Michael Hall and Michelle Duval Meta-Coaching vol II – Coaching Conversations by L. Michael Hall and Michelle Duval Self-Actualization Psychology by L. Michael Hall Unleashed by L. Michael Hall Unleashing Leadership by L. Michael Hall Benchmarking by L. Michael Hall Group and Team Coaching by L. Michael Hall Systemic Coaching by L. Michael Hall

CLEANING UP FLUFF





You can clean up your language and get over a lot of precision by using the
Meta-Model of Language and the Representational Model (#13).  These
precision models inform you how to become more precise and specific in the
way you think and then talk.  Now within the Meta-Model is a particular
distinction that's especially critical-nominalizations and the skill of
de-nominalizing.



This is actually a subject that I speak and write about a lot.  And even
though I do, I find that most of us, including myself, can so easily get
seduced by the hypnotic power of nominalizations.  And if you really don't
know how to recognize these great big fluffy words (a nominalization) and
deal with it, your language is going to be sloppy- very sloppy.  And that
means you will not be precise in communicating even though you probably will
think you are.  That's one of the seductions of nominalizations.  The
speaker has details in mind when speaking, but the language form does not
convey them.  So the speaker will feel as if he or she is being precise even
though what comes out of the mouth is vague, indefinite, and fluffy.



So, what is a nominalization?  A nominalization refers to an action or a
process which has been named, or nominalized.  The problem is that when we
give a name to an action, it tricks our mind.  The "name" (noun) makes the
action sound like and seem like as if it were a thing.

One person relating to another person is doing something: talking,
requesting, kissing, holding, hitting, smiling, laughing, crying, helping,
listening, etc.  By relating they now have a relationship.  Sounds like a
thing.  It is not.

When you think and value yourself as valuable as a person, you esteem
yourself as significant.  When you name this action, you create the
nominalization, self-esteem.  It sounds like a thing.  It is not.

When a person is leading a group with a vision, he or she is said to have
leadership qualities.



Prior to Transformational Grammar which came up with the term,
"nominalization," Abraham Maslow called this process- reification.  Others
have called it thingification.  Nominalizing is the concretizing of a
dynamic moving process (which is best described by verbs) as if it is a noun
("a person, place, or thing").  Yet it is not.



As a result of this, it makes the nominalization false-to-fact.  What the
nominalization presents is not just an over-generalization, not just a idea
that's very fluffy and vague.  The nominalization is actually a lie, a
deception.  The so-called thing is not a "thing" at all!

"My self-esteem these days is really because of the problems in my
relationship which makes me feel stressed-out and it's going to lead to a
depression."



All of the italicized words in the above sentence are nominalizations and
they are connected by fallacious cause-effect structures (indicated by the
words "because" and "going to lead").  Here is one single sentence and it is
full of fluff and vagueness.  The person's languaging here is really sloppy.
And the person probably doesn't have a clue as to how this single sentence
is semantically loaded with toxic ideas and how it works as a post-hypnotic
suggestion to make life more and more miserable in the future.



If you want to create imprecision, just take some action words, nominalize
them, connect them to some cause-effect statements and you can semantically
pack a sentence so that it is full of abstract concepts.  What you say will
seem meaningful to you.  And I'm sure you are trying to communicate
something.  But when you do that you will not be communicating with
precision and so those of us listening will typically experience confusion
... or we will hallucinate our own meanings onto the other's words.



Okay, now for cleaning up our language.  The solution is simple:
de-nominalize the nominalizations.  That is, turn the false-nouns back into
verbs and then specify the verbs.  If you hear "relationship," ask "Who's
relating to whom?"  "What is X doing in relating to Y?"  If you hear the
nominalization "self-esteem," ask "How are you esteeming yourself?  By what
criteria?  In what way?"



Now to turn a false noun back into a verb, you first have to be able to
recognize a false noun or nominalization.  When I first learned NLP, I was
introduced to two tests for a nominalization:

1) The Wheelbarrow Test.  Can you put the nominalization in a wheelbarrow?
Can you put "relationship" in a wheelbarrow?  No.  Can you put "self-esteem"
in a wheelbarrow?  No.

2) The Ongoing Test.  If you say, "it is an ongoing ..." and fill in the
blank with the word, does it make sense?  "An ongoing relationship..."  Yes,
makes sense.

3) Here's another test: See if you can make a picture of the word.  You can
make pictures of real nouns of "persons, places, and things."  It doesn't
work with a false noun.  Can see a "relationship" or "motivation."  So ask
some more questions until you can see what they are talking about.



Nominalizations have their place especially in doing trance inductions, but
not for communicating with clarity and precision.  Use them sparingly, if
you use them too much your language will be fluffy and sloppy.  That's why
we need to clean up our language of them.











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LIFE IN THE REALM OF LANGUAGE





We live our lives in language.  At a most fundamental level, we are
linguistic beings.  We inevitably create mental maps using our native
language and whatever additional languages that we have learned.  We cannot
do otherwise.  And if we don't, we don't become human.  Is that shocking?
It ought to be.  And if you ask for the evidence, you have to go no further
than the phenomenon of "feral children."



There used to be feral children-the children who in some way got lost from
home, from mother and father, and left in the wild, they were "adopted" and
raised by animals- dogs, wolves, etc.  Once upon a time feral children were
not that uncommon, but fortunately the last ones reported were in the
nineteenth century.  What we discovered about such children is that if they
missed the imprint period of language, that period in which a child enters
into the semantic world that's navigated by symbols- later when the child
was discovered and brought into society, it was never able to enter into,
and live in, the symbolic world of human culture and language.  The feral
child would not wear clothes, eat without utilizes (gobble food like an
animal), would be unable to talk and use language, etc.  He or she would
never really enter into the human condition.



We are so inevitably linguistic in nature that without language we cannot be
human.  If all we could do would be to create visual images, auditory
sounds, kinesthetic sensations, olfactory smells, and gustatory tastes and
we could not name any of these or relate one to a conceptual idea of
meaning, our consciousness would be extremely limited.  In NLP we call these
sensory experiences our representational systems, our VAK languages of mind.
These enable us to detect and work with the movies that we play in our
minds.



In NLP we call the domain of language-the meta-representational system.  And
while there's lots of problems with it, it is this system by which we can
use develop our meta-consciousness (consciousness-of-consciousness).  It is
the language system that allows us to detect our thinking, adjust it, refine
it, and improve it.  It is our self-reflexive consciousness that takes
fullest use of this higher and more abstract thinking and that enables us,
as humans, to create science and art so we can keep improving upon our
knowledge over the ages (e.g., time-binding).



Yet language itself is a challenge and a problem.  That's mostly because our
languages are not very precise.  Both the structure of our language and
hundreds, if not thousands, of words are very poor "maps" for using to
navigate the sea of experience.  And no wonder.  Our words and language and
ideas have developed over thousands of years and grew up from more primitive
times.  And growing up during more primitive times, we still have many
primitive pre-scientific, unscientific, and erroneous ideas incorporated in
our language.



For these reasons (and others), one of the tasks before all of us, if we are
to live a sanely and effectively, is to clean up our language.  With so much
contamination in our words, our sentences, our ideas, our philosophies, and
our assumptions- when we use words without consciousness of what we are
saying, the premises we are operating from, what we are presupposing without
evidence, etc., we thereby contaminate our responses, our relationships, our
emotions, and more.



Another factor enters into this consideration.  We are not only linguistic
beings, we are neuro-linguistic beings.  What does that mean?  First, it
means that the very creation and generation of our words and language arise
in our neurology from how we use our neurology.  Korzybski described this in
terms of how our nervous systems abstract from the world "out there," the
energy-manifestations that impact our sense-receptors, and then transform
those impacts along the neuro-pathways of our body and sent then to the
various sensory cortexes where that information is processed.  The NLP
founders described this as how our nervous systems model the see-hear-feel
world of experiences that we encounter by deleting, generalizing, and
distorting that information.  This enables each of us to create an unique
mental model or map of the world and use it in our responses.

[Read more about that in Korzybski's classic book, Science and Sanity (1933,
1994) and Bandler and Grinder's The Structure of Magic (1975, 1976).]



As neuro-linguistic beings, using language enables us to send signals to our
body and our body (neurology, physiology) responds to that information.
When those signals are coded as "beliefs" then the signals operate as
"commands" to our nervous systems which they then seek to "actualize" (make
real).  In Neuro-Semantics we highlight this structure and use it to guide
the thought-signals and the belief-commands we want to be commissioning our
body to feel and actualize.  That's because we know that "as we believe, so
we are" and "so be it unto you."  In this way beliefs become self-fulfilling
prophecies (or self-organizing attractors).



Is it any wonder then that we need to clean up our language?  Do you know
what you are doing to yourself with your language?  Would you like to?  In
this and the next articles, I'll be addressing some of the ways that you can
clean up your language and give reasons for how it will improve the quality
of your life.  There are so many ways in which language can misdirect you
and send you off in unproductive directions.  Yet the amazing thing is that
you can use such language and never suspect this.  You can use the most
dis-empowering language and not even realize it.  That's why Meta-Coaches
learn to listen for that kind of language and then invite awareness, "Do you
hear what you just said?  Do you really hear what's implied in what you just
said?"  That's step on for cleaning up your language.  More are to come.




L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

                Neuro-Semantics Executive Director

                Neuro-Semantics International

P.O. Box 8

Clifton, CO. 81520 USA                            

                1 970-523-7877

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Why Do Stutterers Not Stutter When Singing

Written by Bobby G. Bodenhamer on August 14, 2012

by Bob Bodenhamer
Over the years I have been asked many times, “how is it that a PWS does not stuttering when singing?” I have heard several explanations such as the value of “cadence” in the music makes it possible to structure the PWS’ voice with the beat of the song and this helps fluency.  I have heard others speak about the “flow of air” through the vocal cords while singing that permits fluency.
There may very well be truth in both those replies, but the following one makes more sense than any that I have heard:
“Why don’t British singers sing with a British accent?”
Or
“Why stutterers don’t stutter when singing?”
I just found quite by accident a very interesting article entitled “Why don’t British singers sing with a British accent?”
By Joram on “Answering squeebs’s question”
It is found at:
askville.amazon.com/British-singers-sing-accent/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=1351524
I have copied and pasted the full article below (Bold & italics Bob’s):
“Because singing forces the singer to pronounce “true” vowel sounds.
English vowels are the same, no matter where you’re from. Speaking employs gliding vowels…transitions from one to the next. Singing is phrased such that vowels are held longer (to the note), which more or less erases regional accents. In singing, vowels tend to sound more like their true sounds (monophthongs), rather than diphthongs.
“Imagine the difference between accent disappearance in, say, an Andrew Lloyd Weber song, vs. a Cake song, if sung by the same person. The Weber track (Memory, to take an annoying example) would almost entirely mask any accent because vowels are held for a relatively long time. In Comfort Eagle, on the other hand, the words are barely sung…almost spoken over the music. Any regional accent would come through quite strongly.
“And of course, it’s possible to maintain or manufacture an accent when you sing (anyone who’s ever heard Charlie Daniels or Randy Travis knows that). But it may take some effort. The Proclaimers are a particularly egregious example pointed out by one commenter on the topic.
(Bob says, Randy Travis is a country music singer. He is from Marshville, NC about 60 miles from me. We have very similar accents when we talk. I sure wish I could sing like him.)

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GIL BOYNE, 1924-2010

Clinical Hypnotherapist • Teacher • Trainer • Author

Santa Fe, NM - 2004

Gil Passed Away on 5th May, 2010 Read his Obituary here What Other Professionals Say Professional Credentials Awards & Honours Course Evaluations Email

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ERICKSON, ELMAN, AND BOYNE
PIONEERS OF MODERN HYPNOTHERAPY

Milton Erickson is known for helping to popularize the use of hypnosis to reach the subconscious in psychiatry. Part of his genius was his ability to rapidly assess the needs of the client and work within the client's map of reality.

Dave Elman had no formal training in medicine or psychology, yet he taught Hypnotherapy to more physicians, dentists, anesthesiologists, and psychiatrists than any other instructor in modern times.

Gil Boyne has made numerous original contributions to the contemporary practice of hypnotherapy. He has brought to the counseling professions an awareness of the “inner wisdom” of the human psyche. He teaches that the “inner creative mind” not only knows all the questions but knows all of the answers as well.

During his almost 50 years of Hypnotherapy practice and teaching, he created Transforming Therapy™, a pragmatic methodology that focuses on rapid results, instead of attempting to prove theories. His commitment is to the client's internal problem solving ability.

Boyne's Transforming Therapy™ facilitates the clients discovery of their spiritual nature, and teaches them how to direct their creative intelligence to solve their own problems and conflicts.

There are many practitioners who feel that Boyne's greatest achievement has been the thousands of Hypnotherapists worldwide who began their career by training in his courses.

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Thoughts and Feelings about Gil Boyne

As an individual who is passionate about a life purpose of coaching individual and community development, I have immersed myself in the teaching of masters in this field.
When I decided to pursue my fascination with Hypnotherapy, I spoke to a few of my peers. My criteria was "who eats, sleeps, walks and talks hypnotherapy?"
Gil Boyne's name came up most often and those who mentioned him, with much certainty, assured me that he was number one in the world.
With these referrals I embarked on the most magical journey. Unlike most of those on the Diploma course, I had not received any formal training from a school of Hypnotherapy and I was amazed to discover how many practitioners of long experience found Gil's teachings led them to feel they had been somewhere between underperforming and short-changing their clients.. I was mesmerised by Gil's integrity, for here was a wise man who, had been doing what he does for many years, with evidence-based results and still loving it, passing on his wisdom to me, a young and passionate apprentice.
I continue to use what Gil shared with me to compliment my existing skill set. The greatest added value came from being in the presence of a true master and having the certainty of his beliefs touch me to carry into my own life and career.
I am truly blessed and grateful for all that I have shared and continue to share with Gil Boyne's teachings. I continue to connect with our collective bliss and to inspire young people to realise much more of their true potential.

Harry Singha
Founder and Chairman
Youth Coaching Academy
University of East London
London, England

Words cannot describe the gratitude I feel toward Gil Boyne. Approximately 20 years ago I attended his classes in hypnosis/ hypnotherapy. Without a doubt, studying with Gil Boyne was a true turning point in my life. His knowledge, ability and ease of style are incomparable. He is indeed the Teacher of Masters and the Master of Teachers. Most of the best known and successful workers in our field started with Gil Boyne. The investment that I made in his courses has come back to me in millions of dollars. For anyone looking to build a solid foundation in hypnosis/ hypnotherapy, make the pilgrimage and study with Gil. You will thank yourself for the rest of your life.

Marshall Sylver
Hypnotherapist, Motivator Author-"Passion Power and Profit" Las Vegas, NV.

“A NEW APPROACH TO HYPNOTHERAPY
There are only a few people in each generation who are willing and able to confront the current anachronistic psychological models with original and radical thinking. Gil Boyne is one such person. Since the early 1950s he has applied his genius to helping others transform their lives through the "renewing of their mind." For nearly fifty years, Gil Boyne has shown us that change is most effectively accomplished when we use the trance state to contact and direct our "inner creative intelligence."

His hypnotherapy training and instruction has provided thousands of students with the essential knowledge and skills required for success as as contemporary clinical hypnotherapists. I am personally grateful to Gil Boyne, for his training and continuing mentoring. His instruction and his advice on developing a practice and marketing my services helped me to become a highly effective practicioner. I feel that every serious student and practicioner of hypnotherapy should have the opportunity to study with Gil Boyne, the creator of modern Hypnotherapy.”

Tim Simmerman
Director, Hypnotherapy Academy of America, Sante Fe, New Mexico

“I highly recommend that anyone who has never taken a course with Gil Boyne to take advantage of his trainings in Santa Fe. Gil is one of the few true Living Masters of the work today. To watch him work is to see the culmination of almost 50 years of self-developed knowledge and skill brought together in a ballet of highly effective teaching. For many years, Gil Boyne was, and in many eyes still is, the finest instructor in the work. This is an opportunity to acquire special knowledge and wisdom from an individual who is truly a pioneer and innovator in our work. Gil has tremendous knowledge and insight in our profession that can be gained only through many years of experience and many thousands of hours of individual and group sessions. He has created many of the therapeutic interventions we use daily in our work today. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a Master!”

Gerald Kein
Director of one of the most successful Hypnotherapy Training Institutes in the USA.
Omni Hypnosis Center, Deland, Florida

“Nearly half a century ago Gil Boyne began molding the field of hypnotherapy into something much greater than it had ever been. He learned from early pioneers in hypnotherapy including Elman, and trained with Fritz Perls, developer of Gestalt Therapy, as well as pioneers of other forms of therapy. His brilliance goes far beyond his early instinctive recognition and integration of many of the most profound insights in hypnotherapy and psychotherapy. What has emerged is the incredible speed and effectiveness of his "Transforming Therapy."

Gil Boyne has had an immeasurable impact on the profession of hypnotherapy. The range and depth of his influence is astonishing. Beyond his therapeutic breakthroughs he has revolutionized the profession with his instant induction techniques. He created the first registration and certification program for hypnotherapists. He founded and developed the first hypnotherapist organization with serious standards for training, the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners. He created the first International Annual Conferences for hypnotherapists. Time and again he has led the charge throughout the United States to defeat attempts at restrictive legislation.. He created the first publishing company devoted exclusively to hypnotism books, Westwood Publishing Company.

I was fortunate to take Gil Boyne's hypnotherapy training in 1968. As I developed my practice, he was exceptionally generous with his guidance and wisdom. After ten years of a practice, I founded one of the first state-licensed hypnotherapy schools in 1978. My therapy and teaching is strongly influenced by Gil Boyne, as are my books, Become the Dream and Regression Hypnotherapy. His live therapy films are an important part of an advanced level of my classes and I am grateful for his mentoring over the years.

Gil Boyne is one of a few in history to have had a profound impact on the field of hypnotherapy. I urge all hypnotherapists who have not yet studied and trained directly with Gil Boyne to seize the opportunity to attend his courses and experience a great teacher and leader who has so powerfully affected the world of contemporary hypnotherapy.”

Randal Churchill
Director, Hypnotherapy Training Institute,
Corte Madera (San Francisco area), California
President, American Council of Hypnotist Examiners

“Gil Boyne is a Premier Therapist and a Teacher's Teacher, who. also trained more hypnotherapists in America than any other teacher to date. I received my early training with Gil when I was a graduate student, and vividly remember the demonstrations at his Hypnotherapy Institute in Los Angeles.

Gil resurrected and republished the lost work of Dave Elman to share with the rest of the world. Charles Tebbetts was a 72 yr. old sign painter when he went to Gil to overcome insomnia. Charles went on to train with Gil, then to work for him and eventually became widely known for his Training Institute in Seattle and for his books on hypnosis.
In a career spanning almost fifty years, Boyne has become America's best known and loved hypnotherapy teacher/trainer Gil has evolved as a special kind of personal therapist, and teaches his unique model of "Transforming Therapy"worldwide.

Throughout the USA as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Tokyo many physicians and therapists remember him as the man who introduced them to the world of hypnotherapy. You may train with other teachers, but Gil is the one you will remember most.”

Ed McClelland
Hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner
New York, N.Y.

“Gil Boyne's Master Course in Clinical Hypnotherapy has been a memorable experience. Boyne, who has become a a living legend in the hypnotherapy world, takes his students on a journey of true emotional and spiritual transformation in just six weekends. Gil is the only therapist who has videotaped a comprehensive library of his successful hypnotherapy sessions and follow-up interviews. The videos are shown to students on a giant screen and interspersed with Gil's insightful commentary. Gil's unique "Transforming Therapy," shows its potency in liberating clients from a wide range of emotional traumas and physical ailments. I have trained in many forms of counseling and therapy, yet I found this course especially worthwhile. Gil's personal magnetism and belief in “Transforming Therapy" is worth far more than all the gimmicks, techniques, and theories of hypnosis which abound. The videotapes, sets of audiotapes, books and manuals given as class materials made this course an incredible value. This is one training course that I can recommend with absolute confidence. Details available on the Internet at gil-boyne.com or email gilboyne5@aol.com”

My best regards,
Don Robertson
Clinical Hypnotherapist
Harley St. London, UK

“Gil Boyne is a Master! He is and always will be my main Hypnosis mentor. He made a powerful and lasting impact on me, both as a teacher and as a friend. The professional and social time I spent with him many years ago continue to be highpoints in my life. His brilliance continues to be felt globally through his personal work and the work of his many gifted students."

George Bien
is one of America's most renowned hypnotherapists, He teaches and practices in New York City and teaches Hypnotherapy throughout Southeast Asia on a regular basis.

Dear Gil,
I think of you every day and your pictures in my office keep me humble. They are a constant reminder that no matter what I achieve you are still the greatest Hypnotherapist there ever has been! Your professionalism will always be the level to which I aspire. I can never thank you enough for all the help and inspiration you have been to me over the years. Training with you has been *the* major highlight of my life. God bless you and all my fondest love,

Arone Eldan, BA. CHT.
St. Albert, Alberta, Canada

My training was with the legendary Gil Boyne & Dr John Butler, PHD, principal instructor for the Hypnotherapy Institute of Britain and Medical Lecturer at King's, Guy's & St.Thomas Medical Schools.. Gil is one of the true pioneers of Clinical Hypnotherapy training with 55 years of experience in the field and having trained over 15,000 hypnotherapists world wide. He has worked with many stars of the entertainment and sports worlds including Sylvester Stallone, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, and many more...
Gil has also worked with the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets) on a special mission, "Operation Velvet Hammer". His development of 'Transforming Therapy' and his subsequent book takes you on a journey of true emotional transformation. His teaching methods, based on video taped real therapy sessions, often left me breathless. There seems to be a sense of wonder in the air when Gil walks in a room. He is truly a "World Class 'Master"who while in his eighties still attracts people from around the world to his Master classes I am proud & privileged to be his protege.

Andrew Hughes
Hypnotherapist, Chesterfield, U.K.

Gil Boyne is a living legend -- almost a cult figure.
In 1980,Gil Boyne founded the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners which has become the largest State Chartered non-profit organization of its' kind. He has worked with numerous state legislatures to fight restrictive laws and was the first to structure an in-depth training program that focused on regression to cause. He has been the consistent inspiration in leading the profession to upgrade its educational standards. If it were not for his legislative work the profession may not have survived intact to this day. As well as creating a new approach to hypnotherapy practice, Gil Boyne has been the right man at the right time and the entire profession will be forever in his debt.
Gil Boyne has the most profoundly laudatory testimonials from the leading professionals in the field I have ever seen.

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Professional Credentials Director, Hypnotism Training Institute of Los Angeles Founder and CEO, Westwood Publishing Company Founder and Director, Hypnotherapy Counseling Center Co-Founder, British Council of Hypnotist Examiners Executive Director, American Council of Hypnotist Examiners

Awards & Honours

1959: Technical Director on feature motion picture film, “The Hypnotic Eye.”

1960: Writer and Technical Director for television pilot fim, “Above and Beyond.”

1961: Writer and Technical Director for television pilot film, “The Eleventh Hour.”

1981: Doctor of Humane Letters - honorary degree awarded by Newport University, Newport Beach, Calif., for his lifetime achievement in Mind Sciences.

1982: Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree awarded by the University for Humanistic Studies in San Diego, Calif., for his exceptional contribution to the Humanistic Sciences.

1990: “Lifetime Achievement Award”awarded by the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners.

1992: Doctor of Philosophy, in Transpersonal Psychology honorary degree awarded by Westbrook University, New Mexico.

1992: “American Eagle Leadership Award” given in recognition of Thirty-Five Years of Exceptional Leadership to the Profession of Hypnotherapy awarded by the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners.

1996: Named as One of Glendale's 100 Most Influential Citizens (Glendale News Press, Feb. 28) Honoring individuals who had the ability and the courage to effect change in education, religion, charity, sports, law enforcement, and politics.

1997: Honorary Life Member awarded by the New Zealand Hypnotherapists Association.

1997: Fellowship award for distinguished service awarded by the Australian Academy of Hypnotic Science.

1998: Post Graduate Diploma of Psychotherapy awarded by the Australian College of Clinical Hypnotherapy

April 8, 2000: Gil Boyne was inducted into the International Hypnosis Hall of Fame, at Valley Forge, PA. He received the special award, “MAN OF THE CENTURY.” This award symbolizes global recognition for his innovative genius in the therapeutic and healing applications of Hypnotherapy.

June, 2000: Awarded Fellowship by the National Council for Hypnotherapy (UK)

May, 2003: “Lifetime Achievement Award,” by the Royal Hong Kong Hypnotherapy Association

2007: Honorary degree "Doctor of Religious Education" awarded by Lorland University, Bakersfield, CA

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