What is behind the idea of ​​combining methods from hypnotherapy with approaches from coaching and leadership training?

How do you learn using traditional leadership training methods?

Every experienced manager has usually completed several leadership training courses and individual coaching sessions over the course of their professional career. Depending on the structure of the training, these courses impart theoretical knowledge on the one hand, while practical exercises allow for the transfer of know-how into practice on the other.

Good practical exercises are designed so that trainees unconsciously experience emotional situations and act equally unconsciously or subconsciously. This leads to a very intensive learning process.

The faster and more directly new actions can be anchored in the subconscious, the more successful the learning curve.

How did we learn as children?

We know the following from childhood:

• To learn the basics required a lot of repetition with the mind until what was learned was anchored in the subconscious.
• Learning that a switched-on stove is hot worked within seconds and was immediately burned into the subconscious.

In the second case, where the intellect plays a subordinate role, a clear advantage in learning speed can be seen. The behavior to be learned reaches the subconscious directly.

How do you learn through hypnosis?

When learning through hypnosis, the aim is also to achieve a direct, rapid transfer of knowledge into the subconscious.

Figuratively speaking, the relaxed setting of a hypnosis session, the trance state, allows for more direct communication with the subconscious.

In this way, the hypnosis coach can work with his client to identify unhelpful emotional thought patterns and associations and offer the subconscious desired, positive alternative models and images.

Hypno-Coaching: The combination of methods from both worlds

At this point, it should be noted that the following illustrative explanation is intended to provide a clear picture of the method for laypeople. For a scientific description and derivation of the hypno-coaching method, please refer to the relevant literature.

In hypno-coaching, two essential phases can be described:

Phase I: In the analysis and goal-finding phase, hypno-coaching initially uses the mind, e.g., with the following questions:

• What personal goals do I want to achieve?
• Which well-known showstoppers would I like to eliminate?
• How should my life or professional life feel in the future? How do I want to experience myself?

This Phase I is essential for achieving personal goals. It requires the client’s intensive cooperation.

A saying goes:

• “Be precise in your order to the universe. It will deliver exactly what you order.”

Phase II: During the hypnosis session, the hypno-coach together with his client

• tries to find out about known and unknown showstoppers,
• offers the subconscious future options for action,
• and lets the client experience his new or improved skills emotionally in visual form.
  A hypno-coaching program includes several individual hypnosis sessions.

That’s just an attempt at a brief outline. Feel free to call me for further explanations.