WHY THERE IS NO “HYPNO-COACHING” AND, HOPEFULLY, WILL NEVER BE

If I’ve been asked once, I’ve been asked dozen of times, “What’s the relationship between Hypnosis and Coaching?” In fact, several years ago I added “hypnosis” “hypnotherapy” on the page in the ACMC training manual about the helping professions and how they relate to coaching. Recently this year (2014) when the question came up, I made the comment that makes up the title of this post, “Thank God there is no hypno-coaching.” Afterwards several asked me to explain what I meant and why. So here goes.

Hypno-Therapy Hypno-therapy works primarily because the person needing the healing (therapy) is already in an altered state and needs to be de-hypnotized. The person is already operating from being inside, having transitioned from the outside world of sensory-awareness and into the inside world of their own matrix where they are living by the post-hypnotic suggestions that they or someone else created. Their trance may be, “I’ll never amount to anything.” “Why don’t people ever love me?” “The world owes me fortune and fame and I am here to collect!” Etc.