Conversational Hypnosis - Improve Your Clients' Results With These Techniques: ICF Webinar Insights

19 May 2022 · 80 min
1:20:06

In this ICF‑style webinar, Christoffel Sneijders, a PCC coach and clinical hypnotherapist, demonstrates how conversational hypnosis can be woven into short coaching interactions (7‑10 minutes) to shift client states and beliefs. He explains the use of somatic cues, post‑hypnotic suggestions, and paradoxical true‑and‑false language patterns (e.g., “does your foot need a book?”) to create cognitive dissonance and facilitate change. Sneijders discusses the “three brains” model—head, heart, gut—citing Bruce Lipton and neuroscience to argue that early‑life negative programming can be re‑encoded at the heart and gut level through conversational techniques, not only deep trance. A vivid case study illustrates how a client, during a brief non‑deep session, helped Sneijders overcome a lifelong dyslexia‑related limiting belief in seconds, highlighting the power of external facilitation. The conversation also covers practical limits of self‑guided visualization versus guided hypnosis, the feasibility of deep hypnosis online (including safety statements for connection loss), and audience reflections on motivation, sleep, and social‑media stress. The session concludes with a call for feedback on developing a dedicated training program for coaches.

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