Clinical Hypnosis in Martial Arts & Sport

“Competition is won or lost on the six inch playing field between the ears.”
Bobby Jones (Legendary golfer)

‘Hypnosis and Martial Art Training: Cutting Edge Science for Success™’.
Elite athletes use all kinds of scientific technology to improve their performance including equipment, training advances and nutrition. On-the-field practical training alone is not enough to fulfil their aspirations and so off-the-field mental development is widely considered to be an essential part of the training regime. Those who perform at the highest level will have mastered the psychology of their individual sport and will have learnt how to apply 21st century physiological and psychological knowledge about the interaction between body and mind. In short, the greatest of champions and athletes have also learned to think successfully.

Goal setting and visualisation techniques are now commonplace in many sports, and these and many other psychological tools can be greatly enhanced with the use of hypnosis, which actually has over 50 years of use within Olympic Competition.

Many hypnotherapists, simply offer relaxation techniques to sports performers. This is often not appropriate and can be to the detriment of performance at the elite level. This one day workshop examines some of the main areas where sports hypnosis is of particular benefit and includes the following:

*Demystifying hypnosis
*The mind body link
*Optimising natural arousal levels
*Eliminating distractions
*Managing emotions and learned optimisim
*Motivation for training / competition
*Unleashing self-healing

In addition the workshop will clarify that it’s not just on-field problems that affect athletes and their performances. Typically non-sport issues such as insomnia, stress, phobias and traumas can all hinder an athlete’s best efforts, issues which can equally be effectively dealt with using hypnotherapy.

This one day workshop is beneficial to all health professionals and therapists working with clients within a sporting context.

This is a non-examined programme and credits are awarded for information acquired during the course that will contribute to the Certificate in Clinical Hypnosis for Sports Hypnosis. Students will receive their certificate at the end of the course. This one day workshop will be held at the BST Foundations usual training venues. For booking forms and dates, please contact the Foundation on 020 8946 1432 for further details.

The workshop will consist of lectures, discussions and practical sessions.

The workshop will be presented by Gavin Emerson, Principle Academic Director of the BST Foundation and Andy McCann FRSM MA(Ed) PGCE BA(Hons) DCHyp AcertCSHyp GQHP SBST, Director of Studies (Wales Region) for the BST Foundation.
Gavin has been training in martial arts for 20 years. Having tried a number of styles including Judo, Taekwondo, Wing Chung and boxing he focussed primarily on Kick boxing and kung Fu, achieving a second Dan black belt in kick boxing and fourth DNA in kung fu to date. He trains at, and part owns, Martial Fitness Dojo in Putney www.martialfitness.com where he is the senior kung fu Instructor.

Andy is an experienced sports coach, physical education teacher and former international sportsman. He began his martial arts career in 1985. Andy developed an academic and scientific interest in the martial arts and in the 1980’s as a sports science student used tournament karate as the basis for his dissertation at degree level. It was well received and he went on to present my findings at a world sports science conference. Through the following years he gained a 4th Dan Master Grade in Tang Soo Do Karate; had several years as an instructor at the Conflict Training Concepts Ju Jutsu Club in South Wales; spent time in the US where he trained with the remarkable Grandmaster Tom Muncy, 10th Dan under whose guidance he achieved a blackbelt in Torite Jutsu; and developed an understanding and competence in the effective fighting principles of WE Fairbairn and E Sykes through regular invitations from Paul Childs and the late Peter Robins to participate in their CODA events.

Between them, Gavin and Andy have some 45 years of martial arts training, 50 years of combined teaching experience, and with specific regard to hypnosis, have taught some 2000 the science of hypnosis. Many of these have included consultant psychiatrists, doctors, healthcare professionals, psychologists, sports psychologists and elite sports performers.
On successful completion of the course certificates will be issued for delegates which may have a currency as CPD learning credits.

Dates & Location:

Central London 28th & 29th March 2009 - Click here for a booking form

Cardiff 18th & 19th April 2009 - Click here for a booking form

On successful completion of the course certificates will be issued for delegates which may have a currency as CPD learning credits.
Cost: £299+VAT