Ben White: Change Artist
Hypnotist Ben White demonstrating the power of imagination
With a background in business analysis and customer relationship management, one could say I’ve been helping businesses get to grips and install better ways of thinking for a long time. Throw into the mix hypnosis, NLP, IEMT and Provocative Change Works and you find yourself reading about someone who achieves change with people individually and as an organisation. On this site, you’ll discover the personal side of Ben and if you continue reading, you see he’s pretty dedicated to finding the best way to enable you to tap into the inherent ability to change within all of us.
After my first hypnosis course I headed straight for my local post office and posted a note in the window: “Trainee hypnotist requires volunteers...” Needless to say I was literally inundated with three requests to help all of whom I worked with successfully. What a great start!
Hypnotically, I have trained with Freddy and Anthony Jacquin of the UK Hypnotherapy Training Collage on rapid hypnosis techniques as well as using hypnotic and NLP techniques with your children. This excellent series of techniques that will work with any aged child (really! I’ve used this stuff on my daughter since she was 1) to gently help in many areas from Attention Deficit Disorder to exam nerves and even simply family relations (Freddy’s branded the techniques: Potensharu).
I have studied body language and the now extremely popular Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and in 2009, I certified as a practitioner for an amazing technique called Integral Eye Movement Therapy created by Andrew T Austin. IEMT combines various NLP techniques with a structured interview approach to achieve some of the most incredible change work that simple counselling would take many many sessions to achieve.
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I have trained with Norman D Vaughton (who studied with Ernest Rossi for many years) in Ideodynamic hypnosis. Norman’s approach also utilises one of my favourite techniques: Clean Language and is used to avoid polluting or influencing your processes with the my own expectations or presuppositions. The technique is therefore extremely respectful and gentle and yet very powerful in gaining you both conscious and unconscious insight and in generating lasting and sometimes dramatic change!
As you can see I’ve done quite a lot of learning!
What I am passionate about is that the power to change is within all of us and if you want to change: you can
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Look me up using the Find Me Online section on the right, or simply drop me an email direct.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Ben
I was having an interesting conversation with someone I met at a persuasion meetup last night and I was inspired to discuss something that has been rolling round my mind for a week or two, so I thought I’d write just a short post about how and when we adopt or discard some new skill or technique.
Whenever we learn or are taught something new, we often try it out and indeed most any form of training will have you do exercises to practice the new skill. What I find interesting is that, as someone who does a lot of self-learning, I am often testing out things I learn or theories I concoct in real life and I have to be extremely careful when I consider something a success or something a failure.
Most of us, at one time or another, have tried something new and we’ve fallen at the first hurdle, thrown our hands in the air and scoffed at the so-called experts who were clearly wrong as it demonstrably doesn’t work! I watch my daughter do this regularly and it is both challenging to encourage her to have another go and delightful to watch her eventially achieve it (normally after walking off and only coming back when she thinks I’m not watching).
As adults while we are aware of the concept of perseverance and not judging a book by its cover, I still regularly see both clients and myself making these same mistakes. What is also fascinating is that we also do this in reverse:
We give something a go and when it works first time: pronounce it incredible success and champion whatever it is to any and all who will listen.
So when we fail at something, we have learnt by now that we should give it a few more goes before writing it off, but do we do the same when we succeed?
I wonder how many times we have succeeded the first time we tried something new, pronounced success and then had a series of failures and rather than criticise the new thing, we assume that we are doing something else wrong and embark upon some detailed analysis of everything except the new thing? After all: you clearly demonstrated that it works… didn’t you?
Food for thought and it certainly made my conversation companion go “hmmmm” yesterday.
In hypnosis, there are a number of “power” words that can and are used to enhance the trance process and because they are so powerful, it means that when we use them together their power multiplies which means that the hypnotic trance being generated and enjoyed by the client becomes even deeper and the changes made, whatever those changes are that their powerful unconscious mind chooses because your unconscious mind is able to perform this, as the client enjoys a deeper level of trance becomes even more profound.
I read an interesting article on New Scientist today describing how new research is suggesting that those who are un-hypnotisable may have a more balanced brain (between left and right hemispheres) than those that are highly susceptible!
There is a kind of standard statistic in hypnosis that (whether through suggestion or genuine experience) most hypnotists will agree on:
About 20% of the population is highly susceptible
About 60% of the population can be hypnotised
About 20% of the population cannot be hypnotised
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