fithelere (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} fithelere) wrote,@ 2008-04-21 12:04:00 |
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I have the best luck with student-teacher ratios!
When I signed up to start my hypnosis training last fall, it turned out that I had only one classmate. I remember thinking to myself, "Two-to-one, what a great student-teacher ratio!"
When my classmate dropped out after one week of training, I was sad to see him go, as he was a very talented student, but I cheered myself up by thinking, "One-to-one, that's an even better student-teacher ratio!"
Well, I thought it couldn't get much better than that, but it did.
I just spent the last four days at a regional hypnosis conference--but as Fate would have it, I was the only student who showed up.
Now, the guest-of-honor, the world-famous Shelley Stockwell, PhD, expert hypnotist with decades of experience, author of a dozen books on hypnosis, and founding president of the International Hypnosis Federation, could have said, "This is rotten! Only one person showed up to see me!" Instead, she said, "This is going to be exactly what each of us needs."
So, for the last four days, I've essentially been in class with Kathy Moore (my instructor), Dr. Stockwell (one of the world's top hypnotists), and Donna Tully (Dr. Stockwell's personal assistant, and an expert hypnotherapist herself). One-to-three student-teacher ratio! I win!
So there I was, a brand-new hypnotist whose just completed his certification hours, getting individual coaching from three amazing teachers . . . getting weight loss hypnosis from the person who wrote the book. (Literally--I have a copy of it.)
I am one lucky son-of-a-gun! It was like grad school but better. My brain is still reeling from all the things I learned, and it may take me a week to write it all down.
When I signed up to start my hypnosis training last fall, it turned out that I had only one classmate. I remember thinking to myself, "Two-to-one, what a great student-teacher ratio!"
When my classmate dropped out after one week of training, I was sad to see him go, as he was a very talented student, but I cheered myself up by thinking, "One-to-one, that's an even better student-teacher ratio!"
Well, I thought it couldn't get much better than that, but it did.
I just spent the last four days at a regional hypnosis conference--but as Fate would have it, I was the only student who showed up.
Now, the guest-of-honor, the world-famous Shelley Stockwell, PhD, expert hypnotist with decades of experience, author of a dozen books on hypnosis, and founding president of the International Hypnosis Federation, could have said, "This is rotten! Only one person showed up to see me!" Instead, she said, "This is going to be exactly what each of us needs."
So, for the last four days, I've essentially been in class with Kathy Moore (my instructor), Dr. Stockwell (one of the world's top hypnotists), and Donna Tully (Dr. Stockwell's personal assistant, and an expert hypnotherapist herself). One-to-three student-teacher ratio! I win!
So there I was, a brand-new hypnotist whose just completed his certification hours, getting individual coaching from three amazing teachers . . . getting weight loss hypnosis from the person who wrote the book. (Literally--I have a copy of it.)
I am one lucky son-of-a-gun! It was like grad school but better. My brain is still reeling from all the things I learned, and it may take me a week to write it all down.
