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Joy Birth: Practitioner Diploma in Hypnotic Birth Preparation

Joy Birth: Practitioner Diploma in Hypnotic Birth Preparation

Highlights

  • On-Demand workshop

  • 11 months

  • Intermediate level

Description

JOYBirth Education Programme.

The Award-Winning JOYBirth Hypnobirthing Teacher Training is now an exclusive, 11-module programme designed to transform you into a confident, highly skilled practitioner.

We go far beyond traditional hypnobirthing certification. Your training begins with the essential foundations of clinical hypnotherapy, covering the first four modules of The Northern College of Clinical Hypnotherapy syllabus.

This robust clinical grounding equips you with a professional and ethical framework to work effectively with a vast range of client needs.

The course is structured to teach you how to deliver a complete Joy Birth programme, providing clients with simple, powerful tools for a calm, confident, and beautiful birthing experience. You will learn how to:

  • Teach self-hypnosis, relaxation, and breathing techniques.

  • Help clients release fear and anxiety to break the Fear-Tension-Pain cycle.

  • Work with clients in both one-on-one and group settings.

  • Work with natural fertility, wellbeing though pregnancy and post-natal hypnotherapy

  • Support parents through grief, loss and difficulties including miscarriage and birth trauma.

  • Set up your own practice and support people on the journey from conception through pregnancy and into the 4th trimester.

At the NCCH we recognise that the journey to parenthood is not a 9-month event, but a continuous transformation beginning at conception and culminating in the essential Fourth Trimester. To provide truly comprehensive and empathetic care, our approach supports women through this entire cycle.

We committed to train you so that your service prioritises not just a healthy baby, but a healthy, recovered, and well-supported mother/birthing parent.

The Four Stages of Transformation

Stage

Focus & Challenge

Goal of Our Hypnotherapy-Aligned Support

Natural Fertility & 1st Trimester

Foundation & Alignment: Navigating intense physical and emotional shifts; establishing a positive mindset about pregnancy.

Deep Affirmation & Anchoring: Utilising visualisation and deep relaxation to anchor feelings of well-being, reduce nausea, and build confidence in the body's wisdom.

2nd Trimester

Growth & Connection: Integrating the growing life; shifting identity toward "Mother" through a calm, centred presence.

Conscious Connection & Self-Hypnosis: Teaching self-hypnosis techniques to deepen the bond with the baby, visualise optimal growth, and reinforce positive self-talk and identity integration.

3rd Trimester

Preparation & Power: Managing physical discomfort; replacing fear of labour with confident expectation and calm readiness.

Empowered Birth Visualisation: Intensive training in hypnotic birthing techniques, including pain-management strategies through breath, focus, and deep physical relaxation, creating a positive neural pathway for the birth.

4th Trimester

Recovery & Integration (0-3 Months Postpartum): Healing the body, managing sleep deprivation, and preventing anxiety through emotional resilience.

Resilience & Restoration Hypnosis: Providing specialised support, audios and techniques focused on rest consolidation, rapid physical healing visualisation, emotional regulation, and bonding, affirming the parent's competence and inner strength.

This is a go-at-your-own-pace course, with an estimated completion time of 11 months.

The Outcomes of Study

Upon graduation, you will be uniquely qualified to support and guide a broad spectrum of parents and will be fully equipped to launch your successful practice.

You will be certified to work with a large range of clients, including those with complex and sensitive backgrounds, such as parents who have experienced:

  • Baby loss, including miscarriage and stillbirth.

  • Traumatic previous births or postnatal PTSD.

  • Termination of pregnancy.

You will gain the skills to:

  • Apply clinical hypnotherapy techniques, which are recognised as an extremely effective procedure for the reduction and elimination of PTSD symptoms.

  • Help clients overcome and let go of the influence of negative memories of previous traumatic births.

  • Provide a deeper, trauma-informed level of care that goes beyond simple relaxation.

  • Establish yourself as an expert who can confidently guide parents towards a positive birth experience, regardless of the route their baby chooses to come into the world.

The Support Whilst You Study and Beyond

Your training includes continuous, expert support from two perspectives: an experienced clinical hypnotherapist and a midwife. This hybrid support model ensures you have both the psychological and clinical knowledge to succeed.

Your unparalleled support package includes Trance tribe Membership:

Hybrid Training: Access to face-to-face training sessions to practice and consolidate your skills.

Professional Peer Supervision: Dedicated time for professional peer supervision to discuss case studies and ensure best practice.

Monthly Meet & Master Training: Group sessions focused on advanced techniques and professional development.

Weekly Practice Spaces & Masterclasses: Regular opportunities to hone your skills and deepen your expertise.

Business Support and Guidance: Practical advice to help you build and grow a successful, ethical practice.

workshop Content

12 sections•127 lessons
Welcome 1 lessons
  1. 1Hypnobirthing, JOY Journey of your birth programme.
Foundations of Hypnotherapy and Midwifery0 lessons
    Module One26 lessons
    1. 1Introduction to Module One
    2. 2Videos of Amanda Teaching Module One
    3. 3The Entrainment Transformation Principle
    4. 4The VAK Trance Induction
    5. 5The 7 Main Induction Types.
    6. 6Advanced Hypnotic Language Techniques.
    7. 7Planning Your Therapy
    8. 8Taboo Words
    9. 9The Ethical foundation of Therapeutic practice
    10. 10An Introduction To Reflective Practice for Clinical Hypnotherapists
    11. 11Empowering Clients Through Meaningful Goal Planning and Boundary Setting: A Guiding Practice for Hypnotherapists
    12. 12Exploring Values, Beliefs, and Motivation in Clinical Hypnotherapy: Foundations for Personal Development and Effective Client Work
    13. 13Hypnotherapy Without Trance Introduction
    14. 14Communication in Hypnosis Without Trance
    15. 15Specific Questioning
    16. 16Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
    17. 17Sell the Benefits.
    18. 18Deepening the Trance
    19. 19Other Deepening Techniques
    20. 20Ideo Motor Signalling
    21. 21Will Power or Won't Power
    22. 22Arm Levitation or Elevation
    23. 23Abreaction
    24. 24Special Place or the Therapeutic Inner Sanctuary
    25. 25Final Thought and Extra Resources
    26. 26Phase Test Assignment and Reading Resources
    Module Two14 lessons
    1. 1Introduction to module 2
    2. 2Videos of Amanda Teaching
    3. 3Arm levitation
    4. 4Suggestion therapy
    5. 5Basic process for HypnoBirthing sessions
    6. 6A faster induction
    7. 7Conditioning your client
    8. 8Metaphors for Hypnobirthing
    9. 9Memory regression and revivification
    10. 10Timeline regression
    11. 11Using “clean” language
    12. 12The Watkins Effect Bridge
    13. 13Working in the now
    14. 14Phase Test module 2 and useful extra resources.
    Module Three20 lessons
    1. 1Introduction.
    2. 2Amanda Teaching Module 3
    3. 3Nominalisations
    4. 4Predicates
    5. 5Pacing as a language pattern and more, Ericksonian Hypnotic Language Patterns.
    6. 6Understanding Body Language.
    7. 7Language
    8. 8Setting up your HypnoBirthing Business.
    9. 9Entrepreneurship and being enterprising.
    10. 10Hypnotising a group of people
    11. 11Meet your higher self.
    12. 12Self hypnosis
    13. 13Anchoring techniques
    14. 14Hypnotic phenomena associated with alterations in voluntary muscles.
    15. 15Sub Modalities
    16. 16Stress
    17. 17The Clearance Technique for Birthing
    18. 18Re-framing
    19. 19Useful Things!
    20. 20Module 3 Online phase test
    Module Four14 lessons
    1. 1Welcome to Module 4.
    2. 2Amanda teaching module 4
    3. 3Autosuggestion
    4. 4EFT Emotional freedom technique.
    5. 5Words have power.
    6. 6Pseudo orientation in time
    7. 7Fear vs. Phobia: Unlearning Birth Anxiety
    8. 8Watkins bridge
    9. 9Pain Management The P.A.R.E.N.T. System
    10. 10Pain Reduction Techniques
    11. 11The T.I.B. Framework (Total Integrative Birth)
    12. 12Hypnotic Protocol for Nausea Management
    13. 13Useful Things
    14. 14Module 4 Phase Test
    Module Five10 lessons
    1. 1Module 5 Psychology & Neuroscience of Pregnancy and Birth
    2. 2Historical and Theoretical Context of Birth Psychology
    3. 3The Fear-Tension-Pain Cycle (Dick-Read)
    4. 4The Role of Conditioning in Birthing Beliefs
    5. 5Basic Neuroscience and the Brain The Neuron and Synaptic Transmission
    6. 6Informed Choice: Integrating Pharmacological Support with Hypnobirthing
    7. 7Key Brain Regions and Emotional Roles
    8. 8The Brain in Relaxation and Hypnosis Parasympathetic Dominance
    9. 9PTSD and Birth Trauma
    10. 10Reading resources and useful things!
    Module Six 16 lessons
    1. 1Natural Fertility Introduction.
    2. 2Approaches for Natural Fertility
    3. 3Let’s start with what we need to know and what we teach our clients in addition to hypnotherapy in our Hypnobirthing classes.
    4. 4Leading with the Mind, Guiding the Body, Transforming Unconscious Birth Beliefs
    5. 5Harness the Power of Words
    6. 6Visualise Your Birth as...
    7. 7Examining Mammalian Birthing
    8. 8Harnessing Our Magical Hormones
    9. 9Choosing Your Birthing Location
    10. 10Understanding the Uterus
    11. 11Pelvic Floor Exercises
    12. 12Your Estimated Due Date
    13. 13Considerations for the birth plan
    14. 14Embracing Relaxation
    15. 15Creating Relaxation & discomfort management Anchors
    16. 16Breathing
    Module Seven5 lessons
    1. 1Tool - Touch and Massage
    2. 2Tool - Visualization
    3. 3Discussing Comfort measures (I do this as a class activity).
    4. 4Teaching About Positions for Birthing
    5. 5Teaching the use of the Birthing Ball
    Module Eight 8 lessons
    1. 1Induction of Labour: Exploring the Intervention
    2. 2Navigating Caesarean Births: Insights and Preparation
    3. 3Embracing Change in Your Birth Plan
    4. 4Birth Trauma & PTSD
    5. 5Loss and Bereavement.
    6. 6Hypnotherapy for High-Risk Pregnancy: Two Specialised Protocols
    7. 7Pregnancy relaxation classes
    8. 8Postnatal Care
    Module Nine 5 lessons
    1. 1Navigating the Birth Journey
    2. 2Birth Partner's Role and Birthing Bag Preparation
    3. 3Help for birthing partners on the day
    4. 4Partners guide to timing the Surges.
    5. 5Birth Partners script
    Module Ten8 lessons
    1. 1Creating your own unique hypnobirthing sessions.
    2. 2Hypno anesthesia and introduction.
    3. 3Hypnobirthing Therapy Sessions & Scripts
    4. 4Guidelines for Crafting Your Own Structure.
    5. 5Session Outlines.
    6. 6Harnessing the Power of Stories, keeping your groups engaged.
    7. 7Final Reflections.
    8. 8Resources

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