I was out and about in the beautiful North Yorkshire countryside yesterday and I bumped into a very nice person who has worked with me in the past.

I was browsing a bookshop in Helmsley at the time and she came up behind me and said, ‘Is that you, Sophie?’ Apparently, the fact that I was looking in the poetry section was the give-away. Ha.

Anyway, this very nice person had spotted that I have been talking in recent weeks about the new Hypnotherapy Training Diploma that I’ll be launching in 2011 here in York and which I’ll be co-training with the hypnotherapist and author, Adam Eason.

She wanted to know all about the Diploma and why I had decided to work with Adam in this way.

I thought this was a very good question. So here are the reasons why I’ve chosen to get involved in this fantastic Diploma course and co-train it with Adam.

Number One: Adam Eason is, in my opinion, among the foremost hypnotherapists working in the world today. Not only is he like a walking encyclopedia of hypnotherapy but he is also a very skilled communicator of this knowledge… and a darn fine therapist too. So I couldn’t resist the opportunity to work with him in this way an help to bring top-class training to the North of England.

Number Two: As you will probably know if you read this blog regularly, I’m passionate about working to improve the quality of information out there about hypnotherapy and therapy in general. I believe that, as a therapist, I have a responsibility to help improve understanding of best practice in my professional field, to disseminate the latest research and to help potential clients to make informed choices about whether my style of therapy is most likely to be helpful to them.

Part of that is also contributing to high-quality, evidence-based training in hypnotherapy. And that is exactly what this Intensive Diploma provides.

Quite frankly, it offers the kind of training that I wish I had been able to access at the very beginning of my career as a therapist. It’s taken Adam and I years to accumulate the knowledge and experience that we’ll be sharing with you – about precisely what does and doesn’t work – and also about how to have a successful practice that will enable you to keep working with people to make changes to their lives.

Number Three: It’s going to be lots of fun. These days, I am committed to only getting involved with projects that I know I will enjoy. And I know that I’m going to have so much fun spending focused time with a group of highly-motivated people in a lovely room by the river in my beautiful hometown of York, talking about and giving them hands-on experience of the work that I love.

Plus, I get to work with Adam, one of my favourite people (but don’t tell him I said that).

I’m not going to fib. It’s going to be hard work. We are going to challenge you and push you in all kinds of ways to develop all the skills you will need – but we’re going to have lots of fun in the process. I love running training. I always learn so much myself. And I get to meet some amazing and personally very inspiring people.

If you’d like to find out more about the Intensive Hypnotherapy Training Diploma in York in 2011, accredited with all the major hypnotherapy bodies in the UK, the States and Australiaclick over to Adam’s site here and all the information that he’s posted for you about the course content and what you can expect from working with us.

Because we want you to get a flavour of our approach as therapists, we’re offering some freebies, including one of Adam’s amazing self-hypnosis audios, just for requesting the prospectus. (In my opinion, Adam’s self-hypnosis audios are simply the best around – well, perhaps apart from mine, of course. Ha ha ha.)

So if high-quality, comprehensive hypnotherapy training in the North of England is what you’re looking for, this just might be the course for you. Did I mention that it also includes an NLP Practitioner certification too?

OK, I am heading off to put the finishing touches to my planning for an exciting new Writing for Personal and Professional Development workshop later this week at the University of York. It’s all go here. Have a great Monday.