BSCH

social engineering and behavioural change

Welcome to the Bangkok School of Clinical Hypnosis

We hope there's something helpful for you on this site. We specialise in behavioural change - with the ultimate goal of increasing your happiness. Often this involves decreasing your stress levels, and we can do this using a combination of cognitive and non-cognitive approaches.

If you're looking for clinical training, we can teach you how to use hypnosis and NLP. Our internationally validated diploma course is widely believed to be among the best available; the qualification has been accepted in the UK, Europe, Australia and USA.

If you're looking for personal development, we can show you how to be the you you dreamed of being before you became the you you are now. If you see what we mean. It's a real opportunity - always assuming you want an opportunity of course.

So please, grab a coffee (or whatever you like to drink) and have a look around. See what we can offer you by way of improvement - however you perceive that to be.

At BSCH, we're therapists, and we try to bring positive change to peoples lives. This is at the heart of our world and it defines the way we work. We believe there is no higher calling than to strive to help others. Emotional health has always been one of the easiest things to lose and, paradoxically, the hardest thing to regain once lost.

We also provide clinical training, and our courses and seminars are widely believed to be among the best available. This is because we're actual therapists with actual hard experience. Also, it's because we're not precious about older, perhaps less effective approaches. Today's technique is eventually replaced by tomorrow's better technique, this is the model of evolution. After all people evolve as people every day, and embracing good change is important.

We're very approachable, so please feel free to contact us. You'll find our techniques sit squarely on the foundations of psychology and therapy. We can't really get involved in the more 'new-agey' stuff, it isn't really what we do, and we're sorry, we can't make any recommendations in these areas either. We don't necessarily reject them, we just don't use them. Some do, we don't.

Enjoy your stay and feel free to contact us if we can help. And keep this in mind; If you keep doing what you've always done, then you'll getting what you've always got. If you want something different, you have to make a change.

FAQ

Q: What's hypnosis really?
A: There isn't a definition of hypnosis that's really satisfactory, but there are a few partly satisfactory definitions. Hypnosis is a natural state, perhaps *the* natural state of awareness. It occurs when the conscious levels of mind are partly by-passed, leaving the autonomic levels of the mind more receptive to suggestion.

Q: What about NLP?
A: The situation with NLP is even worse, sometimes it seems that NLP can mean whatever you want it to mean, so we have to go back to basics. An early definition; "the study of the structure of subjective experience and what can be calculated from that" (Bandler and Grinder) is helpful but not very - it's all a bit impenetrable really. In reality, NLP is the study of how we learn and can modify our responses to events. The associations between stimulus and our responses (that's 'behaviour' to you and me) can be changed, and this is what makes NLP such a powerful tool in therapy, which was its original purpose. Before it got all trendy that is.

Q: Therapy or counselling?
A: We think they're not the same thing. To us, counselling is pretty much just advice really. Good advice is always useful of course, but if you want change then what you really need is therapy - which is different. Therapy may include some counselling but they're not the same thing.

Q: How long is the training?
A: We do our training one full weekend (Saturday and Sunday) per month for 7 months. We work from 9.00am through to 5.00pm with an hour for lunch, so it's tough and there's a lot to cover. You'd expect us to be thorough, so naturally we include all of the psychology and counselling background you need to get good. Really good. At the end of the day though, you decide just how good.

Q: What's all this about happiness?
A: Good question - actually, it's a very good question. Everyone should think happiness is a birthright. If you haven't got enough then you should be doing something about it. That's where we can help. Happiness is worth working at, but it begins with emotional freedom, and that's the tricky bit.