Events

“Laughing Session with William Song!”
Date: February 21, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Location: Lightwork Seminars Classroom, 421 Post St., 14th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102
Cost: $5 donation to the facility

Warning!

This meeting may scramble your brains (but in a good way). It’s not for the faint of heart or easily offended. (It’s geared toward professional hypnotherapists, though the general public is also welcome.)

Have you ever wondered why the co-founder of NLP, Richard Bandler, was so effective with clients? One reason: he used a strange technique. Bandler learned it from Frank Farrelly, creator of Provocative Therapy. Nick Kemp added to Farrelly’s work and developed Provocative Change Works. I’ve nicknamed my version a “laughing session,” because clients tend to laugh, even if nothing funny was said.

Here’s a taste of you doing a laughing session with a new client… Jane, a smoker.

Hypnotherapist (H): What’s the problem?
Jane (J): [Goes into great detail about smoking.] Blah, blah, blah.

H: “(Yawn) Sorry, I was daydreaming because I got bored.”
J: What!? What kind of hypnotherapist are you!?

H: I’m a Scorprio, but does that matter? Do you believe in astrology, because I do, though only the real stuff, not newspaper horoscopes which aren’t real, which reminds me, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal last week about apples, oranges, and astrology. Did you hear it?

J: [In a confused voice] No. Uh, I don’t read that paper.
H: It’s a great paper, it even has an extensive comics section that makes me laugh every day. They’ve added a large section devoted to model trains, which I skim through but don’t care for since I don’t collect model trains, oh, hold on, I had another thought, darn, gone so fast, oh well, what were we talking about? Oh smoking I’ve got mixed feelings about quitting smoking, because I think it’s overrated, because you only live once, why not do what you want? Have you considered that smoking could be better than the stress of quitting? I hear it’s hard to quit.

J: But I want to quit smoking! You’re supposed to help me quit, right?

You chain surprise after surprise, deepening the hypnosis, and listen as she laughs while letting go of old patterns. At session end, she has no idea what you did, but she’s made major progress. Though it doesn’t come through in the language, this session is done with great care and respect for the client, and they sense it.

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“How to Improve Your Memory… through Hypnosis”
Date: February 15, 2012, or attend on February 27, 2012
Time: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Location: February 15th class is at the San Francisco Public Library (Presidio branch, 3150 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, 94115). February 27th class is at the San Francisco Public Library (Main branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102)
Cost: Free

Note: William Song will be teaching as a guest instructor at the class called “Staying Engaged for a Lifetime” (on February 15th) and the class called “Mental Aerobics” (on February 27th). Both classes are offered to seniors by the Older Adults Department of the City College of San Francisco, in association with Access Services of San Francisco Public Library.

Would you like to meet a dozen people at a party and easily memorize their names? Would you like to read a magazine article and actually remember what you just finished reading? Would you like to have a better memory for day-to-day things?

All of this can be yours, if you learn the skills. One skill is to focus your mind. And through learning self-hypnosis, you’ll learn how to focus your mind more easily to do the following.

• Memorize names
• Reduce stress, and then relax to boost memory
• Read for greater understanding
• Improve your memory for day-to-day things

Bottom line: everyone can improve their memory! For more information, please contact William Song at (415) 421-7200.

“How to Improve Your Memory… through Hypnosis”
Date: May 3, 2010
Time: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Location: San Francisco Public Library (Main branch)
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Cost: Free

Note: William Song will be teaching as a guest instructor at the class called “Mental Aerobics,” which is offered to seniors by the Older Adults Department of the City College of San Francisco, in association with Access Services of San Francisco Public Library.

Would you like to meet a dozen people at a party and easily memorize their names? Would you like to read a magazine article and actually remember what you just finished reading? Would you like to have a better memory for day-to-day things?

All of this can be yours, if you learn the skills. One skill is to focus your mind. And through learning self-hypnosis, you’ll learn how to focus your mind more easily to do the following.

• Memorize names
• Reduce stress, and then relax to boost memory
• Read for greater understanding
• Improve your memory for day-to-day things

Bottom line: everyone can improve their memory! For more information, please contact William Song at (415) 421-7200.