Enjoy the rewards that come from teaching relaxation, visualization, fear release, and guided imagery to assist pregnant couples in achieving a gentle, normal, safer, and more comfortable birthing that most mirrors nature. Join the international network of HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educators, who are finding it professionally and financially exciting to teach the most remarkable technique to appear on the birthing scene in several decades.
Certification also includes a listing on the HypnoBirthing on-line referral system, a copy of the Institute newsletter four times a year, and regular updates.
Attendance at a HypnoBirthing Practitioner Certification Workshop does not automatically equate to Certification. Each candidate must submit a successfully completed Review of the Program following the course.

HOW IS THE COURSE STRUCTURED?

The HypnoBirthing® Practitioner training is a dynamic, six-day Childbirth Educator Program consisting of a 48 hour “Certification Workshop for HypnoBirthing®”.

Ready to print version of HypnoBirthing Practitioner Training information

WHAT DO I GET?

• In addition to the training itself, you will receive your own copy of the text, 2 CD’s, a video tape with 7 stories of HypnoBirthing®, a 70- page class syllabus, scripts and class outlines, 6 posters, and miscellaneous forms and handouts.
• As well as all that, you will also be provided with ongoing support by email, or the phone.

What will I learn?

THIS COURSE WILL TEACH YOU:

• An understanding of the workings of the body’s own natural “epidural”
• Relaxation techniques that eliminate the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome
• An understanding of why women in other cultures have easier, more comfortable birthings.
• How the mother’s body is designed to work in neuromuscular harmony with nature.
• Proven hypnotic techniques to bring about easier, more comfortable labour and birthing

YOU WILL ALSO LEARN:

• How to eliminate fear and replace it with confidence and understanding
• The source of the myth that pain is a necessary accompaniment in normal birthing
• How to teach the birthing companion hypnotic rapport
• Specific techniques of hypnotic anesthesia
• The three stages of labour and relaxation skills for each
• Prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal bonding techniques. . . and much more!

COURSE CONTENT

SEGMENT I.
INTRODUCTION TO HYPNOSIS FOR BIRTHING
(This segment is mandatory for non-hypnotherapists).

• Applications of hypnosis
• Attitudes about hypnosis
• Basics of brainwave activity
• Laws of the mind
• Rationale for hypnosis in birthing
• Understanding clients’ learning styles
• Direct and permissive hypnosis approaches
• Dangers of unqualified therapy
• Steps to achieve hypnosis
• Mind/Body associations and applications
• Judging trance depth
• Guidelines for achieving change
• Eye fixation/closure
• Elman - Ericksonian - Shanti leads
• Eyelift conversion lead
• Deepening techniques
• Post-hypnotic suggestions
• Awakening and alerting

SEGMENT II.
HYPNOBIRTHING PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
(Hypnotherapists only need complete this segment).

• Philosophy and Beginnings of HypnoBirthing
• How the uterus works in birthing
• What's wrong with labour
• How fear affects labour
• The origin of fear and pain in labour
• Prenatal bonding and fetology
• Preparing the mind for birth
• Hypnosis deepening and visualization
• Releasing fear
• Preparing the body for birthing
• Building a partnership with care providers
• Turning breech-presented babies
• Looking at the "due date"
• Avoiding artificial induction
• Preparing the birth plan
• How the body prepares for birth
• Preparing medical care providers
• The onset of labour
• Perinatal bonding
• Breathing through labour
• Breathing with birth
• Bonding with the baby

SEGMENT III.
INTRODUCTION TO BIRTHING BASICS

• The Beautiful Female Birthing Body
• Anatomy of The Female Reproductive System
• Internal & External Structures
• Conception and Early fetal development
• Characteristics of The uterus
• Fundus, Body, Cervix
• The Baby's Support System
• Amniotic Sac
• Placenta
• Umbilical Cord
• Three Trimesters of Pregnancy
• Physical Changes during Pregnancy
• Fetal Positioning during Pregnancy
• Turning Breech Presented Babies
• Labor Signals
• Characteristics of Managed Labor
• Characteristics of HypnoBirthing Labor
• Onset of Labor
• Fetal Positioning during Birth
• Labor Stages As Defined in Typical Birthing
• Labor Phases as Defined in HypnoBirthing
• Mother Directed Birthing

CERTIFICATION

After your training, you will be asked to submit an assignment for marking, to assess your understanding of the course.

If you pass, you will then be accepted as a certified HypnoBirthing® Practitioner. To maintain your certification status, you will also be required to undertake a certain amount of continuing professional development - full details will be provided if you decide to train.

When is the next Practitioner training?

Saturday May 29th, Sunday May 30th:
INTRODUCTION TO HYPNOSIS FOR BIRTHING
and Monday May 31st and Tuesday June 1st
HYPNOBIRTHING ® CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
INTRODUCTION TO BIRTHING BASICS (Dates to be advised)
For more information, please call Ilona Fritsch at 514-592-4946 or
e-mail to ilona@hypnobirthingcanada.com

Overview.

HypnoBirthing® the Mongan Method is a trade name and registered trade mark for a copyrighted childbirth education program, owned by Marie F. Mongan. The use of the name HypnoBirthing, all HypnoBirthing materials and the information contained in them is intended for individual, personal use only and may not be used, sold, reproduced, distributed, or in any way disseminated by persons not affiliated with The HypnoBirthing Institute. If you want the genuine article, make sure your practitioner is offering the official syllabus, and not simply "hypnobirthing", "hypno-birthing, "hypnobirth", Hypno Birthing, or just "hypnosis for childbirth.

HypnoBirthing® Canada:
- Ilona Fritsch
4020 St-Ambroise, Suite 472
Montreal, Quebec, H4C 2C7

514-592-4946
ilona@hypnobirthingcanada.com