March 2011

March 2011

NGHWA E-news March, 2011

In this E-News:

Featured Speaker:  “Healing and Ceremony” Kate Bowditch
FEBRUARY MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS:

–Call for Speakers
–Call for Articles
–New member benefit: CDs available for check-out.  22nd Annual NGH Convention presentations.
–2011 Membership Renewals- the time is NOW (reduced rate extended thru 3/31/11)
MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS:

–Connie and Michael Brannan, Bandler Licensed Trainers of NLP ™ offer life and career enhancing NLP and hypnosis certification trainings. Ongoing.
–Jack Elias, author of Finding True Magic, offers Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP certification trainings.  Ongoing.

GREETINGS:

We invite you to our March meeting, to be held on Friday, March 11th, 2011, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm.  http://www.nghwa.org for details.

Please join us Friday for our next NGHWA chapter meeting. This month’s meeting features “Healing and Ceremony” by Kate Bowditch.

Come to an experiential meeting to explore the nature of healing and the use of ceremony in mental health/hypnosis practice today. If you have drums or rattles, bring them. If not–no worry, we will have action for everyone. And come with a question in your mind to examine (not shared unless you want to.)  — Kate
Please visit my addresses below to find out more:
www.katebowditch.com
www.clearwater-therapy.com
www.oceanhealers.netfirms.com

Our doors open at 6:30 pm for our “happy half hour” for socializing and networking with some of the Seattle area’s top hypnotists! The meeting proper begins promptly at 7:00 pm. This meeting, we’re offering a fabulous and fun door prize.  Enter to win.

Meetings are held at:

South Snohomish County P.U.D. Office
21018 Highway 99
Edmonds, WA 98026

Maps: http://www.nghwa.org
Visitors are always welcome. An evening’s visitor’s pass is available at the door for just $10. Bring your friends!
CALL FOR SPEAKERS:

What’s your expertise? Do you have something NLP related or hypnosis related to share? Would you like to present to our group? We’d love to hear more. Contact Michael Brannan at president@nghwa.org or Cheryl Chamberlain, our Events-Coordinator.
CALL FOR ARTICLES:

Get published NOW! Please submit your hypnosis and NLP themed articles for inclusion in our next e-newsletters of Hypnotic Health. The articles should be geared for our general readership. We look forward to featuring your article soon. Articles may be submitted to Michael Brannan at president@nghwa.org.
CALL FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS:

As a paid member of NGHWA, you can have your announcements included here, in this e-news. Simply submit your announcement( s) to Michael Brannan, NGHWA President, at president@nghwa.org.
NEW MEMBER BENEFIT:

Our group has purchased the complete set of CD’s from the 22nd Annual NGH Convention and Educational Conference from last summer in Massachusetts. They’re now available for check-out to our paid members. How cool is that? The insights and knowledge presented at this fabulous event lives on–in CD form! Get in on this action. A deposit is required.

MEET YOUR NEW NGHWA OFFICERS for 2011

President:  C. Michael Brannan
Vice President:  Wendy Vogt
Treasurer:  Connie Brannan
Secretary:  Cheryl Chamberlain
Event Co-Ordinators:  Alan Anderson & Linda Dietrick

Join us as we prepare for an exciting new year in the NGHWA.  Fresh blood!  And some old. Help us move our group into the new year as we expand the frontiers of hypnosis, learning, networking, educating, collaborating, and mostly just enjoying our world.
MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS:

From Connie Brannan and Michael Brannan:

Discover  “The Magic of Hypnosis – An Introduction to Hypnotic Techniques and Therapeutic Suggestions for Change.” March 10-13, 2011–  Sign up here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

Want the full meal deal?
Discover Seattle NLP Trainings with Mindworks NLP. Pump up your success! Join experienced Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™, Connie and Michael Brannan, for our certification training programs. Earn your “stripes” as Licensed Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ and Licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™. Our certification trainings are recognized and endorsed by Richard Bandler, the co-originator of these amazing technologies, and by his Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™

The Brannans, Licensed Trainers of NLP ™

FROM JACK ELIAS:
Jack Elias offers his unique skill building and enlightening trainings 4 times in 2011: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Winter, Spring, & Fall are in a 6 weekend format.
The Summer Intensive is 17 consecutive days. Full details at http://FindingTrueMagic.com.

Paul Skavland, CHT, Master NLPP, says, “I came to Jack’s training with over 500 hours of hypnosis certification training and a Practitioner-level certification in NLP. Taking Jack’s course is like the opportunity to learn Kung Fu from Bruce Lee. Take a training with Jack Elias. It doesn’t matter how experienced you are or what you think you know.”

And former NW NGH Chapter Pres., Putnam McDaniel says, “”Of the five nationally recognized hypnotherapy  training programs I have been certified in, my time with Jack Elias has been the most valuable. His gift to you is so much more than just hypnotherapy, NLP, or psychoanalysis. You are exposed to just about  everything in hypnotherapy that is known to work with great heart, spirit, and humor.”
We of the NGHWA support our sister organizations in the area. Here are some hypnosis doings about the town!

Check out the National Guild Of Hypnotists South Sound Washington meeting. Visit for details: www.ngh-sswa.org

See you soon at the PUD or at one of our member events!

Warm Regards,

Michael Brannan
President, NGHWA