CPD Event title: Hypno-Oncology: Hypnotic Interventions for the Cancer Journey
Brief Description Of Event:
The most comprehensive course available for those working with patients going through the cancer journey, from initial diagnosis through to post cancer or palliative care.
Taught by probably the number one world expert in this field.
You will be given an overview of the patients journey followed by techniques and scripts for you to guide them through that journey.
Demonstrations will be given alongside many ‘real life’ case histories.
Learning Outcomes:
To have an understanding of the formation and spread of cancer alongside the treatments available.
To understand and appreciate the patients cancer journey.
To be able to assist patients travelling on their cancer journey in a confident, professional ethical manner.
To have an amazing toolbox of approaches and techniques to successfully assist patients at all stages of their cancer journey.
Course Structure:
Introduction, learning outcomes and current research
Legal situations and ethics
Advantages of using hypnosis with cancer patients
Initial fast interventions – discussion and demonstrations
Overview of cancer formation, development, grading, staging and differentiation
Rapid intervention sub modality demonstration
Case histories
The most common issues cancer patients require hypnosis for
Sessions and approaches
Communication skills with patients and medical staff
The importance of congruency and beliefs
Case histories
The importance of the pre-talk
Pre-talk demonstration
Demonstration of authoritarian parts / ego state hybrid technique
Review of authoritarian parts / ego state hybrid technique – troubleshooting
Overview of cancer treatments
Potential treatment side effects
Case histories: thinking outside the box
Introduction to pain
Overview of five pain control approaches
Review of pain control scripts
Demonstration of sub modality based pan control technique
Inductions, deepeners and contraindications
Review of a number of supplied cancer related scripts
First cancer session, dealing with emotions
Demonstration of ‘shimmering barrier pain reduction technique
Presurgical hypnosis approach and empirical evidence to support it
Introduction to psychoneuroimmunology in relation to the cancer journey, review of empirical evidence
Best practice tips
Further education and research
Includes 120 pages of notes, 130 pages of hypno-oncology scripts, 35 pages of technique descriptions (in pdf format)
Secret FB group containing further video demonstrations of all techniques taught
Further bonus video and audio lectures, audio of pretalk
Further research articles
Optional further mentoring and Q&A’s
Date of event:
Duration of Event: 11.5 hours (plus ongoing support)
Venue for event: Online Or USB Card
Name of trainer: Garry Coles MSc
Tel bookings:
Email bookings:
Website: https://hypno-oncology.com/online
Maximum number of participants:
Cost of Course: £595.00
Cost for NCH members: £295.00
How to claim discount: Members should quote their membership number when booking
Additional information/requirements:
With over two decades of experience as a full-time hypnotherapist, Garry is one of the very few who was awarded an MSc in Clinical Hypnotherapy, for which he carried out ground breaking research into the effects of presurgical hypnosis on the recovery quality in breast cancer operations. The results were amazing! Garry is known around the world as one of the top specialists in the area of Hypno-Oncology.
Garry was contracted, for over nineteen years to a major UK NHS hospital for oncology-based hypnotherapeutic work, in addition to practicing from within a local GP surgery, he has worked with over 2,500 cancer patients.
In 2016, the UK Hypnosis Convention claimed Garry to be amongst the top thirty hypnotherapists in the world.
In 2024, The 41st Mid America Hypnotherapy Conference in Chicago presented Garry with the ‘Medical Hypnotherapist of the Year’ award.
Garry sits on the Profession Specific Board (for Hypnotherapy) for the Complementary and Natural Health Care Council, which was set up by the Department of Health as a voluntary governing body for complementary therapies in the UK. He is one of a team of three who advises on the national curriculum for hypnotherapy training and ethics. He also sits as an expert witness on malpractice panels.
Garry comes at hypnotherapy from a scientific background and continues to be involved in research. He is a member of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Garry is a regular presenter, worldwide, at conferences as well as presenting his own popular Hypno-Oncology masterclasses.
He has presented his hypno-oncology masterclasses around the world teaching hundreds of doctors, surgeons, psychologists, nurses and practitioners in places including the USA, Europe, Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.
He also presents monthly mentoring sessions to people around the world with top guest presenters, such as Dave and Cheryl Elman.
Garry has published a Hypno-Oncology script book and is currently completing a Hypno-Oncology academic teaching book