Monthly Meeting Schedule

During the COVID-19 pandemic, our monthly meetings and rounds are being held virtually! With special consideration for current best practices to minimize and manage group gatherings, for the foreseeable future all monthly CSCH meetings/rounds, including presentations, discussions, practices, and questions periods will take place using a ZOOM presentation platform. All members and guests who have expressed an interest in participating in any of the upcoming meetings/rounds will be advised by email prior to each meeting as to the exact meeting time and link, and as to any password required for their ZOOM participation.

The following is a listing of the dates and topics of upcoming meetings of the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (B.C. Division). Topics may change at the last minute due to circumstances beyond our control. If you wish to confirm the topic being presented, please feel free to contact the office.

The purpose of these monthly meetings is to provide useful information to our members and a place for members to meet and discuss hypnosis in a positive learning environment. If there is a topic you would like to see presented or you have a topic you would like to present at one of the meetings, please contact Anneke at admin@hypnosis.bc.ca.

If you wish to bring an “Invited Guest” to one of the monthly meetings, you are welcome to do so. The requirement is, your “Invited Guest” must be eligible for one of the levels of membership, either Full, Associate, Affiliate, or Student Member. 

Admission to your “Invited Guest” will be $20.00 per person.

Should your “Invited Guest” decide to apply for membership, remember the REFERRAL PROGRAM.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Meeting Date:	Monthly (with the exception of December, June, July, and August)
Meeting Time:	“Check-in” online begins at 6:25 pm (unless otherwise indicated below) and presentations launch promptly at 6:30 pm
Meeting Place:	#304 – 1055 West Broadway Vancouver, BC, V6H 1E2

Upcoming Meetings

Note: During the COVID-19 pandemic, our monthly meetings and rounds are being held virtually! With special consideration for current best practices to minimize and manage group gatherings, for the foreseeable future all monthly CSCH meetings/rounds, including presentations, discussions, practices, and questions periods will take place using a ZOOM presentation platform. All members and guests who have expressed an interest in participating in any of the upcoming meetings/rounds will be advised by email prior to each meeting as to the exact meeting time and link, and as to any password required for their ZOOM participation.

Date:	Presenter:	Topic:
Wed, Feb 17	Dr. Victor Rausch	Hypnosis and aging — Reversing the clock Dr. Rausch will be discussing with our CSCH (BC) Society members a fascinating research experiment with which he was involved, performed some years ago at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. He will discuss the implications of that experiment, the hypnotic induction used and the energetic components of the induction. Despite the startling subjective outcomes recorded, no measurable objective evidence could be obtained using the equipment available at that time. Since then, huge technical advances have been made in gene therapy and epigenetics as it relates to understanding the mechanisms and factors influencing physiological aging. Dr. Rausch will be discussing new evidence that physiological aging can not only be slowed down but actually reversed. The connection between hypnosis and the aging process is quite profound, and all CSCH (BC) members should anticipate an intriguing evening’s discussion led by Dr. Rausch.

Recent Meetings

Date:	Presenter:	Topic:
Nov 18, 2020	Harry Stefanakis, PhD	“Language in the Fractures of Life: The Interface of Poetry and Hypnosis”
Oct 21, 2020	Dr. Gabor Filo	“Monday Morning Stuff”
Sep 16, 2020	Saul Pilar, MD	“Sounds and Music in Hypnosis”
Jun 17, 2020	Dr David Bowler, MBChB, CCFP, CAFCI, PgCPain	“Zoomnosis – the changing landSkype of clinical hypnosis”
Jan 29, 2020	Leora Kuttner, PhD	“The Art and Science of Naturalistic Hypnosis”
Feb 19, 2020	James Stabler, MSW	“The Language of Hypnotherapeutic Work”
May 20, 2020	Les Moncrieff, R. Ac.	Treating Complex Pain and Addictions With Bio-electrode Therapy: An Acupuncture Point Stimulus Method for Relief of Human Suffering

Meetings/rounds for 2019 included:

Date:	Presenter:	Topic:
Jan 16, 2019	Dr. Heather Fay	“Hypnosis to Prepare for Surgery”
Feb 20, 2019	Saul Pilar, MD	“Brain Psychedelic Update and Related Hypnotic Phenomena”
Apr 17, 2019	Annual General Meeting
	Harry Stefanakis, PhD	“Anchoring in Clinical Hypnosis”
May 15, 2019	Dr. Bal Pawa, BPharm, MD	“Reboot Your Autonomic Nervous System”
Sep 18, 2019	Derek Chang, MD	“Clinical Hypnosis for Addiction Relapse Prevention”
Oct 16, 2019	Harry Stefanakis, PhD	Follow-up practice session to the Trance and Trauma workshop
Nov 20, 2019	Kourosh Edalati, MD James Stabler MSW, RCC	Clinical Hypnosis to Enhance CBT

Meetings/rounds for 2018 included:

Date:	Presenter:	Topic:
Jan 17, 2018	Paul Swingle	The Neurological Patterns associated with Anxiety & Depression
Mar 21, 2018	Leora Kuttner	“Hypnosis and Sleep Enhancement” plus Directed practice session I (follow-up for February workshop)
Apr 18, 2018	CSCH Annual General Meeting plus Directed practice session II (follow-up for February workshop)
May 16, 2018	Davidicus Wong	“Mindfulness Based Hypnosis”
Jun 20, 2018		TBA
Sep 19, 2018	Panel Discussion	Ethical Challenges of Clinical Hypnosis
Nov 21, 2018	Derek Chang, MD	Using Clinical Hypnosis for People Living with Substance Use Disorders: A Clinical Discussion

Meetings/rounds for 2017 included:

Date:	Presenter:	Topic:
Apr 19, 2017	Olivia Fermi	How to Discover and Utilize Therapist Direct Experience of Energy Fields for Enhanced Trance Work with Clients
May 17, 2017	Leora Kuttner	Relieving headaches with hypnosis
June, July & Aug 2017	N/A	Please note there were no monthly meetings from June to August, 2017, inclusive for the summer holidays. Monthly meetings resumed in the fall.
Sep 20, 2017	Harry Stefanakis	CORE Living: 8 choices for living well
Oct 18, 2017	James Stabler	Energy psychologies
Nov 15, 2017	Lance Rucker	In-and-Out Hypnosis — Real Time vs. Clock Time