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Professional Workshops for Hypnotherapists

Grief, Loss and Gratitude Workshop 

October 17 & 18 2026

​9.00 am to 12.30pm AEST both days 
(Time zone check here) 


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Grief is not a problem to be solved. It is a room to be entered with the right conditions, the right companionship, and the willingness to stay.

Grief lives in the body before it lives in words, and it does not follow a linear path. Recent neuroscience research has further transformed our understanding of grief: it is not simply a feeling that passes on a schedule, it actually sits within and alters the brain.

Understanding this changes how we support our clients.

About the Workshop
Over the last thirty years the field has also moved away from stage models and the idea that healthy grief means letting go towards continuing bonds, meaning reconstruction, and the recognition that the relationship with what has been lost remains rather than ends.

This two-day online interactive workshop explores the psychological effects of grief, loss and gratitude on our lives internally and externally. The focus is on what each participant brings from their own journey of grief, loss, love and gratitude. The work follows rather than leads.

Participants will leave with practical techniques and approaches they can bring directly to their clinical work with clients navigating loss of every kind — bereavement, relationship, identity, health, the unlived life.

Colour and art therapy are woven throughout as clinical resources, drawing on research into how colour carries emotion before language arrives and how image and creativity reach what words alone cannot.

Combining
theory, case studies, live demonstrations and experiential practice, this workshop is for hypnotherapists interested in working more deeply with loss, both their clients' and their own.
  • A multisensory, interactive workshop — we work with grief as it actually sits inside the body
  • Four somatic techniques: breathwork, the felt sense, somatic grounding, and the body-as-house induction
  • ​Practical tools to use directly in your practice.
  • Neuroscience and case studies
  • 6 CPD  points

What You Will Gain
  • An embodied encounter with grief: experiencing loss, love and gratitude as image, colour and felt sense before they find words, and before the thinking mind can edit them.
  • Non-directive tools for working with loss: following rather than leading, and letting what is present show itself somatically.
  • Hands-on practice with continuing bonds: how the relationship with what has been lost transforms rather than ends, and what that means for your clinical work.
  • Multisensory and colour-based techniques: including colour as emotional language and smell as a gateway to grief memory.
  • Clinical lenses beyond Western models: Jungian active imagination, Hindu rasa, Sufi longing and Taoist wisdom, offered as practical ways to deepen and expand your practice.
  • Your own experiential work with grief, loss and gratitude: because the practitioner who has been where they are asking clients to go brings something to the room that theory alone cannot replicate.

About the Facilitator
Georgina Delamain is a clinical hypnotherapist, accredited counsellor, teacher, and mind-body specialist with around 30 years of experience. She previously worked at The Alfred Hospital Functional Gut Clinic,  one of Australia's only hospital departments integrating hypnotherapy into a multidisciplinary clinical setting.

She now runs a busy private practice in Melbourne, supporting clients with complex emotional, physical, and behavioural challenges including trauma, neurodivergence, chronic digestive disorders, addiction, relationship difficulties, and grief.

A qualified supervisor, Georgina brings an integrative and compassionate approach that combines hypnotherapy, somatic practice, and emotional healing strategies, work that is both clinically rigorous and deeply human.

This workshop is dedicated to the memory of Dr Rob McNeilly — Ericksonian therapist, teacher and supervisor — whose gentle, non-directive approach lives in the spirit of everything we do here.

Mind-Gut Workshop
Next 2026 Workshop Date To Be Confirmed

Mind-gut disorders are increasingly common, and many people are struggling without lasting relief, especially when conventional medical approaches fall short. Symptoms like IBS, Crohn’s, Diverticulitis, nausea, constipation, and bloating are often accompanied by anxiety, emotional suppression, chronic stress, shame, and food-related fear.
 
This two-day online workshop offers tools to help hypnotherapists better support these clients through gut-directed hypnotherapy, somatic awareness, and emotional regulation.

This interactive workshop combines theory, live demonstrations, and hands-on practice. Each session includes guided practice opportunities where you'll experience the techniques as both practitioner and client, ensuring you leave with practical skills you can implement immediately.

All techniques are easily transferable to private or clinical settings, and designed to deliver meaningful results.​

Breaking Bad Habits Workshop
Next 2026 Workshop Date To Be Confirmed

​Breaking habits like nail-biting, overeating, skin-picking, and stress-related behaviours can feel impossible for some people. However, understanding the brain's role in these automatic actions is key. This Saturday morning workshop offers hypnotherapists practical tools to help clients break bad habits through neuroscience, pattern interruption, and self-compassion.

This interactive workshop explores habit loops, dopamine science, identity transformation, and practical techniques including Compassionate Habit Redesign, NLP Swish Pattern, and the Empty Chair Technique.

You'll gain insights into breaking the cycle of shame and replacing old behaviours with healthier alternatives, with opportunities to practise as both practitioner and client, ensuring you leave with tools you can use immediately.

Relationship with Shadow Self Workshop
Next 2026 Workshop Date To Be Confirmed

Jung's shadow isn't just the dark side — it's everything we have disowned, suppressed, or never been allowed to express. Anger punished in childhood, anxiety that masks an unsafe self, depression that signals a life unlived — all live in the shadow. The gold also lives in the shadow.

This two-day online workshop gives hypnotherapists four practical techniques — Parts Dialogue, Future Self Projection, Body as Landscape and Colour Work — to work more deeply with clients presenting with anxiety, depression, stuck patterns and the unlived life.

We begin by exploring how colour carries emotion — how the psyche so often holds feeling as image and sensation before it finds words. This opens a direct pathway into the shadow, allowing clients to give it a hue and breathe with it rather than against it. Attachment theory illuminates where those shadows formed and why certain emotions were disowned, making the hypnotherapy work that follows more precise and more personal.

Combining theory, case studies, live demonstrations and hands-on practice, this interactive workshop is for hypnotherapists interested in deepening their clinical work through experiential shadow exploration. No prior Jungian training is required — all concepts are introduced accessibly and grounded in practical application.

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“It is a pleasure to recommend Georgina. I have known her for over 6 years and appreciate her flexibility in connecting with individual clients and finding unique resolutions for their particular issues.”
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Rob McNeilly (director at CET and The Milton H Erickson Institute of Tasmania)

Rob McNeilly (1940–2026) — director at CET and The Milton H Erickson Institute of Tasmania. Teacher, supervisor and friend, who died on 11 August 2026. The Grief, Loss and Gratitude workshop is dedicated to his memory.​

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