Does owning a couple of cds qualify me to be a professional dj…?
“In the old days”, many stage hypnotists got no professional training at all; they learned their craft from other hypnotists, books and videos. While it’s still possible to do this, be aware that this approach takes *lots of practice and study* and, unless you are interning with a highly experienced professional stage hypnotist (not another dj-turned-hypnotist-overnight), you will miss out on a lot of important information. (Remember, every show is unique and *experience* is what helps a pro to deal with the unexpected challenges in a way that makes the performance *look easy*.) I tend toward recommending lots of training. My suggestion is that you follow my guidelines for hypnotherapy, AND THEN apply that training to stage work. (That’s what I did.) While, as a stage hypnotist, you may never use all the hypnotherapy techniques you will learn during training, (and you will also require some skills you won’t get in a hypnotherapy course,) it’s never a bad idea to have more “tools in you