Excellence Quest Training Institute - Seminars

Hypnosis OTCC Fun Shop and Simply Hypnosis

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:57:09 +0000

Dave Dobson PhD is well known for his O.T.C.C. (Other-Than-Conscious Communication™) and No Fault Psychology™ He was a very effective, legendary Psychologist and Clinical Hypnotherapist for over 50 years.

Dave will be greatly missed since his passing on 22 February, 2008. The last Fun Shop he and Barbara did together was in 2006 and he was in such poor health that Barbara, his life/professional partner and heir taught the Fun Shop in 2007 with some help from Dave while in the hospital or "hotel", as he called it. Barbara continues to do Fun Shops as it was his wish that she continue. He taught and prepared her to carry on his work. Together, Dave and Barb spent 90 years using and teaching Hypnosis.

What is Other Than Conscious Communication?

To Quote Dave. "Literally, every thing we do, the way we do it, constitutes our communications. It has also been said that only a small percentage of our communication is verbal, that a far greater aspect of our communication is non-verbal," or outside of our conscious awareness." I prefer referring to this aspect" as other than conscious " (This should not be surprising in view of he myriad tasks that our mind controls daily like coordinating our muscles for walking, remembering how to die our shoes, etc. All outside of our conscious awareness, we are just able to do the things without having to think about them)

Since the turn of the century, to the beginning to the industrial revolution, our society and our schools have focused more and more attention on the written and spoken word virtually ignoring the aspects of behavior that resisted codification.

From time to time, there have been efforts to recognize the other aspects of our communication process, such as appreciation of an animals "territorial imperatives" and "body language", but the refinements of the different "modalities" has been virtually ignored and even when it is respected through the teachings of "neuro-linguistic structures" such NLP, the overall appreciation of the total communication is not appreciated.

Other Than Conscious Communication is real. It can be consciously validated, appreciated, and with this appreciation frees the individual to be even more courteous at both the conscious and other than conscious levels of communication"

It is important to realize that Dave created on his own this intellectual property and that he came up with these concepts and terms in the early 1970s.

There are not now and never have been any co-creators or co-developers of Other-Than-Conscious Communication™ or No Fault Psychology™. It is his creation alone.

It is his legacy and Barb his life partner, heir, designated keeper of his life's work, is to "ride herd" on his work. Barb continues to publish his work and do Fun Shops.

Fun Shops are now scheduled and on the site. You will learn levels of trance and how to consciously direct your other than conscious mind to get what you want.

This technology can successfully be applied to personal life, therapeutically, business, sales, education, motivation, to any and all areas of communication. Interview confidently and get that job you want, the relationship you desire, make that sale or connect with and help your clients effortlessly. The possibilities are endless!

Enjoy the teachings of Dr. Dave Dobson and his hypnotic techniques. Discover how to change un-productive patterns and develop new ones easily.Learn how to connect with anyone, anywhere easily and comfortably.

We have published his book, Pain Alleviation, for which his long time friend, Dr. Richard Bandler wrote the forward. Richard said,"Dave was the most natural and gifted hypnotherapist I ever met. Barbara Stepp, who worked with Dave for many years is uniquely qualified to edit and present Dave's work"

Barbara and her son, Michael, is in the process of archiving Dave's 50 years of work in the written, audio and video form. Some of his work is exclusively available on our store.

As we continue to archive, we will also be producing much of his original work, including DVDs.

Call 708-799-5329 or use our request form

Please read the following comments from past Fun Shop attendees and clients:

"There are more ways to utilise and benefit from Dave's work than people have begun to dream of. The increased personal capacity for handling difficult situations with poise, grace (whoever she is) and humour is a delight in itself. But that pales into insignificance compared to the joy of playing with your own mind."

Clifford Saunders, Ph.D.

"During my 25 years of experience teaching psychotherapy to psychiatry residents, I have had the opportunity to witness many different teaching and therapeutic approaches...and the good fortune to have worked with Dr. Milton Erickson.

Dr. Dobson, who devised his use of metaphor and hypnotherapy independently of Dr. Erickson, is strikingly similar in his approach. His sincerity and dedication to effective work...along with the creativeness of the approaches he has developed in hypnotherapy make the time with him well spent."

Arthur S. Samuels, M.D. Professor, Tulane University

David R. Dobson, Ph.D.

Dave came from a background that included both business, a private practice of Clinical Hypnotherapy, and psychotherapy that spanned more than 45 years in Los Angeles and the west coast.

His business background included owner and manager of a highly successful executive search firm, and division manager and director of sales for an international plastics company, with a sales force of over 200 people.

These experiences and his need to find models of communication that work led him to the development of concepts that he calls "Other Than Conscious Communication^™" which is an outgrowth of his model of psychology that he calls "No Fault Psychology™."

Dave moved to the San Juan Islands in 1977 and I, Barbara was invited to join him in his work later. We held many Fun Shops and saw many clients on our beloved island. Dave had traveled well over a million miles conducting seminars and trainings throughout North America and Europe, and his concepts which transcend traditional communication and psychological models have become highly respected tools for personal growth both in the mental health fields and the corporate opportunity to work with Dave, or as Dave often said: "Life is uncertain, eat dessert first!" David Rolland Dobson, Ph.D truly was "the Wizard of San Juan Island.

Hypnosis

webmaster — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:26:30 +0000

What is Hypnosis? There are so many opinions and ideas floating around. Is it an exact science? Is there an absolute definition? How does it work? Does it work?

Hypnosis, in the past, has taken a bad rap. For many years it was clothed in mystery, something from the dark ages. Wizards, witches, sorcerers supposedly used it in practices of the occult and black magic. Today, there are those who still have a dark ages mentality and fear hypnosis. They believe that in Hypnosis your mind is being controlled. Is Hypnosis mind control?

Before we address that, let us look at some of the history of hypnosis. We don’t know the its exact beginning; however, I tend to think that when God put Adam into a sort of "sleep", took a rib and made Eve, that was probably the first instance that mankind experienced hypnosis. We’ve heard stories of the sleep temples of ancient Greeks and Egyptians where people were put to sleep and told they would awaken cured and they often were.

In the 18th century in France, Anton Mesmer appeared on the scene and helped a lot of people with his "animal magnetism". It appeared to be primarily suggestion. After a while, envious physicians instituted an investigation and he was exiled. By now, you have probably realized where the term,"mesmerized"originated.

It wasn’t long after that James Braid, an English physician decided to check into this phenomena. He discovered that eye fixation resulted in a hypnotic state. The term "suggestion" and most noteworthy, "Hypnosis" was coined by him. Hypnosis actually means sleep. He would tell his patients, "You are getting very sleepy", and when it was time -"awaken". The term "Hypnosis" stuck, even though he discovered later that it was a misnomer.

During this period in history, the church taught that suffering and pain was noble. Imagine that! At this time, Dr. Braid’s friend, Dr. James Esdaile, while serving in India did major research in hypnotic anesthesia and lowered the mortality dramatically. Esdaile wrote a paper on this and submitted it to the British Medical Society. He was scorned by his fellow physicians (notice a pattern here?) and his findings not accepted. Why would the Indian people accept Hypnosis and the British not? Could it be that their society was already into altered states of consciousness; the idea of the"higher self"? Finally, isn’t it amazing that today, their concepts have finally found an amazing acceptance in our highly advanced and cultured society? But, for that time, Hypnosis remained in the area of the occult and black magic.

"Everyday, in every way, I am getting better and better"----sound familiar? Emile Coue’, a French pharmacist, created this statement in the 1900’s, as well as the discovery that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. Voila! Autosuggestion. He brought his ideas to the United States, only to be ridiculed. It was Hypnosis back to the land of mysticism.

Hypnosis and Suggestibility was published in l933 by an American psychologist, Clark Hull. A strong interest began to develop in the United States. In 1937, Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill, a book that many are familiar with, was written. It used autosuggestion and visualization (hypnosis) and has been read by millions. People learned that Andrew Carnigie and other wealthy, famous men used this technique. I believe it is and will always be a great book. But hypnosis wasn’t out of the woods yet. A young psychiatrist, Milton Erickson, developed a technique we today refer to as "conversational hypnosis". He was really good at it. He worked with seriously ill patients and had fantastic results. But since the American Medical Association decided that Hypnosis was bad for you and didn’t exist, they took a dim view of Erickson’s claims and tried to take his license to practice –twice. Erickson fought to bring Hypnosis out of mysticism and into the medical arena, and respectability. He devoted his life to it. In 1958, the Medical Association finally decided that Hypnosis was a viable form of treatment, and if it wasn’t, it couldn’t hurt you. By the time Erickson died, in 1980, not only was Hypnosis accepted, but Erickson was viewed with an almost reverence and studied by psychologists, and the medical community alike.

IN ANOTHER PART OF THE U S. David Rolland Dobson, PhD, Psychologist and Clinical Hypnotherapist was developing Hypnosis and creating Other Than Conscious Communication™ and No Fault Psychology™. Their work was similar in many ways and yet they did not meet until shortly before Dr. Erickson died. And of course we must remember that Richard Bandler modeled Erickson and Dave Dobson, PhD and is an outstanding hypnotist in our modern times. I was blessed to be trained in NLP™ & DHE® by Dr. Bandler and taught OTCC™ and hypnosis by my life and professional partner, Dave Dobson.

So what is Other Than Conscious Communication™? Literally everything we do, the way we do it, constitutes our communications. It has also been said that only a small percentage of our communication is verbal, that a far greater aspect of our communication is non-verbal, or outside of your conscious awareness. I prefer referring to this aspect as other than conscious (This should not be surprising in view of the myriad tasks that our mind controls daily like coordinating our muscles for walking, remembering how to tie our shoes, etc All outside of our conscious awareness, we are just able to do the things without having to thinking about them)

Now for an aside (not really) Have you ever on your drive home suddenly realized you were in your driveway and didn't remember getting there?....driving trance. Read a book and got so involved that you totally identified with a/the character...reading trance. Tried to talk to someone involved with television?...tv trance This is an altered state, going internal, a trance. We spend our lives moving from one trance to another to another. So one can decide to choose more productive trances. Can it be that simple? How can we use that ability in a positive way on purpose? To create change in our lives, ourselves, to do things more successfully.

Today, we realize that hypnosis is mind control—that is, controlling your own mind. The hypnotist is only a facilitator or tour guide. Hypnosis is a state of comfortable and a heightened sense of awareness. Each of us is our own hypnotist. We have come to believe that most change takes place on an unconscious level, otherwise why can we not consciously decide to change something and do it? Milton Erickson once indicated that patients will be patients as long as their conscious and unconscious are not in rapport. Why do many people see Hypnotists to help them stop smoking, rid excess weight, for goal-setting and many more changes??

Firstly, because it is valuable to have an objective person to work with on this. It is because Hypnosis allows you to give your "unconscious", some refer to it as "sub-conscious" and a much more accurate description is Dr. Dave Dobson's , Other Than Conscious your desired suggestions, while the conscious gets comfortable. It can resolve the conflicts between each of both of your minds. A lot of thinking goes on outside of our conscious awareness and guides our judgments and actions. Information collected and processed in the unconscious or other than conscious, our OTC influences (out of our awareness) our first impressions. The "ah ha!" phenomena and our intuitive decisions are drawn from the massive amount of information stored in the unconscious. We do not always know why we are doing certain things because we are influenced by feelings, memories, experiences and other information of which we are unaware. We can view the other than conscious as a vast database to draw upon. The conscious mind can learn how to tap into this resource to support our whole person. This can be done through Hypnosis.

In our Hypnosis certification courses, we teach you how to communicate with the unconscious/other than conscious mind on multi levels, as well as many different methods for trance induction.

We know from our experience in our trainings, as well as in private practice that Hypnosis does work. And there is no left brain definition. Whether you, the reader choose to believe it or not, is of course your decision. We offer this information for what it is, only information. I wonder how soon or when you will fully realize that you can learn to go into a trance deeply or just communicate with the unconscious portions of yourself for the purpose of learning and change the things you want to change in ways that will surprise and delight yourself.

When you want to learn more in hypnosis and/or NLP™ now or sometime soon in the near future, you can learn more about our trainings on NLP™ and Hypnosis when you request detailed information.

We teach three different Hypnosis courses. They are SIMPLY HYPNOSIS™ included in the HYPNOSIS OTCC™ FUN SHOP. and HYPNOSIS MASTER COURSE. You will learn more about hypnosis, patterns of behavior, how to outgrow them and develop new ones in the Hypnosis OTCC™ Fun Shop.

You can get more information by sending a request form or call 708-799-5329.

Barbara J. Stepp
Trainer

Seminars

vzwguyjay — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:20:46 +0000

PATTERNS OF PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATION™ August26-28

Be l OTCC™ FUNSHOP October 4-9

Design Human Engineering in May

Barb — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:05:53 +0000

Wonderful group in our DHE this month! Started each day with, "I wonder how I can have the most fun, exciting and adventurous day possible." (Dr. Bandler)
We had fantastic experiences with hypnosis, building control panels, creating new feeling, installing machines and more. The Science Fair and party----great fun!
How much pleasure can you stand? Dr. Bandler and John La Valle will be doing Orlando DHE in March 2012.

Design Human Engineering (DHE) May 17-22

Barb — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:11:47 +0000

Apologies ......... The correct DHE® dates are May 17-22. Only 50 days until DHE® begins. Everyone welcome! No experience necessary.

NLP Practice Class June 16

Barb — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:27:22 +0000

Start: 2011-06-16

End: 2011-06-16

Timezone: US/Central

Learn and practice informally with fellow attendees. No experience required. Language Mastery in June.

Class is 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. RSVP is required. Call 708-799-5329, email sofie@excelquest.com to confirm.

NLP™ Master Practitioner 4 Weekends June, July, August, September

Barb — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:21:11 +0000

Start: 2011-06-04

End: 2011-09-25

Timezone: US/Central

Imagine sitting in a comfortable and cozy seminar room with a select
group of committed people learning and doing NLP. This seminar is
limited to a select 20 people.

If you want to change your life forever, or make it even better, take
advantage of this great value! Learn at Excellence Quest with Barbara
Stepp, Certified Licensed Master Trainer of NLP™ and DHE®, corporate
trainer and premier coach. John La Valle, MBA, President of the Society
of NLP™ says, “Barb is a true professional, an asset to NLP™ and one of
the few trainers we can refer people to.” She is highly recommended by
Dr. Richard Bandler, co-creator and developer of Neuro Linguistic
Programming™ and creator of Design Human Engineering®. Dr. Bandler
says," Barb is one of the best. There is none better." Many say, “Barb
teaches NLP™ with a heart.” Read what participants say.

Barb believes in teaching hands-on, practical, useable NLP™ and does so
with a sense of humor and enormous energy. She also believes in “KISS”:
“Keep it simple, sweetie”. She makes the most complicated concepts
simple and easy for you to use in everyday life. To get into the best
training you can enjoy thoroughly with the least time commitment, at a
special tuition, join us.

Includes extensive manual and many exercises, and certification. Get the
techniques and skills of NLP™ that You’ll discover that can be applied
to any area you desire. Improve your relationships, change unwanted
beliefs, negotiate successfully and enhance your creativity. Learn the
magical advanced Language of NLP™. Because Barb is a Master Trainer of NLP™ and
DHE®, you will also get to experience elements of DHE®. Excel in your
communications.

Dates are June 4-5, July 9-10, August 13-14, September 24-25, 2011. This class is over 4 weekends with a deposit and 4 month payment plan.

Check out our NLP page for details on what you will learn. You will get Barbara's unique 300 page manual with over 100 exercises and certification signed by Dr. Richard Bandler.

Advanced language patterns like Sleight of Mouth, advanced strategies, influence and persuasion skills as well as presentation and public speaking and much more.

First 5 people to register receive a free private session.

Fill out an information request and receive all the information you need to make the best decision for you.

NLP™ Master Practitioner Skills

You will receive a 300 page manual with over 100 exercises and techniques.

Arrange Beliefs and Values to Support Your Goals
Advanced Language Patterns (Milton, Meta Model & more)
Sleight of Mouth Patterns
Multilevel Communications
- Advanced Timeline
- Stacking Presuppositions
- Temporal/Space Predicates
Propulsion Systems
Metaprogram elicitation,utilization
Changing Beliefs
Criteria
- Identifying, Utilizing, Rearranging
Advanced Hypnosis Deep Trance Identification
Rapid Trance Inductions
Deep Trance Phenomena
Advanced Strategies
Logical Levels of NLP™
Presentation Skills
Introduction to Nested Loops
Mastering Metaphors
Public Speaking
Presentation Skills
Voice Training
Business Meetings
Structure of Humor
Creativity
Threshold Patterns
Modeling With Project
Generative Change
Enneagrams & NLP™
Elements of DHE™
Negotiation
DHE Intro
Guilt Eradicator
Nested Loops
How to put it all together

request information

Reiki and Beyond February 5 -6, 2011

Barb — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:12:02 +0000

Start: 2011-02-05 01:00

End: 2011-02-07 00:59

Timezone: US/Central

Enjoy 2 days of healing and learning to manage your energy. Hands on healing, energy work and much more. Remote and group healing. A special surprise as an Indian medicine man will be conducting ceremonies with us. Dates are February 5-6.Class is 10 a.m.to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Hypnosis OTCC Fun Shop Intensive October 4-9

Barb — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:05:42 +0000

Start: 2011-10-04

End: 2011-10-09

Timezone: US/Central

What Will I Learn?

Dr. Dave Dobson
created and utilized methods of Other Than Conscious Communication and hypnosis
such as Cross filing, Patterns, Subjective Reversal, Housecleaning, Mind
Stretch, Metaphor, Gold mining, Meta Fives, Pattern Interrupts, Congruency,
Anchoring, 3 legged stool, Tuxedo Trance, Pain Alleviation, a different and
more valuable way to use our language, and more, as resources for outgrowing
un-productive patterns of behavior and thinking; developing new more productive
patterns. You will learn and use these skills and techniques. OTCC™ sums up the phenomena of Hypnosis.

You will learn levels of trance and how to consciously direct your other than conscious
mind to get what you want.

This technology can successfully be applied to personal life, therapeutically, business,
sales, education, motivation, to any and all areas of communication. Interview confidently and get that job you want, the relationship you desire, make that sale or connect with and help your clients effortlessly. The possibilities are endless!

Enjoy the teachings of Dr. Dave Dobson and his hypnotic techniques. Discover how to change un-productive patterns and develop new ones easily. Learn how to connect with anyone, anywhere easily and comfortably.

This is the only official Fun Shop in the world. Dave taught Barbara, his life and professional partner, what and how to teach and made her heir to his intellectual property.

If you have no hypnotic experience, you will find it valuable. If you are an experienced hypnotherapist, you will learn simple tools that are very powerful and add them to your already packed toolbox. Check OTCC and Hypnosis pages

or simply request information

Dates are October 4-9, 2011. Come join us and receive absolutely FREE CDs of Dave teaching his unique skills for your personal use.!

NLP Practice Class December 15, 2010

ecalleros88 — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:22:33 +0000

Start: 2010-12-15 15:22

Timezone: Etc/GMT-6

Last practice class of the year and Christmas party! It will be a fun time and learning experience. The class is from 7-10 p.m. Anyone and everyone interested in NLP is welcome. RSVP required. Please RSVP via email or call 708-799-5329 to get the address and details. It is very interactive and practice with applications of NLP, DHE, Hypnosis, Coaching. Barbara Stepp, Master Trainer will moderate and teach...and we have a surprise for you.