Course Description

Online Distance Learning Program

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Advanced Script Writing Techniques
with Tim Brunson PhD

You may begin this course at anytime and work at your own pace.

Lesson 1: A Critique of Regressive Script Writing
  • Major regressive script writing styles.
  • The “prose” and cons of regressive scripts.
  • Why regressive scripts usually work (inefficiently).


Lesson 2: Investigating the Presenting Issue
  • Sources of presenting issue information.
  • Typical applications for hypnotic scripts.
  • Common suggestions for all scripts.
  • Fitting the script to the intake.


Lesson 3: Exploring the Power of Linguistics
  • Standard linguistic elements and their uses.
  • Balancing clarity and ambiguity.
  • The advantage of poetry over prose.
  • Integrating space/time perceptions and energy considerations.


Lesson 4: Underlying Principles and Techniques
  • Learn how peripersonal and extrapersonal suggestions and imagery affect your subject's mind and body.
  • Begin using repetition elegantly.
  • Maintain ambiguity through looping storylines.
  • Improve the effectiveness of your Post Hypnotic Suggestions.


Lesson 5: Structuring the Script
  • Establishing the peripersonal connection.
  • Moving from negative to positive.
  • The effective use of imagery.
  • Post Hypnosis Suggestions and closure.


Lesson 6: Effective Script Delivery
  • The operator’s mental state.
  • The effective use of rate, timing and pauses.
  • The voice as a “musical” instrument.
  • Developing and achieving mastery.



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