Handshake ‘Induction’ – Bandler, Erickson and Elman Versions

The legendary ‘handshake interrupt’ induction… There seems to be much interest in this in the worlds of Hypnosis and NLP, but what many people don’t realise is that what is most often shown as Milton Erickson’s handshake interrupt, is actually NLP co-founder Richard Bandler’s version (Derren Brown often uses a variation on the Bandler version…

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Influences on Hypnosis Without Trance

I have recently received an email asking me about the influences on HWT… “Could you… would you, please, make available the names of the books, and or people, who have influence your thoughts on the topic. I have already read Influence, by R. Cialdini, and I’m in the process of reading Changing for Good (both…

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