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“Having searched for such a long time to find the perfect partner to deliver training in my Virtual Gastric Band Program in Australia,” Sheila Granger said, “I am now so delighted and proud to announce my new partnership with the very best and most professional training school in Australia. Steve Carey Principal of the Academy of Hypnotic Science equals my passion and drive to deliver outstanding training, and Trainer Jennifer Seitanidis has such a wealth of experience working with this programme, gains outstanding results with her clients, and shares her knowledge openly and honestly.

“Jennifer has been among the most active of our accredited Trainers,” said Sheila. “She has worked with more than three hundred clients now, so she really knows how this Program works. We had many, many trainers wanting to work with us on this project, and I’m convinced Jennifer is the one for us.”

“For our part,” said the Academy’s Principal, Dr Steve Carey, “The Academy of Hypnotic Science is thrilled to bring Sheila’s Program to Australia. I attended Sheila’s training back in 2011 the very first time she came here, and was mightily impressed right away. It’s a safe, affordable, fast-acting program that works where diets don’t. So I’m very excited that Sheila has chosen the Academy to be her partner in Australia. In the years since Sheila was last here, it’s become more and more obvious how well the Program works for clients, as research and the testimony of thousands of clients confirm. For therapists it’s a highly-effective, highly-structured Program in a box. You can launch your own Virtual Gastric Banding practice on the Monday after the weekend’s training – and recover the cost of the training with your very first client!”

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Here’s a UK TV news item, with Sheila talking about her program – click to watch.

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GASTRIC BAND SURGERY AND THE VIRTUAL GASTRIC BAND PROGRAM

As you know, gastric band surgery is a form of weight loss surgery, or ‘bariatric surgery,’ used as a last resort treatment for people with potentially life-threatening obesity, when all other treatments, such as diet and exercise, have been unsuccessful. Gastric banding involves surgery to place a band around the stomach, leaving a small pouch at the top of the stomach, which restricts the amount people eat, taking less time to fill and consequently feel full. Most people lose approximately half of their excess body weight within two years. The treatment is reversible and the band can be removed, if required.

Although gastric band surgery is often successful for aiding weight loss, as with all invasive surgery, there are potential risks and complications, including infection, blood clots, internal bleeding, gallstones, gastric band slippage and further surgery required to repair or adjust the band, if needed. For this reason, most surgeons typically only perform gastric band surgery for those with a clinical need. For those with private health insurance, the typical out-of-pocket cost of the various surgical interventions, including pre-operative assessment and post-operative care in the first year, is in the region of $3,000-$5,000.

Studies have revealed the potential of hypnotherapy as a useful adjunct to weight loss programmes, such as diet and exercise, and gastric-band hypnotherapy is an innovative approach that aims to support weight loss, similarly to gastric band surgery, without the potential risks and complications.

 

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AUSTRALIA’S FAT – AND GETTING FATTER

If you had the tools to help your clients with their weight, to help them succeed in losing weight where diets haven’t worked, do you think you’d run out of work any time soon? Sadly, the statistics reveal that there is not much chance of that…

 

• More than five million Australians are obese and in total 14 million Australians are overweight or obese
• Obesity has overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature death and illness in Australia
• At current rates, by the time they reach 20, our kids will have shorter life expectancy than earlier generations, simply through obesity
• More than 900,000 Australians suffer from diabetes

How does the Virtual Gastric Band Program work? Mind over matter

• CONVINCES your client that he or she has had the restrictive mechanism fitted in their stomach
• CHANGES how your client thinks about food, and
• INFLUENCES small, realistic changes to your client’s eating habits.

During the first session, you conduct a thorough consultation to establishes your client’s current eating habits, and identify problematic areas such as comfort eating, not being able to leave food on a plate, even if full, large portion sizes, unhealthy cravings, and so on. You can then discuss with your client relevant areas such as healthy eating patterns, mindful eating, and exercise, before setting goals using visualisation techniques – for example, your client imagining herself looking slim and healthy in a certain item of clothing.

Changing mind sets

During the gastric band “procedure,” and using the script you’re provided with in this training, you guide your client into hypnosis, until she reaches a point of deep relaxation, where you can access your client’s subconscious and increase her susceptibility to positive suggestion. You then take your client descriptively through the operation step by step, from being put under anaesthetic and the journey on a trolley to the operating theatre, through to the operation and the application of the gastric band.

The use of hospital sounds and smells can be recreated to enhance that experience, such as the smell of antiseptic and the beeping of a hospital heart monitor – and in the training you’ll receive your own copy of that hospital recording, as well as tips on other ways to increase the client’s experience.

Although your client remains aware of what’s going on around her, through the subconscious mind, the boundaries of what is real and pretend are blurred, so that imagining the surgical procedure can influence real physical responses in your client. Everyone experiences different effects from gastric band hypnotherapy, with some people experiencing the sensation of physical tightening in their stomach, while others are unable to identify any conscious connection to the ‘surgery,’ but are naturally eating less.

Following the gastric band procedure, subsequent sessions combine hypnotherapy, NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques, such as guided imagery, metaphors, and certain aversion techniques, to help release any emotional blockages and reinforce the new way of eating. All these techniques are taught during this training.

Health benefits of the Virtual Gastric Band Program

Gastric band hypnotherapy can be useful not only for general health benefits through supporting weight loss in overweight and obese clients, it can also potentially reduce the risk of developing other conditions associated with obesity, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and so on. It can also be useful for those with metabolic disorders potentially affecting weight, including polycystic ovary syndrome and underactive thyroid.

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ABOUT YOUR TRAINER

Jennifer Seitanidis (that’s her in the picture) is a qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist, a graduate of the Academy of Hypnotic Science and an Official Sheila Granger Virtual Gastric Band Trainer. She has used the program with more than 300 clients since first experiencing the very same training program you are reading about back in 2011.

“I am very passionate about the Virtual Gastric Band Program,” says Jennifer, “and although I do a lot of marketing, following the tips and techniques Sheila taught me back in 2011, most of my clients come through word of mouth due to the high success rate I have. I am a great believer in the program and am so very excited to have this opportunity to share not only the Program itself, but also my own experience of using it, with you.

“It is not just the weight loss that excites me, it is the total transformation I see in my clients. On their first visit their energy and vitality are very low and their self image and self confidence is in need of a boost. As women in general, we are so good at giving to everyone else but we often leave ourselves last. What I absolutely love about this program is that it forces them to start focusing on themselves which many are not used to or comfortable in doing. And with that comes transformation.

“I hope you choose to join me for this training program, and I very much look forward to meeting you.”

 

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WHAT THEY SAID LAST TIME…

When: 9:00am-5:00pm Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th November 2018

Where: Quest Flemington – 600 Epsom Rd, Flemington VIC 3031

Cost: $799.00

Early Bird Special: We have a strictly limited number of Early Bird Special Tickets available, offering FOUR additional bonus items:

• FREE half-day online marketing program with Sheila Granger
• FREE access to full two day video of the whole Sheila Granger Virtual Gastric Band Program, as delivered by Sheila in the US
• FREE copy of Sheila Granger’s “Guide to Building A Successful Private Practice”
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