Rev. C. Scot Giles, D.Min., LLC

This is the form certified hypnotists need in order to join the National Federation of Hypnotists 104, AFL-CIO. This organization is the political arm of the National Guild of Hypnotists. Membership is voluntary.

This booklet contains the current Code of Ethics, the Recommended Standards of Practice and the Recommended Terminology of the National Guild of Hypnotists. I was part of the team that created this document.

This PDF file contains the slides for my recent "Micropractice" workshop at the convention of the National Guild of Hypnotists in August 2008.

This is the current booklet from the National Guild of Hypnotists concerning the laws in different states that regulate hypnotism. I am the author of this booklet as part of my work on the Advisory Board of the National Guild of Hypnotists.

This is a summary of the impressive report by the Institute of Medicine on the effect of psychosocial care on persons living with cancer.

This is a file for my Connecticut colleagues. The National Guild of Hypnotists will seek a law in Connecticut that makes any sexual abuse of a client by a helping professional a felony. Currently, licensed health care professionals who commit such abuse are shielded from public disclosure in many states, including Connecticut. Hearings to explore such issues take place behind the closed doors of state license boards. This file obtained by the Guild discloses how many physicians in Connecticut were privately sanctioned in this way between 1998-2002.

This file is a story from the *Washington Post* about an organization that may be of interest to colleagues who have read my Blog article entitled *Entrapment.* The file is posted here for the general interest of my hypnosis colleagues who may be considering using a service company to help run a practice. By posting this file I am not accusing Method One Hypnosis, Phoenix One Hypnosis nor the Hypnosis Wellness Center of being a company that runs itself like the "Beastcorp" in my Blog article. Instead, I encourage colleagues to read this story and decide for themselves what they think of these providers.

This is a PDF file containing the slides from my recent presentation at the Solid Gold Convention of the National Guild of Hypnotists, in Las Vegas.

This is an unofficial history I wrote some years ago. This document was created as part of a dialogue between the American Psychological Association and the National Guild of Hypnotists, and gives a personal account of a few important years as modern hypnotism emerged as an organized profession.

This is a PDF file of the overheads for my recent seminar on Hyperempiria that I gave at the 2007 convention of the National Guild of Hypnotists. Participants who want a copy are welcome to download it for their own use.

This is the handout I used in my program on helping persons with rheumatic problems, such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, etc. As the Guild still distributes this program on video through its library I make the handout available here.

This is a PDF file of the Keynote/Powerpoint Presentation I did at the Mid-America Hypnosis in October 2007. Participants in the seminar asked for a copy of the overheads and you are welcome to download them. The seminar concerned how to discuss hypnotism with members of faith communities who are suspicious about hypnotic practice. More recently this file is for the use of colleagues who participated in my teleseminar from Cal Banyon's school.

So many colleagues have asked me for help in setting up office recording systems that I created a FAQ on how to do this that covers most of the information a person needs. The National Guild of Hypnotists has adopted this as an unofficial FAQ on the topic and it is a permanent posting in the Members Forum of the National Guild of Hypnotists. I maintain a copy here for those who cannot access the Forum

Colleagues often ask me for advice on how to build a successful hypnotism practice. So I've posted this document as an example of what I did. I do no advertising for my services. Everything is by client or physician referral, and it's all word-of-mouth. How I did this was to create a catalogue of free workshops that I would do for any interested community group. I would go anywhere and talk to anyone in order to get known. I did this until the year 2000 when it was no longer needed. This file is the workshop catalogue I used for that year. Feel free to use it to get ideas that might help your practice.