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Sheldon Bilsker,RCC,HT
Vancouver, BC
1-800-665-ORCA (6722)
Please note: Sheldon is now available for private counselling and hypnotherapy sessions in Vancouver and through Skype. Please contact him at: 800 -665-6722 or by e-mail.
Watch Sheldon's Interviews where he discusses a variety of topics relating to The Orca Institute.
In the 2 videos below Sheldon discusses his teaching philosophy. List of Interview Questions. If you have any trouble with playback then click the HD at the bottom of the screen to watch in standard definition.
Sheldon Bilsker, RCC,HT is a practicing Counseling Hypnotherapist and Registered Clinical Counselor with 30 years experience in private practice. He is President and Founder of the International Association of Counseling Hypnotherapists and past President of The Canadian Hypnotherapy Association He has also been a member of the Legislative Review committee of the BC Association of Clinical Counselors.
In 1986, Sheldon began training students in hypnotherapy and other therapeutic approaches. It was at this time that he founded Orca Hypnosis Seminars, now The Orca Institute. These training programs are well known throughout British Columbia, Canada and now worldwide for their practical application, broad perspective and high standards. The Orca Institute is the longest running school in Canada. It is also the only PCTIA Accredited school in BC.
As both instructor and caring mentor, Sheldon has been instrumental in the present success of many hypnotherapists, counselors and workshop facilitators. In 1992, he was called by the BC Human Rights Commission to testify as an expert witness on hypnosis. His testimony set a legal precedent in BC.
Sheldon has written three training manuals in hypnotherapy, as well as numerous articles on hypnosis and related fields. His style of instruction is specifically designed to teach students how to offer "tools" which empower clients and each other to find their own answers. Unique to Sheldon is his eastern body/mind approach to the application of hypnotherapy. By working through the body to affect the mind, he includes an important physical integration and expression of the mental, emotional and spiritual.
Sheldon is also known as a keen advocate of complementary health care in British Columbia. This is reflected in his training as he explains and incorporates a wide variety of alternative concepts, giving his students a broad base of understanding on which to build a career. |
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Diane Auld, RPC,HT
Vancouver, BC
Watch Diane's Interview where she discusses her background and teaching style and Ericksonian Hypnosis. If you have any trouble with playback then click the HD at the bottom of the screen to watch in standard definition.
I have been teacher since 2006. My love affair with hypnotherapy started long before I decided to study Hypnotherapy at the Orca Institute. Many years of my own personal work and finding ways to understand the unlimited powers of my unconscious mind led to me to Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and that love affair just keeps growing.
For the past 8 years I have had the honour of accompanying clients in my private practice, in the exploration of self through counselling, hypnotherapy and a variety of creative therapies.
As a teacher I bring a deep respect for Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, for each students individual learning style and and a passionate desire to help the students realize their unlimited potential as a learner and a counselling hypnotherapist. Learning is best done experientially in a safe environment where we each have an opportunity to experiment, play, make corrections and experience.
Each person comes to hypnotherapy for a different reason, and will use the learnings in their own unique way; my job is to create curiosity, answers questions, challenge your limited view of yourself, support your search for your way, and fire a passion for hypnosis.
I bring my own passion and have been told it is my passionate style of teaching that helps students engage in the learning.
Class time is the cornerstone to learning Hypnotherapy. A place to share, explore, develop new skills, discuss ways of working with current clients, play, learn from fellow students at differing levels of experience and knowledge and of course experience Hypnotherapy. Honouring each individual’s unique way of learning is important to me, and I invite feedback and suggestions.
Our classes are rich, fun and filled with teachings that each student can use in the time between classes to play with, practice and hone the skills needed for incorporating hypnotherapy into their current practice or eventually becoming a practicing counselling hypnotherapist.
Our weekend classes include some structured learning, different modules include: Inductions, Counselling and Hypnotherapy, taking what the client brings and creating a hypnotherapy session, the beginning, middle and end of a session, tone and pacing, metaphors and stories, making direct indirect, abreaction, self care for the therapist, ethics and requests for learning from the students. These are some of the modules offered in the classes there are many more.
Each month prior to our class I send an e-mail to students for class content and input, also during the class it is very important to me that each student is getting their needs met, I constantly check in with each student.
Each of us is a teacher and a learner. We each bring life experience, wisdom from other teachings and our uniqueness; our class time is made richer by what we all bring.
I look forward to working with you in class to develop and grown in this new and exciting way of helping our clients and ourselves truly live our unlimited potential, facilitate change and understand self in deeper ways.
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Byron Miki, HT
Kelowna, BC
E-mail
Watch Byron's video "Getting Stuck" If you have any trouble with playback then click the HD at the bottom of the screen to watch in standard definition.
For 20 years, Byron has coached clients and employees to achieve higher and higher results both in business and their personal lives. He has studied hypnotherapy with the Orca Institute under Sheldon Bilsker as well as the American Pacific University under Tad James. Byron is a Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming.
He trained as a coach with the Dale Carnegie Organization in Ontario and BC. He also became a coach with the Anthony Robbins Company and traveled to many parts of the United States supporting the Anthony Robbins Live Event programs.
In 1996, Byron sold his successful Property Tax Consulting Firm, in Toronto and immediately began his migration to Kelowna, British Columbia with his wife and two daughters.
His holistic approach to personal development is enhanced by his studies in energy work through the use of Reiki and Qigong.Byron practices Vipassana meditation daily and volunteers at the Kelowna Waldorf School. His family and his counselling hypnotherapy practice are his passions.
Byron has a Bachelor of Arts Degree majoring in Anthropology and Economics from the University of Toronto. He has post graduate Certificates in Marketing Management and Advertising Communications from Ryerson Polytechnical University as well as a Diploma in Computer Programming and Systems Analysis from the Honeywell Institute.
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