SPANZA hosted the inaugural NPHTI workshop outside the USA in Sydney and Adelaide in 2023. After the overwhelming success of these workshops, SPANZA are delighted to announce 2025 dates in both Australia and NZ.
It is a non-profit organisation with a vision that children will develop skills to regulate and control their emotions, behaviour and mind-body reactions, and be confident in their capabilities.
NPHTI's mission is to be an educational and communication resource for health professionals and parents regarding therapeutic hypnosis to maximise the overall well-being of children and teens.
NPHTI is the premier resource for:
- the latest information in the field of paediatric clinical hypnosis for licensed professionals, patients, and families
- a social media hub for consultation, discussion, and exchange of ideas among clinicians who have trained with us
- a resource for the public to learn about paediatric clinical hypnosis
The courses being held in 2025 are the second time these will be run in Australia.
Location: Rydges Southbank
Dates: 1 - 3 November 2025
Both levels of workshops available
Location: Oaks on Market
Dates: 7 - 9 November 2025
Both levels of workshops available
Location: Rydges Auckland
Dates: 14 - 16 November 2025
Only Fundamentals available
These intensive workshops feature a combined lecture-demonstration-experiential training format with a developmental perspective in the use of clinical hypnosis & its empirically supported applications for children and teens with various medical & mental health conditions and challenges. Both research-based and pragmatic hypnotic interventions are taught.
- Cutting edge presentations: (including VIDEOS of faculty cases) highlight therapeutic communication, goal setting and goal-driven suggestions and other hypnosis strategies.
- Faculty: The multi-disciplinary, seasoned paediatric clinician-teachers with expertise in paediatric hypnosis include the most renowned leaders-teachers-researchers-authors in this field.
- Two levels of workshop on offer: Fundamentals and Utilisation and Expanded Clinical Applications. Consultation offered to licensed paediatric professionals with advanced clinical degrees and to full-time trainees working toward an advanced clinical license.
- Extensive experiential learning: Activities during presentations, and abundant supervised practice of hypnotic techniques within supportive small groups with a high faculty to trainee ratio
Please refer to registration tab for full details
NPHTI workshops are ideal for skill development for anyone who has a clinical interest in paediatric health with:
- Doctoral Degree in Medicine, Psychology, Nursing, or Dentistry
- Medical Practitioners - including Paediatric Anaesthetists, Intensivists, Emergency Physicians, Paediatricians and Sub-Speciailty Paediatricians, Family Medicine Practitioners.
- Masters Degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Counseling, or Clinical or Counseling Psychology
- Masters Degree in Nursing or a Registered Nurse with a Masters Degree and subspecialty training or certification (e.g. APRN, CPNP, CNS)
- Other Advanced degree clinicians (e.g. Occupational & Physical Therapists, Speech & Language Pathologists, et al.)
- Child Life Specialists and Music Therapists holding a relevant degree and working with children.
- Full-time Interns/residents/Fellows or graduate students in accredited programs leading to these clinical degrees above will be accepted when they supply a letter from their department on letterhead stationery, attesting to their current full-time status, specifying timing of training (month and year).
Participants must have completed either the NPHTI Fundamentals Workshop or an equivalent paediatric-specific hypnosis training workshop (20+ hours) and are using clinical hypnosis with paediatric patients on a frequent basis.