Comfort Talk Training Objectives

Objectives
Upon completion, the learner will be more aware of:

• Posture during patient interactions
• The impact of negative suggestions and replacement with better wording
• Understand better how pain and anxiety can be influenced positively

Objectives
After completing the course, the learner will be able to:

• Know how body position can be used to obtain rapport
• Know the meaning of matching and leading
• Be familiar with a technique that promotes self-confidence
• Be sensitive to avoiding negative suggestions
• Know at least one technique of how to relieve pain, anxiety, or distressing thoughts
• Know how to use a hypnosis script safely

Objectives
After completing the course, the learner will be able to:

• Better help patients complete their procedures
• Know how to gain rapport with individuals one doesn’t feel in rapport or feels bias against
• Spot and avoid common mistakes that increase patients’ distress
• Develop a language style that decreases patients’ pain and anxiety without requiring extra time
• Provide guidance in self-hypnotic relaxation for medical procedures and encounters
• Improve patient satisfaction and their own job satisfaction

Objectives
After working thought the book, the learner will be able to:

• Feel greater confidence
• Know how to balance closeness and distance
• Understand the importance of body position for rapport
• Identify Sensory Preferences
• Interpret Eye Position
• Avoid Negative Suggestions
• Know how to provide a sense of control
• Encourage others correctly
• Understand the elements of procedural hypnosis
• Apply hypnosis safely by script
• Know at least one technique how to manage pain
• Know at least one technique how to manage anxiety

Updates

We update our technical platform for the online courses every two years or so, depending on the compatibility requirements of new computer and smartphone operating systems. During those updates we also review the content and make changes depending on student feedback. Should a practice or institution have a specific need, we work with the practice to customize the content accordingly.