NGH Hypnotism Professional Certification Training
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  NGH Hypnosis Certification Training Instructor
At New York Awareness Center we offer NGH Hypnotherapy
Certification programs that are internationally recognized and NGH approved. The
curriculum (10.0 CEUs for health professionals) is designed to fully prepare you
for successful launching your hypnosis practice as a Certified Hypnotherapist
nationwide. Thorough training in Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapy and Ericksonian
Hypnosis
Suggested Reading
SUGGESTED MOVIES
SUGGESTED MEMBERSHIPS
SUGGESTED SITES TO
VISIT
HiSTORY OF HYPNOSIS
Myths about hypnosis
Ericksonian Hypnosis
25 MARKETING STRATEGIES
NEWS IN HYPNOTHERAPY
TRAINING
ABOUT THE NGH HYPNOTHERAPY CERTIFICATION
PROGRAM
WHEN YOU GRADUATE...
ADVANCED HYPNOTHERAPY TECHNIQUES TRAINING
SPIRITUAL TRAINING
ABOUT THE NGH
LEGISLATIVE ISSUES
We Have Your
Pendulum
NGH Hypnotism Certification Program
Reading List
(Don't forget that some of the books are also listed in the back of your text book for Level I)
Articles about
Hypnosis
A-Must Read:
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order from Amazon.com
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Hypnotherapy, Dave Elman 
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Hypnosis for Inner Conflict Resolution, C. Roy Hunter -
Handbook of Hypnotic Suggestions and Metaphors. Edited by Corrydon Hammond.
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Hartland's Medical and Dental Hypnosis by Michael Heap and Kottiyattil K. Aravind
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Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy. C. Banyan, J. Kein.
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Handbook of Hypnotic Inductions, Gafner, Benson
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Professional Hypnotism Manual. Kappas.
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My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. by Sidney Rosen
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The Art of Hypnotherapy, by C.Roy Hunter
And Also:
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New Self-Hypnosis by Paul Adams
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Essentials of Hypnosis by Michael Yapko
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The Everything Hypnosis Books by M. Hathaway.
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Hypnotherapy Scripts. Havens and Walters.
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Hypnosis For Change by Hadley and Staudacher.
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Uncommon Therapy by Jim Haley.
Ericksonian (Metaphors) Approach:
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Guided Imagery for Self Healing by Rossman.
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Metaphoria by Rubin Battino.
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Experiencing Hypnosis by Erickson/Rossi
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Tales of Enchantment by Lankton & Lankton
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Patterns I of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton Erickson, Richard Bandler & John Grinder
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Therapeutic Metaphors by David Gordon
NLP Research:
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Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming by Richard Bandler & John Grinder
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Reframing by Bandler & Grinder
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Trance-Formations: Neuro-Linguistic, Richard Bandler & John Grinder
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Patterns I of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton Erickson, Richard Bandler & John Grinder
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The Structure of Magic: A Book About Communication and Change (Book 1 and 2) by Bandler and Grinder
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Patterns II, Bandler & Grinder
Further Research:
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Using Your Brain--For a Change, Richard Bandler
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Solutions: Practical and Effective Leslie Cameron-Bandler
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Monsters and Magical Sticks or There's..., A great book by Steven Heller
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Healing in Hypnosis: The Seminars, Erickson
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Hypnotic Realities: The Induction, Erickson/Rossi
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Hypnotherapy, an Exploratory Casebook, Erickson/Rossi
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Taproots, O'Hanlon
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Mind-Body Communication in Hypnosis, Rossi & Ryan
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Therapeutic Trances, Stephen Gilligan
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The Collected Papers of Milton H. Erickson (four volumes)
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Experiencing Erickson, Zeig
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The Practical Application of Medical and Dental Hypnosis, Erickson,
Hershman & Sector
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The Answer Within, Carol & Steve Lankton
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Trances People Live, Steven Wolinsky
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The Dark Side of the Inner Child, Stephen Wolinsky
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Hypnotherapy Scripts, Ronald Havens & Catherine Walters
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Solution-Oriented Hypnosis, William O'Hanlon & Michael Martin
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An Uncommon Casebook, O'Hanlon & Hexum
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Stories For The Third Ear, Using Hypnotic Fables in Psychotherapy. Lee
Wallas.
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Unlimited Power, Anthony Robbins
Movies to Watch:
The Curse of The Jade Scorpion with Woody Allen Ellen Hunt What a fun
movie to watch!
Stir of Echoes with Kevin Bacon
Manchurian Candidate 1962 not 2004 with Frank Sinatra
The Illusionist, 2006 You will like this one!
What the Bleep Do We Know? 2005
Tibetan Book of the Dead, Documentary, 2004
Indigo, 1999
Suggested Memberships:
www.ngh.net - Major benefits,
bonuses and most importantly - The Convention!
The NGH is the world's largest and most prestigious hypnosis
certifying organization with members across the U.S. and in thirty countries.
The NGH certifies hypnotherapists and hypnosis instructors, provides continuing
education, maintains a bookstore and resource center, provides liability
insurance programs and enforces a Code of Ethics and Practice. The NGH
holds an annual educational conference with over 250 hypnotherapy presentations
and upwards of 1500 participants.
Below Follows the
Letter from the NGH to fellow Hypnotists from Scott Giles:
Dear New York Member:
As you have known from
our previous communications with you by email, letter and convention programs,
your state has passed a law that regulates the practice of mental health care.
Enforcement of the law
will begin in 2007. After that time you must either have obtained a license to
practice mental health care or you must adjust your practice so you offer
self-hypnotic motivational coaching to the public, strictly following National
Guild of Hypnotist Standards and using National Guild of Hypnotist
Non-therapeutic Terminology.
However, even though
the enforcement of this law will not begin until 2007, other agencies in New
York have begun to enforce other consumer protection laws that now apply to
mental health care.
We have received
confirmation that persons in the employ of your state government have begun to
“shop” hypnotism practices by phone and in person. Such individuals will attempt
to get you to say something incriminating which can be later used against you.
Specifically, you must
not refer to yourself as “Doctor” nor use the title “Dr.” when holding out
services to the public unless you hold a fully accredited degree in medicine,
mental health care, healthcare or ministry.
Alternative degrees
from unaccredited institutions do not allow you the use of a doctoral title. If
you do not hold such a fully accredited degree and a caller or visitor to your
office addressees you as “Doctor,” you have a positive duty to correct that
person. You cannot allow the mistaken use of the title to stand uncorrected.
Similarly, we urge you
to hold your services out to the public as “hypnotism” and to call yourself a
“Certified Hypnotist” rather than making any use of the word “therapy.”
Therefore, do not call yourself a “hypnotherapist” nor what you do
“hypnotherapy.”
Please take this
information seriously as it comes to us from a legal professional who is
friendly to our profession. Under Education Law 6512, anyone who wrongly
presents him or herself as a professional in a field requiring a license is
guilty of a Class E felony and enforcement of this law appears to be aggressive.
The Rev. C. Scot
Giles, D.Min.
Board Certified Chaplain
Fellow, National Guild of Hypnotists
Legislative Liaison Office NGH/NFH 104
1211 East Pershing Avenue
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
voice: (630) 668-1141
fax: (630) 668-1890
email: CSGiles@uuma.org
web: www.CSGiles.org
Send an e-mail to the NGH if you have questions about legislature and legal
rights of hypnotists in your state
ngh@ngh.net
Suggested Organizations to look into:
http://www.aaph.org/
http://www.nyseph.org/join.html
For those who are Reiki Practitioners visit:
 INTERNATIONAL
SOCIETY OF HYPNOSIS
Suggested Sites to Visit for more
information and FREE inductions and scripts:
 http://www.hypnosis.com/trance/index.html
http://www.hypnosense.com/
EFT Click here
http://www.emofree.com/ for Emotional Freedom
Technique
Ericksonian Hypnosis - Learn about it -
Click here
History Of Hypnosis:
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), an
Austrian physician, is widely acknowledged as the 'Father of Hypnosis'. He
believed that there was a quasi-magnetic fluid in the very air we breathe and
that the bodys' nerves somehow absorbed this fluid. As a doctor, his main
concern was how to effectively treat his patients, and he considered disease to
be caused by a blockage of the circulation of this magnetic fluid in the blood
and the nervous system. Curing disease would, in his view, involve correcting
the circulation of this liquid.
Initially, he used a magnet, and
later his hand, which was passed over the diseased body in an attempt to unblock
the magnetic flow. The hand (and later the eyes) was believed to unblock the
fluid by increasing its amount and flow as his hand passed over the affected
area. The term 'animal magnetism' was born, and the procedure referred to as
Mesmerism.
The Marquis de Puysegur (1751-1825), a pupil of Mesmers, used 'animal magnetism'
on a young peasant who entered into a state of sleep while still being able to
communicate with Puysegur and respond to his suggestions. When the peasant
'awoke' he could remember nothing of what had occurred. Puysegur thought that
the will of the person and the operators' actions were important factors in the
success or failure of the 'magnetism', in other words psychological influences
were extremely important in the whole process.
John Elliotson (1791-1868), an
English physician holding a chair at University College London was disbarred
from the medical profession as a direct result of his demonstrations of animal
magnetism, while James Esdaile, a surgeon was operating on his patients using
'mesmeric sleep' as his anesthetic of choice in the 1840s. The medical
profession was therefore divided on its opinion of the usefulness of mesmerism.
It wasn't until 1843 that the terms
'hypnotism' and 'hypnosis' were coined by James Braid (1795-1860), a Scottish
surgeon working in Manchester. He found that some experimental subjects could go
into a trance if they simply fixated their eyes on a bright object, like a
silver watch.
He believed that some sort of
neurophysiological process was involved and that hypnosis was very useful in
disorders where no organic origin to the problem could be identified (e.g.
headaches, skin problems etc.) He showed that a single stimulus (e.g. a word or
an object) was enough to re-hypnotize his subjects. No-one knew how the process
of hypnosis 'worked', though there were several theories put forward:
1. Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), a
leading neurologist of his day and head of the neurological clinic at the famous
Saltpetiere in Paris, used hypnosis to treat hysterics. He concluded that
hypnosis was an induced seizure when his hysteric patients showed epileptic-like
symptoms when they were in a trance.
2. Hippolyte Bernheim (1837-1919), a
professor of medicine at the University of Nancy regarded hypnosis as a special
form of sleeping where the subject's attention is focused upon the suggestions
made by the hypnotist. He therefore emphasized the psychological nature of the
process of hypnosis.
3. By the 1920s, hypnosis became the
focus of experimental investigation by psychologists like Clark L. Hull
(1884-1952), who demystified hypnosis saying that it was essentially a normal
part of human nature (1933). The important factor was the subject's imagination
- some people were more responsive or suggestible' than others to hypnosis.
Support for the teaching of the
therapeutic use of hypnosis in medicine finally came in 1955 from the British
Medical Association, who was closely followed in 1958 by the American Medical
Association. Today, an International Society of Hypnosis coordinates and
assesses standards and practices of professional hypnotists across the world.
Hypnosis is currently used in dentistry, medicine and psychology and has proved
helpful if used alongside more conventional treatments and therapies.
It has received a 'bad press' of
late, mainly due to the unscrupulous practices of some stage hypnotists, but its
professional use in treating both physical and mental disorders continues to
thrive. Now it is generally seen as a form of 'relaxation', and it is possible
to teach individuals how to hypnotize themselves (via progressive relaxation
techniques). It is widely used in the treatment of addictions (e.g. in aiding
smoking cessation), but should always be conducted by a professional in a
controlled setting.
Misuse of hypnosis can have dire consequences, and may be especially harmful in
the treatment of people who were sexually abused as children (as is the case in
False Memory Syndrome). Care should always be taken when hypnosis is to be
employed and patients should be 'brought out' of the hypnotic trance before they
leave the clinic. Historically, the use of 'trances' is much older than Mesmers'
findings but it was the Austrian physician who first brought the process to the
attention of the medical community.
Articles for Learning about Hypnosis:
Your Mind in Hypnosis
- The Brain Waves - click here
Three Minds- What are our Three minds? -
Learn How Hypnosis Works - Click here
Representational and Primary and Secondary Learning Systems as known in NLP - ask for printout in class
Stress Management and
Our Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems.
Forgiveness Training-
Special Techniques For Moving On In Life
Regression Techniques - Uncovering Techniques
Age Regression and Past Life Regression as your specialization
All Feelings Are Good - Learn about
feelings
Weight
Loss, Weight Management With No Dieting - Easy Steps 1,2,3
Emotional Freedom Technique Certification
Self-Hypnosis
- Learn to Re-Program Yourself Certification Training
There are several
myths about hypnosis among people who are not sure how the state of hypnosis
works. They believe things that are not true, they believe that
Myth 1. Loss of
consciousness occurs in hypnosis
Myth 2. Hypnotized
People do odd and crazy things
Myth 3. Surrender of
Will, Loss of Control
Myth 4. Weak
Mindedness
Myth 5 Revelation of
Secrets
Myth 6 Fear of getting
stuck
Myth 7 Hypnosis is
addictive
Myth 8 Hypnotized
against Will
Myth 9 Criminal and
Antisocial acts
Standards of Practice and
Professional Guidelines in the back of your book or visit
NGH.net for recent updates
25 No Cost Marketing Strategies
No such thing as no
time or no budget for marketing - otherwise how will anyone know you exist?
Electronic
Marketing:
1. Once you get your
website up, get it optimized and move up in ranks, get listed in each search
engine and watch your business grow.
2. Create your e-mail
signature - your marketing signature, include your contact phone number,
address, web-address, testimonials or two, upcoming workshops, marketing
message.
3. E-zine-electronic
newsletter, announcements, click of a mouse, no postage.
4. Keep a database of
contacts, prospective and current clients, friends, etc.
Word of Mouth:
5. These days still
number one marketing strategy is to provide a service where people will refer to
you because of their own success with you.
6. Ask for referrals,
ask each client on their ways out, remind them every time, they may forget, not
think of it, etc. Ask your client for the names of three companies who might
benefit from your service.
7. Testimonials - post
them on your site, collect them, ask each client sot provide one for you.
8. Voice Mail - use
your voice mail as you main marketing tool like a small commercial.
9. On Hold message -
use this space of time for marketing as well.
10. 90-seconds
introduction, get used to talking about yourself as a professional, respect
yourself and your uniqueness, create your unique selling proposition, how are
you unique and memorable?
Attitude:
11. Smile often
12. Talk about
yourself as a professional, respect yourself, respect your clients, dress
appropriately.
13. Be confident about
what you do and how you do it, talk positive to yourself and about yourself,
want to be successful - be successful, identify with your success.
Public Relations:
14. Volunteer,
lecture, speak in public, do workshops.
15. Create you public
"name", maintain visibility, be seen at meetings, interviews, events.
16. Write an article,
book, get published.
17. Give a free
session, lecture, workshop.
18. Use your fax cover
sheet to make it a marketing commercial as well.
Business Persona:
19. Provide Customer
service.
20. Provide
convenience of hours of operation.
21. Provide continuous
contact follow up.
22. Operate out of a
convenient location.
23. Return call
promptly.
24. Create appropriate
greeting on the phone or in the reception area. Customize your office,
create appearance of your office, yourself and your staff.
25. Be consistent in
your presentation, and the client will return.
The NGH is the world's largest and most prestigious hypnosis
certifying organization with members across the U.S. and in thirty countries.
The NGH certifies hypnotherapists and hypnosis instructors, provides continuing
education, maintains a bookstore and resource center, provides liability
insurance programs and enforces a Code of Ethics and Practice. The NGH
holds an annual educational conference with over 250 hypnotherapy presentations
and upwards of 1500 participants. There are also NGH sponsored legal advocates
who participate in legislatures all over the country representing the Guild's
members. NGH is highly supportive, having a lending library of videos and audio
tapes, referrals, legislative support, regular local meetings, and much more.
You can also obtain liability insurance through NGH, which has a political and
legislative arm, the National Federation of Hypnotists, Local 104 of the
AFL-CIO. The Guild was recently honored by the 103rd U.S. Congress, and a
tribute to it was included in the Congressional Record.
NGH Members Receive:
- Quality training and instructional materials
- A Hypnosis Educational Conference
- Availability of affordable malpractice insurance
- Availability of group health insurance
- Legislative updates and support
- The "Hypno-Gram" quarterly newsletter
- The "Journal of Hypnotism" quarterly magazine
- Referrals through computer listings
- Video and audio tape rental library for its members
- Book, tape, and video discounts
- Local chapter networking and education Continuing education
programs
- Continuing Education CEU's
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Professional services by a professional staff
- Hotel/motel and auto rental discounts
Contact the NGH at: www.ngh.net
News in Hypnotherapy
Certification Training
THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS. Some instructors advertise their
courses to be less than 100 hours. Those are misrepresented and are NOT the
certification courses, but merely the PRE-certification courses designed to
educate you about hypnosis and hypnotherapy and demonstrate some techniques,
available to you when you take the course in full. Pre-certification courses are
usually less than 25 hours each and much less expensive as the full course. With
the pre-certification course you gain a basic knowledge of the profession but in
no way get prepared to practice with clients, and only through taking the full
course of 100 hours can you receive the NGH professional certification as a
trained professional.
Advanced Hypnotherapy Training Electives - Prepare yourself and teach others
Advanced
Hypnotic Techniques Certification Seminars:
Hypnotherapy Certification Training
- Learn To Hypnotize (no pre-requisites)
Regression Techniques - Uncovering Techniques
Age Regression and Past Life Regression as your specialization
Self-Hypnosis
- Learn to Re-Program Yourself Certification Training
Ericksonian Hypnosis - Learn to Create
Therapeutic Metaphors
Progressive Relaxation Techniques For
Helping Professionals - Learn to Teach to Manage Your Body and Mind
Emotional Freedom Technique Certification
Non-Certificate Classes:
Forgiveness Training-
Special Techniques For Moving On In Life
Comfortable
Child Birth - Natural Birthing
Techniques Through
Hypnosis (no pre-requisites)
Sexual
Performance - Enhance Your Performance with Hypnosis (male Erectile Dysfunction,
Premature Ejaculation, Female enhanced perceptions) (no pre-requisites)
Fertility
Through Hypnosis (no pre-requisites)
Other Workshops and Seminars:
Breathing Techniques includes FREE tape
Learning to Attain Success Seminar
Weight
Loss, No Dieting - Easy Steps 1,2,3
Stress Management Workshop
One 4-hour class
SPIRITUAL TRAINING
Past Life Regression
AND
Karma Healing
special sessions 2,5 hours only $300! All students
receive 15% off this training. All students
welcome. Group demonstration and personal healing training.
Learn
Progressive Relaxation and
Neuro-Muscular Relaxation
Advanced Registration is Required for all Workshops and
Certificate Trainings.
This training program offers a comprehensive and in depth approach to the spectrum of hypnotherapy techniques. It is designed to offer those preparing for a professional hypnotherapy practice the greatest advantage. Through the NGH curriculum, proven therapeutic programs for helping individuals resolve problem areas in their lives your clients benefit therapeutically; (mind, body, emotions and spirit). Additionally, record keeping, effective marketing, advertising, and many other aspects of "how to" set up your successful practice are taught.
The course includes 100 required hours of instruction, homework and practice. Classroom: 60 hours and
40 hours of homework, practice sessions. A dynamic class format consisting of lectures, Q & A, demonstrations of therapeutic processes and techniques, hands-on supervised practice using the latest tools and techniques learned in class, in addition practical self-healing techniques for stress, and tools for well-being to help yourself and others is covered in class. Through direct experience, students receive the most valuable aspects of each approach in hypnotherapy. This has proven to be very successful for accelerated learning, and the students enjoy the process.
Graduates can utilize hypnotherapy as a career and become self-employed or find employment with medical/health professionals, or alternative health care professionals. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded your NGH Hypnotherapy Certification.
When you
graduate
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You will have the opportunity to
work with an almost limitless diversity of people and their needs
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You will have the freedom to
practice anywhere in the world
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You will find your work
transforming into new dimensions of effectiveness, originality and creativity
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You will find new possibilities
for financial advancement
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You will know how to market
yourself to corporations
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