UK Hypnosis Convention

Scott Schmaren joins our speaker line-up this year. His presentation is entitled “The Skinny on Weight Loss from a Hypnotist Who Has Lost and Kept Off 200 pounds.”

The Presentation:

95% of people who lose weight regain it all (and often more). Why? It isn’t their diet! It’s often because their values and beliefs don’t support them being healthy and thin.

Scott Schmaren has spent more than 20 years developing systems that have helped 100’s of people lose and keep off weight. Scott has personally kept off 200 pounds for almost 20 years.
Bio at UKHC website.

Full details of the schedule and to purchase tickets, visit the convention website: https://ukhypnosisconvention.co.uk

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Symone Tucker joins our speaker line-up for the first time this year. Symone will present “When Healing Feels Unsafe - Working With Clients Who Fear Getting Better.”

The Presentation:
Many clients arrive wanting change, yet something unseen holds them back. Sessions stall, symptoms resurface, or progress feels fragile not because the client is resistant, but because healing itself can feel threatening. For some nervous systems, staying the same once meant staying safe.

This talk explores the often unspoken fear of getting better. Drawing on trauma-informed hypnosis, attachment theory, and somatic awareness, it examines how improvement can challenge identity, relational roles, and long-held survival strategies. Rather than framing this as sabotage, the session reframes ambivalence as intelligence, a protective response asking to be met, not pushed.

Attendees will learn how to recognise subtle cues that healing feels unsafe, how hypnotic language and pacing can either activate fear or deepen trust, and how to work with ambivalence in a way that preserves dignity and choice. Emphasis is placed on consent-led practice, ethical suggestion, and creating safety before change.

A brief experiential practice will be offered, allowing participants to feel how safety and curiosity can coexist without urgency. This session supports practitioners to work with greater confidence, compassion, and depth, especially when clients fear not the work itself, but who they might become.

Detailed bio at UKHC website.

Full details of the schedule and to purchase tickets, visit the convention website: https://ukhypnosisconvention.co.uk

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Scott Schmaren joins our speaker line-up this year. His presentation is entitled "The Skinny on Weight Loss from a Hypnotist Who Has Lost and Kept Off 200 pounds."

The Presentation:

95% of people who lose weight regain it all (and often more). Why? It isn’t their diet! It’s often because their values and beliefs don’t support them being healthy and thin.

Scott Schmaren has spent more than 20 years developing systems that have helped 100’s of people lose and keep off weight. Scott has personally kept off 200 pounds for almost 20 years.
Bio at UKHC website.

Full details of the schedule and to purchase tickets, visit the convention website: https://ukhypnosisconvention.co.uk

Symone Tucker joins our speaker line-up for the first time this year. Symone will present "When Healing Feels Unsafe - Working With Clients Who Fear Getting Better."

The Presentation:
Many clients arrive wanting change, yet something unseen holds them back. Sessions stall, symptoms resurface, or progress feels fragile not because the client is resistant, but because healing itself can feel threatening. For some nervous systems, staying the same once meant staying safe.

This talk explores the often unspoken fear of getting better. Drawing on trauma-informed hypnosis, attachment theory, and somatic awareness, it examines how improvement can challenge identity, relational roles, and long-held survival strategies. Rather than framing this as sabotage, the session reframes ambivalence as intelligence, a protective response asking to be met, not pushed.

Attendees will learn how to recognise subtle cues that healing feels unsafe, how hypnotic language and pacing can either activate fear or deepen trust, and how to work with ambivalence in a way that preserves dignity and choice. Emphasis is placed on consent-led practice, ethical suggestion, and creating safety before change.

A brief experiential practice will be offered, allowing participants to feel how safety and curiosity can coexist without urgency. This session supports practitioners to work with greater confidence, compassion, and depth, especially when clients fear not the work itself, but who they might become.

Detailed bio at UKHC website.

Full details of the schedule and to purchase tickets, visit the convention website: https://ukhypnosisconvention.co.uk

Artur Makiela returns to the UKHC and will be part of our incredible Sunday main stage focus on all things street, stage, inductions and performance hypnosis! His presentation is entitled “The most spectacular instant inductions as a WOW effect in therapy, on stage and streets.”

The Presentation:

Spectacular hypnotic inductions are a very important part of the hypnotic show. However, they can also be used in hypnotherapeutic practice. They instantly suspend the critical factor of awareness and immediately put the client in a trance, giving him a huge WOW effect and an even greater understanding of the power of his mind. During this one-hour presentation, I will share with you flash and spectacular ways to induce a state of hypnosis in less than 7 seconds.

In this presentation, you will learn:

The differences between classical, rapid and instant inductions
How to play with the amygdala
Suspend critical factor
Handshake induction
Falling induction
“Psychokinetic” induction – let’s add some “magic” 🙂
and there will be plenty of chances to practice…

Bio at UKHC website.

Full details of the schedule and to purchase tickets, visit the convention website: https://ukhypnosisconvention.co.uk

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Amy Koford joins our speaker line-up for the first time this year. Amy will present “Hardwired to Rise - Triumphing and Connecting to Greatness Within”.

The Presentation:
Based on my international bestseller book about triumphing over fear: Hardwired to Rise – Live Fearlessly, Prosperously and Optimally.

I realised after doing thousands of hypnosis sessions with clients that all issues that people came to me to resolve were, at the foundation, various fears showing up in various ways.

The two types of fears are: necessary, which is built into us to keep us alive and safe, and unnecessary fear, that which holds us back and causes us suffering in modes such as anxiety, stress, negative and limiting beliefs, negative thoughts, feelings and behaviours, pain avoidance by coping in ways that make life worse, and so on.

Humans are hardwired to be stronger and more powerful than unnecessary fears, so they can rise above them and reach their potential.

My presentation will demonstrate how to resolve the core, fear-based roots of issues for your clients at the deepest level possible, and how to then optimise their self-positivity by connecting to their greatness and power within.

Detailed bio at UKHC website.

Full details of the schedule and to purchase tickets, visit the convention website: https://ukhypnosisconvention.co.uk

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Arthur Makiela returns to the UKHC and will be part of our incredible Sunday main stage focus on all things street, stage, inductions and performance hypnosis! His presentation is entitled "The most spectacular instant inductions as a WOW effect in therapy, on stage and streets."

The Presentation:

Spectacular hypnotic inductions are a very important part of the hypnotic show. However, they can also be used in hypnotherapeutic practice. They instantly suspend the critical factor of awareness and immediately put the client in a trance, giving him a huge WOW effect and an even greater understanding of the power of his mind. During this one-hour presentation, I will share with you flash and spectacular ways to induce a state of hypnosis in less than 7 seconds.

In this presentation, you will learn:

The differences between classical, rapid and instant inductions
How to play with the amygdala
Suspend critical factor
Handshake induction
Falling induction
“Psychokinetic” induction – let’s add some “magic” 🙂
and there will be plenty of chances to practice…

Bio at UKHC website.

Full details of the schedule and to purchase tickets, visit the convention website: https://ukhypnosisconvention.co.uk

Amy Koford joins our speaker line-up for the first time this year. Amy will present "Hardwired to Rise - Triumphing and Connecting to Greatness Within".

The Presentation:
Based on my international bestseller book about triumphing over fear: Hardwired to Rise – Live Fearlessly, Prosperously and Optimally.

I realised after doing thousands of hypnosis sessions with clients that all issues that people came to me to resolve were, at the foundation, various fears showing up in various ways.

The two types of fears are: necessary, which is built into us to keep us alive and safe, and unnecessary fear, that which holds us back and causes us suffering in modes such as anxiety, stress, negative and limiting beliefs, negative thoughts, feelings and behaviours, pain avoidance by coping in ways that make life worse, and so on.

Humans are hardwired to be stronger and more powerful than unnecessary fears, so they can rise above them and reach their potential.

My presentation will demonstrate how to resolve the core, fear-based roots of issues for your clients at the deepest level possible, and how to then optimise their self-positivity by connecting to their greatness and power within.

Detailed bio at UKHC website.

Full details of the schedule and to purchase tickets, visit the convention website: https://ukhypnosisconvention.co.uk

UKHC 2026 Speakers: Christian Marx - Stop Trying So Hard

Christian Marx joins the 2026 UKHC as a speaker this year. His presentation is entitled “Stop Trying So Hard – Letting Go of Outcome Attachment to Restore Confidence, Presence, and Therapeutic Effectiveness” and will be delivered on Friday afternoon.

The Presentation:

Stop Trying So Hard – Letting Go of Outcome Attachment to Restore Confidence, Presence, and Therapeutic Effectiveness

Eleven years ago, I was given a 20 to 25 per cent chance of surviving cancer. While medical treatment was essential, the most profound change happened internally. When I stopped fighting for a specific outcome and learned to let go, without giving up, my level of calm, clarity, and effectiveness changed completely.

This talk is not about survival. It is about how the same shift in mindset that helped me through a life-threatening crisis can help hypnotherapists navigate self-doubt, pressure, and the often overlooked Dunning-Kruger dip that many practitioners experience after their early successes. As confidence fades, hypnotists often start trying harder, using more techniques and placing more pressure on themselves, which can unintentionally reduce therapeutic effectiveness.

Drawing on personal experience and clinical practice, this presentation shows why confidence in hypnosis is less about knowledge and more about presence, trust, and outcome detachment. You will learn how attachment to “must-work” thinking subtly interferes with rapport, responsiveness, and hypnotic depth, and how letting go restores effectiveness.

The session offers practical mindset shifts, simple pre-session state regulation strategies, and a brief experiential demonstration that you can immediately apply in your own practice.

You don’t need one more technique. You need a different relationship to uncertainty.

Bio at UKHC website.

Full details of the schedule and to purchase tickets, visit the convention website: https://ukhypnosisconvention.co.uk

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UKHC 2026 Speakers: Eva Gercas - Why Change Doesn’t Stick

Eva Gercas joins our speaker line-up for the first time this year. Eva will present “Why Change Doesn’t Stick”.

The Presentation:
How Identity Shifting Creates Lasting Results in Hypnotherapy

Many hypnotherapy clients experience powerful insights, emotional breakthroughs, and a strong sense of motivation, yet find themselves returning to old patterns over time. This presentation explores why change so often fails to stabilise – not because hypnosis was ineffective, but because identity-level processes were never fully addressed.

This session introduces identity shifting as a central mechanism of lasting therapeutic change. Rather than focusing solely on behaviour, habits, or symptom relief, it examines how clients unconsciously maintain continuity with an old sense of self. These identity patterns are often protective and familiar, creating an internal pull back to what feels known, even when the client genuinely wants change.

The presentation focuses on how hypnosis can be used to work directly with identity-level structures, supporting clients to move from effort-based change into a more stable experience of “who I am now.” Through language, imagery, and internal positioning, hypnotherapists can help clients integrate change at a deeper level, reducing internal conflict and relapse.

This session is relevant for practitioners working with clients who are insightful, motivated, and engaged, yet struggle to maintain progress. It offers a clear, ethical framework for using hypnosis to support deeper integration and more durable outcomes across a wide range of presenting issues.

Detailed bio at UKHC website.

Full details of the schedule and to purchase tickets, visit the convention website: https://ukhypnosisconvention.co.uk

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