OUR TRAINING INTEGRATES THREE SEPARATE PRACTICES INTO A SINGLE SET OF SKILLS
THAT IMPROVES ANYONE'S ABILITY TO INCREASE THE COMFORT OF THOSE SUFFERING
Our Educators and Services are Certified by These Leaders in Community Wellness
The Power of Touch
Humans, like many species, have the innate ability of touch-based healing to comfort those who are suffering.
Some people seem to have a natural talent for this, but everyone can improve their ability to relieve suffering through the training we provide.
Our mission is to make training available to those who need it the most.
How It Started
In 2014 we trained as facilitators in Hans Kai – a Japanese small group Community Wellness Practice.
Community Wellness Practices reduce overall healthcare system costs by changing behaviours that lead to chronic conditions which cause poor health.
In 2018 the co-op started a four-year research project with the Victoria Native Friendship Centre and the University of Victoria to design and develop new types of Community Wellness Practices.
During the research project we attended a cultural humility workshop where we experienced cedar brushing, a type of Community Wellness Practice kept alive by Indigenous people for millennia.
Cedar brushing makes most people feel better instantly, a feeling that continues for several days.
This led us to focus on a way open to all to replicate this experience of rapid, significant improvement, in a person's sense of well-being.
We trained in Hypnotherapy, Reiki, and Counseling to create short-duration, highly effective, techniques that can be learned by anyone.
Through years of research, we blended these with current knowledge of physiology and neurology.
If you are interested in any aspect in the Art of Healing, you get the benefit of this research in a training program designed for working adults or full-time students.
Why It Works
- There are many theories on how touch-based healing works
- The important thing is that it does work
- Knowing the science involved improves the art of healing
Tau Co-op's Purpose is to:
- Create livelihood for today's healers and training for tomorrow's
- Prioritize opportunities for Indigenous Healers to do this work
- Provide Wellness Practices to Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in an equitable way
Tau’s Design for Training
- Use of Practices that are open to all.
- Connect each person to their own ancestral healing wisdom
- Incorporate the best of current evidenced based practice
- Focus on reciprocal care between communities
Focus is on Accessibility
- In-person training requires only 8 weekends a year
- Integrated online training resources support the in-person training
- Choose to learn the skills with or without certification
- Complete training at your own rate with focus on hands on practice
Training Part A -Touch-based healing
- Reiki is a touch-based healing technique created by Mikao Usui in 1925
- Tau training includes both Western and Japanese Reiki
- Learn our 10-minute Reiki Reviver to make people feel better quickly
- Learn to use the Reiki Reviver at group and public events
Training Part B - Hypnotherapy
- There are multiple natural Trance states that improve wellness
- Hypnosis is a set of skills, learned through practice, to manage Trance
- Hypnotherapy is Hypnosis practiced for the purpose of wellness
- Hands on teaching and extended practice time are important
- You can learn Hypnosis skills without the work of certification
- We offer international certification through the IMDHA
Training Part C - Counseling
- Counseling skills improve all coaching and therapeutic interactions
- Counseling skills improve all relationships, not just coaching or therapy
- Whatever we think is important to help others, what is more important is why they asked for our help.
Benefits to You
- In depth training not offered elsewhere, become a world-class healer
- Find and grow your Community of Practice of like-minded Healers
- Learn an integrated set of palliative skills that improve all client / patient interactions
- Train in hands-on skills to support any client, especially at start/end of life
- A realistic 3-year timeframe to launch a practice with support throughout
- Develop a practice while maintaining current employment or schooling
- Learn at your own pace in self-directed learning
- Choose certification or noncertification or a combination of both
- Paid community work and internships when available
Sounds Good! - How Much?
- Total tuition is 18 courses x $450 - $8,100 (full retail)
- Most people qualify for $1800 bursary - $6300 (do I qualify?)
- Pay as you go plan available - $175 per month x 36 months (get started)
- Earn Your learn - $0.00 by doing 5 hours of community work per month
Next steps
- Get more information
- Get started as a co-op member
- Register for next intake
30 Hypnotherapists Walk into a bar...
A quick jargon check due to the fact 30 hypnotherapists will give you 30 definitions of what we do.
For me and my students, trance is a natural condition everyone experiences, hypnosis is a set of principle-based skills to manage trance, and when we do that for the benefit of others, it is hypnotherapy.
Our school is certified by the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapist Association, and our students who complete the full training become certified hypnotherapists.
Learn the best parts of Elman and Erickson hypnosis techniques
In the 1960's, before the world of big pharma and a pill for everything, front line medical practitioners had to learn and maintain a wider palette of palliative skills. Many incorporated hypnosis into that mix. The premier medical hypnosis trainer of the day was Dave Elman.
Dave Elman taught on the premise that the 'doctor' only had a little time for each person, so his training was primarily based on rapid induction techniques to create somnambulistic trance. Pain management was effectively treated this way.
As the healthcare system became centered on drug-based palliative care, these skills became less important to doctors and nurses and the art was lost.
Meanwhile, their children became fascinated with inner exploration, and as the 60's became the 70's, Hypnosis found a new nexus, one that developed a different part of this amazing skill and art of using the power of suggestion.
Milton Erickson and Carl Rogers
Congruency
Unconditional Positive Regard
Empathy
Don't Miss Registration for our Next Intake
There are two Intakes each year, May 1 and Nov 1.
All of our training cohorts are limited to a maximum of 12.
We reserve seats for Two-Spirit and transgender people.
We balance cohorts with people beginning their careers and those established