Perfect. We love teaching beginners. Your advantage is you won't have to undo any bad habits. As long as you're willing to review the training videos and show up for the practice sessions, we will get you where you need to be.

The exact schedule for the next cohort is higher up on this page in the "8-Week Syllabus" section. Click here and we'll take you right to that spot on the page. The July 2024 cohort starts on Wednesday July 3rd 2024 and runs for 8 weekly sessions. Each call happens at 4pm EST (Toronto time). Future cohorts may run at different times to accommodate our global student base.

Two hours. The approximate breakdown is 75 to 90 minutes for the practice portion and 30-45 minutes of general Q&A.  

Be prepared to show up on time!  We start the meetings promptly and we keep the opening remarks very short. That way we can dive right into a quick review of each group exercise, show you a demonstration, answer any urgent questions on the exercises, and then put you into breakout rooms to start practising.  While you're in breakout rooms, we move from room to room to watch you and make notes to share as feedback. 

We will never embarrass you by calling you out for a mistake. Instead we'll point out what we notice that you can all improve on, without pointing a finger at you. We want you to feel strong and empowered by these sessions!  And that's why, after 8 weeks, people are shocked at how much more confident they are.  We regularly hear students tell us they just booked their first paying clients ... all because of the confidence they now have!

You simply sign up to Foundations LIVE using the order form on this page.  We'll invite you to join the private community where you'll get introduced to your fellow students. We'll then communicate with you, prior to the start, by email and in the community group. Then, once we begin the 8-week training, you simply show up to Zoom sessions.  

We give you very clear instructions on what videos to watch before you show up, so you'll know exactly what exercises we are working on each week. But we'll still recap the exercises before we start, so you won't have to worry about remembering everything.

After your 8-week cohort ends, this is what happens:

1) You KEEP all of the training material that we gave you inside of Foundations Live.  You keep the product, the training videos, the cheat sheets, and the Q&A recordings.  

2) We continue to build value for you! You'll have access to the Q&A sessions of all future (and past) cohorts because they all get posted inside of same Foundations LIVE training product. 

3) You continue to have access to us via the larger community group, "MMHA Engage".

We think of the foundations as anything truly required to become a master hypnotist. We teach you the essentials of conversational hypnotic language first. What seems complicated at first is suddenly SIMPLE (give it 2 weeks). Then we help you learn easy inductions, and we show you how to elicit key information from clients and how to do change work with your client in trance. This way you develop true experience and confidence in customizing a hypnosis session on the fly. You'll be light years ahead of the script reading crowd.

Yes. The MMHA is like the Netflix of hypnosis training. It's an amazing resource of organized lessons and supplemental training. But it has no live practice component. That's why we build Foundations LIVE.  It leverages our existing world-class training and gives us a way to show up LIVE, with you, to practice and offer feedback.  By adding this missing ingredient, you'll go from just studying to actually DOING.

By offering Foundations LIVE separately, we keep the price of MMHA very low for those who prefer a purely digital "study at your own pace" program. 

If you're already an MMHA member, you are ready to join Foundations LIVE.  And if you're not yet an MMHA member, you can add your membership right on the very same order form.

You are NOT obligated to remain an MMHA member beyond the Foundations LIVE 8-week program, but of course most students prefer to retain membership and even upgrade to MMHA lifetime access.

Also note that Foundations LIVE is now INCLUDED in your lifetime membership (and if you bought lifetime membership earlier at a lower price before we included this program, simply contact support@mikemandelhypnosis.com and you can upgrade to the newer offer for a very small price.)

Great question! Here is a rough breakdown for you, assuming you are brand new to our training.  

You'll need ab out 4 hours per week broken down as follows:

Pre-session training videos: Budget about 90 minutes. We usually ask you to review 1 or 2 lessons from the Mike Mandel Hypnosis Academy before showing up the practice.  This helps everyone get on the same page for practice.

Pre-practice explainer videos: Budget 15 minutes per week. We've prepared really great videos to explain exactly what your practice session will look like.

Weekly practice plus Q&A call: Budget 2 hours (per week) for your Zoom session.

Homework: Optional, but recommended.  We'll suggest homework every week. The homework is usually to continue practicing the same skills from the weekly sessions. You can join forces with cohort members to practice together, or you can work with people from your everyday life.

You get the most out of this by showing up. But if you do happen to miss a session it's not a big deal.  Here's why:

We maintain a 24/7 practice room for you.  If you simply can't make it to the session in any given week, you still have access to the pre-practice explainer videos that tell you exactly what we practiced. And you have access to the community (with your fellow cohort members). This means you can easily find someone to meet up, online, independently, to practice with you. Students are always keen to get extra practice!