Structure Of A Session

There are a lot of ways to structure a session. When doing sessions with someone you know, some steps may be omitted because they are similar to ones before. However, it's always important to remember which bases have to be covered before you begin.

Negotiation / Pre-talk

• Informed Consent - Get permission for what you want to do that session.
• Likes & Limits - Know which things to do and to avoid.
• Explaining Hypnosis - Help them understand what is and isn't hypnosis.

The session

• Suggestibility Tests - A lightweight introduction into hypnosis.
• Inductions - The main body to get someone into trance.
• Changework/suggestions - Depending on how you work, these can easily be woven into previous steps.
• Waking up

Afterwards

• Aftercare & Feedback - Make sure to continue to take care of them after.

Breaking the structure

The structure is helpful to start, but don't get too attached to it.

Recreational hypnosis doesn't have to follow this, at all. The pre-talk or framing can often lead into trance already. Fractionation is just a bunch of ups and downs and let's not even start about keeping someone in a trancy, floaty state for a longer time to do all kinds of things.

Feel free to break the rules of trance as long as you have consent.