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Melbourne National Meeting

Written by Council of Clinical Hypnotherapists

October 27th & 28th 2007

Belinda Hulstrom (CCH) presents the welcome address and clarifies the CCH position since the Brisbane meeting. L to R Don March, Joane Goulding, Alan Stubenrauch and Lydia Deukmedjian.

Despite the large majority support for using CCH as the vehicle to unite the profession (expressed at a national meeting of the hypnotherapy profession held in Brisbane in June), during the time that followed leading up to the national meeting held in Melbourne on October 27th/28th, it became apparent that it would be undesirably cumbersome and difficult to achieve consensus by all regarding the role of CCH as the national representative body.

Misinformation, misconceptions and misgivings abounded and it would have been to the detriment of the profession if various organisations had gone their separate ways once more. Pragmatism and common sense needed to prevail and CCH came to the conclusion that agreement to continue to work towards unification of the profession could only be achieved if CCH were prepared to redefine its role within this national forum.

Chris Visman (PCHA), Chairman, leads a panel session with L to R Lyndall Briggs (ASCH), Leon Cowen (AAH), Terry Suckling (AACHP), Maya Lak (AHA), Tracie O’Keefe (AHEC)

Prior to the October national meeting, CCH announced to the national meeting delegates its willingness to operate as a regional rather than a national representative body. This would mean that organisations not currently affiliated with CCH could choose to form their own regional body or to join with either CCH as the southern regional body or with HAQ as the northern regional body. If this model were agreed upon, the outcome would be that the profession would be organised on a regional basis and representatives from each of the regions would form a national council.

The regional model as presented by CCH drew on the wisdom of the state model that had been presented by HAQ at the Brisbane national meeting and would:

L to R Jenet Kirby (ACHA), David Donahoo (ACHA), Alfred Podhorodecki (Alpha Hypnotics), Maya Lak (AHA), Lydia Deukmedjian (AHA) and Leon Cowen
respect, support and utilise the hard work that had already been done and the unity that had already been achieved by CCH and HAQ
provide a forum for stakeholders and a vehicle for the management of practitioner registers at a regional level
allow a national council to focus on the “big picture”

A long weekend of discussion during the national meeting hosted by CCH in Melbourne on October 27th/28th revealed that a regional model would not work for those organisations that wished to remain independent and did not wish to form or join a regional body, and the final outcome of that meeting was majority agreement to form a new national council to comprise representatives from existing regional bodies (CCH and HAQ) as well as from organisations not affiliated with a regional body.

Panel session L to R Judith Bowler (ACH), Les Bullock (Habit Breakers), Rick Collingwood (Australian Academy of Hypnosis), Alan Stubenrauch (CCH), Richard Porter (AHS)

The preferred proposed name for this national body is the Hypnotherapy Council of Australia (HCA) and a working group of volunteers from those present at the meeting was formed and all known regional or non-affiliated organisations have been invited to volunteer their participation in this working group. CCH is participating actively in the HCA working group for the benefit of CCH members organisations, CCH registered practitioners and the profession.

CCH does not impose any geographical boundaries or restrictions regarding eligibility for CCH membership, neither for organisations nor for individual practitioners and despite the change that CCH felt needed to be made to its role from a national to a regional body, organisations and individuals in Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia have reaffirmed their wish to continue to be affiliated with CCH.

Large majority vote for the adoption of the “Hybrid Model”

Alongside its full support of the HCA concept, it’s “business as usual” for the CCH and it is our ardent desire and firm intention that the close working relationships we have established with our member and affiliated organisations and our practitioner members will continue to develop and flourish.