Matthew J. Brownstein
- Phone : 1.800.551.9247
Join IIH founder and IAIH President Matthew Brownstein to explore master level practices, which include:
This class is available in-person or online and while it is open to the public, we recommend that only IIH students or graduates attend this class.
This pre-conference master class will include live demonstrations, practice sessions, and ample time for Q&A and discussion.
Join us as Matthew launches the conference with a meditation and an empowering lecture designed to align everyone’s minds with the Conference theme of Facilitating Enlightenment: Interpersonal Hypnotherapy as a Path of Self-Realization. Together we will explore the power of hypnotherapy when combined with ancient wisdom traditions and the teachings of the great masters of the world’s great spiritual paths.
This experiential session introduces the Meta Pets System as a powerful method for shadow integration and inner transformation, aligning with the conference theme of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy as a path to self-realization. Participants will explore how subconscious beliefs, hidden traumas, and emotional imprints manifest as shadows—archetypal energies that, when embraced and understood, reveal unique gifts and essential truths. Through guided imagery, hypnotherapeutic inquiry, and symbolic interaction with Meta Pets (cosmic animal archetypes that represent shadow, gift, and essence), we journey toward deep healing, forgiveness, and the embodiment of our inner light.
The presentation will integrate case examples, a brief trance demonstration, and practical tools that participants can use with clients. This work draws from Gestalt inner dialogues, regression therapy, NLP, and non-dual awareness, making it a comprehensive, creative, and spiritually aligned approach to facilitating enlightenment.
In this dynamic presentation, Themos Pentakalos will guide attendees through a powerful framework for growing a hypnotherapy practice. Drawing from the same proven formula used by today’s most successful businesses, Themos will demonstrate how these principles can be applied effectively—even to a solo practice. The strategy centers on leveraging multiple growth levers, making consistent incremental improvements, and harnessing the exponential power of compounding to achieve sustainable, long-term success.
Join Alba and Matthew for an interview style presentation that focuses on Alba’s success in reaching a global audience through her social media presence and her innovative work within our field.
Alba Weinman is a certified Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist renowned for guiding individuals on their path to spiritual awakening. She is the creator of the Spiritual Journey of Forgiveness™, a transformative hypnotherapy approach that blends past life regression, spirit releasement, and emotional healing to address deep-seated traumas and promote soul-level healing.
With a rich background spanning over 30 years in telecommunications and information technology, Alba transitioned into the realm of hypnotherapy driven by a profound desire to help others heal. She is a graduate of the Institute of interpersonal Hypnotherapy. Her extensive training includes certifications in Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) under Dolores Cannon, Introspective Hypnosis with Aurelio Mejia, and Past Life Therapy (TVP) with Dr. José Luis Cabouli. Additionally, she is a certified sound and vibrational healing practitioner, incorporating tools like tuning forks, Tibetan bowls, and scalar wave frequencies into her sessions.
Alba’s work has reached a global audience through her YouTube channel, where she has shared over 500 hypnosis sessions, offering insights into the subconscious mind and the soul’s journey. She is also the co-author of The Discourse, a compilation of 12 channeled hypnosis sessions aimed at preparing humanity for ascension.
This presentation introduces nervous system regulation as a powerful enhancement to the hypnotherapy process. When clients feel safe in their bodies, they’re more receptive to suggestion, more open to release, and better able to integrate transformational change. Drawing from my Subconscious Breakthrough Method™ (my signature program), I’ll share how simple regulation techniques can be seamlessly woven into hypnotherapy sessions to deepen client outcomes. The talk will include live experiential exercises to demonstrate how this integration supports the deeper goals of hypnotherapy, not just healing, but awakening.
Join Rebecca Zayas for an inspiring exploration into the lives and teachings of the world’s great saints and sages, and how their timeless wisdom can profoundly enrich our work as hypnotherapists. Drawing from ancient spiritual traditions, this lecture examines how these enlightened beings offer a clear roadmap to inner peace, joy, love, and purpose—the very outcomes our clients often seek.
As practitioners, it’s not just about reaching client goals, but about understanding the deeper human longing behind those goals. By aligning our work with higher principles and models of awakening, we can guide others in truly transformative ways. This presentation offers both inspiration and practical insight into bringing deep meaning and spiritual depth into the hypnotherapy process.
On the path of personal and spiritual growth, we inevitably come to see that healing begins within. The journey calls us to open our hearts to love and to gently release the blocks that keep us from experiencing the Presence of Love. As this process unfolds, and we begin to feel more love and joy from within, a beautiful truth emerges — the desire to share what we have received.
From this place, true compassion is born. Compassion is Love recognizing pain and responding with tenderness. Whether it’s offering comfort through grief and loss, easing the burdens of sickness and pain, or simply being present for someone in distress, we become instruments of healing when we embody what it means to be “Compassion in Action.”
Join grief and loss specialist Ligia Houben as she guides you in discovering how to bring your profound compassion into the world — in ways that not only uplift others but also bring deeper meaning and fulfillment to your own life.
In our rapidly changing world, it's easy to look for healing and enlightenment outside ourselves. Yet, the connection to truth, sovereignty, and authenticity lies within us, embedded in the very essence of our soul.
In this fascinating and immersive presentation, Mary Hayes, a well-respected Intuitive Counselor, will guide attendees to bypass the critical and superficial aspects of the mind and delve deep into the innermost layers of our being. A simple visualization process will offer glimpses into the very essence of the soul – that part of the self that is perfected, illuminated, and enlightened. And many can benefit from this insightful and original method since it can be explored as a self- practice or facilitated for others.
Unlike an aura or chakra reading, which is subjective to the present state of being, this approach moves beyond the physical realm, revealing essential aspects of the truest self. By seeing and sensing that pure state, originality, clarity, and confidence can be restored and a fuller expression of purpose can be realized —a transformative outcome that we and our clients all aspire to achieve.
Mary brings seasoned experience and joyous passion to her work and teachings. And this presentation promises to provide a beneficial technique to help elevate and integrate more intuitive practices into our daily lives and work.
In this deeply reflective and thought-provoking presentation, Matthew Langford invites us to explore the profound teachings of non-duality and the subtle yet persistent obstacles that can obscure the path to enlightenment. Drawing upon insights from spiritual traditions, hypnotherapeutic practice, and his own experiential understanding, Matthew will guide participants into an inquiry of what lies beyond the mind — beyond thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and even sensory perception.
As hypnotherapists and spiritual seekers, it is vital to understand the deeper terrain of consciousness in which all healing and transformation occur. This session will examine how common mental patterns — such as identification with the ego, attachment to experience, resistance to the present moment, and unconscious fear — act as hindrances to awakening to our true nature.
Through engaging discussion and guided reflection, attendees will be invited to contemplate the ever-present reality that is beyond the mind — a spacious awareness untouched by thought or form. This is not merely an abstract concept, but a living truth accessible in the stillness of now. By recognizing and releasing what obstructs our natural state of Being, we open the door to authentic peace, clarity, and freedom — both for ourselves and for those we serve.
Whether you are new to non-duality or have long walked the spiritual path, this presentation offers a grounded and insightful framework for integrating higher states of awareness into your personal life and professional practice.
In this enlightening and thought-provoking presentation, Esteban Londoño introduces the principles of Spiritism—a spiritual philosophy rooted in the teachings of enlightened spirits as codified by Allan Kardec—and explores how these insights can be applied within the field of hypnotherapy. Participants will discover how the communication with benevolent, higher beings can inspire profound healing, personal transformation, and spiritual evolution. Through a fusion of Spiritist wisdom and hypnotic techniques, hypnotherapists can deepen their own spiritual understanding while also guiding clients toward greater clarity, inner peace, and alignment with their soul’s purpose. This session offers both theoretical understanding and practical applications for those interested in bridging the gap between the seen and unseen realms in their healing work.
Effective hypnotherapy requires more than a basic understanding of spoken language. It calls for a nuanced grasp of the broader field of communication—including how the structure, tone, and delivery of language reflect a client’s inner thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
NLP has proven to be a valuable tool for engaging with clients. However, complementary techniques drawn from linguistics and semantics can further deepen a hypnotherapist’s insight into the meaning behind a client’s words. This session introduces several of these approaches and demonstrates how they can be applied in a counseling session.
Discover how medical hypnosis can be a powerful, evidence-based tool to support healing and symptom relief for patients with diagnosed conditions. This talk explores the benefits of integrating hypnosis into collaborative care and highlights how providers can partner with trained hypnotists to enhance patient outcomes. Learn how strategic alliances can improve trust, treatment compliance, and holistic well-being
The process of enlightenment is a journey of knowing thyself. Although there are many varied paths to enlightenment, I have found that through understanding one’s personality pattern, we have a guide map that supports our process of coming home to our innate being. Steven Kessler, the author of the book, The Five Personality Patterns dives deeply into this subject, how and why these patterns develop and how to transmute them into gifts that support us in stepping into our highest expression. In this discussion I will share how I have utilized this information as an effective tool of transformation, supporting the client in his/her enlightenment process, coming into a deeper understanding of oneself and thereby shifting from a place of pain and struggle to a place of understanding, acceptance and the embodiment of one’s gifts.
It’s time to move beyond the tired trope of The Wounded Healer. While personal pain often calls us to this field, as interpersonal hypnotherapists, we now create and manifest ourselves as guides on the long path of healing and enlightenment. To rise into the responsibilities of this leadership role, we must whole-heartedly commit to this path ourselves—together—as a community of healed healers.
In this talk, you will discover a critical aspect of what it takes to step fully into the core state of The Healed Healer: Thriving interpersonal relationships, strategic networks, and valuable professional collaborations. You will also receive an invitation to join an emerging business network, IGE: Individual & Group Excellence, designed by Matthew Brownstein and Cassandra McLean to elevate and accelerate your evolution as a successful, values-driven entrepreneur.
This presentation will demonstrate how muscle testing can be used to communicate with a client’s subconscious mind to identify the priority root cause of trauma or stress. Participants will learn how to be guided by the client’s body’s intelligence in processing and releasing these issues from both mind and body. The talk will also explore how to uncover and shift limiting beliefs, aligning clients mentally, emotionally, and energetically with new possibilities and empowering choices that support their goals.
In a world that often seeks healing through logic, data, and intellect, we’ve forgotten where true healing begins — in the heart.
In this immersive and thought-provoking presentation, Dr. Ann Marie Balkanski — a medical doctor turned hypnotherapist, somatic practitioner, and integrative healing guide — invites you to rediscover the heart not just as an organ, but as an intelligent, intuitive, and energetic force. You’ll begin by exploring the physical nature of the heart through the lens of modern science: how it generates its own rhythm, regulates the nervous system, and relies on the breath as a foundation for both physiological and emotional stability. This is the science every physician learns, but few are taught to embody — the kind that reconnects anatomy with aliveness.
From there, the journey moves into the unseen — into the emotional and energetic dimensions of healing, where we examine how the heart closes to protect us, how disconnection becomes a survival strategy, and how true healing begins not with fixing, but with feeling. You’ll come to understand the heart not only as the center of your circulatory system, but as the compass of your inner truth — guiding your choices, your healing, and your return to wholeness.
True transformation doesn’t always follow a script. In this experiential presentation, clinical hypnotherapist Lani Gonzales invites you to explore a deeper way of practicing—one where intuition becomes the guiding force and the session becomes a co-creation between practitioner and client.
You’ll learn how to move beyond scripts and techniques and into an attuned state where your inner guidance—your intuitive gifts—can take the lead. By cultivating presence, listening with your whole being, and trusting the energetic and emotional undercurrents in a session, you’ll discover how to access deeper wisdom that often lies beyond words.
Sara invites you into the water.
But this is no ordinary water, this is a special place of connection and healing. A place where the subconscious heart-mind flows freely, beyond time and space, carrying the memories of love, harmony, pain, and everything in between.
Through poetic storytelling, symbolic imagery, and audience connection, Sara weaves an immersive experience that explores the healing intelligence of the heart and it’s innate capacity to remember.
This is a journey through the river of the he[art] where emotion moves, memory lives, and transformation occurs.
The final afternoon of the 2025 IAIH Conference offers a meaningful conclusion to our time together. We will begin with small group breakout discussions, where participants will collaborate on ways to enhance the IAIH experience and envision how we can collectively elevate and expand our noble profession. Following the breakout sessions, we will reconvene as a full group to share key insights and reflections.
To bring everything together, we will enter a meditative closing circle—an opportunity to integrate the knowledge, connections, and inspiration gained throughout the conference. The event will conclude with heartfelt acknowledgments of our presenters and volunteers, honoring those who helped make this gathering so impactful.
Don't worry if you can't attend every presentation live! We're going to record the entire event and give every attendee free lifetime access to the videos!
Friday, May 26 – 1:10pm to 2:40pm – Moving towards Wholeness with Universal Truth-talk: The Language and Vocabulary of Source
Truth-talk as used in our Hypnotherapy sessions finds its base in Spirit and is universal, all-inclusive. Strengthening spiritual understanding and developing an ever-clearer receptivity or ability to intuit, hear, and speak that which Higher Intelligence imparts, can peak the effectiveness of our work. A study of recommended textbooks in our training enables one to imbibe the Spirit of Truth and Love and can supply needed vocabulary for ease when incorporating Truth-talk in a session. These works include Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy; A Course in Miracles, by Helen Schucman, PhD; and our own Matthew Brownstein’s, The Sutras on Healing and Enlightenment.
The focus of this presentation will be primarily on words and ideas from Science and Health since it has been a major textbook in my decades-long metaphysical healing practice. The coinciding of listening to a client while simultaneously attending to Spirit (or Higher Intelligence) enables naturalness in speaking Truth to clients, like a clean transparency allows more and more light to enter and enlighten a room. When Truth-talk is understood as universal we can be assured that the power of these words will resonate with every client, clear major blocks, and demonstrate the highest good with the best outcome. The words our clients speak in response to questions at intake allow us to incorporate their own terms, their own spirituality, their own beliefs, and convictions when speaking with the vocabulary of Truth that leads to wholeness.
Saturday, October 19 – 4:00pm to 5:00pm – Unlocking the Transformative Potential of Power Words: Healing Pathways for You, Your Clients, and Audiences
Rene will provide participants with practical tools to enhance effective intakes and insights to harness the transformative potential of stacking power words for personal development, enhancing client sessions, and being an effective and inspiring public speaker. Empower your clients to create positive change by utilizing the Power Words and language they use.
Saturday, October 19 – 3:00pm to 4:00pm – Who’s Minding Your Business?
Join us as we travel along the road of clinical referrals for hypnosis. This workshop will help participants create a market development roadmap, with practical tips for navigating the process of identifying referral sources, territory management and strategic relationships with providers who will ask “Why should I refer to you?” and “What can you do for my patient/client?”
Saturday, October 19 – 10:00am to 11:00am – Building New Narratives to Healing, Enlightenment, and World Happiness. Weaving Paths to a New Global Consciousness
In this presentation, we delve into how new narratives can serve as powerful tools on the collective journey towards healing, enlightenment, and global happiness. We will explore innovative techniques and inspiring stories that show the ability to retell and reshape our experiences and worldviews. The importance of creating inclusive and empathetic spaces that allow everyone to actively participate in this transformation will also be discussed. Together, we will investigate how changing individual and collective narratives can be the catalyst for a more harmonious and joyful reality.
Sunday, October 20 – 1:00pm to 2:00pm – Integrating Hypnotherapy and Mental Health: Bridging Practices for Holistic Well-being
In this presentation, we will explore the Scope of Practice for Hypnotherapists, highlighting their significance in facilitating positive changes and transformation through hypnotic techniques. Additionally, we will explore common mental health conditions, the role of mental health counselors, and how the integration of both disciplines can be complementary. This presentation will emphasize the importance of collaboration between the two, especially when working with clients who have complex mental health issues. Attendees will learn about making appropriate referrals for clients and discuss recommended trainings for continuing education.
Saturday, October 19 – 1:00pm to 2:00pm – Validating Client Claims of the Extraordinary
Increasing numbers of individuals are turning to hypnotherapy for help with healing trauma through the recovery of childhood memories and engaging in past life regression. However, a common request is for validation of the information they receive during these hypnotically assisted encounters. This one-hour presentation will review several cases that deal with these types of experiences and present a methodology that hypnotherapists can use to verify the accuracy of information retrieved during a hypnosis session.
* Hypnotherapy Training is taught at the Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy®, through the Florida Department of Education’s Commission for Independent Education, License #3448. IIH is licensed to teach medical/clinical hypnotherapy as a school, yet all practitioners are required to work within the confines of Federal, State, County, and City laws. All medical, mental health, or dental conditions require the appropriate referral, prescription, supervision, or direction from a qualified licensed practitioner of the healing arts as per Florida Statute 485. All graduates who are not licensed practitioners of the healing arts are not to use words such as healing, treat, cure, or diagnose as we strongly discourage operating outside of the scope of one’s credentials.
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