Steve Woods
MIHC26 Speaker Spotlight
Steve Woods is a UK based professional hypnotist with over twenty years of experience working across clinical, performance and workplace settings. His work focuses on how hypnosis influences regulation, behaviour and physiological response, with particular attention to adapting practice to suit real world conditions and individual differences.
He has spent many years supporting employees through his work with Making Menopause Work, delivering sleep masterclasses and menopause related support in professional environments. Alongside this, he has worked extensively with blind and visually impaired performers, including supporting golfers through the England and Wales Blind Golf Charity, which has shaped his approach to inclusive, non visual hypnosis practice.
Steve is known for refining hypnotic language, expectation setting and session structure so hypnosis remains ethical, effective and transferable across client groups. His teaching is grounded in practical experience and focuses on improving practitioner awareness, adaptability and confidence when working beyond standard models and assumptions.
Hypnosis Without Visual Assumptions, Adapting Practice for Blind and Visually Impaired Clients
The session is informed by practical experience supporting blind and visually impaired golfers through the England and Wales Blind Golf Charity. This work required adapting hypnotic language, pacing and session structure beyond visual metaphors, highlighting how much standard hypnosis training unconsciously depends on visualisation and observation, and how those adaptations improve engagement, depth and client autonomy.
Designed for hypnotists of varying experience levels, the presentation focuses on refining language choices, expectation setting and sensory balance without relying on visual imagery. Rather than using live demonstrations, the session breaks down real world practice insights, identifying common visual habits, how they limit absorption, and how auditory, kinaesthetic and spatial language can create more precise and accessible hypnotic responses.
Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how to work ethically and confidently with blind and visually impaired clients, how to audit their own scripts and inductions for visual bias, and how these refinements strengthen hypnosis across clinical, performance and wellbeing contexts. The emphasis is on practical, transferable principles that enhance inclusivity and effectiveness in everyday professional practice.
Designed for hypnotists of varying experience levels, the presentation focuses on refining language choices, expectation setting and sensory balance without relying on visual imagery. Rather than using live demonstrations, the session breaks down real world practice insights, identifying common visual habits, how they limit absorption, and how auditory, kinaesthetic and spatial language can create more precise and accessible hypnotic responses.
Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how to work ethically and confidently with blind and visually impaired clients, how to audit their own scripts and inductions for visual bias, and how these refinements strengthen hypnosis across clinical, performance and wellbeing contexts. The emphasis is on practical, transferable principles that enhance inclusivity and effectiveness in everyday professional practice.