A Personal
Message from Greg Brice
(See the bottom of this page to read a series of short
articles by Greg Brice)
My career in
subconscious-mind therapy began full-time in 1973. I practised
traditional hypnotherapy for several years and like many others of the
era, was disillusioned and dissatisfied with the percentage of
positive, lasting benefits being gained by my clients.
Although it is
relatively simple to work briefly with someone and have them leave
therapy 'feeling' good, helping people gain permanent relief is quite
a different matter. Most therapists are quick to claim amazing results,
however such claims are often more to do with the therapist's
imagination and desires than they are to do with the reality of client
outcomes - especially in the longer term.
For me, it got to
the point where I could no longer justify continuing with the methods
I had been taught and had picked up along the way. The number of
clients gaining permanent relief was not high enough and it seemed
there had to be a better way to help people.
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Developing new methods
The first ten years
of my career was a struggle to find methods that would not only help
people change, but something that would lead to natural and lasting
change. It was a time of dedicated research, very careful reflection,
numerous mistakes, and gradually a whole new approach to what I was
doing.
It became apparent
to me that no single 'therapy' was right for everyone, however most of
them had something useful to offer. By taking an idea from here and a
technique from there, the percentage of positive results began to
increase and I was finally able to feel confident about my work. Because I was doing things so differently to my
colleagues, there were very few people with whom I could share ideas and it was
consequently, a rather isolated period of growth and
development.
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Combined efforts & clinical development
In 1989 I was
fortunate to meet Mr Frank Wright, who had been struggling in a
similar manner for similar reasons. Through quite a different path,
he had come to many of the conclusions and understandings that
accounted for the improvements in my own practice. We found that we
shared a similar philosophy regarding subconscious problems and
true change, and that we were using similar methods that were quite
different to those of our contemporaries.
Where there were
differences, we immediately set about 'testing' each other's ideas in
the clinic, with the result of still further development and
refinement of both principles and technique.
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Teaching others
With increasing
evidence of the effectiveness of our methods, we began teaching other therapists
our techniques in 1990, in an attempt to save others falling victim to the
mistakes that seem to be par-for-the-course in subconscious-mind therapy.
From the time of our first workshop, we agreed to only teach what we did
ourselves and that our teaching would be based in practical application, rather than
theory.
Our original intention was to
run just one program of six short workshops for a group of therapists who
already had clinical experience. Several of those who attended our first series of workshops,
insisted we continue, as they immediately recognised the benefits of what they had
learned. We expanded our original program slightly, and conducted
several more. After receiving similar responses from many of those
participants, we organised our workshop program into a more formal
course of instruction, and continued teaching experienced practitioners.
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We now take students with no prior training or
experience
A period of rapid development
followed and by late 1993 the method had become so unique we named our approach
P.S.H. By this time we were also
able to take students
with no previous training
or experience. Although the course format and content has changed
quite considerably since
those early days, the original principles and intentions have remained
constant. I moved to Queensland in 1997 and with the help of Janine
Budgeon (who had trained with us in Sydney), conducted the first full program in
1998. Since that time, the course has continued to steadily evolve in both
presentation and content. At the time of editing this (May 2011), we
have conducted 19 full courses in Queensland and I am very proud of the standard of students we have
graduated from the program.
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My promise and the future
I cannot promise my
students that I will always be right - but I do promise them I will
teach them everything I can that has been gained from long and
hard-earned experience. I also promise them I will do everything I can
to help them take this exciting and rewarding profession into the
future, with better ideas, more finesse, and above all, a genuine
desire for continued improvement.
Gregory L.
Brice
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