There's a Right Way
to Learn Hypnosis.
Almost Nobody Teaches It.
The Mandel Method is the principle-based training the script-based schools didn't give you. Live workshop. Live demonstration. No scripts. No theatrics. Just hypnosis the way it actually works.
LIVE on Friday, June 19th, 2026 at 10:00 AM Eastern · ~90 minutes · Live demo · Live Q&A
50 years. 100,000+ subjects. One method that actually generalizes.
Free to attend - show up live and enjoy.
You came to hypnosis to do real work with real people.
You watched someone do it well — on a podcast, on YouTube, at a workshop — and something in you said that. That's what I want to be able to do.
So you went and got the training.
A weekend, maybe. Or a few months. A binder of scripts. A certificate that came in the mail. A photo at graduation. The promise that now — finally — you were a hypnotist.
And then you sat down across from a real human being, opened the binder, and started reading.
And somewhere in the middle of that script, you felt it. The thing nobody warned you about. The quiet, sinking certainty that you were faking it.
Not because you were a bad person.
Not because you weren't smart enough.
Not because hypnosis doesn't work.
Because the script doesn't survive a real person.
The minute the client moves, breathes wrong, opens their eyes, asks a question, doesn't drop the way the binder said they would — the script becomes a wall. You're reading words at someone instead of working with them. And you can feel it. And so can they.
That feeling — that's not your failure. That's the structural failure of the training that sold you a script and called it a skill.
We're going to talk about that on June 19th 2026.
Who this workshop is for
This live workshop is for three kinds of people. All welcome. All written into every minute of it.
The Credentialed Professional
Already doing real clinical work — counselor, therapist, coach, allied health, medical — who has watched clients plateau on cognitive approaches and suspects there's a faster, deeper layer of work she's been trained around instead of into. You're not looking to abandon what you know. You're looking to complete the toolkit.
The Already-Trained Hypnotist
You have the certificate on the wall, but you never got what was promised. You were taught scripts and theatrics instead of underlying principles, leaving you feeling stuck when a session doesn't go exactly to plan.
The Career Starter
You haven't been formally trained yet — and that's an advantage. You saw what real hypnosis can do and you want to learn it. This workshop shows you exactly what it looks like before you spend years or thousands on training that teaches the wrong thing.
Start here. Start right.
The Mandel Method
Three pillars. One continuous loop. Zero scripts.
Mike Mandel has done this work for fifty years. With more than one hundred thousand subjects. Across stages, clinics, boardrooms, and back rooms. And in those fifty years he distilled the work down to three pillars — the ones that actually generalize.
01
Rapport
Building an unconscious connection that bypasses critical resistance and creates a profound sense of psychological safety.
02
Calibration
Reading the micro-expressions, breathing patterns, and subtle shifts in your subject to know exactly what is working in real time.
03
Flexibility
Adapting instantly to the subject's responses, ensuring the session moves forward seamlessly without ever relying on a predefined script.
The Psychodynamic Loop
These three pillars don't exist in isolation. They form a continuous, dynamic loop. You establish rapport, you calibrate their response, and you use flexibility to adjust your approach. As you adjust, rapport deepens, calibration becomes finer, and your flexibility increases. It’s a living feedback loop that scripts simply cannot replicate.
Hypnosis is not something you do to someone.
It is something you do with them.
Every script-based training in this category teaches you a one-way performance. You speak. You hope. They drop or they don't. If they don't, the "induction failed" — meaning you failed. You go home with a binder and a certificate and a quiet feeling you can't quite name.
Principle-based hypnosis isn't a better performance. It's the end of performance.
It's an interaction. A skill. A craft. Something a real practitioner operates, not something a recital pretends at. And like any real craft, it's apprenticed — not memorized.
That's the work the Academy was built around.
And this workshop is the door into it.
Why Mike, why this
Fifty years. One hundred thousand subjects.
Mike Mandel has been a working hypnotist for over fifty years. He has worked with more than one hundred thousand subjects — on stages and in clinics, in boardrooms and in personal sessions, with people who came to be healed and people who came to be entertained and people who came in skeptical and left changed.
He has spent five decades doing what most schools teach you to attempt. And the method you'll see at this workshop is what fifty years of real reps boiled down into something teachable.
You don't have to take our word for it. You'll watch him do it on June 19th 2026.
"I've worked with more than a hundred thousand people. And there is nothing I enjoy more than showing someone, in real time, that hypnosis is not magic. It's a skill. A real skill. And it can be learned."
— Mike Mandel
What you'll learn at the live workshop
In about 90 minutes, live with Mike, Chris Thompson, and Timothy September, you will:
See the three-pillar framework laid out in full — Rapport, Calibration, Flexibility, and the Psychodynamic Loop that makes them generative instead of additive.
Watch a live, unscripted hypnotic interaction with a real volunteer — someone Mike has never met, with no rehearsal, no edits, and no script. Mike shows you just how easy it is when you know what to do.
Understand why script-based training reaches a ceiling — and why principle-based work scales the way it does. You'll leave knowing exactly what was missing from the training you've already done.
Get the language to introduce yourself as a hypnotist without the pause, the qualifier, or the apology.
Sit with the apprenticeship metaphor — the model the rest of the serious crafts have used for centuries, and the one MMHA is built on. You'll see why a weekend can't teach this.
Bring your real questions. Live Q&A is part of the workshop, not an add-on.
The proof that the method generalizes
"For 22 years I worked as a clinical psychologist and thought I knew what hypnotherapy was. The Mandel Method showed me I'd been describing a different thing entirely. I now use hypnotherapy with about 90% of my patients. It is the most clinically useful thing I have learned in a quarter-century of practice."
"I had eight years of certification and training before I found Mike. I thought I knew what I was doing. The Mandel Method improved my work by a factor I would not have believed if you'd told me before I saw it."
"My clinic has grown amazingly since I started using the method. The training pays for itself many times over — but more than that, I'm finally doing the work I trained for."
"It wasn't me. It was the training." "I wish I found you first."
Lines we have heard from already-trained hypnotists who walked into the Academy after spending thousands somewhere else. You'll meet the people who said them in the workshop itself.
What to call this — and what not to
This is not stage hypnosis. There are no pendulums. No snapping fingers. No "look into my eyes."
This is not woo. There is no manifesting, no quantum field, no energy work, no vibration. Mike has spent fifty years being respectful of the actual science and clear-eyed about what hypnosis can do that nothing else can.
It is a principle-based, evidence-informed, clinically respectable practice that has been used with over one hundred thousand subjects across medical, therapeutic, performance, and personal-change contexts.
If you've already invested in training that didn't fit — this is not another version of that.
It's a different category of thing.
Save your seat for the live workshop.
LIVE on Friday, June 19th, 2026 at 10:00 AM Eastern · ~90 minutes · Live demo · Live Q&A
Reserve your spot
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We send the calendar link, the day-of reminders, and the live link. Use the email you actually read.
The questions you'd actually ask
Is this another weekend certification?
No. This is a targeted, 90-minute workshop focused exclusively on the core principles of the Mandel Method. It is designed to upgrade your existing skills and correct structural flaws in script-based training, not to replace a comprehensive certification program.
I've already paid for training that didn't deliver. Why would this be different?
Most conventional training focuses on scripts—telling you exactly what to say. We focus on principles—teaching you how to think, adapt, and calibrate. By understanding the underlying mechanics of hypnosis, you won't need to memorize lines. You'll learn to respond dynamically to the person in front of you.
Will my licensing board recognize this?
While this workshop provides highly effective clinical tools for your practice, it is not offered for formal CEU credits. It is strictly designed for rapid skill acquisition and practical, real-world application.
Is this real clinical work, or stage hypnosis?
This is 100% therapeutic work. We do not teach stage tricks or theatrics here. Every principle demonstrated is grounded in creating rapid, generative, and lasting change for your subjects or patients.
How is the Mandel Method different from NLP?
While there is overlap in the understanding of human neurology, the Mandel Method focuses specifically on the psychodynamic loop of hypnosis—rapport, calibration, and flexibility—without the rigid, formulaic, and often robotic approach found in traditional NLP training.
Will I be able to do this?
Yes. Because the Mandel Method is based on universal principles rather than rote memorization, it is highly adaptable to your personal communication style and the specific needs of your subjects. It simplifies the process rather than complicating it.
How long is the workshop?
The live workshop runs for approximately 90 minutes. This includes the core principle training, a live unscripted demonstration, and an interactive live Q&A session where you can get your specific questions answered.
Mike Mandel Hypnosis Academy — Principle-based hypnosis training, since 2013.
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