Michael Ellner - Mentor in Hypnosis

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In this Interview we learn from Mentor Michael Ellner.

“ Peo ple Who FeelBetter – Heal Better!”
Mentor Michael Ellner has always been passionately involved in helping others. He
started his career in his late 20’s and for the past 35 years has helped clients create change in
an innovative and efficient way.
Mentor Michael Ellner is the President of one of the world’s largest not-for-profit
Alternative Health Information Networks (HEAL - Health Education AIDS Liaison-NYC).
I am delighted to be part of the Mentors in Hypnosis project and I appreciate the
opportunity to introduce you to my associates and my approach to change work.
Michael Ellner
Quantum Focusing, Mindful Hypnosis and HOPE Coaching are brand names for our utilization of
creative trances. Creative trances can be applied with and without conventional inductions. It is designed to
tap into a “client’s” physical (somatic), mental (cognitive) and spiritual (relational) fields with the belief that
a mind-body-spirit approach to change work is the most effective way to help people reach and maintain their
goals. We do not diagnose, analyze or fix our clients.
My interview will give you an idea of how this approach to change work evolved and introduce you to my
opinions and beliefs about hypnotically assisting clients. Briefly practitioners of creative change work
function as coaches rather than therapists. Their goal is to teach people how to construct and utilize creative
resource states and focus their attention in ways that promote health, healing and well being.

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About Michael Ellner: I believe the honors that I have received during the last 26
years will give you a quick snap-shot of my standing in the hypnosis/NLP communities:
HONORS: Lifetime Achievement Award – Int’l Association of Counselors and Therapists – 2014 Charles
Tebbett’s Award – National Guild of Hypnotists – 2009
Diplomat – International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association – 2006
Induction into the Order of the Braid Council – National Guild of Hypnotists – 2006
Pen and Quill Award – International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association – 2004
Award for Excellence in Counseling – International Federation of Hypnosis 2003
Fellow – International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association – 2002
Cover & Interview- THE JOURNAL OF HYPNOTISM – Vol. 16, No. 1 – March 2001
Humanities Award – INFAITH – 2001
Pebble In The Pond – (Humanities Award) – International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association,
2000
Author of the Year- Hypnodyne Foundation – 2000
Educator of the Year – National Federation of NLP 1997
Hypnosis Educator of the Year – National Guild of Hypnotists – 1995

Hypnosis Humanities Award – National Guild of Hypnotists – 1994
Mind-Body-Spirit Award – Int’l Association of Counselors and Therapists – 1991
Founder’s Award – International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association – 1990
Hypnosis Humanities Award – National Guild of Hypnotists – 1989
Michael Ellner’s name comes up every so often when people are asked about who is
their mentor! He is truly one of the most influential mentors in hypnosis.

Eugen Popa: First things first, how, when and why did you start
doing hypnosis?
Michael Ellner: You know, when I was growing up, we didn’t have lots
of entertainment, we were put on our own and we had to entertain
ourselves, and the big thing was magic. And I had a group of friends and
they were all aspiring magicians, and I was also, and I didn’t have finger
dexterity, so my friends were doing all these cards tricks, and my cards
were on the floor, my friends were doing all this coin tricks, and my coin
didn’t move, and a friend’s father gave me a beat up book on the stage
hypnosis and, bless him, he said: “Michael, you’d be good at this”. And it
was close enough to magic for me to be excited about it, and I was good at
it, so when I was 12-13, I already had a small stage act, and I wasn’t you
know, on Broadway, I was entertaining family, and friends, and it allowed
me to participate with my fellows, who were magicians, who were
developing magic acts, and then you get a little bit older, you discover
rock’n’roll, and sex and all those things and I didn’t think too much about
it, I could do it, but I wasn’t doing it anymore.

So, much later on in life, I was at a party, and the friend who was hosting
the party had a huge loft in NY City, so there was a disco on one side and on
the other side of the loft it was very quiet, you could have a conversation.
And I saw her in the loft and she looked very unhappy, she seemed to be
crying. And I sat down next to her and I said: “What’s up? What’s going on?”
and she said: ‘Oh, Michael, I have a very severe arthritic pain, and it sucked
the joy out of my life and I’m even thinking about suicide.” And I heard
myself say to my amazement: “You know, I used to know hypnosis, maybe I
could help you.” And we did some hypnosis, and it did help her. And at that
point, she became a major influence in my life, she kept leaving me messages,
I was working on Wall Street at the time and she was saying: “Michael Ellner,
you could have meaning and purpose in your life, you could help people, so
many people are in pain, you really should be doing this, what the heck are
you doing on Wall Street?”
And for a period of time, I thought she was crazy and I didn’t take her
seriously. And then, she send me a brochure for a training that was happening
in New Jersey, and the trainer was retiring, so this was the last training she
was offering, and ... I believe it was six day training, as I remember. Anyway,
on it, was a little sticky note that said: “Michael Ellner, if you want this
training, I’m happy to pay for it”.
Well, that moved me, something inside said that maybe this is the right
direction. I took the training, and I’ve never looked back. And I think that it
was like destiny in a way.

Eugen Popa: So would you say that this would be one of the
qualities a hypnotist should have? To have game, as you call it?
Michael Ellner: Yes, I think that basic quality is to like people. To be
interested in people, to care about what they have to say, so you are a good
listener. And a sense of humor.
I begAn my practice in the early 80s and AIDS exploded in NY City.
And I kept hearing on TV and on the radio, and reading “Oh, it’s fatal, oh,
it’s fatal!” and I didn’t believe it. Something inside of me didn’t think that
an infectious disease was always fatal, it’s seemed counter intuitive. so I
went to different AIDS organizations and tried to volunteer. And everybody
was running away from these people, they were very welcoming to anyone
who volunteered (...) I was seeing things in a humorous way. I take a light
hearted approach just naturally to very serious things, and this people
thrived on humor. That humor was a very important thing and another thing
was, I had a sense that hope was very important, this community was
feeling hopeless and helpless, and I wanted to challenge that, I felt that if
you had a little bit of help, you’d have a better chance at surviving, at
helping. And this was in addition to my private practice, this was as a
volunteer.

Eugen Popa: What is the most amazing result you had in a
hypnosis session?
Michael Ellner: You know, the one that had moved me the most was
when I met an incredible human being, at the worst time in his life. He was
an Emmy Award winning actor, who developed ALS, and when I met him,
he went from being a world class performer, fencer, horseback rider,
dancer, singer, swordsman, all of these things that he could no longer do.
And when I met him, he wanted to be what he was, and he came to me with
that hope, and I was very clear that that was unrealistic, possible maybe, but
I wouldn’t want to make that the focus of my attention, so I told him: “You
know, what I am really good at, is to helping you to be the best you can be
right now. And if that’s what motivates you, if that’s what you want help
with, I’m your man. But I really don’t have too much to offer about
becoming the person you were. “

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