Wordweaving: The Science of Suggestion - A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Hypnotic Language

"If you find yourself enjoying the first wordweaving book as much as I did, you may also find the structure that Trevor Silvester details in this second volume an invaluable guide to delivering Hypnotic change.

If you have ever sought a tool or technique for a 'problem' client or wondered how others embrace the opportunity of working with a client issue they may have never dealt with before, buy this book, it will repay you time and time again.

It builds upon the skills of the first volume and whilst you could get much from this book without understanding those skills, I'd recommend starting with the skills in volume 1 before learning the structure and insights you will gain from Volume 2. The structure laid out in volume 2 builds on those skills you can learn to deliver effective therapy for anybody, or any issue. No techniques - just sensible and effective advice.

I liked it!"
~ Written on 2007-06-14

"This book is very useful for therapist of all levels as Wordweaving is contributing to expanding the boundaries of hypnotherapy as a powerful therapeutic tool. Updating you skill set with these processes adds strength and flexibility to your therapy choices when faced with that `difficult client' case.

The book demonstrates Wordweaving using a 4 step process based around an imaginary client session. The author clearly explains the underlying ideas that are being put forward within the therapy session and supplements these explanations with 6 very good appendices.

Step 1 covers in detail how to identify the client's problem using three simple yet powerful questions It then uses excellent NLP techniques and examples to demonstrate how to proceed and tie the results into a clearly defined outcome thus drawing your client in and focusing them on the healing process.

Also included in this part of the book is a process that the author named after the eminent therapist Gil Boyne appropriately called the Boynian pattern - another useful insight to what really works in therapy.

How many therapists anticipating the client's departure and a chance for a break waste the last few minutes of the session? The author clearly explains how important it is to turn this time to increasing the client's chances of therapy success and offers good advice on how to mine that rich vein in those closing moments.

Steps 2 builds on everything previously covered with your client. Here the focus is on how to create and deliver the Wordweaving patterns that will enable your client to achieve their therapy outcomes. This is backed up by more top quality examples in the relevant appendix.

Is your client improving? Step 3 clearly lays out the process to check whether your client perceives themselves as improving and then Step 4 ties this all together by enhancing successes achieved in all the previous steps.

The author then tops this by offering suggestions on how to help your clients maintain their changes and translate them into health and well being. The chapter on thinking yourself lucky is very appropriate here.

This book is definitely a refreshing and powerful guide to enable the therapist to provide a framework for the client to actively participate in the process of healing themselves.

In conclusion, the question really is "do you now choose to add a flexible, innovative and proven recipe for success which expands your knowledge, helps you help your clients and thus offers potential to enhance your business?"
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~ Written on 2007-05-19

"The first of the "Wordweaving" series sets out the general groundwork and foundations of creating and crafting suggestions for use in hypnosis. It is a far reaching and thorough guide to how problems are formed and how hypnotherapy may solve them. It covers a great deal of ground from Ericksonian models to Neuro-logical Levels and Trance Phenomenon and is comprehensively wrapped up in Trevor Silvester's theory of "Wordweaving". This is essentially a guide to the creation of indirect hypnotic language patterns, meaning that the therapist does not have to rely upon scripts and is also more able to overcome resistance on the part of the client. It is a powerful method of Hypnotherapy.

This book, Wordweaving Volume II, continues this theme but is more of an A to B to C style. It is a concrete guide to Therapy and answered a lot of my (natural) questions as a reasonably new hypnotherapist. Although I found Volume I enlightening and very useful it is, necessarily, a tough read at times. I believe that both are necessary to understand and begin to get to grips with Wordweaving and the addition of this second volume added an enormous amount to my understanding. It gave me more than twice the confidence that I had from the first alone.

These are probably not books for those curious about hypnotism or those without some degree of experience of hypnotherapy (although are a very interesting read) however for any therapist wishing to up their game I wholeheartedly recommend both."
~ Written on 2006-09-01

"Wordweaving II - The question is the answer

This is a book that equips therapists to respond creatively to clients in constructing individually tailored hypnotic interventions. There is much detail to illustrate and explain the innovative use of questions [`the question is the answer'], the development and use of well directed hypnotic language patterns and the utilisation of trance states that the client may already be experiencing in relation to their problem, as well as casework examples to show the theory in practice.

Another theme that the author highlights is `the importance of consequence'. The idea that our future arises from our past is not new. Trevor Silvester cites recent research to support the paradoxical idea that it is an individual's perception of their future that clearly has consequences for their actions and beliefs today - which then colours their future. The author illustrates ways in which this intriguing idea can be applied to create the positive expectations that are so much more likely to lead to a positive healthy future.

In short - a gem of a book, full of practical advice, suggestions and examples to ensure therapeutic interventions are focused and effective while remaining respectful of and empowering for clients.

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~ Written on 2006-05-20

"As a Cognitive Hypnotherpist and NLP Master Practitioner I found the book an invaluable piece of work. In this book Trevor Silvester has provided a well structured approach towards assisting the hypnotic practitioner in producing hypnoic langauge patterns that use the clients specific presenting trance phenomena back on themselves. In true NLP form he has modelled great empirical hypnotherapists to produce the Boynian pattern, allowing progressive hypnotherapists to know how they do what they do thus becoming more effective in helping their clients reach their solution state more efficiently. I found the book an enjoyable and easy read that has appraoched the subject from an inductive perspective and well researched base, and which for me has embraced the sprirt of NLP within the hypnotherapy field. However, knowing the industry as I do, I expect this excellent piece of work to challenge many of my script-reading trained contemporaries out there who are possibly very likely to miss the important information contained within the information if they primarily read this book in the hope of finding a 'script' that works. In short this book is padded with a lot of excellent, up-to-date and relevant information that the less intuitive therapist may only see as padding."
~ Written on 2006-04-10