Teacher Training Testimonials

I was led by the universe to Katharine’s course.

- Elaine

I feel totally inspired after the course.

Sophie

‘I am so grateful for the knowledge you gave me during this weekend.  Life changing.’ - Duna

‘It’s wonderful to find what you’ve always been looking for.  I feel as if I’ve come home.’ - Karen

Thank you for coming all the way to Kuwait to train us!  What an honour.

- Naseera

You are a great teacher!

Amba

Calm, gentle presentation and atmosphere.

I feel the two days have been hugely beneficial and will have a great influence on my Hypnobirthing teaching.

- Pat

Very interesting and all worth while. I loved all of it.

- Jan

I have learnt a huge amount. I liked your aura and natural presence.

- Candace

Love the course. The confidence building script was fantastic! I feel so empowered both as a midwife and woman.

Thank you, Katharine, so much.

- Jane

Katharine made it very easy to understand.

- Ashley

I liked Katharine’s openness to any ideas and views; changes to lessons as things evolve. What an eloquent woman too! Love listening to you.

- Sophie

This has now allowed me to sully put my previous training in to the context of the UK. The simplification of the breathing techniques was helpful. Many thanks.

- Rachel

I liked the details on how to put the course together, the syllabus, practising scripts, being given the materials, and mostly the simplicity and encouragement.

- Deb

So well structured and prepared. Excellent handouts etc. I so enjoyed the whole course. Far surpassed my expectations. Inspirational and invaluable in fulfilling my role as a midwife and educator during the journey to parenthood.

- Catriona

I have really enjoyed both modules so far. It has all come together beautifully.

Thank you!

- Alex

Very interesting and all worth while. I liked all of it.

- Jan

Loved the course - fear release script was fantastic! I feel so empowered both as a midwife and woman.

Thank you, Katharine, so much.

- Jane

What an eloquent woman! Love listening to you. Loved Katharine's openess to ideas and views.

- Sophie

I liked the details on how to put the course together, the syllabus, practising scripts, being given the materials, the simplicity and encouragement.

- Deb

Best study / course I have attended in years. So well structured and prepared. Excellent handouts etc. I so enjoyed the whole course. Far surpassed my expectations. Inspirational and invaluable in fulfilling my role as a midwife and educator during the journey to parenthood.

Thoroughly enjoyed everything. Thank you Katharine!!

- Katriona

I know in my own experience as a teacher how important it is to be able to inspire, enthuse and build confidence in one's students and I think you are a brilliant, compassionate teacher who has completely opened my eyes to this amazing subject!

Fiona

The course content for couples was practical and simple. I’m so excited to use the beautiful stories and analogies

- Cathy (Attended the Hypnobirthing Workshop part of the course)

It was all really interesting and useful. The birthing stories were very inspiring and the course was really thorough

- Angela (Attended the Birthing Foundation part of the course)

Everything was wonderful, and I’m surprised how much I fell I now know.

Thank you so much for a wonderful course. It was interesting, informative and fun.

- Jan (Attended the Birthing Foundation part of the course)

Thank you for a wonderful 6 days – the most meaningful course I have done in a long while.

It started off beautifully with the hypnotherapy workshop and continued just as well. The physiology of labour was explained in a way that is so much easier to understand than reading it from books. I feel more empowered to support couples in achieving the experience that they wish for.

I am very much looking forward to this new and exciting journey.

Alex (Attended the …Read More...

Thank you so much, Katharine. Now I have so much more confidence and tools to help other women enjoy their birth experiences.

Jean (Attended the Birthing Foundation part of the course)

Dear Katharine,

I am writing to thank you for an inspiring and empowering 4 days on your teacher training course. I had so many ‘light bulb’ moments where things just made so much sense that I can’t believe that I didn’t know them already.

Can’t wait to share my passion with couples and fellow midwives/maternity staff.

Best wishes

Jane (midwife).

The most informative and inspiring course I have ever done

- Ashley

Thanks for such a brilliant course, it was so informative and has given me a lot more confidence in the whole subject.

Fiona

Thank You again for the superb training we had in Sweden! I hope I will start with my hypnobirthing classes as soon as possible!

Åsa - One of your enthusiastic students from Sweden :)

Thank you Katharine, they were a fantastic five days and I'm so looking forward to including your beautiful stories and analogies in my courses - my favourite being Norway and unripe blackberries! x

Cathy

I really enjoyed the course, thank you so much for welcoming me to attend. I learnt so much and met some really wonderful women - what an inspiring six days.

Cathy

Thankyou so much for a brilliant weekend. So refreshing to find like-minded folk wanting to share and bring the joys of hypnobirthing to as many "out there" as we can.

You are truly inspiring and your whole ethos and approach sits so well with my own approach to life.

Its been an interesting journey of discovery for me regarding hypnobirthing, and its reassuring to know i've at last found a path I feel comfortable walking along!!!

Thankyou for shining that light!!!

Pete

I just wanted to say a big thank you for all the time you've spent helping me and for the course. I have finished teaching my first couple and I think it went really well. They both seemed very happy and definitely more confident at the end and have said they're now looking forward to the birth which is a great result.

Kirsty.

Thank you again for giving so many 'HypnoBirthers' a modern, supportive way of continuing with Hypnobirthing.

Rachel

‘This course is the best value for money of any course I’ve ever done.  You’ve given us so much.’

‘It’s been awesome  This is the best course I’ve ever done.’

‘Good tools to be able to take away and be able to utilise.’

‘Very gently and without lecturing, the teacher removed all apprehensions I had regarding hypnosis and gently clarified exactly what it is and helped me to gain understanding of it.’

‘The two days gave an excellent foundation into hypnotherapy.  Fantastic teacher, charismatic, informative and very approachable.’

I wish to thank you for the wonderful two day course on hypnotherapy for hypnobirthing that you taught to me recently.  I learnt so much and am now so inspired.  We have already started the hypnobirthing classes and I am enjoying teaching it so very very much.

Rachel

Thank you so much this is very helpful I had an amazing Teacher ! I'm looking forward to teaching Hypnobirthing.

Best wishes

Kat

I really enjoyed the course, it's really opened my mind and I have so much I feel I want to discuss with my husband, sister and other woman about birth. My head is buzzing it's such an interesting subject.

Shireen

I have run 1 session with friends of mine who then gave me feedback etc. I have then run my first proper session on 25th June and next one will be this weekend.  Feedback so far has been really great. 

Kind Regards

Karen

I would like to thank you for everything. The course was a good experience for me. It opened my mind for more.

Thank you again for the time you spent talking to me, it means a lot to find a course where I can pick up the phone and speak to someone who is as passionate about hypnobirthing as I am.

Many Thanks

Nicola

I am so pleased to have done the course and have your support through The Hypnobirthing Association and in so many other ways.  I can’t wait to start teaching.  

Thank you

Emma

Had my eyes opened!

Gordon

You are so fitting for this in every way.

Lorna

A wonderful 4 days – masses of content – lots to think about.  Thank you very much.

Sandra

We have successfully completed our first course and although we were exhausted we thoroughly enjoyed it and have had positive feedback.

Thank you

Jane

Thank you ever so much for agreeing to teach us all - it's been an awe inspiring 4 days which I can't wait to put into practice.

I hope you enjoyed teaching us at least half as much as we've all enjoyed and benefitted from the experience.

Very warm regards

Sonia

I just wanted to say another thank you for your fantastic tutulage. I spent last night and this morning with my first hypnobirthing couple while they gave birth. They had only done the training two weeks ago and were fantastic. They managed the whole birth naturally and their little boy was born at 10.20am.

The course was so thorough and gave me so much confidence in my abilities to pass on the knowledge. The parents were confident in me and their abilities, so thank you!

Love 

Nancyx

I so enjoyed the two days with Archie and the two days with you.  What an absolutely lovely, wonderful, practical and compassionate gift to give to pregnant women!  I do hope to become an excellent teacher in future.

Best regards,

Jane

Just a note to thank you so much for the fantastic two days of hypnobirthing training.  As a hypnotherapist, I've been on quite a lot of different hypnosis based courses and I have to say that yours has been my favourite.  Your relaxed inclusive style really encouraged everyone in the group to share their very different experiences and perspectives on birth.  The lovely feeling of harmony and respect between us all was a living example of the attitudes you are bringing …Read More...

Hi Katharine,

Since my last e-mail to you, things have been going really well.

Thank you;

it has been both educational and interesting for the first time I believe!

Samantha

Hi Katharine,

I am safe and sound, back in Qatar with my beautiful family. Aaron met me at the airport and was so excited!!! It was just lovely to walk out and have them there, Sophie has been glued to me all morning!!!

Dear Katharine,

Thank you so much for the most wonderful, fulfilling course.  The words "This is me" keeping popping in my head meaning I really feel like this is what I should be doing.

I feel so excited and inspired.

Katharine,

Where do I start? Thank you for such an enlightening experience and wonderful learning for the last 4 days.

Katharine,

Many many thanks for this amazing experience.  I'm so glad I waited for your course, rather than another.  I can't begin to tell you how valuable, inspirational and empowering the whole experience has been with such passionate and gifted trainers

Dear Katharine,

Thank you so much for opening up a whole new world for me.  What a fantastic way to serve others and you have shared this with me.  At such a pivotal time in my life, I definitely met the right person!

I enrolled on Katharine's Hypnobirthing Practitioner course (which I completed only yesterday!). She is a lovely lady, the course was absolutely wonderful, and I was blown away...I am looking forward (I think!) to teaching my first class!

Katharine,

I find it hard to express in words just how fantastic this whole experience has been for me. You have inspired me, you have empowered me, and you have supported me. I am so very grateful.

Thank you.

Clare,

Qatar

Hi Katharine,

Thank you for the wonderful training last weekend.  The course is an invaluable training, even for a mother of two!

Hi Katharine, 

I thought I'd let you know I've just finished my first session with my first couple and it went really really well. It became clear how well you taught us as I felt like I knew a lot. I'm so excited about teaching the rest of the course - I'm splitting it into 4 sections as it's easier for me to teach in the evenings.

Thank you for everything again.

Love,

Emily x

Very informative and relevant introduction to  the aspects of hypnosis / relaxation / NLP ethos, and tips to enable us to approach the hypnobirthing training with the utmost confidence and competence.

What  a wonderfully inspiring teacher.  She punctuated the learning with relevant anecdotes.

Brilliant presentation with humour.  -  Laura

I consider myself a curious person who likes to explore new things. My main interests are ways of self-improvement & self-development. I'm also very keen on discovering secrets of conscious & subconscious mind. So this time I challenged myself to find out about Hypnobirthing. I took a Hypnobirthing course with Mrs. Katharine Graves May 5th-May 8th, 2011 and trained as hypnotherapy teacher/ practitioner. I really didn't have any idea what to expect, so if you are…Read More...