THE MICHIGAN HYPNOSIS CONFERENCE
with me. I saw myself as what I was, a practicing hypnotherapist. not a professional speaker or event coordinator. But in 2021 that all changed. I know what you are saying to yourself right now, “How Dan, how did it change !? Tell us.” Well ok, I will. In 2021, my Executive Manager, Heather Carpenter, asked the all-important and life-changing question: Why is there not a conference here in Michigan? I did not have an answer for her. I simply said “I don’t know”, Heather then said something that put it all in motion which was “we should start one”. I told her that this was something that was a lot of work and that it was a huge undertaking and that I did not think that this was something I wanted to even go near. She just looked at me and said “you didn’t hear me. Why don’t we start one!” I said, “that’s a great idea Heather, I will get on it right now.”
A hypnosis conference in Michigan that will never work!
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Written by: Dan Goyette
hy? Why would anyone start a conference in Michigan? This was the question. I mean, what is the point? Well, I can say that I had no real plans or intentions to ever start or form a hypnosis conference, this was just something that was not on my radar. I have been a practicing Medical Clinical Hypnotherapist for over 11 years. having started Houghton Lake Hypnosis in a small office in my house to my first studio office where I would change the name to Houghton Lake Hypnosis Therapy Studios and finally moved to a large office in 2019. While I was busy working as a Hypnotherapist I was also traveling to many conferences as a presenter from Hypnothoughts in Las Vegas to St. Louis and Canada and even England as well as participating in one virtual conference for the Australia hypnosis conference. I would continue doing this throughout the years, starting in 2015 I would come to call this making the loop.
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Great now I have to start a conference. I can do this. How hard can it be? Well yeah pretty hard. So let us start with the beginning which is where would we hold it. We need a conference center, which let me tell you, was not an easy find in Michigan. I looked online for weeks. Emails were sent, phone calls were made, my fingers typed to the bone and all to almost no avail. There was no real interest in a hypnosis conference, especially when it was the first one. As this was going on, I was also building a website, a Facebook page, an Instagram page, and a YouTube page, all so that a perspective venue would see that we were a real organization. HYPNOCAFE MAGAZINE • WINTER 2023 27 HypnoCafe Magazine
