Beyond Words: The Experience of Hypnosis with Michele Occelli | 10 Sep 2025
This lecture combined talk and experiential exercises to explore trance and hypnosis across cultures and history, offering participants a direct, embodied experience of altered states of awareness through guided hypnotic practice.
About the Activation
This lecture was a blend of talk and direct experience. We explored how trance and hypnosis have been used across cultures and history—from ancient rituals to modern therapy—to shift perception, ease suffering, and open up new creative ways of experiencing the self.
We looked at key techniques used to guide people into these altered states and explored what might actually be happening in the mind and body during hypnosis.
Participants were guided through a series of hypnotic exercises, giving them a direct taste of how attention, imagination, and suggestion can significantly alter awareness and bring about the kinds of inner states we call trance.
This was a chance to learn about hypnosis not just in theory, but through direct embodied experience in a safe, engaging, and supportive setting.
Artist Biography
Michele Occelli
Michele Occelli a fully qualified and registered London hypnotherapist with two postgraduate diplomas in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and NLP (Advanced Level with Distinction) from the British Hypnosis Research and Training Institute. He has thousands of hours of direct clinical experience, having spent the last 15 years successfully treating hundreds of clients across all walks of life and ages. He works both online and in person from his private hypnotherapy London practice.
Occelli's integrative approach combines Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, Clinical Hypnotherapy, NLP, coaching, mindfulness, somatic therapy, Neuroaffective developmental psychology, and Attention Stances, working with both individuals and groups.