I have been offering this training online long enough to watch the kind of student who enrolls change completely. And I think that change is worth talking about honestly, because it explains why I structure things the way I do now, and it might help you understand whether this is the right moment for you.
What I Saw During the COVID Years
When the world went online almost overnight, I did what a lot of educators did: I added everything. Live classes. Practice sessions. Q&A calls. Group healing sessions. People had time, and what they wanted most was interaction and connection. The recorded material was almost secondary to the experience of showing up together.
It worked, in a way. The classes were full of life. But I also noticed something underneath the energy: not everyone who enrolled actually needed the training. For some people, it had become a pastime, a way to fill suddenly open hours and feel connected to other humans during an isolating time. That’s a real and understandable need. It is just not the same thing as a genuine commitment to becoming a practitioner.
What I See Now
The world has changed again, and so has the student walking through my door. People have less free time now, not more. The economy has put real pressure on households. Stress is higher, and attention is scarcer. The people enrolling today are, almost without exception, serious. They know exactly why they’re here, and they don’t have spare hours to spend on a training that isn’t going to take them somewhere specific.
I have also noticed something else, something I didn’t expect: almost no one is looking to socialize or connect through the training itself anymore. If anything, the opposite is true. People guard their time and their privacy more carefully than they used to. Some never reply to a welcome email at all, and that’s fine, they’re simply here to do the work. Some have asked me directly to stop sending automated reminders and check-in invitations, because the constant notifications felt like an intrusion rather than support.
I want to be clear: I don’t read this as coldness, and I don’t take it personally. I read it as a generation of students who are protecting their own sovereignty, who have learned that their attention is the most valuable thing they have, and who are choosing, deliberately, where to spend it.
Why I Built the Training to Honor That
This is the part most online education advice gets wrong. Most of what’s written about online learning treats self-paced, affordable, and convenient as generic selling points, the same three bullet items repeated on every course platform’s homepage. They’re not wrong, exactly. But they miss what actually matters to the kind of student showing up right now.
Self-paced learning isn’t a convenience feature for my students anymore. It’s a form of respect. When someone is already stretched thin by work, family, and a stressful economy, the freedom to study at 11pm or in twenty-minute increments between obligations isn’t a nice bonus, it’s the only way the training fits into a real life at all. I don’t ask you to be present for a live cohort schedule that competes with the rest of your responsibilities. The material is there when you are.
Affordability matters differently too. When money is tighter and people are more careful with it, every dollar spent on training has to earn its place. I don’t pad the program with extras designed to make it feel more substantial. Everything in it is there because it directly builds your skill as a practitioner, not because it looks impressive in a sales page.
And convenience, for this student, isn’t about flashy interactivity or virtual reality simulations. It’s about being left alone to actually learn. No constant pings demanding your attention. No forced participation in a community you didn’t ask to join. You get the material, the structure, and direct access to me when you genuinely need it, and otherwise, your inbox and your time stay yours.
What This Means for You
If you’re someone who wants a class full of new friends and a packed live calendar, I understand that desire, but it’s not primarily what I’m building anymore, because it’s not primarily what serious students are asking for. If you’re someone who has limited time, real responsibilities, and a genuine reason for wanting this training, the structure is built around exactly that.
I’d rather have ten students who finish the program changed than a hundred who enrolled because it was a pleasant way to pass the time. The training has gotten quieter, more focused, and more respectful of your time and your boundaries, because that is what the people who actually need this work have shown me they need.
That’s not a compromise. That’s me listening.
International Hypnosis School
Pennsylvania, USA
@ 2019 hypnosis-training.online
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