Meet the Contributors to The Hypnosis Exchange

THE EDGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

James Tripp

This session will explore a distinctive approach to hypnotic induction that works at the perceived boundary between conscious and unconscious experience.

Rather than treating hypnosis as a process of accessing something hidden, James demonstrates how this boundary can be engaged directly — and, in some cases, dissolved in real time.

Through a live demonstration and clear breakdown, you will see how this approach creates a compelling and often surprising hypnotic experience, while opening new possibilities for change work and development.

You’ll experience:

• a live demonstration of an induction working at the “edge” of awareness
• insight into the structure and principles behind the approach
• a different way of thinking about trance and unconscious process

About James Tripp

James Tripp is a coach, teacher, and change agent known for his work in personal development and hypnosis. Drawing on a diverse background including philosophy, music, martial arts, and movement culture, he is the developer of the Hypnosis Without Trance approach and author of the critically acclaimed book of the same name.

IMAGINATION IN ACTION

Fraser Penman

This interactive session blends storytelling, demonstration, and live experience to explore the role imagination plays in shaping perception, belief, and response.

Through personal story, performance insight, and carefully structured moments, he reveals how imagination can influence thought, feeling, and behaviour in real time.

The session builds toward a demonstration that brings the themes together — offering both a powerful experience and a clear sense of how these effects are created.

You’ll experience:

• a live demonstration of imagination shaping response in real time
• insight into how performance and therapeutic influence intersect
• a memorable shared experience that reframes what is possible

About Fraser Penman

Fraser Penman is a performer and “Imagination Influencer” whose work blends psychological techniques, storytelling, and emotional connection. He has performed internationally, including multiple sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, and appears on Britain’s Got Talent (2026). With millions of views online and a rapidly growing global audience, his work explores how imagination shapes experience — creating performances that are both impactful and personally meaningful.

CALM UNDER FIRE

Jade Matthew

State, Stress and Performing Under Pressure in the Age of Visibility

How do you stay clear, composed, and fully yourself when the pressure is real?

In this session, Jade explores what happens to the voice, body, and attention under pressure — and how those responses can be trained.

Drawing on performance psychology and her experience working in high-stakes environments, she introduces practical ways to regulate state, stabilise attention, and remain grounded when it matters most.

Through live demonstration and experiential exercises, Jade shows how rapid down-regulation and attentional shifts can interrupt overload, reduce self-doubt, and support clearer, more natural expression.

This is not about becoming a better performer.

It is about staying available as yourself — so what you say lands, and how you show up is felt.

You’ll experience:

• practical ways to shift from stress into steadier performance states
• insight into staying grounded and authentic under pressure or visibility
• live demonstrations of rapid regulation and attentional techniques

About Jade Matthew

Jade Matthew works at the intersection of performance psychology and behavioural change, helping people close the gap between who they are and how they show up under pressure. Alongside her work with leaders, founders, and practitioners, she continues to work as a professional actor across television, film, and voice, including projects with Channel 4, Sky, HBO, and the BBC.

Her approach is grounded in real-world performance, where clarity, presence, and authenticity are essential.

FROM TRANCE TO TREBLE-20

Stuart Robertson

How Hypnotic Principles and AI Are Rewriting Mental Performance Coaching

What happens when principles drawn from hypnosis and change work are extended beyond the session and into an intelligent coaching system?

In this session, Stuart explores how mental performance work in elite sport can be amplified through data, feedback, and AI — while staying grounded in the fundamentals of state, belief, rehearsal, and psychological flexibility.

Through live examples and demonstration, he shows how these principles are being applied with elite athletes, and what this may signal for the future of coaching, therapy, and professional change work.

Practical, forward-looking, and highly relevant.

You’ll experience:

• a live demonstration using real performance data
• insight into how hypnotic principles can scale beyond one-to-one work
• a provocative look at where AI may expand the future of change work

About Stuart Robertson

Stuart Robertson is founder of 360 Performance Academy and works with elite golfers and world-champion darts players on mental performance. A JHA-qualified hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner, and Mind Factor Master Practitioner in sports psychology, he combines decades of coaching and change-work experience with emerging AI tools designed to support performance between sessions.

NICE TO MEET YOU

Your hosts

I’m Anthony Jacquin, and along with my father Freddy Jacquin at Jacquin Hypnosis Academy, over the past two decades we’ve attended dozens of hypnosis conferences all over the world. Some were excellent — but many were expensive, overly formal, and built around long presentations with limited real interaction time. You travel, you listen, you take notes… and by Monday, not a great deal has actually changed in your day-to-day work. We decided to create an event that changed that.

The Hypnosis Exchange is designed to be different. This is a practical, participatory gathering built around demonstrations, discussion, and real connection between people who actually practise hypnosis. You will see approaches in action, explore ideas with other professionals, and leave with insights you can apply immediately — along with new relationships that continue long after the event ends.

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

Nicola Cranie

This session explores the role of identity in shaping emotional responses, behaviour, and long-term outcomes.

Drawing on over 25 years of experience across mental health services, neuropsychology, and therapeutic practice, Nicola examines a key pattern: it is not only what has happened to a person that matters, but who they have come to believe they are because of it.

Through practical insight and real-world perspective, this session makes the case for working at the level of identity — and what becomes possible when that level shifts.

You’ll experience:

• a clearer understanding of how identity shapes client outcomes
• insight into working beyond events and symptoms
• a different way of thinking about lasting change

About Nicola Cranie

Nicola Cranie is a hypnotherapist and IEMT practitioner specialising in anxiety, trauma, and identity-level change. She brings over 25 years of experience across mental health services, neuropsychology, and brain injury case management, with a focus on how core identity beliefs influence emotional and behavioural patterns.

THE PROTECTOR UPGRADE

David Gleghorn

Removing Hidden Interference in Performance

Many performance issues are not about skill.

They are about protection.

In this session, David explores how automatic “protector” patterns — designed to keep people safe — can show up as hesitation, overthinking, self-doubt, and pressure at the wrong moments.

Through an interactive process, he demonstrates how these patterns can be identified, understood, and updated in real time — shifting them from interference into support.

Practical, experiential, and focused on change that happens in the room.

You’ll experience:

• a clearer understanding of how protective patterns affect performance
• a live exploration of identifying and working with these patterns
• a practical shift from interference to more supportive internal responses

About David Gleghorn

David Gleghorn is a high-performance coach and founder of Success Is Mental®. He works with athletes, business leaders, and professionals to reduce internal interference and support more consistent performance. His approach combines mindset, identity work, and hypnotherapy to help people perform effectively without unnecessary pressure or burnout.

WHAT IF THEY CAN'T SEE IT?

Paulina Trevena

Aphantasia and Hypnosis

Much of hypnosis training assumes clients can imagine internally in familiar ways.

But what happens when they can’t?

In this session, Paulina explores what aphantasia can teach us about suggestion, imagination, and the assumptions built into hypnotic practice. Drawing on research, clinical insight, and lived experience, she examines how effective work can be done with clients who do not visualise — and how adapting to this can deepen practice more broadly.

Practical, thought-provoking, and highly relevant for anyone working with diverse ways of experiencing hypnosis.

You’ll experience:

• a clearer understanding of aphantasia and how it shows up in practice
• practical ways to work effectively with non-visualising clients
• fresh insight into suggestion and imagination beyond visual imagery

About Paulina Trevena

Dr Paulina Trevena is a hypnotherapist, researcher, and educator specialising in aphantasia and hypnosis. Her own experience of aphantasia led her to investigate how hypnosis can be adapted for non-visualisers, and she now trains practitioners internationally in this area. She also leads the Aphantasia World community and serves as a trustee of the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis.

WHO NEEDS WORDS?

Rowan Ramsay

What happens when change work relies less on explanation and more on presence, attention, and direct experience?

In this session, Rowan explores forms of influence and therapeutic communication that operate beyond ordinary dialogue — drawing on hypnosis, somatic suggestion, fascination, and nonverbal approaches to eliciting change.

Through practical demonstration and reflection, this session invites a fresh look at what can happen when less is said, more is noticed, and the therapeutic process becomes increasingly experiential.

Provocative, unusual, and highly relevant for practitioners interested in the subtler dimensions of change work.

You’ll experience:

• an exploration of how influence can emerge beyond words alone
• practical insight into fascination, presence, and nonverbal suggestion
• a different perspective on how change can be facilitated experientially

About Rowan Ramsay

Rowan Ramsay is a coach, hypnotherapist, and mentor who has been running a global practice since 2011. His work integrates hypnosis, somatic approaches, fascination, breathwork, and meditative practices, informed both by extensive professional experience and a deeply personal journey through anxiety, neurodivergence, and significant health challenges. He specialises in helping people dissolve restrictive patterns and reconnect with resilience, clarity, and self-mastery.

GRIEF, IS LOVE REPACKAGED

Dipti Tait

Grief is often associated with bereavement.

But what about the losses that go unnamed?

In this session, Dipti explores grief as the emotional signature of love meeting loss — not only in death, but in change, identity shifts, relationships, and the lives people expected to live.

Drawing on clinical experience and her work on “life grief,” she shows how unrecognised loss can sit beneath anxiety, low mood, and self-doubt — and why naming it can be a turning point in change work.

Through practical insight and grounded reflection, this session offers a different way of understanding grief and working with it more directly in practice.

Clear, human, and unexpectedly uplifting.

You’ll experience:

• a broader understanding of grief beyond bereavement
• insight into how unrecognised loss shows up in clients
• a practical lens for working with grief in change work

About Dipti Tait

Dipti Tait is a solution-focused hypnotherapist, psychotherapist, author, and speaker with over 15 years of clinical experience. She specialises in “life grief” — the emotional impact of loss, change, and identity shifts — and is the author of Good Grief and Planet Grief. Her work blends neuroscience with clear, accessible insight, helping people navigate complex emotional experiences more effectively.

MASTERING RAPPORT WITH BODY LANGUAGE

Derek Heron

 This session explores how rapport is created, and strengthened, through the subtle interplay of body language, attention, and communication.

Drawing on decades of experience in hypnosis, performance, and behavioural analysis, Derek examines how nonverbal cues can help practitioners establish trust quickly, deepen connection, and respond more skilfully in the room.

Through practical examples and applied principles, this session looks at how rapport can move beyond technique into something more responsive, authentic, and effective.

You’ll experience:

• practical ways to strengthen rapport through nonverbal communication
• insight into pacing, leading, and responsive communication in practice
• a sharper awareness of what connection looks like in real time

About Derek Heron

Derek Heron is a hypnotherapist based in Central Scotland, as well as an author, keynote speaker, and body language analyst whose work has featured widely in mainstream media. With a lifelong passion for psychology and more than forty years performing magic and mind reading, he brings a distinctive perspective to communication, influence, and therapeutic connection.
Author of The Hidden Language of Rapport

THE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE IMPOSSIBLE

Drew McAdam

What drives Drew McAdam is not simply entertaining people — it is exploring how easily the boundaries of the “impossible” begin to shift when expectation, attention, and belief change.

Through live demonstrations combining psychological influence, suggestion, and audience interaction, Drew creates experiences that appear extraordinary while inviting deeper reflection on what the human mind may actually be capable of.

Blending humour, mystery, and decades of performance experience, this closing session brings the Exchange to a memorable conclusion — challenging assumptions and leaving the room with a renewed sense of possibility.

You’ll experience:

• live demonstrations exploring perception, influence, and expectation
• insight into how “impossible” experiences are created in real time
• a shared closing experience designed to inspire curiosity and wonder

About Drew McAdam

Described by the BBC as “Scotland’s foremost mind reader”, Drew McAdam has spent decades entertaining audiences across the UK and internationally through performances exploring suggestion, perception, and human potential. His television appearances include Ready Steady Cook, School for Genius, Brain Smart, and The Trisha Goddard Show. Beyond entertainment, Drew’s work is driven by a deeper fascination with what becomes possible when people stop limiting their assumptions about themselves and others.