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Main Workshop: 20th and 21st November 2026, 12pm–6pm UK time. Optional Follow-up Q and A session: Wednesday 9th December 2026, 5:45pm–7:45pm UK time. Online Live Training.
Imagine walking through the desert.
You see a snake in front of you.
Your heart pounds. Your breath shortens.
Your body prepares for danger.
Then you look more closely.
It is not a snake. It is a rope.
Nothing external changed. Yet everything changed.
Your physiology settles. Your fear disappears. No coping strategy required. No belief to replace. No emotional processing. Just one thing:
You saw clearly.
The Psychological Illusion Model (PIM) is built on this principle.
What we call anxiety, depression, compulsions, phobias, chronic stress, and much psychological suffering can often be understood as variations of seeing a snake where there is a rope, deeply convincing experiences created through thought that appear to be reality itself.
Many approaches try to fix the “snake.”
This work helps people realise it is a rope.
When that shift happens, relief can follow naturally, not because something was controlled, but because something was understood.
Jørgen Rasmussen shares his methods of effective therapeutic change and how to become a more effective agent of change, and in this workshop you will:
Drawing on over 25 years of therapeutic practice, Jørgen shares his approach to therapeutic change and his experiences working with difficult or ‘impossible’ clients. This has resulted in him simplifying his approach and going back to the first principles of change. This has led him to develop what he terms the ‘psychological illusion model’ of change work. He also shares his discovery about how many therapists can become more effective by getting out of their own way.
This training is not about adding more tools to your toolkit.
It is not about scripts, step-by-step methods, or treatment formats.
Instead, this work orients around:
Rather than trying to change thoughts, manage emotions, or fix behaviour, this approach explores how experience itself is constructed and how suffering often dissolves when the illusion behind it is seen.
You are not: forcing, correcting, or managing symptoms.
You are helping create the conditions where clients begin to see how experience is being constructed moment-to-moment.
The change comes from their insight, not your intervention.
Many of us have watched a magician perform a trick and felt slightly foolish afterwards.
We know it is an illusion.
But while watching, it feels completely real.
All our attempts to figure out how the trick works only make us more confused because our solutions are based on the same blind spot that allows the illusion to work.
Psychological suffering often functions like this.
People can become absorbed in imagined worst-case scenarios and experience real anxiety.
They can become absorbed in “I'm worthless” and feel depression.
They can become absorbed in “this pain means something is seriously wrong” and magnify chronic suffering.
It is not that they are broken.
It is that they are caught in a psychological magic trick.
This training is like being invited backstage with the magician.
Through stories, demonstrations, and practical experiments, participants explore the mechanisms behind these illusions and learn how to help clients discover this for themselves.
Not by convincing them. Not by correcting them. But by helping them see.
Hypnosis can be described as becoming fully absorbed in an imagined reality.
But people often do this already.
Absorbed in imagined futures.
Absorbed in self-judgements.
Absorbed in catastrophic interpretations.
The Psychological Illusion Model explores how practitioners can create the conditions where clients begin to recognise how they have been “self-hypnotising” through thought, and how this recognition itself changes their relationship with experience.
The practitioner's role is not to fix, persuade, or override. It is to guide attention toward insight.
Jørgen describes four levels at which change work can operate:
This workshop focuses on the fourth level, where shifts often occur naturally as perception changes.
This is an experiential learning environment. The teaching includes:
The aim is to help practitioners develop the sensitivity, presence, and artistry required to support insight-based change.
Rather than learning more methods, you develop:
Participants receive access to 15+ hours of recorded real client sessions, followed over time. These include work with:
These recordings provide a rare opportunity to observe how this model functions in real-world contexts.
An important part of the training explores something often overlooked: the therapist's internal state.
Many practitioners unknowingly divide attention between the client and maintaining their own self-image, managing insecurities, or trying to “get it right.” This consumes bandwidth and can reduce effectiveness.
This workshop explores how to reduce these tendencies and work from greater presence, flow, and psychological freedom.
The Psychological Illusion Model has developed through decades of client work and draws on influences including:
Jørgen continues refining the model through ongoing practice and teaching, and this training presents his most current thinking.
This workshop is suited to:
It is particularly relevant for those who feel drawn toward insight-oriented, principle-based work.
In 2027, Jørgen will be launching a year-long PIM Deep Dive Development Group, meeting monthly for continued practice and refinement of this work.
Attendance at this training, or a previous PIM workshop, will be a prerequisite for joining the PIM Deep Dive Development Group. If you're considering the Deep Dive group, this is your opportunity to complete that prerequisite. Further details on the Deep Dive group will follow in due course.
This Live Online Training includes:
Book using the form at the foot of this page.
Previous PIM participants can attend for an update and refresh at a discounted rate of £190. Also, if you have attended before and you refer someone new to PIM who books on, your place is free. Contact info@aetherandalchemy.net if this is of interest.
"I'm looking forward to studying Jørgen's work again, again, and again. I use his work every day with clients and achieve amazing results. Since starting to work with PIM, I don't advertise anymore; I get all my clients through word of mouth. I will be studying everything thoroughly. I highly recommend anyone working with people to study PIM”
Peter Jakobsen. Hypnotherapist and Metacognitve Therapist and a PIM-ist
“It was Jørgen's books, which I discovered by accident, that sparked my desire to discover more. I signed up for his weekend seminar in search of personal transformation techniques that were different and outside the box, in order to resolve myself and others. But what I discovered was quite extraordinary. My experience was truly life-changing, embodying a knowledge that goes far beyond the intellect. Jørgen's commitment to this model, which he has created throughout his practice, is evident. The stories he introduces are countless and each one has a real purpose. I recommend this experience in Aether and Alchemy without any hesitation".
Natasha Gallo, Clinical Psychologist
"Anyone serious about leading their clients towards meaningful and lasting change should consider training with Jørgen Rasmussen. And it goes without saying that Pete Dalton is hosting one of the best platforms for change workers through Aether and Alchemy, making it an excellent resource for professionals in the field".
Thomas Wood
“The stand-out lecture for me was that of Jørgen Rasmussen. He shared some of his unique techniques and latest ideas coloured by insights from years of meditation. I clapped, nodded and every now and again tried in vain to hold the two sides of my head together as one. This was a dance with the unchanging, a trip into timelessness and one that I believe is going to rip through the industry and therapy as a whole in the years ahead”.
-Anthony Jacquin (commenting on Jørgen’s presentation at the UK Hypnosis Convention)
‘….this is the stuff of genius’
-John Grinder Co Creator of NLP
Jørgen has worked professionally as an agent of change for over thirty years. He is the author of the books “Provocative Hypnosis” and “Provocative Suggestions” which have been widely acclaimed. John Grinder (co-creator of NLP) says of his work… “this is the stuff of genius”. For years, Jørgen has been running what he describes as an ‘impossibles practice’. What he will teach in this workshop demonstrates how he has subsequently refined and simplified his approach over the intervening years, so that it is simpler and more effective and more transferable to other contexts.
Jørgen’s work draws on a number of influences including: hypnosis, NLP, meditation and eastern and western approaches to psychology. He is also an experienced self defence instructor.
