Fall 2026 Cohort INTRO DAY
Havening Techniques® Practitioner Certification
With veteran Havening Trainer Doug O’Brien & Havening Trainer Feather Windwalker
JOIN US for the first day of out 14 week cohort. See what Havening is all about first hand.
And then decide. You could take a Havening Techniques® curriculum in an intensive weekend program with somebody else.
OR you could stay with us.
Over 4 months, we’ll meet LIVE each week for 90 minutes—giving you time to
Live on Zoom
Fourteen Wednesday mornings, September 30 – January 13, 2026–27
10AM- 11:30PM (Eastern time)
The Havening Techniques® can help with many issues, including distressing memories, trauma, fear and
pain. Havening is a psycho-sensory technique that uses the sensory input of touch plus imagination and
verbal interaction to create lasting change by utilizing current neuroscience, assembled by its creator Dr.
Ronald Ruden, PhD, MD.
More about Havening…
Havening targets encoded traumas by disconnecting related painful emotional components from traumatic
memories. The distress of re-experiencing an event is mitigated through a process called depotentiation.
Using the Havening touch protocol, creates delta waves in the brain. These delta waves facilitate an
electrochemical production of the enzyme calcineurin, which removes the AMPA receptors from the
neurons holding the trauma in the amygdala.
You can take the Havening Techniques® curriculum in an intensive program. That’s the way we used to do them and most people still do.
But we’re doing it differently.
Over 4 months, we’ll meet LIVE each week for 90 minutes—giving you time to
Learn | Practice | Integrate
and return with questions, refine your skills, and practice again.
Because knowing a technique isn’t the same as having it ‘in your bones’ when you’re sitting with a client.
Two Trainers. Two Perspectives. One Integrated Learning Experience.
Doug O’Brien brings decades of mastery in NLP, Neo-Ericksonian Hypnosis, coaching and Havening.
Feather Windwalker brings years of Havening practice, training facilitation and mentorship—and a passion for helping practitioners understand not only how Havening works, but how to make it their own.
About Your Trainers
Doug O’Brien
Doug O’Brien is one of America’s leading Hypnotherapists, NLP & Havening Practitioners based in New York City. He was a master trainer for the Anthony Robbins’ training company and, in the 1990’s, helped establish the Department of Complementary Medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital with Dr. Oz. He is the author of “The User’s Guide to Sleight of Mouth,” an NLP book on belief change, and is an internationally recognized trainer of NLP and Ericksonian Hypnosis
Feather Windwalker
Feather Windwalker is a Coach and Havening Techniques Practitioner Trainer. She is dedicated to life-long learning, a human evolution visionary, curious about individual potential for growing edges. As a survivor herself she brings compassionate witness to self-discovery. After a lifetime of transcending adverse experiences, complex Grief & Loss, Feather is adept at liberating herself and her clients from intrusive and life-limiting thoughts, moods, and behaviors. Harnessing neuroplasticity with delta wave techniques Feather has accessed her own inner physician to evolve on her healing path, Feather Wind Wisdom.
Together we’ll explore Havening as an Essential Coaching Skill—and give you time to integrate it with the skills you already use.
Meet Feather on the Essential Coaching Skills Podcast:
Is Havening an Essential Coach Skill?
The program includes:
- Weekly 90-minute LIVE training and guided practice
- The complete Havening Techniques® Practitioner curriculum
- Certification ‘Supervision’ and practice between sessions—because Practice Makes Permanent
- Time to bring your real-world questions and experiences back to the group
- Weekly cohort meetups as you complete certification requirements
- A learning community designed for integration
Don’t just take a Havening training. Give yourself the time to become a Havening Practitioner.
Book your Enrollment Consultation Here!
During this fourteen day training, participants will receive one-on-one instruction by seasoned practitioners on
how to apply these techniques. Havening will serve as a perfect compliment to your present skill set or
even the basis of a whole new approach to healing.
This program is designed for, but not limited to, people in healing professions.
- If you are a doctor, nurse, therapist, hypnotist, educator, or coach, Havening can dramatically enhance your practice.
- If you are a parent or teacher who works with children who have issues with self regulation or are “on the spectrum”, Havening is a fantastic tool that can help with that.
- If you are a social worker who helps teens with anxiety or depression, or if you are a first responder who has difficulty after an incident on the job, Havening can be a great addition to your skill set.
JOIN US for this unique opportunity to not just learn the Havening Techniques®, but to fully integrate them by the time the class wraps up in January!
Download Doug O’Brien’s paper,
“Be your Best with Self Hypnosis”