It is the pledge of the NZ School of Clinical Hypnotherapy to train, to Diploma Level, professional clinical hypnotherapists who are equipped to work with clients in New Zealand. To honour this pledge the School will teach only such techniques that will result in deep hypnotic trances for clients so as to assist them to change their behaviour according to their desire. The School will promote the concept that hypnotherapy is not an alternative to traditional medicine but rather complimentary to the established medical and health modalities. The School will deliberately discourage the use of hypnosis on a stage or anywhere else for entertainment purposes, regarding hypnosis as a very useful tool to assist people to bring about changes in their lives but not to become the subject of ridicule. The School will endeavour to turn out well trained graduates who will assist in the establishment of hypnotherapy as a viable health modality, respected and trusted by the public and the traditional health modalities in New Zealand.