Virtually everyone can benefit from the information presented in Pre- and Postsurgical Support with SCS. Because eventually everyone knows someone who will require surgery or another serious medical procedure, knowing the steps that contribute to a successful outcome is of universal benefit.

The SCS Training Manual and CDs

The materials—a CD set and training manual—may be purchased separately. See Trance-formational Products for more information and to order.

Healthcare Workers Need this Information

If you encounter such individuals on a regular basis as part of their work, you are the type of person who will benefit the most from being well-trained—certified—in Surgical Support. If you are employed in health care—whether that care is physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual—you would benefit from the training program and certification.

When your patients or clients say that they need surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or other serious medical procedure, you will know exactly how to help them and how to help them help themselves.

For specific research on presurgical support, see Huddleston’s Research. Her findings show that patients who prepared for surgery had improved postoperative outcomes, including a reduction in use of pain medication, less blood loss, fewer surgical complications, and shorter length of stay.

These are, of course, all important factors and help the costs—not only financial, but also psychological—of surgery and other serious medical procedures.

Benefits of the SCS Program

The principal advantages of the SCS program is that it goes beyond what is typically thought of as mind-body medicine. The need for surgery or other serious medical procedures presents an opportunity for personal growth. Such situations require more than just a remedial intervention to minimize the physical and emotional trauma of the medical procedure. They require—and present the opportunity for—a generative change that influences the individual’s outlook on life.

Why have “just” an appendectomy when you can have a guilt-ectomy at the same time? Why help people “just” experience less blood loss, when you can also help them be more joyful the rest of their lives?

Three Days of Training—A Lifetime of Change

In just three days of training, you will learn the fundamentals of working with patients or clients in both pre- and postsurgical situations. You will learn how to arrange for “guilt-ectomies” along with medical (or dental) procedures. You will learn how to use both verbal and nonverbal communication to promote desired outcomes.

In the SCS program, you will learn to use verbal and nonverbal communication in powerful ways to help others (and yourself) experience significant and lasting change.

Most people, for example, are unaware of the power of negative commands. If you say, “Don't worry,” you are actually telling the person to worry in the same way that “Don't think of elephants,” leads a person to think about elephants. Most people are also unaware that where and how the word but is used in a sentence influences the way others respond.

Compare the following:

• Most people recover quickly from this surgery, but some people get sick from the anesthesia.

• Some people get sick from the anesthesia, but most people recover quickly

In three days of training with SCS, you will these and numerous other communication strategies that will not only help your patients and clients be relaxed and confident about their medical procedure, but also change their outlook on life so that they can enjoy a greater sense of health and well-being in body, mind, and spirit.

See our current Training Schedule for the workshops we already have scheduled. To arrange for a workshop in your area, call/write now: (269) 921-2217 or Debra for a quick email message.