Maybe I can blame this one on hypnotic time distortion, but seriously, it feels like just the other Day that Nathan Thomas, and myself (Leo Gopal) were having an interesting chat on Skype about increasing our hypnosis skills and gaining more practice.
Nathan and myself were still in High School back then, we really considered ourselves hypno-junkies because we would rarely go a day without hypnotizing someone or another. I had just recently crept from behind and overtook him by averaging 3 to 5 new subjects a day and we wanted to figure out how to make hypnosis more widely accepted especially by helping others in our age group to learn hypnosis. This comes from me recently being “banned” by the school headmaster to not perform hypnosis again due to a lack of understanding… However all that changed was I began doing and learning more covert, conversational and waking hypnosis (Hypnosis Without Trance).
Then we started chatting about how sad and disappointing it was that other kids like us could not learn hypnosis or get access to decent material. We know how we think, we will find a way to do something, no matter what. There was also a load of very terrible content and lessons that would just mislead those that read it or tried to learn from it, especially some of the youtube.com video’s we saw.
Nathan and I put our brains together and came up with the plan and idea of working together and creating the first place that people of all ages, under 18 and over 18 can come together, learn hypnosis the right way with a code of ethics and safety and actual real lessons, as well as a forum to discuss and ask their questions and share their knowledge. That is how the concept of the International Association of Teenage Hypnosis [IATH] was born.
By then I was in my final year of high school preparing for finals and one of my subjects and passions was for IT. We can all guess who was tasked with actually creating the site 
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Nathan bought the first hosting, I began building the site, I coded away for a few days as Nathan went away to create the first lessons the IATH will see. and 7 days Later, we were ready to launch!
The IATH was born on the 21st September 2008.
It grew and expanded faster than either of us expected, due to some issues and projects I had here in South Africa I had to take a break off the IATH for a year intermittently…
Last year, I came back full time and with that, I did an entire overhaul of the new IAYH that you are using now, we transformed the International Association for Teenage Hypnosis [IAYH] into the International Association for Youth Hypnotists [IAYH]. This transformation was our answer to the growing age of the founders (Nathan and Myself) as well as the large amount of over 18′s that found the site very useful. We decided to become the first Association to cater for everyone, as well as under 18s with a strong focus on the Youth. The Youth are the future 
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As you would have noticed from the The IAYH Roadmap [Phase One] Exciting Stuff Ahead" href="http://youthehypnotists.com/updates/the-iayh-roadmap-phase-one-exciting-stuff-ahead/">IAYH Roadmap I published a few days ago, there is a lot on our plate to move forward and constantly grow, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for being amazing on this great journey that we undertook. It was not easy. There were many, many, many late nights, with lessons and hackers and spammers and everything that attempted to stand in our way. But we are here. Three Years Old, and you are here with Us! Congratulations! Hypnosis is something that will change your life if it has not done so already, so stick with us, we will stick with you and let’s work together in creating an awesome future in the world of hypnosis.
I will leave you with this thought by Richard Nongard, the Future of Hypnosis is bright!
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