Stin-Niels Musche
Trained in the Elman line. Teaching since 2013. The man Ines Simpson chose to carry her life's work forward. And, on a good day, the most stubborn skeptic in any room about what hypnosis can and cannot do.
He was taking notes on the wrong thing
Late 2009, a seminar room with about a hundred people in it. Stin is not watching the flip chart. He is watching a man two meters to his left.
In the chair in front of that man sits a woman in hypnosis. Stin writes down every word, every touch, every step in order. On the third day he looks at his pages and thinks: hold on. He does exactly the same thing every single time.
A hundred people in the room. Not one of them sees it, because their eyes are on the person in the chair, not on the therapist. Hypnosis was not his field back then. He trained communication: sales conversations, personnel reviews, rhetoric. And he had a problem he could not solve. People came to the seminars, practiced, performed brilliantly, drove home, and applied none of it. So he and his team went looking for something that actually moved people. They found hypnosis.
What he saw that week was a thirty-year-old pattern shifting in an afternoon. What he wrote down was that it was a reproducible process.
He started doing regressions before he had any training at all
Late 2009, with nothing but those notes. It worked. He is the first to say that is not a recommendation. He had a good vantage point and he had luck, and if something had gone sideways in a session he could not have told you what he would do.
His first real hypnosis training came at the end of 2011, in Germany. By then he had already been working with people for two years. In 2012 he trained with Gerald "Jerry" Kein in the United States, and that is where the craft came from.
If you ever wonder why this school is so insistent about craft, about stop criteria, about what you do when a session does not go to plan: that is the reason. He had that gap himself, and he does not want you to have it.
The evening he worked out which city he was in from the furniture
A hotel lobby, somewhere in Germany. That was the moment.
He gave up the communication trainings and went into hypnosis full time. Late that year he stepped in for one more seminar, and there Hans-Peter Ricklin asked whether he could imagine teaching hypnosis himself. He failed to say no at exactly the right moment.
In spring 2014 he spent a week in the United States doing instructor training with Jerry Kein, the man he had trained in hypnosis with two years earlier. If you know American hypnosis, that name tells you most of what you need about how he works: the Elman tradition, direct, structured, built on observable technique rather than mystique. In May 2014 he stood in front of his first own hypnosis training. He later completed train-the-trainer certification with Dr. Richard Nongard and the International Certification Board for Coaches and Hypnotists.
He lost that argument badly. Then he built his own school.
Between 2014 and 2017 he kept getting into trouble, always for the same reason: his students practiced regression during their training.
The sentence came back at him again and again. You cannot let them practice that.
At a large instructor meeting in Boston in 2017 he tried to convince the others. His argument was simple. Anyone who has never practiced a method will not use it out there. They will work around it, and the client ends up getting suggestions aimed at a problem whose cause nobody ever looked at.
He lost. Clearly. By early 2018 the collaboration was over, because inside that rigid frame he could not train people the way he believes it has to be done.
Hypno School had been founded in 2017. That argument is a large part of why.
Seven years between learning a technique and using it
In 2013 he learned parts therapy in a training. Guess when he first used it in his own practice.
Summer 2020. Seven years that tool sat in the box, and then the person it was made for sat down in front of him.
If his training had been a weekend and a binder, he would have had nothing in that moment but a vague memory. Instead he could go back, learn it again properly, and walk into the session prepared.
That is the entire reason this school is built hybrid. Theory on video, available whenever you need it, for as long as you need it. Practice live and together, because a sentence on paper is not the same as a sentence you hear someone say, with the emphasis, the pause, and their eyes on the client.
You will still have access in four years. That is not a feature list item. It is the thing that decides whether you ever use what you learned.
What has happened since
client sessions
hypnotists trained
teaching since
YouTube subscribers
And he still sees clients. He holds a licence as Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie in Germany and keeps his own practice, which is not nostalgia. The regression script you will learn here descends directly from those notes taken in 2009. It looks different now: pieces removed, wording changed, some of it working better than the original. You only find that out if you are still working with actual people.
You can only teach well what you still live.
Twelve years beside the woman who built the Simpson Protocol
Stin began working with Ines Simpson in 2013. He did not learn her method from a manual or a weekend course, he learned it beside her, over more than a decade, and became the first instructor in the world besides Ines herself permitted to teach it. He helped shape it as it developed.
Today he is her named successor. He holds the worldwide rights to the Simpson Protocol and owns the trademark.
In all these years I have never met anyone who understands the Simpson Protocol as deeply as Stin. He has not only mastered the technique, he has understood what it is about at its core: giving people back the lead over themselves. If I place my life's work in one pair of hands, it is his. Ines Simpson, developer of the Simpson Protocol
Hypnosis without the hocus pocus
That sentence is not a slogan he bought from an agency. It is what he spends most of his working life doing.
He runs the largest German-language YouTube channel on hypnosis, and the majority of that channel is not selling anything. It is taking myths apart: the idea that you can be made to do things against your will, that some people cannot be hypnotized, that a stage show and a session have anything in common. He answers the comments too, including the hostile ones.
He speaks at the largest hypnosis congresses, and the talks people remember tend to be the ones where he says what a method cannot do.
That is also the standard he teaches by: depth instead of tricks, the why before the script, and an honest "I do not know" whenever that is the accurate answer. It costs him sales. He considers that a fair price.
He flew to Zurich as the organizer and came back as a participant
In March he went to a retreat run by Dr. Petra Frese to hold the room: handle the logistics, make sure everyone had what they needed, and stay out of the way. Shortly before it started, Petra looked at him and told him the puppy protection was over. It was not a question.
So he sat there. Not as an instructor, not as a therapist, not as the guy from YouTube. As a participant, with his own material.
What he understood that weekend was how long he had been wearing a mask. Always the strong one, always in a good mood, always the sunshine everyone expected. He had never noticed what it cost him. And then he cried in front of the group, including people who knew him as their own instructor.
Nothing he had spent years protecting himself from actually happened. Nobody thought less of him. He lost nothing.
He tells this publicly for one reason: he teaches people to work with what others keep hidden, and it would be dishonest to do that from behind a mask.
"I am your mountain guide. You still have to walk."
No training makes you safe. Not a certificate, not a binder. Practice does.
What he promises instead: you may ask anything. Genuinely anything. There is no withheld knowledge here and no advanced course where the decisive part finally shows up. You get what he has.
His stated goal is immodest on purpose: that you become at least as good with these tools as he is. Not that you copy his language, his gestures, or the flippant streak he uses deliberately to take the weight out of heavy things. You bring your own. Technically, though, he wants you at the point where you never again have to ask someone what you should have done next. Because you know.
Symptoms are flowers. Anyone can pull off a flower. We go for the root. The question running under every session: why does a person do something that harms them, when they know better?
Carlsbad and Hamburg
Stin currently splits his time between Carlsbad, California and Hamburg, with the permanent move to the United States planned for the summer of 2027. Wisdom Heroes is the American home of the school he built in Germany.
There is a certain symmetry to it. He learned hypnosis from an American and the Simpson Protocol from a Canadian. Now he is teaching both back on this side of the Atlantic, in English, with everything the German school worked out over the last decade.