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SASH Refresher Day 28 March 2026
28 March @ 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
You’re invited to the SASH Refresher Workshop of 2026
SASH REFRESHER DAY 2026 – APPLICATION FORM
Hypnofringe Adelaide
We have a pot-pourie of guest speakers with research, practice and teaching of hypnosis by experts from both within and outside the Society.
Speakers include: Professor Tasha Stanton; Adrian Booth, Mike Goldblatt and several others. Also showing during the day will be landmark videos of Dr Graham Wicks eliciting Hypnotic phenomena, and Dr Michael Yapko demonstrating the teaching and practice of Process-orientated Hypnosis.
Keynote Presentation
Innovations in perceptual science and their role in chronic pain management
Guest speaker: Professor Tasha Stanton

Professor Tasha Stanton leads the Persistent Pain Research Group at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and is co-Director of IIMPACT in Health at Adelaide University. She is a clinical pain neuroscientist, with original training as a physiotherapist. Her research focusses on pain – why do we have it and why doesn’t it go away? She has received >$17.4m in competitive research funding, has published >135 peer-reviewed journal articles, and she has been a keynote/invited speaker at >120 national and international conferences. Her research has won both national and international awards, including Best Mid-Career Researcher Award (2025 UniSA), the World Congress of Pain Ronald Dubner research award, the Australian Pain Society Rising Star Award and the Australian Physiotherapy Association Best New Investigator Award. She has a specific interest in chronic pain, osteoarthritis, pain science education, perceptual science and novel technologies, such as virtual and mediated reality, to enhance exercise engagement.
All welcome for SASH’s Drinks and Canopies
17:30 – 18:30
Join the Graduates of Class 2025 before their graduation dinner.
Date: Saturday 28th March 2026
Time: 8:30am for Registration with presentations commencing at 9:30am.
Venue: Marryatville Hotel, 239 Kensington Rd, Marryatville
Price: Delegates may select a Refresher Workshop only, Graduation Dinner only or Refresher Workshop plus Graduation Dinner package.
Workshop Timetable
| 0830-0930 | Registration and coffee | |
| SPEAKER | TALK TITLE | |
| 0930-0945 | Celia Whittle, Emma Warne | Introduction and Welcome |
| 09:45-10:45 | Prof. Tasha Stanton | Innovations in perceptual science and their role in chronic pain management |
| 1045-1100 | Morning Tea | |
| 11:00-1145 | Emma Warne | Infertility update |
| 11:45-12:45 | Graham Wicks | Hypnotic Phenomena Video demonstration |
| 12:45-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:00 | Prof. Christen Barras | Hypnosis in Medical Imaging 2026: Emerging from the Shadows Unconscious visuospatial processing: Analysis of the Zen Garden of Ryoan-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan |
| 14:00-14:45 | Mike Goldblatt | Rapid phobia |
| 1445-1500 | Afternoon tea | |
| 1500-1600 | Michael Yapko 30 Video | Process orientated Hypnosis Video demonstration |
| 16:00-16:45 | Mike Goldblatt Allan Cyna |
Hypnosis for surgery |
| 1645-17:30 | Adrian Booth | Movies of our minds |
| 1730-1830 | Delegates & students | Predinner drinks and Canopies |
| 1830-2130 | Graduation Dinner and presentation of certificates | |
