Events in the Field of Hypnosis You Shouldn't Miss
Two Hypnosis Events to Put on Your Calendar: Toronto and Las Vegas
The hypnosis community is fortunate to have an increasingly diverse range of opportunities to learn, connect, perform, and exchange ideas. For professionals, students, educators, and hypnosis enthusiasts, conferences can offer something that online education simply cannot fully replicate: being in the room with others who share your interest in hypnosis.
Two upcoming events deserve particular attention: the 2026 Canada Hypnosis Conference in the Toronto area and the 2027 Performing Hypnosis Summit in Las Vegas.
While both are built around hypnosis, they offer distinctly different experiences.
Canada Hypnosis Conference 2026 — Toronto Area
October 24–25, 2026 | Toronto, Ontario
The Canada Hypnosis Conference 2026 takes place October 24–25 at the Best Western Plus Toronto Airport Hotel, 5825 Dixie Road in Mississauga, Ontario. The organizers describe the event as an opportunity to “Connect. Learn. Grow,” bringing together hypnosis professionals from Canada, the United States and elsewhere.
The conference features 30+ international speakers, with Karen Hand announced as the 2026 keynote speaker. The program also includes practical presentations, live demonstrations, experiential sessions, networking opportunities and social activities.
Why consider attending?
A broad look at hypnosis
One of the attractions of a general hypnosis conference is the opportunity to move outside your normal specialty. Instead of spending an entire weekend focused on one approach, attendees can hear from practitioners working in different areas and compare ideas, techniques, and perspectives.
International networking
The conference specifically highlights attendees from Canada, the United States and around the world. For someone building relationships within the hypnosis profession, two days of informal conversations between sessions can be just as valuable as the formal presentations.
More than the main conference
CHC 2026 also offers pre- and post-conference training. The organizers currently list training on October 23 and October 26, allowing attendees to turn the conference into a longer professional-development experience.
A convenient conference hotel
The conference takes place at the same hotel where attendees can stay. The organizers list a conference room rate of $159 CAD plus taxes, with free parking and a 24-hour airport shuttle, subject to the stated booking deadline and availability.
The hotel itself is close to Toronto Pearson International Airport and offers meeting facilities, Wi-Fi, dining and other amenities, making it a practical base for a conference weekend.
And there’s an evening component.
For people who enjoy the social side of conferences, CHC 2026 includes an optional Saturday evening dinner and get a ticket for Richard Cole’s mentalism show. The conference also lists opportunities for networking and social activities throughout the weekend.
That combination—education during the day and social interaction afterward—is part of what makes an in-person conference different from watching presentations online.
Performing Hypnosis Summit 2027 — Las Vegas
January 22–24, 2027 | Las Vegas, Nevada
If your primary interest is stage, entertainment, and performance hypnosis, the Performing Hypnosis Summit offers a very different type of conference experience.
The 2027 Summit is scheduled for January 22–24, 2027, at the Gold Coast Hotel & Casino, 4000 W. Flamingo Road in Las Vegas. The organizers describe it as a conference dedicated specifically to entertainment hypnosis, bringing professional performers together for three days of learning, collaboration, and connection.
Why consider attending?
A specialized focus on performing hypnosis
Unlike a broad hypnosis conference, the Performing Hypnosis Summit concentrates specifically on the entertainment side of the field.
The 2027 event description highlights stage hypnotists, mentalists, and entertainment performers, with live presentations, practical workshops, and opportunities to discuss the business and future of performing hypnosis.
For someone who performs—or wants to perform—on stage, that specialization can make the experience particularly relevant.
Learn from other performers
Performance hypnosis is a craft that involves considerably more than knowing an induction. Show structure, audience interaction, volunteer selection, pacing, language, comedy, stage presence, and business considerations all become part of the equation.
A conference specifically bringing performers together creates an environment where those topics can be discussed with people who actually work in entertainment.
Community is a major part of the event
The Summit’s history is particularly interesting. It began from conversations between Grant Saunders and the late Jim Kellner about the need for a stronger community among entertainment hypnotists. The first event was held virtually in 2023, followed by an in-person event in 2024. It subsequently moved to the Gold Coast Hotel & Casino.
Today, the organizers describe the Summit as an intentionally intimate event attracting professionals from around the world.
Where better to talk about entertainment hypnosis than Las Vegas?
Las Vegas is one of the world’s most recognizable entertainment destinations. Holding a performance-focused hypnosis conference there creates an interesting opportunity to combine professional education with the atmosphere of a city built around live entertainment.
And the Gold Coast Hotel & Casino provides a very different setting from the Toronto conference hotel, with its classic Las Vegas resort environment.
Toronto or Las Vegas?
These two events aren’t really competing for the same audience—they address somewhat different interests.
Canada Hypnosis Conference | Performing Hypnosis Summit |
October 24–25, 2026 | January 22–24, 2027 |
Toronto/Mississauga, Ontario | Las Vegas, Nevada |
Broad hypnosis focus | Entertainment & performance hypnosis |
30+ international speakers | Stage hypnotists, mentalists & performers |
Practical presentations | Live presentations & practical workshops |
Networking across the hypnosis field | Networking within performing hypnosis |
Pre- and post-conference training | Three-day specialized summit |
Optional dinner & mentalism show | Las Vegas entertainment setting |
The choice may ultimately come down to what you want to get out of your next conference.
If you’re interested in exploring different areas of hypnosis, meeting practitioners from across North America and attending a broad educational program, Toronto offers that opportunity.
If your interests center on stage hypnosis, entertainment, performance skills and the business of performing, Las Vegas provides a more specialized environment.
And for someone deeply involved in hypnosis, there is no reason that the answer has to be one or the other.
Why Conferences Still Matter
Hypnosis is a field in which people can learn through books, videos, online courses, podcasts, and virtual training. Those resources are valuable—but conferences add another dimension.
They provide opportunities to: Meet colleagues face-to-face. Watch techniques demonstrated live. Ask questions directly. You get the opportunity to discover approaches outside your normal circle. The chance to build professional relationships. Exchange ideas informally. Find potential collaborators. Reignite enthusiasm for your work.
Perhaps most importantly, conferences remind us that hypnosis isn’t practiced in isolation. It is a community made up of clinicians, hypnotherapists, coaches, educators, researchers, stage performers, entertainers, students and enthusiasts with different experiences and perspectives.
The Canada Hypnosis Conference and Performing Hypnosis Summit demonstrate that diversity particularly well.
One brings together a broad cross-section of the hypnosis community in the Toronto area. The other creates a dedicated meeting place for those interested in the art and business of performing hypnosis.
For members of the North American Hypnotherapy Guild, both represent opportunities to get out of the office, step away from the screen, meet fellow professionals, and continue the conversation about where hypnosis is going next.
Mark the dates
Canada Hypnosis Conference 2026
October 24–25, 2026
Best Western Plus Toronto Airport Hotel
Mississauga, Ontario
Performing Hypnosis Summit 2027
January 22–24, 2027
Gold Coast Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
Event information and schedules can change, so readers should confirm current details with the organizers before making travel arrangements.
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