On August 2016 Michael Arruda received the Award because of his dedication to hypnosis in building up the OMNI Hypnosis Training Center in Brazil. Within a very short time he was able to make the center into a wellknown and respected insitute in Brazil that helps change many lives in a positive way.

Next to that he initiated many projects that help further the hypnosis profession.

He is the author of the book in Portuges: Desbloqueie o poder da sua mente: Programe o seu subconsciente para se libertar das dores e inseguranças e transforme a sua vida 

Sandra has been given the award for her outstanding work in hypnosis in developing  the HypnoSlim programme, a comprehensive way of looking at problems relating to overweight in a holistic and multidisciplinary approach. 

She is the author of Bulimifrei (German language) a book in which she couragely describes her struggle to overcome bulimia in finding important keys to get cured from this. 

Next to that she wrote the books in the German language “Hypnose alles is Möglich” and “Endlich Schlank durch Selbsthypnose“. 

She gives hypnosis training in Cologne, Munich, Weil am Rhein.

In 2015, Jerry Kein himself extolled Alan Alves at the ceremony at which this award was bestowed, declaring that in America Alan exemplified the utmost in OMNI excellence and praiseworthy hard work in promoting the OMNI tradition, setting a high standard for the entire hypnosis community by the excellence of his ‘Pre-Talk’ video. 

On August 2015 Ina received the Award because she was found worthy of this high distinction on the grounds of the virtuosity and benevolence of her hypnotic skill; the creativity and excellence of her presentations on hypnosis in many international gatherings; her commitment to total quality management, continuously upgrading her practice; her generosity in supporting others, especially hypnosis practitioners, including the sharing of best practices; her exemplary caregiving nature; her dedication to the profession of clinical and non-clinical hypnosis; her high ethical standards; her organization and efficiency; and her signal professionalism in having built a thriving OMNI hypnosis center from scratch and in making OMNI a recognized brand in the Netherlands.

Ina has since then been recognized with an induction into the Order of Braid, is the coauthor of Hypnosis the Key to Self-Empowerment: Explanation, Application, and Scientific References of Hypnosis for Adults and Children, Including a View from the Perspective of Quantum Physics , Surgery in hypnosis: Removing a breast tumor with hypnosis as natural anesthesia, a personal report, has published an article in HypnoGram.