Kona University, a non-profit organization, is a nationally recognized leader in hypnotherapy education. Offering university-level degrees in hypnotherapy as well as the broadest hypnosis instruction program available anywhere through its Training and Seminar Division: The Empowerment Partnership.

Kona University was founded in 1994 by Dr. A.M. Krasner who spent over twenty years as a successful therapist, developing and implementing the many methods of therapy and teaching that have made him famous. His students represent some of the finest hypnotherapists in the nation.

Matthew B. James, MA PhD is the President of Kona University and The Empowerment Partnership since 1997.

Our mission is to empower our students to transform their lives and for them to encourage transformation in others using holistic, complementary, alternative and integrative approaches to psychology and human understanding.

To help actualize such a global vision, The Empowerment Partnership has highly skilled facilitators, including Matthew B. James, who travels extensively throughout the world, touching the lives of thousands every year.

The Empowerment Partnership is the leading authority on NLP, Hypnosis, Huna and Time Empowerment Techniques, tools and techniques for the mind body and spirit.