Thanks to a number of recent studies, there is now solid empirical evidence for what distinguishes highly effective therapists. In this workshop, participants will learn the qualities and practices that separate the great from the good. Participants also will find out about a system of feedback procedures that can be used to develop a profile of their most and least effective moments in therapy - what works and what doesn’t. Not only will attendees get a far more exact idea of their clinical strengths and weaknesses and how to use the findings to improve their own practice, but they will also come away with concrete tools that will boost clinical abilities and effectiveness.
An Ericksonian induction structure will be presented and demonstrated. Utilization, a foundation of Ericksonian hypnosis and psychotherapy, will be incorporated and demonstrated. Practice sessions are included.
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Loved ones leave us, couples and friends separate, we suffer physical changes as we grow up during adolescence and as we grow old, work changes happen, as well as our mood, which evolves throughout our lives.
This primarily experiential workshop will guide participants through two related hand focusing hypnotic induction techniques that utilize both Western and Eastern concepts of energy balance. This will include Western concepts of nerve conduction, hemispheric functional differences, cybernetics, resonance, coherence and entrainment, with Eastern concepts of polarities and the unblocking, flow and balance of energy (Chi, Prana).
Zonefulness is the integration of mindfulness mediation, hypnotic zone exercises, and solution-oriented / strategic therapy. This workshop will enable participants to learn How To Become Smart Enough To Know When To Stop Thinking; How To Dismantle Atomic What-Ifs; and how to seamlessly access their peak performance zone. This workshop will afford participants to experience group hypnotic zone exercises, a live client demonstration, as well as a discussion of case studies. The work and influence of Dr. Milton H. Erickson will be highlighted throughout the entirety of the presentation.
With cases and anecdotes, this presentation shows how a therapist can question and review classic therapeutic statements and avoid giving the client suggestions which are difficult to achieve - such as clichés like "Express your anger," "Face your fears," "Live in the here and now" - and provide new and original ways of intervention.
Treating post-traumatic disordered patients requires multi-level communication; overt contracting and informed consent, plus covert suggestion implying greater competency than patients experience. Key issues are role differentiation, establishing safety parameters, neutralizing regressive invitations, working with significant others, and challenging patients to master their trauma through redefining their personal identity.
Self-Image Thinking (SIT) is a term Lankton coined in 1979 for a cognitive-emotional intervention he uses with clients. SIT is a cognitive-affective rehearsal of experience and behavior that takes advantage of the neurological motto: "What fires together, wires together." This workshop will cover both the SIT protocol and various therapeutic uses of the intervention.
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This program focuses more closely on the needs of clinicians who fall into particularly high risk groups. Topics include confidentiality and privilege for children, coping with high-conflict divorce/custody families, the regressive impact of the regulatory environment on family therapy in particular, supervision/consultation issues that arise for professionals whose agency positions may include functions that conflict with ethical codes.
Expanding on Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of flow, participants will learn how to help clients challenge their rigid frames of reference so that they can enjoy gratifying interactions with life. Participants will learn ways to instill perspectives that welcome novelty, end the struggle with uncomfortable moments, and motivate action toward valued goals.
OCD affects an estimated 2-3% of the adult population and is recognized by therapist as a difficult and long-lasting disorder. A number of useful strategies for working with OCD will be presented in this session, including the combination of hypnosis with cognitive behavioral strategies in reaction prevention and implosive approaches. Systemic ideas for increasing effectiveness of therapy will be stressed. Time will be allowed for participants to discuss the emotional reactions typically experienced while working with OCD patients.
This workshop will provide a unique behind-the-scenes account for applying metaphors in a case example. It will lead you through the processes of why and when to choose a metaphor intervention, how therapeutic stories may be constructed, how they can be employed to address a specific problem, what skill, strategies and techniques they can communicate, and how they can offer outcomes.
Therapists can use themselves with artistry as exquisite barometers of the moment-to-moment shifts of consciousness flowing between their own unconscious and the unconscious of the client. Using Erickson's focused attention, Satir's parts model and Feldenkreis' awareness through movement we will practice six strategies to refine our use of these connections. Didactic, video, experiential.
This is a practical, personal growth workshop demonstrating how the new neuroscience principles of novelty, enrichment and physical exercise can be facilitated with creative replay and reframing as the fundamental dynamics of Erickson's work.
An ego state may be defined as an organized system of behavior and experience. When one of these states is invested with ego energy, it becomes “the self” in the here and now. Ego states can block resolutions for therapy success because they do not normally become open and observable. Detecting and revealing the ego states that are blocking the therapeutic process is the first step in collaborating with the patient, changing the resistance to resources, evolving the ego states and giving the patients better control of themselves. Therapeutic goals are achieved by using a combination of Ericksonian Hypnosis and Gestalt Techniques.
It is important to respectfully facilitate a patient's naturalistic elicitation of hypnosis through a rhythmic, absorbing process. This workshop presents "truisms," suggestions, and the "yes set" as just such a way to elicit hypnosis for a variety of applications.
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This experiential workshop will offer practical and respectful solution-focused techniques for working compassionately and effectively with angry, traumatized and involuntary clients who have been beaten up by life, illness, or addictions.
The StoryPlay® model weaves together the elements of story/metaphors, creativity, expressive arts and play to form a unique and proven method of therapy to effect positive change, healing and problem-solving. Deriving its theoretical foundations from the principles of Milton H. Erickson and indigenous teachings, StoryPlay® emphasizes cultural diversity, natural healing abilities and creative solutions.
IC01 Workshop 18 - Hypnosis and Exploring Options - Michael Yapko, PhD
When clients feel"stuck," it may be because they are unaware of alternatives. Or they may be aware of
them, but simply don't like them! In this workshop, we will explore ways hypnosis can help lead people
to develop new, satisfactory resolutions, or how hypnosis can better facilitate an acceptance of
undesirable but necessary courses of action.
IC01 Workshop 31 - Handling OCD: The Four Primary Homework Assignments - R. Reid Wilson, PhD
Those suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder are convinced that great harm will come if
they do not comply with rigidly set rules of safety. The therapist can reframe the nature of the
problem and incorporate all interventions within four simple but provocative guidelines. Then,
utilization and pattern disruption lead to new experiences that challenge the dysfunctional beliefs of
the client.
We can understand how Erickson did therapy by studying his tools. But there's something more important than that; what and why he did so. We need to understand the dynamics he used and we need to understand them systemically. In this workshop I'll try to explain main change models of OBM and its relationships with system thinking and Ericksonian approach. So what Erickson did could be visible by identifying background system dynamics of his therapy. I'll also show some techniques of OBM which can be used in therapy room with great impact.
Ericksonian therapeutic approaches emphasize the importance of the relationship between the therapist and the client. This experiential workshop will give methods of connecting on deeper levels with clients and demonstrate these ways, both with and without formal hypnosis, as well as ways of using that connection for therapy. Practice opportunities will be provided.
Group and individual demonstrations will illustrate the use of novel ideodynamic hand approaches to therapeutic hypnosis as presented in chapter 10 of Rossi's "The Psychobiology of Gene Expression: Neuroscience and Neurogenesis in Hypnosis and the Healing Arts."
This workshop is an experiential session designed to compare and contrast views of self with the view of self as compared by others in a therapeutic interview.
This workshop leads participants in exercises which will unravel the cognitive-emotional mechanism of self-sabotage. The focus is aimed at strengthening participants' automatic associations to resources even in times of low motivation and self-imposed excuses to avoid success.
Positive psychology is talking about concepts of flourishing, happiness and well-being. Through practical exercises, useful strategies and demonstration, learn about the up-to-date developments in this growing field, its clinical applications and the relevance for your life as well as the lives of your clients.
This workshop reveals the psychological secrets of success of elite athletes and performing artists and makes them available to therapists working with clients wishing to bust slumps or achieve excellence in any aspect of their lives - work, play, romance. Learn the psychological tactics of Lance Armstrong, Willie Mays, John McEnroe, Ali, EMINEM and Dumbo and then learn how to put them to work for your client using hypnotic, solution-focused, strategic protocols.
Hypnotic conversations explore, evoke, engage and reallocate and experiential resources. Having hypnotic conversations with young people who meet criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), presents challenges both in relating and accessing resources. The challenge extends to helping their parents to better parent by seeing them as resourceful and capable.
The hypnotic induction is the vehicle for facilitating the qualities of dissociation that characterize hypnotic experience: selective attention, detachment, multiple-level processing, non-volitional responses, and so forth. In some ways, the induction used matters very little and in other ways matters a lot. In this workshop, we'll explore and practice with a variety of induction processes ranging from structured to conversational.
During the Decade of the Brain, fMRI and SPECT scans provided new insights. But after the dust settled, it was not clear how therapists could use this information in the service of mental health. Combining Ericksonian paradigms with the latest science of brain dynamics, this workshop will lay out a step by step methodology that can be easily followed and implemented to improve and optimize your clients’ emotional and cognitive functioning.
Experiential methods empower therapy. Therapist sculpting is a dramatic method used in the assessment and intervention periods of Therapy. Learn how to "map" the state of the problem and solution, and create therapy goals.
In this workshop the presenters will address the use of clinical intuition across the different sensory modalities when interacting with a client as a complex energy system. Participants will learn how to access their intuition and how to change the consciousness and energetics of the client through the use of trance. Participants also will learn how the "healer" can walk between the worlds of evidence-based medicine and the energetic realms by employing the use of trance states.
The power of expectations to influence both the onset of symptoms as well as the quality of clinical response to treatment is will established in the literature. In this workshop, we will explore how expectancy influences experiences of all types, and how hypnosis can be used to help establish positive expectancy of treatment success.
Meditation is a useful tool for therapy and for life. This experiential workshop describes meditation's roots in the ancient traditions of Yoga, Buddhism, Zen and Taoism. It will develop the mental tools used when meditating with exercises. Participants will be shown how to meditate and apply the result to stress, habits, emotions and learning.
The first factor that is of central importance is developing a strong therapeutic alliance with the client, mainly through empathically relating to him/her. Second, it will be shown how to guide adolescents and younger children to identify the specific Activating Event (AE) that is bringing about their unhealthy negative emotions through triggering self-defeating cognition(s).
This lecture, demonstration and practice workshop will go step-by-step through the phases of trance induction. The differences between well-known methods will be explained.
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Increase your ability to improvise and think creatively on the spot. Rejuvenate your ability to find the humor and imaginative spark in all types of situations. In this almost totally FUN and experiential workshop participants will learn a variety of exercises from improvisational comedy and acting that will stimulate their own consciousness of inventiveness. A great way to supercharge yourself for the rest of the Congress.
During this presentation, the development of chronic pain syndromes and some practical interventions will be discussed. Specifically, assessing patient's current functioning within a "whole-person approach" will allow clinicians better information about where to begin assisting with change. While using the "evidence-based treatments" as a starting point, finding ways to tailor the intervention to the individual will be reviewed. We will honor the long-history of hypnosis being used to treat chronic pain. Finally, we will review outcome research indicating what seems to make the most effect for patients with pain.
There is growing evidence for an additive effect when hypnosis is combined with brief therapies in the management of various emotional disorders. This workshop will describe Cognitive Hypnotherapy, an innovative integrated approach to brief psychotherapy that systematically combines hypnotic techniques with CBT in the management of various emotional disorders to enhance treatment outcome and prevent relapse. This course will be invaluable to therapists who wish to broaden their skills in the management of emotional disorders.
This workshop explores the use of hypnosis to create mystical or transcendental states of consciousness. As Maslow noted many years ago, even a brief or faint taste of such experiences seems to change people in dramatically positive ways. One momentary immersion can change a person's psychological and emotional condition forever, perhaps even altering basic hormonal, neurological and biochemical states.
This is an experiential "dream shop." Since most people spend between 1/4 and 1/3 of each 24 hours in sleep state, learning to make use of dreams can often facilitate and speed up therapy. This workshop offers a unique approach to using dreams therapeutically and will include small group practice in dream retelling and decoding. Come prepared to explore your dreams.
Giulia’s story began almost 30 years ago while Milton Erickson was still with us. He offered amusingly bizarre suggestions to us about what to do with her. Those suggestions lead to several metaphors which helped her to create an escape plan from the “zoo” in which she was trapped.
Excellent supervisors have a way of joining well with their supervisees. Supervisors build strong associations with supervisors, help supervisees extol their areas of incompetence to collaboratively build competencies, and supervisors learn to utilize what the supervisee brings to enhance the quality of the relationship. Through the supervisory relationship, supervisors/supervisees collaboratively generate approaches to working with clients, building appropriate treatment plans, and helping supervisees develop skills needed to work independently.
This workshop provides a framework for assessing clients along two important dimensions that impact therapeutic outcome: motivation and sense of agency (one’s perception of their ability to create change in their own lives). This assessment fosters interventions that enhance the capacity for strategic interventions to be truly brief and solution focused. The participant in this workshop will have the opportunity to observe and practice this approach.
Dr. Erickson proposed that all our life experiences were learnings and resources registered in our Unconscious Mind. He considered Unconscious Mind as a Wise Part. For Quantum Physics in the same way that all the information about each person is in its DNA, the information of the Whole Universe is present in each one of its parts. I call that information our Universal Wisdom. Wisdom, because it is all the information and Universal because it is the same everywhere. For me Universal Wisdom is the Creative Force, and so, Almighty. That is not a question of beliefs but a question of imagining. What we imagine for our brain is stronger than what it recognizes as reality.
IC01 Short Course 27 - Curiosity and lgnorance.'A Natural and 'Failsafe" Method ofInducing and Deepening Hypnosis - David Johnson, Grad. Dipl. Appl. Psych.
This workshop will introduce the concept of "curiosity and ignorance" as a means by which
therapy can be performed in a wide variety of contexts, including:rapport building, shifting the
mood of the client, connecting the client with personal resources, highlighting and embedding
change, the treatment of pain, and as a seamless and "failsafe" hypnotic induction and
deepening technique. Demonstration and experiential exercises will be used.
IC01 Short Course 20 - The Ericksonian Hypnotherapeutic Relationship and Affect Regulation - Sietze Van Der Heide, PsyD
The exchange of emotions in the clinical relationship is an essential aspect of the therapeutic
process. Since affect is exchanged between the client and therapist at the conscious and
unconscious level, Ericksonian techniques are well suited to facilitating the affective change
process. This workshop will integrate contemporary models of affect regulation with
Ericksonian hypnotherapy. The emphasis will be on applied techniques aimed at increasing the
client's tolerance and capacity for utilization of affect.
IC01 Short Course 01 - Talk To Your Client's Eyes Not Just Their Ears! - Danie Beaulieu, PhD
Do you know that 60% of all information gathering to the brain comes from the eyes? Surprisingly
however, most therapies focus on ears. Have you ever felt that while you were talking to your
client's they were actually recording their own inner talk rather than your words? When we speak
to the eyes, we don't get that kind of distortion. This workshop will present different ways to
bypass the client's resistances and to trigger their other powerful learning systems. This
workshop will offer many new creative tools to address a wide range of psychological problems.
Often, being dubbed a "master" means that what the teacher does cannot be done by others. However, a cornerstone of Jeffrey Zeig's lifelong quest has been to demystify, annotate, and democratize Milton H. Erickson's work and then his own. In this session, the presenter will map the breadth and scope of Zeig's work, which he has augmented by integrating a theoretical and experimental corpus with the most effective practices of the arts: film, music, theater, literature, and dance.
Hypnotherapy and psychotherapy have been developing over time through various phases. Directive therapies with an intervention orientation have shifted over the years to suggestive and client centered approaches. More recently both research and practice has opened our minds to relational and responsive approaches. The concept of “client responsiveness” is discussed in my book with Ernest Rossi, The Practitioner’s Guide to Mirroring Hands.
Advances in the priming research have validated the rationale and impact of Erickson’s linguistic techniques. To wit, the priming research has confirmed that we are controlled by an unconscious behavioral guidance system more than previously conceived and, once covertly activated, unconscious goals are just as powerful as or more powerful than conscious goals. To the surprise of many, goals do not require an act of will to be acquired.
Chronic anxiety and depression present significant challenges for those affected by these conditions. A behavioral treatment which accesses deep levels of mind-body functioning facilitates remission of these debilitating conditions. This treatment, conceptualized as essential neurobiological communication (ENBC), incorporates a form of body language known as ideomotor signaling.
What can we do for dying people and their families in addition to palliative care? What is helpful to communicate during the last hours of life?
In this workshop we bring integrate the millennium-old pictorial traditions of religion with techniques of hypnotherapy including pacing and leading, utilizing metaphors, and the evocation of values and convictions of dying patients with their families.
Bateson's Research Team and the Palo Alto Group (Jackson, Haley, Weakland, Fry, and Watzlawick) developed Communication Theory. Grounded in 65 years of research, Interactional Focused Clinical Approaches, derived form Communication Theory offer a radically alternative paradigm for understanding human behavior and evoking change. These essential premises and practical interventions techniques will be described.
IC01 Short Course 04 - The Neurobiology of Pain Processing and Hypnosis - Jeffrey R. Feldman, PhD
This short course will review the neurobiology of pain processing and hypnotic suggestion.
Neuroimaging studies will be emphasized, including landmark studies by Rainville and his
associates ( 1997, 1999) which identified distinct areas of the brain differentially activated
depending on the nature of hypnotic suggestions. An hypnotic technique which utilizes the
distinction between the sensory and affective dimensions of pain will be demonstrated.
Implications for current practice and future research will be discussed.
The effect of Traumas can persist throughout a person's lifespan and across different areas such as work, finances, intimate relationship, sexuality, relationship with body, and people at large. Beside building resiliency to reenter life's day to day activities, releasing of many beliefs that get created at the time of the trauma about the self and the world is necessary for the traumatic effect and impact to move from destructiveness to constructing life.
It has become increasingly documented that the vast majority of patients with adult pathology, reported experiences of severe childhood trauma. Early appropriate therapeutic intervention can relieve symptoms and prevent adjustment difficulties and pathology.
A theoretical overview of the effect of trauma will explain the process of dissociation as a coping mechanism to deal with overwhelming experiences. The child dissociates from feelings and memories associated with trauma in order to survive emotionally. The dissociation is initially helpful and enables the individual to cope, however eventually it can result in pathology and become destructive.
Chronic pain is frequently encountered by healthcare professionals. The current treatment is primarily pharmaceutical intervention with Opioids or NSAIDS that create new problems and address a limited part of the pain. Pain, whether physical or mental/emotional, tends to be experienced as one. Anticipated pain and memories of past painful incidents also contribute to the experience of pain.
According to research (Rashidian et al. 2015), Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder ‘Vaginismus’, causes significant sexual challenges for groups of sub-population women in the US. This workshop provides raw data and statistical analysis, supporting the hypothesis that these women experienced sexual pain as a manifestation of biopsychosocial conditions, resulting from cultural orientations. These include the cultural do’s and don’ts that shapes sub-population women’s sexual beliefs and attitudes, as a result of their life experiences within their cultures, impacting emotional and physical sexual experiences negatively.
Most descriptions of hypnotherapy come from clinicians. We talk about the ideas and techniques informing what we did with a case, and then we share what we observed and understood our client’s response to be. This workshop takes a different approach. The presenters—Drs. Eric Greenleaf and Jimena Castro—explore the creative synergy of Ericksonian hypnosis through the mutual participation and perspective of both therapist and patient.
The Greek philosopher Pythagoras was among the first to recognize the healing powers of music. Milton Erickson, the musician of mind, body and soul, was the first to structure communication for greatest effect so that clients could change many aspects of their life, not merely their presenting symptoms. Just as the cadence of voice and patterns of speech form the music of Ericksonian communication, repetition and rhythm create the emergence of a trance state in music, film, and in poetry. The utilization of art and creativity in a hypnotherapy model functions as a catalyst accentuating the nuances of core competencies such as tailoring, utilization, strategic approach, and destabilization.
IC01 Short Course 07 - The Use of Ericksonian Hypnosis in the Treatment of Borderlines and Addictions - IIana H. Oren, PhD
Borderline personality is an underlying character structure, marked by a fragmented sense of
identity and maladaptive patterns of perceiving, behaving and relating to others. The Borderline is
stuck in "yes, but!" or "I hate you! Don't leave me!" stance. In order to get the habitually
oppositional patient to respond, the therapist needs to structure the therapeutic messages in a
way that they are not easily recognized on a conscious level. Ericksonian hypnosis paves the
way.
IC01 Short Course 22 - Dorothy Meets the Wizard: An Allegory for a Psychodynamic Approach - Ana Rita Almeida, MSc, Agostino Almeida, MA and Peter Hawkins, PhD
The Wizard of Oz is a story that is part of almost everyone's childhood. This tale can be seen as
a metaphor for a psychodynamic approach. To illustrate this, a live demonstration will be used.
In it we will address some psychodynamic concepts within a hypnotic situation. To conclude,
some time will be devoted to discuss the issues raised.
This workshop presents young Erickson’s transformative voyage of discovery – ostensibly to improve his physical health and muscular strength after poliomyelitis. This experience significantly influenced his outlook on life, paving the way for his future therapeutic strategies. This seventy-four-day canoe journey contains, in my view, the fundamentals of “the hero’s journey” as described by Joseph Campbell.
Finding sources of funding can be difficult. Responding to requests for proposals doesn't have to be. This is a "nuts and bolts" workshop which offers a solution-focused approach to preparing grants.
Values are exceedingly important dynamics in human motivation and behavioral choice. this workshop explores systemic ways in which values can be considered and incorporated into both hypnotic and non-hypnotic treatment. Participants will complete a values survey to assist in self-awareness.
The conceptualization of “permissive suggestion” ranks among the most important contributions made by Milton Erickson to hypnosis and psychotherapy. Permissive suggestion is a technique that forms a bridge between a full spectrum of hypnot- ic procedures and the type of process needed to address existential dilemmas commonly dealt with in psychotherapy.
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Eating disorders are rapidly evolving towards a kind of "refined specialization." Young women with bulimic or anorexic tendencies have discovered different ways that enable them to control their weight without giving up the pleasure of eating, thus nowadays we encounter new forms of eating disorders. All these have different persisting patterns and attempted solutions. As a result, each requires a different treatment protocol.
Therapists sometimes say, "It's the journey that matters, not the destination." But, only therapists say that - not clients. Clients typically want results, and so it is largely up to the clinician to structure an effective intervention. In this workshop, we will consider the fundamentals of designing and delivering goal-oriented hypnosis sessions.
Warmth is essential to life itself and we have therefore been attracted to it since the beginning of time. Conversely cold, the absence of warmth is associated with conditions of a more precarious nature such as scarcity, isolation or even demise. The association also seems to hold true for human relationships: people who are able to signify the concept of warmth in the way they relate to others appear socially competent, trustworthy and charismatic. The presence of warmth positively enhances attachment experiences and therefore moments of significant emotional connection.
Effective therapy, or coaching, is touching and moving clients. As professionals, we are providing an emotional service because all of our clients’ problems have to do with emotional self-regulation. Therefore, to make therapy effective the impact must be affective!
In this course, we are going to illustrate how Erickson’s classic Utilization principle can be translated into chrono-bio-genomic terms. For a long time now, we have known that this principle lies at the basis of Erickson’s amazing ability to facilitate the natural self-healing, growth and evolution processes that every patient possesses inside. To date, only few therapists have integrated the chro-bio-genomic dimensions that are inherent in the Utilization principle, in their clinical practice.
Erickson was known by the efficiency of his treatments and how he was able to quickly treat difficult patients. He used different strategies and techniques with a unique style. However, he did not create a systematization of his strategies.
Milton H. Erickson was a pioneer in understanding and managing chronic pain, even in his own life. He developed a variety of original and very effective hypnotic approaches to deal with pain. Acute pain is different from chronic pain, as recent research shows. The persistent of pain causes changes that permanently alter various areas in the brain and their communications. Chronic pain does not respond well to typical acute pain treatments and should be approached differently, with a more global and integrated approach.
Dr Erickson’s work with individuals, couples and families has been well explored, but what is often overlooked is his skill in information gathering and interventions that connected a client to their community. Communities are not what they were in his time and attempts to do this without first building a healing community can be fraught.
IC01 Short Course 40 - Ericksonian Approaches to Weight Loss and Non-Smoking: Strategies to Enhance the "Psychology of Permanent Habit Control" - Brian Grodner, PhD
Too often out initial enthusiasm is diminished, replaced by resignation, dissatisfaction and burnout. Group discussion and individual exploration will help to clarify the passion that made participants become interested in their work. In a combination of conversations with other participants, group hypnosis and individual hypnosis this experience will become clearer and more vividly experienced. This will then allow for future experiences to be more readily accessible.
IC01 Short Course 18 - The Client's Inner Guide as Mentor and Co-Therapist - Noelle Poncelet, PhD
Life-threatening addictions and diseases often open clients to welcome an inner guide in their
lives. Clinical cases reveal this guide as companion, parent, mentor and co-therapist and
illustrates the impact of their reparative relationship on clients' healing and recovery. Addressed
in this course are induction, anchoring and post-hypnotic methods. A hypnotic encounter/
reunion with such a guide will be demonstrated.
The various aspects that contribute to low self-esteem in young women having a difficult relationship with their partner are helped with two Ericksonian techniques - - metaphors and symbolization. These aspects include healing emotional wounds, remaining at peace with their partner, learning to love themselves, working with social beliefs, limiting ideas and cultural prejudices and being responsible for their own well-being.
IC01 Short Course 05 - The Red Queen and Psychotherapy's Missing Voice - Robert J. Brem, MA, MC
This short course explores the notion of the Red Queen hypothesis - - as a critique of modern
"hyperculture" and its impact on social structure and in turn, its impact upon "healthy" social and
personal life. The presentation starts with a multidisciplinary theoretical overview and then looks
at the dynamics of social induction of people into cooperating via their behaviors with a way of
being that is not always healthy for them in psychological and biological terms. There will be open
discussion and options for practitioners to play beyond traditional milieus of psychotherapy.
The American novelist William Faulkner stated, "The Past is never dead. In fact, it is not even past." This presentation emphasizes the unconventional use of reality therapy that connects the past with the presents by helping clients realize that their current behaviors are normal responses to abnormal situations that they have experienced. It also operationalizes the Ericksonian principle: "The solution often appears unrelated to the problem."
This experiential workshop promises to provide attendees with techniques which can be adopted or adapted for their patients whose response to stress is problematic. Their patients can benefit from learning select techniques which have the power to guide them in the direction of mental and physical ease. These coping interventions are easy to learn and easy to teach.
There are many ways in which hypnosis can be used to assist clients in accessing and utilizing their internal resources in the service of change. One approach to hypnosis is to create “singles,” brief recordings of three to eight minutes in length, to provide clients with “fingertip resources” that can be accessed quickly and easily. Much like a song on the radio or track played on a phone, brief hypnotic experiences are invitations to clients for rapid absorption, which can facilitate shifts in emotion, cognition, and physiology.
This workshop will teach participants skills in using metaphors and stories to help patients experience a deep contact with themselves so that they can survive and even thrive following life-changing surgery. The material will focus on Ericksonian approaches that help patients heal, experience comfort, and restore body homeostasis. Clinical examples from patients undergoing transplantation – including face transplantation – will be presented. Face transplants are extremely complex and relatively rare. They usually require many months and even years of preparation.
Created by Tim and Kris Hallbom, Dynamic Spin Release is a powerful set of processes that allows users to quickly release their negative thought patterns and emotions, limiting beliefs and physical pain – in just one brief session.
Dynamic Spin Release (DSR) was created using ideas delineated from the world famous psychiatrists, Carl Jung and Milton Erickson – and draws heavily from the psychology of metaphors, NLP, Ericksonian Hypnosis and creative visualization...
IC01 Short Course 21 - The Ericksonian Molecule: Past, Present and Future - James Rini, EdD
The Erickson molecule represents Erickson's underlying method of producing therapeutic
change. This molecule is important because it depicts the process Erickson used to effectively
access unconscious resources, bypass conscious resistance and link reorganized cognitive
processes to future contingencies. Today's high tech/information rich culture is prompting the
need for quicker, more effective methods of helping those in need.
Whenever asked, “What is the most important aspect of using hypnosis?", Milton Erickson usually responded, ”observation.” He would say, “Look for what they don’t tell you.” We will include some observation-sharpening activities and some revealing experiences we have had with non-verbal information.
Hypnosis may well be the original Positive Psychology. Anyone who does hypnosis does it because of a belief that people have more resources than they realize. Encouraging people to find and use these hidden resources through hypnosis is the subject of this workshop.
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How do we take care of ourselves as therapists? That question is at the center-point of this experiential workshop. Participants will be provided with five pathways for how they can reconnect to the magic in their own lives: 1) Renewal from the Roots Up; 2) Lessons Learned from the Natural World; 3) Restoring the Breath of Life; 4) Rituals for Remembering; 5) Giveaway: Sharing the Vision.
This presentation will review the concept of dissociation and its evolution in modern Psychology and its relationship with hypnotic process, when it is described as a mind state of focused attention. We will explore the idea of dissociation between the conscious and unconscious mind during hypnosis and how it can lead to therapeutic success. Some practical exercises and demonstrations to provoke dissociate states.
Pathological gambling is an impulse control disorder characterized by persistent and recurrent maladaptive gambling behavior. Hypnotic phenomena of absorption, dissociation and imaginative involvement seem to play a significant role in the persistence of gambling behavior. These capacities of the client can be utilized in effective treatment, using hypnosis.
PTSD is a clinical problem that may be a covert cause of hypnotherapy failure. Paradoxically, hypnotherapy has been proven useful for treatment, even prior to the formal description of diagnosis. The main features and case results of this program, which has been successfully applied in clinical research and practice, will be presented.
Autism, a developmental disorder, is a challenge that has been focused on from several treatment perspectives – from nutrition science to neuropharmacology. Classical and Ericksonian hypnosis offer significant advantages for improvement. A program will be presented that has been successfully applied in clinical research and practice. Its main features and case results will be presented.
This presentation poses a substance abuse treatment which acknowledges and accommodates the personal needs being addressed by substance use, bypasses perceived resistance and employs idiosyncratic psycho-biological learning to achieve a body-mind gestalt complementary to the client's sobriety. Client self-empowerment and relapse prevention are built into the intervention. This method develops a safe framework for addressing any subsequent mental health themes directly or indirectly related to substance misuse. Ideomotor questioning is employed in this procedure.