This workshop will explore the expanding role of creativity in the treatment of resistance. It will integrate Erickson’s resistance protocol with principles from physics and classical music composition theory. Five major components of Erickson’s protocol: validation, the experience of failure, motivation, the conscious/unconscious polarity, and the experience of uncertainties with respect to the lessening of the patient’s defenses will be integrated with the concepts of mass, momentum, motion, position, time, creative repetition and harmony.
Since everyone makes mistakes and bungles opportunities, everyone experiences regret. However, while some people become paralyzed or depressed by regret, others easily “take it in their stride” and move on with their lives. Four different very rapid methods for regaining balance in regard to regret will be demonstrated and taught.
Are you and your clients in a rut? Need to break out of the routine and add fun, interest and efficacy to your sessions? Come see how simple props — paper, cups, blank videocassettes — can be imaginatively used to create an implicit language system that will enhance communication with your clients and generate more impact in every session. Multisensory techniques allow you to tap into the sensory modalities of your clients, going beyond just words to create change. You’ll learn the Mnemotechnique Principles that demonstrate how to stimulate normal functions of memory and imagination to increase your efficacy with every client.
People with depression, one of the most common problems we see, are sometimes stuck and challenging to help change. Medications don’t help all depressed people and, even when it helps, it often comes with uncomfortable side effects and only works partially. Sometimes working with depressed people gets therapists depressed and discouraged. In this presentation, you will learn two hopeful and innovative approaches for helping people with depression to get some traction out of it.
John Weakland & Richard Fisch’s MRI Brief Therapy is among the most effective & influential models in use today. Original writings and clinical recordings will be used to outline Weakland & Fisch’s contributions to interactional theory and therapy. MRI Brief Therapy conceptual framework and clinical techniques for competency based brief therapy will be demonstrated.
The administration, rationale, and research on the Creative Psychosocial Genomic Healing Experience will be explained and experienced by the entire audience. An individual volunteer from the audience will gain personal confidence in utilizing the 4-stage creative process in therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy.
This workshop provides instruction and hands-on experience with Ericksonian interventions less commonly addressed than hypnosis. These include anecdotes, implication, paradox, and task assignments.
Erickson made happiness a legitimate goal of therapy and developed many interventions to enhance it. Positive psychology has provided the evidence to support this. In this workshop you will learn from a leading practitioner about the paradigm shift of positive psychology and develop a number of strategies to apply it in your own work.
Families dealing with an anxious child often unknowingly “help” their child by doing the very things that make anxiety stronger. This workshop will give clinicians strategies that, from the very first session, show parents and children how to identify and interrupt the cognitive, behavioral, and physiological patterns of anxiety in children.
Brief hypnotherapy is particularly suited for children and adolescents with psychosomatic disorders, be-cause it exploits their natural abilities to fall into trance and uses a language of symbols and metaphors. It is based on the Ericksonian belief in the abilities of a child and is astonishing in its effectiveness.