The most radical and enduring contribution of Milton Erickson to psychotherapy was the principle of utilization, which states that whatever a client presents, including negative experiences, can be positively used for therapeutic change. This presentation offers a theoretical framework for understanding how and why utilization is a generative principle in psychotherapy, emphasizing ideas of archetypal patterns, psychological sponsorship, deep structures vs. surface structures, and the central of role of skillful human presence in creating value in any experience.
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What can mental health professionals do to enhance their performance? Available evidence makes clear that clear that attending a typical continuing education workshop, specializing in the treatment of a particular problem, or learning a new treatment model does little to improve effectiveness. In fact, studies to date indicate clinical effectiveness actually declines with time and experience in the field.
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Throughout his career Erickson maintained that a cure is a matter of having the required experiential resources in each situation. This demonstration examines what that means for hypnosis and therapy.
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Expressive elements in the work of Beethoven and Erickson will be compared. Mood and perspective are impacted by expressive elements, not by information.
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All of us are shaped from an essence, the stuff we are made of, the hero within.
With his numerous physical problems, Milton H. Erickson had to struggle for life and for every day life. His example is extraordinary in many ways and is, for many of us, a distinctive model; a hero. And Milton has also become a story teller.
Mindfulness has been well researched as an efficacious addition to psychotherapy. Adding a mindful perspective for your client teaches helpful tools which promotes the therapeutic process and enhances your interventions on many levels. This clinical demonstration shows how to work with client suffering to bring about a feeling of presence and wellbeing. The client's problem is viewed through a different lens of the present moment, without judgment, and through acceptance. Transformation is possible here and now as the audience and the client step together with us on the mindful path.
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The modern perspective of hypnosis considers the role of attention and absorption in catalyzing adaptive responses. Hypnosis provides a context for developing new associations on multiple levels that have therapeutic potential. In this clinical demonstration, a hypnosis session will be conducted to assist the client in evolving resources that may be helpful to personal growth.
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Treating anxiety with hypnosis often focuses on relaxation and calmness; and while physiological regulation is an important anxiety-managing skill, hypnotic interventions with anxious clients offer rich opportunities to shift the relationship and responses people have to anxiety and worry. Hypnosis can introduce important cognitive skills that interrupt the process of worry and anxiety while creating an experience of malleability.
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IC01 Short Course 17 - The Oral Tradition: An Ericksonian Framework - John Parke, PsyD
This short course will introduce participants to a new framework for Ericksonian therapy drawn
from studies of oral tradition cultures. Members of oral cultures communicate in a style that is
similar to the way Milton H. Erickson performed psychotherapy. This course will introduce
participants to the patterns and habits of oral traditional communication and draw parallels to
Ericksonian work. The workshop includes a storytelling exercise.
All of us are shaped by an essence, the stuff we are made of, the hero within. After drawing up an inventory and statement of the basic heroes that we've integrated and the stories that are the ones of our deep metaphors, we will travel and explore those resources that have contributed to our constructions and our structuration in productive and counterproductive ways. This workshop will offer ways to utilize them in our therapeutic goals for inner change.
IC01 Short Course 15 - Moving beyond victimization - Les Blandino, Jr., LPC, LMFT
The Madanes apology process is an active, respectful and humane approach, which helps those
traumatized by such family injustices as violence and incest begin to heal. Workshop participants
will witness how these powerful interventions have been used with actual cases. Examples
include work with the victim, victimizer, parents and other family members.