Practitioners of hypnosis use a special grammar to elicit a special phenomenology. These linguistic forms can be applied to empower over psychotherapy even without formal trance. There will be lecture, demonstrations and practice.
IC01 Workshop 01 - Building the Therapeutic Alliance Hypnotically - Michael Yapko, PhD
Almost every therapeutic model emphasizes the importance of the therapeutic alliance. In this
workshop, we will consider how conducting relatively simple hypnotic processes (e.g., for teaching
relaxation) can serve to en enhance the alliance and prepare the client for gradually more complex
sessions (e.g., for teaching elaborate skills).
IC01 Workshop 27 - The Need For Connection: Building Relationships That Are Therapeutic - Dan Short, PhD
Therapeutic rapport is prerequisite not only to hypnosis but also to most forms of intervention. In
this workshop, participants will learn strategies not commonly taught, such as how to develop a
sincere interest in the well-being of clients whom you initially dislike, how to recognize and respond
to the strength/fragility of the client's ego and when to use confrontation as a method of building
trust and mutual respect.
Much of the effectiveness of hypnotic communication comes from nonverbal processes. This workshop will guide participants in how to develop, sustain and use these nonverbal connections for both induction and utilization purposes. Special attention will be given to using hypnosis as a poetic language that touches, evokes and engages the felt sense of a person's meaning making process.
IC01 Workshop 26 - Watch Your Tongue: Language is Slippery - Norma Barretta, PhD and Philip Barretta, MA, MFT
Many people stumble through life stuck in linguistic traps which imprison them. Language influences
outcomes. The words we select in working with patients have a power beyond the wildest imagination.
Ambiguity is a most useful linguistic tool. It enables the listener to assign relevant meaning. The
Barrettas will demonstrate and have participants experience everal hypnotically useful language
patterns.