Addictive behavior is the result of inner urges. If the urge is transformed, the behavior will automatically be changed. This workshop explores the structure of addictive responses and how they may be redirected toward more positive outcomes using the integration of language, body and emotions.
This workshop will include demonstrating a smorgasbord of opportunity to engage the patient - the problem, the trance, and solutions; Interviewing for a sense of experiential style, idiosyncratic language and learned skills; Utilizing repeated trances of different sorts by each presenter with a volunteer. This will be interspersed with discussion and practice sessions for participants.
This workshop will enhance your abilities to energize yourself while improving the function of your immune system. Techniques presented will help you focus the power of your unconscious mind through specific suggestions that target optimal immune response. Participants also will learn several strategies to prevent chronic stress and boost energy levels often depleted by the demand of clinical work.
Let’s rework and reframe natural life transitions as positive. Disease models have no place in natural processes. Explore these aspects of change on the deepest levels of gene expression and brain plasticity during mind-body communication and healing in psychotherapy. Let’s explore how we can optimize our lives in an age of unprecedented scientific advances.
This workshop will provide participants with innovative and supportive strength-based interventions to address the unique impact of violence and trauma on adolescent girls. A model for applying Ericksonian hypnosis and metaphor will be presented and practiced. These techniques can be used to facilitate clients in reconnecting to a healthy mind/body state by applying tools for understanding and working with the expressions of trauma such as disordered eating, suicidal ideation, self-harming, addiction, depression, anxiety and phobias in the daily lives and relationships of young women.
When performers of any kind–athletes, lecturers, singers–become self-consciously anxious in front of an audience, they lose the effortless, rhythmic flow of their experience. Workshop participants will explore hypnotic means of helping such clients regain an absorbed, body- based awareness and a coordinated involvement in their endeavor.
By being in the liminal space, that place where boundaries dissolve and we stand on the threshold of moving across the limit of what we were and into what we are to be, we burst into creativity and expansive perception. This workshop focuses on methods to achieve deep trance liminality through hypnosis, alpha/theta training, audio/visual entrainment and meditation.
Survival strategies (fight, flight, freeze) are deep patterns often learned at an early age. If not updated and enriched, they can become limitations. Bateson’s Levels of Learning provide a powerful roadmap for transforming survival strategies to more effective forms of protection and safety.
Eye Closure, Eye Movement integrates the eye movement (EM) component of EMDR within hypnosis. ECEM has application to panic disorder, its associated anticipatory anxiety, and to depersonalization disorder - as a subtype of panic disorder. Hypnotic breathing and other hypnotic techniques, with the addition of EMs, can contain panic, associated anticipatory anxiety and DPD.