The systematics of using guided imagery (GI) for psychotherapy and/or healing will be presented, along with the rationale for each component. Using a volunteer, the attendees will participate in creating a GI; then the presenter will carry out what they have designed. If time permits, attendees will experience a generic group GI.
Eye Movement Integration Therapy (EMI) is one of the most innovative and effective treatments for difficulties stemming from highly distress- ing memories. This workshop will present the basic principles of EMI, as it was developed by Connirae and Steve Andreas in 1989, and include the refinements Danie Beaulieu has added during the last ten years of practicing, teaching, researching and writing about this technique.
In this workshop, Drs. Accaria and Appel will discuss their use of energy-based medicine techniques and how they integrate them into their clinical and hypnotherapy practices. Topics addressed will include: how to introduce energy-based methods to clients; how to determine with which clients to use these methods; how the clinician might market/advertise his/her use of energy-based techniques.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.