IC01 Short Course 18 - The Client's Inner Guide as Mentor and Co-Therapist - Noelle Poncelet, PhD
Life-threatening addictions and diseases often open clients to welcome an inner guide in their
lives. Clinical cases reveal this guide as companion, parent, mentor and co-therapist and
illustrates the impact of their reparative relationship on clients' healing and recovery. Addressed
in this course are induction, anchoring and post-hypnotic methods. A hypnotic encounter/
reunion with such a guide will be demonstrated.
IC01 Short Course 19 - Adolescent Groups: The Challenge of Enchanting and Unbalancing - Sian Segal, PhD
This workshop describes a framework for working with groups of adolescents to elicit their
untapped competencies by providing a safe context for experimenting with new ways of relating
to themselves and others.
IC01 Short Course 20 - The Ericksonian Hypnotherapeutic Relationship and Affect Regulation - Sietze Van Der Heide, PsyD
The exchange of emotions in the clinical relationship is an essential aspect of the therapeutic
process. Since affect is exchanged between the client and therapist at the conscious and
unconscious level, Ericksonian techniques are well suited to facilitating the affective change
process. This workshop will integrate contemporary models of affect regulation with
Ericksonian hypnotherapy. The emphasis will be on applied techniques aimed at increasing the
client's tolerance and capacity for utilization of affect.
IC01 Short Course 12 - The Relationship and Relevance of Dr. Rossi's Mind-Body Work to Other Therapeutic Modalities - Bruce Gregory, PhD
Over the past 20 years Dr. Rossi has innovatively expanded Ericksonian work by demonstrating
its connections to microbiology, chemistry, physics, chaos theory and mathematics. This course
will explore the relationship and relevance of Dr. Rossi's mind-body work to other forms of
psychotherapy. We will learn how mind-body work utilizes and integrates many of the core
processes used in the work of Winnecott, Klein, Jung, Gestalt, Masterson, Kohut and cognitive
therapy.
IC01 Short Course 13 - Working From the Inside Out - Dick Hatten, PhD
It is said Erickson invented a new theory for each patient. This requires working with the clients'
personal subjective experience (PSE). Imagine assuming that everything a person does makes
perfect sense, i.e. has an internal logic. Inventing a new theory requires "stepping inside" the
PSE to understand it and its logic. In this semi-experiential course, participants will learn
techniques for doing this and for working from the "inside, out" to effect therapeutic change.
IC01 Short Course 14 - Impact Therapy: A Multi-Sensory Approach to Counseling - Ed Jacobs, PhD
Impact therapy is a unique multi-sensory, active approach to counseling that integrates
counseling theories with creative counseling techniques. This approach accesses all the learning
styles of clients by putting both the counselor and client into action. Participants will learn simple,
creative techniques that use props (shields, filters, rubber bands, fuses), chairs, movement and
drawings to facilitate learning and retention.
Educational Objectives:
Describe the two aspects of consciousness that can be differentiated and then linked.
Identify four aspects of consciousness represented on the “rim” in the Wheel of Awareness practice.
IC01 Short Course 09 - Altering, Not Abolishing - Douglas Flemons, PhD
Milton H. Erickson once said that the task of therapists "is that of altering, not abolishing"
symptoms. this short course will put this statement in theoretical context, explaining why the
attempt to negate a problem ends up entrenching it. using case examples, the presenter will
illustrate how to use the logic and practice of hypnosis to help clients alter their relationship with
their symptoms and to invite therapeutic transformations.
This short course addresses the advantages of specific metaphorical techniques in hypnosis and psychotherapy for treating anger, depression, chronic pain, and for boosting self-efficacy. A novel group anger treatment will be presented that combines mindfulness principles within Erickson-type teaching tales. Indirect techniques will be discussed and demonstrated.
IC01 Short Course 06 - Combining Ericksonian Approaches and Thought Field Therapy to Challenge Prior Negative Assumption - Suzanne M. Connolly, MSW, CISW
Techniques developed by both Milton Erickson and Roger Callahan, the founder of Thought Field
Therapy, challenge psychological assumptions ingrained in old philosophical constricts. These
non-insight oriented approaches, when used creatively, can lead to dramatic changes even in
areas as seemingly pervasive as self-esteem. Attendees will learn to combine Ericksonian
reframes and Thought Field Therapy to facilitate core self-concept change.