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.
This workshop will examine the use and construction of metaphor as part of the process of change. Special attention will be given to understanding the relational context of change, and how the therapist can assist clients in creatively overcoming learned limitations and patterns. Participants will learn the principles of metaphor construction and their application to the facilitation of new meaning and different patterns of consciousness in the client. Experiential exercises and opportunities for skill practice will be provided.
Participants will learn how to select and use metaphors and/or anecdotes to capture attention and stimulate an inner search for personal therapeutic meaning. Each participant will construct and experience the effects of metaphorical interventions.
IC01 Workshop 31 - Handling OCD: The Four Primary Homework Assignments - R. Reid Wilson, PhD
Those suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder are convinced that great harm will come if
they do not comply with rigidly set rules of safety. The therapist can reframe the nature of the
problem and incorporate all interventions within four simple but provocative guidelines. Then,
utilization and pattern disruption lead to new experiences that challenge the dysfunctional beliefs of
the client.
IC01 Workshop 05 - Reframing: The Many Patterns of Meaning - Steve Andreas, MA
There are two fundamentally different ways that people make meaning from their experience, and
at least seventeen distinctly different simple patterns for changing that meaning through reframing.
Exquisite therapists like Erickson and Satir used nearly all these patterns, while most therapists
use only a few. Come add to your skills.
Participants will be guided through several exercises to help them learn and practice the construction of six forms of indirect suggestions, four therapeutic binds and four verbal confusion techniques. A demonstration using these forms will illustrate the implementation of this set of language techniques for the induction process and how they elaborate simple metaphor. Reasons for the use of indirect suggestions, binds and confusion in treatment and their effect will be addressed and demonstrated.
IC01 Workshop 18 - Hypnosis and Exploring Options - Michael Yapko, PhD
When clients feel"stuck," it may be because they are unaware of alternatives. Or they may be aware of
them, but simply don't like them! In this workshop, we will explore ways hypnosis can help lead people
to develop new, satisfactory resolutions, or how hypnosis can better facilitate an acceptance of
undesirable but necessary courses of action.
IC01 Workshop 19 - Using Anecdotes to Set the Stage for Interventions - Bernhard Trenkle, Dipl. Psych.
Seeding is a general approach for preparing ground for interventions. Using anecdotes is a powerful
tool to use in setting the stage for delivering complex interventions. This workshop will give examples of
setting the stage for a variety of symptoms and for techniques like ordeals and homework assignments
IC01 Workshop 21 - Strategic Treatment of Panic Disorder - R. Reid Wilson, PhD
Participants will learn the most direct therapeutic strategies for treatment of panic disorder. Topics will
include patterns of psycho-social development, the panic prone personality, reframing the benevolent
purpose of symptoms, eight attitude shifts, brief calming and focusing skills, responding to worries,
paradoxical management of physical symptoms, pattern disruption, imagery practice and interceptive
exposure.