This workshop will offer a Semi-Structured Guide for interviewing couples, either together or individually, using hypnotic language and circular crossed questioning. A format will be given to lead the first and subsequent sessions. It will show how to construct questions, reframing and tasks using Ericksonian hypnosis and solution-focused therapy to get good results in about four sessions.
This presentation offers a completely new way of thinking about miscommunication, along with simple Ericksonian solutions. This perspective is based on Ericksonian approaches and from the author's observations of miscommunications. Observable trends of problem communication that results in mild trances will be illustrated along with ways to overcome and repair common miscommunication. Using an experiential and didactic approach, this workshop will provide participants with useable tools they can also teach their clients.
Hypnosis lends itself nicely to certain aspects of eating disorder treatment. Eating disorders like anorexia nervosa clearly display trance phenomena. Changing or disrupting any element of an eating disorder complex may inspire beneficial shifts in other parts of the complex. This presentation illustrates several successfully applied hypnotic approaches designed to establish a reality-based body image in an eating disordered person over a relatively brief treatment sequence.
Addressing the affective dimension of pain in addition to the sensory focus typical of hypnotic pain management techniques greatly expands one's therapeutic impact in a manner congruent with the way Erickson practiced. This workshop will involve a didactic presentation, clinical demonstration and individual exercises designed to impact the affective dimension of pain.
All of us are shaped by an essence, the stuff we are made of, the hero within. After drawing up an inventory and statement of the basic heroes that we've integrated and the stories that are the ones of our deep metaphors, we will travel and explore those resources that have contributed to our constructions and our structuration in productive and counterproductive ways. This workshop will offer ways to utilize them in our therapeutic goals for inner change.
Hypnoprojectives are a tool that can help us utilize the potentialities of the hypnotic process and enable our patients to do their own reframing. It can be used to expand awareness, shift perspectives and draw upon internal resources split off from conscious awareness. Attendees will be introduced to the use of Hypnoprojectives, learn two basic protocols and practice and discuss clinical applications.
Over the past 20 years, Dr. Rossi has innovatively expanded Ericksonian work by demonstrating its connection to molecular biology, chronobiology, 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, Masterson, Kohut, Jung and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Feel uncomfortable about marketing your private practice? Or maybe you tried marketing with disappointing results. You are not alone. Most therapists weren't taught in graduate school how to build and market a financially rewarding private practice. This presentation offers practical, step-by-step instructions for building an effective, ethical and low-cost marketing plan to attract self-paying clients and addresses specific methods of increasing your marketing confidence.
The daunting task of leading clients from a disempowering sense of external control to an actualizing sense of inner control becomes doable by helping them reframe their behavior from actions to language, i.e. seeing actions as an attempt to send a message or a signal to the world around them. This practical idea will be illustrated in role-play demonstrations of the WDEP system: Wants (or behavior as language), (self) Evaluation, and (action) Planning.
Participants will learn brief Ericksonian solutions to problems commonly experienced by clinicians to rapidly heal themselves and their clinician/clients. Problems that clinicians commonly face include emotional problems ABOUT their client's emotional and behavioral problems, procrastination concerning the tremendous amount of paperwork with which clinicians are often burdened, the absence of observable progress with a client, the uncertainty that exists in the healthcare environment and a plethora of other potential barriers.