Language is both informative and expressive. It is the expressive component that elicits changes in emotion, sensation, "state," and physiology. Para-verbal forms will be described, including facial expression; voice modulation; gestures; sound effects; behavioral modeling; social mimicry; hesitations, and proximity. Lecture, demonstration, exercises.
Milton Erickson’s ability to use the identified symptom as the seed for a solution is legendary. Yet, his seemingly magical powers are founded on fundamental principles that can deeply enrich the practice of any therapist or coach. This workshop will explore how to help clients transform and integrate the deeper archetypal energy at the basis of a symptom through practices including somatic centering, rhythmic movement and connecting to a deeper “creative unconscious.”
Will relate work with: 1. A woman severely abused and traumatized in a family headed by an "evangelical minister father." 2. A severely depressed, suicidal college teacher, from an abusive family, with what appears to be social phobia, inability to maintain personal relationships, etc. 3. Woman diagnosed as schizophrenic at the age of 9 and her struggle for survival at age 18. On outpatient medications of 800 mg of Thorazine daily. Videos and other AV materials will illustrate these cases. Group members will be invited to share their "impossible cases" and strategies for change and resolution will be developed.
In this practical workshop, we will explore ways of connecting individual clients with their own unique resources by exploring activities they like, connecting with these hypnotically, and transferring these resources to the problem experience so a unique solution can emerge respectfully and effectively through lecture, demonstration, and small group practice.
Women bring to therapy problems and difficulties caused by social, technological and moral changes, and the therapist needs to face them with new Ericksonian methods. Modern society offers women many possibilities, sends ambiguous messages regarding customs and values; therapy faces issues of integrity, ethics and authenticity, transforming faults into virtues.
This workshop describes the use of hypnosis and self-hypnosis for treating phobias and panic disorders. The patient is learning a technique via which he can treat the problem him/herself. Building hope and diminishing helplessness is essential for a successful therapy and the workshop will address different possibilities to achieve this. The workshop is explaining the self-treatment technique via case examples. Homework assignments, pattern disruption, systemic considerations and stabilizing the treatment results are further topics.
The conceptualization of “permissive suggestion” ranks among the most important contributions made by Milton Erickson to hypnosis and psychotherapy. Permissive suggestion is a technique that forms a bridge between a full spectrum of hypnotic procedures and the type of processing needed to address existential dilemmas commonly dealt with in psychotherapy.
This workshop will identify fundamental principles of Ericksonian approaches as they pertain to group work for clients in recovery from substance abuse. Curriculum development, specific exercises and activities relevant to process and psycho-educational groups will be demonstrated. Application successes and limitations will be discussed.
Departing from neurophysiological differences between Hypnosis versus Meditation we will focus on metaphor creating and its clinical application. Participants will learn a systematic technique to help patient in order to create solving problems metaphors.
Shifting from worry to wonder releases conscious struggle and makes more energy available for rapid recovery and healing. Reframing worry as a request from the unconscious mind for a plan to survive an anticipated crisis can facilitate the lowering of stress hormones and muscle tension while enhancing immune system health. Knowing you can access a deep unconscious wisdom and support frees the conscious mind and prepares it to receive a surprise.