To achieve optimal health and functioning, we need our minds to be in a relaxed and focused state. This demonstration uses imagery, color, sound, light, metaphor and transfer of energy to achieve change in states of consciousness for mental and physical fitness.
This workshop will demonstrate through lecture, videotapes case examples and practice exercises how a working knowledge of "language games" can allow therapists to appropriately, respectfully and effectively address emotions in the context of psychotherapy and conversely, how misuse of language could potentially lead to a variety of negative consequences including client disenfranchisement, disempowerment, reification of problems and iatrogenic symptoms.
CBBT focuses on the person's own resources as the basic component of developing the ability to create lasting changes. We keep insight out of sight and focus on behavioral shifts and updates to beliefs. Unconscious process is a major contributor to lasting solutions and the ability to use hypnotic linguistic patterns of "temporary" (in reference to the present state) and "permanent" (in reference to the solution leading to the desired state) is an essential element of the model.
Practitioners of hypnosis use a special grammar to elicit a special phenomenology. These linguistic forms can be applied to empower over psychotherapy even without formal trance. There will be lecture, demonstrations and practice.
IC01 Workshop 26 - Watch Your Tongue: Language is Slippery - Norma Barretta, PhD and Philip Barretta, MA, MFT
Many people stumble through life stuck in linguistic traps which imprison them. Language influences
outcomes. The words we select in working with patients have a power beyond the wildest imagination.
Ambiguity is a most useful linguistic tool. It enables the listener to assign relevant meaning. The
Barrettas will demonstrate and have participants experience everal hypnotically useful language
patterns.
IC01 Short Course 16 - Advanced Strategic Therapy for Beginners: Therapy in the Language Experience of Human Beings - Donald Miretsky, MEd, CPC
This short course will teach advanced conceptualization and technique by summarizing it in the
language experience of human beings. This means teaching a four-step approach incorporating
everyday language, common sense concepts and humor so beginners as well as experienced
therapists can learn and apply the skills. This approach is demonstrated by case and video
presentation of severely disordered children.
IC01 Short Course 37 - Integrating Two Psychotherapy Approaches with Different Philosophical Positions: Ericksonian Psychotherapy and Collaborative Language - Blanca Iris Corzo, MA
As an Ericksonian psychotherapist, how do I open up a space to new frameworks that propose
different and even opposite ideas, such as Ericksonian Psychotherapy and Collaborative
Language? A general review of the main points that define both approaches will be done in order
to know the differences and similarities of both approaches. This course is aimed at inviting
these two positions to co-exist effectively during the psychotherapeutic process.
Educational Objectives:
To know recent mind/body research: Psychoneuroimmunology, psychosomatics and transpersonal experience
To use mind/body connections in psychotherapy