IC01 Workshop 23 - Ericksonian Play Therapy - Joyce Mills, PhD
With the healing power of story and play at its center, this experiential workshop will provide
participants with the essential elements of the Ericksonian Play Therapy model. While emphasizing
cultural diversity, natural healing abilities and creative solutions, participants will learn specific
"therapeutic stepping stones" that will help children and adolescents rediscover joy, empowerment and
their ability to soar.
IC01 Workshop 24 - Finding the Energy to Heal: Ericksonian Principles and Energy Psychology - Maggie Phillips, PhD
This workshop explores ways of applying principles of energy psychology to Ericksonian methods of
mind/body healing. Ways that energy therapies, including Ericksonian hypnosis, EMDR and various
body-focused methods, can reopen psychological "meridians" blocked by stress to promote energy
shifts that help resolve symptoms and restore health will be presented and practiced. The format
includes video and live demonstrations, a brief practicum and case consultation.
IC01 Workshop 25 - Stories to Wet Your Breath - Terry Tafoya, PhD
Ritualistic repetition of traditional American Indian stories creates a "scaffolding" of associations on a metacognitive level, offering a framework for problem solving. Participants will engage in story and the making of meaning. Specific clinical examples will be paired with specific stories.
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 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.
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.