IC01 Short Course 13 - Working From the Inside Out - Dick Hatten, PhD
It is said Erickson invented a new theory for each patient. This requires working with the clients'
personal subjective experience (PSE). Imagine assuming that everything a person does makes
perfect sense, i.e. has an internal logic. Inventing a new theory requires "stepping inside" the
PSE to understand it and its logic. In this semi-experiential course, participants will learn
techniques for doing this and for working from the "inside, out" to effect therapeutic change.
IC01 Short Course 14 - Impact Therapy: A Multi-Sensory Approach to Counseling - Ed Jacobs, PhD
Impact therapy is a unique multi-sensory, active approach to counseling that integrates
counseling theories with creative counseling techniques. This approach accesses all the learning
styles of clients by putting both the counselor and client into action. Participants will learn simple,
creative techniques that use props (shields, filters, rubber bands, fuses), chairs, movement and
drawings to facilitate learning and retention.
IC01 Short Course 11 - Ericksonian Techniques: A Footstep Into the Future - Audrey Sussman, MSW and Tish Schuman, MA
In this workshop, participants will learn powerful techniques to create change. We have
incorporated cognitive, behavioral and NLP techniques into Ericksonian methods to address the
unconscious mind for change. Participants will learn how to use these methods to quickly break
through limiting beliefs, treat clients who have panic or stress and will learn a self-hypnotic
exercise to help relieve insomnia.
IC01 Short Course 09 - Altering, Not Abolishing - Douglas Flemons, PhD
Milton H. Erickson once said that the task of therapists "is that of altering, not abolishing"
symptoms. this short course will put this statement in theoretical context, explaining why the
attempt to negate a problem ends up entrenching it. using case examples, the presenter will
illustrate how to use the logic and practice of hypnosis to help clients alter their relationship with
their symptoms and to invite therapeutic transformations.
This short course addresses the advantages of specific metaphorical techniques in hypnosis and psychotherapy for treating anger, depression, chronic pain, and for boosting self-efficacy. A novel group anger treatment will be presented that combines mindfulness principles within Erickson-type teaching tales. Indirect techniques will be discussed and demonstrated.
IC01 Short Course 25 - Ways to Treat Pain and Anxiety - Christine Guilloux, DESS Psychol.
After redefining the notion of dissociation, this workshop will provide examples of techniques for
changing a client's habitual way of thinking, feeling, behaving and experiencing his/her pain;
helping him/her transform it and/or make it disappear. These techniques apply to "imaginary"
pain, chronic or recurring pain and to anxiety experienced with pain. Illustrations and comments
will be given through case examples.
IC01 Short Course 27 - Curiosity and lgnorance.'A Natural and 'Failsafe" Method ofInducing and Deepening Hypnosis - David Johnson, Grad. Dipl. Appl. Psych.
This workshop will introduce the concept of "curiosity and ignorance" as a means by which
therapy can be performed in a wide variety of contexts, including:rapport building, shifting the
mood of the client, connecting the client with personal resources, highlighting and embedding
change, the treatment of pain, and as a seamless and "failsafe" hypnotic induction and
deepening technique. Demonstration and experiential exercises will be used.
The various aspects that contribute to low self-esteem in young women having a difficult relationship with their partner are helped with two Ericksonian techniques - - metaphors and symbolization. These aspects include healing emotional wounds, remaining at peace with their partner, learning to love themselves, working with social beliefs, limiting ideas and cultural prejudices and being responsible for their own well-being.
IC01 Short Course 23 - Working with Creativity: Milton H. Erickson's Ecology of Inner Resources - Liliana Cane, PhD
Milton H. Erickson, who endowed psychotherapy with an attitude of openness and creativity,
conceptualized symptoms as an access way towards unconscious creative resources. Listening
to the client's symptoms with an open and creative attitude can lead to a transformational
dialogue that modifies the ecology of inner resources. Deep and long-term healing are activated
in short-term interventions.
This presentation poses a substance abuse treatment which acknowledges and accommodates the personal needs being addressed by substance use, bypasses perceived resistance and employs idiosyncratic psycho-biological learning to achieve a body-mind gestalt complementary to the client's sobriety. Client self-empowerment and relapse prevention are built into the intervention. This method develops a safe framework for addressing any subsequent mental health themes directly or indirectly related to substance misuse. Ideomotor questioning is employed in this procedure.