BT10 Workshop 29 - Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy - Jeffrey Kottler, PhD
Brief therapy often requires an extraordinary degree of inventiveness and flexibility. Based on interviews with the world’s most creative therapists, this workshop explores those dimensions that are most conducive to breakthroughs—not only for changes in the client’s behavior, but also in the therapist. Greater creativity is possible for any professional who is willing to critically examine cherished assumptions and revitalize work in new ways.
Thanks to a number of recent studies, there is now solid empirical evidence for what distinguishes highly effective from average therapists. In this workshop, participants will learn three specific strategies that separate the great from the good. Participants will also learn a simple method for measuring success rates that can be used to develop a profile of their most and least effective moments in therapy—what works and what doesn’t. Not only will attendees get a far more exact idea of their clinical strengths and weaknesses and how to use the findings to improve their own practice, but they will also come away with concrete tools that will immediately boost clinical abilities and effectiveness.
BT10 Workshop 31 - Brief Strategic Treatment for the Anxiety Disorders - Reid Wilson, PhD
Anxiety disorders manipulate people by injecting rules into consciousness, then using that set of laws to take over mental territory. Clients can gain ground by engineering their own tactics and strategies, including the second-order change of switching game boards altogether. Purposely seeking out anxiety and doubt is their ticket to freedom from crippling fear.
BT10 Workshop 32 - Mindfulness and Trance: A Third Generation Approach to Transformational Change - Stephen Gilligan, PhD
This workshop presents a third generation approach to the therapeutic use of trance. The first generation was authoritarian, "knocking out" the conscious mind and programming the unconscious mind. The second generation, developed by Milton Erickson, respected the creative unconscious but not the conscious intelligence of the client. This third generation work emphasizes the complementary intelligences of the conscious and creative unconscious minds, and explores how to shift both to a generative level that allows significant transformational change.
Helping patients and populations at each stage of change includes strategies for reaching and retaining more patients, reducing resistance and maximizing impacts while minimizing demands on patients and providers. Special emphasis is on growing opportunities for stage based theorogists; including mental health specialists integrated in primary care practices.
Using a developmental lens is powerful to lead couples to make sustained change. Learn to use developmental principles to assess what is wrong and to direct your treatment decisions. Videotapes and clinical case examples will be used throughout the workshop to demonstrate how to promote development in hostile and conflict avoidant couples.
BT10 Workshop 35 - The Science of Persuasion and Brief Therapy - Bill O’Hanlon, M.S.
In brief therapy, we have to be better than long-term therapists in getting people to change and cooperate with treatment. Recent research from social psychology, behavioral economics and new brain science show three powerful principles for being persuasive. Why do marketers know this and most therapists do not? Learn how to be at least as persuasive as marketers.
BT10 Workshop 36 - The Art of Impact - Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
The purpose of art is to impact, whether it is painting, theatre, movies, music, dance, poetry, literature. Psychotherapist can take methods from the creative arts and use them to empower the healing arts to empower emotional impact.
BT10 Workshop 37 - Changing People’s Lives While Transforming Your Own - Jeffrey Kottler, PhD
Therapy processes often affect all participants in the room, clients and clinicians alike. This experiential workshop helps participants to examine the reciprocal change processes that take place, fostering deep level personal and professional changes. Examples are presented from prominent practitioners, as well as interventions initiated within communities and social action projects. Therapists are encouraged to promote their own growth and development as a model for what they expect from their clients.
BT10 Workshop 38 - What Makes Us Human? The New Neuroscience of Therapeutic Hypnosis & Psychotherapy - Ernest Rossi, PhD
Live demonstrations of “The Creative Psychosocial Genomic Healing Experience,” our new, easy-to-learn 20 minute protocol for facilitating the ideo-plastic faculty of therapeutic hypnosis & brief psychotherapy. Why bust your chops trying to make sense of the old, out-of-date Stanford and Harvard Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales that never were appropriate for optimizing “What makes us human?”