OCD affects an estimated 2-3% of the adult population and is recognized by therapist as a difficult and long-lasting disorder. A number of useful strategies for working with OCD will be presented in this session, including the combination of hypnosis with cognitive behavioral strategies in reaction prevention and implosive approaches. Systemic ideas for increasing effectiveness of therapy will be stressed. Time will be allowed for participants to discuss the emotional reactions typically experienced while working with OCD patients.
This workshop will provide a unique behind-the-scenes account for applying metaphors in a case example. It will lead you through the processes of why and when to choose a metaphor intervention, how therapeutic stories may be constructed, how they can be employed to address a specific problem, what skill, strategies and techniques they can communicate, and how they can offer outcomes.
Values are exceedingly important dynamics in human motivation and behavioral choice. this workshop explores systemic ways in which values can be considered and incorporated into both hypnotic and non-hypnotic treatment. Participants will complete a values survey to assist in self-awareness.
This workshop will include demonstrating a smorgasbord of opportunity to engage the patient - the problem, the trance, and solutions; Interviewing for a sense of experiential style, idiosyncratic language and learned skills; Utilizing repeated trances of different sorts by each presenter with a volunteer. This will be interspersed with discussion and practice sessions for participants.
The StoryPlay® model weaves together the elements of story/metaphors, creativity, expressive arts and play to form a unique and proven method of therapy to effect positive change, healing and problem-solving. Deriving its theoretical foundations from the principles of Milton H. Erickson and indigenous teachings, StoryPlay® emphasizes cultural diversity, natural healing abilities and creative solutions.
Bateson's Research Team and the Palo Alto Group (Jackson, Haley, Weakland, Fry, and Watzlawick) developed Communication Theory. Grounded in 65 years of research, Interactional Focused Clinical Approaches, derived form Communication Theory offer a radically alternative paradigm for understanding human behavior and evoking change. These essential premises and practical interventions techniques will be described.
Demonstrations of how the ideodynamics of Erickson's hand levitation approach is expanded into a variety of innovative approaches to the replay and positive reconstruction of negative dream experiences.
Using a video of Kay Thompson's brilliant conversational induction with a young dentist, we will explore her masterful focus: 1) by studying her own outline of how she uses words and metaphors to lead (and follow) her subject's journey from conscious to unconscious; 2) by looking at the transcript - a map of where she is going; 3) then by watching, as she journeys with her subject through various states from nervousness and confusion to wonder and joy.
Experiential methods empower therapy. Therapist sculpting is a dramatic method used in the assessment and intervention periods of Therapy. Learn how to "map" the state of the problem and solution, and create therapy goals.
In this workshop the presenters will address the use of clinical intuition across the different sensory modalities when interacting with a client as a complex energy system. Participants will learn how to access their intuition and how to change the consciousness and energetics of the client through the use of trance. Participants also will learn how the "healer" can walk between the worlds of evidence-based medicine and the energetic realms by employing the use of trance states.