Guided Metaphor is a systemic approach using the clients life story as a vehicle to restructure their lives. The client is empowered to create a new life story, and this is told back to them using hypnotic language. The client literally transforms the metaphor of his/her life.
The use of ECEM (eye closure, eye movement) will be demonstrated in this session. ECEM targets negative imagery associated with anxiety and involves the use of the eye movement component of EMDR within a hypnotic context.
In this workshop, the presenters will offer a dual vision of the axis of the impressive growth of the Centro Ericksoniano de Mexico and its multiple achievements and the role of the founding director as the leader and the consultant as the mirror. Participants will experience and practice two exercises on the art of collaboration and sharing.
This workshop examines the critical elements of effective clinical supervision. This approach is designed to identify and build on clinician strengths, and to augment these strengths with new skills.
This advanced workshop will center on three stages of therapy in an Ericksonian model, the setup, the intervention and the follow-through. We will learn how hypnosis can be used in assessment and in each stage of therapy. There will be lecture and demonstration.
This workshop presents several Energy Psychology techniques that can be used to reduce stress, rebalance the energy system and turn on positive energies. Additional methods include techniques that can help prevent as well as treat chronic stress symptoms. These approaches can be easily taught to clients and are equally effective for therapist self-care.
Cloe Madanes will present new conceptual models for understanding the most difficult problems presented to therapy and step-by-step procedures for resolving them. The workshop will include the presentation of videotapes of real therapy sessions with individuals, couples and families. There will be opportunity for discussion.
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. Klajs will stress systemic ideas for increasing the effectiveness of therapy. Time will be allowed for participants to discuss the emotional reactions typically experienced while working with OCD patients.
Specific direct and indirect techniques are required to activate family resources and to induce a deep and meaningful change of the most rigid family patterns. A family hypnotic session reveals the powerful and subtle resistances a family may develop in the course of the hypnotic treatment as well as of the many different solutions a therapist may adopt to overcome these resistances. Special focus will be on how to properly combine direct and indirect in the different phases of the therapeutic process.
This course offers a practical step-by-step approach to overcoming addictions and other vicious cycles. A multidimensional learning approach utilizing Ericksonian strategies and hypnosis helps one's patients make small changes in each of the areas of their lives: mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, behavioral and social. These six changes ripple out in a positive, interactive fashion to create a new way of life. Sample hypnotic protocols are distributed and explained.