- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Dialogues | Storytelling | Hypnosis | Metaphors
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2011
- Faculty:
- Sonja Benson, PhD | George Gafner, LCSW
- Duration:
- 53:34
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 10, 2011
- Short Description:
- How can brief stories create meaningful therapeutic shifts? In this dialogue, Benson and Gafner demonstrate how anecdotes function as powerful clinical tools—whether for ego strengthening, instigating unconscious problem solving, or creating distance through personal experience stories. Through live demonstration and discussion, they show how short, well-placed narratives can build resilience, unlock stuck patterns, and deepen hypnotic work without lengthy scripts.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Hypnosis | Brief Therapy | Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2011
- Faculty:
- Assen Alladin, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:32:25
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 09, 2011
- Short Description:
- In this short course, hypnosis is woven into CBT methods to help clients break habitual rumination, shift emotional states, and strengthen self-regulation. The session offers practical ways to use trance work to deepen cognitive change, support physiological calm, and reduce the likelihood of relapse in anxiety and depression.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Hypnosis | Short Courses | Brief Therapy | Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2010
- Faculty:
- Assen Alladin, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:31:40
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 09, 2010
- Short Description:
- This course dives into how hypnosis can sharpen CBT’s impact by calming somatic distress, interrupting rumination, and accessing deeper cognitive layers that often sustain anxiety or depression. Through demonstration and clinical examples, it offers practical ways to shift entrenched patterns, build positive expectancy, and strengthen long-term relapse prevention.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Dialogues | Hypnotic Induction | Therapy Practice
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2007
- Faculty:
- George Gafner, LCSW | Sonja Benson, PhD
- Duration:
- 56:16
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 08, 2007
- Short Description:
- What does a thoughtful, flexible induction actually look like in practice? In this dialogue, Gafner and Benson move beyond scripts to explore how hypnotic inductions evolve in real clinical work. They discuss directive and confusional approaches, ego strengthening, early learning sets, voice shifts, and decision-making in sessions with anxiety, chronic pain, and insomnia. The conversation offers a practical roadmap for using hypnosis as an adjunct to therapy while staying responsive to the client’s experience.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Anxiety | Phobia | Hypnosis
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2007
- Faculty:
- Sonja Benson, PhD | Teresa Garcia-Sanchez, MA | Sidney Rosen, MD | Reid Wilson, PhD
- Duration:
- 57:43
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 08, 2007
- Short Description:
- Rather than chasing anxiety away, this panel reframes it as a state to understand, engage, and even seek out. Drawing from hypnosis, cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure principles, and experiential techniques, the presenters explore practical ways to work with phobias, panic, OCD, and generalized anxiety. Through clinical examples and lively discussion, they challenge the idea that calm is the goal, and instead invite therapists to help clients build mastery in the presence of uncertainty and distress.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Storytelling | Confusion Technique | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2007
- Faculty:
- Sonja Benson, PhD | George Gafner, LCSW
- Duration:
- 1:49:51
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2007
- Short Description:
- When clients overanalyze, resist trance, or get stuck in rigid patterns, confusion can become a powerful clinical tool. This workshop demonstrates confusional inductions, alternating stories, amnesia techniques, and subtle vocal shifts that help therapists bypass conscious interference and engage the unconscious directly. Through live demonstrations and practical examples, participants learn how to use storytelling, ego strengthening, and strategic distraction to deepen trance and open space for change.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Group Induction | Hypnosis | Storytelling
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2004
- Faculty:
- Norma Barretta, PhD | Phillip Barretta, MA, MFT
- Duration:
- 43:06
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 03, 2004
- Short Description:
- A double-induction approach that uses story, metaphor, and layered language to invite deep trance and flexible learning. Participants experience how seemingly unrelated images, from travel and art to mathematics and the immune system, can organize insight, perspective-shifting, and internal choice-making. The session offers a vivid example of how Ericksonian hypnosis works through experience rather than explanation, showing how confusion, curiosity, and metaphor can open access to unconscious resources in both clinical and personal contexts.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price