This workshop will offer a Semi-Structured Guide for interviewing couples, either together or individually, using hypnotic language and circular crossed questioning. A format will be given to lead the first and subsequent sessions. It will show how to construct questions, reframing and tasks using Ericksonian hypnosis and solution-focused therapy to get good results in about four sessions.
Hypnosis lends itself nicely to certain aspects of eating disorder treatment. Eating disorders like anorexia nervosa clearly display trance phenomena. Changing or disrupting any element of an eating disorder complex may inspire beneficial shifts in other parts of the complex. This presentation illustrates several successfully applied hypnotic approaches designed to establish a reality-based body image in an eating disordered person over a relatively brief treatment sequence.
Addressing the affective dimension of pain in addition to the sensory focus typical of hypnotic pain management techniques greatly expands one's therapeutic impact in a manner congruent with the way Erickson practiced. This workshop will involve a didactic presentation, clinical demonstration and individual exercises designed to impact the affective dimension of pain.
Participants will learn brief Ericksonian solutions to problems commonly experienced by clinicians to rapidly heal themselves and their clinician/clients. Problems that clinicians commonly face include emotional problems ABOUT their client's emotional and behavioral problems, procrastination concerning the tremendous amount of paperwork with which clinicians are often burdened, the absence of observable progress with a client, the uncertainty that exists in the healthcare environment and a plethora of other potential barriers.
This presentation will focus on both Ericksonian principles of supervision and hypnosis supervision. The presentation will include Ericksonian principles of supervision, employing hypnosis in supervision and the nuts and bolts of hypnosis supervision.
This course will focus on Ericksonian interventions in the treatment of insomnia including the use of hypnosis and strategic tasks. Participants will learn to use metaphors, therapeutic ordeals and skill-building exercises to develop sleep-enhancing patterns including compartmentalization and adaptive risk assessment.
Usually, we are not aware of our breathing, yet we are always doing it. Moreover, breathing provides a way of consciously managing processes of an unconscious nature. During this course, a theoretical introduction will be made from breath work traditions such as Yoga, to our actual medical understanding of the breathing process. Practical and simple exercises will be done and clinical applications will be given, including the use of breath work in hypnosis.
Children and their families face many challenges that, depending on how they are managed, will have long-lasting influence either for better or worse. In this presentation, we will focus on some of these challenges and will describe some helpful interventions derived from Ericksonian approaches that have been successfully applied in a multicultural school setting.
To enhance client's responsiveness to therapeutic directives, Erickson would often seed interventions in an indirect fashion and then later build upon them. This workshop aims at enhancing the practice and understanding of this brief Ericksonian solution, including: a) research results on the effectiveness and boundary conditions of seeding; b) a demonstration video; and c) a small group exercise.
Milton H. Erickson, MD understood that "the conscious (thinking) mind doesn't do much of anything of much significance . . . while the unconscious mind is an infinite storehouse of dreams, potentials and solutions . . ." This short course will teach a brief, solution-focused, strategic, hypnotic approach to anxiety related disorders. Participants will learn to employ Ericksonian interventions including solution-focused questions, strategic task assignments, and formal/conversational hypnosis via live demonstration, experiential exercise and case studies.