Footprintings, a dynamic new treatment approach, provides effective and easy to use tools for observing and experiencing different Self States, accessing resources and repairing relational perspectives between them. This process lays the groundwork for reorganizing and forging new and supportive internal alliances. In this workshop, we will offer an introduction to the theory and practice of Footprintings. Attendees will then have a chance to participate in a three-dimensional practicum. In addition, an overview of the background literature and research for this new approach will be provided.
Conversational Trances occur in virtually every good therapy session. Possessing phenomena of “regular” hypnosis, they speak powerfully both directly and indirectly to the unconscious. Often this opportunity is ignored. This workshop will show ways to create, use and become comfortable trusting both your and the client’s own abilities with this.
Language is both informative and expressive. It is the expressive component that elicits changes in emotion, sensation, "state," and physiology. Para-verbal forms will be described, including facial expression; voice modulation; gestures; sound effects; behavioral modeling; social mimicry; hesitations, and proximity. Lecture, demonstration, exercises.
Milton Erickson’s ability to use the identified symptom as the seed for a solution is legendary. Yet, his seemingly magical powers are founded on fundamental principles that can deeply enrich the practice of any therapist or coach. This workshop will explore how to help clients transform and integrate the deeper archetypal energy at the basis of a symptom through practices including somatic centering, rhythmic movement and connecting to a deeper “creative unconscious.”
In this practical workshop, we will explore ways of connecting individual clients with their own unique resources by exploring activities they like, connecting with these hypnotically, and transferring these resources to the problem experience so a unique solution can emerge respectfully and effectively through lecture, demonstration, and small group practice.
This workshop describes the use of hypnosis and self-hypnosis for treating phobias and panic disorders. The patient is learning a technique via which he can treat the problem him/herself. Building hope and diminishing helplessness is essential for a successful therapy and the workshop will address different possibilities to achieve this. The workshop is explaining the self-treatment technique via case examples. Homework assignments, pattern disruption, systemic considerations and stabilizing the treatment results are further topics.
The conceptualization of “permissive suggestion” ranks among the most important contributions made by Milton Erickson to hypnosis and psychotherapy. Permissive suggestion is a technique that forms a bridge between a full spectrum of hypnotic procedures and the type of processing needed to address existential dilemmas commonly dealt with in psychotherapy.
Departing from neurophysiological differences between Hypnosis versus Meditation we will focus on metaphor creating and its clinical application. Participants will learn a systematic technique to help patient in order to create solving problems metaphors.
This workshop will describe several hypnotic techniques that can be used in the treatment of patients who have bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder and psychosis. These techniques will help treatment of emotion regulation, relationship improvement, symptom management, etc, specific for the mentally ill. Cases will illustrate the use of the techniques.
This workshop will present an elaborated perspective of dissociation that is designed to assist in therapeutic assessment and treatment planning. Dissociation in everyday life, in psychopathology, and in hypnotic phenomena will be explored.