Designing and Delivering Hypnotic Interventions

Advanced Hypnosis

Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th July 2010

A Skill-Building Workshop

The study of the science and art of clinical hypnosis begins with the recognition that influence is inherent in the therapy process. Far more complex, though, are the deeper questions related to how one person can instill a belief in someone else that his or her distressing symptoms can diminish, resulting in a recovery, or how someone can suggest to another that he or she evolve a frame of mind that makes success possible in some desired domain.

Hypnosis is often an astonishing phenomenon: How can someone absorb and integrate a suggestion for an altered perceptual framework for the meaning of an experience, encouraging a greater cognitive and perceptual flexibility that helps make relief from psychological distress possible?

This two day course provides many insights into the dynamics of integrating patterns and principles of hypnosis with the core skills of effective psychotherapy. Specifically, we will focus on identifying and developing some of the key skills necessary to design and deliver meaningful psychotherapeutic interventions hypnotically. Following a didactic presentation to establish core principles of the hypnotic framework, participants will observe a live, unrehearsed clinical demonstration.

This will provide them the opportunity to observe the process of interviewing for key patterns that regulate a client’s symptoms, then organizing and providing a structured hypnosis session designed to alleviate those symptoms. Then, each participant will have the opportunity to practice interviewing, then designing and delivering a goal oriented hypnosis session in a small group context. This is not only a training in the dynamics of applying hypnosis skillfully, it is also a training in learning to think and intervene strategically.

Workshop Learning Objectives

Attend this workshop and you will learn to:

• Recognize and more skillfully use the suggestive elements inherent in any type of therapy
• Use hypnosis to increase client responsiveness and enhance treatment efficacy
• Use goal-oriented therapeutic metaphors in diagnosis and treatment
• Develop therapeutic sequences for the unfolding of the therapy process
• Integrate hypnosis with other empirically supported psychotherapeutic approaches

Course Topics:

The course emphasis is on the clinical application of hypnosis in strategic problem resolution.

Common themes of therapy will be considered, and strategies for addressing common disorders will be presented.

The workshop will be structured flexibly to allow for practice sessions, discussion, and question-and-answer sessions. Thus, topics beyond those mentioned below will also be covered.

• Identifying how (not why) the client generates symptoms
• Assessing client patterns of internal organization
• Strategy planning for solution-oriented interventions
• Designing and delivering hypnotic interventions in therapy
• Fostering client independence
• Exercises in performing hypnotic strategies
• Hypnosis as a symptom-specific strategy of active intervention
• Hypnosis as a vehicle of empowerment and skill-building
• Constructing therapeutic metaphors

Participant Qualifications

Health professionals who have had previous formal training in hypnosis. Participants must have previous experience in performing hypnotic inductions and facilitating hypnotic phenomena. This is not a beginning level course.

Approximate Schedule

• Overview: Dynamics of Employing Hypnosis in Psychotherapy
• Integrating Hypnosis into Goal-Oriented Psychotherapy
• Group Hypnosis: Mobilizing Client Resources
• Deconstruction of Experience
• Experiential Assessment: Patterns of Self-Organization

• Live Clinical Demonstration: Designing and Delivering Interventions
• Deconstruction of the Demonstration

Day 2:
Morning

• Learning to Think Strategically
• Exercise: Designing and Delivering an Hypnotic Intervention (Rounds 1 and 2)

Afternoon

• Discussion of Problems Presented and Strategies Employed
• Focus on therapeutic Metaphors
• Exercise: Designing and Delivering an Hypnotic Intervention (Round 3)
• Discussion of Problems Presented and Strategies Employed
• Group Hypnosis: Generativity and Personal Growth

Who should Attend?

• Hypnotherapists

• Psychologists

• Psychotherapists

• Social workers

• Doctors

• Dentists
• Counsellors

Tuition Fees

Early Bird
General Admission $795 per person
VIP Priority Seating (includes lunch) $895
Book Before 31st Jan 2010

Regular
General Admission $895 per person
VIP Priority Seating (includes lunch) $995 per person
Book between 31st Jan 2010 - April 30th 2010

LateComer
Standard Entry $1195 per person
Book after April 30th

Ezidebit Payment Plan

Take the simple path of a payment plan make sure you have your seat
6 monthly payments of $135 per month. Must begin before end of January 2010.

ASCH Member savings apply.

Call the office on 1300 720 525 A joint venture between the ASCH and AICH