Maximizing Healing

Workshop:

In this workshop, therapists, educators, body workers and other mental health professionals will learn how to track the subtle, naturally occurring sequences of conscious and unconscious behaviors in client interactions, both with the therapist and with each other, in couples or families. They will learn how to help clients awaken their own alternative dormant patterns of relating and how to guide clients toward spontaneous healing states.
Michele’s premise is that therapy can help a client shift from a symptomatic mental set to a creative meditation. She will demonstrate that there is a stream of life that runs through even the worst human dilemmas. If therapists enter into that flow, like Goldsworthy does with art, or like a chi master does with the body, they may help individuals, couples and families to re-balance their behaviors and feelings,
Workshop attendees will learn that truly every human challenge is unique, and that it is in the details of this uniqueness that they will discover what Borges called the astonishment and the wonder needed for their clients (and themselves!) to produce transformation and healing.
Many hard problems can be resolved, while clients feel comfortable, laughing and chatting. This workshop will consist of lecture, the experiential and role-playing and will describe three basic steps all healers need to do with clients. No knowledge of hypnosis is necessary to attend this training. All levels accepted.

Biographical:

In 1983, Dr. Michele Ritterman heralded the systematic integration of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Systemic Family Therapy, with her pioneering text, Using Hypnosis in Family Therapy. This cutting edge work, continuously in print since 1983, in English, Italian and Spanish, is now published with a new introduction by ZeigTucker press, and has been called “a classic book filled with seminal ideas.”
One of Milton H. Erickson and Salvador Minuchin’s foremost students, Dr. Ritterman is also a human rights activist. Her second book, Hope Under Siege: Terror and Family Support in Chile with a foreword by Isabel Allende, and translated into German, as Liebe und Terror, is a testament to the power of the loving family to awaken torture survivors from the most evil of social trances, what Dr. Ritterman calls the Counter-Therapy by the State. Dr. Ritterman has also just produced the first CD on hypnosis for two, Shared Couples Trance, emphasizing the importance of closeness in one part and separation-within-relationship in the other part, to help couples rejuvenate their love on a deep level.
An expert on naturally occurring trances in couples and families, in her master classes across the globe, she teaches that transformative psychotherapy produces counter trances. These newly formed states offer a powerful and long-lasting medicine with no harmful side effects to the organs, especially not the sacred brain!
Her inspiring workshops are filled with comedy and heart. Above all, people describe their time with her as fun and a chance to explore just what they really want to know. Her papers on subjective time, torture, family therapy and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy may be downloaded from her website at www.micheleritterman.com. Handouts will be distributed at the workshop.

Dr. Ritterman describes the Berkeley CA workshop:

This is an eight week workshop. On Friday afternoons from 12 to 3. A total of 24 hours of training in maximizing the healing power of connection. Cost will be $650 in advance, $700 if payment is received within the first week of training.

The focus is upon work with states of mind and tracking interactional suggestions, especially the ones below the ordinary threshold of perception, the subtle ones that can drive people out of their own minds.

The workshop starts the third week in September, 2006 and will include the following Friday dates: September 15, 22, 29; October 6, 13, 20, 27; November 3rd, 2006.

All levels may attend. If you wish to receive a certificate of completion or continuing education credits, let me know.

The class will be a combination of lecture, demonstration, experiential and role play. Come ready to treat each other well and enjoy the learning experience together.



		Maximizing the Healing Power of Human Connection Michele Ritterman, Ph.D. Workshop: In this workshop, therapists, educators, body workers and other mental health professionals will learn how to track the subtle, naturally occurring sequences of conscious and unconscious behaviors in client interactions, both with the therapist and with each other, in couples or families. They will learn how to help clients awaken their own alternative dormant patterns of relating and how to guide clients toward spontaneous healing states. Michele’s premise is that therapy can help a client shift from a symptomatic mental set to a creative meditation. She will demonstrate that there is a stream of life that runs through even the worst human dilemmas. If therapists enter into that flow, like Goldsworthy does with art, or like a chi master does with the body, they may help individuals, couples and families to re-balance their behaviors and feelings, Workshop attendees will learn that truly every human challenge is unique, and that it is in the details of this uniqueness that they will discover what Borges called the astonishment and the wonder needed for their clients (and themselves!) to produce transformation and healing. Many hard problems can be resolved, while clients feel comfortable, laughing and chatting. This workshop will consist of lecture, the experiential and role-playing and will describe three basic steps all healers need to do with clients. No knowledge of hypnosis is necessary to attend this training. All levels accepted. Biographical: In 1983, Dr. Michele Ritterman heralded the systematic integration of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Systemic Family Therapy, with her pioneering text, Using Hypnosis in Family Therapy. This cutting edge work, continuously in print since 1983, in English, Italian and Spanish, is now published with a new introduction by ZeigTucker press, and has been called “a classic book filled with seminal ideas.” One of Milton H. Erickson and Salvador Minuchin’s foremost students, Dr. Ritterman is also a human rights activist. Her second book, Hope Under Siege: Terror and Family Support in Chile with a foreword by Isabel Allende, and translated into German, as Liebe und Terror, is a testament to the power of the loving family to awaken torture survivors from the most evil of social trances, what Dr. Ritterman calls the Counter-Therapy by the State. Dr. Ritterman has also just produced the first CD on hypnosis for two, Shared Couples Trance, emphasizing the importance of closeness in one part and separation-within-relationship in the other part, to help couples rejuvenate their love on a deep level. An expert on naturally occurring trances in couples and families, in her master classes across the globe, she teaches that transformative psychotherapy produces counter trances. These newly formed states offer a powerful and long-lasting medicine with no harmful side effects to the organs, especially not the sacred brain! Her inspiring workshops are filled with comedy and heart. Above all, people describe their time with her as fun and a chance to explore just what they really want to know. Her papers on subjective time, torture, family therapy and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy may be downloaded from her website at www.micheleritterman.com. Handouts will be distributed at the workshop. Dr. Ritterman describes the Berkeley CA workshop: This is an eight week workshop. On Friday afternoons from 12 to 3. A total of 24 hours of training in maximizing the healing power of connection. Cost will be $650 in advance, $700 if payment is received within the first week of training. The focus is upon work with states of mind and tracking interactional suggestions, especially the ones below the ordinary threshold of perception, the subtle ones that can drive people out of their own minds. The workshop starts the third week in September, 2006 and will include the following Friday dates: September 15, 22, 29; October 6, 13, 20, 27; November 3rd, 2006. All levels may attend. If you wish to receive a certificate of completion or continuing education credits, let me know. The class will be a combination of lecture, demonstration, experiential and role play. Come ready to treat each other well and enjoy the learning experience together.