HOW TO DO HYPNOSIS & THERAPY THE ERICKSON WAY.
Betty Alice Erickson, PhD, LMFT, John Dyckman, PhD, Eric Greenleaf PhD.
You will learn how to practice hypnosis with individuals, couples, families and groups, and how to naturally blend these very useful techniques in your own style, making your therapy sessions more comfortable, feelingful and effective.
The original 3 day live course has been edited to 8 hours of video.
About the Course
HOW TO DO HYPNOSIS AND THERAPY THE ERICKSON WAY: THE MENU
Day 1: Hypnosis with Individuals, Couples, Families and Groups
Eric Greenleaf [EG] Introduces the workshop and does his brief Hypnosis Warm-ups.
Didactic demonstrations of trance with individuals: How to attend to your patient absorbedly:
Betty Alice [BA]: arm levitation induction
John Dyckman [JMD]: Alkaseltzer for the Soul
EG: The “Dr Erickson Used To” Trance
Practice hypnosis.
EG Hypnosis with couples: “Two Minds, One Dream”
JMD & BA: Hypnosis with a Family
EG: Group trance: The Unconscious Mind.
Practice with couples, family groups, individuals.
Day 2: Therapy You Can Use: Approaches, Cases, Concerns
EG introduction to Day 2: What to listen for in patient narratives – listening for solutions = unconscious mind resources. Utilization, attention, expectation are important ideas.
BA: Michael’s Case, with explanation of how it worked.
JMD: Playing With Fire. Case, with explanation.
EG: Dogs Will Eat Anything. Case, with explanation.
Practice “Listening for Solutions”.
EG: Utilization – “Music for the Left Hand Alone”
JMD: “A Student’s Take on Dr Erickson’s Ways”
BA : “How to Approach Patients As Themselves, as Your Self”
Practice “A Problem in Common”.
Day 3: The Erickson Way: Telling Stories Where They Belong.
EG: Introduction to Storytelling: The exchange of stories is fundamental to Ericksonian hypnosis and therapy.
EGÑ “How I Completed My Therapy”
JMD: Using your patients’ own metaphor, image or trope as an induction and treatment: Case example.
BA: Helping your patient develop their metaphor and interact with it therapeutically. Case example.
EG: Principles of working realistically with images and metaphors: Case example,
“The Birdwatching Cure for Fear of Heights.”
Practice telling stories, asking questions: “How I learned to ride a bike,” “My favorite toy of childhood,” “What I dreamed at night”.
BA: Stories of My Father.
EG: “Preparing to Live; Preparing to Die”
JMD: The Person as Therapist: Marsha Linehan, Don Wood, Sullivan.
Practice: “Tell a Story to a Story”.
Closing trance: BA, EG, JMD
PARTICIPANTS IN THE LIVE WORKSHOP SAID THIS:
“This was the best course I have taken in the past 13 years, with teachings that immediately improved the work I am doing. It gave me a desire to study Ericksonian Hypnosis as no other theory/method has.
Your heartfelt skill just blew me away in the workshop. I feel deeply changed from the experience and eager to go on in this work.”
“The course and teaching were excellent and will definitely sharpen my practice and my thinking about how to conceptualize the human mind. I came away wiser, more focused and relaxed than I had anticipated.”
“I found the course very useful. I learned to incorporate metaphor and stories in therapy to heal and transform. I thought the teaching was excellent.”
“I am thrilled to have participated and have been able to readily and intuitively use some new ideas.”
“The relaxed teaching methods and atmosphere made the course very enjoyable. The room was filled with feelings of love, kindness and an eagerness to learn.”
“Astonished to find how useful this course turned out to be in everyday life. I feel like the material just soaked into my perceptions of people and my interactions with others without any effort on my part.”
“It was outstanding. It reminds me again of how I can best be with clients. … I am feeling much more confident, deeply so, as a hypnotist, being intuitive and spontaneous now, thanks to the class.”
“I loved the teaching! Fascinating, dynamic, fun, insightful and loving…. Every presenter embodied their teachings and conveyed the course material so effectively that the learning happened easily for me on many levels.”
“The teaching by the three presenters was excellent. … Their storytelling was riveting and the material presented was touching, grand, compassionate, beautiful.”
“You were doing what you were talking about in a really amazing way. I’m impressed with and moved by how un-gimmicky your approaches are.”
“This was a very special educational workshop, and also a peak life event to remember and treasure.”