Michael Kamins – Ericksonian Hypnosis – The 7-Step Strategy Of Therapeutic Trance
The 7-Step Strategy of Therapeutic Trance
This long anticipated workshop is an intensive and broad exploration of the major concepts and techniques of Erickson’s hypnotic work. Not only a sprawling odyssey of cutting-edge ideas, this is also an opportunity to practice a variety of Erickson’s hypnotic communication patterns while learning a streamlined distillation of Ericksonian Hypnosis – “The 7-Step Strategy of Therapeutic Trance.”
Emphasizing trance-states and the utilization of “internal resources” (over direct suggestion), Therapeutic Trance uniquely supplements Hypnotherapy and can revolutionize your practice.
What You’ll Learn in this Ericksonian Hypnosis Certification Course
- The Four Concepts and Six Principles of the Ericksonian Approach, including Trance, Indirection, Utilization and Destabilization
- Opportunities to practice a 7-Step Strategy of Therapeutic Trance
- A primer on Conversational Hypnosis and the “Milton Model”
- The three types of hypnotic stories/anecdotes (Metaphorical, Interspersal, Evocative)
- How to construct metaphors from a client’s “figures of speech” and the four archetypal elements (Earth, Air, Water, Fire)
- The three basic processes of therapeutic trance (Evoke, Allow, Pace)
- The use of symbolic interfaces to utilize the power of the “unconscious mind”
- The use of anecdotes and metaphors to elicit a variety of trance phenomena
- Transcripts of two clinical cases and a demonstration
- A unique opportunity to discover how Kappasinian E&P applies to Ericksonian approaches
Table of Contents
Ericksonian Hypnosis The 7 Steps of Therapeutic Trance
Introduction – About the Workshop
Part 1 – Concepts and Principles
- 1. Utilization
- 2. Indirection
- 3. Unconscious/Conscious – UCM/CM
- 4. Trance, Hypnosis, and Deep Hypnosis
- 5. Core Principles
Part 2 – Hypnotic Language Patterns
- 1. The Indirect Forms of Suggestion – Introductory Notes
- 2. The Milton Model – Introductory Notes
- 3. A Primer on Conversational Hypnosis
Part 3 – Therapeutic Trance
- 1. The Seven-Step Strategy Outline
- 2. The Seven-Step Strategy Breakdown
- 3. Demonstration – The Seven-Step Strategy
- 4. Two Clinical Cases with Transcripts
Conclusion – When to Use Ericksonian Approaches
Resource Files
- Resource File 1 – “Common Experience” Trance Induction (Naturalistic)
- Resource File 2 – “The Handshake Interrupt” Induction
- Resource File 3 – Erickson’s “Early Learning Set” Induction
- Resource File 4 – Arm-Leverage Induction
- Resource File 5 – Utilization Inductions and Interspersal
- Resource File 6 – “Boiler Factory” Metaphor (Pain Control)
- Resource File 7 – “The Boy Will be Dead by Morning”
- Resource File 8 – “The Horse Knew”
- Resource File 9 – “Joe and The Tomato Plant”
- Resource File 10 – A 5-Stage Paradigm of the Dynamics of Trance Induction
References and Selected Bibliographies.
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