Category Archives: Workshop Outline

Using the interaction of conversation and its feedback loops, it is relatively easy to induce moderate levels of therapeutic trance without performance anxiety during a clinical interview. This workshop outlines steps and strategies to incorporate naturalistic conversational inductions of hypnotic … Continue reading →

This advanced level workshop in hypnosis outlines the theory of how confusion inductions work and with what populations. Participants will observe several demonstrations of confusion induction formats, then have opportunities for supervised practice.

Confusion inductions will be discussed in terms of where and when to use them and with what client populations. Several formats will be presented with demonstrations and opportunity for skill training in small supervised practice groups.

A description of a workshop dealing with intervention and solution-focused therapy.

Solutions to client dilemmas can often be constrained by their rules of context or conceptual paradigms in the family system or even within an individual. Sometimes what can be helpful is a metaphor or story constructed by the therapist, or … Continue reading →