Wider Mind: Ericksonian Hypno-Psychotherapy in Practice

Wider Mind: Ericksonian Hypno-Psychotherapy in Practice

This module is a required component of the BeeLeaf Diploma in Contemporary Psychotherapy, and can be attended at any time during the 4 year training.

What you will learn

The practice of the Hypno-Psychotherapy of Dr. Milton H. Erickson is one of the most influential, and most misunderstood, applications of the therapeutic arts. You are probably already, whether or not you are conscious of it, utilising and observing aspects of this work in your natural communication with clients. Develop further the principles and skills to be most respectfully effective in stimulating and engaging your client's wider consciousness in their therapeutic process.

On this beautifully designed training, you will learn through experience of your own naturally occurring, rhythmic states of wider internal awareness. Clear and cogent theory will interconnect with personal creativity to liberate you to communicate even more authentically and effectively with the whole person of the client.

• Explore the relationship between "conscious" and "unconscious" mind that is at the heart of all therapeutic process.
• Understand "symptoms" of distress as communication within a self-balancing organism that seeks well¬being.
• Embrace "resistance" as a natural and healthy force that demonstrates your client's autonomy and uniqueness.
• Align with the client's internal "ecology" so that their process of change is organic and self-motivated.
• Learn a new relationship with language that better reflects our internal linguistic processes so that conversation can become a dynamic tool to facilitate change.
• Examine a new analysis of Dr. Milton H. Erickson's cognitive behavioural approach that demystifies his apparently "magical" interventions and tasks.
• Experience your voice, body and emotional state as undeniably influential factors in the therapeutic encounter and discipline your influence with respectful, humane boundaries.
• Differentiate the linguistic transactions of validation, permission, suggestion and instruction and become aware of their presence in the therapeutic alliance.
• Utilise metaphor and storytelling for powerful effect as client's reshape their identity and belief systems.
• Practice the skills of observing, utilising and maintaining the naturally occurring altered state of "hypnosis" or "trance".
• Celebrate imagination as one of the key resources in beneficial change and brain restructuring.

Course Structure

Each day runs from 10am - 5:30pm. This is an experiential training, utilising exercises and demonstrations, drawing on your own experience as a Practitioner and human being. The theory is presented in an easily digestible format and serves to inform and empower the Practitioner.