Fundamental Level Ericksonian Hypnosis Class
Seminar topics include the following:
Speaking the Client’s Language
Language of Hypnosis
Hypnotic Phenomena
Induction Approaches
Therapeutic Trance
Giving Suggestions
Controlling Habits
Reducing Stress
Classes in English or Spanish
Pacific Brief Therapy Center
Fundamental Level Class: This 16-hour training is for professionals who 1) are new to hypnosis or 2) want to strengthen their basic hypnosis skills, or 3) want to learn Ericksonian approaches to inducing therapeutic trances for basic client problems.
Participants will experience hypnosis and learn Self-Hypnosis. The emphasis is on learning to help clients experience hypnotic trances and utilize those states in treatment.
The format is didactic-demonstration and experiential with practice in couples or small groups, with participants being both therapist and subject. Classes are from 6PM -8PM each Friday.
Seminar topics include:
• Speaking the Client’s Language
• The Language of Hypnosis
• Hypnotic Phenomena: amnesia, analgesia, anesthesia, catalepsy, hallucination
• Induction Approaches
• Participants experience hypnosis with instructor
• Self-hypnosis instruction and practice for participants
• Giving Suggestions, Direct and Indirect
• Treatment for Controlling Habits
Dates: 6PM-8PM
April 7, 2023
April 14, 2023
April 21, 2023
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
May 12, 2023
May 19, 2023
May 26, 2023
Class Credits: Continuing Education Units Applied For
Fee:
$499. $399 Early registration paid by February 17 Send payment to: Pacific Brief Therapy Center, 120 W. Casino Rd., 28D, Everett, WA 98204
Kenneth J. Tetreault, M.A. 10700 SW Beaverton-Hillsboro Hwy., Suite 560, Portland, OR 97005,
(503) 481-9008 hypnobrief.com
By the end of this fundamental level seminar participants will be able to:
• Define the conscious and the unconscious mind and discuss their differences.
• Identify and offer three basic hypnosis inductions.
• Identify seven specific forms or structures of indirect suggestions.
• Name seven hypnotic phenomena (anesthesia, analgesia, age regression…)
• Discuss the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Code of Conduct ethical principles, ethical standards, professional responsibility, public and media presentation, prohibitions and enforcement.
• Name two post-hypnotic suggestion methods.
• Name the four criteria for choosing hypnotic treatment enumerated by Joseph Barber, PhD.
• Explain conclusions of at least one recent neuroscientific peer-reviewed article on hypnosis efficacy.
• Assess basic values, beliefs, goals of clients to enhance understanding of the experiential life of clients.
• Discuss the need to meet clients where they are and understand their world view.
• Demonstrate the use of metaphor to aid client understandings.
• Experience hypnosis themselves.
• Learn and practice self-hypnosis
More-Detailed Outline
What is unique about Ericksonian Hypnosis?
1. Indirect Forms of Suggestion
According to Ernest Rossi, PhD, Indirect forms of suggestion and the Utilization Approach are major aspects of Dr. Erickson’s work.
A. Not knowing, not doing. “This involves the use of suggestions for allowing, rather than making things happen.”
B. Open-ended suggestions. “The therapist offers a variety of possible responses and validates all as hypnotic.”
C. Covering all possibilities of a class of responses. “The restricts the range of possible responses, but accepts and validates all possibilities within that range.”
D. Questions that facilitate new response possibilities.
1. “Questions to focus associations
2. Questions for trance induction by association
3. Questions facilitating therapeutic responsiveness.”
E. Binds—“The therapist offers a free, conscious choice of two or more alternatives and whichever choice is made leads behavior in the desired direction.
F. Double binds—The therapist offers possibilities of behavior that are outside the patients’s usual range of conscious choice and control:
1. Time double bind;
2. Conscious-unconscious double bind;
3. Double-dissociation double bind;
4. Reverse set double bind;
5. Non sequitur double bind
G. Practice Exercise
2. The Utilization Approach
This means accepting as valid the behaviors, ideas, responses, resistances, and symptoms of clients, whatever they bring to treatment, and using them to help bring about change and achieve therapeutic goals.
3. Developing Rapport
A. Speaking the client’s language
B. Mirroring or matching client vocabulary, tone, cadence, body position, beliefs, values, needs, interests.
C. Handout on assessment of client values
D. Practice exercise
4. Communicating in Metaphor
A. Teacher demonstrates the use of metaphors as suggestion with a volunteer student who presents a minor problem that he or she does not mind sharing with the participants.
B. Students then divide into pairs to do the same and then change roles so each is both a therapist and a client.
C. Practice exercise
5. Inductions
A. Talking in Metaphor Induction
B. Hand Levitation Induction
C. Direct Suggestions
D. State three truisms then a suggestion
E. Practice exercises
Utilizing the hypnotic state to help client to bring about change in the presenting problem.
The Secret that will give potency to your inductions: Use the presenting problem, i.e. the thing that the client wants and came to see you about, as the content for your induction.
6. Post-hypnotic suggestions
A. Serial post-hypnotic suggestions
B. Covering all possibilities of a class of responses
7. Hypnotic Phenomena and their uses
A. Analgesia
B. Anesthesia
C. Time Distortion
D. Hallucinations positive and negative, visual or auditory
E. Catalepsy
F. Age Regression
8. Hypnosis for habit control
Why Take Ericksonian Hypnotherapy from
Ken Tetreault?
I have presented Dr. Erickson’s approaches to Hypnosis to therapists, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals for many years, throughout Western United States, in Peru and, for the Milton H. Erickson, MD Foundation Affiliate in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In the 1980’s and 1990’s, I taught these ideas to therapy interns and others seeking training and license hours while clinical director at counseling agencies in San Diego, CA and in Santa Ana, CA.
As a learner, I have always been interested in and fascinated with what is most effective, whatever the subject. As a therapist interested in positive outcomes, I focused on Brief Therapy and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, and primary sources.
I have trained 92 hours at the Milton H. Erickson Foundation in Phoenix, Arizona and online from 2010 to 2021.
Further Hypnotherapy and Brief Therapy training came from my mentor Dr. William E. Aubry during over 20 years of study with him. He trained extensively with Dr. Erickson and also extensively at the Brief Therapy Center.
I was fortunate to also have studied extensively at the Brief Therapy Center of the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA, with John Weakland, ChE, Paul Watzlawick, PhD, and Richard Fisch, MD, and with Jay Haley, all who studied for many years with Dr. Erickson.
Finally, from the beginning, I had a knack for applying Dr. Erickson’s methods with clients and getting deep trances. Automatic writing, amnesia, pain control, hallucinations and specific therapeutic applications of hypnosis such as phobias, smoking cessation and depression came easily for me.
I love learning and continuing to improve and enjoy passing on Dr. Erickson’s approaches to others.