Hypnotherapy Lectures -Part 4 – Stephen Brooks

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The course is based on 120 essential skills and techniques covering the following areas:

Indirect Hypnosis Principles

• The Interactional Approach
• The Intrapersonal Approach
• Implication, compression and economic language
• Symptom Substitution and Resolution
• The Relationship Between Cause and Symptom
• Response Attentiveness
• Achieving Positive Outcomes
• Communicating with the Unconscious
• Identifying Verifiable Goals
•  Values, Criteria and Beliefs
• Abreaction and Trauma
• Identifying Sabotage Strategies
•  Therapeutic Orientation – Change or Improvement?
• Motivating the Patient to Stay in Therapy
• Future Pacing
• Secondary Gains and Indirect Benefits
• Weaning Patients Off Therapy
• Understanding the Patient’s metaphors
• Contextualising Change
• Organic metaphors and Symptom Based metaphors
•  Developing Advanced Strategies to Deal With Failure
• Pursuing Relevance
• The Structure of Learned Experience
• The Irrationality and Framing Model
• Contextual and Time frames
• Benefits and Costs
• The Laws of Attachment and Non-attachment
• Decision Making Personality Types
• Anchoring and Conditioning
• Feedback Loops
• The Laws of Reversed and Concentrated Effort
• The Laws of Positive Expectancy and Reinforcement
• The Laws of Observation, Utilization and Reframing

Indirect Hypnosis Techniques

• Hypnotic Time Distortion
• Favourite Activity and Leisure Trance Inductions
• Pseudo-Orientation in Time in Hypnosis
• Positive Negative Integration in Hypnosis
• The Third Person Dissociation
• Hypnotic Catalepsy
• Arm Levitation Inductions
• Automatic Writing in Hypnosis
• Unconscious Negotiation in Hypnosis
• Recalling Previous Trance as an Induction
• Surprise Technique Inductions
• Therapeutic metaphor
• The Multiple Mirror Therapeutic Induction
• Age Regression Techniques
• Paradoxical Intervention
• The Old Master Induction
• Indirect Utilisation of Sub-modalities
• Uptime Downtime Induction
• Utilising The Patient’s Needs As A Motivational Strategy
• Stop Smoking Strategy
• Inducing Amnesia
• The Self-Suggestion Induction
• Teaching Your Patient Self-Hypnosis
• The Four Seasons Induction
• Crystal Gazing and Multiple Screens
• Non Verbal Inductions
• Ideo-Motor Signaling
• The My Friend John Induction
•  Cellular Healing Therapy
• The Early Learning Set Induction
•  Scrambling Symptoms
• Ambiguous Task Assignments
• Eye Fixation and Distraction Inductions
• The Confusion Induction
• Deep Trance Identification
• Hypnosis for Pain Control and Anaesthesia

Indirect Hypnosis Skills

• Taking the Patient’s History
•  High Quality Information Gathering
•  Creating and Applying Therapeutic Nominalisations
• Recognising the Minimal Cues of Trance
• Creating Dependent Suggestions
•  Open Questioning
• Positive and Reverse frames and Negative Tags
•  Sorting for patterns of association
• Adjunctive Suggestions
•  Calibrating to Positive & Negative Response Cues
•  Responding to Polarity Responses
•  Classes of Double Binds
•  Passive Response Suggestions
• Using Therapeutic & Hypnotic Double Entendre
• Post Hypnotic Suggestions
• Serial Suggestions
• Challenging Negative Nominalisations
• Sensory Based Predicates
• Open-ended Suggestions
• Resource Accessing
• Facial Symmetry Calibration
• Insertive Eye Contact
•  Recognising Patients’ Subjective Interpretations
• Casting Doubt and Challenging a Patient’s Interpretations
• Getting Video Descriptions and Sequence Responses
• Designing Therapeutic Tasks
• Prescribing and Delivering Tasks
• Developing a Compassionate Empowering Personality

Integrity and Ethics

• The importance of patient confidentiality
• Integrity and ethics within a hypnotherapy practice
• When it might be better to partner with a co-therapist
• How to maintain patient records
• When to terminate treatment
• Ethical and legal business management and practice
• The current status of hypnosis and codes of practice
• Medical and psychological contraindications of hypnosis
• The importance of requesting feedback and follow-up
• Recognition of psychiatric illnesses and when to refer
• Establishing clear guidelines regarding duration and cost

Practitioner Development

• CBT, humanistic and psychodynamic psychology
• Research methodology related to hypnosis
• The history of hypnosis as a therapeutic approach
• objective evaluation of professional skill development
• The need and value of supervision and ongoing training
• Basic physiology and anatomy
• Recent developments in brain science related to the mind
• Recognition of how previous treatment may affect therapy

The Hypnotic Relationship

•  Developing a caring and sincere approach to those in need.
•  Patients general health and lifestyle management.
•  Appropriate social and relationship skills for patients.
•  Local resources and support groups available to patients.
•  Identifying the patient’s expectations regarding outcomes
• Transference and counter transference
• Motivating patients to be an active part of the treatment.
• Secondary or external influences that affect therapy
• Contextualizing treatment to the patient’s environment
• How to clearly communicate therapeutic options
• How emotions can affect patients decisions and perception
• How to negotiate mutually acceptable therapeutic outcomes
• Evaluating the effectiveness of treatment

These 10 Lectures in this part are:

• 11. The Swish Technique
• 12. Sorting for patterns of association
• 13. Adjunctive Suggestions
• 14. The Third Person Dissociation
• 15. Surprise Technique Inductions
• 16. Catalepsy
• 17. Symptom Substitution and Resolution
• 18. Arm Levitation Inductions
• 19. Automatic Writing
• 20. The Relationship Between Cause and Symptom