Professional Training
Training in Ericksonian Approaches
to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
Level 1: Introduction
September 5th and 6th, 2008
The introductory program is designed to present a thorough overview to
Milton Erickson’s approaches in hypnosis and psychotherapy. The program will cover the basic principles of an Ericksonian approach and includes:
• How to utilize an individual’s behavior and symptoms to induce trance
• How to recognize and use trance phenomena in therapy
• How to use indirection and implication
• How to bypass conscious resistance by embedding suggestions
• How and when to use trance for pain and habit control
• Ego strengthening and self-image building
• How to use trance with couples and families
• How to use and construct metaphors targeting specific therapeutic goals
• How to use metaphors with trance work
• How to construct multiple embedded metaphors
The course will also explore the links between strategic and hypnotic therapies and how paradoxical, strategic, and ambiguous function assignment can be combined with trance work to bring about therapeutic change.
The training program will combine lecture, demonstration, discussion, and experiential exercises and practice.
CEU’S: 12 hours (includes 3 hours ethics)
Cost: Introductory Course: $265 until August 1, 2008, $285 until August 18, 2008, $325 after
Location: Holiday Inn: 3131 West Loop South, Houston, Texas 77027
(In between Richmond and Westheimer)
In the Magnolia Room
For reservations call: 713-353-7388
Instructors: Carol Kershaw, Ed.D., Bill Wade, M.Div, LPC, LMFT
Co-Directors, Milton Erickson Institute of Houston
Register online or call Ann Byrd 713 529-4588
