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Hypnotic Psychotherapy and the Art of Balancing Mindful Resources (Central Texas Society of Clinical Hypnosis)

November 15 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Organization:  Central Texas Society of Clinical Hypnosis (CTSCH)

Website: http://ctsch.com/hypnotic-psychotherapy/

Event Title: Hypnotic Psychotherapy and the Art of Balancing Mindful Resources

Dates: 11/15/2024

Location: Virtual

CE: 2.0

Contact: CTSCH@CTSCH.com

Abstract:
Psychotherapy is often approached in ways that can polarize conscious and unconscious aspects of mind, deepening a problematic dissociation from one’s internal resources. This workshop offers ways to assist clients in accessing unconscious resources and comfortably holding themselves in the experiential field between conscious thought and unconscious process. The presenter uses terms for the unconscious such as Creative Mind, the Dream Mind, and the Poetic Mind. Therapists should consider the space between the minds as a fertile experiential field where more access to elements of the mind is available. This presentation will include a demonstration and a brief practice session.This “mindfield” is but one of the fields a therapist must attend to in their clinical work. A therapist must be ready to work with all the fields of the client, cultural and societal fields, the interpersonal field, and the multiple fields within the therapist. This presentation offers conceptual and practical approaches for helping a client move into the space between the conscious and unconscious fields using a combination of conversational inquiry, direct suggestion, imagery, naturalistic induction, and indirect suggestion. It is useful to think of the therapist in the role of musical conductor who prompts the client to use and “play with” certain resources, as well as helping the client experiment in a more independent manner with their internal resources.

Learning Objectives:
1. Explain the definition of experiential field as used by the presenter.
2. Describe two methods for inviting a client to leave the safety of the conscious field to explore their field of dreams including nightmares.
3. Describe two direct approaches to promote solution-focused processing.
4. Describe how to use the conscious/unconscious experiential field with two current clients.

Details

Date:
November 15
Time:
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Website:
http://ctsch.com/hypnotic-psychotherapy/

Organizer

Central Texas Society of Clinical Hypnosis (CTSCH)