[Audio Only] IC11 Workshop 21 – Gotta Love the Story: A Bombardment of Indirection for Recalcitrant Disorders – Sonja Benson and George Gafner

Description:

There are myriad indirect techniques and the addition of only one or two new ones to your toolbox can both motivate clients and alleviate the boredom of professional practice.  The presenters have written extensively about the rich panoply of indirect techniques that can be used employed in both hypnosis and standard talk therapy.  In this workshop, which will be both experiential and didactic, some of the topics include how to employ interspersal, pause, and subtle vocal shift as unconscious communications, metaphorical and short-burst ego-strengthening for clients debilitated by chronic medical and psychological disorders, story construction and story techniques, how to embed mindfulness principles in group anger management therapy, pattern interruption, and how to employ the clinician’s everyday emanation from the unconscious in creating hypnotic material for professional practice.

Educational Objectives:

1. Recognize optimal times to employ story and anecdote.
2. Recognize hypnotic phenomena embedded in an induction or story.
3. State two examples of hypnotic ego-strengthening.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*